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incapacitated

wounded

battlebuggered

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Me too

This statement is only false.

Lying is a sin :^(

>>7811270

I've also got some Lowry in my backlog, might read that in between Foundation and Foundation and Empire. Snow Crash is probably the weakest book you've got on your backlog.

Anyway:
Under the Volcano-Lowry
Foundation and Empire-Asimov
Warlock-Oakley Hall
Mythologies-Roland Barthes
Petersburg-Andrei Bely(Re-read)
Paris Peasant-Louis Aragon
Temple of the Golden Pavilion-Yukio Mishima(Re-read)
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men-David Foster Wallace
Njal's Saga-Anon
The New York Trilogy-Paul Auster
Childhood, Boyhood & Youth-Leo Tolstoy
Journey to the End of the Night-Celine(Re-read)

>>7811270
you meant McElroy - Cannonball, I'm assuming
i'd direct you away from solaris

>>7811392
you are correct re: McElroy

>>7811305
and you my friend. I don't have much to offer other than that I like DFW but don't particularly like that short story collection. I also thought the first Foundation book was kind of a letdown so I never read the rest, let me know if they're worth it

>>7810392
You can deliberately change your handwriting.

Might I suggest it belongs in the same vocational brackets as clairvoyants and television presenters? A non-essential profession that exists purely on society's misguided notion that it fulfils a questionable purpose.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6929678/Milly-Dowler-killer-in-evil-outburst.html

>>7810399
Not easily.

To answer OP's question: sorta. If they are a dominant individual, they're more likely to write bigger with harder marks on the page. If they write very small, you can imagine they are not very dominant. People that write very sloppy tend to have messy rooms, at least that's what I have noticed.

my feminist tumblr class mate said something similar to this LMAO

>>7809851
WTF i hate him now

>>7809851
Funny because my feminist tumblr classmates fucking hated him because he was a racist old white man writing about things he didn't understand.

are you going to read it again?

I've only read Dubliners, tried to read Portrait of a Young Man as an artist and couldn't quite get into it. How is Finnegan's Wake?

>>7809618
>How is finnegans wake
confusing. Im not going to sit here with the pretension of understanding it, in fact I didnt expect to I only started reading out of boredom and continued because of the.. lyricism I guess.

its just really poetic and beautifully written, I really love the prose

>>7809615
Eventually

>reading translations

You're not reading anything remotely close to what we're reading.

>>7809570
not true

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>tfw your master asks who is a good dog

>>7809141
Why does Ayn Rand get shit on like this? I get that her philosophy isn't popular but at least reading her stuff forces you to think about why you might disagree. She might not be top tier but putting her lower than Stephanie Meyer is a fucking joke.

>>7809141
You're not alone OP, whenever I read more than 150 pages in one sitting I notice my retention is low. It could be that I read too fast, or perhaps too much but I'd also like to hear others' suggestions.

>>7809178
Stephen fucking King dislikes them both but considers Rand worse.

>>7809017
non-fiction i guess
reading fiction will make you cultured, not intelligent

>>7809017
>I don't want people to think X

If you even need to ask I'm sure they already thought that, there is nothing you can do about it.

>>7809017
>What books can I read so that people won't think I'm dumb?
As long as you care what others think about you (and as long as you go about adjusting your life to suit their desired image), you will always be a moron.

If you are actually interested in learning something, I would recommend: (1) How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later by Philip K. Dick and (2) Education & The Significance of Life by Jiddu Krishnamurti. Both are shot and easy reads that shouldn't take you long to finish.

I was doing nofap, got to day 13, was reading something by Erich Fromm on my kindle and had to stop and masturbate to a grainy black and white picture of Kagney Linn Karter

>>7808705
>08705▶

I had to google both those things but it made you funnier twice over.

>>7808699
It didn't.

That's not to say I'm involved with anyone or have had sex anytime in the past few months, but these things don't affect my reading.

because its hard
you can easily get entertainment from watching endless 3 minute funny youtube clips

>>7808681
the fast-paced technological media of our modern-day society. people are used to focusing on things for only short periods of time. reading requires long-term focus. also, the adult reading level in the usa is at an 8th grade level. hence why the king-grey-potter-hunger-tattoo books are so popular.

>>7808703
>the adult reading level in the usa is at an 8th grade level
Jesus christ. Seriously?

edgy post, teen

notes from underground
the metamorphosis

Man, I don't know if it is because it's Sunday night but /lit/ sure is depressing today.

Cormac McOprah

harry potter = budweiser
hunger games = coors
girl with the dragon tattoo = miller
twilight = heineken
50 shades = budweiser's clamato

all shit.

>>7808509
The literary equivalent of a cheap, mediocre working-class beer that hipsters have appropriated? Kurt Vonnegut, I guess.

it was saint-exupery's suicide note.

pretty much the perfect kids book

>>7808497
>>7808499
Suicide notes = best kid's books.

the sound of flipping pages is soothing

nothing

There's really none. It's just autistic people that say anything otherwise.