1. 27 minutes ago 
    Eleven (Really) Long Novels Worth Your While


    A good read over all, but we all probably know why I read it. It paid off. 


    Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace

    The Warning – At nearly 1100 pages, IJ is the longest book on this list, and it’s probably the most dense. I had to read it with a (sometimes insufficient) dictionary next to my bed. Also, it’s peppered with these endnotes that necessitate two bookmarks: one for the actual page you’re on and one for the endnotes (of which there are nearly 400). Oh, and an at least cursory knowledge of Hamlet will help. I know this sounds miserable, but…

    The Payoff – … Infinite Jest is perhaps the most fully realized, empathetic, challenging, moral, inspiring novel I’ve ever read. The two primary protagonists (Hal Incandenza and Don Gately) are vast reservoirs of insecurity and insight into the human (and often especially the male) condition. It will be hard work, but it will be completely worth it.

  2. Notes: 1190 / 19 hours ago  from thetinhouse (originally from nypl)
    nypl: Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819. Explore the NYPL’s collection of Whitman Manuscripts here: http://ow.ly/bgLIN

    nypl:

    Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819. Explore the NYPL’s collection of Whitman Manuscripts here: http://ow.ly/bgLIN

     
  3. Notes: 13251 / 2 days ago  from mattywestside (originally from emptiedski3s)
    mattywestside: do people really keep books like this and write in them? If so, then no wonder they feel like their life sucks. If you surround yourself with negativity then you’re going to feel like shit, easy as that. Why not carry a notebook that says, “People I Have Met, And The Reasons I Keep Them Around.” But then I guess no one would have anything to talk about. how about a god damn smile once in a while. end rant.

    mattywestside:

    do people really keep books like this and write in them? If so, then no wonder they feel like their life sucks. If you surround yourself with negativity then you’re going to feel like shit, easy as that. Why not carry a notebook that says, “People I Have Met, And The Reasons I Keep Them Around.” But then I guess no one would have anything to talk about.

    how about a god damn smile once in a while.

    end rant.

    (Source: emptiedski3s)

     
  4. Notes: 49896 / 2 days ago  from thetinhouse (originally from farewell-kingdom)

    farewell-kingdom:

    Being here, by Mark Garry, thread pins, beads

  5. Notes: 1228 / 3 days ago  from uwtartarus (originally from meme4u)

    meme4u:

    http://memeblock.com/

  6. Notes: 415 / 3 days ago  from uwtartarus (originally from meme4u)
    meme4u: http://memeblock.com/

    meme4u:

    http://memeblock.com/

     
  7. Notes: 5791 / 1 week ago  from mattywestside (originally from tastefullyoffensive)
    mattywestside: hah

    mattywestside:

    hah

    (Source: tastefullyoffensive)

     
  8. Notes: 1445 / 1 week ago  from bookmania
    "It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined."
    - John Green, Paper Towns (via bookmania)
  9. Notes: 4397 / 1 week ago  from uwtartarus (originally from meme4u)
    meme4u: http://memeblock.com/

    meme4u:

    http://memeblock.com/

     
  10. Notes: 15667 / 1 week ago  from uwtartarus (originally from tom-j)

    trydianth:

    tom-j:

    Will Smith discusses his family’s visit to the White House (x)

    giggle.

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