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>>9767057
The Book of the New Sun

The Recognitions. Finished last November. I havent read anything over 400 pages since.

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>>9767091
Cheating

>Any good?
no.
Evola is ok

Ironpill reading list

Yeah they're pretty good

>>9766441
Literally every one of these book covers: the face is concealed, missing, or otherwise aggressive towards the viewer. Why is that? Ironpill readers afraid of something?

Great thread man

>>9766331
Good luck, gentle reader.

Finally, someone posting a thread about this book. It's been so long, or at least I feel like it's been long, since this book was discussed. The anatomy is a great piece of art, once you manage to not get caught up in all the references. But hey, that's part of the fun. Really great work all together

Confessions of a Mask is the starting point when it comes to Mishima.

>>9766123
People tend to dump on "The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea" but I think it's a nice short introduction to Mishima. It's pretty bleak and LOTF-esque in places but it explores themes that you'll see in other Mishima works.

If you're feeling a little more ambitious try "Spring Snow".

>>9766123
>Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Read this first. It's great.

Confessions and Sailor are also terrif. The order doesn't matter so much. Sailor is quite different than, but closer in tone to Temple, than is Confessions, which feels like a memoir.

All three will bring that dark cloud over your head that is peculiar to the author -- his brand, if you will, as much as Kafka's strangeness was *his* brand.

Prepare to enter the darkness that is Mishima.

Couldn't into Spring Snow.

Roko's Basilisk.

The Great Filter

Deterritorialised consciousness beep boop.

I just made a discord chat too, if you would like to join and talk there: https://discord.gg/q8VkR4m

I'd love to read Philosophical Investigations. I'd be down to read it and the H&B commentary and try (as I might) to clarify stuff for people who don't want to bother with the commentary on the first pass.

I'd also want to read On Certainty and Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, if people are up for it. I think both are pretty short.

I could fairly seriously commit to it, starting next week or so.

>>9765753

>On Certainty and Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics

Those are my favs from Wittgenstein. On Certainty is a good choice because its short and doesnt build off other works so much, but I would love to re-read Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics. That one was great.

>>9765706
help

>>9765706
Try going to school, faggot.

>>9765992
thanks for the bump friend

>>9765694
the increasing gentrification of my neighbourhood and the surrounding area means there's a shit load of "book exchanges" opening so when I'm done with a mass market paperback piece of shit I can swap it for some idiots copy of Nathan Hill's The Nix.

That said, I don't do this for every book. Just the shit.

no. maybe if they took up more memory space on my computer I would have to delete the ones I wasn't too fond of. but since they are small files I don't mind keeping the stinkers as well

>>9765694
>tfw no minimalist asian milf to give you handies on the bare floor

>>9765519
What??? You mean there's hiveminds everywhere ???

this

they're shit irl

I have unironically been introduced to some truly great literature on this board. Without /lit/ I wouldn't know about Borges, for example.

Panic anxiety disorder, bipolar depression and severe agoraphobia. It has left him in a state of suffering where he can do nothing but reflect on the nature of suffering.

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He sees the futility of existence and the nobility of suicide but also sees it as a meaningless act that neither alleviates nor overcomes the hollow condition of life. So, he contents himself to be an observer and artist in the face of the all-encompassing void within the human heart. That is, until one day when he wakes up on the wrong side of the bed and immediately retreats into his closet to tie his belt around the doorknob and his throat and say the last goodbye.

he THINNKS life is VERY BAD and that WE SHOULDN'T - live BECAUSE we SUFFFER

But guilty, here's the thing, guilty of what, because in this book nobody ever says what it is K is being accused of. Are you implying that being guilty is a state in and of itself, non-transitive so to speak, or that this is something the book is saying. I don't know.

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He was guilty of being born, poor lad.

>>9761547
I'm saying that K. knows (or thinks) he's guilty - of something. But he won't admit it to himself.

Else I find it hard to explain his strange behaviour. And frankly, at certain points what must be hallucinations or his mind going.

Like the whipping scene. He sees the wardens being whipped and then the next day opens the same door and sees exactly the same thing in the lumber room. Or how the cathedral goes completely dark in the middle of the day.

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Simple. Because J.K. Rowling would be a lot less richer.

Probably some bullshit reason like "eeew muggle weapons"

because there are no bombs in his universe

I would be interested in an overview of Arab thought

I don't have the time to read the originals

>>9761092

Al-Farabi's The Attainment of Happiness, Al-Ghazali's The Incoherence of Philosophers, Avicenna's The Book of Healing, Sohrevardi's The Book of Radiance, and Averroes' The Incoherence of Incoherence provide the best summary of Medieval Arabian philosophy.

If you haven't already, I would recommend reading some of Plato's, the Neoplatonic's and Aristotle's works, because these philosophers were heavily inspired by Hellenic thought, especially regarding their Theology I.e. The One, and Logic. Read Plato's The Republic, Timaeus, Phaedo, and Parmenides; Aristotle's Organon (essential), Ethics, Physics, Metaphysics, and On the Soul; Plotinus's The Enneads, and then Procleus's Elements of Theology and Theology of Plato. You'll be much happier for doing so.

>Arabs
>Philosophy
Pick one.

das kapital

>>9752344
There has to be a picture somewhere...

>>9752351
I tried searching but couldn't find it

Yes you can write the YA novel bridging the gap between the fault in our stars and 50 shades of grey

>>9768177
>that picture
yeah, that's about the time I stopped sitting on office chairs.

>>9768177
Eh. don't write about his quivering manroot and her moaning lusthole and you should be fine, I think.