>>24953281
>I put Orbit #10 in one because I wanted to buy a higher quality copy for my collection.
And I am sure that people thought it was strange to see something like that in there sitting next to Tim Allen's autobiography and some educational books for 4 year olds.

>>24953339
So who's your second favorite author, then?

>>24952635
I saw Russell Brand's "My Booky-Wook," but I waited too long to seize it for my own.

>>24952635
I have literally never seen a single book of value in one of these.

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A new one sprung up in my neighborhood recently.

It kills the brain because it teaches your brain to offload critical thinking, hypothesis and ideas forming to an external source like books or text resources.

reminder if you don't regularly study math, you are willingly having you brain degenerate and your intelligence plummet

>HIS BRAIN DEACTIVATES.


YOU ARE BEYOND HELP ALREADY.

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I think getting out of the house, leaving the city, and interacting with nature activates the brain. You're suffering a malady of modern times, called "neural net model collapse". Rediscovered with the advent of generative AI, researchers realized that AI models trained on AI-generated output experienced model collapse. Devoid of the outliers and long tails of real-world data, the model's parameters clipped to zero or one, rendering it all useless. A similar phenomenon happens in human neural-networks if they're trained on human-made and other artificial data, instead of natural data. The pathetic shutin stunts his development with anime, vidya, pr0n, Star Trek, virtual human contact, and the confines of his little room, stunting his neural development beyond all repair. The inevitable result is all too common—seething, sexual perversion, and increasing suicidal ideation. Sadly, there is no known cure. The misery simply multiplies until the sad little anon can't take it anymore.

>>24954161
Extremely cursed image.

>>24954121
I’ve only read The Scarlet Letter and a couple of his short stories. To me he is like Milton in that his religion prevented him from writing really interesting plots and characters. I mean his stories feel like allegories or moral fables rather than real events, and his characters feel like symbols rather than real people. I can’t imagine a Hamlet or an Iago showing up in Hawthorne because he’s just too prudish and too Christian. So you wind up with these cartoonish villains and one-note heroes. I really enjoyed his prose and imagery though.

Fantastic short story writer. His Tales are great, read them all.

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>>24951618
esto maiores autem decrevere patribus ut detur vitae necisque potestas duodecim tabularum more, exempli gratia cui puer sit insignis ad deformitatem cito ut necetur ius est

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>tfw listen to Attic Greek after listening to modern Greek for months

are these correct?

A) Pueri, legite libros poetarum bonorum!

B) Serva pirum magnam horti (aqua) rigat.

C) Pulchrae plantae agri agricolas laetos delectant.

did it for an exercise

>>24950303
I bought a physical copy on Amazon. You're not missing out on much. The story and characters are not very interesting. The print is hard to read (gray main text with light gray margin text). If you're looking for a beginner-level reader, I don't think it's especially well suited for that purpose, and it's not even macronized. I enjoyed it more as a novelty than anything.

>>24953984
Looks probably good enough to me. I'm assuming the prompts were something like this.

A) Boys, read the books of the good poets!
B) The slavewoman waters the great pear tree of the garden.
C) The beautiful pants of the field delight the happy farmers.

>>24947268
Indeed. But I use mine for reading essays and poetry, and it’s wonderful for that. Still would never read anything substantial on it.

>>24952544
Lots of devices dabble in things other than just reading. Lots of devices let you connect Bluetooth keyboards for typing, and headphones for any number of apps. Not just audiobooks, but Spotify/Youtube.
You're probably not aware, but having Google Play is a common app on ereaders, because lots are using Android.
Lots of retards just leave their Bluethood/Wifi running constantly on all devices, so they drain their batteries for no reason.

>>24952546
The internal storage is 8gb, formatted and with software like 5.5 gb. That can't hold shit.

>>24953285
>download a copy of lolita
>its actually 500GBs of candydoll models

bookfags will never understand

>>24947268
I would but I can't decide what model size I want since I read books of various sizes and a lot of academic books
I'd get one of the l;arger ones like a 10 or 11 inch ones but that seems obvious as fuck I'm not actually doing my job and while a 7" one can pass as a phone and not be cared about, it's too small imo for most of the larger books

>>24953658
Pretentious rubbish. Lucretius says philosophy is like sitting on top of a tower watching a shipwreck. It’s escapism for high iqs and a way to stand above/dissociate from the pains of life, nothing more.

>>24953644
Have you read A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. Hardy? Try, at least

>>24946724
>Math is a sterile tool, an incredibly useful one, but still a mere tool, like a hammer or a saw
All disciplines are "mere tools," including abstract philosophy. The reason for praising math is that it is simultaneously highly useful and incredibly abstract, whereas most philosophy tends to be merely abstract.
>human calculator
Mental math is more theoretically rigorous than you'd think. You need to have a decent understanding of number theory, especially prime factorization, in order to do it.

>>24946020
Skip philosophy. Pray to Jesus and ponder him and you will know who wisdom is. Wisdom -- The Person.

>>24946020
Philosophy is basically 'how the fuck should I live life/do X morally'
There's no specific science or logic behind it. It's basically an opinion you base on actual facts.
IE, most people would agree with pedagogy, it's not 'good' to implement the concept of making a two year recite the alphabet until it collapses from exhaustion but you sure can fucking make a philosophical argument for it and it'll be accepted. It'll be rippped apart but it's a philosophical argument.

If you mean 'modern' or 'academic' philosophy, just go to any basic black bitch university and suck off the teachers there claiming that everyone who doesn't align with their modern day globalization viewpoints are retards and start publishing papers.

>>24952446
So they're retarded?

>>24953481
Your mom is too

Alright I’ll check it out, I love my wife and she deserves some pleasure too-
>an essential guidebook to oral sex
Oh…

>>24946749
>pleasing women
lol ngmi

It really only requires three things:

1. Small hints of sexual interes over a period of time where you gradually increase physical contact
2. Rhythmic stimulation of the clit that doesn't falter
3. Not seeming at all bored or tired even if you might be towards the end

Jannies don't give a fuck huh

>>24954020
We dont have jannies

>>24953753
cutecutecutecuuuuuuuuute

>>24953989
the greatest minds in history seethed about women

>>24948013
>>24952302
i bet this is the foid from a council estate who kept spamming that other thread

Simply read more books. A wide variety of books will improve your vocabulary and grasp of grammar. Start with nonfiction, topics that you are familiar with so you won't be wrestling with the content, just the grammar and vocabulary. Then move to fiction. Contemporary fiction at first, will be easier, but then earlier works of modern literature from the 19th century, or earlier, to test your understanding of grammar. The further back you go with Modern English, the more the definitions of words start to change.

Once you hit Early Modern English, the likes of Chaucer and Shakespeare, you'll be grappling with writings that often confuse even native English speakers. Which is why you'll be able to find annotated versions of their writings to help with things like unfamiliar grammar, vocabulary, and expressions and idioms particular to their time and place.

Some of the most challenging works you can read, to test your understanding of grammar and vocabulary, are philosophical tracts. These will feature extremely long, convoluted sentences as well as specialist terminology and references to obscure works. If you're reading something written more than 60 years ago, the chances of the author dropping in untranslated Latin or Greek phrases increases greatly. This is a challenge to native English speakers though, not necessarily you, who might be more familiar with these languages.

>>24953135
You make it seem as if the world of Arabian literature isn't as sterile as its deserts.
Also, when you consider that Mahmud, Mahmed, and Mohammed are all different spellings of the same name, the numerical argument you propose doesn't mean much.

>>24953210
yeah you're right. if it's not arab then it's english , the language with the most words. (that's the answer I always get mainly when I ask google)

>>24952977
Parrot and nitwit.

>>24949521
that other anon pooh poohed this, but I agree with Austen. her use of the English language is sublime and will definitely help. the only thing that kept me reading the generator of boredom that was Sense and Sensibility was the English.

They're practically different genres, so it's mostly apples to oranges. I like This Immortal more; it's more fun and more formally inventive. Zelazny is clearly the better writer. But in retrospect, Dune was more influential, and on the basis of scope of concept, I can understand why some people would prefer it.

Zelazny is a much better writer than Herbert. Dune was influential but that doesn't automatically make it good. Facebook is influential.

>>24952363
>OK... but how about with these specific works?

>>24952178
Dune deserved it more. Zelazny is a more interesting and experimental writer than Herbert moment to moment, but not a better writer overall. Dune's influence is obviously huge. That's no mark of quality -- Twilight has also had an immense impact on its genre -- but in this case, Dune is worth the hype.

A lot of modern commentary wants to focus on Dune as a narrative piece with complex worldbuilding, which it really isn't. If you read the novel on its own terms, as a sort of heightened-reality melodrama, I think it's one of the best works of sci-fi and fantasy.

The '93 tie is the real difficult choice. Doomsday Book, A Fire Upon the Deep, and Red Mars all would have won easily in almost any other year. Even with the tie, only two of the three got the award.

>>24953148
Reading religious texts are vital for understanding a lot of art. Not just paintings/sculptures, but it's embedded in a lot of authors as well. Unless you mean something different by religious literature, like apologetics books. Then probably not, unless you're interested in debate. If you mean something like religious fiction, then you're probably not missing much, as it's made for the existing believers' tastes.
When I learned the basics of Buddhism, then a lot of shit in Japanese media made way more sense. Same thing with Christianity in the west.
>picrel
That's actually a really good book, and would help you greatly, if you're looking to understand the Gnostic Christian denominations.

>>24953216
>his life is short, and even shorter for the atheist
Christcucks don't even care about this life. They believe that it's dirty rags, and that they care about the eternal life.

>>24953218
What about Gnosticism? Will it attract foids?

>>24953148

Opposition research. One can derive active pleasure from reading stupid shit that one disagrees with, the better to reject it from the position of knowledge of having actually read it and understood it better than the others do.

>>24953148
She should go and marry an old fat Baptist Freemason if she's going to be in to Gnosticism and all. See how you like it then.

Anything by Roberto Arlt

>>24953472
>more white persons
argentina is barely white anymore if it ever was. get out of any train station in BA and you will be surrounded by brown latinos

>>24953891
obviously. congrats on your world cup btw

>>24953891
its still around 90 percent white if you take statistics into account iirc. Or 80 percent or some.

>>24953260
the new miranda july joint should do it

>>24953818
Are you lost? We use motherfucker here all the time, newfag.

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I read jane austin on the train, but with the dust jacket from this

>>24953260
>shoe dog
Bro I’m like an entrepreneur I got dat dog in me frfr

>>24953426
Usually I don't like Moslems doing fatwas and all of their evil, but that woman, even, knows she's asking for it.

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Mmmh I really wonder what the top books are gonna be

>>24952619
It's always the same list because nu-/lit/izens only read what's on the Top 100

>>24951578
you should add:
>Rulfo - El Llano en Llamas

>>24951578
Almost wish you didn't include last year's results in the OP. I'd like to see if not having the list right there to reference affects the results at all.

Some options I would like to add:
- Petersburg by Andrei Bely
- I, Claudius and Claudius the God by Robert Graves
- Julian by Gore Vidal

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Wrote this one venting about some stressful stuff going on in my life.
Can you guys recommend me poets who only write miserable poetry?

>>24952759
You might like Philip Larkin

>>24950982
O waters
Cutteth Earth,
Divide,
Make plenty
Thine harvest -
Multiply! -
Tis no sin to die
Nor fault to live;
Harvest's bounty
Of Life's joys
Make complexion
Of grander questions
Like wine,
To sooth the

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Accidentally yours
I open up after a while
Why not
But you ask questions
Hmm – unsure
Oi oi, slow down
I’m made of tiny bits
If you press to hard
I reset to Latin
Damned if I know
I’m riffi-raffing don’t ask
Anyway
Push yourself into an envelope
More is coming
I’ll give you the address later

>>24953261
I like this