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[Anonymous No.18299720]

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Do you need...
...writing advice?
...book recommendations?
...needlessly caustic opinions?

Enquire here.

[Anonymous No.18299723]

>>18299720
The letter Q.

[Anonymous No.18300052]

>>18299720
At last, one without anime pics

[Anonymous No.18300191]

What are the best books about Jeanne D'arc?

[Anonymous No.18300308]

>>18300191
https://saint-remi.fr/fr/55-jeanne-d-arc

[Anonymous No.18301542]

>>18299720
What are some good romance books

[Anonymous No.18301613]

Does anyone have the image about the person who never thought with words?

[Anonymous No.18301888]

Should cats be allowed in libraries?

[Anonymous No.18302082]

What are some good books with oedipal motives such as Kafka on the shore, in praise of stepmother, etc?

[Anonymous No.18302460]

How do I know if my maladaptive daydreams are worth writing down and fleshing out into a full story?

[Anonymous No.18302490]

>>18299720
Any good pocket-sized e-readers that can do epub?

[Anonymous No.18302892]

>>18300191
I don't know, but here is cool painting
>>18301542
Your question is too vague. Romance is a genre wider than the pussy of old prostitute.
>>18301888
No, their fur ends up everywhere.
>>18302460
You don't. Just do it.

[Anonymous No.18302905]

brainlet here. want to start reading and it will have to be a digital process. is an e-reader really necessary? does an average tablet fucks up your vision?

[Anonymous No.18302912]

>>18302460
>maladaptive daydreams
no such thing. imagination is not pathology. don't let psychpseuds trick you into shunning your greatest gift.

[Anonymous No.18302928]

>>18299720
What are some good books

[Anonymous No.18302932]

>>18302928
The Bible.

[Anonymous No.18302937]

>>18302490
I bought a kobo glo for about 50$ from aliexpress. While it is not the best there is and leaves me wanting for more sometimes, it fundamentally does everything I want. The kobo can do epub and a whole plethora of other formats. You can also put an sd card into it if you want to store larger files.
Essentially look around aliexpress if you want a cheap one or buy one of the newer ones if money isn't an issue.

[Anonymous No.18302944]

>>18302928
That's a very subjective question. I might like literature from the 20th century while others swear by the Greeks. Just don't look up goodreads top lists and you'll be golden.

[Anonymous No.18302952]

>>18302905
It is way easier to read on an ereader than it is on an ipad in my experience. But keep in mind that a tablet is a lot more powerful - pdf files are a nightmare on any ereader, even the new ones. If you want to read books I do suggest getting an ereader. If you plan to read not-books, then stick with a tablet.

[Anonymous No.18303016]

>>18299720
How do you know that your novel isn't just unbearable pretentious drivel?

[Anonymous No.18303065]

>>18303016
It probably is, anon, but being bad at stuff is how you get good at stuff. Very few people's first anything is good

[Anonymous No.18303073]

>>18302952
jesus I am a brainlet. you're telling me that pdf is not the standard extension for e-books!?

[Anonymous No.18303095]

Can I get an epub for Soldiers Alive? I can't find it on Libgen

[Anonymous No.18303275]

>>18303073
Not that I know of. Usually ebooks come as epub or mobi. Afaik you can't customize the fonts, spacings, styles in a pdf whereas you can do that in epubs. Comics use a cbz file format. Everything I load onto my ereader is one of those.

You do need a separate app to open epubs so maybe that's why pdfs are more popular on pc.

[Anonymous No.18303403]

>>18300052
Fuck you

[Anonymous No.18303440]

I want to read about Buddhism. I don't know anything about it, or where to start. I want to read what Schopenhauer read before I read what he wrote. Where do I start?

[Anonymous No.18303526]

>>18299720
Are there writings on why we do things we consider bad? Does that mean we think they are good?

[Anonymous No.18303533]

>>18303275
>>18302952

Thank you very much for the info, fren.

[Anonymous No.18305145]

I'm fascinated by the Soviet war in Afghanistan, What are the best historical books to read about this event and time period?

[Anonymous No.18305159]

>>18303275
I like the ebook reader by Icecream Apps, it's nice.

[Anonymous No.18305517]

I'm currently reading the memoirs of William T. Sherman, and it's awakened the civil war obsessed middle schooler I was long ago. I know I could read Grant's memoirs, Lincoln's speeches, Whitman's poetry, or even a slave narrative or two, but I want more. Any recommendations would be appreciated; preferably, works written during the period, but I'll take anything pertaining.
>>18303440
I don't know how good this is but pic related is a Buddhism chart.
>>18303526
Do you men "bad" aesthetically or ethically? In either case, both of these are considered disciplines now and you should be able to find some reading lists with some research.

[Anonymous No.18305524]

How do I ask butterfly out on a date?

[Anonymous No.18305563]

>>18305517
I’ve read a bunch of books on Grant and Chernow’s biography is the best. His memoirs are a bald, straightforward account with lots of omissions. It’s well written for something done by retired general in the 1880’s but it’s not the literary masterpiece people claim it is as they recommend it.
There’s something to be said about something written much closer to the event, but it’s not like Grant wasn’t writing with an eye towards his reputation and certain public relations disasters that occurred during the war and after.

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>>18306411
That’s what you’re seeing. Small breasted woman pushing them together. They look nice

[Anonymous No.18306770]

This really isn't a question but I don't want to make a thread about it since this isn't /adv/ but I've found this board is way better than most others. How do I stop feeling professional jealousy? I work on my craft every single day, I apply and send my work to every opportunity that opens up, but I get rejected every single time. I'm excellent at what I do, I know it and I work every day to improve it. Why then, when I see the same two or three people on social media being awarded and achieving feats I'd die for I can't look at my work and be proud? Why must I denigrate myself if I know my work is good? Why do I crave so hard what I don't have and won't get just because they get them so easily (or at least it appears to be easy)? Everything after creating your art is so frustrating, getting published, getting awards, going to graduate school. Why do I need this in order to succeed? Why can't my work speak for itself? Why are the same fucking 3 people winning everything in my country? When, if ever, will it be my turn?

[Anonymous No.18306863]

Which translations should I read for Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard?

[Anonymous No.18306998]

>>18306770
I'm a pseud with very little knowledge of literature and I'm completely talking out of my ass, but it is anyway.
It seems to me that if a work of art is truly above average, it won't appeal to average people, and maybe that's why some great artists aren't recognized in their lifetime. I'm not saying you're a great artist necessarily, but if inferior people are getting more recognition than you, maybe their approach appeals to the masses and your approach appeals only to the few truly dedicated to the craft. Compare JK Rowling's prose to some of the lesser-known great works of literature, and tell me if you think I'm wrong. It seems that to be a truly great artist, you must accept that you will never be the most popular in your lifetime. But again, I don't know much about literature so maybe this is way off.

[Anonymous No.18307008]

>>18302892
>No, their fur ends up everywhere.

[Anonymous No.18307559]

>>18305517
I mean ethically. Say I think stealing is bad, and then I steal. That means I don't really think it is bad, right?

[Anonymous No.18307734]

>>18307559
It depends on why you are stealing, maybe if you don't steal at that moment there's some worse thing that will potentially happen.

[Anonymous No.18308251]

>>18307734
It's about the stealing per se. More about the concept of things being evil. Say I consider X is evil, but I still do X, do I really think it is evil? No, right?
I guess I'll get answers on this when reading about ethics and morality.

[Anonymous No.18308264]

>>18308251
I meant that it is NOT about the stealing per se.

[Anonymous No.18308278]

Books to improve critical thinking/reading?

[Anonymous No.18308290]

does there exists a piece of literature where i can
study linguistics and speech patterns so when i come back to browsing 4chan i can determine if a poster is a swede male/woman, white heterosexual man/ retard / intellectual so and so just by the way they type their posts ?
Thanks

[Anonymous No.18308674]

>>18299720
Someone please recommend me a non-fiction book about the Pelasgians.

[Anonymous No.18308883]

>>18306998
Thank you for responding. I also don’t think these artists are inferior in any way, their work is also great but it seems that they get all the support and opportunities. Oh well.

[Anonymous No.18308902]

>>18308290
Most likely there is; however it will also teach you how to imitate that which you wish to imitate.

[Anonymous No.18309225]

English language question. Am I right in how I understand the word "which" to affect the meaning of the sentence here? (Ignore the obviously bad sentence constructions.)

>I will end the day with a walk to the race, which is short.

In the sentence above, the adjective "short" is referring to the race, since the "which" comes after "race". But in this one

>I will end the day with a walk, which is short, to the race.

Now that the "which" comes after "walk" it is the walk that is short, not the race.

[Anonymous No.18309418]

I became interested in Nietzsche and specifically his idea of the übermensch. Sadly the topic seems to complex to understand from the Wikipedia articles and Youtube videos, so I came here to ask which books I should read to get a firm grasp on the concept. Thus spoke Zarathustra is an obvious choice, however I know philosophy is a heavy read, so are there other books to be read as "supplement" material?

[Anonymous No.18309464]

>>18309225
Hmm, you could interpret "a walk to the race" as the subject of "which is short".

[Anonymous No.18309944]

>>18303275
>Comics use a cbz file format.
but cbz and cbr are just zip and rar archives respectively, containing images named with a different file extension, so that comic book reader apps can easily identify them.
Seriously you can literally unzip them with 7zip or any other such tool.
I don't know anything about ereaders, but if they can open cbz that at least means they can also open zip file and standard image formats too.
Not sure what makes pdfs so difficult.

[Anonymous No.18309961]

What are some good philosophical science fiction authors aside from Stenislaw Lem and Asimov?

[Anonymous No.18309963]

>>18303403
>Fuck you

[Anonymous No.18310018]

I'm listening to too many podcasts. Does anyone have any recommendations for good non-fiction books with no overarching narrative? A series articles, maybe a bunch of essays. Ideally I should be able to zone out for a couple of minutes without having to go back to catch up.

[Anonymous No.18311694]

What are the best introductory books to literary theory? I'd like to understand better how literature clicks on an internal level, so to speak.

[Anonymous No.18311699]

>>18311694
watch this
https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-300?qt-course=2#qt-course

[Anonymous No.18311733]

>>18311699
Thanks, bro

[Anonymous No.18311758]

>>18301888
Trips says let the boy read

[Anonymous No.18311918]

>>18299720
How is The Conference of the Birds?

I am curious of exploring other forms of spirituality than Christianity to lesser degree.

[Anonymous No.18312869]

>>18309418
There is plenty of secondary literature, looking into academic journals is the next logical step if you need thought that is too specific for general secondary literature.

[Anonymous No.18313958]

>>18308902
what is it called then

[Anonymous No.18314560]

>>18306863
You're looking at it

[Anonymous No.18314666]

>>18313958
I haven't a notion (even if it exists I know not its name)

[Anonymous No.18315654]

>>18314666
someone on this board should know of it

[Anonymous No.18317081]

Is this a good edition of Dubliners?

[Anonymous No.18317513]

>>18317081
Complete and unabridged is usually good so it depends now upon the quality of the paper and bindings and ink.

[Anonymous No.18317635]

>>18317081
>not reading Joyce in Irish
NGMI

[Anonymous No.18317646]

>>18302912
Based

[Anonymous No.18317698]

>>18309225
answer to this would be nice

[Anonymous No.18318374]

Is there anything I can search for which will return books or authors which have just a drop of surrealism injected into otherwise realistic stories? Magical realism doesn’t seem to be quite what I’m looking for.

[Anonymous No.18318393]

>>18309225
You’re correct.

[Anonymous No.18318466]

>>18309225
It's somewhat ambiguous, I'd not leave it like that. The sentence subject is the walk, you could try this,

>I will end the day with a walk to the race (which is short).

So it reads as an aside and indicates to the intuitive reader that the walk is not necessarily short (but the race is).

[Anonymous No.18318567]

Best place to pirate audiobooks?

[Anonymous No.18318574]

>>18317698
You’re asking a question about something which is a common mistake and point of confusion even among native speakers. Technically speaking you’re correct and it’s fine as it is.

[Anonymous No.18319057]

>>18312869
Thanks anon, I will look into them

[Anonymous No.18319308]

What happened to the /ffa/ threads? Did they disappear?

[Anonymous No.18320070]

Not a question but can we please note this absolute seething by Gardner after getting banned so many times.
Will mods ever stop him from having banner ads?