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Mine did but was retard :<

He read my short story aloud to the class : )

It was about a cannibal after a global nuclear war.

>be me
>eighth grade (we're 12)
>have to write story about pirates
>teacher decides to read some
>first few always a bit noisy, kids fooling around, no mentions
>mine gets read
>everyone is dead silent, gazing at the teacher
>misreads a word, I correct him
>whole class in awe that I wrote it
>afterwards the teacher complimented me and everyone told me they liked my story
felt good.

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>>7457538
I just finished reading this and it was the shit

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>>7457570
Do you have epub?

>>7457538
pic related, it was in my uncles cabin and was probably the first book of horror stories I ever encountered, the cabin burned down and the book was lost. But it has some really great stories in it.

Also, even though it is encroaching on meme territory, Borges Collected Fictions and the Complete Lovecraft are a must.

>>7457570
http://www62.zippyshare.com/v/10910851/file.html

NM got it off mobilism.

Its an rar but i scanned and opened, epub and mobi versions included

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>>7457516

How was JPS a dick?

>>7457579
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/09/26/stand-by-your-man

>being this dismayed that the quintessential fat englishman has strong opinions about food

>>7457241
Reconcile via the fact that this specific issue is:

A) Not at all their area of expertise/reason they are known or respected.

B) extremely fucking dated. Realize that, thanks to select bible lines, some of these people grew up in eras where it is generally held as fact that animals don't even feel real pain.

in short, don't ask your dentist for legal advice.

>>7457241
Reconcile via the fact that this specific issue is:

A) Not at all their area of expertise/reason they are known or respected.

B) extremely fucking dated. Realize that, thanks to select bible lines, some of these people grew up in eras where it is generally held as fact that animals don't even feel real pain.

in short, I don't ask my dentist for legal advice.
(Or in your case: don't give a shit that my dentist thinks I have grounds to sue.)

>>7457065
At your level, you should focus on tactics and simply playing.
Tactics alone can get you to 1500 FIDE level.

I can't recall any good beginner strategy books but a google search would no doubt help you.

Silman's The Amateur's Mind and Irving Chernev's Logical Chess are the two I see recommended for beginner's most often

Silman's analyses amateur games and the mistakes in thinking that come with them

Chernev analyses renowned pro games point by point explaining why certain moves were made at certain times, and how they're based around an overall strategy

play me on lichess
http://lichess.org/MlKQfCms

They include a wider range of things, but the concept is very simillar.

Ideology in the Marxist sense is opposed to class consciousness, it's a fake form of consciousness. Spooks don't have such antithesis afaik.

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>>7457777
cheers blud. have a jco macro.

>>7456596
I really liked it. I read it at a point in my life when I was lonely and it helped me to understand what I was feeling. That said, I think it's great regardless of whether you relate to the underground man or not.

>>7456658
I think the Underground Man gives existentialism from both perspectives. On one hand, his affirmation in the face of reason is very Christian. On the other, it bears a lot of similarity to the freethinker in hell the Devil tells Ivan about in The Brothers Karamazov.

It's another one of Dostoyevsky's strawmen. Don't read to far into him; he's a hack.

For me, "The unbearable lightness of being" and "The book of laughter and forgetting" were the best. I really like him, though I found his very last book to be a disappointment

Don't like him, especially his fiction, essays are somewhat fine. Too much of mentoring in his books, too much of showing of how he can write (see all that shit about 'how is Immortality book which you can't summarize').

Also dislike his attitude towards translation of his books and towards early stuff he wrote in czech etc.

Seems like an arrogant prick.

>>7457573
>his attitude towards translation of his books
What's his attitude.

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>>7456486
You could use ye
tfw greek class doesn't know ye is plural

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>>7456486
>Youse
>Y'all

>>7456486

>mfw my Norman ancestors probably raped OP's ancestors and ruled over them for hundreds of years

>>7456447
I-If it was so simple, w-why didn't you think of it first?

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>implying

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>>7457011
>implying

That's actually a pretty cool painting

>>7456358
A better place to start might be with Beyond Good and Evil, especially the Preface, and Chapters 1 ("On the Prejudices of Philosophers"), 5 ("Natural History of Morals") and 9 ("What is Noble?") (though the whole book is worth reading). That might be followed by Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality, which could be read in conjunction with the chapters of my Nietzsche on Morality discussing each essay.

From there one might go in two directions: backwards to The Gay Science, one of Nietzsche's earlier works, or forward to The Twilight of the Idols. I'd probably recommend the latter: this is a late work, not as overwrought as The Antichrist or Ecce Homo, but philosophically substantial, covering most of Nietzsche's main concerns.

>>7456358
Bad idea. You need to read other stuff Nietzsche wrote before reading that. If you really want you could read him if you understand some basic ideas of other philosophers, mostly Schopenhauer and Kant as well as the Greeks. He's accessible because he writes very poetically and non-technically. But Nietzsche is not really a good starting place if you want to understand all of philosophy. I started with him though and I didn't die.

>>7456291
anna karenina was about making sure women stay loyal and subservient. if anything, the rights that anna would have desired would be irrelevant, as a result of the incompatibility of her character with vronsky, and their selfishness. if anything, given rights, they'd still fall under the same problem. the woman who played good housewife and shut the hell up was rewarded. i don't know if it's all that sjw, really.

It was the big Russian doorstopper of yesteryear. Remember, the 1920s-30s were a period of great curiosity about Russian culture for the West, and Tolstoy fit the bill for what Westerners sought. Add onto that the fact that Communism in Russia produced practically no novels of note, and you find Tolstoy "the" Russian novelist for 100 years.

Of course, we now know that it's not a particularly excellent novel on the level of a Moby Dick or a Gravity's Rainbow, but for readers in the 20s and 30s, it must have been something refreshing, to know that Russians in the late 1800s were grappling with similar issues as the West.

>>7456291
when you say SJW as a pegorative the implication is that for social INjustice, which makes you on the wrong side of your own argument.
What do you people call yourselves? Gamergaters? Can you define yourself in any other terms that what you are not, i.e. you arent reddit, for whatever glory that graces you with...but what are you?
Asking for a freind.

>>7456227
Slowpoke who hasn't read Murakami here. Where should I start?

>>7456227
I like all murakami but his character writing is what I appreciate more than anything else, and oftentimes the surrealist elements of the plot function as commentaries on the characters. I really liked 1Q84 for its leads, and A Windup Bird Chronicle for the side characters.

>>7456416
Norwegian Wood or Wind Up Bird

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>>7456186
this girls knows nothing about logic and grammar. Do not bother to reply to me, because you will be wasting your time.

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I think Bloom is a classist, poncy snob who never stopped being mad at hippies.
in other words, the honorary king of /lit/

>>7456186
Yes.

A kekold, I mean.

>>7455867
cant remember, i read it so long ago. are you literally asking if his wife slept with other men? i think he was the guy who survived when everyone else died and I never really liked him as much as I liked Andrei. but I'm really in no position to discuss, I read it once and never looked at it again. It would require so much commitment to reread and my reading list is always booked for months (no pun intended (that was kinda faggish))

>>7455889
He thought Dolokov slept with Helene and dueled him