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>>9780809
>Better than the Iliad
It doesn't take too much desu shamalafam

>>9780809
I liked it because it was good.

I love the story but the iliad reads far better than three kingdoms and is more beautiful.

>>9780704
good threda

Honestly I don't think everyone can derive much from creative expression. Peterson believes most people simply can't.

>>9780726
Lemme correct that. Peterson believes most people don't feel the compulsion naturally and it's something that's actually very hard to work up in yourself.

>>9780644
It's like your throat is like "naw, I got this, senpai," and starts just randomly shaking like a fucking reptile, and you have NO GODDAMN SAY IN WHAT YOUR BODY is obnoxiously spewing out like a frog-lurch into the air, and every quiver is like a shot to the fucking centre of the eyes because you can't make yourself stop. You know it's just the epiglottis being silghtly off-center with the center of your throat, and you're just literally retarded for having a dog-tongue of a throat-flap that you are entirely unable to center, and you just retard out like a fucking spazz with no apparent end in sight. You might try that thing where you let sugar dissolve at the back of your throat and risk death, and at some point you think "Fuck it: I don't even care anymore." And you find some granules to let dissolve so far back that if you hiccup, you fucking choke to death, because you're ready to die if you have to be trapped in this frog-frame for a goddamn microsecond longer, and fuck everything and everybody. I fucking hate hiccups.

Woah somebody just discovered the thesaurus

You should hold your breath for as long as you possibly can. This may well eliminate your hiccups. If it fails, the best remedy is a thorough gargle. And if even this has no effect, then tickle your nose with a feather. A sneeze or two will clear even the most persistent case.

>>9780547

I'm excited for it, anon.

People dislike him because he is open about the things that /lit/izens were taught by bullies they are supposed to be ashamed of, and as a result repressed.

>>9780547
John Greene used !!!???!???!??!? in his book once.
You do not do that.

I thought he stopped writing to focus on his being reddit: the person video career

no books

Pimp: The Story of my Life
by Iceberg Slim

A true classic

Esther villar, Schopenhauer and nessahan alita are definitely the best ones i can recall.

>>9780495
-My existence is meaning and insignificant in the grand scheme of things
-Regardless of how intelligent I believe I am, in reality my intellect is laughably pathetic compared to the real creative geniuses of the world

>>9780495
"Now, patience; and remember patience is the great thing, and above all things else we must avoid anything like being or becoming out of patience." from finnwake

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The problem with truth bombs is that they're context-specific, by which I mean 1) what appears shocking in one context is not in another. Scientific rationality was dropping truth bombs left and right at around 1650, but it's conquered the world so thoroughly now that the Medieval Christian world it destroyed has more truth bomb potential in 2017 than it did in 1617. 2) Context-specificity means that truth bombs always have arguments behind them, and it's these arguments which give them the quality of truth. Detached from the argument, they become just "bombs," ie, banalities. But:

>The scientific desire for truth is secularized Christianity.
>There is no freedom without constraint, compulsion, and hierarchy; freedom exists within a system and is not the bursting of the system.
>Concepts which oppose each other are often mutually implicating.
>Morality, particularly indignation, often motivates us, even (especially) when we try to act and think non-morally.

Oh btw if you don't give me something to read I might kill myself so please respond

please

Oblomov

>>9780448
Share your opinion to start, fuckface

>>9780448
There is a masterful performance/reading audiobook with a full cast of characters complete with atmospheric sounds and effects and music that I've probably listened to a good 20 times over now, I love it so much. It's like a sonic simulation of dublin. This bloke reviewed it better than I can:
I listened to, absorbed, choked up at, guffawed about, cackled around, and generally loved RTÉ’s 1982 dramatized, soundtracked, sound-effected, lovingly detailed recording of Ulysses, a work crammed with voices to match (if perhaps not equal) Joyce’s big fat work. This recording is not as widely available as LibriVox’s (free) full cast production or Jim Norton’s Naxos reading, but, after sampling both, I’d argue that it’s better. The Irish players bring sensitivity and humor to their roles, but beyond that pathos, the energy of RTÉ’s troupe is what really makes the book sing. Leopold Bloom gets his own voice, as does Stephen Dedalus and Molly (and all the characters). This innovation propels the narrative forward with dramatic power, and clarifies the oh-so indirectness of Joyce’s free indirect style, making the plot’s pitfalls and pratfalls more distinct and defined. There are songs (and dances) and music (and musing) and humming (and hemming and hawing and reverb). There is chanting and chawing and brouhaha. There is chaos and calamity and confusion. There is brilliance and peace and transcendence. It’s all very good, great, wonderful.

>>9780448
I think it's probably the greatest novel I've ever read, even though I'd be very generous to say I fully understood maybe 5% of all of the references etc. Frank Delaney's podcast is wonderful on it too.

>>9780523
Link?

who cares. epeen tracker with nothing worth joining for.

>>9780301
Everything I need I can find on libgen.io

Not really worth my time

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Yeah cuz I need more shitty programming books.

Read more

>>9780230
Also be smarter, but who knows maybe reading more will suffice.

Expand your vocabulary.

Once you learn a good amount of new words and commit them to memory to will be able to convey so much more in your writing or when you're discussing topics with people.

Also broaden your knowledge with a decent groundwork of philosophical study starting with Plato and some introductions to the main branches of philosophy. Once you do both, particularly vocabulary, you will sort of hit a critical mass where your thoughts just become so much easier to convey in writing and speech.

you know how i know your gay?

because your dick tastes like shit

>>9780180
Pleb knows pleb?

freud at the end of his life is pretty sad. he saw what his family was doing with his work and fell into despair.

>>9780159
>And is French worth picking over, say, Spanish or German in term of literature?
I mean which should I learn.

Learned French for two years outside of school and i didn't enjoy reading it. From the outside German looks like a better investment, especially if your interests are after 1830s. It's helpful to be able to read French though because it shows up a lot in English writing. My advice is to try it for now and see how you feel about it in 6-9 months. Become committed to whatever you end up doing so you do not waste time fretting.

>>9780215
I doubt you can enjoy reading a foreign language after just 2 years of study.

>collection of short stories

you're not gonna make it brah, short fiction is as unpopular as poetry

>>9780126
Can I be one of your beta readers? I can provide an unbiased and some what in-depth critique if you would like.

You can contact me at: [email protected]

shill it on here

we promise to only say nice things

>>9780061
don't worry, it is

if you're not sure, then yeah it is

Get other people to read it.

why are there so many books about criminals and murderers?
are writers mostly criminals expressing themselves or do they try to make people buy their book by putting titillating things in them?

It's ephobilia, and its far more common than you might think. 18+ being the acceptable age to sexualise women is a very recent and artificial phenomena.

Probably deserved to die a painful death regardless famalam.