if you don't own this in 2025, you don't love literature.
>>24976446I have a 10.7 inch screen, and it's basically the perfect size. What are you trying to do that you need 12+?
SERIOUS question. I'm looking for an ereader with the possibility of using an instant translation/dictionary stuff for reading in foreign languages, japanese included. Will a kindle be able to do this seamlessly without making me wanna kill myself?Plz respond
>>24966640kindle is owned by amazon, made in chinaworst of both worlds
>>24976825Yes, kindle has a built in dictionary. Vou just need to click on the word.
Rate my reading list /lit/
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>>24976184looks like a fag no cap
>>24971735>>24976046>>24976184Imagine the smell.
I would like to have sex with a beautiful trans girl
Crowley did 9/11, look it up.
This is better than War and Peace.The only issue I have with it was not making a small note at the end, one small paragraph even, that the veterans of the War went to Rio de Janeiro and created there the very first Favela
>>24970937>>24972536This board has turned into such a pit. Go read your comic books gay boy
>>24974516He was just a figure head. Vladimiro and the Navy ran everything behind the scenes.>>24974761I enjoyed his essays on the Amazon.
>>24968973I read his comedy book about the army paying prostitutes to have sex with soldiers to keep those soldiers from losing their shit. That was a fun book.
>>24968973I read In Praise of the Step Mother and enjoyed that. Where should I go next with Vargas Llosa?
>>24968973For me it's one of those books that's more enjoyable to think about afterward than to read in the moment. Not that it's badly written, but it's very bleak in tone. Thinking about how the events at Canudos screwed every faction (rebels died, Gall never got to Canudos, republic army humiliated even in victory, baron dispossessed, even Goncalves nearly gambled Bahian autonomy away through his rumor mongering) is more interesting than the book itself was for some passages. Still a very impressive work, good enough for me to consider reading more by Vargas Llosa.>>24970565The baron's reaction to the baroness's breakdown. And ant excuse to write about sex.
I just want to learn what's so appealing this genre
>>24976979They do. Storming the beaches at D-Day is in so many games and movies and various fictionalized forms that it's basically a meme. Moids love that shit.Also, if you cannot tell the difference between a fantasy involving a dark but basically good, talented, virtuous, powerful, strong, etc. man and a reality involving the sort of Chud who seethes about romance lit, I don't know what to tell you. *Some* women like this stuff, but that's more a pathology due to the patriarchy.
>>24976978Women are very bloodthirsty for war, I personally wouldn't mind at all. It's time for some sort of mass annihilation to ease the pressures of life. Even better now that we have your permission to go on mass rayp campaigns. We're gonna make the soviet rape of german women look like nothing.
>>24976992>male rapist>basically good, talented, virtuous, powerful, strongkek
>>24976992>Storming the beaches at D-Day is in so many games and movies and various fictionalized forms that it's basically a meme.well d-day wasn't a human wave assault, it was a combined arms assault against undermanned positions and german forces. casualties on d-day were quite light>Also, if you cannot tell the difference between a fantasy involving a dark but basically good, talented, virtuous, powerful, strong, etc. man and a reality involving the sort of Chud who seethes about romance litraped by a chad, raped by a chud, the difference is one vowel
Just read Throne of Glass, holy shit.
So Holden was a tard wrangler?
He raped his sister, Phoebe.
>>24976858Holden was raped by a duck named Phoebe
Why did the teacher touch his hair?
>Average book length in 2025: 340 pagesHow did you do?
>>24976086Cheating is not that hard in the modern office landscape. No one knows what you are spending your time on and you are trusted to spend your time where it is needed. You can just book a fake meeting and sit in a meeting room to read. It is more a matter of conscience. But if you want to cheat then it is probably easier to just go the "work at home" route and see what you can get away with.My experience is though that if you need to work anyway, then time will go quicker and be more fun if you take the work seriously. Obviously depends on what work you do. But perhaps that is just my protestant "arbecht macht frei" upbringing speaking.
>>24976142I find it completely fascinating that people exist who read books, but mostly stay away from novels. Its cool in a way, but just so different from how i read. I am trying to read some history books every now and then, but it is always novels that make up the majority of my reading. Is it the case that you don't enjoy reading fiction? Or is it that you just enjoy reading these other types of books more?
>>24968506>Avg length: 310 pagesI had a goal of 30 books which I assumed I would easily surpass by a large amount. I hit a depression half way through the year and didn't read for a great while and had a difficult time building up steam afterwards. I plan on taking reading more seriously this year and reading more "real" literature. Starting with the Illiad and the Odyssey, just picked up Peter Green's translations in a hardcover box set for a decent price. I also intend to finally dig into my big ass Landmark Herodotus book.
>>24976772Incoming:>Novels are for women
>>24968506More than I expected desu. Barely read anything the last few months.
what was the best book you read this year?
John Grisham's The Firm
>>24971290and quiet flows the don. (I'm reading it rn)
>>24976731It's a real travelogue, but it reads in places like a shitpost. Part of his standard travel pack apparently includes 'blue pills' -mercury and sugar- as a syphilis treatment. I'll cop to skimming parts of it where he described the individual churches in each monastery. The author, Athelstan Riley, a son of a stupidly wealthy railway speculator - has his job listed as 'hymn translator'. It's a fun read and online.
>>24976878Thanks man maybe I’ll check it out
It's a skit.
English is such a shit language. For me the nail in the coffin for English was when I learned that the problem of ambiguity between argument and explanation, where all you have to disambiguate is context, which they talk about in logic books, is not something which is universal in logic, but rather is a problem of English. Other languages don't have this problem. English is a low IQ language. All it's good for is dumbing down the masses.
>>24966833No one needs to defend the English language because it can speak for itself.
>>24975910I take it from your dismissing the substance of what I said that you disagree with the idea. Nonetheless, the grammar point pertains to the argument insofar as the comment I'm replying to brought up the perceived complexity of German 'grammar rules' to suggest that it was more difficult than French on this basis. To elaborate on the vocabulary issue (because, apparently, you didn't quite grasp what I was driving at there, or why it's relevant), German-English word-overlap, as another anon suggested, is most prominent when it comes to the basic, more frequent terms. Thus, the 'headstart' that an English speaker may have with respect to German, I am surmising, will soon become irrelevant purely on the basis of the familiar words occurring so frequently that one would have become accustomed to them in French, German, or any language, long before gaining a reasonable level of proficiency. Where French-English overlap starts to shine is precisely at the level of frequency which makes coming across the words in context less likely. The slightly more technical, fancy, or latinate vocabulary in English (that one is less likely to hear a foreign language's equivalent of so frequently) being etymologically familiar in French could perhaps facilitate an English learner's acquisition of it. The bare bones Germanic words sharing a root, I posit, isn't practically valuable beyond a superficial glance. All of this aside, it's worth noting that I've listened to only a very small amount of German thus far, and that I can somewhat understand Spanish, so I can't be sure my assumption that French is simpler (I'll disregard, because I don't believe that it's fundamentally relevant, that I understand this to be the general consensus) is not merely a symptom of my knowing something of a Romance language all ready. Granted, when I think about it more carefully, it seems silly that I would be willing to dismiss someone's intuition that one or the other is more difficult for them, because I have to imagine that people have a better idea of their own limits than I do.
>>24976955Interesting, even if you were to put wikipedia articles into this website >>24975106 they will be upwards of 70% to 80% Germanic origin words, even the fancy words which you described are not used often and are pointless to include when you are considering languages on their fundamentals, because in our day to day speak we are not discussing scientific terms or academic studies. If you look at the picture you will see how French looks nothing alike the German or English, and how for an English speaker with zero knowledge of German or French, you will find it nigh impossible to gather intuitively what the Frenchie is saying, where as the German you will have a basic understanding of what is being said, regardless of your level of knowledge of the Germanic language, the guy who keeps dismissing cognates has little understanding of languages, we communicate based on the fundamentals and bare bones of a language, not the propped up academic speech.
>>2497697679% Germanic origin paragraph btw
The barely literate execration of the conquered foreigner. Ha ha.
Can I get a proper, legitimate, genuine rundown on post-modernism? I feel like I don't understand it at all because there's so much insanity, absurdism and vitriol around the concept
>>24976907Cervantes, Sterne, Joyce. However, over time their works have become respected, established items, even if most readers maintain a safe distance. Put simply, writing Ulysses now cannot mean the same thing as writing it a hundred years ago. It's old avant-garde. As always, new forms need to be found.
>>24976835Postmodern literature is the literature that was the final nail in the coffin of the single dominant school of criticism and theory. The books in your pic are not really postmodern, they are all from after the idea of the single dominant school was dead and writers were free write outside the bounds of what was prescribed by academia. While these books are often called postmodernist, calling them that reduces all literature from the postmodernist on to postmodernist and makes the term meaningless (which it kind of is).
In Gravity's Rainbow Slothrop literally disintegrates into nothing
>>24976909I always see screaming faces instead of shoes.
>>24976959It's even worse for me. I see basedjaks screaming
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>>24976812feminists would have an absolute field day with this post
>>24976922And /r9k/ posters still can't even get a girl to look at them.
how should this sentence be better worded,>Tony Dodd is quite rightly still viewed as one of the leading UFO investigators in the UK, even after his death in 2009I mean if he's dead, he can't be one of the leading investigators, no? So it's he remains of the most important investigators in the history of the UK instead? idk, what's the optimal way
>>24976946>Tony Dodd was one of the leading UFO investigators in the UK until his death in 2009
>>24976971sounds right, thank you
WHY IS EVERY FUCKING MODERN AUTHOR NOW A WOMAN? WHERE DID THE MEN GO?
Plenty of male authors that sell well, see James Patterson and so forth
>>24976037Care to elaborate?
>>24976174No.
>>24973673it doesn't pay well
>>24968349most men are philistines, this board isn't indicative of what most men are doing in their freetime.
Unironically, what did it teach you?
>>24969483Jesus is the greatest guy to have ever lived, died and live again :)
>>24969483That I really, really, really hate Abrahamism.
>>24971919>It taught me that 99.99999% of everyone that has ever lived or will live in the future is completely damnedYes. It is written that the road to hell is broad and the path to heaven is narrow.Matthew 7:13-14, Luke 13:23-24>including myself. We all have no hope of escaping hell. It is literally impossible to live in today's world and enter the gates of heaven.Do not despair. The fact the world still exists proves that salvation is still possible, because the day salvation becomes impossible is the day the world ends, as the world would have no remaining salvific purpose.>Every single thing that society programs you to pursue is in direct opposition to what Jesus specifically teaches.We can rejoice in the opportunity to develop the greater virtue required to overcome sin in an epoch of trial where temptation and deceit abound"But he that shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved."Matthew 24:13
>>24976288But the Bible is literally the big book of people rebelling against their masters??? It is the opposite of slave morality
>>24969483What it taught me is almost the opposite of what people online say about it. I went in expecting a book that teaches passivity or “slave morality,” because that’s the modern stereotype. But actually reading it, the overwhelming theme is resistance to oppression and the demand for moral courage.The Bible is full of people standing up to unjust power: Moses confronting Pharaoh, the prophets rebuking kings, Daniel defying empire, Esther risking her life to stop a massacre, and the early Christians refusing to bow to Rome even when it cost them everything. These aren’t stories about being docile. They’re stories about refusing to accept evil as normal.What it taught me is that God consistently sides with the oppressed against their masters — and expects people to act with virtue, courage, and integrity even when it’s dangerous. The moral vision isn’t “be weak.” It’s “do what is right, even when the powerful tell you not to.”So if anything, the Bible didn’t teach me submission. It taught me that resisting injustice is a sacred duty, and that moral strength matters more than social status or worldly power.
Why didn't they just stop waiting and go straight to Godot?
>>24973993What in god's name is the point of reading Beckett?
>>24975510That's one of the grimmest things I've ever read.
I just got back from the Broadway show starring Neo and that other guy from Bill & Ted. I thought it was funny how shamelessly they referenced Bill & Ted throughout the show. Just not "ha ha" funny.
>>24976176Unironically more impactful than the play itself
I've written an account of my travels which lasted around six months. During this time, I tried to make myself as vulnerable as possible: hitchhiking, wild camping, sleeping in abandoned churches, travelling with no possessions etc. So that in my frail state I might enter a purely emotional state of being, and in doing so learn from my feelings more about what it is to be human, unobscured by thoughts polluted by the modern age. I'm deeply inspired by the Romantics like Wordsworth and my goal was to learn from all nature, incl my own self, as much about humanity as possible. This piece I wrote is the first finished piece of writing i've ever written and since it is such a peculiar piece I would really appreciate some feedback to really understand what sort of level it is at. I know most anons will squeal at the lack of irony and cynicism, it is purposefully earnest to the point it will put people off, but any feedback is appreciated. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Np6ZWpuBUVRu7vErExCus2OVylaXezwX/view
What esoteric practices actually work once you've learned too much and destroyed your ability to take any one scripture or symbolic system on faith? I've tried fideism and it didn't work for me. I know too much about the historical contingency of various scriptures to believe in any one uncritically. I don't think I could get myself to believe that Muhammad was God's last prophet, that this or that guy is the true occultated mahdi, that Jesus was the literal son of God, that the Vedas were divinely inspired and simply apperceived by rishis, etc. I've also tried various esoteric systems. They all seem to resolve into two aspects to me: an effectively arbitrary, historically contingent aspect and a core doctrine aspect. The core doctrine appears to be negative theology and moksha or unio mystica of some variety, and the historically contingent components appear to have required sincere, naive belief in their divine inspiration or at least their "it actually works, trust me bro" efficacy to be useful as stabilizers for achieving moksha/unio mystica. The result is that all systems just seem to me like they're saying the same thing: "realize the truths of negative theology hard enough that you are motivated to still your thoughts; still your thoughts; then moksha/unio mystica happens." I get the first part, I have tried the second part, and the third part never arrives. I've talked to people who have done the second part way harder than I ever did, and they also said the third part never arrived. And those were the rare ones. Most practitioners seemed to be doing it either because they were actually fideists in disguise (and really believed Shiva or Jesus is a real guy who just wants them to do this stuff), or they were quietists in disguise and just liked that it made them more chill. I don't want to be chill. I want to escape. I am okay with escape taking multiple lifetimes, but I would like to have a form of practice that actually convinces me that I am experiencing something that isn't discursive cognition. So far I have tried various forms of mind-quieting meditation and achieved some interesting mastery over my own nervous system (as far as I can tell), but nothing truly noetic or gnostic. I have also tried contemplative exercises, but because most of these are anchored in some symbolic system that requires sincere naive belief (like mediating on the ninety-one hats of Hatmandu), nothing happens. Lately the most success I have had at achieving something approximating noesis is meditating on the Platonic solids. At least then my mind was doing something it doesn't normally do in ordinary cognition. (I had the best success with tetrahedrons.)Anyone else in my position? Or has anyone else been in my position and overcome it?
>>24972412The only ones that work are from lost manichaen scripts in sogdian and old uyghur.
>>24972412>blah blah blahI think you need to think less of fidelity to a certain scripture like the koran or bible and more of fidelity to a lineage and textual continuum and instiution.I was in much same boat. Then I became a mildly syncretic catholic and had a kundalini experience.Guenon is cool. But too dismissive of west.
>>24973702>escapeYou must engage to escape or smthn -- le daoists
>>24972412Currently my plan is to get really into heroin
I have often felt the same way you do and 9 years of meditation, while yielding plenty of beneficial indirect results, have so far given me no access to deeper states of consciousness or concentration.At this point I have simply suspended my disbelief while also forgoing the mental leap towards a positive faith. I enjoy nianfo practice not because I am convinced of its efficacy but because I enjoy its inherent simplicity.
