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>>9891422

I read his memoir and I hated it. Really obnoxious style. I don't know why he was friends with DFW because the book was the epitome of "le cool irony" DFW hated.

>>9891427
Memoir is utter shit, agreed.

>>9891422
The premise was fine.
The execution was shit.
The protagonist was too unrealistic. (It really felt like a dude who forced himself to write a woman, purely based on tropes from thriller books.)
The pace was too fast.
The ending was too obvious and generally shit.
The moral was lazy.
Half the characters were so over the top, it was literally like watching an anime.
Tried too hard to be Orwellian and failed.

Honestly, had the setting been a couple decades in the future and the plot began in the middle of the companies pseudo-ebil plans, it would have fixed a bunch of issues.
Also cut half the sex scenes. They didn't add shit to the plot or character development.

>dude I'm a gay jew who hates gays and jews
>*shoots self in the head in Beethoven's house*

Was he /ourguy/?

>>9891236
he was great. Read it.

ps: he shot himself in the chest if I'm not mistaken.

otto whiny nigger

>>9891080
Are pokefuggers a cultural movement? To answer your question, yes they will, they probably already do.

>>9891105
I should have specified. There are claims that movies at least, are a source of ideas and meaning. I've read a book on environmentalists and it was claimed that their views were partly shaped by Disney movies (yes) and Lord of the Rings. So when I say cultural movement, I do not really mean any fanbase or sorts, but rather more political movements.

And I wonder if some philosophers will look into video games. Philosopher John Gray does this with tv-series, and Slavoj Zizek uses movies to put forward his ideas. But I'm unsure whatever video games have enough depth.

I've mostly played real-time strategy games, and while they might somehow creep into my worldview, they do not really have the depth to make them worthy of discussion I think. But there seem to be some games with more depth.

>>9891056
>feel lonely
>go meet or call people/parents
>hate being with people
>want to be alone again
>feel lonely
And the cycle repeats

>>9891016
You can't, you big homo.

>>9891016

Make your stories take place in the 19th century.

>>9891023
"What a gay post you have there Fine sir!"

Epictetus. OWC have an edition containing his discourses, fragments, and the Handbook. It's cheap (~10 bucks), short (~350 pages), and covers all Stoic principles in comfy Socratic-like dialogues. It's pretty much the go-to book.

Read Seneca* after that if you want hundreds of pages more about the same principles, but written much more beautifully. Arian wrote Epictetus' words in a plain style, basically for the average Joe listening to him.

*Seneca is also better at writing about death and brevity of life, if you ask me. I find that he influences the way I think about it more than Epictetus does, but that could be because of his style.

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>>9891011
This website should be the perfect place for you

>>9891091
There is a Reddit page for everything, though. Should we stop talking about all philosophical schools and all authors just because of that? What a bad idea.

>>9890928
MOrtimr adlers how t ih read a book

start with the lit essentials

you'll get vocabulary, make a habit out of reading and improve your abilities in general

Cixin Liu.

>>9890783
Is he at least half as autistic as Greg Egan?

>>9890809

He's Nick Land in scifi form. So yes.

>>9890740
>more mature
By rating or by theme?

>>9890764
Just give me the fucking elf incest anal vore you retard

>>9890764
Themes but possibly rating.
>>9891391
Not me.

>>9890648
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Still focus on those "boring ass" criminology text books and stop being such a brainlet

>>9890645
No, but I want to now. Thanks.

>>9890727
Which of book of his will you be reading (first)? I've read Reinventing the Sacred twice and chapters I find interesting several times. The other books I've read partly but I have not yet finished them.

>>thread
For those interested, Stuart Kauffman is a complexity scientist. He has written several books in which he discusses the work he has done. There is also some (scientific) speculation and philosophy in his books.

>>9890770
https://vimeo.com/30875984
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O97EdmVJ5M

I have a limited knowledge of biology and am working on improving my understanding of mathmatics, plus I have a deep stack around me that makes me feel guilty, so I'll start with these to pique my interest and then maybe by next summer I'll read one of his books - unless of course it's as fascinating as it sounds and I attempt to get into what I'm sure I'll completely misunderstand.

Are you one of those co-opting preachers looking for a good scientific backing to help you propagate dogma by any chance?

>>9890600
It was really quiet so the guy began remembering how shit his life is.

>>9890600
He's trying to warn you the prose will be insufferable for the remainder of the work and you should get out while you can.

>>9890600
What is the source of this?

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>>9890684
fpbp

>>9890354
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>>9890354
what did you see in the first one? I thought it was terrible desu

>>9891155
It had a decent mystery element going on. The writing itself was not too great but I finished it because it wasn't that long and I wanted to see how it would end. The second was when I thought the story started getting good. But along with the last few chapters being awful I'm getting annoyed that I'm two books in and the author still has not told me anything about what's going on. Everything that happens just turns out to be a test from wicked, it's getting old.

Read the sticky my dude

Also that picture seems incredibly pretentious

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You have to tell us what you like

can't go wrong with Hamlet

>>9890321
Pretentious? Looks like an oldschool funnyjunk shop to me. also I want to fuck that valley desu