Reading a Storm of Swords now, just waiting and hoping Joffrey gets owned soon
thatâs not at all what it was. take for instance aristotle, he didnt write a novel masking it as an essay on his opinions on metaphysics. he just wrote about it. you can even go back to good authors of the era you are referring to who didnt write in a similar way to Dostoevsky.
additionally, serious literary âmastersâ dont use the social media venues you listed to make a point/express opinions. you dont see people like cormac mccarthy and geoffrey hill blog and facebook their beliefs. itâs still primarily through writingâŚbooks.
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anyone check out http://www.gutenberg.org ?
Basically a collection of classic ebooks (classic = public domain = free!). Iâve been using it the past couple of weeks. Anyone have any classic recommendations?
I like Project Gutenberg, but I can usually find better pdf versions elsewhere. I honestly canât take the site seriously anymore after I downloaded their âThe Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopherâ by Aristotle (exactly how itâs listed there to this day), only to find out, after some suspiciously Christian sounding references and then finally a John the Baptist reference, that itâs not actually by Aristotle. I couldnât believe it.
Speaking of websites, the Online Library of Liberty has some good stuff. Founding fathers collected writings/letters, Lincoln, Grant, Edward Gibbon, Locke, all kinds of stuff.
^You can find many Ancient Chinese texts here, recommend a lot of the philosophical(Confucian, Daoist, etc) stuff, but just be prepared to have the shit confused out of you if you get into the Daoist stuff
I only recently just started reading books. Does that sound weird? Up until a few months ago I had almost zero interest in reading ârealâ books. The only book I ever read for pleasure and completed was The Hitchikerâs Guide Omnibus. Then one day I was trying to sleep. I got to thinking about all the characters and stories I imagined through the years, and it dawned on me that I want to be a novelist. I would always think up characters and stories and just leave them as my imagination. From then on Iâve been reading a lot. Now, I canât imagine not reading.
Completed
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
The Giver
Crying Wolf
Horns
His Dark Materials
-The Golden Compass
-The Subtle Knife
-The Amber Skyglass
Ender
-Enderâs Game
-Speaker tor the Dead
-Xenocide
-Children of the Mind
-Enderâs Shadow
-Shadow of the Hegemon
-Shadow Puppets
-Shadow of the Giant
-Shadows in Flight
Sabriel
Hitchhikerâs Guide Omnibus
Sirantha Jax
-Grimspace
-Wanderlust
-Doubleblind
A Certain Magical Index
-vol 1-22, New Testament 1-4
The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi
-vol 1-11
On hold
Blade In The Snow
Settling Accounts:Return Engagement
Shadow and Betrayal
Lolita
Don Quixote
The Blade Itself
SEED
Ghosts of Manhattan
John Carter of Mars
The Chronicles of Narnia
Crime and Punishment
Dark Tower vol 1
Under The Dome
Dune
Excession
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Fate/Zero
To read
A Wrinkle in Time
I Am The Cheese
Catcher in the Rye
The White Plague
Magician:Apprentice
Ghosts of War
Shadow and Claw
Neverwhere
Zoo
The War of the Worlds
Pride and Prejudice
Artemis Fowl:The Lat Guardian
Stormdancer
Earth Unaware
Reading
Killbox(Sirantha Jax vol 4)
I love me some Enderâs Game. I especially enjoy the books that follow Ender as an adult. I canât wait for Shadows Alive since it is what I was hoping Shadows in Flight would be.
Hey, I talked to you at Civil War 3. I bought your book and Iâm enjoying it so far. Umm⌠you wouldnât happen to have any illustrations of Maria/Mariya, would you?
Currently reading Self Made Me, by Geoff Burch. I have to say, if you wanted to be self employed, but needed guidance and advice, heâs your man. The book is highly informative.
Good luck with that.
:shake:
Blue ball comes slowly.
I read that book in college, and there is a monologue that just goes on for hundreds of pages. It was easily the least enjoyable thing I have ever read, and I have no idea why Ayn Rand is considered an important author. I have never been less interested in the characters, cared less about what is happening to them, or really felt so indifferent to the characters in a story. I think my issue is that she beats you over the head with her ideas instead of subtly convincing you of what she believes. By the end of her book I was so tired of hearing of her position I just wanted the book to end. I think that is one reason I hated the Sword of Truth Series by the end, because Terry Goodkind has a hard on for Ayn Rand, because he tried so hard to make the Sword of Truth to be similar to Atlas Shrugged. Seriously, having skepticism about religion/Gods/good and evil becomes down right silly when you meet the devil of your universe face to face.
One of my philosophy professors pretty much destroyed her philisophy in like 5 minutes.
He broke it down like this
Ayn Randâs philosophy states that you should always do what is best for yourself, in your best interests.
His point was that if more then one person does that, which is all the fucking time, then at best there is a stalemate and nothing is advanced, at worst is conflict.
To go further I asked him if you fed homeless people garbage instead of your own food if it would be bad under the tenets of Ayn Randâs philosophy, and he exclaimed it wasnât under her tenets.
Worst philosopher of all time.
The Astral World is incredibly interesting.
Itâs really a baffling concept Panchadasi presents, and the way he describes it is equally interesting. He tries to suggest that all existence is is basically an arrangement of different levels of vibrations in matter, and that we as humans have the inner ability to project ourselves onto this separate plane of existence and move about it freely. All the while, still being connected to our physical body. He also stresses that this is something that ANYone can accomplish, with the right kind of teaching.
the white hotel. I said it before, and Iâll say it again. Itâs the most memorable book Iâve ever read.
I donât believe in it as it stands, but maybe with technology in the future these things could be possible.
Iâm not sure sure I believe it is real myself, however I havenât finished the book yet. I donât want to make any judgments like that until I have.
I used to love reading the Artemis Fowl books as a kid. Good times. 
At the end of the book, does the authorâs astral projection enter your room and talk to you? Because if not, I think I can make a pretty damn good judgment about that book without reading it.
Thereâs no need to be a dick. Itâs just an interesting damn book is all, if it sounds stupid to you then try your best to avoid reading it I guess.
Iâve projected myself before. Straight into some vagina. Ainât nothing to it 
Currently reading Letters from Earth, from Mark Twain. This book is just :o
Yeah that book is all kinds of wonderful, especially the part where Satan talks about the human concept of heaven.
Twainâs Diaries of Adam and Eve makes a nice companion read to Letters,assuming you havenât already read that. Itâs less vitriolic than Letters from Earth, but I think the sarcasm is even funnier.
Starting on Still Me by Christopher Reeve.
Blood Meridian is totally fucked up. In a âgoodâ way, because itâs definitely a powerful book, but damn⌠itâs fucked up.