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le Guin

Lord of Light

>>7484871
Dune is the GOAT science fiction

>new things for back cover
How about you get a new front cover, that shit is fucking hideous.

There were a bunch of suggested blurbs in the last thread.
Why not use those?

If not then, then what do we want the blurbs to say?

>>7453985
bump

>Most accessible:
The Road
>Most difficult:
Blood Meridian
>Best:
Suttree

>>7495501
The Road is fast and she can just blast through teh really weird parts

but really if he's your favorite what's going on there man. He's written some fine books but I can't imagine him as a favorite level

>>7495501
The questions is...why would you want to read such a shit author?

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>>7495099
Got some shots thru-out the book

Post an excerpt, if you'd be so kind.

>unofficial

Oh boy. Did you find it in sort of a weird place in the store, and did it look like it had been sort of forcibly wedged into the shelves?

"Some of you guys are alright. Don't come to my patio this weekend."

- Dave "Caveman" Wallace

>>7494417

Unironically,

David F. Wallace

>>7494417
No, he signed

t. DFW

>>7493079
what's going on in this image

Chasm
probably won't actually read it though

Going to Read the Romans; my list:

Ancient Rome - Simon Baker
The Aeneid - Virgil
The Metamorphoses - Ovid
On the Nature of Things - Lucretius
Selected Works - Cicero
Commentaries on the Gallic War - Caesar
The Histories - Polybius
Parallel Lives - Plutarch
The Golden Ass - Apuleius

>>7491795
Just quote Socrates.
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
The end.

i love this meme

>>7491801

According to you, Socrates spoke English, so he didn't really 'know nothing'.

>>7491574
My favorite quote: "Some animals are more equal than others." It gave me chills.

Many years ago, as a kid. After I've read 1984.

>>7491574
>>>/r/books/

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Just finished this book and was bitterly disappointed. The first chapter was amazing though.

can someone post the template pls

>>7495189
He meant hippos are the master race.

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He was being ironic, as man represents progress in the form of well groomed facial hair. Those in the animal kingdom do not have access to shaving, this is why Nietzsche would shave, but kept a mustache. This was his his physical manifestation of self actualization.

>>7495199
Kant tell if memeing

read things you want to read and you will want to read them

>>7495157
I have tried reading about 6 different books, some rec'd by lit. The ones I enjoy are the ones I find interesting and I ENJOY reading. Its hard to get through the cannon when everything others suggest are so dull. When people rec a movie its easy enough to get through but for books you have to dedicate so much time to get through them.

>How do I become as motivated a reader as you, /lit/?


LMAOOOO

"Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction" by Michael Tanner is about as entry-level as it gets.

Start with the Greeks.

No, seriously, start with the Presocratics, then read Plato, then read Homer, then read Vergil, then skip the Medievals because Nietzsche didn't even bother to read them, then read Hume, then read Kant, then read Schoepenhauer, then read Hegel, THEN you can read Nietzsche.

>>7495094
I heard Nietzsche didn't read Hegel as well. It makes kind of sense.

I would add the French moralists and Aristotle to your list.

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>>7494812
wow how did I not even think about that, thanks. Any other ones?

>>7494773
Not desert so might not be relevant. But have you thought of Robinson Crusoe?

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>>7494851
sweet, any idea on how you would do violent Man vs Nature in the desert?

>>7494868
No, I haven't, will check it out! What specifically are you thinking of in it?

>>7494387
It won't happen. You're better off just selling all of your shit and backpacking.

if you need to join the military for something to write you'll probably just settle into a life of mediocrity in the service and never write of worth but at least you'll stop posting so go ahead

>>7494387
...so you were too stupid to get into college?

>>7494377
is the Dead the greatest short story of all time?

>>7494415
No.

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he got cucked by a ghost