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Hey guys, can we have a bookshelf thread?

>> No.6355038
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6355038

Aren't the writings of Marx basically an amalgamation of the more profound ideas purported in the writings of Hegel, Feuerbach and Stirner, aside from an unintelligible political manifesto?

>> No.6355041

Wasn't Christianity debunked by science like a century ago?

>> No.6355042

Why isn't Stephen King anywhere on Modern Library's top 100 of the 20th century list? I kinda expected at least The Stand to be on there

>> No.6355048

>>6355042
Oh, my coworker recommended that to me a few days ago. He's a bit of a nerd though, and I'm wary about anything with that many pages. Should I just get the audiobook instead?

>> No.6355055

>>6355048

nah, just watch The Shining and call it a day

>> No.6355059

>>6355048

Maybe you should start by easing into one of his less literary works. Carrie and The Green Mile are a bit less symbolic, and a bit easier to digest. You should order them on Amazon!

>> No.6355071

>>6355055
>>6355059
Thanks, I just downloaded both onto my Kindle Fire! Good thing I pay for Amazon Prime, they always have the best deals.

>> No.6355075

What is a good book to read for an overview of world history?

>> No.6355079

>>6355071

You might also like Ready Player One. It's a bit less deep and thoughtful than stephen king, but it's a bit of a masterpiece in a different way, where King is Literature and RPO is more like Genre Fiction I guess. It also talks about video games, which is kinda sweet.

>> No.6355089

>>6355075
Guns, Germs, and Steel

>> No.6355090

>>6355030
What's a good translation of Homer?

>> No.6355094

Start with the Greeks.

>> No.6355097

>>6355090

Great Illustrated Classics

>> No.6355100

>>6355090
Barnes and Noble has a great prose edition in their classic hardcover collection, I got mine for 5 dollars. It also looks impressive on the shelf :)

>> No.6355101

>>6355075
Herodotus does it pretty good, from what I here.

>> No.6355106

when will you accept that books are an obsolete method of storing information? e-readers can hold as many books as even the most extensive library collections for a fraction of the weight and space so small it barely registers

>> No.6355110

Aristotle did nothing right

>> No.6355115

>>6355110
This thread is about books, not Roman Emperors. Learn your history.

>> No.6355120

Someone on Reddit recommended I read Stephen King's "On Writing" because I want to write like the master himself. I have an idea for a story. It involves a constructed language based off of Irish and Cuneiform tablets and Magic that's programmable like Java, also the main character has blue hair and there are about 100 other characters and plotlines where characters die unexpectedly, there's also a race of Elves and the protagonist is female (but a tomboy! also an orphan) and the weather is turning cold, so that wars are breaking out during harvest time. Also there's a black tower in the middle of a field and a guy with a gun

>> No.6355122

Isn't corn from South America?

>> No.6355128

>>6355120
Whoa, this is way too much information to expect a reader to remember, please post a map of your world and then I'm sure I will have a full understanding of what is going on.

>> No.6355132

Deepak Chopra changed my life, I can heal my mistakes with quantums

>> No.6355136

>>6355120
Language, like, pig latin?

>> No.6355139

Why does my brother always sit in his room alone and read?
I think he's kind of autistic, is there any way to help him???

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>>6355128

sure thing, here's a rough draft

Warning, it's already patent pending. I will release a document about the language soon

>> No.6355154

>>6355120
>Magic that's programmable like Java
kek'd

>> No.6355167

>>6355149
Make sure that the story only takes place in three of the regions, and the rest are never mentioned.

>> No.6355175

Neuromancer was good!

>> No.6355176

>>6355139
What books does he read?

>> No.6355179
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I prefer the NIV to the King James Bible. I mean it's all superstitious nonsense either way.

>> No.6355183

>>6355176
Long ones with thin pages

>> No.6355191

>>6355176
I don't know, it's weird forin names or something and that only he's heard of. He's emberresing and he keeps asking me to the library.

>> No.6355193

>>6355149
2/10 its obvious you aren't srs about fantasy
learn how 2 world-build bro:
http://imgur.com/a/Cb5ri#0

>> No.6355207

>>6355191
Does he have any friends?

>> No.6355208

>>6355193
That's genius! Have you been published yet? You just might get best-seller with a world like that.

>> No.6355216

>>6355208
No :( He doesn't even have facebook. I just hope he's going to be ok.

>> No.6355223

>>6355216
lol! wrong replyt :P
>>6355207

>> No.6355225

>>6355193
oh my gods this is beautiful, thank you for this

>> No.6355227

>>6355030
Good thread dude keep sharing those radical opinions

>> No.6355269

>>6355193
The sad thing is, I have done this, too.

>> No.6355931

>>6355038
kekekekekekek
I guess the fact I've been on /lit/ all week contributes to my autism here

>> No.6355937

No offence but why would you get a kindle when the Nook has wifi, games and apps? And if you're willing to throw in an extra few hundred you could just get an ipad which is, let's be seriously, better than any e-reader.
Are any of you on facebook or instagram?

>> No.6355945

>>6355115
kek
>>6355120
you were in that thread a few days ago weren't you?

>> No.6355955

>>6355193
this is actually really cool and not cringeworthy. I really mean it, not in an ironic way at all.

>> No.6356002

>>6355937
1/10 lqb.

>> No.6356036

>>6355030
Let's make a thread about stupid opinions so that we sound really clever

>> No.6356039

>>6355030

>>>/b/

>> No.6356095

>>6355079
Nice! Just looked this up and it sounds really cool!

>>6355120
Definitely read 'On Writing'! Blew my mind in ways I just couldn't imagine. King is easily the most talented writer of the last century. Such good stuff.

>>6355937
Haha, why even bother getting an e-reader? You can just read on your phone!

>> No.6356590

What is the most profound piece of 20th century literature?

Me? I'd say Ulysses with Atlas Shrugged a close second.

>> No.6356611

>>6355193
>draw tectonic plates
>simulate movement of tectonic plates
>determine where the mountains and depths will be depending on collisions
>just draw the rest of the continents as ugly as fuck arbitrary shapes

He fucked up.

>> No.6356617

>>6355955
The cringeworthy part is people thinking all they need to write a good fantasy novel is a good map.

>> No.6356648

My favorite philosopher is either Max Stirner or Wittgenstein.

>> No.6356678

There's this forum I go to it's named /lit/ and I like to post there.

>> No.6356690

>>6355030
Hang on, let me spend half of the day to find all 12 of the books i own and place them strategically on my book shelf, that's actually meant to put plants on but i fooled everybody, next to my whiskey bottles that are only missing one sip out of them because my stomach is too weak to handle it, but if i posed my books right next to the mike's hard lemonaids i usually drink then people will think i'm a faggot.

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Not all read but heres pt 1

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>>6356648
>My favorite philosopher is Hegel

>> No.6356877
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Pt2

>> No.6356880

>>6356873
https://pervegalit.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/how-to-fake-your-way-through-hegel/

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Just organized it, didn't include a few I'm reading now though so I guess this is pt 3

>> No.6356895

>>6356891
>the tao of pooh
what

>> No.6356909

>>6355149
>Q'al'reaadii'nn Na's,'ar
>Aaeeiioouutonivaash
100% kek

>> No.6356986

>>6356909
>you took the time to type these names
captcha: yarts

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>>6356095
>Haha, why even bother getting an e-reader? You can just read on your phone!

>> No.6357392

>>6356891
Watership Down was a cute book.

>> No.6357406

Communism is great in theory but it doesnt work in practice.

>> No.6357420

The Stranger changed my life

>> No.6357450

>>6356891
that fucking sexy copy of murphy ughhhhnhffffff
I came. I'm just imagining how softy and silky the paper is, how you can trace your fingers back and forth across the pages smoothly while suck up Beckett's prose like a sham wow

>> No.6357602

>>6357406
10/10

>>6357420
not as good as
>1984 changed my life

>> No.6357671

>>6357420
Well, for me it really did.

It was what got me into literature and set me on a completely different course in life.

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>>6357406

>> No.6357743

>>6357420
Honestly, if I had to pick the book that has had the biggest impact on my life, it'd be The Myth of Sisyphus. I'm not an absurdist but I love Camus.

>> No.6357780

>>6355193
At least this is for an RPG and not a "literary" world, or else it would be pretty cringey.

>> No.6357785

>>6355038
I remember that thread.

>> No.6357967

>>6356986
>Implying I didn't just copy+paste them

>> No.6357969

>translations

>> No.6358258

>>6357406
>implying this isn't true and any amount of books will change that

>> No.6358404

The Martian is the best book ever. Ready Player One is number two.

>> No.6358415

I have an Infinite Jest tattoo.

>> No.6358616

I post on /lit/

>> No.6358731
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>>6358616

>> No.6358756

>>6358258
the joke is that communism is also shit in theory

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>>6356871
what the hell are these things? porno folders? art pouches?

actually what the fuck are all of these things:
>>6356877
>>6356891

what kind of obscure hobby are you involved with? are they some sort of board game?

>> No.6358805

>>6358772
He's just trying to be hip. If he was a real reader he would have at least a Dan Brown book.

>> No.6358875

>>6358805
seriously, i can't believe you're right. i don't see any dan brown books.

what a pile of trash. why is he even posting?

>> No.6359017

>>6358756
>>6357406
You're doing a good job of acting like you don't read, friends! :)

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>>6357671
>>6357743

You really love reading books it seems!

>> No.6359051

>>6355030

Ayn Rand...

>> No.6359064

WE REDDIT NAO

>> No.6359120

We saw her reading and we told her to stop, quit these pretentious things and just punch the clock.

>> No.6359320

>>6359041
Yeah! Can you read too?

>> No.6360517

>>6355075
Just watch John Green's Crash Course.

>> No.6360529

>>6356039
How do you do that?
>>/lit/

>> No.6360535

>>6355193
this is legitimately really impressive

>> No.6360537

>>6359120
>iktf
Some days my life feels like it has no purpose, but at the night the feelings swim to the surface

>> No.6361686

>>6355030

Freud's theories are all wrong.

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>>6361686

>> No.6363172

>>6355149

keek

>> No.6364509

>>6355075
The 10, 000 Year Explosion

>> No.6364562
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God is dead.

>> No.6364839

Violence is never the answer! This is why communism is an extreme, evil ideology! It does things by force.

**a few minutes later

We have to support the troops! Let's pay our taxes, guys! Let's make a change like Gandhi :DD <3

>> No.6364842

>>6361686
Freud's theories are all right.

>mfw equally as bad
>b8 taken

>> No.6364856

>>6364562
I thought these people were just stereotypes or memes. They actually exist? =_=

>> No.6364868

I'm thinking about writing, but I don't think I've quite figured out the rules to my magic system yet.

>> No.6364872

>>6356871
>ariel pink

good taste

>> No.6364960

I read this article about how to give your home the perfect feng shoo-ee, and that is so true, your energy is directly influenced by your furnishing

>> No.6365012

>>6357967
How can you copy and paste a picture? Or were they written elsewhere? Enlighten me.

>> No.6365072

>>6355149
Oh lordy my sides

>> No.6366414

>>6355030
Have you guys watched the Harry Potter movies?

>> No.6366426

My favorite writers are Marcel Proust and Tom Clancy.

>> No.6366555 [DELETED] 

>>6355132
Paulo Coelho's "The Manual of the Warrior of Light" changed my life.
>Every Warrior of the Light has, at least once, believed he was not a Warrior of the Light.

>Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties.
Every Warrior of the Light has said "yes" when he wanted to say "no."
Every Warrior of the Light has hurt someone he loved.

>Warriors of the light are not perfect. Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.