/lit/ - Literature

>>7371881
Thank god for charity shops keeping second hand book sales alive!

>>7370030
I never got Neuromancer but if you're into cyberpunk people say it's the place to start. If you like it then maybe try SnowCrash, I'm not sure whether it's genuine or a parody but Snowcrash says interesting things about the genre... so I'm told.

>>7370441
>>7371580
My database is corrupting so I'm not having the best of days I'm afraid.

Reccomendations for grad and PHD choices/plans? Do what you love, like really get obsessed with it. I loved to program and find patterns so that's what I've got good at because I spend my time doing it. I bet there's something you love equally, something that given amphetamines, you'd spend all your time doing.

Beyond your passion, look for introducing new things to the field. I was lucky that gender studies scholars are retards who didnt even do basic stats and beleive coding is black magic. Look at current trends (in Pol and IR I'm guessing it's terrorism, neostatism and the return of the far right but anything topical is worth funding) and invest your time in finding something to obsess about in these current trends.

Regarding making a living out of it, dont expect money, that's why you have a passion. Suck professors dick (metaphorically) and make friends. If you ever really like or are really provoked by something you read I'd really recommend emailing the author, most accademics are love deprived perfectionists and appealing to this side of them will make them your bitch. Keep these contacts and you're in a better place for getting PHD supervisors and insights into work your lecturer is setting.

Good luck, when you make it into your funded PHD then get on /hist/ or here and make a book haul thread, maybe there will be a youngling looking for the same answers I wasnt able to give you.