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>it seems pretty boring
You're not old or intelligent enough to read Victorian literature yet, so I'd just wait :)

Is she actually better than contemporaries like Thackeray or Trollope or do people just praise her because she's female?

>>9951541
hoohoohoo got meh!

>>9951457
finnegans wake

my diary desu

You'd probably enjoy Stephen King

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Masruq reported: We asked Abdullah ibn Mas’ud about the verse, “Do not think those who are killed in the way of Allah are dead. Rather, they are alive with their provision in the presence of their Lord.” (3:169) Abdullah said: We asked the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, about this verse and he said, “The souls of martyrs are alive in the bodies of green birds who have their nests in chandeliers hanging from the Throne of the Almighty. They eat the fruits of Paradise from wherever they wish and they nestle among these chandeliers. Once their Lord cast a glance at them and he said: Do you want anything? They said: What more could we desire? We eat the fruit of Paradise from wherever we wish. Their Lord asked them the same question three times. When they saw that they will continue to be asked, they said: O Lord, we wish that you could return our souls to our bodies so that we could be martyred in your way once again. When Allah saw that they had no needs, he left them to enjoy.” Sahih Muslim 1887

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>>9951424
>ywn live in a barrel or get to shit in the theatre and masturbate in public
why even live

>>9951472
but you can

>>9951424
go home diogenes

>>9951400
>i done your mom
yeah sure

reviled by whom?

>>9951376
i am sure you breath using the mouth

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>>9951376

no they don't, anything that uses technology real or fantastical to answer human questions is science fiction. "hard scifi" which focuses on technology exists, but j g ballard's Crash is often called science fiction and the only technology in that book is the automobile.
lastly most scifi as separate from speculative fiction is not trying to predict future technology but using the excuse of fantastical technologies as tools to better explore philosophical questions in a secular context. philip k dick was not predicting dimension hopping drugs, he was using them to make clear deeper spiritual teachings.

>Reading anything written post 1945

>>9951342
Depends on what you want to read, if you specialize then you'll be good.

If it's worth it, you should read https://www.amazon.com/Apathy-Other-Small-Victories-Novel/dp/0312352190

It's god damned hilarious, but yeah unless you have good friends who read as well it's really good to research the genres and the history and relevance of them and then go through genres. That's how I like to read anyways

>>9951356
1949 is my cut. Mainly because of Mann's Doctor Faustus which I view as one of the last if not the last modernist masterwork to ever be published

Mysteries? You mean you're into reading about the history, theory, and/or practice of the occult?

I myself have been exploring these topics for fifteen years...

I would suggest the following books for those interested:

>The Golden Chain
>Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth
>Philosophy and Theurgy In Late Antiquity
>Orpheus and the Roots of Platonism
>Corpus Hermetica
>Orphic Hymns
>Chaldean Oracles
>Greek Magical Papyri
>Techniques of Graeco-Egyptian Magic
>Techniques of Solomonic Magic
>Encyclopedia Goetica Volume I-III
>Three Books of Occult Philosophy
>Transcendental Magic
>Introduction to Magic
>The Hermetic Tradition
>Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
>Collected Works of CG Jung
>Star.Ships
>Chaos Protocols
>Occult Traditions
>Alchemical Traditions

These books form the core of my practice at the moment. Probably the most frequently visited books on my bookshelf. Pretty much covers the gamut of the Western Esoteric Tradition.

I feel like I am making some serious metaphysical gains these days. I approach things from a sort of chaote shaman perspective. I'm really resonating with Gordon White at the moment hence why two of his books are on the list.

>>9951307
What books even go in this section, bookstore-wise? Everything good typically goes in plain fiction or in sci-fi/fantasy.

>>9951290
I'm willing to attempt a reading if I can find a copy online. I've got a couple other books I want to finish first. I read three to four books at once, any given time.

Absolutely

>>9951297
>>9951530

All right. Whaddya say we start right now?

Let's set a specific and doable timeframe for reading the first one hundred pages. I can vouch for the below link being a faithful English version of the text:

http://www.bibotu.com/books/Philosophy/Habermas,%20Jurgen%20-%20The%20theory%20of%20communicative%20action%20-%20Vol.1.pdf

I propose Monday, September 4, a /lit/ thread as a general book group discussion for the first one hundred pages of the text.

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>>9951155
You clearly haven't read your Nietzsche.

>>9951155
ever read the bible?

The Lord of the Rings

Weird but probably true. James Joyce's poetry is terrible for example, even though he wrote better prose than any poet ever did

>>9951125
Just buckle up and learn meter you lazy ass

>>9951134
eh, FW is definitely poetry, and Ulysses is arguable. I think he just couldn't figure out linebreaks.

>>9951125
100% percent bullshit. When the fuck do you ever hear anyone talk about Coleridge or Shelley's prose? Never because they're were better poets.

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>>9951060

>>9951099
>not "knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness"

I recall reading an interesting book on the relationship between psychoanalysis and the philosophy of science that helped to elucidate this issue. I think it helps to see the general principles underlying psychoanalysis as a metapsychology (as that is indeed how Freud saw it) that goes beyond what ordinary psychology studies as a discipline. It's not really pseudoscience but it's hardly empirically verifiable either. It's just philosophizing about the unconscious

>>9951007
>What's your opinion on it?
Freud was a genius

Freud's theory of psychosexual stages occuring in early childhood is simply impossible. A child's nervous system is not complex enough for anything that Freud believed to occur at such a young age.

I didn't read it LOL

>>9951033

You will be regarded as a dear but misguided friend who lost contact and moved to the south to be a farmer in my autobiography.

>>9950990
Along with The Education of Henry Adams and Dana's Two Years before the Mast used to be required reading for every American schoolboy. Walden and Huckleberry Finn lasted a little longer, but are now mostly read by English majors in undergrad survey courses.
All five books are fine, but few read more than the latter two these days. Pity.

>>9950972
>having a cat
what an homo

>>9950977
Cats are patrician you fuckin pleb. Kys after your faggot dog's done lickin peanut butter off your balls

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>>9950977

mind your language young lady!