So tomorrow I'm starting this book for the first time: what am I in for ?
Why not today? Why not now? What a faggot.
>>24863225Because I'm saving it for the bus !
>>24863234Save this:*unzip penis*
>>24863236Hey, I'm NOT a faggot, I had sex with mostly women !
>>24863253Whatever. Read it now. Its no a Sanderson doorstep!
>>24863180I liked The Aleph much more.
>>24863234Look out the window you retard. Half the problem with the modern world is people never just sit and watch and think. You should read at home in quiet without distraction so you can process the information better, but likely you'll doomscroll in the free time you have like right now and the one time you can actually just take the world in is the one time you'll decide to read. The only reason you're deciding to read on the bus is in some manufactured attempt at an "aesthetic" experience you got from doomscrolling.
>>24863350Calm down. He didn't mention how long was his bus ride. Maybe it's a 2 hr bus ride. I stopped reading on the bus because I would end up always missing my stop.
>>24863374Well it's a 6 hours bus ride, so I better have some books to reads (and podcasts to listen)
>>24863180good book, slight diminishing returns with old JLB, but his early stories are very nice
>>24863180I really liked one or two in it, but it got back to Goodwill in the end. Still inspiring enough for me even in its day and age (j’ai lu le même livre)
>>24863180I'm not sure about you edition, but if it starts with "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" then that should be a good litmus test for the rest of the collection. It's one of those books that certain people will just become attached to, even letting it live in your mind for a time. If you read it at the wrong time, it's gonna feel like autistic drudgery. All of his story collections get kind of blurred together in my mind so I don't recall or know exactly which are in your collection; but try to find other stuff by him if you're interested.If you end up liking it, read a few of Julio Cortázar's short stories. He does kind of the same thing as Borges but different. Maybe "trippy" is the right word?
>>24863180>what am I in for ?Fake Wikipedia articles
>>24863180This is the sort of thing you read as a teen or early 20s to get an impression of what topics like fate and Monism are in philosophy. Reading it any later will probably do nothing for you.
