Why do we never mention the library and always talk about pirating? It's like a legal form of pirating and you can watch cool movies too with Kanopy.It it a psyop to destroy trust in communities and make posters scared to leave the house?
I live in 3rd world. No library culture here
>>24784124My library has mentally ill people around it and in it. Also browns. I do like kanopy and the audio book thing.
>>24784124i saw a cute college girl in the library once. i was 28/29 at the time.
>>24784124IJ checked out by the tome gnomes again
Imagine how cool the library would be if they kicked out the homeless and got rid of the gay stuff and children's section and let people drink coffee and smoke
What spawns your desire to read? Also, where do you read? Do you have a comfy spot at home? Do you read in your bed?
>>24782862I like to read about cool shit and expand my mind a little. Simple.
>>24784559it's not too late it's never too late
>>24784636If you're over 25 and have never written anything it's absolutely too late.
Seeming smart--and seeming smart in public. . .And uh, also I write in public. . . to seem smart.
>>24782862It's interesting :D
What's the most emotionally rewarding marriage in literature?
Levin and Kitty
>>24784464>you hold intimacy sacrosanct instead of pleasuring your vapid basal instincts like an animal? DEVIANT!!
Stoner
>>24784188Romeo and Juliet
>>24784574shit had me smiling like a schoolgirl
Does anyone know if the hardcover of this is a glued binding? Also, how is this book in general? Did you guys buy anything during the amazon sale
>from the earliest accounts to the fall of Romebook length: 896 pagesthat's a compendium, not a history
>>24784394It’s good. Her book on the medieval world is also good.
>>24784530900 pages is long but it’s not that daunting. And considering it’s covering almost 4000 years of global history it’s about what should be expected.
>>24784535C'mon 900 pages aren't even enough to cover Republican Roman, let alone the entirety of recorded history up to the fall of Rome
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How to get "aura?"
Ah, there he is.That motherfucker.What a tool.
>>24784521Don't take damage for 2 minutes.
>>24784313>Ireland>resisting
Oh I'd be so happy if I could just die.
I read some of the "anti-racist" biographies at the public library, and the level of hatred these brown women have towards white girls is insane. There was one with a black girl at some anti-racist seminar just demeaning and making fun of this white woman doing her best to apologize for her implicit biases and privilege. With all these books about race being published everywhere, all these experiences as a diaspora. When is the actual unspoken truth going to get published? the burning resentment and hatred that non-white women have towards white women? Or is that too much for the publishing industry?
>>24784221>I happen to like white girls.You say this as if it was something rare, when pinkos by a wide margin are only interested in other pinkos >it was only white girls, and I mean -ONLY- white girls that cared for animals.How many of it is done as a way to gain good boy points though>How they whip and beat donkeys all across north africa.True, but you have to admit white pepo can love animals way too much, the whole furbaby stuff for example. I remember I read some ancient guy talking about the romans if I'm remembering correctly, and how their women would not have children and instead would raise and pamper monkeys and other animals as their offspring. Sounds familiar?
>>24784276No actually, I don't think they do it just to their advantage. I think the only reason you've gotten away with slandering them as Karens for so long is because they're genuinely nice people, who take the shit you say at face value. It's a way for you people to virtue signal too, go along and care for animals. If you can, that turkroach Hasan Piker couldn't even resist shock collaring and abusing his dog on stream, I doubt you'd last a week before breaking the wings of a small bird. The single claw of a dog is worth the life of 1,000 people who would abuse animals. The English in particular take great offense to animal abuse. You don't think I'm close to non-whites too? We live in demographic replacement countries after all, and we're forced into the same environments. Do you really think a brown girl hasn't vented to me about how Steve Jobs and Bill Gates didn't actually come from poor families and had nepotism? Dumping all this information on me in a longpost, whining about how social mobility is a myth? You think white people don't see Indians worship tech billionaires like gods? You think I haven't said "don't people in your country get married younger?" (based on a statistical fact) and the person in question just dismissively going "Oh that's just for poor people". Never heard a white person shrug off and say that's for the poors. I might online, but even I wouldn't IRL. You want to prove me wrong? Work to take these anti-white books off the library bookshelves, speak up about how white people don't deserve this treatment.
>>24784308>No actually, I don't think they do it just to their advantage.I didn't say they only did it because of that doe>I think the only reason you've gotten away with slandering them as KarensIn what part of my post didn't I even alluded to this?>go along and care for animalsI personally don't care for it, but my dad and sister rescue animalsThe rest of your post is pure seethe so I'm not going to address it. I'm guessing you think I said all of that in bad faith because I call white people pinkos>Work to take these anti-white books off the library bookshelves, speak up about how white people don't deserve this treatment.We don't really have those in my country, same with the racial grifting, people have tried to do it but it doesn't stick up here and its quickly dismissed
>>24779524A German mayor just got stabbed by her adopted black kid.
>>24784647>The fact that German women don’t vote overwhelmingly for AfD after 2015-2016You cannot save someone who doesn’t want to be saved.
Satanic panic edition. Old >>24736100
>>24783703What books do you find scary, then?
>>24783836Ones written after 2000.
>>24783703This but the opposite.
What else would I like if I liked Aickman's brand of subtle horror more than the "woahh it has like a million eyes and a billion teeth and omfg I'm going cuhrayzeee!" brand of horror that is popular nowadays?
>>24784679For older, M.R. James, for newer, Reggie Oliver. You could also check out Walter de la Mare for another older author, but I found his prose dry and difficult to get through.
Why did Tolkien make Sauron the titular character of The Lord of the Rings?
>>24784390Definitely wings. I'm pretty sure it was at least implied, if not outright stated, that the balrog had wings.
I like the idea of Pleistocene megafauna existing in the dark corners of the world.
>>24784661It's not stated, the description is kind of nebulous and the question of whether it had wings or not has been a contentious one among Tolkien nerds.
Balrogs have wings because it harkens back to classic infernal demons. End of.
>>24784686I can't believe that's a big topic of debate.
Is it true that french is a much more sophisticated and elegant language than English?
>>24781570>Americans>another group of EnglishmenThe majority of Americans are literally non-white lmao
>>24782308>Doesn't English have like the most actual words?That's Greek
>>24782359Again, still a lot of wiggle room for different criteria and definitions.>>24783079If you define "Greek" as including every work from Homer on down even if it's completely incomprehensible to a modern speaker without prior study, maybe. But that's like including everything from the Roman Kingdom on down as Italian.
>>24783934you’d need huge differences in criteria to turn 120,000 into 600,000.
>>24781306>Is it true that french is a much more sophisticated and elegant language than English?God no. Have you ever heard French spoken in person? It sounds like they're trying to speak English with a dick in their mouth.
>starts describing how succulent Dolores is or something like thatDropped. I'm too normal for this book.
>>24780906I uncontrolled masturbated in the university library to the first couple chapters way too many times.
>>24780906faggot>>24781232based
>>24781185I want books like this one but with the opposite viewpoint
>>24781195I'd say you're not enough of a child lover if that was your reaction
>>24781172Why? I've read the first 2 chapters and I don't get why you told me to read it yet.
Where do I start with this nigga?
In page 1.
Shelley wrote Frankenstein when she was 18 years old, it’s over /lit/.
>>24784664i read frankenstein when i was 18 years old
Her 25 yr old boyfriend turned her slop into an actual readable novel
Next week, the Nobel Academy will bestow this year's prize in Literature. Who do you think will win?
>>24780272Ishiguo wasn't even listed as having odds when he won it (was literally getting a haircut when they announced it kek). The Swedes will do what they like.
>>24771780>Paul SimonThe guy from Simon and Garfunkel?
>>24784216Yep
Apparently Murnane has never left Australia and refuses to fly so that would be a funny win
TOMORROW WE FIND OUT WHO WINS
how do you respond without sounding mad ?? OR are you not mad at all ??
>>24782357Why would a YA author bother me? Am I supposed to be mad about children's books being too simple next? She is literally doing her genre as it is supposed to he done.
>>24782357i pirate all my books so all the authors i like stay poor and be fueled by their poverty into writinng better ones thinking those will sell (they won't, i'm just gonna pirate those too)only retards don't pirate so only books aimed at those retards sell, sad but true
For me, it's Sarah J Maas.
>>24784605SEXO!!
>>24782357These are all smut, yeah?--Her and adjacent authors. Can I get a confirmation on that? That would inform me of the mental state of somebody I know. . . who has a library worth of this stuff. Thankss.
Yeah I think it’s over. Not just literature but art in general. Just being realistic here, I don’t see how it survives this century with the forces of technology and the sloppification of culture
>>24784427>Post-mass-literacy society will resemble pre-mass-literacy society: autistic monks will keep literature alive for its own sake, not for market demand.Hopefully that means someone will want my books when I die. Not that I have anything of particular value but it would be nice if one or two can find a home and they all don't get pulped.
>>24784475Bro they're gonna get thrown in the dump faster than your auntie's Beanie Babies. Your Sudanese caretakers in 2080 are gonna have zero fucking clue what books are.
>>24774439*lights cigarette*digital has been the death of art*coughs*
>>24783788>>24783738i thought it was just me that stopped watching
Reading is for homos
