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>>9685188
it's not fucking hard. you're a brainlet. start with the greeks, pleb.

>>9685188
It's not nonsense. Joyce wasn't kidding when he said he could justify every word. Use this website and remember to have fun: http://www.finneganswiki.com/

>>9685188
Language. Puns.

>>9685106
The virgin suicides

>>9685106
Never let me go

>>9685106
My diary

there arent any worthwhile after lovecraft but you might enjoy some of them from the past 70 years.

>>9685031
Clark Ashton Smith.

>>9685031
Robert E Howard had some good ones in Lovecraft's vein.

Check out "The Black Stone"

whatever you do don't get the collected fictions, the translation is mediocre at best and wrong at worst and has these annoying asterisks to mark the notes

>>9684917
Hey I picked that one up at Goodwill the other day

Only Giovanni is accepted.

>>9684890
>virtual (remain forever)
Are you retarded?

I generally make short chapter summaries of each chapter (or whatever other form of convenient division between parts there is, like tablets, or books, in classic texts), or occasionally if chapters are really long/short do some other grouping that makes sense to summarize through, and then once I finish reading the work I'll write a couple paragraphs of my interpretation of the text.

I do all of this in one big word document. Writing by hand would possibly be better, but it takes more time and I don't feel the benefits are actually worth it. The main benefit you get by taking notes/writing interpretation in my eyes are that it forces you to sort of "organize" the thoughts you have about whatever you've read, which is useful for forming your analysis of a book, but also helps you remember the book for longer. I also find it helps me find parallels between texts I might otherwise not have noticed, but that's really just a symptom of the other two effects. Writing by hand would probably help with the memory stuff, but not enough for it to actually be worth the extra time in my opinion.

>with life-advise/technical books
My note taking tends to be more so for fiction, or other things which I'm attempting to get a deeper meaning out of. I never bother with it when I'm reading on a purely informational level, at least not these kind of notes. If I'm studying a textbook or something I'm probably going to be taking notes of some kind, just not like this. In the case of practical textbooks with many, and good, problem sets, then generally I'll just practice the problem sets over taking notes, as generally I find that a better use of time.

>>9684925
y r u so mean
i have files from the time i was in highschool, god knows where are my notebook notes from last years semester

that's the difference

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>open JoyceLettersToNora.epub
>ctrl+f "fart"
>computer crashes

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>>9684900
>>9684800

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>>9684800
>ctrl + f racism in mein kampf
results: 0

The one where you download it for free because it's public domain.

>>9684799
this or just get a signet or penguin copy for like $3. If you really like it, get a nice copy for your display shelf after reading.

the audible audiobook, it's literally 50 cents for members, despite being like 7 hours long or some shit

>>9684769
>Why do people who pretend to like books say they only like reading physical books?
I've never heard anyone say this in real life

>Its so much more boring reading from a book than it is from a monitor.
I disagree

>it's so much more boring

It's the same fucking words, you knob.

Most of the books I have right now are either on my PC or my Kindle, but the feel of the paper is much much better. It's a pity that I can't put the physical books anywhere

I blare white noise so no other sounds can distract me and read in a closed room where the only furnishings are a chair, a footstool, and a lamp.

probably because your job doing viral marketing on social media has rotted your brain

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>>9684759
>I blare white noise so no other sounds can distract me
>except the white noise

Stop it.

Fuck witches. Drink Butterbeer.

cliches + decent setting + luck + well defined world for your sheep autist fans to write fanfics in = $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

>voldemort is a hitler allegory who wants to keep hogwarts pure by excluding and persecuting mudbloods
>voldemort is ultimately defeated and mudbloods are allowed uncontended access to attend hogwarts
>throughout the generations, mudbloods and pure-blooded wizards miscegenate and the few remaining magical bloodlines become diluted to the point of impotence
>tolerance and diversity is eventually responsible for the total death of literal magic
wtf I hate nonwhites now

>>9684695
not as raped and abused as "like".

>>9684702
Nah. You're dim.

>>9684714
Like, what do you mean?

Sin.

Unironically women.

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>>9684686
Absolutely nothing

>>9684562
I don't need fiction... I'm making MY LIFE into the greatest story ever told...

>>9684566
Greatest story never told

>>9684562
>fiction can never have ulterior meaning and serve to profess a specific topic through more stylised and artistic means

>>9684495
Dunwich Horror

The Dunwich Horror. Its epic, mainly the end. If you want something that describes the entities you should read At the Mountain of Madness. It's a novella.

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>>9684495
Pic related and The Shadow Over Innsmouth

>>9684475
It's a metaphor of op and his pursuit of something that kills him.

>>9684500
Metaphor of life.

>>9684475
Some dull moments, some of the greatest moments in literature. Hopefully you'll catch and understand the biblical references if you didn't buy a notated version.