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you'd be mad too; textbooks are literally a license to print money. even in a niche topic, 10,000 students per year buying your $50 product is a nice retirement...

>>9957673

>politics aside

This is probably bait, but I've recommended his re imagining of The Tempest from Caliban's point of view for a while on this board.

Props to him for inventing the césarienne

>>9957673
>Aimé ? C'est plus qu'un personnage de H

Nekfeu on some visionary shit.

So miserably depressing I gave up on it. Also, nothing happened.

>>9957671

People seem to overlook this one because they're too fixated on Catch 22, but I found it riveting ... it's basically existential in nature (and the narrator has uncomfortable feelings towards his daughter)

In the end, something definitely happens

>>9957671
I loved it. The prose gets really intense when he starts narrating the family dynamics and I like how Bob continues to circle back to just a few events in his life that were more meaningful to him in retrospect. I can see how some people might find it tiring but reading him rail on about the girl at his first office job for 50 pages was actually riveting

>>9957569
synopsis plz

This is the book I'm perhaps the most cultist about, it really changed the direction of what I read nowadays. But it might not even be that original, it still brings a lot together.
I've grown more distant from Taleb however in recent months because I felt like he was losing his independence. His piece that triggered the 'Nordic supremacists" as he calls them was a good sign though.

This book was 1/3 interesting information, 1/3 repeating the same thing, and 1/3 Taleb talking about how big his penis is.

>>9957483
Paralysis

>>9957483
Epiphany

>>9957483
cold hard cash.

>>9957477
The Bell Jar, Grendel, Ecclesiastes, Under the Volcano, The Waves, Things Fall Apart, Sorrows of the Young Werther

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>>9957477
Absolutely this. It's a comic book without text. Takes 10 minutes to read. At least google it.

>>9957477
If you want some great reading about suicide, the you absolutely must read Cioran

>>9957465
My name is Anon, and I'm an alcoholic.

My name is ActualAutist, I like a lot of books but I'll say that my favourite is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mike Haddon, and I am a big fan of The Flaming Lips.

Uh, yeah, I'm anon and my favorite book is, um, Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson. I uh, I collect skulls and I mix maple syrup with milk and drink it with a spoon. T-thanks.

>>9957452
My favorite part (can't think of which tablet off the top of my head) is where they take all the gold and lapis lazuli and transform it into wood to build a temple. Or maybe when the guy starts praying for birds to fall out of the sky (and how it interacts with the Osiris myth)

Anat is one crazy bitch

>I'll make your head run with blood, your gray beard with gore. Then cry to Aqhat to rescue you, to Daniel's son to save you from the hand of Anat the girl!

That's her talking to El, king of the gods

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>>9957452
>Not starting with the sumerians and worshipping enlil

>>9957434
I was in an American Lit class over the Spring, so I just kind of continued with some American classics. I read...

Invisible Man, by Ralph Elison - Fantastic, furtive material for growing empathy
The Sound and the Fury, by Faulkner - Obviously great, but most interesting of all was his wild technique for having been written in 1928
The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin - Masterfully emotive, and I really want to read more of Baldwin's stuff
The Illiad, by Homer - Epic and great, but a little repetitive. I like the adventure the variety of The Odyssey more
Ubik, by Philip K. Dick - Love PKD's brand of psychotic scifi and want to read more.

>Libra
I was going to read this next, but decided to reread Gravity's Rainbow instead. DeLillo is not the easiest writer to follow along with, Underworld was pretty sprawling and grand.

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Will offer feedback in return

He doesn't have the phenotype

>>9957282
I don't think it's a conditio sine qua non. As long as there is imagination and experience gained from other readings there is no actual need of an eventful life, but a plain one will do

STYLE

OVER

>>9957161
That's not so bad. Read 3 hours a day and you'll finish a 300p book in 3 days. That's 362 days faster than most Americans.

>>9957161
Shouldn't be disheartening. You'll just spend more time doing the thing you love!

481 with 75% comprehension
I'm drunk, so take that with a pinch of salt.

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A lot of reading, a new way of reading, and a higher standard for reading and writing. It'll be hard, but you'll grow accustomed to it. Professors will let their guard and facade down, and you will start seeing them as people, and in seeing them as people, flaws and all, you'll second guess some of the motivation that made you get into grad school in the first place; motivations you'll never admitted and you might never admit to. It's a slow process of disillusionment, akin to seeing your parents flaws.

What we're all looking for is moral exemplars as a signpost, as a goal for ourselves, and in seeing our parents fail in that capacity as we grow up, some of us seek out professors, but what allowed us to make them exemplars in our head is that distance that separated us. We saw them like mountains from afar, and we were in awe. For some, they become that signpost.

At first, the closer you get to the mountain, the more imposing it will seem, but as you start to climb it, you also start to notice their frigid nature, the cool and thin air, the desolate lifeless landscape, in short, their imperfections.
Meanwhile, your ego will get a boost because you'll start seeing the valleys from which you traveled and the friends you've left behind from afar, too, and they'll seem so small, so similar, so simple.

Eventually however, you'll grow comfy on the mountain, and that sense of awe will leave you. Then you'll wonder what the point of climbing is, what the point of living in this desert of the spirit is, and the only real answer you'll get is money. You've gone too far. You're too old, and you have too much debt. And even though you won't think much of being on the mountain, you'll also be unwilling to part with the feeling of respect and awe that you've gotten from valley dwellers.

You'll grow cynical, but you need to publish, and and you need to start making money, to find a job, because you'll be old now, and your parents will be old, too, and you'll want a family soon, because of course you will. Soon after, you'll see it as nothing but a job. One that pays you in social status, and money, but like I said, you'll be cynical, because you'll see it as nothing but a lie. It is then that you'll grow humble, and come down to the valleys, and be embarrassed at the respect you get from the valley dwellers.

Maybe.

I decided to do an internship instead of a thesis because I'm not planning to go back for a PhD for the next few years at the least.

So I'm going to relax and enjoy reading shit-tons of sci-fi and fantasy now that I'm done with classes.

>>9957127
Reading Mandarin is not hard, even an idiot like me eventually understood the grammar and memorized a bunch of characters. The hard part is speaking and listening.