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Now I'm not much of a reader of books, one could say I don't read any books, but I've got 3 free credits on audible and I was wondering if you could help me pick some books for a brainlet like me to listen to
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>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is told from the POV of a fifteen year-old autistic boy named Christopher. It starts out as him investigating the death of a neighborhood dog and turns into something much bigger. It's also one of the best versions of the hero's journey I've encountered, and the reader on Audible does a great job with it.
>The 10th Anniversary Edition of American Gods is the version preferred by the author, has a full cast of voices for the different characters, and is great if you just want a kind of "roaming around strange places in America" story.
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I recently listened to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy voiced by Stephen Fry. First audiobook I listened to and I thought it was alright
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Der Glasperlenspiel
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Is there a literary equivalent to collage techniques in painting? Especially interested if any poets used this.
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>>9632063
a short story collection that when read to completion is a story as a whole as well, perhaps?
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>>9632063
Can't tell what's going on in that picture.
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>>9632063
Lincoln in the Bardo
Are books a thing of the past?
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>>9632003
Your mom's a thing of the past.
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Textbooks, especially in digital form, will probably be the information unit of choice for a while for specialised subjects.
But for thinks like entertainment books have gotten a lot of competition and doesn't seem to be winning.
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>>9632003
Not yet, but progress will get rid of them.
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Should i try audibooks? 2017-06-13 02:10:53 Post No.9631987
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Hi, i've been wondering lately if i should give audio books a try. Lately life has become busy, and i don't have as much free time, and usually i'm too tired at night to do the hour or two of reading like i used to. Should i give audiobooks and perhaps some funny/cool va a try? Is it worth it, or do you not get the same impression from a book / should read instead.
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anyone? Seems like people here don't like no earpeople
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>>9631987
If you can read, you should read. I would never just sit in a chair and listen to an audiobook. However if you're doing something that requires minimal thinking but keeps your hands busy like manual labor or chores audiobooks are great.
Keep in mind though that just because you can do something while listening to music doesn't mean you're able to concentrate on an audio book. I for one hate the feeling of having missed anything and have to constantly rewind if I'm doing something that requires too much attention. But for something like raking leaves or carrying shit audiobooks are a godsend.
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>>9632017
Yes, that's exactly what i was thinking. I thought of listening to an audiobook while doing laundry and some other menial tasks.
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Why do you still adhere to a morality tailor-made for, and by, resentful slaves, anon?
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I dont though.
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>>9631909
because the alternative is worse.
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>>9631909
Because, Nietzsche, your success made Christian morality the edgy and frankly unpopular morality.
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Was he right?
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>>9631810
about what?
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>>9631821
About everything.
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>Hardly even cites Hegel in the Exegesis
No
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If you people want to have the slightest idea about what the hell is what the XVIII-XIX century europeans, and us after them, called Buddhism, forget about contemporary 100-page introductions or people who talk about it in a vacuum as if it were something that came out of nowhere and is applicable as such, with all its little lists and prescriptions, anywhere anytime.
Buddhism is the product of a wide social phenomenon called Sramana in the Indian context. It is the later development of only one of many movements or ways that came out of a reaction against the Vedic tradition when there were important social changes happening, the so called period of 'second urbanization'. When that tradition started to be incapable of facing the new developments, there was a series of people who, educated within that tradition and facing the new world, saw the contradictions and decided or were forced to leave society to try new ways. Out of this came an innumerable amount of individual or small-scale organized ways of life that, instead of trying to change or criticize that tradition, simply went their own way. Out of this pool, bigger organizations started to appear, among which early Buddhism, that are known retrospectively as heterodox views -Nastika-, because of their not taking the Vedas as an explicit reference, even if of course born in the meddle of Vedic culture, as well as next to the other cultures present in the territory before and simultaneously along with it.
So, it started as a small sect, along with others such as the other well known Jainism. But there were also other ones that didnt become popular sects but merely stayed as philosophical schools, and that are in no way less interesting than buddhism -they actually influenced it-, such as the carvakas, ajivikas and ajnanas, just to mention the ones recorded in the philosophical literature.
But his is nothing Indian or merely 'spiritual', it is something that happens in every society when times are changing: it fails to educate people effectively, so some of them go back to direct experience and then give a new picture adapted to the new times. It happened in Greece in the transition between the classic and the Hellenic world, think of pyrrho or diogenes; it happened in China before the Qin empire was established, think of the so called 'hundred schools of thought' or the eremitic tradition, just to name big examples. Other minor scale ones could be found in anthropological texts.
If you ignore this and take it as it is presented to us today you will miss its true value, which is not some god-send people showing us 'the way things really are', but simply an example that any human being is capable of refreshing its own ways when these are no longer effective and lead him into insoluble impasses. But such a thing is not simply done looking for formulas somewhere else but rather appealing to ones own innate capacity, ones own Life, in order to build something new from it.
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>>9631682
By the time of the Buddha Hinduism wasn't the Vedic religion anymore, it was the religion of the Upanishads.
Fuck off.
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>>9631716
Hinduism is a later development my friend. The upanishads are the philosophic development of the vedas.
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>>9631727
Yoga and renouncers were in the Buddha's days.
It has nothing to do with the Vedic religion of the liturgy of animal sacrifices and priests.
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Who is the Morrissey of literature?
inb4 Morrissey
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Why has literature become so unpopular with this generation? Is it because of video games?
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MEGAN SALINAS
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>you are born
>literature declines and degeneracy rises
really makes u think
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>>9631389
Yes.
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Anyone up for the challenge this summer? Lets start a Das Kapital reading group. Schedule, supplementary material, discussion all will be provided, all you need to do is commit to the schedule and keep up with the reading.
Jump in at anytime you want, discuss previous chapters just don't discuss farther than what the group has read.
anyone in?
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Only if you promise at least 50% of the discussion is critique, I don't want to talk to a bunch of NEET commies that think the labor theory of value is valid.
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>>9631222
well i don't know who will join, but i promise that i will only read the text and discuss as a person reading literature, not as a person with a meme ideology. I just want to understand whats going on and plus to learn history in the process. We can also add in some criticism essays about the book in the middle somewhere if we can find some.
But to avoid what you mentioned, we have to dictate the discussion, meme posts will be ignored.
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>>9631229
Alright I'm in, when what day/time are you going to post up the schedule?
I'll keep an eye out for it.
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Anyone know a good romance novel 2017-06-13 05:06:27 Post No.9631074
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Anyone know a good romance novel
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I'm thinking of reading so!ethijgn romantic so I can get an idea of what girls expect me to be like. I want to be more romantic so girls will like me. Rn I'm the exact opposite of a charming romantic guy, maybe a novel could help fix the unromantic part
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>>9631074
That is a terrible 'poem'
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Lolita
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>>9631111
Please dont cyberbully
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Consider the following two sentences:
1) Wondercow didn't like the woman standing in front of him at the concert
2) Wondercow didn't like the woman's standing in front of him at the concert
Which sentence would be correct here?
>inb4 prescriptivism
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1 states that wondercow doesn't like the woman herself
2 statest that wondercow doesn't like that the woman is standing in front of him
can't say which is correct without knowing which you were aiming for
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>>9631071
The second. It only dawned on me that I have been committing the same solecism for twenty years. Twenty years.
What about this then?
>I could not stand his being an idiot.
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I don't like his being an idiot? Or him?
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Hi I'm looking for a great and factual reccount on the world wars. What are some good books written by esteemed authors that cover WW1/WW2 ?
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>>9630995
From like a macroscopic historical perspective or a boots on the ground perspective?
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>>9630995
I think Churchill wrote some fat ones.
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>>9630995
I am currently reading The Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger. He was an infantry officer in the German Army during WWI and the book is based off his notes written during the war. There is no political or psychological baggage attached to it, it's just a recollection of his memories. I think it's what you're looking for OP.
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Reading and attention span 2017-06-13 03:48:24 Post No.9630832
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Reading and attention span
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Hey /lit/, I've been having an extremely difficult time finishing one book before starting another. I always discover a new topic I'm interested in, and books on other subjects that I've been reading become boring. Anyone else experience this issue? Any advice ?
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Contrary to popular belief, we have ADD now because was are TOO intelligent, compared to people of the past. We understand and form concepts way quicker than previous generations. We get bored easily because we can piece concepts together with ease, whereas older writers needed pages and pages to say what we can articulate and understand in only a few sentences.
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Bamp
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>>9630832
exert will, faggot. just fucking do it. finish a book. aint gonna kill you.
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Where do I start with Faulkner? I tried checking the wiki for something like pic related for him but no luck
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Dont
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>>9630910
/threaderino
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>>9630714
do you sound like William Buckley Jr. ? -> Yes? -> start with Go Down, Moses
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