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Orwell is a good begin.

Invest in a dictionary and/or dictionary app. It's also not a bad idea to start improving your vocabulary. One of the major things that impede reading enjoyment is lack of understanding, and if you can barely comprehend the words you see, that's going to fuck with your flow. And if your flow gets interrupted too often, you'll be much more likely to give up, even if you might have enjoyed the ideas within.

>>9912655
Audiobooks during menial tasks

>>9912515
you can compare chapters 25 of both the culture of critique and all of trotsky's works and note that the ability to generate an acrostic was about the same, prose slightly superior

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>>9912515
It's alright, but somewhat dry and technical (lots of detail about who said what in a meeting on X date and what their political aims were in doing that, maneuvers and supplies for different revolutionary groups, etc). I'd reccomend John Reed's Ten Days That Shook the World or the more recent October by China Mieville if you want a history of the RR. The Revolution Betrayed is better, and still the best criticism of Stalin (though, again, very in-depth).

Also, if you want a little insight into Trotsky as a person, The Man Who Loved Dogs is a great historical novel covering his last days leading up to assassination in Mexico (by the Cuban writer Leonardo Padura).

>>9912520
why the fuck do you shill this book in every fucking thread

I may also include a section on social engineering for the people who get the idea that this stuff will let them hack facebook

Concentrate on finding a way to kill Google

>>9912745
read 'The master switch' by Tim Wu

You're good.

You should get a good book on Christian mystics.

>>9912378
Would you know anything like the Corpus Hermetica?
>>9912371
does your name begin with an H

A fancy and exclusive kind of soap makes the otherwise uninteresting act of washing more compelling for a child.

>>9912352
ahhhhhh now i get it
thanks

>>9912308
>treating love letters like a thesis

A love letter shares your feelings, desires, hopes, impressions, memories and the mundane. In no particular order or form. It's about being honest. So drop the cringy poems or abstract considerations.

artful artlessness. say what you mean and mean what you say, the order is hardly important.

>>9912308
I recently took a letter writing course so I'm just going to go ahead and write it for you. No charge.

Dear faggot,
I love your ass and I love my ass. Ass fuck my ass in the ass.
Love, Faggot XXX

return of the pink panther

>>9912264
Thicc
and even if i sound like a basic bitch, Tyger Tyger.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43670/the-lamb-56d222765a3e1
>tfw christ died for our sins

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Good taste, yes, no?

The wrong experience as that's the prose translation. Shit sux but penguin is the way to go this round

>>9912337
So, go Penguin over Oxford?

>>9912163
dude if any of us owned a bookstore do you think we'd allow children?

>>9912168
True

Children's lit has inherent limitations to what can be done, and even to the degree that a children's book can sometimes deal with deep subjects, it almost always has to balance that with genuine
lightheartedness here and there.

So, the weaknesses of a YA book are venial at the end of the day. It's not "real" lit in the first place.

Sup Bacon

>Dark Ages

Did you mean to type 110, little buddy?

>>9912128

IQ is relative, you'd be a brainlet by todays standards.

>alinsky
is that a jewish name?

why'd they shrink wrap that whole pig?

imagine warming it up in the microwave and rubbing it on your dick lol

there is some merit to the 'start with the greeks' meme since they were basically the founding fathers of western thought. everything after the greeks is influenced by them, directly or indirectly.

>>9912003
I always thought I wanted to be stuffed after I died. I was wrong. I want to be shrinkwrapped.

>>9911915
>Being-for-self is the unity of
>itself or the being-in-itself
>and its changes/tendence towards change/fucking translation
>you can either call the second part or 'being for itself' being-for-one idk the translation yet memes me.

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>>9911915
>>9911932

easy

Being-for-self is the union of "itself", any finite configuration of Being, and its own performative existence in time, being-for-one - an union that results in being-for-self as the fundamental unit of being-as, which concerns everything in language and (the inevitable) rational understanding of humankind

Most everything has turned into total lib trash lately. NPR, Harpers...........those are like the two things I know for sure and I'm calling that everything.

You can have ddeath

>>9911889
NPR has always been liberal

because there is dictionary.com for free

>>9911819
Yes and you get 10% of the OED content there.

>>9911858
What in the OED is so exclusive and esoteric that it's worth pirating? It's a dictionary, anon.