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>that Roth/McCarthy/DeLillo wanking
cringe
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dude Ethiopians speaking Yiddish lmao
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>>9925478
Looks the most boring thing ever
Opinions?
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What's the main point?
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I'm planning to shun internet and electronic stuff from my life during a week, because I think I'm slowly getting mentally ill.
During this time just want to have contact with books.
Recommend me at least 2 books perfect for this experience.
Please post very powerful books able to make me stop to think about what I'm doing with my life, something that could change a person.
I need enlightenment.
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the book of mormon and doctrine & covenants
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>>9932425
Every time
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>>9932419
Easy
Meditations by Aurelias (or seneca/epictetus)
Walden by Thoreau
Maybe some Knut Hamsun for nonfic
I'm new here so I don't know if this has already been discussed or what not. I finished this book and you know how sometimes with books you just sit in silence and you think of what you just read and let it process in your head. That's what I had with this book. I myself, already sort of had this point of view of life but I tried to read it as the younger, insecure me and it would have been a great help back then. It basically talks about how we should not give a fuck about things that aren't important. Such as, materialistic stuff, our social medias and also our emotions. If you feel stuck and insecure about yourself and you know you give too many fucks about things that aren't important, this book could be a great self help even though it isn't labeled as a self guide.
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>>9932245
we discuss literature here
this is an advice book
so you should discuss it on /adv/
thanks
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>>9932245
go back to plebbit
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The trouble is not passion, but misplaced passion.
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>he's under 182cm (that's 6ft, amerifats)
>he thinks he can understand philosophy
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>>9925470
>Kant: 5'2" if generous
>Nietzsche: 5'8"
>Witty: Around 5'6"
The most impactful philosophers of the past three centuries respectively were all manlets.
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>>9925470
Heidegger's literally a gnome
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>>9925666
Only two of those philosophers produced anything worthy of note, and neither of them are Nietzsche
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There are so many books to read but the pseuds tell you to keep reading and reading and reading without any judgement except for what they tell you to do.
I tried to read the last 70 pages of manufacturing consent last night but it was so fucking boring I could only read 20. I would never have read it in the first place because the propaganda model is repackaged common sense. How can these shitloads of "Super insightful praised by NYT, NY, Obama Zuckerberg, FT" non fiction works all be worth reading? Not even Chomsky's (and Herman's) book was worth reading. I knew the book could easily be summarised and the model was unnecessary and trivial and it was a catalogue of medias bias written for the sake of referencing, not reading
Chomsky didn't get to where he was, writing syntactic structures, by reading all day (reading prose books, not reading as a means to an end you pseuds). The behaviour they want from consumercucks is very different from what they praise in producerbulls. I guess if you're a woman you can get away with the "Tee-hee! I just luv boooks :))))!" attitude because someone else pays for your stuff, but get a grip you cucks.
Do you have any books under 250 pages to recommend? I'm sick of how everything is a fucking monument to the authors narcissism, even the nonfiction.
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It’s time to stop posting.
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just read the bible man, the fuck
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Chomsky is actually very interesting for me as an european. I had no idea about the stuff US did in Central America or how far the media bias goes. We have here but not taken to such extremes.
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Where does one commence with the Egyptians? Any recommended books on ancient Egypt's history, mythology etc and also original texts?
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Definitely check out Penguin's recently-released Writings From Ancient Egypt. It's a pretty good centralized starting point for their literature and some of their myths.
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>>9925454
Thanks, I'll check it out
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Has anyone read George Saunders, particularly pic related? I've been thinking about buying it for some time now. Most likely because I had a strange dream/psychosis involving Saunders, where I thought I'd actually met him at a party.
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I'm a big fan of his stories. Tenth of December and Patoralia are fantastic. Lincoln was alright. Occasionally great. I probably went into it a bit too hyped. Read one of his collections at least.
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The structure seems irritating. I haven't read any Saunders but I've heard mostly bad, but it's been from genre fic normies.
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>>9925564
I loved the book. The structure is somewhat jarring but after the first two chapters it flows beautifully. I found it to be one of the most profound books I've read this year. Sad yet hopeful, with a haunting story and elegant prose. It's also, to me, a stab at not the 'Great American Novel,' but a 'Great Novel about America.' Lincoln, obviously, plays a central role, and Saunders tackles some pretty fundamental American notions and propositions about democracy, equality, spirituality, and the love and hate we have in our hearts.
I hope you both give it a chance.
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I saw someone at a bus stop reading The Skating Rink. He stopped reading to try and get on an upcoming bus but for whatever reason he couldn't get on. He paced up and down the pavement ranting about how bad busses were and a mixture of other profanities and insults. Not three minutes later he jumped on the next bus without a single complaint, and left the stop. So are all Roberto Bolano fans like this?
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>>9925347
>So are all Roberto Bolano fans like this?
yeswhat a stupid fucking question. what the fuck is wrong with you?
>In the Brautbriefe (engagement letters), we see Freud was already experiencing a problem that he would one day ascribe to all men: an inability, held over from early childhood, to reconcile female sexuality with maternal purity and devotion. His bride was supposed to arrive intact, submissive, and sexually ignorant, but also to reciprocate a lust that he hoped would outlast the honeymoon. Yet she was also expected to coddle him as her indulged son. That role, in Freud’s estimation, was a woman’s highest calling. As he would put it in 1933, “Even a marriage is not made secure until the wife has succeeded in making her husband her child as well and in acting as a mother to him.”
Would Freud have posted on /r9k/?
t. http://lithub.com/how-sigmund-freud-tried-to-break-and-remake-his-fiancee/
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This the third thread in a row I've posted where nobody has commented. I just want to say that this board is now complete and utter shit and I'm leaving forever. If you were wondering, the other two were actually about books: Runaway Horses and A Visit From The Good Squad.
Nobody here fucking reads. You only come here for feels and to argue and you're a bunch of sad sacks the entire fucking lot of you.
Yeah I mad.
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Jung was much better with the ladies. And geez! Lucian Freud had 14 kids with 7 different women.
Would he have posted? No, he would've diagnosed.
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>>9925779
Lmao fuck off back to pleddit you outraged faggot no one owes you shit. Now I'm glad anon ignored your threads.
>I m-made three th-threads this is u-unacceptable g-goodbye f-f-forever
Queef.
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>Over 80% of Aristotle's works have not survived.
>80% fucking percent.
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>>9932242
WHAT CAN I SAY? BULLSHIT IS BIODEGRADABLE.
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>>9932242
Recreate them, anon.
You are the chosen one
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>>9932242
what was it, the burning of the Library of Alexandria?
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>It's written Dostojewski
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>>9925295
Great thread anon!
Sad I had to match all the pictures of the helicopter in the CAPTCHKAEVSKI that I didn't have any left to throw you out of, dirty communist.
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>Dosto(((jew)))ski
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Thats the way his name is written in Polish and German (from what I know).
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My GF recommended this novel to me. Did I like it?
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weird translation of the title, i usually see it as "youth without youth"
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>>9925255
I dunno. It's got a movie coming tho. You can watch the trailer
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>>9925283
You're confusing Horvath and Eliade. This is the literal translation of the title, which would be Jugend ohne Gott in German and it's absolutely appropriate.
I liked Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald but I have not read the novel.
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Books about/on/related to suicide
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I'm looking for great literature about suicide or thematically related to that subject.
Plus points for something which will truly fuck me up.
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Bumpo
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>>9925207
my diary, desu
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the bible
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What are some /lit/ essential reading companions?
So far I have:
>Roget's Thesaurus
>Oxford English Dictionary
>A book on trees
>A book on birds
I'm seeking books that will expand my future reading and rereading experiences in this vein.
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why did you post this again, it isn't particularly good