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>>9905449

Honestly I really liked Holden and related to him at the time.

I read the book when I was in highschool and had a hedonistic lifestyle, so for me it was like a new hope.

I need to re-read it soon

Both, why do we need to act like these are mutually exclusive?

He's very whiny, but he's also likeable and often his whining is kind of insightful.

>>9905550
I didn't find him likeable or insightful.

>>9905390
>Why does Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn have two underage fags who probably haven't read 2 books in their life?

Pretty accurate to the books

Just dont buy wordsworths if you care about that shit. It's really not about their covers, the print is usually dreadful. My copy of The Essential Kafka has sloping text for half the book.

>>9905396
No, I meant the actual guys who were photographed.

>>9905389
why buy the whole corpus if you don't know if you like it. just go to the library

also it depends on your interests

Just read Wittgenstein and then you can stop worrying about this stupid shit.

Nietzsche

>>9905373
Husserl is apparently experiening a revival due to Phenomenology having great interest to current work in understanding AI and cognition

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>direct or indirect contributions to anything other than philosophy itself
It appears you have no clue about Deleuze on architecture, Debord and Baudrillard on media, Hubert Drefyus on artificial intelligence research (seriously go and read the funniest article in the entirety of Wikipedia right now), in literary studies you have Barthes, the man that murdered the Author...

But these are all very recent examples, why don't we go all the way back, to Kant's Critique of Judgement and its effects on Romanticism's quest for the Sublime? Even a guy like Goethe who wasn't the biggest fan of the aptly named Kant, and the writing thereof, had to acknowledge the Third Critique.

Or what about certain political movements and that guy, what's his name again, Hmm... I think it was Xarl Mark? Something like that.

If aything it's analytic philosophy that has to prove itself, matey.

Analytic "political" "philosopher" Rawls is held up as a heroic visionary when in fact he was a fucking idiot celebrity who wrote a book full of big words.

>get up early
>do all readings twice, take notes
>start papers the day you are given the prompt, work steadily
>study for a a few days before each exam
Literally all you have to do

>>9905298
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/

You have to build a foundation of sloth. Easy teachers for a semester with all As is great, especially if you are building up your gpa with a liberal arts degree as you go pre-med or something

>>9905303
>>9905304
I should have included the fact that I have ADD and was put into 7 AP classes because my parents made me. Any help on that note? Otherwise, thank you.

Or any thing that presents a radical break with French theory from Derrida to now

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Start with the Marxists

They argued amongst each other all the time. Everyone wanted a piece of Foucault, I swear. Baudrillard scholars even wrote Forget Baudrillard.

From what's left of the Frankfurt School (yes) you have pic related here: >>9905345

Still in Continental philosophy you have Manifesto of New Realism by Maurizio Ferraris et al. from Italy's Nuovo Realismo.

On the other side of the pond are the Speculative Realists.

And does DFW count?
https://biblioklept.org/2010/12/22/david-foster-wallace-defines-poststructuralism/

come on

This subject may be beyond /lit/'s ken

99% of what you are reading are modern japanese versions, trying to read kobun knowing only modern japanese is like trying to read latin knowing only english.

>he has such fat dorito fingers that he hit the "w" key instead of the "e"

>>9905133
just sort of out of it from waking up so early

>>9905167

This is actually a good, upbeat response. I feel bad for the dorito thing now.

Finish jerking off and read some Plato.

Women are pathetic garbage. Plato is forever.

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>>9905040
heh, welcome to the water, kid

>>9905046
Jerk off and waste that precious Eros that leads the philosopher to give birth in beauty? What are you a full on pleb?

welcome to the water

>>9904925
All language is inheritance. You'll not be able to avoid speaking as others before you have spoken. In the beginning you will doubtless use the thoughts and styles and idioms of others as crutches until you can learn to walk on your own. But if you continue growing as a thinker and writer, eventually you will have your own unique perspective (which will in large part be informed by hose you've read the most and admire) from which you'll be able to write.

Also, think of Bloom's theory of anxiety of influence. He thinks every great writer fears that everything that could possibly said has already been said, and been said better by his literary forebears than he'll ever be able to. Nevertheless the great writer continues insistently to write, to craft his own worldview, to develop his own style, to mould his own characters, in spite of this dogging fear. You are not immune from this feeling. Neither are you guaranteed success in this cut-throat competition spanning millennia. But you can at the very least rest assured that you are not alone in this feeling, and moreover, the fact that you have this feeling indicates you are already on the right track to feeling about your writing as many great writers starting out also felt.

>>9904945
This is really cheered me up anon. I am still young and don't have much life experience and I think it's the main thing that leads me to this fear. I just want to write about what I think and about stuff that I find interesting. Thank you for this post man.

Pool's Closed

You too will die.

Just press the "iterate" button and the cellular automata will do their thing. No need to get anxious about it.

>>9904850
Culture of Critique Series by Kevin McDonald

>>9904851
Those books are overrated on here though.

>>9904853
Nah, they're probably the most insightful thing you'll ever read if you gave it a chance, bluepilled drone

Family is that way

>>9904767
Did you read Lolita? :^)

>>9904767
It's probably not your voice, but intonation.
You have to really ham up varying your voice to engage kids. Way more than you'd be inclined to.
Hop on Vocaroo and see if we can give you some more direct feedback?

For pure quality issues: about a third of the way in. Maybe 40% of the way, max, but that's it. If the book is still trash by that point, it's unlikely it'll improve by the end.

On the other hand, if quality isn't the issue so much as tedium/difficulty is, then I'll just give up whenever I feel like it.

>>9904736

I always give any book at least 100 pages. If it still sucks by then, then I might give up, but it happens rarely.

>>9904736
It took me 400 pages of the Grapes of Wrath to realise Steinbeck can't write proper characters. I seriously did not care if they made it to California or not.