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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/writersrooms

Prelude by Wendy Cope

It wouldn't be a good idea
to let him stay.
When they know each other better -
not today.
But she put on her new black knickers
Anyway.

It wouldn't be a good idea
to let him stay.
When they know each other better -
not today.
But she put on her new black knickers
Anyway.

Anon; Two Viking Romances
Dierdre Bair; Anaïs Nin, A Biography
Simone de Beauvoir; Les Belles Images
Ted Hughes; Crow
Siegfried Sassoon; The War Poems

You could do it with a lot of kindles.

>create existentialism

Traps am books.

john
CROWLEY

http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading

>>1254972
The Correct Sadist by Terence Sellers; not a novel but two short fiction pieces bookending a forensic dissection of male masochistic habits from the point of view of a (real) professional dominatrix. It might be too clinical for most people to enjoy as erotica, but it's a really insightful book and well worth reading if you like de Sade's mixture of perversion and philosophy.

>Lacan't

>>1254932
Slide.

>1. Do you read for leisure?
Yes
>2. Do you read on a daily basis?
Yes
>3. Do you watch television for leisure?
Yes
>4. Do you watch television daily?
No
>5. Do you look at the moon?
Sometimes
>6. Are you happy?
Sometimes
>7. Should books be censored if they are too controversial?
No.
>8. Would you give your life for the written word?
Depends on the word
>9. Does technology lead to less face-to face human interaction?
No. People can arrange to meet more easily now.
>10. Is “faster” a synonym for “better”?
Premature ejaculation proves it isn't.
>11. Does technology enhance your confidence in social settings?
It has no effect.
>12. Does technology increase your awareness of global events?
Yes
>13. Does mass media reflect the intelligence of average American citizens?
Not the ones I've met.
>14. Is happiness more important than truth?
No
>15. Is mass media entertaining?
Is entertainment enough?

http://bookkake.com/books/venus-in-furs/introduction/
>Every word is calculated to elicit loathing and contempt. Sacher-Masoch oversimplifies (you have to be master or slave). He mixes metaphors (a feline battery?). He contradicts himself. Look at how he bungles his own symptomatology. He considers it not masochism, which didn’t exist as a clinical entity, but suprasensuality (Übersinnlichkeit). “I grew more confused each day, more fantastical, more suprasensual.” He takes a concept with roots in Platonism—the suprasensual as a realm literally above the senses—and declares it the root of his desire to undergo the most excruciating sensual experiences. It makes so little sense that it can only be a stratagem to involve you in his fantasies of punishment. If his ideas are all wrong, it is because Sacher-Masoch wants to be not correct but corrected.
>Sacher-Masoch spurns everything that would make you respect him as a man—has there ever been a greater example of Sartre’s ressentiment than this worm who choreographs his own humiliation and then complains about it?

http://bookkake.com/books/venus-in-furs/introduction/
>Every word is calculated to elicit loathing and contempt. Sacher-Masoch oversimplifies (you have to be master or slave). He mixes metaphors (a feline battery?). He contradicts himself. Look at how he bungles his own symptomatology. He considers it not masochism, which didn’t exist as a clinical entity, but suprasensuality (Übersinnlichkeit). “I grew more confused each day, more fantastical, more suprasensual.” He takes a concept with roots in Platonism—the suprasensual as a realm literally above the senses—and declares it the root of his desire to undergo the most excruciating sensual experiences. It makes so little sense that it can only be a stratagem to involve you in his fantasies of punishment. If his ideas are all wrong, it is because Sacher-Masoch wants to be not correct but corrected.

>it was mostly just an annoying cunt moaning about not knowing what he wanted
Exactly this.

I found it interesting as a psychological portrait of masochistic behaviour, but not erotic; maybe because I was too annoyed by the narrator's constant vacillation.

See also: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Wittgenstein

>Scholastic Corporation bought the USA rights at the Bologna Book Fair in April 1997 for US$105,000, an unusually high sum for a children's book. They thought that a child would not want to read a book with the word "philosopher" in the title and, after some discussion, the American edition was published in October 1998 under the title Rowling suggested, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

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This is how everyone will speak 100 years from now.

I find something comforting about vintage Penguin books. Warm colours, childhood memories and illustrations of ridiculous flightless birds; this is home.