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this is my school. the library is utter garbage. i did find some short stories by dostoevsky though, but im having a hard time deciding which to read first.

poor folk
the gambler

the double
notes from underground (read)
the eternal husband

which do i read first? im starting up tomorrow.

>> No.1601303

I'd vote for the eternal husband.

>> No.1602959

IS THAT ALL?

>> No.1602970

>browsing university video section
>Ghost in the shell
>Bicycle thieves
>8 1/2
>Apocalypse now
>Come and see
>my invisible face when

>> No.1602978

Someone wrote that The Eternal Husband is one of the few perfect pieces out there. I forget where I read that though.

>> No.1602982

You can order books to your public library.

Flip a coin to decide your book

>> No.1602984

>>1602978
That was Henry Miller in Tropic of Cancer.

>> No.1602985

>>1602970

It's a university. Was you expecting Die Hard or Predator?

>> No.1602986

>>1602984

That makes sense. Finished it last week. Fuck, great memory, dude. How do you do that?

>> No.1602990

>>1602986
I don't do drugs and I brush my teeth.

No, I remember what authors say about other authors.

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1603004

>>1602990
>>1602986
Ok, I lied. This is the real reason.

>> No.1603009

>>1603004

Mnemonics? I've looked into that before, quite a lot actually, I used to use the Dominic O'Brian technique but I abandoned it out of laziness. What sort of technique s that? A memory palace?

>> No.1603032

>>1603009
Yeah Mnemonics is one of the tools talked about. Another thing that helped is just going over in my head what has happened in a book, right after I read it. It's real tempting after a few hours of reading just to space out but I think it's better to to recall what you've read.

It doesn't sound like much but it's magic. Just checking yourself constantly. Making connections to things you've already memorized. Then what you're working on becomes a solid, thus more tools for building.... into infinity.

Those are just the real basic (but most helpful in my experience ((even thought they don't sound like much)) aspects of the book.

I mean, these guys were just normal people.

>> No.1603048

>>1603032

That's where I got lazy. Reviewing the data I'd memorised. If it isn't done pretty often after first taking it in, it gets lost. Like you say, it's basic, but I still don't really do it.

I'll try and be more thoughtful from now on. Maybe I'll look at my mnemonics again, I still have my entire system written down somewhere...35 Clint Eastwood, 18 Adold Hitler...

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~roy/magictalk-wisdom/discussions/dominic.html