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I'm reading the world until yesterday on my phone in commutes, a few pages at a time. It's too boring to read at home (and i would read a book I potentially liked on short commutes) but it feels like it has some pseud cred. But not as much as guns, germs and steel which I read the same way.
What are some nonfiction books worth reading on a commute but not at home?
As I've posted with multiple other books, the world until yesterday is another book I feel like I have to read only for the pseud cred. It's a boring information dump that could easily be summarised, like guns germs and steel.
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This is slowly turning into a work of art. Not a good work of art, but still.
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How to get into medieval literature?
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>>10005745
start with icelandic sagas
work your way into germanic epic poetry
spread out from there
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Write what is on your mind, /lit/
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Sadness and loneliness
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>Can't get my novel published because literary agents are 90% female that don't appreciate anything other than narratives about a young black lesbian's sexual awakening in Brooklyn
>Can't find a job other than peon-tier grocery store work or something abominable like "Social Media Market Analyst"
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>>10005875
I feel you. Contemporary lit and the publishing industry is total garbage. I'm glad it is being annihilated by the tech industry.
I hope Zuck or Bezos or someone else finally drops the axe and puts all these pretenders out of work ASAP.
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any books that touch on the same theme as Martyrs (2008)? ie torturing someone for philosophical reasons
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Never heard of this movie, but sounds like Dosto.
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>>10005708
which ones?
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bomb france
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What's a good, non-Grisham, novel about the legal world for someone who's going to law school next year?
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all the kings men
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A Frolic of His Own
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Thoughts on this? Should I take notes?
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What's the best program to read with?
Pic related has an uncomfy layout
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I just use Kindle for desktop. I'm pretty satisfied with it.
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Alan Watts and Eastern orientalism 2017-09-10 02:16:34 Post No.10005503
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Alan Watts and Eastern orientalism
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I've just reread 'The wisdom of Insecurity' and wondered, provided how many books Alan Watts, whether his whole body of work is just a shopping scheme or does it really had to be put into so many little books? Why didn't he put some anthology of ideas instead of making that many books about seemingly same subject?
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He's a hack making up pseud feel good shit as he goes.
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>>10005510
The Book isn't feel good
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>>10005510
I found 'The Wisdom' to be rather on subject, but there weren't enough solutions to the problems presented.
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Poetry recommendations 2017-09-10 01:48:39 Post No.10005421
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I'm not particularly well read, but anything crass, depressive, weird, or just nostalgic will be appreciated. My favorites are Rimbaud, DA Powell, John Wilmot, and Ginsburg. Anything similar to those guys I'll probably like.
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If (you) like Rimbaud read Verlaine, or read Ashbery whose translation of the Drunken Boat is remarkably well done. If you like Rochester read Dryden for God's sake, or go back to Henry Wyatt and his group of wits. Or even better read Byron, especially Don Juan (a kind of later, spiritual brother of his).
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>>10005421
>Rimbaud and not Baudelaire
ishiggydiggy, get on it
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>>10005421
Baudelaire, Verlaine, Lautréamont
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>dude fuck postmodernism
>believes this is factual biology
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>reading a book with a male protagonist
>being an actual faggot who wants to take dick up the ass instead of being a heterosexual who wants to read books with a cute female protagonist
People aren't really this retarded right?
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>>10005278
I feel so sorry for heteros.
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>>10005330
Killua is cute!
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Hey, I want to read a good detective book (brainteaser). Prefer a book that's easy to read since I'm a retard.
Any recommendations?
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bump please
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Ellery Queen would fit the bill. These books were very popular when they were first published. I know them from Chuck Palaniuk mentioning that he and his brother read all of them closely. You learn the clues at the same time as Ellery - can *you* solve the mystery first?
There's an active mobi torrent with them on demonoid if you have an e-reader.
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>>10005213
The Little Sister, Raymond Chandler
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why the fuck is this so damn boring holy shit aldo metro thread are any of the spinoffs worth reading?
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The games are much better for what it is worth
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bumping
Is the first one worth reading?
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The characters in the last three books you read come to life together with any powers if they possess them. Which authors die and which authors survive?
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>he reads genre fiction
Lel
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do you ever feel like you're the one that comes up with all of the injokes and phrases in your group? i'm going to test my theory soon enough
ive always found it bizarre that i may use a turn of phrase and soon it becomes part of our vernacular
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>>10004973
op.. easy on the self-absorption
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>>10004973
I have seen it happen.
Funny you put this picture, because inside the army, while doing my national service was where I saw quotes of mine going into rotation.
It goes both ways though...
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I've noticed this while, through reading more, i've become more fluent in my day-to-day conversations, causing your phenomenon. In my native tongue i've started playing with words using techniques like alliteration, or just simple rhyming, without even being aware of it. Quite spontaneously, actually. These word-plays seem to stick around for no apparent reason, other than, I guess, their catchiness.