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You read faster as you read more. Read a rate that's comfortable and retantive for you and you'll eventually get better at it.
That's it.

Depends if you just want the plot forcefed to you by a conveyor belt or not, you won't chew and appreciate the flavour is my take on it.
Maybe this is a bit far, but for me the experience was akin to reading a chapter summary I found online, I only remembered the neat and obvious.

Reading very fast is just for absorbing information, you won't consider anything deeply or enjoy it.
Still, I used to read like 20 pages an hour, it was impossible for me to complete books. Practicing speed reading helped me move to the standard.

>>7594878
I have read a number of Chinese Chan/Zen texts such as the Zen Teaching of Huang Po and Taoist texts.

I've read Spring and Autumn Annals, Journey to the West, and Mao's Red Book

>>7594878
I have read the Annals of Confucius and Sun Tzu's The Art of War. I plan on getting more in depth into Chinese and Eastern philosophy though.

>>7594331
how it looks

shlahvohzee zheeezihk

"Mark Hamill"

>>7594291
Under Heaven by Kay

>>7594305
Sounds cool. How strong are the fantasy elements?

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>>7594291
Aitmatov's Jamila,
and
The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years

>>7593978
there are online resources dedicated to decoding and explaining nearly every word of the novel

>>7593978
http://finwake.com/

>>7593978

Not really; even the Skeleton Key loses like 80% of what's there.
The best way to understand the work really is to eat Jimmy Joy's brain.

>>7596302
Nice to see this book here
Such a great book, actually shed a tear at the end

>translation

Penguin

Hollander.

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>>7595833
>I have been trying my luck on /pol/. but it seems those retards do not even know what Strasserism is about,
Good! Everything is working according to our plans...

...you can't even guess what we are in the future.

>>7595833
Otto Strasser wrote some books, if you can find those. If you want secondary there's a book called Gregor Strasser and the Rise of Nazism by Peter Stachura. I haven't read it so I can't speak for its quality but it doesn't seem like there's much out there anyway.

https://archive.org/details/OttoStrasserSocial-nationalism
https://archive.org/details/gottfried

Own writing:
https://archive.org/details/GermanyTomorrowOttoStrasser

It's official the Reddit invasion is going to be permanent.

OP it's dystopian genre fiction, published 50 years after that was an acceptable thing to do, needless to say, it's horrible.

>>7596250
pleb

>>7595329
it's petty good but it's not his best work. Overrated. Remains of the Day, Buried Giant, and Unconsoled are superior. Buried Giant particularly is a more mature book than Never Let Me Go and employs similar devices. NLMG relies too heavy on sappy sentimentalism.

>>7594989
Nein.

>All the reprints are censored, bad translations or just straight up changed.

>things /pol/ tells itself

Get the "Stalag" edition, the one made by the Nazi government for POWs.

>>7595002
I'm fluent in German and would prefer to read it in it's oficial state. Thank's for suggesting Stalag edition, if I don't find anything I'll check it out.

Read the sticky

>>7593459

Read it and ? Not looking for " recommended books" just want to hear some opinions about this specific one

>>7593450
I read it when i was a teenager. I liked it back then but you can't trust my teenage judgement.

You could get a library card or download a pdf if you don't want to buy shit.

it's en english you doofus

>>7593186
I know the translation is in english, but which one should I pick?

I got a Brothers Karamazov version that fucking sucked.

>>7593178
Can't tell if troll or not, but to give you the benefit of the doubt, I'll go ahead and tell you that Lolita was originally written in English by Nabokov when he was living in the United States.

Or are you meaning translation into another language?

Scream internally.

practice

scream externally

>>7586104
Judging by his corpulence, Hume probably had a comfy life.
Kierkegaard had a pretty sad life.

worst: Kierkegaard

best: Cioran

Wait until I'm dead t b h
but for best I'd say Sartre

>>7580399
>what are you currently reading?
Not a SFF novel so I refuse to answer.
>favorite speculative fiction author?
The fat man.
>favorite speculative fiction novel?
ASOIAF, The Silmarillion, The Gone-Away World, The Voice of the Fire, The Second Apocalypse

Thoughts on the Elric saga?

>>7580455
I liked the rape, gay and incest in Elric saga.