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>>10022545
>underage shitter makes fun of random kid's book to feel good about himself
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>>10022545
Wait, what?! The guy that wrote the zombie survival guide? Are you serious?
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Max Brooks came to my college once and my friend I got to meet him.
I could tell he didn't like being around "nerds" because they didn't treat him like a human being.Some fag in the audience was heckling him about the names of fictional swods in Lord of the Rings so I can totally empathize with him.
He was very nice about signing my book for friend who couldn't make the event and taking a picture with me.
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What's /lit/'s thoughts on Mark Leyner. I remember seeing him on TV a bunch in the 90s but never really bothered to check him out. Not sure if his stuff was any good, or perhaps just had a good agent. Anything of his worth checking out?
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ITT: Underappreciated authors who don't deserve the hate
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>>10022518
you first
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>>10022537
John green
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>>10022518
I know that you're probably baiting but I agree. FFS, his target audience are young teens, they don't want Nabokov tier writing or whatever. As usual, /lit/ just gets triggered cause of his sheer popularity
My only friends are dead philosophers from the 19th century.
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My only friend is a young poet from the first half of the XIX century.
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>>10022448
>I dont really care if I die
Which philosopher said this?
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>>10022459
Nietzsche
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Why is Vollman so underrated compared to his contemporaries?
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>>10022426
he's overrated
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>>10022426
He's not. Faggots on this board just make you think he's shit. Nigger will get the nobel prize one day.
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>>10022447
yes, putting him in the illustrious company of bob dylan. very fitting i'd say.
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What do I listen to next?
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>>10022410
The noose taking your life away
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>>10022415
That's not a book
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>>10022410
That translation of Brothers Karamazov is terrible. Virtually unlistenable.
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>Hasn't read gaddis yet
Lmao do you even enjoy reading?!
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>>10022409
fuck off burger
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>>10022506
Suck a dick this is my website. Jk I'm Canadian.
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>>10022409
Reading him this summer
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All I want is your acceptance.
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You'll get it, whether we wanna give it or not.
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I accept that I will never get back the week I wasted reading Book of Numbers
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>>10022370
you're showing self awareness. you can't be josh.
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what should I read to cultivate my nihilism to perfection?
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>>10022349
Stop breathing.
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>>10022349
Aquinas
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>>10022349
If you were a true nihilist you wouldn't care about nihilism or its cultivation
You would just be a blob browsing reddit and watching pirated Marvel movies in his mother's basement
hey, guys. do any of you own one of the folio society's letterpress shakespeare series?
if so, what do you think of it? they look beautiful. also, how did you decide which one to buy? if i decide to go for it, i'm between hamlet and the tempest.
but i just don't know how i feel about spending this much on a book.
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>>10022320
yes, i own three of them, but i don't plan to buy any more.
they are beautiful things. i bought the ones i own because the plays are significant to me in some way.
if you have a special connection to the play, go for it. otherwise there are plenty of other nice editions of shakespeare out there.
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>>10022320
Don't know much about that particular series, but in general the folio society is a bit of a joke. Sure their stuff "looks nice" and all, but the scholarship is normally seriously lacking, and the typesetting, while better than most modern stuff, is still lacking.
Looking at the price, you're probably better off getting something like a Clarendon Press edition and saving 90% of your money while getting better scholarship and typesetting. The downside is no cardboard case or marbling, but that's not worth the extra money.
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>>10023254
I wish marbling was more widespread, it's so beautiful. When did book designs become so bad?
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You know the drill. Find the shittiest, least accurate, book covers, be they classic pulp trash or modern Amazon repackaging.
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Perhaps I'm missing something but I have no idea what is going on with this cover.
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>>10022276
I'm a proud white conservative man of the heterosexual persuasion and this cover makes me sick to my stomach. She belongs to me and my white race.
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>>10022276
Would make a fine Othello cover.
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I'm thinking of doing an MA in philosophy so I can be a more media-savvy Roger Scruton or Jordan Peterson. I'll look for media opportunities right away while I do my doctorate.
I don't care about philosophy at all. The things I care about are sex, money, fame and power. To me, philosophy seems very obviously to be the now-archaic twitterings of middle-class permavirgins who didn't know how to live. Like, Kierkegaard's entire philosophy is just a NEET overintellectualizing his fear of pussy. Nobody who's lived in the real world for five minutes can see any validity in the way most of the Western philosophical tradition thinks, which is why nobody studies it. Heidegger is a guy using the very little intellectual effort he can be bothered to put out in order to invent impressive-sounding reasons for not thinking, which he then spent his career defending by rote. After Nietzsche came about twenty guys just like him who, like him, were just liveblogging their own futile, inchoate anger, but had the education to pass it off as sophisticated intellection.
You shouldn't take from this that I want to establish a new philsophical school, I don't. The errors of the past aren't errors; they're features, not bugs. Philosophy is a middle-class occupation. I want to be employed to advocate traditionalism, like Scruton, because that's where the money is. Unfortunately, he's a pretty bad performer of his own ideas in interviews - too breathy, he sounds like he's tense in front of the cameras and it's limiting his impact. I wouldn't be. I would be a stand-up performer of traditional ideas, like Zizek but without his gimmick accent. There's a whole circuit to plug into, America is full of dense bourgeois cows demanding to be milked.
My question is, do you think I will be able to pretend to be interested in philosophy long enough to get my qualifications?
Pic tangentially related.
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>>10022215
no because philosophy is dry and technical and anyone not interested in the subject won't make it twenty minutes into a real philosophy book. I do suggest that you go into marketing or finance though, because that's where pieces of shit like you do well.
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>>10022228
How is philosophy "technical"? It's all just lies. I can get into that perfectly well.
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>>10022228
Oh, and I did make it more than twenty minutes in, I've read Wittgenstein's Tractatus.
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Why does science fiction works set in the near future have a certain religion completely dissapear? Are they trying to tell us something?
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Maybe that wasnt one of the author interests?
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>>10022201
Nothing to think about man, like what bad could happen, stop overthinking.
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Return to your pit
>>>/sffg/
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how to be more focused while reading? My mind goes elsewhere.
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>>10022196
Focus.
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>>10022196
Immerse yourself in the text
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>>10022196
stop reading 4chan and watching youtube videos
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What books have the best arguments for Christianity? What book would you have someone read whom you were trying to convert?
>inb4 bible
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>>10022181
G.K. Chesterton, I guess.
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>>10022181
C.S. Lewis
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>>10022181
Der Naturwissenschaftler vor der religiösen "Frage" (the natural scientist confronted with the question of religion) by Pascal Jordan, the guy who developed the mathematics for quantum mechanics while being deeply catholic. Actually made me think about my hardcore atheism for the first time. I don't know if it exists in English, though