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>>10019310
Start with the Greeks

adolf hitler - my struggle

Plato
Aristotle
Hölderlin
Husserl
Hegel
Kant
Schlegel
Schelling
Fichte
Dilthey
St. Augustine
Kierkegaard
Jordan Peterson
Brentano
Nietzsche

Books are also very pretty (voire beautiful) objects, why getting rid of them? They look cool and comfy in my room

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>he pooped on his own face and than cryed

>>10019363
I get rid of brand-new books I didn't enjoy enougj to keep, so I trade in second-hand bookstores for more books so as to reduce the money I spent on that book.

Books I already bought used I keep even if I didn't like much, because the trade-value is so ridiculously low it is more worth to keep it

>>10019132
Selective and superficial learning of history reveals to us the worst the alternatives have to offer, and our current system uses this knowledge to paint itself in the image it wants to have. If it is not enough for you, democracy has shown its true nature; what has been seen, can not be unseen.

You can now consider the alternative models, namely monarchy and communism. Communism is utopian garbage and fails everywhere. Monarchies have been the weapon of the people against the oligarchs throughout history.

>>10019208
What about Anarchism?

>>10019220
Anarchism doesn't exist. It's a transitory power vacuum.
From anarchism comes feudalism. Every single time.

>>10019098
PLEB

>>10019098
Because they're targeted toward children

>>10019098
Because you're a fucking manchild and there's no hope for you. You disgust me. At least the fags who read pleb fantasy like The Name of the Wind aren't reading books for literal children.

>>10019084
/pol/s problem isnt their ideas, some are quite reasonable.

It is their lack of subtlety and nuance that disgusts me.

It would save /a/

>>10019084
Reading anything denser than infographics would save /pol/

>>10019062
Just finished reading it to my daughter. She was struck by Constance the Brutal, and loved Cluny

>>10019062
Had to stop reading this to my daughter after she asked me what the day of the rope is. Very, very inappropriate book.

>>10019062
damn this brings back memories

what a good series, also otter master race

>>10019044
man can't live on bread alone

>>10019044
Good thing we got industrialized then, because antinatalism is the way and the more people that realize this, the better.

>>10019053
Fpbp

The people in your example are still slaves to the industrial society

>>10018934
Huysmann's La Bas
Meryinck's Golem
Walden, Henry Adams' Mt. St. Michel and Chartres, Flaubert's A Sentimental Education....
All top tier comfy, except perhaps Walden which I find so, nonetheless.

I'm going to be rereading the anatomy of melancholy.
And frost's North of Boston.

>>10019075
I literally can't imagine reading Anatomy anywhere but at home, at night. It really is comfy in the sense of shutting out the loud, modern world around you and reveling in, while studying, the past. There's a really great quotation in it about some European librarian who "shut the door to vice" when he sat down to read in peace; will post the passage when I get home.

>>10018919
Harry Potter is my preferred fiction

Have you read the bible before?

Honestly, read the KJV then learn greek and hebrew
that'd have a more impact

>>10018955
That would be my plan, but since I'm in my late 20s, I don't feel as if I'll be able to learn another language, let alone two.

And no, I grew up baptist, so naturally I never read the Bible.

>>10018641
I've got Women and Factotum.

Breddy gud. Debauchery, drinking, loose women.

I've only read one of his short stories collection. Can't remember the name but it wasn't really worth it.

If your time is limited I think you can pass.

>>10018641

If you're in college and a girl

>>10018559
cool. great post, dude.

He's not not wrong, you see.

>>10018559
lmao read the upanishads

>>10018515
Reading poetry in a foreign language is pretty hard.
t. frog who struggle to read Shakespeare

>>10018525
then what, should i kill myself? I just want to read baudellaire in f french, le temps est court ou l art est long

>>10018698
You should probably start with something lighter. I don't know how far the french tree at duolingo goes, but Baudellaire is pretty difficult even for a native speaker. Try to start with novels. Maybe read something you already read in translation. Start with something recent, the language hasn't changed much since the sevententh century, but the style has gotten lighter. If you really want to read Baudellaire then go for it, you don't need to understand to read.

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>Burger, burger, burger, burger'n'freedom-fries, author, burger, burger, Burger

>>10018453
Barthelme is a hack.

>>10018569
Kys faggot. I'm English and refuse to read translations until I'm out of English works to read. sorry only Americans are pushing English literature forward. I'M FUCKING STUCK IN HERE WITH PLEBS

it's all in my diary desu

>>10018429
imagine if they put william gaddis' face on a US bank note. This is an equivalent display of disrespect for the artist at hand

>>10018447
So the movie's pretty much a misrepresentation?

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He's a Jewish atheist who wore a fedora and wrote The Future of an Illusion.

>>10018399
And a genius

>>10018380
Stop shitting up this board

>>10018408
*tips*