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This adverb meme is my favorite.
No one gives any reason for it. Just don't. Do not.

>>7382758
Yeah, if you're a shit writer you should probably respect all these rules.

>>7382758

To add onto 2b, any kind of temporal description is unnecessary. "And then," "Next," "Slowly", "At length", "Afterwards", "Until", "Before". It's just unnecessary.

>>7382763

Re-read the statement. "Sparingly". Does a reason need to be given? It's one of those things I would hope a reader would just intuitively agree with.

>>7382693
The Jeeves and Wooster series is very well done... I forget who narrated it though

>>7382693
I love the Ulysses read by Jim Norton

and the inherent vice one is amazing

>>7382760
>Ulysses
Is this purely a meme, or is it actually an enjoyable book?

Never worried for a second. Elsevier can suck my dick.

been using mirrors this whole time but large swathes of stuff seems to have gone missing in the midst of all this

>>7382564
I didnt notice using their bookzz and booksc mirrors.

>>7382504
that has nothing to do with grammar and everything to do with 'what words mean'

what the actual fuck, kill yourself

What? "I'm" is a contraction of "I am".

>>7382523
>>7382522
I think OP might be a South American who uses soy instead of Yo soy.

translation et cetera

I will not be clicking on a buzzfeed article tyvm

Saged.

>nihilist
>literary lifestyle

Into the trash it goes

Studying is a pretty pleb activity tbqh. Patricians have no need for such rote activity.

Only if you hate every second of your existence

Oops, title should say My Twisted World

agreed completely

I find it fascinating, but I'm not well read enough to gauge it's actual value.
I find it fascinating because it's like 4chan: I can somewhat assume it's honest. The author planned to die, so at the very worst, all he wanted was a legacy. Not money or audience pussy. There is no agenda than what actually believes.

>>7382260
Just started reading this last night before bed. It's a good light read (I got to Ch3/100pgs in 90min or so), but unless she impresses me more later on, it's gonna stay light. She's terribly obvious with what I assume are omens throughout the first two chapters, and her characters are mostly gossip right now. Still thoighx she has a way with metaphor and atmosphere.

It's just a very comfy book with lots of edgy material in it.

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>>7382308
I agree that it's comfy. I wasn't sure whether I just associate it with comfy times or if it was in the content but it's a brick of warmth in a blanket beneath the tapping rain on the roof... for me

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>>7382220

>>7382220
no butters is our empress
p-pls come back

>>7382220
wow, she just won't give up.

No.

You tell me.

I don't know, I've never read it.

I usually delete epubs after I'm done with them, because I don't want them on my reader hard drive and because I can't read them on my computer. Though I horde good pdfs like semites horde precious metals.

>>7382127
why can't you read epubs on your computer?

>>7382129
how the fuck do you do it, family?

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>Islam, which originated among the Semitic races also consisted of the Law and Tradition, regarded as a formative force, to which the Arab stocks of the origins provided a purer and nobler human material that was shaped by a warrior spirit. The Islamic law (shariah) is a divine law; its foundation, the Koran, is thought of as God’s very own word (kalam Allah) as well as a nonhuman work and an 'uncreated book' that exists in heaven ab eterno.

> Islam presents a traditional completeness, since the shariah and the sunna, that is, the exoteric law and tradition, have their complement not in a vague mysticism, but in full-fledged initiatory organisations (turuq) that are characterised by an esoteric teaching (tawil) and by the metaphysical doctrine of the Supreme Identity (tawhid). In these organizations, and in general in the shia, the recurrent notions of the masum, of the double prerogative of the isma (doctrinal infallibility), and of the impossibility of being stained by any sin (which is the prerogative of the leaders, the visible and invisible Imams and, the mujtahid) lead back to the line of an unbroken race shaped by a tradition at a higher level than both Judaism and the religious beliefs that conquered the West

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>It is a great shame for any one to listen to the accusation that Islaam is a lie and that Muhammad was a fabricator and a deceiver. We saw that he remained steadfast upon his principles, with firm determination; kind and generous, compassionate, pious, virtuous, with real manhood, hardworking and sincere. Besides all these qualities, he was lenient with others, tolerant, kind, cheerful and praiseworthy and perhaps he would joke and tease his companions. He was just, truthful, smart, pure, magnanimous and present-minded; his face was radiant as if he had lights within him to illuminate the darkest of nights; he was a great man by nature who was not educated in a school nor nurtured by a teacher as he was not in need of any of this.

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>I respect, more than do the Mamluks, God, his prophet Muhammad and the glorious Qur'an... we are true Muslims. Are we not the one who has destroyed the Pope who preached war against Muslims? Did we not destroy the Knights of Malta, because these fanatics believed that God wanted them to make war against the Muslims?

I didn't like it. It's the least interesting existentialist novel I've read so far.

The Fall > The Stranger

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>>7382060
I read it when i was 16 and loved it. Reread it now, 3 years later, and can't stand it. The language is bland, the existentialism i find to be not particularly interesting as well, now that i've read more into absurdism and whatnot.

>>7381913
Just go for whatever.

>>7381913
Learn Russian

>>7381997

This to be honest, family.

One of my favourite books desu. Make sure you can handle the extrem graphic violence.

It is far superior to the movie. So if you liked it you will love the novel.

So I really loved the movie when I first saw it. After reading the book, however, the movie felt like it was five minutes long. The book hits pretty much all the same beats but gives you more of it and the movie feels pretty thin afterwards. This is typical with movies based on books though.

He lists brand names a lot and I just skim through those more or less. There isn't much of a plot and since it's stretched out it doesn't feel as linear as the movie. It's part of a whole genre of books that are monotonous psychopathic ramblings made interesting and tolerable by strange and disturbing content.

>>7381909
That's great to hear. Were you able to get through the book fairly quickly?

And does the book have the exact same plot as the movie?