>>61496
The word sadism was named after him if it gives you any clue. Interestingly 1000 days in sodom is really interesting as a book about how fetishes develop.

>>61496
I only read Philosophyy in the bedroom. A really interesting book, you have scenes with sadism, orgies, pedophilia (sort of) followed by a 20pages long philosophical argumentation supporting immorality. The ending was really really nasty. Even by today's internet standard.

About his incarceration: I think it wasn't the fact that he did all those things that put him in jail, but the fact the he wrote about them and pointed them out. Think about it like it was Kant's metaphysics of moral counterpart, all that morality must have had a dark side.

no lolita?

I started reading 120 days of sodom, but lost interest at the gay pedo orgies.

Dvärgen (Dwarf) by Pär Lagerkvist

>>61582
Ha! Don Quixote was just a story about a silly fool. While I enjoyed the book more than Cervantes himself, anyone who tells you it has deeper meaning is a fraud.
never read anatomy of melancholy
nb

check out Mortimer Adler's "How to read a book"
also you can listen to this two part audio podcast (although the 2nd clip may be more relevant to you listen to both because they play off each other, and they're only 1.5 hrs each)
Part one
http://www.triviumeducation.com/interviews/how-to-read-a-book-an-intro-to-liberal-learning-v1-1-by-jarett-sanchez-2/
Part 2
http://www.triviumeducation.com/trivium/how-to-read-a-book-an-intro-to-liberal-learning-v1-2-by-jarett-sanchez/

Don't just read other people's criticisms because then you aren't really getting anything out of the book besides what someone else has gotten out of it. Think critically and draw out your own interpretations based on what you see the author arguing or defining or referencing

>>61589
Thanks for the links! I might be able to tackle Thomas Mann after I get through with them.

This will help you OP
Analysis

Anal
ysis

Ysis=Isis Isis= Vagina

As we can plainly see through the etymology, Analysis boils down to being an
Anal Vagina and no one wants to be an Anal Vagina.

>>61593
I'd also suggest starting with things that have very clearly defined themes and taking note of how they argue things, then applying similar logic to other, more complex books.

>Looking Backward - communism is good
>Uncle Tom's Cabin - slavery is bad
>To Kill a Mockingbird - don't hate jolly zimbabwean americans.
>Esparanza Rising - jolly mexican americans need jobs.

>>61504

>When you're having troubles finding inspiration for writing, what do you do?

I write. That's it. You can't just sit around and then suddenly go "IDEA!!" you gotta actually sit down and write shit. Writing just puts you in that frame of mind, so if you just sit at a blank notepad and start jotting down any ideas that come to you, you get your "creative juices" flowing, so to speak.

Or you could try doing research on the material you're writing about.

>>61513

>Or you could try doing research on the material you're writing about.

Seriously, this. If the shit my brother tells me about the EVE/ Dust 514 universe are true, there's PLENTY of lore for you to brush up on. Do that first before you even consider writing a fan fic about it unless you want everyone who knows anything about the universe to hate you. Plus, when you have a good idea of the lore, you'll have a better idea of what is/isn't plausible in the universe, and you can weed out the shitty ideas more easily.

>>61515
Or just play the game for inspiration. That should totally work.

I just read about Philip K. Dick writing books using the I-Ching. Tarot cards would also work.

>>61569
T S Eliot used tarot cards.

>>61551

>Amazon book thread.

I love these portable readers. They're awesome. I have "Russian", "Chekhov", and "Thoreau".

>>61507
Well they're not quite self-help books, but I highly recommend both of Stephen Fry's biographies, "Moab is My Washpot" and "The Fry Chronicles."

>>61516
RIPPING

>>61507
Every good book is self-help. What classics have you been skipping? All of them I'd wager. Get to them.

Liber AL vel Legis, sub figura CCXX, as delivered by XCIII=418 to DCLXVI
Moby Dick
Fear and Trembling
Bridget Jones's Diary
Naked Lunch

>>61507
I would suggest you don't go after "self help" books per se but more like layman's guides to applied psychology. Like, I read a book a while ago about advancing yourself in the workplace and it talked about having a strong command of language, using person first language (This is Sarah, my girlfriend. vs This is my girlfriend, Sarah.) and just avoiding a bunch of things that I'd noticed could subtly piss some people off.

>>61507

books older than 80 years old are usually available free on the kindle, or at least they were when i had a kindle 3 years ago. i suggest you explore the classics of literature

The only thing that I found that came somewhat close to it was this

http://www.justthinktwice.com/truestories/ian_james_eaccarino.html

Look up the old 3-panel comic of Clark Kent deciding to experiment with a joint

>>61403
Screw you, I'm high and now I can't stop laughing

DICKS EVERYWHERE

>that OP pic

Oh god I feel so bad about myself now

Fuck.

Thanks to that pic now I have to write.

nb

I like it, it manages to be emotive despite the ridiculous subject matter. My one criticism would be that it's quite a staccato style with a lot of short sentences. I think it suits the piece in this case but it can easily be overdone and ruin the flow.

Also thanks for the pic, it's oddly inspirational.

>>61546
Thank you! I'll have to watch out for that.
If you post something, I'll be happy to give my thoughts on it. Everyone needs a writing group

>>61508
this. the amount of fucking mushrooms

>>61517
Imagine what it must have been like to be Dennis at the time. He was tripping so hard for what was it, weeks? I wonder why didn't Terence think he may need medica l attention?

The Yage Letters is about Allen Ginsberg trying to find ayahuasca in the Amazon.

>>61506
This. Just finished reading it. It is so fast paced it took me like four days to read through the whole thing and hardly even felt the chapters. Also, the ending is so disturbingly good I couldn't sleep the night i finished it.

>>61508
True Hallucinations is on killthebook .org for download.

>>61420
>>61421

Gentlemen.... We've just come up with a masterpiece.

I just scored Hesse's Steppenwolf, Faulkner's As I Lay Dying (with the first ten pages missing, ugh), a pocket-sized Great Essays in Science from the '50s edited by Martin Gardner and featuring work by a bunch of back-in-the-day heavy hitters, Ellen J. Langer's Mindfulness, Woo Myung's Stop Living in This Land, Go to the Everlasting World of Happiness, Live There Forever, the last two Hitchhiker's books (which I found disappointing, but I know someone who might like them), and maybe one or two others I can't recall right now. And a book from the 1960s on computer chess – I'm not exactly sure why, other than that it was free.

Picked these up the a few days ago. About done with American Gods, its entertaining but not incredible by any means. Probably going to read Naked Lunch next. What should I go to after?

>>61489
Catch-22 or White Noise.

A few books on basic electronics (one or two by McGraw Hill or somethin), Principles of Electron Tubes. An 'encyclopedia' or two on electronic projects.

My buddy saw an old briefcase on the side of the street when heading home, first saw a few electronics magazines, then opened it up to find the cache of books. Briefcase isn't bad either.

nobody ever mentions Iain banks culture cycle. want to read some really creative space opera? knock yourself out!

also pro tip: strugatzki brothers. Russian sci fi at its best. but beware: can be highly depressive.

also check out Dan Simmons Hyperion. a true mindbender.

nuff said.

Are there any hard sci fi surreal type books.Like the sort of shit Philip k dick comes out with.

>>61471
I downloaded a book from the culture series and was really dissappointed. It w as recommended to me by an anarchist who was totally overrating the quality

>>60963

>Rx by Robert Brockway

can't find this anywhere!
got a link? especially in audioform would be appreciated.

>>61511
Don't know about audiobook format, but http://mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?t=415344 has it in .epub and .mobi format. I bought it, though, so I can't recommend a particular link.