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[–]Chipit 10 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Why would it have to be? Jeez this isn't reddit, people.

[–]hennaojichan 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

I hope recent refugees from reddit will just stop thinking and WRITING about that horrible site. Let it go.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Can I still discuss books I enjoyed from my childhood and adolescent years that I've recently re-read? I'm not a fan of Harry Potter but definitely keen on other classics like Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, The Face on the Milk Carton, Eragon, etc.

[–]Chipit 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Do whatever you want and don't listen to this whiny bitch.

[–]EleanorofAquitaine 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I had forgotten about "The Face on the Milk Carton", thanks for reminding me! I remember how much my class loved it and how freaky it was.

[–]Fictionsaur 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I do hope it doesn't become filled with HP (although, some few posts about it is fine). If we could share more books here, that'd really help.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Don't worry about me in this: I seldomly post belletristic stuff (only if i believe it is really beautiful) and i hate reading recensions on subject-specific books (or even discussing them: What kind of garbage is that ? ) that i regard as important.

The real golden ones (for me at least) , are the small books that funnily explain a lot of things to a lot of different character types and ages (when they don't fucked up the translations...) without using or defining too much technical termini in this process. Like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince

Criticizing (NOT hating) a book or trying to make it illegal or inaccessible is a waste of energy. This is a concept of mine (<- Erich Kästner or Fahrenheit )

Harry Potter (all the meta-levels in these books are pure boredom for me, just try finally disciplined enough to jump through the big LOTR-hoop! ) and 50 Shades of Gray (LIVE IT for fucks sake if you both like it, instead of just reading about it! AND : Ever heard of Bacchus and all his Denises ? All the sheep "women" reading this bs are just uncreative karens for me, literally, because de Sade is my real king in this discipline, sadly it isn't my cup of tea) are pure bullshit to me. I am way ahead in a timely sense of this. And i decide in 50 pages, if i will go through with the book or not, because in most cases most lately then, i can recognize the plot(s). Most probably i already read a variation of this seemingly "new" plot before and then omit the book as a logical consequence. Or not.

My personal king is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein, but he is extremely hard to read and hard to understand like all real philosophers (in the original sense of the greek word). Almost every Sunday i have my nose in one of his books.

Sadly i don't have much time to really read hardcopies, because at this time i got my head into other things mainly. This one feeds the reading Djinn in my head already enough, though.

And then there is hidden in me all this antique (there obviously existed times, when all of the old Greek and early Roman humankind was REALLY shining in bright white) knowledge that i acquired without sme pushing me in my childhood, so i am doing at least good in recognizing plagiarism in "seemingly" new ideas but i omitted the concept of fighting this a long time ago.

That's bs-hardcore-capitalism and a might-tactic, obviously. Real intellect doesn't even need that much might.

[–]hennaojichan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

belletristic: Not in any of my dictionaries.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Its hard to explain, how i use this word, because i have a rather complex definition: sorry.

[–]Myrkskog 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

belletrist bĕl-lĕt′rĭst►

n.    A writer of belles-lettres.
n.    One devoted to belles-lettres.
n.    A person who writes or is concerned with belles-lettres

🤷🏻‍♂️

[–]Edvin 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You should try reading Harry Potter, or something by Brandon Sanderson, they'll leave you voracious for more