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>>9270083
yea, if you like being a bartista with 150k in debt then go ahead.

It's perhaps one of the single worst choices any person could make right now.

It's on par with saying you want to be a famous novelist. It's.. possible, but it's gonna be a long time before it stops being a gruelling nightmare, and even then it's like a 0.001% chance of success.

Don't listen to these guys.

Market's iffy, but if you know people that are well situated you'll have no problem landing a job. Look for schools in areas in which you can imagine yourself putting down roots. If nothing else, the state ALWAYS needs public defenders. Pay is mediocre compared to your debt obligations, but if you live modestly for a few years or of school you should be clear and then living a comfortable middle-class life.

>>9270037
The 5 by Frank are the only ones

>>9270037
I was able to read the second one, Messiah, but the 3rd one already was unbearably boring.

First 3 AT MOST is all I can really suggest.
4 if you're really into it.
You'd be fine with just reading the first two, though.

Dune and Dune Messsiah are the best imo.

Haven't you gotten the news?
Philosophy is dead.

Wittgenstein killed it over 70 years ago.

Suck my hyperdick

>>9269502
Compared to me, Wittgenstein is a child.

The Twelve Inch Problem of Jerome.

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Book of dave by will self
Some of it is set in a post apocalyptic London, but the parts set in present day London are excellent. The geography, topography, vernacular, atmosphere, culture, social history, mindset etc are all fantastically observed and written about.
London from a taxi driver's POV

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>>9269103

>>9269102
are they related? i started the japanese lit thread, and this looks good to me

sounds like weeaboo fanfic

>>9269147

No, they are not. Though I think it's a shame for Ryū, because he is under the shadow of the more popular Murakami if only because the other Murakami is more popular.

>>9269071
I like it

bumperino

>>9269071
I don't like it

"What is Enlightenment?" by Kant

>>9267829
that theory is held be practically every redditor

No, it is foolish to deny that we are capable of or even should deny emotion in our decision. The issue is the postmodern/progressive push to declare emotion more important than logical thinking, and that emotion is where all focus should go

pynchon and dfw are complete hacks
im a pretty conventional guy

Literature is not that important.

If I could do it all over again I would have started with the Greeks.

>>9267618

I have wrote some other small poems, lame-haikus.

Once again I used 3 verses of 10 poetic syllables. The originals are in Portuguese. I will post the translations followed by the originals.

Young prostitute girl, the night and the skies are cold,
But the dew that embraces you: is it more cold
Than the warm loneliness of a strange bed?

The tolling of the bells of twilight
Has the scent of the autumnal woods.
The sun withers and falls; it is time to sleep.

Frogs croak in the swamps on night, far away,
And yet I sleep. Hatred, famine and war thunder
In the world, it is day and there is sun, but I…well, I sleep.

Silverfishes gnaw books, they do not read them: sages
Preach for the vacuum inside their entrails.
Have I the guts of Silverfishes for a brain?

The originals:

Moça meretriz, frios a noite e os céus,
Mas o orvalho que a abraça, é ele mais frio
Que a morna solidão da cama estranha?

O badalar dos sinos do crepúsculo
Tem o aroma dos bosques outonais.
O sol murcha e cai; é hora de dormir.

Rãs coaxam nos brejos da noite, ao longe,
Mas eu durmo. Ódio, fome e guerra estrondam
No mundo, é dia e há sol, mas eu...eu durmo.

Traças roem livros, não os leem: os sábios
Pregam ao vácuo dentro de suas vísceras.
Terei eu tripas de traça por cérebro?

White winter -
Frost and tangerines.

Another day
Motionless -
So?

Colorfull magazines
In a full Waiting Room;
Waiting.

Time is up -
Children walking home.
See you tomorrow

>>9267730
Sounds good. Did you usually write in english and then translate it to your language or is the other way around?

>>9267109
Schindler's List

I cried when the Nazis lost the war.

unironically catch-22

It's been a while, but probably Night

Start with the Greeks.

>>9266291
Just read Plato in the standard order. From left to right.

P-L-A-T-O

>>9266291
Start with Euthyphro.

Being as it's Buddhism, I'm gonna hazard that the reading order is not rigid.

Senpai humanity's only serious religions are judaism+kaballah, christianity as a whole and hinduism.
I'm not even memeing you.

>>9263706

What's so good about the kabbalah? I thought it was divination evil spirits and shit like that

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First for explosive levels of discernible talent.

Any romance fantasy novels with a girl protag?

>>9260976
well, I was going to recommend daggerspell by katherine kerr, but I honestly can't remember if it has a female protag, although I think so, but either way I enjoyed it.

what's on your mind

mind what's on your write

what's on your mind? write

henry james is pretty high on the ei I think

>>9249438
Stop consuming mass media. Movies, television, news, and popular music are all designed to make you malleable and unintelligent.

>>9249438
I can tell you in one sentence what those books will tell you in too many pages--You've got to be honest with yourself.