Any more books like this?
Philosophical fiction I mean.
How's Doors of Perception?
Doors of Perception is a book about his experiences taking mescaline. The Island is a book of fiction that you'd probably like. It's his last work.
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>>9820144
He's written more books than you have.
>>9820144
>Schwartz [the actual writer] expressed regrets about his involvement and he and the book's publisher, Howard Kaminsky, asserted that Trump had played no role in the actual writing of the book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump:_The_Art_of_the_Deal
trump's semi-illiterate
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Is there a general guide for reading analytic philosophy?
Let's take Quine's "Two Dogmas of Empiricism". What would I need to understand it fully?
I have the general idea that you'll require reading Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, and Carnap, plus an actual study into formal logic, but what else so that I wont be caught off guard? Any books which give a great guide for getting into analytic philosophy like this?
How do you finish a book in which so many of the characters are unlikable?
I'm reading this book here, and everyone is either a submissive and enslaved muslim woman or an irrational and abusive muslim manchild. There isn't even a plot. It's just reading about their godawful interactions.
Tell me what the big deal about The Dark Tower is. I've only read King's short stories and one novel.
What's the benefit of listening to an audiobook? Why do people listen to audiobook when they're about to sleep?
Well sounds stimulate the eardrum with vibrations that are transducted into electric signals that pass through networks of neural association, triggering phenomena to appear in awareness in a manner dictated by memories and the content specific to the vibrations, which are, ideally, labelled somewhat accurately by the name and blurb of the audiobook and therefore selected purposefully by each listener based on the series of apparitions in awareness that occurred during the time of download.
>>9819717
I didn't ask what listening to audiobook feels like nerd
>>9819730
And I didn't describe it, I merely described the process by which audiobooks present themselves within the brain, body, and mind, thus insinuating that the benefits and motivations for audiobooks would be different depending in the person and the audiobook, and thus further insinuating that your question was ill-thought and essentially, dare I say, stupid, and frankly undeserving of the two answers already awarded thus far.
So we can all agree that the pic related is the best fantasy series since LotR right?
>>9819685
No. I gave up like 700 pages in. Shallan ruins the entire book. Her chapters are gay as fuck and the writing is cringeworthy.
god no
Are there any recent attempts (books) at debunking our excessive trust of data and over glorification of statistics as having intrinsic meaning? As a physics grad I find it pretty frustrating that no one in my field actually tries to go beyond their self fulfilling prophecies of models ("you see this graph? it clearly shows WHY x happens, because it shows HOW x moves in relation to y!"). Popper tried so hard, and got so far, but in the end it didn't even matter.
I got a Greek gf. What should I read to understand their cultural background and identity as a people?
>yes I've read Homer and started with the fucking Greeks
i'm reading pic related bc she gave me as a gift, it's an interesting read so far. It has some good peaks in the prose, but has some unpolished edges I guess. Someone has other suggestions?
The history of the Ottoman empire.
>>9819540
Perhaps Henry Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi. The Greeks I know are both easy-going and exceptionally moral, family-oriented and very private with respect to family affairs. Like Bulgarians they loathe the Turks, which is unfortunate because Istanbul is perhaps the coolest city in the world.
Thoughts?
Should I bother with the first part?
>hayek
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
don't bump your dead threads, let them die and make better ones
>>9820216
okay
I'm currently a year and a half into studying French.
So far, I've read Le Petit Prince, L'étranger, and Bonjour Tristesse in their original tongue.
What are some good novels in French for beginners? I believe I'm on the cusp of B1 and B2, but I still consider myself a beginner.
Aidez-moi, s'il vous plaît. Merci beaucoup.
Verne
Dumas
Rimbaud's poetry is not that hard in french but listen to versions on youtube for rhythm and pronunciation.
Do you think it ever bothered him that he could need compete with Robert E Howard and Lovecraft?
>>9819350
That's his fault for trying to be the successor of lovecraft rather than his own phenomenon
>>9819350
Pretty much any writer who isn't a megalomaniac narcissist will have self doubt and compare themselves to other writers.
I never dug to deep into CAS, but I did read a bunch of August Derleth's writings, another one of their group. If you like Lovecraft, check him out. And stop worrying about 'who's the best'
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
How is sex about power?
OP is confirmed to be a virgin.
>>9819293
Something something Aedipus complex. Confidence in sexual performance is men's weak spot, on which women prey, which in turn makes them feel bad. But that power corrupts totally.
>>9819293
It's about forcefully STICKING and THRUSTING your COKK in and out to get your pleasure. And the woman, even if she wants just has to take it and be reminded of your MASCULINITY until you FUCKING CUM
POWER, LUST, SEX_______ UGHHH
I can't stop reading crime drama flicks.
How do I get good taste with books similar to this style?