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>buying books
the prince

Woah to choose between those should come down to who you are right now OP...

Why start with books like those if you're not already a reader? You will only get bored and never read anything again. Pick up something like Martian by Andy Weir or The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams instead.

Old guy creates an android that looks like him at a young age, fucks him.

>>9792821
LOLOLOL. are you a pleasure model?

>>9792610
A circus clown goes on a rampage to destroy Pepsi because a Pepsi truck killed his wife.

>>9792536
Put some effort in next time

MOM'S

>>9792536
It's actually a pretty neat critique on work dignifies a men.

I hope you get smashed by a giant apple.

do they?
isn't that like saying that the fact rain falls isn't the reason everything gets so uniformly wet when it rains?

>>9792222
because capitalism and the market demand a completely malleable subject that exists only as a subject of technical administrative manipulation.

>>9792231
ding ding

>every read this
>every
kek

>>9792138

that was funny

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>every read this
ok

>>9792012
>The divine comedy ... is often considered a part of christian mythos

By whom? What are your sources?

A better example may have been Paradise Lost. It's shocking how many people unknowingly draw their theology from Milton.

But I see your point. I've always thought the classic DC comics sort of have their own mythos going since the characters have been iconic for so long. I don't know that I'd lump Diana in with Greek mythos, since there are no cultural ties to the source and it's so far removed chronologically.

I consider her part of both. Many civilizations, religions, etc. have differing accounts of the stories within the same lore. You could also argue that non-canonical texts belong by proxy in their pantheon.

>>9791894
I just finished American Psycho and it was far more fucked up than the movie, much beyond my expectation

>>9791929
Yeah, that's actually what I'd heard. I'll check it out thanks!

>>9791894
I was gonna say naked lunch, but seeing how it's already on your list i'm gonna say Maldoror and anything by Marquis de Sade

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my recommendation is you read a fucking book

everyone has "ADHD"

>>9791839
but anon i always lose interest in what i read. Even if i enjoy the book i still get bored

>>9791818
read a book you actually like

Grothendieck was fun. Read up on his life when you're done with your daily shitposting and lifewasting on /lit/.

Why the fuck would I agree with that premise? Is it supposed to be obvious?

>>9791701
Yet another brainlet pissed off that the shithole that is /sci/ made a fool of him, I see.

Read the Art of the Deal by President Donald J. Trump.

a lot of machiavelli's tips really are only good for heads of state, sure there are some business applications, but not as many as one would like

>>9791571
fap to traps

How is "can't get any" a double negative? It's just a negation of "can get any."

Do you realize that this is not his opinion but that of the field of linguistics?

>>9791569
>prescriptivism
oh anon

>>9791524
You have a few shit books with you already, so take Joyce

Proust, definitely.

Nice bait tho, what do you really expect of something like this from an anglo site? Obviously Joyce (a capital name) is gona have all the recognition in retarded vs liek your shitpost.

>>9791524
There aren't any Parisian overtones in Ulysses. Proust would seem the most ideal here, especially in light of your other books.

>>9791517

Self help, throw it away

>>9791517
>What the fuck is this book?
Kindling.

>>9791517
You are supposed to not give a damn about it

i think they were probably nice person

>>9791502
Green

i have the same, read the first book, started the second but stopped early on. started reading it again literally an hour before seeing this thread, wow.

i thought the first one was pretty good but im just too lazy to read which is why i gave up. glad to be starting the second again..i would say give it a try

Western society would improve tenfold if this were to be immediately implemented.

sounds pretty good to me desu

>>9791486
reading philosophy 2000 years after it was writen should be iterpreted ad not taken literarrly platos point that can be derved from his writings on the republic were relevant to westeren political theory in the sense that the state should work as a whole rather than having odd parts da do not work in the common good (which is prescribed by the state). Ancient phiosopers weer very idealistic as you can most likely tell by the things they wrote. they lacked the foundation to transcend from the theoretical to how this ideas would acctualy work in practice. what you can dereive from his writigns is that deviation from the norms isnt good for the state in the longterm. This would mostly be applicable in the modern (or post-modern) political theory as the need for the state to establish a value system to keep people from differeing from each other too much. the more similar people are the more they will undersand each other, the more they understand eachother the less conflicts will occure and the less conflict the republic has the more they wil work together as a whole.