I became an avid reader like fifteen months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time spamming my message on 4chan anymore.
Here's how I did it.
-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person
-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure
-Read various books at the same time. When I grab a difficult book or one that makes me sleepy I grab another and switch. This should refresh your head. Keep them thematically different. I read economics and fiction.
-It isn't a race. Reading slowly won't make you sleepy that fast. Try to acknowledge what books are for you to read fast and which aren't.
-Buy the physical copies. When you get the books from your own money you'll feel the need to read them to avoid the feel of wasting your money.
-Start with books highly discussed here so you feel motivated to discuss.
>>7451440
I became an avid pastaposter like fifteen months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I spend as much time spamming this message on 4chan.
Here's how I did it.
-Remember the average person posts like zero copypastas a day. If you post 5 pasta threads a day, you are 5 pasta threads above the average person.
-Don't force yourself to urinate or defecate in the bathroom. Commit to wearing a diaper and using a piss jug so you can spend more time pastaposting. I swear after three days you'll enjoy the physical sensations and smells and after a month or so you won't even bother with the jug or diapers. Free defecating and free urinating will be your greatest pleasures behind pastaposting.
-Post the same thread at the same time so people will have something regular to look forward to. When I get b& I grab a new proxy and switch. This should refresh your ip. Keep the proxies in different countries to make you harder to backtrace.
-It isn't a race. Posting more often won't make you even more of a 4chan hero. Try to acknowledge that constancy of spam is the best way for you to become an internet superstar.
-Start with /lit/ because there are no mods. Feel free to spam other boards once you've established your pastaposting cred here.
-Print out physical copies and put them up around school and town and your sister's bedroom. When you spam irl with your own two hands you'll feel even more powerful.
>>7451440
thanks doc.
>>7451440
This helps a lot, thanks.
Hey /lit/, can we talk about short stories?
What are some of your favorites? Who are your favorite short story authors? Why do you like them? Why do you dislike them? et cetera...
The Portrait by Gogol
Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Dostoevsky
(still reading borges but probably the immortal)
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether by Poe
Waldo or and he built a crooked house by heinlein.
there were a few in vonnegut's welcome to the monkey house but it's been so long i can't remember.
For sale: baby shoes, never worn by [disputed]
I remember being down in the rec room in Angela Mead’s basement on the couch and having her let me get my hand up her blouse and not even really feeling the soft aliveness or whatever of her breast because all I was doing was thinking, ‘Now I’m the guy that Mead let get to second with her.’ Later that seemed so sad. This was in middle school. She was a very big-hearted, quiet, self-contained, thoughtful girl—she’s a veterinarian now, with her own practice—and I never even really saw her, I couldn’t see anything except who I might be in her eyes, this cheerleader and probably number two or three among the most desirable girls in middle school that year. She was much more than that, she was beyond all that adolescent ranking and popularity crap, but I never really let her be or saw her as more, although I put up a very good front as somebody who could have deep conversations and really wanted to know and understand who she was inside
Does anyone else get the impression that DFW would have been way less of a miserable cunt if he spent some time traveling the world, or ventured out into the wilderness occasionally?
>>7451365
>traveling and nature makes you a better person
that's right goyim, buy a plane ticket to a famous national park today!
>>7451374
> National Parks are the only way to enjoy nature
He should of worked a physical job, no pencil pusher can enjoy a cruise.
>it's just a clandestine mailing company
Oh, h-how exciting ...
>It's just some worms that like cinnamon
Like 6 books.
uhh, are you retarded? waste may be
tristero isn't
isn't it also a little odd a clandestine mailing company is necessary to begin with?
also
>exciting
read some ian fleming faggot. there's more than enough intrigue in the book to make the tristero system an interesting plot, yet at the same time it's all very tongue in cheek and obviously aware of its own absurdity. why are you reading pynchon if you're that much of a close-minded stick in the mud?
why are you reading period? please just stop posting here, and I invite everyone to hide this thread and not bump it
>>7451378
Pinecone detected
Just finished East of Eden and I really liked it. Definitely my favourite of Steinbeck so far. Great scenery, memorable characters (Samuel and Lee) and I can't help but think about it.
What are your thoughts/opinions it?
Olive's chapter was delightful. Lee helps me to see my own tribulations somewhat more objectively, or at least try to. Kate is a train wreck that I couldn't look away from, even after the cuteness has been sapped out of her. Aron's a sweetheart, Cal's a glimmer of hope in a drama that plays itself out again and again. But everyone's got a bit of both brothers about them, I think. Samuel's character reminds me to appreciate those few friends who won't just tell me what they think I want to hear. It's wisely written, I liked it far better than Of Mice and Men.
One thing gets me to this day. What does Cathy lack what guarantee do I have that I don't lack it also?
Good read, anon. You might like The Once And Future King. Timshel.
Now where's all the patricians who've supposedly read this?
>>7451338
This was my slut ex gf's favorite book. I encourage you to burn it.
How do you read thinkers that you fundamentally disagree with, with an open mind, as if you hadn't read that which put you in your current intellectual position?
For example, I'm trying to read Marx right now, but I read other economic thinkers like Mises before, and can't get over how wrong he is. Can I discard their critiques from my mind somehow, so as to give Marx a better chance?
Marx is wrong so you're right
Try to see things in context and from their point of view. Or just don't bother with them unless you have to.
>I read other economic thinkers like Mises
Consider reading actual economists, then return to Marx.
I want to read dubliners, is this edition good or should I go with the oxford one?
The text is the same, who gives a shit if it's not translated?
Id personally skip dubliners and go straight for Ulysses or portrait (preferably Ulysses). I couldn't make it past 3 stories without wanting to snooze
>>7451211
Dubliners is important for Ulysses.
He's actually good, you faggots.
Godamn it, you pedantic assholes are always wrong.
whats your favorite work of his then?
never actually checked him out
>>7451179
The colour out of space.
The rats in the walls freaked me out.
Herbert West-Reanimator is pretty good
>but
The Dunwich Horror kicked ass
Summarise your novel/novella/short story/flash fiction's plot, /lit/
>A group of teens try to see what the afterlife holds by creating Romeo and Juliet serums; the Romeo serum kills them for 30 seconds and the Juliet revives them.
>>7451106
This is a movie called flatliners
>>7451111
Goddamn it. Ok I've got another one in the pipeline:
>A rogue cop investigates himself after files documenting suspicious group activity in the woods disaster from the precinct
>>7451130
>investigates himself
Apology for poor English. Obviously I meant he investigates by himself.
>how funny can it really be? I bet it's all memes blown out of proportion
>read first sentence
>audibly laugh for several seconds
wew lads
If a book makes me laugh I throw it in the trash because comedy is the lowest form of expressions and any "literature" that has to make use of comedy is rubbish.
>muh valve
>>7450930
Comedy is the highest form of expression
Hello lads, which english translation of the Iliad do you recommend me to read? would it be a prose or verse one? i'm not a scholar nor a student of this particular field, so i want something that doesn't have too many complex vocabulary as english isn't my first language
search the archive. this has been asked before
>>7450820
looked around and stumbled upon Mitchell's translation, i liked it as a verse, but i also have fagles', which one as a beginner should i go for?
>>7450879
bump
Hi /lit/,
What is your preferred translation or edition of the Bible? I have a NIV but I'm buying a copy for a friend to read so we can read the whole thing together. (Okay, it's not a friend, it's my mom, fuck you, we like to read stuff together and she has good taste.) Interested more in poetic and literary value of the translation than in theological content or adherence to a particular interpretation of Christianity. The KJV bits I've read are beautiful so I was leaning towards one of the slightly modernized KJVs (like the "21st Century King James Version," etc.) but what are your thoughts? Are there editions with particularly good notes or editors' remarks?
Bump, surprised by the lack of responses as I've seen /lit/ argue about this before. Was my image too ironic?
http://biblehub.com/john/14-6.htm
>>7450718
It sounds like you have about the best plan for your situation already; I was mentally forming a response (KJV is most literary; updated version might be easier), but then you said just that.
Hello,
I'm a senior finishing up a CS degree. I dipped my toes into philosophy a little bit as a freshman, but never delved very deeply into it. I now have a renewed interest in it (I don't really know what I want anymore, I figure philosophy might have the answers), but I'm kind of lost on where to begin. I downloaded "Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction" and found online copies of "On Liberty", "Treatise of Human Nature", "Beyond Good and Evil", and "Existentialism as Humanism".
Are these good books to start my journey? Anything that should be added? Note: I'm not looking to learn the history of philosophy, so I'm not very interested in works like Plato
>>7450694
plato still, honestly. it's more interesting than you might think. plenty of food for thought in those pages.
>>7450694
>I'm not very interested in works like Plato
You should be. There's a reason we still teach the Greeks
>>7450694
You need to get at least a basic understanding of the Greeks and German Idealists. I wish I did when I began my journey into philosophy.
> "Beyond Good and Evil"
You can't just jump into Nietzsche like that. If you do, you will most likely come away from it with the wrong ideas. Also, start with Twilight of the Idols, not BG&E.
"Write drunk, edit sober"
Do you have any strange writing or reading habits?
>>7450655
I do this hilarious thing where I continue to buy books despite having a 5 foot stack of backlog and then proceed to shitpost instead of reading
When I write I usually choke out a few pages, look it over the next day, decide it's irredeemably shit and start anew.
I only write dubs posts
>>7450677
>For sale: baby shoes, never worn
What did he mean by this?
>>7450635
they didnt fit. he had big feet.
Nothing, since he didn't write that.
>>7450643
did I say who wrote it?