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>>9593918
>mfw I speak Dutch (mother-tongue), German and French, but still end up reading books in English (or English translations)

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>>9593918
>he doesn't read Дocтoéвcкий in the original Russian

>>9593799
pls halp

Today's world isn't communicated via literature it is in social media.

50 shades of gray

Being and Time

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:) <3

>>9593593
this. it's a very hard read and it's gonna take you a long time to understand , but it's worth it

>>9593519

Me too, man....me too.

It's good to have a heart.

>>9593519
>David Foster Wallace got into Amherst College (legacy)
>you got rejected from Amherst College

Ree.

>>9593490
1. A lot of the questions are just leading questions leading to the author's descriptions of the books in question.
2. I believe that it's impossible to predict what you're going to like in fantasy/sf. I love Tolkien, Bester, Lem, Banks, and individual books like Neuromancer. I hate just about all other fantasy I've slogged through. I hate Heinlein and a lot of "classic" sf. Reading a description of a book is not going to help me decide whether to read it.

>>9593490
Far too anglo-centric
Having a "First contact" question where none of the answers is Lem is painful.

>>9593538
The bulk of sf is English language

Abridgement?

I'm going to assume that the lower one has a wealth of essays and such.

>>9593416
Most modern editions present an abridged selection of the more representative tales. Even the Norton edition has only a fraction of the whole. It seems that the thiccer copy is not only compleat but is speled inne thee originalle Middle English. Nice cop, OP.

Considered by who? Hamlet is great but I think there are two or three works I'd personally put above it.

>>9593366
Like?

I think it is definitely one of the best in English.

Jews?
Niggers?
Globalists?
SJW's?
Nazi's?
Racists?
Sexists?
Bigots?
Marxists?

take you're pick

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you just won't get it

>American translation of Epictetus' Enchiridion
>All instances of the word 'Zeus' are replaced by 'Jesus'

>>9593312
Moneyless empires (such as the Incas) have existed, so they can work. The problem in the modern age is that centrally planned economies can't anticipate needs the way a market system can, but by the 24th century, supercomputers may well obviate the need for markets and money by making central planning feasible.

Not that I particularly dislike capitalism. It's better than anything else, but surely something better will eventually take its place.

>>9593312
It does exist, but is completely irrelevant. They have a sycophantic society. Everyone has replicator rations, but because of vast energy resources those rations allow everyone to live as upper middle class Americans while doing essentially nothing. The people prefer home made stuff anyway so they buy stuff from their friends and neighbors who make it as a hobby when they can. It's bought using Federation credits which they use to replicate the stuff they can't conveniently pick up.....everyone has enough credits to buy what they need to easily live a comfy life (basic universal income?) But there are limits, no one dude has enough to replicate 50 Galaxy class starships for himself for example.

While you don't have to work, some people's dreams require higher education, work experience, you have to build up a resume of volunteer shit to appease others and achieve positions that are beyond a singular individual's resources or begin s career that will earn you the respect of others, which everyone seems to value now, having 'evolved' beyond greed and all that.

>>9593312
It would work with my perfect, yet unimplemented version of communism.

>>9593122
holy shit dude i almost forgot about wishbone,

thanks for reigniting something from my childhood that i didnt even know was real or not anymore

>>9593122
I read 300 wpm with my pea sized brain, I'm sure he could do 500

>>9593122
dogs read seven times faster too, doofus. also, wishbone had taste and discernment; he wouldn't bother with your DFW bullshit.

>>9593109
We dont like DFW so much anymore

there were twelve peterson threads here this morning i shit you not

bet that wasn't happening in june 2016

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>>9593112
Taken from the "books that changed your life" thread on the first page

>>9593094
Crazy cool text. Been too lazy to read the (english) introduction to it. Nothing I'm proud of.

Personally, I like to believe it was an account of somebody who went into a different dimension and/or communicated with daimons/jinn/angels/whatever.

Wut u think?

My guess is that its author is the first and best lit troll ever.

A beautiful product of mental illness. Like if Henry Darger's work wasn't discovered until centuries later.

>>9592925
i've read it, the 2nd one, and part of the 3rd.

interesting world, one character is an insufferable mary sue and one is an old neckbeard. main plotline is a fantasy retelling of the first crusade.

bakker poured a lot of his philosophy into the fictional world, which makes for some interesting stuff. bakker also spends more than enough time with 1) homoeroticism 2) rapey monsters and 3) females as subhuman cumdumpsters.

so overall, worth a read if you like fantasy, but i would not recommend it if you're not into GRI fantasy

>>9592925
It's garbage

>>9592925
I've read the first three. They're kind of a fantasy retelling of the first crusade. The most interesting part of it for me was Bakker's take on the blank-slate protagonist, as his protagonist literally has no personality, he's just the figure that drives all the events and that the events hinge on, which is surprisingly effective. In the same way that Bakker 'fantasizes' history, he also 'fantasizes' philosophy, which allows him to incorporate some cool elements into the world, just so long as you're not expecting fully fleshed-out philosophy. It's tone is too serious to be considered 'fun' in the way that Rothfuss might be, but there are still plenty of "that was awesome" moments. Most of the characters are three-dimensional, with the exception of the protagonist (but there's a good reason for that) and the Emperor. Akka (an alternate protagonist) is deeply endearing, and he was the primary character that kept me invested in the books.
What draws you to the book?

aryans are just more creative, deal with it

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it helps to be an incarnation of the pantheon

>>9592875
I think that explains why pajeet's so good with computers. even their most ancient mythology is autistic as fuck, filled with obsessive sacrifice procedures and numeric detail that would put ullillillia to shame.

Same goes for jews and kabbalah/torah, the whole rabbinic system ended up breeding a race of mega autists.

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huh. i thought their problem was with the whole replacing-the-rocket's-explosive-charge-with-a-teenaged-boy thing.

It was the Brigadier Pudding shit eating scene they found objectionable.

>>9592712
I detected it in IJ; made a thread about it which got nowhere and I'm still reading to see if that theme ever becomes non-covert. Haven't read GR yet but I'm not uninterested. It was also thematic in Burroughs but more pederastic. Anyway i think maybe it is just an attempt at transgression. My idea now is that the only transgressive idea is the one where you unironically defend terrorism. But even that is old news and recent old news at that (see Baader-Meinhoff) what makes edginess so cringe is the naïveté it requires.