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Whatever Yugi did, do the opposite. There's a bunch of PUA stuff out there, if you want to look into that. If you just want to enjoy reading something that happens to include the theme then Casanova wrote a lengthy autobiography.

>>9974265
>Whatever Yugi did, do the opposite.
That's because he was a leatherslut in love with his supernatural alter ego. He was just confused and used Tea as an emotional ersatz.

rape the b*tch you c*nt

Motivation is the spark that sets the flame alight, but can quickly burn out, you must throw on wood, which is discipline.

I don't know about all these fuckin' metaphors, but you HAVE to have discipline. Motivation alone won't cut it.
Writer of 3 complete novels here over the course of 5 years.

Discipline is how they get you, man. Ideology. They make you do the same damn thing over and over, and next thang you know, you're 45 with an unloving wife and ungrateful son with an unpaying job, slaving like a negro for some fatstacks moneybags. You have to understand that discipline is the way to go in order to achieve your dreams.

>>9974183
reading aloud in your native language

>>9974183
You need to start with the Atlanteans. Atlantean drama: comedy, tragicomedy, tragedy. Atlantean lyrics & epics. Move on to Atlantean literary criticism to achieve a finer appreciation.

You could try reading books about how poetry is traditionally written, but don't expect to be able to rise to the heights of the Atlanteans.

>>9974183
search the greats in your language first
read good interpretations of the greats from another languages

>>9974153
Dorian Gray

my diary desu

>>9974153
http://booklist.rassaku.net/

For the most part movie is better. King telegraphs the climax in the first 2 or 3 chapters. Lots of long winded crap about fire hoses and topiary. I don't feel like typing anything more from my phone.

Compare what King is to literature vs what Kubrick is to cinema, it's really not that surprising

>>9974140
Book is entertaining, but it's not as near a masterpiece as Kubrick's movie is
King is really just a glorified young adult writer, except he snorted an incredible amount of cocaine which made him write weird shit inside his young adult novels

Some might defend that King's novel was more about alcoholism while Kubrick made it a straight ghost story, but really if you look at it Kubrick's version is also about alcoholism except it's done way more subtly

I guess yeah, you could read it if you really love the movie, but don't expect much out of it

get over yourself you sikh fuck

Play video games.

>>9974110
read shorter books

Stop watching pornography

>>9974084
who watches the watcher?

>>9974087
big data

>>9974048
lattimore

I like Lombardo

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>>9974069
>baiting OPs perfectly retarded thread this hard
i'm not even mad, i can dine out on lombardo for weeks, you juicy thing

>>9973964
What did Prowst do?

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>*prout* est meilleur than an arseful
You merry-little-crack me up

Yea, that seems obvious. Longue vie à Proust.

>>9973928
It physically hurts...

When I got there, I took out my ipod, put on the twenty-minute audiobook I have on there called “This is Water” by David Foster Wallace, and spent the next five hours or so contemplatively pacing, or sitting. This became slightly problematic when I needed to pee, as I couldn't leave the steps in case she came, but fortunately I'd brought along my empty watter-bottle from before so I peed in that twice during the night. As I paced back and forth on the step in front of Alma Mater, I thought about fish, and water, and about how every time I'd asked a girl to take a chance, to try to take a leap of faith across that mental block that the real world is exactly as it seems, every single time, they hadn't showed. I'd waited on this step or some version a hundred times before. But I'd never waited past when I wanted to stop waiting.

>>9973928
>all those rape culture comments
Jesus fuck. Being socially awkward is gonna get you to prison soon.

>>9973818
it should've been obvious from the start

Maybe have another little looksie at the title, eh?

>>9973989
>>9973994
This doesn't really help.

>>9973798
have you read the bible in its entirety and were brought up as a devout Christian?

if not, you will miss 99% of this book

The bible is force fed so often in western civilization that I don't think I'll miss that much with an annotated version.

Also, what has to do devotion with any of this?

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It's great, and it's really not that big, half the book is allegorical dialogues between Achilles and a tortoise. The AI stuff is pretty dated but overall it's fantastically interesting

>>9973799
interesting whats the main subject of the book btw?

>>9973767
>how good is this book?

That depends on what you want to get out of it. If you're an undergrad it will likely be a valuable introduction to many ideas and how they relate to each other and many of the cognitive processes that seem to make up the mind.

You may otherwise find that it spends a lot of time going over shit you already know, but not in particularly great detail (as it's more about the connections between what it discusses than the things themselves).

retarded

>>9973743
lol

the reason your life is fucked up is because you don't follow your horoscope everyday

Well from my point of view, the Jedi are evil.

from my point of view, the moral relativists are evil

>>9973587
>>9973593
Your POV is wrong if it's against the true universal morality