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>>9904720
Kevin McDonald's Culture of Critique Series

>>9904720
start with the greeks

>>9904720
Harry Potter.

That's it.

I borrowed it and was disappointed, having had binged on akutagawa/mishima/soseki for weeks before I got to it.. 7/10 at best.

>>9904701
>going out of town to get it used
I think you can safely use it within town limits.

>>9904701
lol just download it

>>9904599
>not savouring what you're reading

>>9904619
I read books for the acquisition of knowledge dumb cunt. I don't participate in the "escape from reality", le I enjoy the art of book meme. I read books to learn, the slower I read the less I learn. I don't read fiction bullshit unless it has elements of sound philosophy in it.

>>9904655
>not reading PROFOUND LITERATURE
You can read fiction and still learn things, you silly boy.

>>9904568
The Old Testament is the original
The New Testament is the sequel
The Quran is the director's cut with commentary edition of both of them put together.

>>9904568
the bible is more like a reboot really

>>9904573
The Quran is closer to being a Middle Eastern knockoff that steals characters and ideas, but completely misses the point.

It is gimmicky and makes no attempt to hide it and Calvino revels in it. It is a very good book regardless of it having a gimmick and it is impressive what he can do with it. It is a very charming and humorous read and you'll find conspiracies, paranoia, humor abound and a lot of musings on books.

Probably in my top 3 books read this year.

Can anyone place all the real-life analogs of the authors in the book? So far I've got Mishima, Flann O'brien and Nabokov

>>9904459
>you checked it out from the library but you don't have the time to read it just yet. you intend to start it in the next few weeks. you want to know, is it good or is it gimmicky?
>an anon approaches you on the matter
>you understand he's put it in his top three books read this year but you discern something within the text that suggest he spends more time in train stations than an adult man not employed by the transport authority should.
>you are unsure how to proceed which is probably the best course of action considering the preceding.
>you consider the possibility that this stranger is hanging out in train stations because he's some kind of pervert who values free wifi more than dignity as things proceed with or without you

Joey loved it, so probably not

Absolutely not.
It's very cheesy and incoherent, the fact that King hated the film (which I think is a masterpiece) speaks to his inherent pleb sensibilities.

Both the book and movie are good for different reasons. If youre interested then def try it. If you dont like it then drop it.

>>9904187
you should hide your politics, in fact you should hide your writings because you sound like a major faggot

nobody is impressed by the radical centrist pseud faux-libertarian joe rogan stance that shit is fucking autistic

>>9904213
>needs to take a shit

>>9904213
>nobody is impressed by the radical centrist pseud faux-libertarian joe rogan stance that shit is fucking autistic
why are we trying to force people to take sides on things they dont understand

this is why the greeks never spoke of freedom as an amulgation of "rights" positive or negative, abilities 'granted' or provided for, or abilities 'not prevented'

They spoke of freedom as a quality of character ie "the free man". At least beginning to think about this distinction between freedom as a quality of men, and the modern political notion of freedom being exclusively something which describes MEN in a polity

>>9904227 (cont)

will lead you in a direction to think about this

>>9904227
Maybe this is an ok response with regard to enlightenment era notions of natural Rights, but how does this relate to Sartre? The notion of freedom of modern existentialism is not a rights-based notion of freedom. Freedom is not even a secondary 'quality' of man.

Man is fundamentally free, because he is ontologically -just- open being, that is never set or determined but always becoming. Man's possibilities cannot ontologically be distinguished from his realitas.

why was she so cold to him?
Bitch ruined his life cause she didn't get to go to Europe

>>9904088
>Why was a woman an emotionless monster?
read that again slowly

>>9904073
>Are we supposed to empathise with his passiveness, or disdain it?
Well what's your reaction, you fucking asshole.
Do you honestly believe the author wanted every reader to come to one and the same particular conclusion?

FUCK OFFF

Depends on how difficult it is.

If its hardcore Joyce or something probably like 2 week.

If its like genre fiction then like 2-3 days.

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>>9903997
roughly 3 weeks

>>9903997
I can do about 100-120 pgs. / day of genre, 40 of a "hard" book. I get bored with reading pretty easily.

Gospel of thomas is literally the only thing worth reading in it.

>>9903907
t. Orthodox

>>9903920
Nah I'm an esoteric chinese trad folk religion practitioner/daoist.
Christianity is stupid but the gospel of thomas is the the most worthy western religious book.

>>9903853
>he actually got memed into McElroy
nobody here has actually read him

>>9903917
sheeeeeeeeeeeeit

>>9903853
>eliminate my own map
is this supposed to be an infinite jest reference

Who you play in RPGs says a lot about the man you will become

"it is only by life that a man reveals what he is, and it is only in so far as he reveals himself that he exists at all. Life is the manifestation of character, of the something that we understand by that word; and it is not in life, but outside of it, and outside time, that character undergoes alteration, as a result of the self-knowledge which life gives. Life is only the mirror into which a man gazes not in order that he may get a reflection of himself, but that he may come to understand himself by that reflection; that he may see what it is that the mirror shows. Life is the proof sheet, in which the compositors’ errors are brought to light. How they become visible, and whether the type is large or small, are matters of no consequence. Neither in the externals of life nor in the course of history is there any significance; for as it is all one whether an error occurs in the large type or in the small, so it is all one, as regards the essence of the matter, whether an evil disposition is mirrored as a conqueror of the world or a common swindler or ill-natured egoist. In one case he is seen of all men; in the other, perhaps only of himself; but that he should see himself is what signifies." -schopenhauer

>>9903862
i always play the pet build, what does my future hold?

>>9903725
No, agnostic just means "I don't believe I have enough information to know for sure one way or another". It makes perfect sense.

>>9903725
>By having a possibilty of believing, you admit there is something beyond your comprehension
No, by having a possibility of believing, you admit that there MIGHT be something, not that there IS. And the matter doesn't hinge on whether there is something beyond one's comprehension... pretty much everyone admits that there are things beyond our comprehension, the question is whether they are divine or not.

>>9903758
>No, by having a possibility of believing, you admit that there MIGHT be something, not that there IS.
This "might" already assumes that there are unknowns, otherwise we wouldn't need to ask if there is something.

>pretty much everyone admits that there are things beyond our comprehension, the question is whether they are divine or not.
The question is not necessary as they are both divine and not as they are both placed in the unknown.

¿Donde compran sus libros?

>>9903624
>discucion

discusión*

>>9903642
/thread