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Just bought these 28 new books. Had to get two of my assistants to hold the stacks so they didn't slide off my Ferrari "Book-Mobile." I always buy multiple genres of books: biographies, history, charity, business, fitness, & self help - be eclectic, be yourself.

The depth of your knowledge base is the best predictor of your future.

Has /lit/ ever tried this creativity trick? grab two unrelated books and lay in bed and flip between reading them both.

Watch how the ideas bounce around and produce brand new concepts.

Also, /book haul general/

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I'm interested in becoming a successful writer and I've heard that most of them are polyglots.

At CC atm, but headed to UT Austin in the spring. I took Spanish in high school, but want to learn a language that will force me to think about language in different ways.

I'm leaning toward German rn.

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So, I finished reading Ivanhoe, and I quite enjoyed it (Even if it is too bad he had to choose boring Rowena over delicious Rebecca).

I'm in the mood for more knights and chivalry.

What other books should I read? Also, is there any book that serves as manual for knights? Some sort of western Hagakure?

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So I just read all three short stories/novellas from the New York trilogy and I was absolutely blown away

Auster is like Murakami, but actually good and compelling and creepy

what should I read next by him? I did really enjoy the mystery/crime/post-existentialism of the NY trilogy and I would like to read more with that vibe, but I would not be opposed to his other works

>pic related: qt auster

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zizek has ruined me /lit/

whenever someone says something i just shout 'PURE IDEOLOGY MY GOTT' at them and rant about hegel

what should i read in order to be able to function again

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Dear Aristotle:
YOUR COCKSUCKING BOOK HAS REDUCED ME TO A GIBBERING MAN-APE WHOSE ONLY RESORT TO DEALING WITH THE ALMIGHTY loving GRIEF IT'S BESTOWED UPON ME IS TO SCREAM AND HURT MYSELF.

Seriously, I am jumping up and down and throwing my shit in handfuls at the loving wall in some impotent primal effort to get the thing to make sense. I have been sitting here trying to enjoy your book - YOUR BOOK, YOUR COLLECTION OF ESSAYS, YOUR CONTRACT BETWEEN AUTHOR AND READER THAT THE READER WILL ENJOY YOUR PRODUCT - but instead the fucking thing's been crawling out of my hands and taking warm shits in my gaping eyes, Swear to god, you should have just added a little door to the front cover through which a hand pops out and flips me off, because I am insulted that your editor or publishers or whatever brainless shitstove three genes short of a monkey FAGNUT prints your books through thought that a person with more than a single loving digit IQ could enjoy "On Poetics" INSULTED

WORK WITH ME HERE: The goal's simple enough!Read the first line Hey, that's fine, it's just like any of Plato's works; not a problem! Only deal is your cross-eyed tongue-slapping ass decided to give the obscure meaning every single fucking line possible

HURRR, you say. THAT'S JUST THE CHALLENGE. IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE EASY. Well fuck that noise, you lopsided frankenfaced fuckfurter.

Tell me, please, why does the BOOK have to win? Huh? What happens when the book wins and I lose? Is there some huge fucking kegger waiting for it when it gets done? Is there money involved? Or perhaps the motives are more sinister. Maybe the book's family is being held hostage by another book and that book has it's cock in Nicomachean Ethics's wife's mouth and he's holding a cell phone up to her and Nicomachean Ethics can hear her pained moans and cries for help and the asshole book then says, "You beat that cock-sucking human, or I'll blow her brains out." I COULD UNDERSTAND THAT. I CAN BE SYMPATHETIC.

It's not any fun if I can't understand, you faggot. I want to move on. I want to unlock whatever piece of shit platitude you have hidden away from me so I can start philosophizing and living the literary lifestyle. When your book prevents me from fully enjoying the product I have bought you have failed in your fucking mission to deliver a book. You lose! You break the contract! You contract the gay and fucking DIE DIE DIE.

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What's the point of reading old books if the settings and themes are so far removed from our modern world that there's really no way of connecting with them? We live in an age of the internet and social media, and nothing in, say, The Odyssey, relates to that, so what's the point of reading it if it has nothing to do with the most influential and relevant things in our lives?

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I give this a light 6.

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Literally the best existentialist work ever written, philosophy or literature.

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>he still watches porn

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Is Ursula Le Guin worth reading?

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You have 30 seconds to refute Stirner's The Ego and His Own.
You can't. All your "counterarguments" are spooks.

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I don't know whether this topic is relevant enough to /lit/, but might be interesting to discuss.

What does /lit/ use to help them read/write more and better?

I mainly use cigarettes, vape, coffee and tea. Pretty standard really.

Lately I have been trying out some kratom. Mostly white sumatra and green malay in portions of 4-6g with some redosing 1-2g after 1-2 hours. It works pretty well I must say. It has a slight opiate effect (so you feel warm and fuzzy) and at lower doses also a nice mental stimulating effect. Feels pretty good if you have to work 10+ hours on something and feel backpain and such.

Tried to work a few times on assignments with some alcohol but that just doesn't work for me.

So anybody here using uppers or downers? Combinations? For what tasks? Formal texts? Creative writing?

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Any good books on rural life in the past? bonus if it's situated in a slavic country

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How can I learn to read faster and better?