How do you read faster?
>>25171184At most it's like 1.25, 1.33x tops, otherwise it sounds like shit.For fast reading if you really want, turn on audio speed to like 4x, turn on CC, and practice keeping up. Eventually turn down the sound and modulate the speed to improve comprehension.Next, focus on avoiding subvocalization where you sound out the word in your head; semiotically this means to identify the meaning of the word (signified) while ignoring the actual spelling and phonetics of the word itself (signifier); this saves a lot of cognitive processing while reading.Finally focus on chunking and reading sets of data so that you can grab whole sentences and eventually paragraphs without having to parse out each. single. word. You can see a forest without having to count every tree in it (or see a pile of sand without the grains (or some other analogy that mechanically works for you)).On another level, you start to developing reading inference which will allow you to reliably infer common patterns in text rather than having to process those textual patterns each time you come across them; like gramatical & idomatic memes.
>>25171206Oh, I recommend doing this with audio books that have closed captioning on Youtube.it's good & accessible audio-visual practice with all the material on there.
>>25171133>and other things that only impress Indians
>>25171206>On another level, you start to developing reading inference which will allow you to reliably infer common patterns in text rather than having to process those textual patterns each time you come across them; like gramatical & idomatic memes.the downside is that spelling and grammar take a huge editorial bath and your patience runs thin with humanity as everything comes off as slow (people talk and read and text too slow).hence the reticence many have toward advocating speed reading.
>>25171232you start "speedrunning" books & movies...
Are these good books for kids to read?
>>25160145Nah, 6-10 is the ideal age range. Preferably just read the first three or four and then move onto Alice or the hobbit
Literally skip them, they offer nothing but cheap entertainment that won’t get anyone into literature, look at all the adult fans. I feel as though people would get more out of watching the movies like an anon well above me said. They’re slop but they’re enjoyable and not a waste of time like the books are bound to be.
>>25170863ur wrong though, if you have watched the harry potter movies and never read before it is possibly the best entry point into literatureyou will be supplied free mental imaging of every scene
>>25159915If they're at the reading level for it, yes
>>25162215We're talking about Voldemort not Grindlwald.
Is there a quintessential Napoleon biography?
>>25169460Andrew Roberts and Adam Zamoyski, read both
>>25169460
>>25169466>>25169540I liked it but I couldn't finish it on account of all the frog names. I got about as far as Napoleon's Consulship after he had returned from Egypt.
I am about to finish reading the Odyssey, and I have already finished the Iliad. What are some lectures available that I should watch to gain a deeper knowledge and appreciation for Homer and his works?
>>25169696Thanks, I will check them out
https://sacred-texts.com/cla/homer/hymns.htm
>>25168995oh, and if it were me i'd go argonautica, aenied, (translated by chapan), pharsallia (translated by may). i read pharsallia first and found the aenied to be a bit weak by comparison.
>>25169912There is a version availabe in Gutenberg translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (prose), and one in StandardEbooks by Arthur S. Way (verse)
>>25170671>i read pharsallia first and found the aenied to be a bit weak by comparisonThat’s something. Cause most people say that Lucan is the closest any Roman poet ever came to Virgil.And Chapman for Aeneid? I have Allan Mendelbaum being touted as the best one
Just read my first ever crime novel. The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy. What are the other essentials I should look into after reading his catalogue?
>>25170081Chandler.
the greeks
>>25170081He has a new one releasing soon. Look up the Noir canon. Maybe some histories on MKULTRA, GLADIO.
>>25170081chandler, hammett. check out The Maltese Falcon
Silence of the Lambs, if you want a crime thriller. Arguably the GOAT of that genre.
I Think, Therefore I Doubt, from NGT's Letters from an AstrophysicistWednesday, May 20, 2009 Dear Mr. Tyson, I am somewhat torn. I can’t get near philosophy without being repelled by its un-scientific musing and empty wordiness. I simply do not understand how one can be so confident that their particular explanation for the universe, or consciousness, or the meaning of knowledge is anywhere near correct without the necessary experimentation and peer review. Can this field be taken seriously when, to debate another person’s point of view, one must only summon up their own, equally unfounded, ideas? But, many of these philosophers were also very intelligent men. Some were even scientists themselves. Certainly, if these intelligent men muse to themselves, it could have some merit. This leads to my dilemma: I do not know how to reconcile the fields of philosophy and the fields of science, except to say that philosophy simply muses about things science hasn’t explained yet. To me it is a more relaxed and vague form of theology. So I ask you: What do you think of philosophy’s role in the explanation of the workings of the mind and universe, and in the field of science? Thank you very much for your time. Respectfully, Daniel Narciso Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25155783>>25156076>>25165449Can't believe there are so many retards that think this. You can literally calculate the precession of Mercury caused by the other planets in perturbation theory by hand (what people did at least 50 years before GR), and the observed precession needs an extra general relativistic calculation that you can get by hand with the Schwarzschild metric. You realize that there are teenagers who can do these calculations? GR isn't some philosophy, it's a set of equations that can be solved and compared to what you see with your fucking eyes. It should take you less than a month of an hour a day learning and practice to be able to do these calculations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY8kVa0qB9Q
>>25170266>>25170286>>25170303>>25170325Considering your technophilia, give Mumford the time he demands because he saw through your ideology before you were a speck in your fathers gonads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqRuEhHKVXYThe humanism across your posts is commendable to an extent, but it's misguided, in it would rather have humanity fall into an endless dystopian trap of enslavement-expansion across the stars, rather than something truly noble and moderate. Your upholding of Avatar's imperialism demonstrates this most, as earth in that universe is a desecrated shithole and humanity is a husk of what it truly should be. It's better to have 1000 ultramenschlich on the verge of transcendence than 100 trillion subhumans pretending to be ubermensches because they can strip mine planets and annihilate their native ecospheres like a horde of cosmic locusts just so that they can stuff slop into their mouths back home. Your brand of humanism also betrays an acute naivety, for its becoming increasingly clear that the human form is not adapted for space flight, and time dilation will make a human space imperium impossible. Consequently, and in a manner that directly merges with the anti-humanism that animates the technological imperative as it alienates us from the natural world and seeks to enslave the forces of our own minds and genetic code, the drive to create any such imperium will require the augmentation and extermination of the human form. Only posthumanism can logically uphold such visions, whether that end up being an entirely artificial AI order, or a biologically new form that itself may be integrated into AI. Your vision will bring the downfall of man by the hand of his own constructs and will unleash a system of annihilating extraction upon the stars that will not stop until it meets an equal and opposite force.
>>25170318They don't know the math, they don't know the physics, they don't know the history, and they don't know the philosophy.
>>25169907The formations, patterns, and arrangements of matter that lead to propagation of those formations, patterns, and arrangements across time does not imply some non-material dimension at all. Why do people make this erroneous assumption?
Clark Ashton Smith editionNotable Authors: H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti, Robert Aickman, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, William Peter Blatty, Robert Bloch, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Edogawa Rampo, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, M.R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu, Brian Evenson, William Hope Hodgson, Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long, Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin R Kiernan, Laird Barron, Jack Ketchum, Richard Laymon, Brian Lumley, Stefan Grabinski, Peter Straub, and many many moreDiscuss your favorite horror tales in both short and long form. What have you read lately? What do you want to read? What's a work of horror fiction or an author who you want to recommend?
Just got a copy of The Hungary Moon by Ramsey Campbell at my library.What am I in for?
>>25127455This is pretty rad, thanks anon
>>25139685Slewfoot
I’ve been reading Brothers Grimm stories to my toddler and those fellows really cooked. Are there any stories like that but for grown-ups? I’m considering Fairy Tale by Stephen King but I’ve never read any of his books before.
Started reading Songs/Grimscribe last night. I'm almost sober enough to pick it back up again (did an edible earlier) so Imma grab a couple beers for the cotton mouth and hunker down to read. I've read the first two stories so far, plus The Last Feast of Harlequin which I read on its own last Fall. I really haven't read that much Ligotti yet to be honest. Between the three of them I like The Frolic best so far (the third one being Les Fleurs which I thought was so-so, and I thought Harlequin was really overrated but not BAD exactly). Overall what I've read is promising if imperfect in terms of my taste. I think the only other Ligotti story I've read is...The Red Tower, I think, because I saw those MeatCast fags were doing a read through of it (I read it myself online). It was creepy and creative but utterly unengaging.
What are some great Australian novels, /lit/?
>>25171122For the Term of his Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
>>25171122Voss
>>25171122My Brother Jack by George JohnstonPicnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayWake in Fright by Kenneth CookBonus NZ novel, Man Alone by John Mulgan
What are the most quintessentially American books out there?
>>25168421Huckleberry Finn is as American as it gets
>>25168421>Most American bookHunger Games>Most accurate description of an AmericanConfederacy of Dunces
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the book where greatest American book and most quintessentially American book overlap
>>25168430rare shoutout, great book
>>25170982You don't know what quintessential means, do you?
Where do I start with Heidegger?(Yes, I speak German)
>>25169704silence, Frog.
>>25169474There's basically no reason to read this nigga even if you are fluent in German.
>>25169519I can second the Polt intro rec, that's what my professor recommended. >>25170605Agreed, starting with SZ is a bad move. You really want to start with secondary literature and move closer and closer to SZ. Begin with an overview (book, lecture, whatever), then a guidebook, then find lectures/guides to Heidegger's essays, and once you've got a good grasp of Heideggerese and you get his general project then pick up SZ. But be prepared to spend at least a couple months with it. Be aware that Dreyfus's work on SZ is excellent but strongly opinionated and many Heidegger scholars hate it -- other philosophers think he does a stellar job extracting the metaphysics from Division 1.
>>25169474Husserl
>>25169474>Where do I start with Heidegger?Aristotle and Dilthey.
Inside you are two WWII European novelists. One is a liberal reactionary Christian anti-Nazi pacifist monarchist. The other one is a racist humanitarian pro bono doctor atheist pro-Nazi pro-war anarchist.
>>25167863>pro-waryou didn't read the books
>>25167863>Celine>pro warretard
>>25168076OP is also Thomas Mann. Magic Mountain and Death in Venice were very good even if I disagree with his political views
>>25168075You have to understand Celine. Here is Jünger on meeting Celine ("Merlin").
>>25171117and here he is again
By anonI had to hide my erection, which was sticking out and making me walk like a creep. I have to say, those sluts who just walked past me were hot. Still young, with perky tits that swayed this way and that. They were coming off the beach and all had those overly zealous, bitchy faces, like they'd taken the art of sucking cock to heart."They'll probably go get fucked by some asshole who'll treat them like dogs and spit on them. Maybe even some black guy with a big dick," I thought to myself. It was the act of sucking balls and imagining their still-fresh little faces with their big tits hanging down that gave me a massive hard-on. I had to readjust my dick and I could already feel the precum getting wet inside.When I turned around, it was their big, firm, tanned buttocks shaking all over the place that gave me another hard-on, like a rhinoceros horn. I imagined my nose buried in them, all that sexy meat suffocating me. "I wonder what it must smell like, though, an asshole as pretty as that," I thought to myself. "What wouldn't I give to sniff it for just a second, to bury myself in a smelly paradise for a brief moment. I'd even give up my PC, you know. Just for a moment of infinity."That moment of infinity, I had chased it all my life, and I had never been as close as I was in Tokyo, where I volunteered for some bizarre porn film. They laid me in a pit and covered me with a platform until only my head remained uncovered. I was about to get a face full of it. Then, a Japanese girl, probably in her twenties, sat down in front of me, lowered her pants, and then planted her asshole right in front of my nose. An invitation to sniff.It unlocked something in my brain, being like that, like a shit-eater, with no more dignity than a fly you squash without a second thought. She was crushing me with her beautiful white ass and she started making me swallow her lunch. At first I spat it all out, I vomited, but she didn't give a damn and she gathered the pieces one by one to shove them back into my mouth with tweezers, until I swallowed them all, and she even made me eat the toilet paper she'd used to wipe the shit that was still stuck to her ass.I was over the moon, but I still had to stay in bed for a week because my stomach hadn't appreciated it. I kept replaying in my head the look she'd given me—hard, cold, contemptuous. It was when she looked at me like that that I felt alive and useful for the first time since I was born. I wanted to tell her to take me in, to feed me her shit for days, weeks, until I died with a smile on my face. Septic shock
Monica, we had connected through one of those websites for degenerates. "Full time slave looking for a cruel and violent mistress. $100,000 a year." For her, it was an insane amount. She lived in one of those industrial cities along the Volga, whose existence was almost no longer justified after the fall of the USSR. I had sold my small apartment to get that money. I didn't need it anymore. Besides, I wasn't even planning on coming back.The thing that struck me about her photos was the almost ethereal beauty of her features. Red-haired, with Pippi Longstocking-style pigtails and a band of freckles that went from cheek to cheek, she had eyes of such a light blue that one wondered if they were natural.She looked more like a caricature of the ideal Hitler woman on a German propaganda poster than the image I had of a typical young Russian girl. When I first saw her at Novgorod airport, something struck me. She was identical to the photos she posted, but her gaze, her eyes, were devoid of any soul. Eyes of an unimaginable pallor in which malice, selfishness, and disdain for other humans were all too apparent. The eyes of a creature who had never had to lift a finger for anything, who lived a life isolated from all labor, and who, as if jaded by the ease with which men fulfilled her needs, reveled in cruel and indecent acts just to feel the faintest hint of emotion in her heart.She had what looked like a homemade doghouse at her place, which she pointed out to me without a word, and which had surely been built by one of her Ivans in exchange for a feverish romp. She put a chain around my neck and tied me to the doghouse. I was trapped like a rat.Few words could describe the suffering and misery I endured during those months. And yet, each of these memories is precious to me. Monica was a first-rate sadist, a bitch, a loveless whore. She used me like a filthy public toilet, smearing it everywhere and then making me lick the floor clean until my saliva made it shine. She splattered everywhere. My tongue had licked every nook and cranny in search of puddles of urine, which I greedily sucked up, so there was never any need to vacuum. Sometimes, I could glimpse the shadow of a smile on her angelic face during a difficult moment when the shit was particularly foul and atrocious to swallow, and I felt a newfound zeal within me that made me redouble my efforts.Over time, I had become so accustomed to the taste of her excrement that I could guess precisely the type of cuisine and sometimes even the dish she had eaten for lunch or dinner the day before. A piece of poorly digested chili here, a kernel of corn there. I had developed a sense of pride in unmasking, beneath their filthy appearance, the dishes that my mistress deigned to share with me.However, this diet came at a price. Although sometimes supplemented with leftover rice or expired vegetables, I had become skeletal and malnourished.
Good job, it gave me thee boner
I know what you're thinking. Why inflict so much suffering upon oneself? Why destroy oneself to this extent? What could possibly drive a man to abandon life and seek refuge in the arms of filth and the denial of his own humanity? It's simply God. Yes. Each of these acts, which might seem absurd, were in reality attempts to merge with the eternal. By making the ultimate choice to renounce free will and devote myself entirely to the worship and contemplation of female orifices, I drew closer to the divine.For what else but the hairy, vulgar cunt of the most beautiful woman, that grotesque and gaping hole, the instrument that creates life and annihilates will and dreams forever unrealized, what else but the foul-smelling anus of a young woman in bloom, that blackened stain that contrasts so sharply with the pale beauty of a lovely goddess, a source of nothing but stench and filth, despite the softness, the beauty, the sweet fragrance of a still-fresh female body, what else could be more incredible to revere than the complete negation of a young woman's aesthetic perfection, so naively cherished by the simple-minded without embracing its entirety, without being utterly attracted, shocked, and disgusted by this violent mix of such extreme contrasts? In short, without feeling that nanosecond of eternity in the lowest baseness, crushed under the weight of the hidden and forbidden place, that monster of ugliness that I call god.It was with a contented smile that I often listened to my mistress's one-night stands moan with pleasure. As they emptied their seed into her carrot-haired hole, they imagined they possessed her, had conquered her, understood her. Poor fools. They had only experienced a fleeting moment of heaven, when her warm pussy greedily welcomed their spunk. They were then nothing to her, shells that had only tasted the sweet side of the divine being without ever being satiated by its sour side, so essential to the alchemical mixture of eternal life. As for me, I had devoured her entire being. I possessed her to the very depths of her intimacies, her forbidden secrets, down to the smallest beauty mark in the crease of her buttocks. She possessed me body and soul. We were in perfect harmony.I had tasted spicy diarrhea, various illnesses that made her urine bitter and dark yellow, and her excrement green and wavy. Her periods held no secrets for me, I knew their exact dates, their taste. She, whom men worshipped like a god and showered with ever more gifts and offerings, she surrendered herself to me in the most complete and exposed way possible. I had seen God in his most extreme nakedness.
The end
Why do people put these stupid plastic things in the pages of their books? I just bought this at the thrift store, every page has like 5 of them, and they abruptly stop at page 90.
>>25170787Wrong lil niglet
>>25170930Nah you’re right, they’re retarded. I just don’t care all that much since they just live in their own bubble, lacking any self awareness. I’ve never seen one actually called out on their bullshit. Actually, have they?
>>25170032>666kbhmm
>>25170060>>25170073I was thinking of creating a browser plugin to highlight the names of Chinese names. I just can’t remember that shit on my own.
>>25170060>>25170073I want to be her little baby tampon boy.
Are there any authors besides Aristotle that say most people are retarded slaves? The conclusion they draw from there can go either way but this point is non-negotiable.
This is a pamphlet, you can read it in maybe an hourhttps://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/445/pg445-images.html
>>25170415I understand. But some of his stuff is surprisingly nice. I wouldn't really call it good reading in that-sense, but he's decently based and has some solid opinions and observations. Still a velvet beanie wearing fag though
>>25170425probably one of the greatest works ever penned. I hated how Judith Shklar panned him.
>>25170337nietzsche, plato
Everyone except me is a retarded slave. I am the only sentient being in existence.
the walls of tyrosh editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>25132678
>>25169529Sansa gets smarter in AFFC with promises of being taught how to play The Game of Thrones™ by Littlefinger in The Winds of Winter
>>25169529sansa is the smartest person arya knows
>danaeyrs chapterI skim these. What a waste of text
>daenerys chapterI read these with my pants down, like George intended
Pretty fucking hilarious that the only moment of true pity Cersei has for Sansa is her being matched with Tyrion.
