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What are some good books on Karma?

All questions deserve their own threads. Fuck you, OP.

Okay I'll try it: as someone who knows nothing about spirituality and wants to read Guenon, what is some supplimentary material for his works and where should I start?

>>17503417
>All questions deserve their own threads. Fuck you, OP.
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>>17503359
Stupid question /QTDDTOT/, but is 25 an old age to start seriously writing? I've been busy doing other shit, and finally, I'm hitting my stride; I'm embarrassed that my Wikipedia page will show I'm a late bloomer, which I have an irrational disgust at being

How the fuck do I read faster?

>>17503457
Don DeLillo published his first novel at 30ish and 25 isn’t late to start you fucking doofus now get off 4chan and start writing ffs

>>17503475
Don DeLillo published his first novel at 30ish and 25 isn’t late to start you fucking doofus now get off 4chan and start writing ffs

How do I get dubs?

>>17503487
fuck bitches like me

>>17503467

> Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
> Don DeLillo

That's pretty fucking based for a quote, thanks for dropping that name kek

>>17503487
>>17503489
Pathetic attempts

Where to go to if libgen and b-ok don't have the book I'm looking for?

>>17503499
Based and checked

>>17503499
checked

How often do you reread books?

>>17503503
try zlibrary

>>17503542
I reread books if I don't have any other books to read.

>>17503542
i read frankenstein every year around halloween. i reread h.g. wells often. poe is highly rereadable.

>>17503385
holy shit lmao.

>>17503542
When I get hit with the inclination, basically. I reread Blood Meridian about 8 months apart. I reread Joseph and His Brothers and Lord of the Rings about two years apart. I reread Ovid's Metamorphoses about 4 years apart but then proceeded to continue rereading it for over a month. And I reread Moby-Dick about 7 years apart. There were a number of books I read last year I already want to reread but I have gotten more new books since so, probably better to give them another few months cooling period before I really consider picking one up again. The only plan I have set in stone is probably to reread Joseph again sometime next year.

is there any good chart about sociology? or just give me books recommendation about sociology please, i really want to learn it..

>>17503626
I found pic in the archives.

Was Gardner right?

best books about the origins of Christianity? Preferably from the "what is this Jewish bullshit driving my Aryans crazy" perspective

Can any plot, even an anime one, be a great book if written well?
My plots suck, my ideas suck, but I think if I prose shit up enough, I'll be fine.
RIGHT?

bo-ok is down, where do I get books now?

based OP, remember to support OP's efforts to turn this into a general

it could genuinely be a revolution in /lit/ posting if people stopped cluttering the fucking board with a billion "What do I think of this" / "Where to start with Petey Poopooton" threads

Is Pynch gonna write another book...

>>17503737
It's b-ok, not bo-ok. If this was just a typo, try b-ok.cc

>>17503742
all I see here are a bunch of questions that no one replies to, slow as shit place

Is there a chart for modern books?

>>17503359
Books with a sense of melancholic optimism?

>>17504089
the stranger

>>17503742
The problem with these kinds of threads is that they aren't actually useful because they're filled with askers and not answerers. It's literally just a trick to contain all askers to one thread, and it always is on every board.

How can I write something not cliché ? I started writing my ideas down a few months ago and it seemed like something really neat, but now I came back to it after a while and I'm ashamed

>>17504338
Yeah that kinda sucks I wish there were more answerers.

>>17504355
try posting in >>>17493501 so you can get anonymous feedback

>>17503359
What does /lit/ think of furry smut?
>>17503461
Why is it that you think you're reading slowly?
>>17503542
I can't remember a time I've ever re-read a book.
>>17504338
True, unfortunately.

>>17503656
I don't know, I would say something as riddled with cliches as anime is a bad inspiration for writing anything beyond YA fiction, but if you are really good with prose you could try and see what happens. After all, some classics were turned successfully into anime back in the past, who's to say the opposite can't work?

Give it to me straight, like a pear cider that's made from 100% pears, who is the best Polish poet?

Is b-ok.org dead?

>>17503656
Absolutely. Execution is everything.

>>17503359
Does Baby Pete live?

>>17503457
>I'm embarrassed that my Wikipedia page will show I'm a late bloomer
Its probably gonna have a controversy sub-heading too, so what's the point

>talk to girls from /tg/
>always glasses-wearing white women approaching their 30s that desperately want to be raped by dogs and orcs
>pretend to be anti-feminist yet their entire ethos is centered around their lack of self-control and promiscuity
>will without fail brag about their college degree if they have one
>genuinely into the hobby surprisingly
Books that explain this phenomenon?

>>17505225
The Satanic Bible.

Should I take the chinese vaccine?

>>17505718
Yes

>>17503461
Read more
>>17503503
>>17503737
>>17504796
Archive.org
Mobilism
Libgen
IRC #ebooks

>>17503547
Zlibrary pretty much is b-ok

>>17503359
My fetish is caretaking, and I'm looking for books with it as a large theme (but not the plot). Something like The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner.

>>17505727
Which server do I go for the IRC thing?

>>17505743
Undernet and or Highway

For one server IIRC, it's #ebooks and for another it's #bookz

>>17505751
>or Highway
IRC highway*

Does one need to understand Spanish in order to appreciate/understand picrel?
Due to many reasons >90% of my work-unrel. reading is audiobooks and/or spritzreading.
Does he repeat the same thing in english, i.e., using the other lang only when the characters get more lively and invigorated?

>>17504089
Anything kafka. It's more direct acceptance and facing current problems in current circumstances and nigh useless or inapplicable considerations of possibilities, pasts, or futures. I wouldn't call it optimisim, just life- playing the cards you're dealt.
>>17503457
>the best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago, the second best however..
Never too late for anything, depends on what you want to achieve somewhat, but keeping at it is a far better than wondering and worrying.

Who was right, Fukuyama or Huntington?

>>17503359
How do I write convincingly?

>>17503436
don't read Guenon

>>17503499
>>17503542

>>17503542
LOTR once a year, every now and then with others, probably 3 or 4 times a year total

>>17503643
Not exactly what you're asking for, but Julian by Gore Vidal is a historical novel about the last non-Christian Roman Emperor and his attempts to prevent Christianity from destroying the empire.

>>17504355
write more, there's no trick to it you just have to beat your head against the wall over and over and over again

>99% questions
>1% answers
great thread retard

>>17505718
Yes

>>17505990
just read and write consistently, there's no trick to it

>>17503745
I'm expecting something in the next couple of years, by which time he might also be dead. :(