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Don Quixote is the single comfiest book

>hobbit
>comfy

Apropos of its pedestrian prose that sends one to sleep?

>>7661088
>that usage of apropos
You clearly are a Hobbit scholar.

Anyone have good Architecture books to suggest by the way?

>>7660402
bump for this

>>7662383
I've seen a chart. Lots of criticism for it though

maybe. maybe he drinks a coffee instead.

Nah he just gets some coffee

The car crash wasn't an accident, he manufactured it to avoid self-aware suicide.

You should read the greeks at least
including some of their plays and myths

start with Gay Science that shit hooks you in

Thanks Guys !

WTF
I'd never even heard of this
Foutrecouilles

>>7657510
>government directly modifying a language instead of letting it change on its own
Disgusting. Centralized government was a mistake.

Same happened to Greek some forty years ago, namely the polytonic system was completely abandoned.

This will have an effect on the cultural and linguistic connotations of words, which I find pretty sad.

>>7657347
Give up. You will never be an expert in anything.

you can't know anything
prove me wrong

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It's a fictional character, it's impossible to spend so much time studying and in the same time getting social experierience to act so cool

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>>7651168
>Begins

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>>7651168
>story ends with the character waking up

>>7651168
I'm actually doing this ironically so if you don't like it you are a pleb

Doesn't really matter, what matters is that the Judge bested the Kid in the end

take this pleb genre trash back to r/books

>>7648332
The judge is a figment of the kid's imagination. Remember how he knows things he couldn't have seen?

The kid kills himself in the jakes.

Both of those things are currently on the way to happening in the real world, the only thing standing in the way of self-driving cars are legal issues and we are moving further and further away from cash to digital currency

>>7663150
*tips fedora*

>>7663152
That's a very good argument

Pages works fine for me

>>7663040
Eh I don't use Apple computers, just the phone. So buying Pages for it wouldn't really help.

>>7663043
Pages are standard on iOS

The only thing /pol/ reads are infographics

>>7662688
Reading Atlas Shrugged now constitutes being redpilled. Aren't these the same people who complain about all the 'degeneracy' that capitalism brings about?

>>7662709
>/pol/ is one person

I think the generally held opinion on /lit/ is that they are convinient to listen to when you have to use your hands, but there are still many important things in the act of reading text alone that are lost, like the ability to go at your own pace or to reread or imagine your own narrative voice.

>>7662200
This.

I listen to Audiobooks whilst driving to and from work, and occasionally at the gym, but you can defiantly miss stuff, as audiobooks are more a passive activity, apposed to an active one.

Some people have trouble reading physical books, myself included, but I think pushing yourself is an important part of the process.

Find an Audio-Play version of The Seagull.

I was listening to it on a bus, and by the end I just sat there in deep silence, and I had missed my stop.

my favorite mann.

i think if you want a comprehensive overview of european literacy magic mountain is better. it's more encompassing in scope, whereas doctor faustus is more concerned with art and aesthetics in a more narrow way.

mann gets discussed now and then (there was a magic mountain thread earlier today) but he's definitely underread here. mainly cause he's actually good and not meme :^)

My professor said he chose these three books, because they represent the three most significant nations in literature (implying that Russian culture is part of Europe), they aren't short or simple at all and can be considered as classics by their own right.

>>7661803
I'll add the Magic Mountain to my to-read list.

How does this compare to Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus? Cause that was pretty disappointing.

Shit book, probably means something gay

it just means some utterly awful depraved gay drug thing, like everything else
it's best left to the imagination

>>7661198
Why is it shit ?

>>7659672
nihilism is the ending of any rationalism by the empiricist (who always laughs when the rationalists take seriously their speculations). the more you are empirical, the less you are nihilist.

>>7659672
I despise white middle-class girls with posh accents.

>>7659672

why the fuck does anyone even make these stupid fucking videos can anyone even read anymore

why does someone think "well i should throw yet another shitty video to the digital hellscape while adding absolutely nothing to the narrative whatsoever"

why

why do people watch these

WHY DOES THIS PERSON THINK SHE IS A BETTER SOURCE THAN THE SEP