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I didn't get past the second page. I hope it's because the translation was bad because holy shit.

It's very comfy, but there's not a lot of philosophy/commentary, just his casual musings on (his) life.
If you want an easy and enjoyable book, go ahead. If you like denser and more subtle books, it's not worthwhile.

>>9122678
read about 100 or so pages. it's not very good. he struggled as a writer before he was told (by his publisher?) to give it a shot. it kind of has no purpose, just exposition.

dude we all die lmao

>>9122626
welp

>>9122608
He is describing his egoistic union, only he is slightly spooked.

God help me

>>9122344
Tinder is degenerate and makes women have sex outside of marriage. It's liberal brainwashing.

Take the redpill

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>>9122352
I have taken it lad.

>>9122222

Why are you writing Phenomenology of Spirit?

Very impressive quints btw

>>9122222
What's currently the worst book?

>>9122331
lolol

>>9122217
kek bump for kek

I haven't read anything by either of them and prefer to keep it that way.

Is there anybody from the """"alt lit"""" """""movement""""" who deserves to be read? I've decided to grant Tao Lin and Elizabeth Ellen at least a single read. Good idea?

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>>9122124
awful.

picrltd is how you reference Rabelais in fiction.

>>9122022
I think most writers would say the subjects in their books are not reducible to 5 minute conversations

>>9122022

kind of missing the point

the reason that a smart person with a good point to make would write a fiction novel is just because it makes it far more accessible to people

people will have a much easier time learning something if they can enjoy themselves while in the process

>>9122063
>the reason that a smart person with a good point to make would write a fiction novel is just because it makes it far more accessible to people
>people will have a much easier time learning something if they can enjoy themselves while in the process

You're a clumsy thinker. Short fiction is more accessible to the common man because it's briefer. Compare how much easier it is to watch an episode on TV, than to commit to a whole movie.

People can enjoy themselves with short fiction just as well as a novel.

Your thinking is wrong, even if your main point is right. The novel is essential for certain modes of narrative, but most prats publishing these days definitely haven't earned their lengths.

P1.) Potato exists.
P2.) Potato is not reducible to non-mind.
C1.) Unmashable potato exists.
P3.) Culinary dualism is false.
C2.) All is potato, and Berkeleyan potatism is true. (Thus everything exists in God’s potato.)

>>9121957
P2 does not apply to potato, therefore C1 and C2 do not follow.

>>9121944
>god exists because I say so

no

become songwriter like taylor swift or ed sheeren

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read Bataille's ouvre closely then ask yourself again

>>9121918
that would make damn long song, more like several albums, and I cannot play any instrument, don't even mention my voice...

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>>9121565
>asimov

>>9121565
I recently started it according to publication order. Its how most people have read it.

>>9121565
Just read the first three books, pal. Rest are boring as fuck.

i just read about this (imposter syndrome) for 36 minutes and it is blowing my mind as an intellectual concept that affects. any good literature on it?

>>9121457
>deep down we want only to feel power
But thats not true. Everyone has really different views. Just look at religions and how the submit for their God.

Adorno wrote about how human history is essentially the history of the attempt at self preservation by dominating a violent and unrelenting nature, and that in modern times we have succeeded in not preserving the self but dominating nature and thus every thing we do is colored by domination and our barbaric nature is bubbling closer and closer to the surface erryday, and everything we call culture is just a veiled outlet for this barbarism with varying degrees of complexity.

>>9121255
I read a sci fi story where a teenage boy obsessed with math has sex with a physical manifestation of the number 7

after that I sort of kept my distance

>>9121263
i just read a post about a retard who said he read a wtf story that any non-redditard would find intriguing

after that i sort of kept my distance

>>9121263
That sounds intriguing. Was 7 anthropomorphized? Was the story a metaphor for the obsession of mathematicians?

>>9121207
girls like bukowski

>>9121231
I second this.

I've known a few girls who really liked Bukowski.

All the high school girls I fucked had only really read Vonnegut, Bukowski, Murakami and a couple others.

>>9121040
pretty much exactly what it was

>>9121047
Which was?

>>9121920
screaming like aristocratic monkeys who drank too much liquor

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>>9121035
Also the tone of the book is light-hearted (same as The Decameron, again).

>>9121035
The Pig's Delusion

>>9121623
Is this a /lit/ meme?