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>>9838501
how would i type that into a search engine to find other similar books

>>9838514
"books like Meditations by Marcus Aurelius"

>>9838483
>Reading Blavatsky
She was a nutcase who claimed she'd discovered hidden Buddhist esoteric texts, and preached a nonsensical syncretic esoteric system of her own.

If that sounds like it appeals to you, go ahead.

>>9838508
So have you read it?

>>9838510
Obviously not.

I haven't finished the book OP but it wouldnt hurt to read it, Blatvasky was one of the greats.

yes! as a matter of fact so people were achtually offended

>>9838427
Im going to go pick it up tommorow what should i expect

>>9838437
socks, underwear, vaginas

>>9838303
My Degger

>>9838303
vry nice where is this from?

What does he mean by this

Stop reading garbage literature.

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>>9838273
Quality post anon. Care to elaborate?

>>9838207
never heard of her but she looks like a nasty milf alright. would bang after a winey date/10.

>>9838222
Her schtick is "autotheory"-- autobiographical theory.

Common themes include anal sex, violence against women, and gender.

She's married to a trans man and has one kid with him (her).

Not exactly /lit/'s cup of tea, but I'm curiois if anyone here has read her. Her last book "Argonauts" received a fair amount of praise

I'd like to give her some of my thoughts if you know what I mean

it gay

Reading it made me want to read Shakespeare instead of BNW.

>>9838175
y tho

>>9838200
I can understand that, since Huxley quotes Shakespeare a lot in the 2nd half of the book. I still found BNW to be really interesting.

not a problem as long as you're reading great lit

How can something be enjoyable if you're rushing through it? It can be useful if you're reading a book for school to absorb knowledge, but when reading fiction, you should be reading at a moderate pace.

>>9838139

Mate read one word at a time. Word after word. As long as you're doing that you're doing it right. Speed doesn't mean a thing.

She's airin out the ol' stinkhole

>>9838088
A meme?
No.
that's how it is when you read books you actually like rather than for their "literary merit"

I've read a full length novel in one sitting several times so no. My reading speed is fast, mind you my comprehension is shit, but nonetheless I tend to burn through books at a good pace.

Blasting through YA fiction in one sitting in high school was always a problem in classes because for the next fucking two weeks we would be going through the book 2-3 chapters a day reading out that days chapters, then we would actually have to do an assignment on it. The school system successfully crushed any love of reading I had for many years despite being the type of person so excited to read he read entire books even though he knew he would have to read them again.

So no, people do this with books, and think of how short the book the average reader reads actually is, can totally read through many books in one sitting even with average reading speed.

With meme books often reading every page on day 1 is important to prevent 4chan from organising to spoil the book or some fuckboi '''''friend''''' spoiling it for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THKngDe-5J8

meditations sucks so bad, it's the most pseudy reddit bullshit i've personally read

>>9838076
>muh reddit
Nice argument buddy

>>9838070
Scott Adam's book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

>>9837896
>PURPLE PROSE
Post example

>>9837905
Just read anything of his and you'll find it before long. It absolutely is some of the most flowery purple prose but I don't think that's such a bad thing considering his subject matter and what he was trying to evoke. Trying to combine that level of whimsy with grit and succintness would probably not work. CAS is definitely an acquired taste though.

Since you asked:

"Selim bent over and kissed Zoraida on the mouth. Her lips were not entirely cold, but there was a queer, bitter taste. Of course, it must be the poison. The thought was hardly formulated when a searing agony seemed to run through all his veins. He could no longer see Zoraida, in the blinding flames that appeared before him and filled the room like ever-widening suns; and he did not know that he had fallen forward on the couch across her body. Then the flames began to shrink with great swiftness and went out in a swirl of soft gloom. Selim felt that he was sinking into a great gulf, and that someone (whose name he could not remember) was sinking beside him. Then, all at once, he was alone, and was losing even the sense of solitude. . till there was nothing but darkness and oblivion."

>>9837936

That's not really purple prose. It's pretty straightforward and clear as to what's happening. You could have picked a better example.

And for the record, anyone who still follows Richard Dawkins is a cunt. The man used to be a scientist. Now he's a journailst that just sits on Twitter all day.

>>9837940
>journailst

>Faith is for dumb ignorant religious people.
>I'm a skeptic and absolute certainty is impossible.
>But i'm absolutely certain about my atheism and have total faith in it.

>>9837893

Hack Kerohack, more like it

>>9837893
I fucking hate Jack Kerouc but /lit/ probably seriously digs this stack.

>>9837893
>mfw he fell for the haunted life meme

Pedophilia and literal shit-eating

>>9837799
If you made it through V. you'll probably be okay but it is his most difficult book. Read it multiple times and consider using a reader's guide

Tonnes and tonnes of fun. Basically a WW2 satire in the spirit of Underground Comix that posits capitalist conspiracy behind the whole of modern warfare and unfolds like a self-parodying picaresque.

>>9837596
What do you think?

>>9837608
i believe he was. what do you think?

>>9837596
Napoleon wuz black cuz he was a Moor!