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The dhammapada is probably good to start with. From there, it would probably be wise to start shopping between theravada and mahayana and vajrayana and zen... and your teacher will probably also suggest books of a certain sect.

I've read and enjoyed rupert guthin's Foundations of Buddhism so I'd suggest that.
Gives a good overview of the history of buddhism and philosophical/religious ideas in it as well as the difference in texts and attitudes between theravada and mahayana.

>nonfiction
>buddhism
>same sentence
>haha

soon you're going to be sober, and then you're going to be bored, and then you'll unnerstand, again, why

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>>9875322
>Is all air
No, everything is water.

>>9875322
read non fiction for a while. use books for learning.

>>9875139
Not funny, stale, gay, retarded.

Welcome to /lit/. Now delete your garbage post and try again.

Accessible to nearly all, easily sharable, inspiring to many.

>>9875139
Milk=Sperm
Honey=Female Discharge
Not even kidding.

>>9875122
That's what happens when the only reason you're a writer is for fame and fortune. He got rich. Literally zero incentive for him to finish.

Stopped reading the Books, because this PoS keeps pushing the release back by 6 months to a year everytime he's asked about it.

At this point I am certain he's finished with the entire series, but just holding them until the HBO show, and its upcoming spinoff is done.

Unless the fuck croaks first.

>>9875127
He wasn't even that popular before the HBO series came out

well seeing as Kripke revolutionized modal logic while he was still in high school

I would have to say yes

agreed

>>9875052
Well analytic philosophy is basically high-level mathematical logic whereas continental philosophy borders on high-level verbal masturbation so I'd argue yes although at the same time I also wouldn't say that's the only valid opinion.

Well it's just because it makes you look like an idiot and vonnegut is important to him. They're really nothing alike at all, so you just found a dumb way of saying "vonnegut is shit lol".

Have you read breakfast of champions?

"haha Vonnegut is a pleb redditor drugstore paperback author!!"
>fought in the second world war
>went to his mother's house on leave to celebrate mother's day and found her body
>scout for the 106th division during the Battle of the Bulge (almost entirely annihilated and all survivors captured), captured after his unit were assigned a "quiet sector" that turned out to encounter the main brunt of the german forces in their final offense
>prison trains on the way to Saxony were bombed by their own side
>witness/survivor of the bombing of Dresden
>entire city enveloped in a firestorm
>forced by germans at gunpoint to dig out bodies for days
>Purple Heart
haha yea what a stephen king tier writer

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his job would have been to stack bodies like this

>>9874859
You haven't read bizarro, right? https://eraserheadpress.com/

my diary baka

>>9874859
James Joyce's letters
Napoleon's pathetic letters to Josephine

>>9874816
you mean gnostic, only the demiurge could have created a universe so perverse and violent as ours.

>>9874816
Why?

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This book made me an autist.

>>9874671
Christian esotericism is just disguised witchcraft and heresy, disgusting

Before we prove you wrong provide some evidence for your claim.

Brandon Sanderson is known as one of the best modern fantasy writers, and he still manages to throw out 3-4 great books a year. He's prolific as fuck. He already got his claim to fame as the guy who wrote the best three Wheel of Time books (something that he was approached and asked to do, not a goal of his originally), but he continues due to his pure love of writing. He does lectures in universities on implementing magic systems in fantasy worlds, again something he isn't required to do for fame or money.

>>9874664
>authors want to be published

No.
Fucking.
Way.

he should write a redpilled pua book on how to fuck ur grad students, one of those alt-right crowdsourcing sites would fund the shit out of it

>disdain for plebs

>>9874522
He was about to once more molest one of his female students, probably of asian descent.

I haven't read much by him, but I like the man. I find it inspiring how he changed his life.

Seven Storey Mountain has been on my list for a while.

I like his anti-poetry. mutli-volta, nice rhythm, you should check it out. would you recommend his translation of the tao?

>>9874344

I think that you are a despicable person, Wolfsheim, and if your intention is to ruin my life I'll gladly ruin yours too, if that's what it takes to live or die with some dignity. Do what you will, but know that you already killed who I once was: you now contend with what you've created.

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>>9874296
yes

>>9874296
I've only read the first book but it felt redundant since I watched the show. The show drifts more from the later books so maybe the reading experience will be better then.

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>>9874296
Honestly a good read. It made me hate the show though.

My Dong is on Fire 2

>>9874138
Catch her in the Rhye

>>9874138
my diary desu

>>9874076
lol no, they'd rather talk about sports

>>9874076
With my dad, almost daily. My brother too.

>>9874076
Yeah, mom has a masters in English, dad's retired and now reads a bunch of nonfiction about American wars and shit, brother reads philosophy.