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What books are you reading right now?

>> No.8672990

>>8672906
Nice set. Although you won't learn much multi-reading.

>> No.8673023

>>8672990
I keep a journal of musings about what I read and try to explain and sometimes comment on what I've learned. I'll be fine.

>> No.8673054

>>8672906
currently reading...
>The Road to Serfdom, by Hayek
>The Collected Poems of Ray Bradbury

>> No.8673062

>>8672906
how's high school going

>>8673023
>musings
christ

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>>8672990
I've never had problems reading multiple books, though if it's been a while I usually go 5-10 pages back from my bookmark when I pick something back up.

>> No.8673091

>>8673088
Huh. that picture is right side up on my computer.

>> No.8673092

>>8672990
how did you survive grade school if you couldn't handle 3 non-related books at once

>> No.8673096
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The Landmark Thucydides m8

>mfw now know that some shit tier polis called Corcyra was responsible for this whole shitty debacle

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80 pages in, it's awesome so far

>> No.8673109

>>8673097
So the extent of my experience with WH40K is the various video games, occasional visits to /tg/, and hours of reading about it on various wikis.
What books should I read to get more into it?

>> No.8673171

The Divine Comedy, Ciardi translation.

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Reading lone star still. Wife is reading the rushdie book.

>> No.8673212

>>8672906
infinite meme
>>8673088
>that cover
*tips fyodora*

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Gravity and Grace - Simone Weil

>> No.8673238

>>8672990
What meme is this?

>> No.8673239

>>8672906
1Q84

>> No.8673241

>>8672990
Its posts like these that remind me why I try and quit this website.

>> No.8673272

>>8672906
st johns?

>> No.8673451

>>8673272
i hope this retard reading stephen king isnt my peer

>> No.8673459

>>8673239
僕のNigga

>> No.8673498

>>8673062
stop being so condescending you insufferable faggot, you probably have no friends.

>> No.8673515

>>8672906

That's a skookum Timex bro.

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>>8673515
Thanks man.

>> No.8673534

Finally got around to reading Camus' The Stranger

Pretty much what I expected, but I really enjoyed it and just want to hug Meursault rn

>> No.8673587

i decided to get back into reading so i just picked up infinite jest and crime and punishment. i also have a copy of the pale king my teacher had us study excerpts from, so i want to get around to that soon.

>>8673534
i just finished that like an hour ago
the payoff when he freaks out at the end is so good

>> No.8673590

Gravitys Rainbow

>> No.8673643

Storm of Steel
Utopia

>> No.8673652

>>8672906
The Case of Comrade Tulayev and The Condition of the Working Class in England..

Also what watch is that?

>> No.8673654

>>8673652
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00YTY8NLG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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Pic related and Brave new world: revisited

>> No.8673693

>>8673109
how about eisenhorn by abnett retard

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>>8672906
>What books are you reading right now?
>>8672990
>>8673023
>>8673054
>>8673062
>>8673096

I just started reading this book called "The Bad War" that is really awesome, check it out:

http://www.realhistorychannel.org/THE%20BAD%20WAR2apdfversion.pdf

>> No.8673812

Catch-22. Not nearly as bad as some posters had led me to believe. At the very least it has given me a number of good laughs.

>> No.8673820

>The Sound and the Fury
Having a hard time understanding just what the fuck is happening, freaking Benjy man

>> No.8673821

>>8673804

You know they mostly used the exhaust from a diesel engine, not zyklon. People kill themselves in ordinary garages with exhaust all the time, you don't need something super hermetic.

They also used conscripted Jews to clear out the bodies so it's not like safety was a big concern. Just keep the prisoners physically trapped, gas them, wait a bit, send in the sonderkommando. Super simple stuff.

>> No.8673822

Just finished Spectres and Stand Tall. Working on This Book Is Full Of Spiders, some short stories by Stephen King, Intensity by Dean Koontz, some true story from the perspective of a boy whose family was killed in the holocaust (that one's taking a while cause I can't handle that typa shit), and I'm going to start re-reading The Supernaturalists tomorrow.

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>>8673821

>> No.8673866

>>8673654
thanks fella

>> No.8673888

>>8673841

Such a sad book to be desu

But if it's Australian hours on /lit/ it means I gotta go sleep.

>> No.8673895

>>8673888
It's 5:30am here

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>>8673895
forgot webm, goddamn 4chan sys errors

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My backlog. Who /reclam/ here?

Also r8 my cacti

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>>8672906
>PHEN
>KING

Glad I took a closer look, almost got baited.

>> No.8673946

>>8673929
What/how many languages do you speak?

>> No.8673969

>>8673929
Are all reclam books the same size?
I own two,but those are short works so I'm not sure

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Sachnovelle by Stefan Zweig
An e-reader(Reading Dream-quest of unknown Kaddath by H.P Lovecraft and Konosuba )
Selected poems and Novellas of Frigyes Karinthy
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
An essay concerning human understanding by John Locke

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>>8673821
>You know they mostly used the exhaust from a diesel engine, not zyklon

Jewish Holocaust historian David Cole Debunks the "gassing people with diesel engine exhaust" theory in this video (this video is probably blocked in your country because your government doesn't want you to learn the truth):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PuNPTx8Ki0

The "gassing Jews" theory doesn't hold up because the SS guards did not have gas masks so the guards would have gassed themselves and kill themselves via gassing if any jews had actually been gassed. You should read a real book on the holocaust like David Cole / David Stein's book or this one:

http://vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres3/HoaxV2.pdf

>> No.8673980

the magic mountain
on the freedom of the will
narcissus und goldmund
the doll (prus)

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>>8672906
Been reading The Recognitions for about a month now. Only at page 600. 350 more to go.

>> No.8673995

>>8672906
>stephen king book
ultimate pleb, and why is there a retard on the front? some sort of dumb ass mass murdering autist?

>> No.8674043

>>8673946
German, English, Italian and some Latin.

>>8673969
Yeah, they fit perfectly into any jacket pocket.

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>>8673995
high quality shitpost

>> No.8674051

Behead All Satans

>> No.8674052

>>8674043
Even the Hegel and Schopenhauer ones?
Nice to know.

>> No.8674097

>>8672990
Special ed detected.

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>>8673088

>> No.8674163

Butcher's Crossing.

Pretty good so far. Like Stoner, its 11/10 writing quality. My only problem is that I have noticed that Williams uses a million semi-colons.

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One book at a time or multiple /lit/?

>> No.8674309

Currently reading: Bleak House, The Shallows, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

The first two are for uni, last one's for pleasure. For the longest time I swore that reading multiple books at the same time was detrimental to my comprehension. Honestly though I'm a big fan of it, when one book starts to become "too much" I can pick up another and focus on that one instead. It's a great deal of fun actually, although I'm probably giving a little bit too much focus to Portrait currently, given that I'm not reading it for a class or anything.

>> No.8674317

>>8674309
But don't you feel that in focusing on one at a time, you will have a greater comprehension, and a s a result gain more from a singular book rather than from several?

>> No.8674319

>>8674308
Multiple books,but they shouldn't be on the same subject.
Like the "avid reader pasta" says,it helps keeping reading fresh.

>> No.8674321

>>8674319
Examples of books that are on the same subject?

>> No.8674332

>>8674321
Reading two greek plays at the same time.
(Reading Goethe's Faust and Doktor Faustus?)
(ReadingP aradise Lost and the Tragedy of Man?)

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Joseph Campbell's Hero With a Thousand Faces
Dion Fortune's The Mystical Qabalah
Andrzej Sapkowski's The Last Wish

>> No.8674340

Plato's Republic

I want to get into philosophy and it seemed like a good starting point

>> No.8674342

>>8674317
I understand where you're coming from, but I personally disagree. I take really detailed annotations, which really helps me focus in. Plus, all the books are very different. It's not like I'm reading 3 Dickens' novels, one's a Dickens epic, one's a nonfiction on neuroscience, the other one's a short Irish stream-of-consciousness thing.

>> No.8674346

>>8674342
Sorry for the stupid questions but in what way do you take annotations on book? I'd like to know. Also, do you annotate on the actual book or take notes on another notebook of some kind? Do you feel as if you enjoy it more when you take notes?

>> No.8674350

I'm reading Steppenwolf

>> No.8674360

Last 100 pages of the Iliad. Very interesting book.

I've started Notes from Underground today as an interlude. I'm studying for an exam and don't want to go on with the Iliad while tired, but I also want to read something today.

Non-anglophone anons, how does your reading speed vary depending on the language of the book? My speed for the Iliad (Fagles) is about 20-25 pph, while I've read 15 pages of Notes in 15 minutes (the translation is in my native language).

>> No.8674370

>>8674340
The Republic is the first "classic" I read that I thought deserved the title. It really is a fantastic work, even if you don't agree with him.

Mine:
>Enquiry into Human Understanding
>The Emperor's New Mind
>Waterloo (generic book on it)
>Matter and Motion (Maxwell)

Swapping books is a top tier way of learning quickly, as well as recapping what you read last time you picked up that book, which aids memory.

>> No.8674393

>>8673977

What does this gain you?

>> No.8674425

>>8674339
The Last Wish is GOAT
Great book series, great video games.

>> No.8674436

Bram Stoker - Dracula

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>>8672906
I'm about half finished with "How Jesus Became God", and I just started to read "How to Read and Why"; the former is very interesting with it's presentation of Graeco-Roman and Jewish concepts of divinity, and I haven't read enough of the latter to have an opinion yet.

>> No.8674445

Random question: What are some good bookshops in New York city?

>> No.8674463

>>8673929
>Hegel

Noice.

>> No.8674468

White Nights and Lolita

>> No.8674473

>>8673977
someone forgot to take his lithium today

>> No.8674476

>>8674319
multiple, i can't focus on one thing like that, 3 books is the sweet spot

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No idea the name in English.

Man'en Gannen no Futróbóru in Japanese

>> No.8674485

>>8674346
I read with a highlighter, which I use to highlight passages that are either a) important to the plot, so as to help me keep track (this is especially useful in giant novels like Bleak House or 2666), or b) just really nicely written (think like metaphor or symbolism or poetic language).

I also read with a pen. I use this to either a) box out certain words/short passages that are really cleverly or subtly written, or b) write notes in the margins, identifying anything from character development to allusion.

I can upload a page from my copy of Bleak House if you'd like an example?

>> No.8674494

>>8674485
not the same guy but i would like to see this

the reason i dont make annotations to passages that i like is because that destroys the magic of it. When that passage first impressed you it was just normal text like the rest of the book, when you draw arrows to it i think it actually takes something away.

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>>8674494
>>8674485

Here y'all go. Passages like this where i take notes like a crazy person are very rare, maybe once every 50-75 pages, and are never this intensive. This passage is very important though, and honestly I felt like I kinda figured out the book after I took these notes and kept thinking about the passage.

Apologies for handwriting. I'm usually pretty dece at writing neatly, but in my personal books I just kinda chickenscratch off to the side.

>> No.8674547

>>8674528
The good thing about that is that your grandsons will not sell your books to buy drugs

>> No.8674550

>>8674547
Yes they could, who wouldn't want a copy of Bleak House replete with expert analysis ;-)

>> No.8674556

>>8672906
My Struggle Volume 2

Best thing I've read all year. Afterwards I'll probably read some Laxness.

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>> No.8674587

>>8674528
Thanks for this

>> No.8674593

>>8673977
Kys

>> No.8674634

>>8674587
Yeah dude no problem

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>>8674473
>someone forgot to take his lithium today

Video related:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAF1-aLqKY4

Why is it that one side of this debate is posting rational / logical arguments based on facts that cite sources (videos and pdfs of entire books) while the other side relies only on ad hominem attacks, name calling, and fabrications?

>> No.8675772

>>8672906
Wrote 15000 words in the last week

>> No.8675787

the rise and fall of the third reich, ~p.600
infinite jest, ~p.400
a history of philosophy vol. 1, ~p.250

>> No.8675829

>>8675787
This is a good idea. Wish I had started off the thread this way.

The Republic - p. 175
A Brief History of Time - p. 86
The Metamorphoses - p. 61
Albert Camus collection - p. 571 (about halfway through the Myth of Sisyphus)

>> No.8675941

>>8673023
>I keep a journal of musings about what I read and try to explain and sometimes comment on what I've learned.

autism

>> No.8676070

>>8673822
Found my book again, the holocaust one is called Night. Not the best writing, but still nice to get a different type of story and perspective.

>> No.8676071

>>8672906
kys

>> No.8676143

>>8675941
Actually sounds like a good habit for a writer.

>> No.8676189

>>8674308
Reading 3 atm

>> No.8676271

>>8673977

The guards didn't go near the gas chambers. Jewish sonderkommando ushered the victims in and removed the bodies. If the SS guards got a whiff of gas it wouldn't kill them, and being stationed at a kat-zet was punishment duty to begin with so I don't think that anyone would have cared.

>> No.8676272

>>8674308
Four, with some short stories sprinkled in.

>> No.8676299

>>8673986
nice! favorite of Dumas or really all the french canon for me. might be rose tinted glasses from my late teens though.

>> No.8676308

I just finished Le Rouge et le Noir by Stendhal. It's the longest book I've read in French so far, but it was worth it. Julien and Mathilde are top-notch characters.

Not sure what to read next. I've narrowed it down to The Foundation Pit by Platonov, St. Petersburg by Biely, and The Romantic Exiles by Carr.

>> No.8676331

I have all of Murakami's books in the original japanese on my shelf right now

>> No.8676335

>>8672906
Bible
Federalist/Antifederalist Papers

>> No.8676342

>>8673023
>musings

Dial it back a notch

>> No.8676377

>>8672906
Ocean at the end of the lane and it's, like, the most Gaiman thing I've ever read. Also, The Familiar but it's tough because I like to read Danielewski's stuff when I can find somewhere quiet where I can focus

>> No.8676385

>>8674308
I like to have a serious book and 1 or 2 light ones. Same with TV shows

>> No.8676624

>>8672906
The Bachman Books bo Steven King

>> No.8676681

American Psycho. 40 pages in. I hate the constant high society lingo/brand names that plebs like myself never hear. I really dig how accurately Ellis portrays the american dandy(and dandyism in general) in all its filth and ignorance.

>> No.8676760

>>8676681
terrible book desu

>> No.8676854

No time, I'm too busy writing my own.

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Thucydides got me pumped right now

>> No.8676878

>>8676624
Couldn't finish Thinner, but I may return to it. If you've read it, your opinions?

>> No.8676929

>>8672906

One hundred years of solitude
Brave New World
The brothers Karamazov
Crime and punishment

>> No.8676964

Stoner, ~50%. Like it, so far.

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>>8672906

>> No.8677539

>>8673820
Try to keep in mind that the fragments aren't all individual instances. Most of the narratives are just split into a few parts, but still adhere to chronological order.
Also, try and take note of what servant is taking care of Benjy each time there is a jump in time. Versh supervises Benjy as a child, T.P. is there when Benjy's a teenager, and Luster keeps an eye on him when he's thirty-three.

>> No.8678245

>>8672906
I bought Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov 2 days ago. Anyone else read these?

>> No.8678269

>>8673109
Eisenhorn is a good shout as it's not too lore heavy and it is basically just "James Bond in 40K". The Horus Heresy Books are uneven but anything by Dan Abnett or Dumbski-Bowden is well worth a read. I'd recommend giving "Horus Rising" a try it's a well-written fun read I've gotten it for a bunch of mates who don't know shit about Warhammer and they're all enjoyed it a lot.

>> No.8678283

Nothing right now. I've been having trouble just gaining motivation to read for the last few weeks, so I've only read a little bit. I'm starting to get worried as I've never taken a break this long before, and I'm just hoping I don't stop reading altogether. Anyone know the feeling?

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>when its buy one get one free day

middle book is don quixote if its not visible btw

>> No.8678351

>>8672906
Don Quixote
>>8678245
I will be soon

>> No.8678363

>>8672906
Woman in the Dunes - Abe Kobo
The Republic - Plato
Le Père Goriot - Balzac

Once I'm done with the Republic I might start the long process of reading Twilight of the Idols in German,

>> No.8678371

>>8674317
I find that I race through books and overlook things if I just read one at a time.

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I buy only mirrorprinted books now

>> No.8678433

I have to read whatever my Uni tells me to read, which happen to be L'Ingenu by Voltaire and Lettres d'une Peruvienne by Françoise de Graffigny. Yes I read in French. I do read English books from time to time though.

>> No.8678457

>>8678433
SUCH A DICTATORSHIP WHERE'S THE LIBERTÉ MON FRÈRE SUFFER NOT THE FASHIONABLE FOOLS TO DEPRESS YOUR POWERS BY THE PRICES THEY PRETEND TO GIVE FOR CONTEMPTIBLE WORKS, OR THE EXPENSIVE ADVERTISING THAT THEY MAKE OF SUCH WORKS

>> No.8678730

American Gods, by Neil Gaiman. It's an easy read, but the writing is great.

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>>8678730
>Cuck: The Book

>> No.8680083

>>8673995
10/10 - Professional Ruse-man

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>> No.8682094

>>8674342
>>8674557

Who is that Evasion book by?

>> No.8682572

>>8672906
Ulysses

Yes, I suppose I fell for the meme.

>> No.8682581

>>8682572
Anon once you've finished read Atlas Shrugged.

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Les fleurs du mal.

>> No.8682603

Rise of the West
Crime and Punishment
Moby Dick
Plato's major works

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r8 me valid8 me

>> No.8682906

>>8672906
More boring tham vanilla ice cream

>> No.8682926

>>8672906
Corto viaggio sentimentale by Italo svevo
and
Frygt og Bæven by Soren Kierkegaard

>> No.8683242

>>8673977
You know Cole doesn't deny the Holocaust for the most part? He says the death camp at Auschwitz was a bunch of shit, and that the total number of Jewish victims was probably significantly below 6 million, but he accepts the vast majority of the official Holocaust narrative. He just wrote an article on his contempt for the flat-out denier (as opposed to a "revisionist" like him) in Takimag.

Not taking a position either way, but found this interesting since he is so often cited by people with far more extreme views than his. He's a very clever and funny writer too. Worth reading his other articles.

>> No.8683472

>>8673821
>they used exhaust
pffffthahahahahahahaaa
damn nigga you fell for the memes

>> No.8683483

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe

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>>8672906
>Stephen King
lel pleb

>> No.8683905

>>8683674
FUCK. you beat me to it anon.

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>>8672906
Women and meme. Fucking amazing book desu

>> No.8684403

>>8684399
where'd you get it? was it used?

>> No.8684462

It's on my ereader, I downloaded it. I'm just glad I'm able to read it

>> No.8684471

>>8684462
fuck me, didn't even open your picture

>> No.8684478

The three musketeers

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>>8672906

>> No.8684501

>>8672906
OP holy shit stop reading RIGHT NOW.

Do NOT read Penguin translations. Pirate the Hackett "Complete Plato" ebook.

>> No.8684514

>>8684479
It's screaming 'puberty'.

>> No.8684528

>>8684514
so?

>> No.8684533

>>8673054
kys

JG Ballard's early science fiction, Pessoa's poems and Balzac. along with all the shit I have to do for class - Tagore, Obayd-e Zakani (a Persian erotic poet/satirist) and assorted political philosophy (this week it's Isaiah Berlin, a complete casuist who gets by on his ability to write readable, engaging prose)

>> No.8684534

>>8684528
Just an observation.
Like to draw conclusions.

>> No.8684547

>>8684534
fair enough

>> No.8684563

>>8684547
btw try long-term sleep deprivation (4-5h/night) with an overload of coffeein (bordering overdose), that's my home remedy recommended from my doc.

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>>8684403

>> No.8684594

>>8684547
what for? that sounds awful. if anything i need more sleep

>> No.8684597

>>8684563
^in reply to v
>>8684594

>> No.8684606

>>8684594

Sleep deprivation is a recognized treatment for mild and manic depression. Your body will work its way out from your deprivation through an higher output of serotonin an other hormons you're lacking.

It's no panacea, but a god remedy to at least get your self out of bed/ to your doc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_therapy

>> No.8684610

>>8684606
(2/2)

And thanks to coffee you'll not be a complete zombie whil it also boosts your metabolism and activity level, which can also have good effects on your mood.

>> No.8684613

>>8673088
>Ive never had problems reading multiple books

I think you're just too retarded to notice considering you can't even flip a goddamn picture the right way.

>> No.8684624

Going to start The Corrections tonight and on the side I'm re-reading A Clash of Kings. I've been meaning to reread House on the Borderland too but I haven't had the chance

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>>8673096
>Spartans starved a guy to death and drove Themistocles to Persia

>> No.8684634

>>8672906
Crime and Punishment (60 pages in)

Just ordered Leviathan. Will it b gud?

>> No.8684640

>>8684634

If you're finding C&P a little slow don't worry I did, it picks up immediately right after the murder which isn't that far from where you are.

>> No.8684646

>>8684640
He is just about or was about to visit his old mate from uni.

>> No.8684652

>>8684646
I always pictured Razumihin as a skinny Zangief.

>> No.8684662

>>8684479
>Deltora Quest
It was alright when I was a child.

>> No.8684666

>>8684652
How many more pages should I read before the murder?

>> No.8684670

>>8684666
Nice trips Satan. You should stop reading for a minute and stick your index finger up your butthole.

>> No.8684677

>>8684634
I mean it's far from an exciting read. Kind of cool how he manages to do all his weird shit without contradicting himself though. Who would have though you could have an absolute dictator and rights for the subkects

>> No.8684679

>>8684677
Checked

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>> No.8684753

>>8684748
Hitler did nothing wrong

>> No.8684778

>>8675941

How is that autistic? Writing shit down helps you process thoughts and remember them.

>> No.8684793

I don't want to start new thread so i'll ask here: are wordsworth publishing books any good? I know price = value but can somebody say something?

>> No.8684799

>>8684793
They are pretty good for their price.
Just stick to english works.
The translations are shoddy because they use public domain stuff.

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>> No.8684812

>>8684793
I want to cum on a wordsworth booku

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>>8672906
The Journey by Sergio Pitol

>> No.8684852

>>8673929
I have one cacti but I dont know how much I should be watering etc, any help?

>> No.8685137 [DELETED] 

>>8684852
>one cacti
kys desu desu

>> No.8685145

>>8684852
>one cacti
kys desu

>> No.8685306

I'm currently reading B. Traven's the Cotton-Pickers and plan on reading Moby-Dick again for the first time in 4 years.

>> No.8686397

>>8674439
>I'm about half finished with "How Jesus Became God",

What are your thoughts on it?