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I buy used, but also torrent.

>>7563071
what site do you use?

gen.lib.rus.ec

>>7562970
Gotcha covered, brofamtbqhseph:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11/11-pdf.pdf

>>7562994
>>7563002
Thank you! I always wanted to get one of those!

>>7562917

Replace Bloom's Shakespeare book with Harold Goddard's The Meaning of Shakespeare, a book Bloom himself highly recommends and is better than his book.

Bloom's The Western Canon

>>7562952
>y r all dese feminazis bullying muh timeless masterpieces :(((
Yeah, that book is a must-read.

Cool thanks!

Only thing I read by him was Cathedral
Good pleb tier action/suspense novel with some politics and Irish history mixed in for flavor.
Nothing deep, but a quick fun read with serviceable dialogue

>>7562721
>Thoughts
shit

>Anything else good
no

read a real book, cuntface
p.s. There's a huge twist in the very last chapter when you realize that you've wasted hours and hours of your life on a hollow book for old women

I'd strongly recommend buying an edition with the illustrations. Then, uh, just read it?

>>7562741

Does it make sense to read his works in the order in which they were published?

songs of inno&exp
marriage of heaven and hell
the rest of his poems
mythology

granted i never got through his mythology, good luck

So, spoilers!

I loved Andrej's character, i like the idealism and the changes of Pierre, but Bolskonski was a way more interesting character for me. His wounds at Austerlitz and at Borodino both a great moment in the book for me, as is the moment Natasha walks into his fever dream.

>>7562579
While I don't mind /lit/ hating me, since they hate almost everything, I don't write to be a bestseller or cash money. I write because I want to tell a story and enjoy the art of storytelling.

So I decline wee fairy, now piss off.

>>7562579
Oh, I'd sell out in a heartbeat. Everyone has their price, and mine is a little under three bucks.

>>7562536
Doors of Perception is an interesting long essay I guess.

Brave New World has had massive cultural influence but I read it almost two decades ago for the first time.

Yes. Brave New World and Island are mediocre novels, but his non-fiction is great. Check out The Doors of Perception and The Perennial Philosophy.

>>7562536
I've read most of his writing and Point Counter Point is the only thing I'd read again. It's a "novel of ideas" featuring characters who are based on real intellectuals, artists, and politicians (among them, DH Lawrence) from early 20th century England.

The cheaper the tablet, the shittier the working conditions in the sweatshops.

>>7562470
i actually recall reading this anime

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You will just alienate some people from their cultures, meaning you will get most of them killed. You should check out some of the problems the OLPC project had in rural 3rd world communities. Kids started to ask questions and the village elders basically outlawed the machines. For some people, being an uneducated piece of human trash is a cultural definition.

>hard mode
>avoid using autism or aspergers

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>George RR Martin
>Prader-Willi Syndrome

>pushkin
>borderline

im 100% on this

I'll bite.

‘Twenty-one, eh?’ The bouncer turned the chit over in his hand,
‘Uh-huh.’
‘And you expect me to believe that?’
Beim blinked.
‘Y’know what?’ Said the bouncer, pausing only for effect, ‘Twenty creds and you’re in.’
‘I… Twenty?’ He’d already paid fifteen.
‘Uh-huh… That’s only half the price of some quality horns to cover up those boyish little nubs.’ Retorted the bouncer, giving those same nubs a little jostle.
Beim’s brow furrowed and his lips parted far before he had cooked up a witty come back. Thankfully for him, the entrance doors whisped open before he could make it obvious.
‘What’s the hold up?’ Boomed a voice from a pair of broad shoulders and a jagged crown, ‘Grotty better not be givin’ you trouble.’ Noted the new arrival, his arm falling to rest on the Bouncer’s shoulder.
‘This tike’s with you, Stakko?’
‘Tike?’ Retorted Beim
‘Oh come on, kid.’
‘Yeah,’ said Stakko, nodding Beim to his side, ‘this tike’s with me.’
A grunt from one and a smile from the other was all it took for Beim to strut his way past the bouncer, casually snatching back his counterfeit chit.
‘Oh and Grotty? Thanks for not making the kid pay, eh?’ His lips curled into a smirk before shooting the bouncer a wink. ‘Put it towards my tab.’
The entrance to the club itself was just as unorthodox as Beim’s admittance had been. Where as one expected to see a group of expectant - or expired - revellers and worn out couches, they were instead greeted with sharp lights and a thick durasteel chamber with thicker doors on both ends. As the door behind shut and the stale air began hissing through the vents, Stakko gave Beim a thud to the shoulder.
‘Remember…’ He began, the lights fading as the hissing began fading to nothing,’There’s no such thing as a bad trip. A’right?’
‘A’right.’
And, as if on cue, the far door hissed open, letting a flood of both bass and thick orange smoke wash over them.

>>7562302

That's very nice, man. I wish I could write like you. I'm guessing you read about a dozen books in 2015?

>>7562265

Love the man, hate the meme. Thompson is briliant, insightful, highly entertaining, frenetic, captivating and funny. The Raoul Duke persona crippled him, and I think it causes a lot of people to completely miss his thoughtfulness and just consider him EPIC DRUGS LMAO man.

Campaign Trail truly is great, but I wouldn't rank it that high myself. My favourite of Thompson's work is Hell's Angels. Thompson is insightful and thrilling, and the prose is masterful, smooth and captivating. The opening from Hell's Angels:

>California, Labor Day weekend...early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Fricso, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur...The Menace is loose again, the Hell's Angels, the hundred-carat headline, running fast and loud on the early morning freeway, low in the saddle, nobody smiles, jamming crazy through traffic and ninety miles an hour down the center stripe, missing by inches...like Genghis Khan on an iron horse, a monster steed with a fiery anus, flat out through the eye of a beer can and up your daughter's leg with no quarter asked and non given; show the squares some class, give em a whiff of those kicks they'll never know...Ah, these righteous dudes, they love to screw it on...Little Jesus, the Gimp, Chocolate George, Buzzard, Zorro, Hambone, Clean Cut, Tiny, Terry the Tramp, Frenchy, Mouldy Marvin, Mother Miles, Dirty Ed, Chuck the Duck, Fat Freddy, Filthy Phil, Charger Charley the Child Molester, Crazy Cross, Puff, Magoo, Animal and at least a hundred more...tense for the action, long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping, earrings, armpits, chain whips, swastikas and stripped-down Harleys flashing chrome as traffic on 101 moves over, nervous, to let the formation pass like a burst of dirty thunder...

If you haven't already, I urge you to check out Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone. It's a collection of his best articles.

HST is a bad word where i am from

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Love his work, and his message. And he died as he lived: with a BANG. And I don't mean his suicide: he had his ashes shot off in a giant cannon, followed by patriotic fireworks.

Hail, King Gonzo

>>7562229
there's an epub and a mobi on library genesis' fiction page

>>7562858
Thank you very much! If someone has pdf i would be grateful tho!

>>7562921
Why would you want a pdf

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>shitpost on /lit/
>post on it anyway