/lit/ - Literature

gen.lib.rus.ec has some mobi books.

>>15188

booksee.org has some stuff also, worth a search if you can't find shit elsewhere. Oftentimes the download speed is shit, though, and additionally the selection isn't huge.

I always use the IRC method for downloading books, you can usually get a book in every format.

>Download IRC client (I use Hexchat) and make sure its set up for receiving files

>Connect to IRCHighway for the server, the channel is 'ebooks'

>use the @search function to find your book. also works searching for an author. Search results will come in a .txt with full format etc information

>copy the entire entry for the download you want in the search results and paste it into the channel

>????

>Profit

You could always use Calibre to convert stuff like epubs into mobi. That's what I've been doing.

>>15194

Are such queries visible to everybody when you post them in the channel? I haven't used IRC for like 20 years for file-sharing so I forgot how it works.

>>15097

Given his lifestyle? Yes.

Didn't he constantly ask friends from money?

Didn't he go to a the funeral for his best friends father to ask for more money?

Didn't both his daughters commit suicide?

Wasn't he a terrible father, husband and friend by any metric?

Is there anything good he brought to the table that wasn't just ripped off of Hegel?

>>15097

Yes. There are plenty of anecdotes about Marx being an asshole in an entertaining book about him by Francis Wheen, which was well-received (I mean the general public, not Marxists).

>>15102

>He was radicalized after his foray into Hegelian dialectic

No. Hegel wasn't specifically left-wing per se, that's why the term Linkshegelianer exists (links=left), denoting a faction of Hegelians, not Hegel thought as a whole. And those guys were not the most radical thing either, just atheists writing stuff. Marx started out as a journalist in Prussia, writing from a rather reformist perspective. The government crackdown on the newspaper and other reformists lead to his radicalizing. It was the slaughter of the Paris Commune and his direct experience of having the state on his ass that made him cynical and extremist, not Hegel.

>>15190

>bad mathematical skills and lack of logical thinking

I don't think Marx getting gud at math would have changed anything about his world view and polemics.

>>15224

The stuff he ripped from Ricardo and gave a polemical spin to.

>>15247

You overused "Polemics" too much even though it was the correct term. C-, see me after class.

>>15248

Would underusing it too much be better?

>unrelated does anyone read on LSD?

I ask because although I have not and I am an.. experienced/frequent tripper for lack of a better term, I recently picked up and looked at a few pages during the tail end of a trip and I was frankly mesmerized by the crisp letters against the faded pages. It made a simple fantasy book seem like some sort of tome of ancient truths. Didn't get to reading however as I was quite tired.

All degenerates must die

Depends entirely on the book. Generalizing everything is reddit.

>>15206

Nice in joke. Unfortunately for you clever in jokes are now Reddit.

>>15207

There is no in joke. Thinking there are in jokes is reddit.

>>15039

>>>/reddit/

>>>/brainlet/

>>>/cuckchan/

>>>/brownpill/

>>14665

why do people whine about this so much? Like, is it that hard to just skip the intro and just read the story?

>>15195

>Like,

>>>/reddit/

>>>/facebook/

>>>/cuckchan/

>>>/gaschamber/

>>14981

>Unless you're reading something from BCE

Those can be shit too. I remember reading an intro to one of Aristotle's work, where the editor wrote at length at how enlightened we now are that we know there are no superior or inferior caste or races of men, and that women are equal to men, and that we've always been the one human race.

>>15197

He's still got a point. you don't have to read an introduction if you're not interested in it.

>>14931

It's weird though. I thought Garnett did just fine with The Idiot and The Posessed, how did her Brothers K turn out so awful?

>>15030

He got tired?

Amazing book anon there's a reason it's taught all over the world

Are you too retarded to see the psychological insights and themes playing out with the characters? How far are you? Garnett translation is great

>>15115

Just off the top of my head one major gripe I had with Garnett's Brothers K is that it completely fucking leaves out Lizaveta's nickname Smirnatchaya. It doesn't even replace it with "stinking". The play on words used to construct Smirnakov's name is therefore completely lost on the reader, as is the significance of any time the characters describe him as "stinking".

>>15116

Ah thats fair. I didnt know Liza's last name but I read this for a uni course and my professor explained the "stinking" Smernakov. I would have thought that would be something included as a footnote.

>>12532

if you're asking for an advice on an imageboard, you shouldn't be writing anything

>>14143

Hmmmm. I can only suggest that when you make her die, you have to give clues that something bad has happened. Like lets say he wakes up and hears on the news that a fire went off in a building. Then he texts her and gets no response but hes at work and knows its busy for both of them so he doesn't take it personally and continues with his work. He meets at the restaurant but she still hasn't arrived so he goes to her place and discovers their is a candle light vigil for her cause she died in the fire. The real kicker could be that as he is mopping around the streets, he bumps into a stranger who tells him to get a hold of himself, sort of symbolizing that the world continues if you lose something.

The white Plague talks about a dude who goes nuts after his wife and daughters dies and creates a virus to kill all women. That might help you when he goes crazy.

>>12532

I've circumvented this problem by only writing about dysfunctional infatuations that never come to fruition. Write what you know and all that.

>>14975

not him but if you don't create valuable writing and instead mock and satirize """tropes""", you don't have soulful writing tbqh

>>15086

Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky

>>15086

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago. Read the one volume abridged version if you don't have time to read the three volumes.

>>15092

Sounds interesting, especially the time period but I'm not sure if I'll like the format of 'letter exchange'. Might take a closer look.

>>15095

I've been wanting to read and learn a bit more about the horrors of communism, this might be a good one as well.

I will probably not have time to read three volumes, we have about a month of reading time in front of us.

>>15092

Thanks again for the recommendation, I eventually decided on this book as The Loser's was not translated to my language (which was a must for the assignment) and the The Gulag Archipelago did not have its abridged version translated.

I would probably not have chosen Poor Folk otherwise since I'm generally not a fan of romance and the 'letter exchange' used to tell the story didn't really appeal to me.

But I'm happy that I in the end did choose this book, I really enjoyed it and I think it opened my eyes to different kinds of literature than I've previously read.

I'll probably read The Gulag Archipelago unabridged at some point simply because the subject interests me.

>>15111

>politically illiterate American don't know what communism is

sage

also Solzhenitsyn is a big fat liar and a meme of 80s USSR. If you want to know about live in Stalin's GULAGs go read Varlam Shalamov https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varlam_Shalamov

>>14998

OP, make your religion(s) for the universe in full detail. Then write your story in that universe. The characters' actions should show their beliefs. No monologue or exposition should be needed except rarely and briefly.

>>15117

I've already changed all the names. The story and universe deviates so heavily that it's more like an inspiration at this point.

>>15148

What I've presented is pretty much the only exposition I (currently) plan to shove in the readers face so plainly.

I still need to work on fleshing out the deeper lore and mythos but my idea as I mentioned in a previous post is that the gods and religion people in my universe follow (there aren't different religions, only different interpretations of the same) is in actuality, false.

Many thousands of years ago three brothers managed to attain immortality and with it the time required to delve ever deeper into their study of the arcane. Eventually they individually became strong enough to single handedly overthrow whole kingdoms, and so they did. After many years their subjects eventually started to look up at them as almost god-like beings since they never aged and wielded awe-inspiring magick.

Then one of the brothers decided to abuse this and wrote a creation mythos of his own, with himself as the one true god. The brothers were split up and ruled a third of the world as their own kingdom, in order to not lose their footing and have people start worshipping their other brother, the other two created their own works of fiction which also they portrayed them as creators of the known universe.

My story taking place many thousands of years in the future with the three brothers having vanished (still not sure regarding the details, might just leave it vague) people have twisted and changed the stories so many times that nothing of the truth or even original fictitious stories remain. And so many different types of sects, faiths and beliefs have sprouted, but they all base it on the same three brothers. There aren't really any 'none-believers', at most some might feel apathetic towards the stories of gods.

I don't plan to have an atheistic tips fedora storyline, I'll leave the acPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>14998

>The core idea is that the two brother's conflict is what keeps this universe together

Are you writing a fan fiction for Lost?

>>15158

>Are you writing a fan fiction for Lost?

It's loosely based on the universe from the games of Gothic but it on its own is very threadbare and they've even retconned things in the sequels.

But the thing you quoted is essentially the core of it, except that there's also a third brother that acts as the keeper of balance between the two. In the games it's heavily implied that the gods are actual gods but like I talked about in a few posts (like the one above your reply) this is not the route I wish to take with my universe.

In the end I've decided that what I'm writing is completely my own and instead to only draw from their universe as an inspiration rather than force myself to write within their limitations. I simply enjoy the core concepts of their fictitious religion.

>>15129

You probably need a break from reading. Do something else for a change.

You probably need a break from computers

>>15131

>>15131

Good to see you migrate here

Quality is still shit but it's at least marginally better when actual discussion is being had

it's most likely the book

with books I hate I read 4-6 pages an hour and only "read" them for an hour or two. with books I love I read them almost 14 hours a day

either that or porn and video games have fried your brain and you've become addicted to quick dopamine surges

>>15129

plebe npc

>>15085

I read so I can circlejerk and be called a good or bad goy by my learned fellows over at >>>/reddit/.

Without being told what to think, I wouldn't survive. Please upvote and comment below!

Yeah, I don't think you're gonna find what you're looking for.

>>15075

The best you can do is to find a collective of literary academics (preferably centrists so you don't just read a goddamn manifesto with every essay) and read their say on the subject. Sadly, you won't find them congregating outside of academia. There used to be a time when respected critics like Orwell would publish their tome-like analysis too but that era has all but disappeared from the scene.

I dunno, man. I don't think you'll find what you're looking for now but if you do, give us a heads up.

>>15082

this

the chad neoplatonic mystic who draws from the wellspring of the heavenly spheres

vs

the virgin vicarious analysis-reading sheep

>>15085

upboat based fellow redittor!

He wants you to steal it, not pirate it.

>Reading holocaustianity

>>15109

You're calling us faggots? Why exactly? Give me a good reason. Your reading comprehensions skills are very poor btw. You are the worst anon I've ever encountered outside of wizchan.

>>15113

>You're calling us faggots? Why exactly?

<faggot has cock embedded so far into all of his orifices, he's lost all capacity for reason

It doesn't take a rocket scientist, you fucking dipshit, to recognize homosexual tendencies, and you and all the cocksuckers in this thread have them in spades. Why haven't you killed yourself yet? Is this thread, and the hope that someone may return to interact with you, the only thing keeping you going? Might I suggest that you go down to your local automotive supply store, purchase as much antifreeze you can possibly afford, then return home and blend that shit into a nice and frothy suicide smoothie?

A Canadian anon forgot the name of a book he read in high school. All he knows is that it was some taxi driving guy who complained about how he had no friends even though he would go drinking with them and all, and would get cards and gifts in an anonymous way.