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 No.14411 [Open thread]>>14446 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

I've searched far and wide for some piece of literature to truly unsettle me and I haven't found it yet, but I'm still searching. Anybody know of any good horror authors/novels? Specifically any that have really unnerved you personally?

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 No.14446>>14492

>>14411 (OP)

Poe's "Pit and the Pendulum". I'm claustrophobic so that got me good.

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 No.14492

>>14446

I'm not entirely claustrophobic but The Beast in the Cave made me feel that way.

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 No.17159

interesting

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 No.17160

It is interesting

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 No.17161

One author who evokes a true sense of anxiety and despair is Howard Lovecraft. His books, such as "The Ridges of Madness" and "The Call of Cthulhu", immerse the reader in a universe of boundless horror and hopelessness. Also recently I read lifelong learning essay its role for soldiers, used https://samplius.com/free-essay-examples/lifelong-learning-essay-its-role-for-soldiers/ for that. In a sense, war is horror. Stephen King's novel "It" can also cause a deep shock. With its violence and chilling imagery, this novel is guaranteed to leave you in a panic. But remember that the power of literature lies in its ability to emotionally influence, so be prepared for an amazing experience!

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 No.16230 [Open thread]>>16244 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

People are reading "The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit"

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 No.16234>>16243

It's kind of surreal seeing E Michael Jones getting so popular. I always figured his appeal was limited to a small handful of old school Catholics.

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 No.16243

>>16234

The current generation is desperate for a father figure.

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 No.16244

>>16230 (OP)

Has anyone here read it?

Is it accurate?

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 No.17157

wow

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 No.17158

I personally don't like these books. They seem pretty boring to me. I recently discovered hamlet, found https://supremestudy.com/essay-examples/hamlet/ for this. I was so immersed in the story of the author that I just could not tear myself away. This rarely happens to me. Now I'm looking for something new, but so far it's not something that I like.

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 No.17149 [Open thread][Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

There's this book, and its driving me insane that I cant find it. I can't even recall the name, except that it involved perhaps 8-10 dimensions.

From what I can recall, it was written by a younger man, but the book itself was incredibly complex and complicated. The cover was somewhat colorful and had at least a couple spheres/circles on it.

I've been looking for this book for years, and each time it's escaped my mental grasp. It's the only book I've ever truly wanted to read for its own sake, and I'm going to go insane if I don't find it soon.

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 No.17148 [Open thread][Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

There's this book, and its driving me insane that I cant find it. I can't even recall the name, except that it involved perhaps 8-10 dimensions.

From what I can recall, it was written by a younger man, but the book itself was incredibly complex and complicated. The cover was somewhat colorful and had at least a couple spheres/circles on it.

I've been looking for this book for years, and each time it's escaped my mental grasp. It's the only book I've ever truly wanted to read for its own sake, and I'm going to go insane if I don't find it soon.

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 No.13773 [Open thread]>>15385 >>15388 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

Are speed reading techniques legit or a waste of time/money?

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 No.15385

>>13773 (OP)

Why would you pay to read faster? Isn't the whole point of reading as a hobby to enjoy it fully? It's like speedwanking? Yes, you can teach yourself to read, but that's easy and not worth paying hard earned money for it. Also, some people are just autistic like that whereas others take their time. I don't really believe you can rewire your brain to think differently if you're just paying somebody for it. Sure, you can get better through practice but if it goes against your grain, it's going to get you forgetting and that's kind of missing the point.

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 No.15388

>>13773 (OP)

I remember my teachers either reading in diagonal or only the beginning or the end.

Speed reading is dumb, unless you want to seem smart because you read lots of books.

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 No.15569

>>15226

>listen to someone talk

>only pick up keywords since they use a lot of filler words

>any time a concept is interesting, converse internally to fully understand the concept

>playing out situations, dialogue, and finding previous concepts to build upon this one/that this one builds upon

>whoops, it's been 3 minutes since I heard a word they said

Am I eternally damned to never benefiting from audiobooks?

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 No.15580

They are legit but it also depends on what you read.

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 No.17139

Speed reading can be helpful, but they are not always reasonable. I learned these techniques in college, hoping they would make studying literature easier for me as an English major. However, I often missed important details and nuances in the texts I read, ultimately hindering my understanding and assignment performance. I was fortunate to have discovered https://studymoose.com/literature which provided me with in-depth analysis and summaries of the works I was studying. StudyMoose allowed me to comprehend the material more thoroughly and perform better on assignments than relying on my speed reading abilities. While I still believe that speed reading techniques can benefit specific contexts, it is essential to recognize their limitations and understand when it is more appropriate to focus on in-depth analysis and comprehension.

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 No.14917 [Open thread][Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

Realized that I'm not interested in business and I'll just fail my classes if I continue that route, so I'm going english, which I enjoy. I read a lot of smaller things like articles, poetry, and press releases. However I enjoy reporting and romance novels and other things. I'm not into retarded philosophy because its for incels and numales. I know english degrees suck for job prospects but I plan on moving to asia and being a teacher anyways and living extremely frugally in public housing. Thoughts?

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 No.16672

>>16651

>relegated to the world of landed gentry

It'll be coming back soon so I'm feeling ahead of the curve

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>what am I in for?

Debt

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 No.17132

Interesting how his life going now

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 No.17133

I think he's doing great, I hope so

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 No.17134

I hope so because I remember my university time when I realized all I learned isn't what I wanted. I decided to change the faculty and it was so hard way for me. I needed to end the year and haven't time for all this preparing stuff. Fortunately, such sources as this one https://eduzaurus.com/free-essay-samples/cosmetology-and-a-career-as-a-cosmetologist-pros-and-cons/ exists, and it helped me a lot to keep balance and succeed in the end. Such decisions are one of the hardest, but it's better than staying on faculty/job/in a family which you hate.

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 No.16667 [Open thread]>>16958 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

And then they wonder why most students never read a single book the rest of their entire lives after getting out of school.

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 No.16956

>>16955

Also, just the difference between reading for pleasure and reading to gain something. Even if what is gained is the willpower and patience to slow your mind down enough to let let something like Glass Bead Game or Magic Mountain pass through it. Internet addiciton makes that much harder for kids today…

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 No.16957

>>16678

He writes fantasy which is considered low brow literature marketed specifically for kids, so of course he’s right, kids are going to prefer his work over ‘classics’

Like certain genres of music require you live a little before you can appreciate it, so does certain works of literature

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 No.16958

>>16667 (OP)

Wat are all those namedrops in second-to-last tweet?

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 No.17130

Oh I’m happy someone said it. My literature teacher was annoying and after the school I didn’t take a book in my hands for 5 years

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 No.17131

I agree with you guys. My teacher was mentally ill and I even don't shame her now, I'm confident in it. I hated to visit her lessons, always skipped them, and did my homework thanks to materials on this page https://writingbros.com/essay-examples/fahrenheit-451/ , because even small contact with literature made me mad and anxious. Then I joined the university and took a book in my hands (if we talk about non-educational related books) only after a few years. It unfortunates me a lot…

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 No.15901 [Open thread]>>16708 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

So i'm a total newcomer to /lit/ and i want to to start reading by beginning with Crime and punishment by Dostoevsky because it's a strong recommendation by Jordan Peterson, i'm interested in psychology and philosophy but most importantly i want to read something at night that isn't harry potter.

Now my question is, is crime and punishment a good entry lever book for beginners?

As to my reading career, i really wasn't that big of a reader throughout my childhood as i spent most of my time on vidyu , i've only read the first two Hp books when i was like 12 and a few dutch books

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My mom is Russian and she's a quite literary person who mostly read alot history books about the slavic culture and origin, she even used to write her poems a and also read me Germanic and Slavic tales before bedtime when i was a child.

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 No.16706

>>15925

Literature, published writing, and their readerbase is full of eloquent idiots.

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 No.16708

>>15901 (OP)

Lel, my first Dostoevsky was the Brothers Karamazov, off a reccommendation by Brother Nathanael some 7 years ago when I was in high school. I suspect now that I missed some of the "deeper" elements, but purely as a story it was perfectly comprehensible and enjoyable. Crime and Punishment is a lot like the Brothers K but shorter and easier to read. Go for it. Don't worry about over-analyzing it for "symbols" or "deeper meanings" like Juden Penison would do; just focus on comprehending and enjoying the story. Insights into the "meaning" may come to you naturally as you think about the story after you've finished reading it. Once you start reading serious literature, e-celebs like Peterstein won't seem so smart to you anymore; you won't regret getting into it.

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 No.17047

I think, your occupation can be considered a full-fledged career, but the main thing is that it brings not only pleasure but also income. In career matters, I'm grateful for any advice that might help. Now I'm just starting my career, and I'm considering options for a job. I decided to start by writing a high-quality resume because success in employment depends on it. This is a source that helped me with this https://uk.careersbooster.com/cv-editing/ It made to highlight my strengths and look more professional in the eyes of the employer.

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 No.17128

It's quite an interesting and extremely complex piece of work, if you ask me.

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 No.17129

I don't think that as a first book it will do. I went through it in college and it was hard to understand everything, in addition, when I did research on it I tried to check for plagiarism more often at https://fixgerald.com/ because I took a lot of things from the book itself. It's a great work, but I think you have to read it more than once.

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 No.16524 [Open thread]>>17126 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

Books on love? Literally anything and everything relating to it. I'm starting The Sorrows of Young Werther tomorrow for context.

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 No.17126

>>16524 (OP)

You may read some poetry. Rilke's come to mind.

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 No.17121 [Open thread][Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

Profit Business Portal</a> Profitbusinessportal is one of the best platform to share news and information about Business, Finance, Transaction and Technics Entertainment.

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 No.16113 [Open thread][Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

Any good book recommendations?

Politics, philosophy, science (specifically space), and religion.

Thanks.

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 No.16114

Bump

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 No.16115

No harm in asking; however, open ended general request threads tend to go nowhere.

There are a variety of /lit/ image-board mosaics detailing various topics and genera for suggestions. The best we have here is "the last book you read" threads, which invite people to state why they found a given book worth pursuing.

Still, I'll throw a few out there.

1. Politics:

How to Stop a War: The Lessons of Two Hundred Years of War and Peace by James F. Dunnigan. Conflict is always a popular political topic. The nature of conflict resolution less so, but no less full of geeky, fun detail.

Cracks in the Constitution by Ferdinand Lundberg. Enlightening survey against common misconceptions about the attributes, scope, and history of the American constitution.

The Washington Pay-off by Robert N. Winter-Berger. Somewhat dated as an expose of how things get done behind the headlines. The technical details of lobbying differ today, but the general system as Winter-Berger describes it remains in full force.

>>>/pdfs/ for suggestions, obviously.

2. Philosophy:

I have a 1960s era general guide to various philosophers. The title escapes me at the moment. For more modern philosophy, online resources are sufficient. Anyway, the idea here is you'll go farther, faster with solid professional/academic guides. Hardcore types don't bother asking, they go right to the source. See >>>/philosophy/ for a few suggestions.

3. Science (specifically space):

Megastructures: Science and Speculation by Paul Lucas. Although, this comes at you from the idea of writing SciFi.

In that regard, pretty much any modern hard SciFi role playing game.

The Orion's Arm website.

There are some interesting (if dated) general guides by Feynman, Asimov, etc. You'd do better by asking the respective boards for whaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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 No.17117

The Analects

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 No.17118

I would recommend a whole list of books to you, but I see no reason to do this. I chose a couple of the best of those that I read. For example Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah. The best of 2022 for me. I also started reading about biography, I use https://happyessays.com/free-essays/biography/ for that. I can refer Anna: The Biography by Amy Odell to such topics. I also read about all the famous people. really learned a lot and took it out for myself. Many people do not find time for this, but you just need to properly distribute your time for the day. I also encountered this, with the right schedule - there will always be time for a book.

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 No.15428 [Open thread]>>15596 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

Ty in advance

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 No.15433

Fuck yeah it is, Straight up just mixes kim kardashian with kierkegaard. Honestly i need this book. He's got twitter aswell where he posts some quotes but thats about it

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>>15428 (OP)

well done. I got sucked in thinking this was something r…-

why is this an actual book?

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 No.15619

>>15596

That cartoon blows

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 No.17112

I don't know

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 No.17113

I don't know why you need this particular book. if you like reading this kind of stuff, it's very strange. In any case, google will help you. I recently found an essay grader, used https://edubirdie.com/essay-grader for this. You can find everything, you just have to want to. You just waste your time here, it's easier to find it yourself.

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 No.17111 [Open thread][Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

Stop using this garbage site, friends, and come bookpost with us

https://8 chan.moe/lit/ (REMOVE THE SPACE)

Board creation is available, they can also transfer the entirety of the board (pictures/replies) on their servers.

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 No.17057 [Open thread]>>17070 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

George is a lazy hack writer with no new ideas.

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 No.17070

>>17057 (OP)

In relation to the new books that are outside of the SOIAF or just in general.

He is lazy alright. How long do we have to wait for WoW…

Money and fame has gone to his head.

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 No.17110

I can't believe what you wrote, it's nonsense. If you call him that, then you should understand who this person is! I just recently wrote autobiography essays, he used https://studymoose.com/essay-types/autobiography-essays for this. What is the book Game of Thrones worth! This is a world book and a series that has beaten all the ratings. He's definitely not lazy.

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 No.17074 [Open thread][Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

        論語

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        荘子

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        老子

Zhuang Zi is like Helter Skelter

Lets read 史記 by Sima Qian

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 No.17109

What does analects mean?

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