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>>9699008
erowid

>>9699017
thank you very much

Try Dale Pendell's Pharmako trilogy. It combines the chemistry and effects with history and literature of the subject.

Yes, if it pleases you to think of him in that way

>>9698860
Yes, he was autistic as fuck.

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>>9698860
>that part with the officer where he autistically tried to learn how to walk like a Chad and failed

Henry Lawson is pretty gud

Impression i get as a foreigner whose never been to Australia is that your culture is dominated by your tiny urban elite, and the vast expanse where interesting stuff is happening thus never proliferates amongst the population.

>>9698857
As an Englishman I'd pick,
Humpty Dumpty and Other Nursery Rhymes Board book by Lucy Cousins
>All the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't put humpty back together again

Pretty much sums up the state of UK politics.

>>9698949
>tips fedora
>goes to /pol/
>masturbates to incest porn

>>9698692
Godot takes his sweet time.

>>9698692
The Odyssey

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>>9698707
b r a v o

if you exclude secondary characters from your list, Infinite Jest could be a contender

>>9698639
Camus and Hemingway are good places to start. People will shit on me suggesting this, but both The Stranger and The Sun Also Rises are rewarding reads.

Start with the Greeks.

>>9698639

If you still enjoy video games id advice to start with a book with a video game setting, havent read one but im sure that they are out there.

Its very important that you read out of interest and do not get forced into reading about greek gods from the start, youll do that in the future but whats more important right now is that you learn to love books.

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>>9698593

sometimes?

>>9698577
Sure, if you let it become bad for your mental health. Sometimes you need it to overcome a hurdle in your life.

However, dwelling on existentialist bullshit is not healthy and will always raise more questions than it answers until you are capable of accepting life and all of it's ups and downs as it is in all of its possibilities whatever they may be.

Also Descartes was full of shit.

>>9698577
WHEN I was little, I could not tell whether life was a dream.

When I was older, I majored in Philosophy at a prestigious university.

Now I am poor, jobless, a little bit gay, and no closer to a solution.

I think Delillo is the most overrated out of all the postmodernists. It's like he tried to dumb down every style, theme, and philosophy from that movement so much that any brainlet could understand it and feel intellectual. I enjoyed White Noise and Underworld enough, I just think they're too obvious, personally. I don't get that feeling, reading his works, that he's a verifiable genius and that I'm just trying to keep up, which is one of the things I look and find whenever I read his more talented peers.

>>9698515
Do you think Pynchon is a verifiable genius? Barth? Barthelme?

I'm not being sarcastic, but if your answer is yes to any of the above, can you give me a few reasons?

IMO, DeLillo is genius to the extent that he identifies these massive cultural ghosts that loom over our collective unconscious (JFK, 9/11, the specter of Tech), and brings them to light in a revealing and unique way. He also writes clearly, concisely, and without too much gimmicky shit.

>>9698515
brainlet thinks he's a big man

>>9698508
bullshit/10 but libra is his best, followed closely by underworld

>>9698482
fuCK I meant *we'll* instead of will and I forgot a fucking question mark like a fagoli

>>9698482
and when I say outgoing I mean Jake's character is driven whereas Meursault is much more indifferent

No,travis bickle from taxi driver is. The writer even cites The stranger as an influence for the film

>>9698439
Kafka, Hesse and Remarque are good.
I enjoyed Goodbye Lenin and Downfall as well.

>>9698439
I have recently graduated second level education so I'm maintaining French until I get into university.

I'm just reading some books mainly. I'm reading Satre's Huis Clos. For aural work I watch children's cartoons. Seriously, they help. You should find some German cartoons. The language isn't too complex and it feels great to understand something in a foreign language when you watch one regardless of it's complexity.

I had to learn how to have a basic conversation on topics such as family, school, friends, hobbies, plans for the future, etc as part of my French studies.

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Good German series is Generation War and Der untergang is a good movie. Helped me when I was learning German.
Has anyone used Rosetta Stone to learn a language? Was considering getting it to learn Russian

READING GROUP

I checked out the epub and it's boring I need help bros

>>9698427
I just finished smugglers bible and it was boring as fuck. Which is weird because his other books were great. Hope this isn't the same.

doesnt the author himself hate this book?

>>9698375
Some sort of critique of reason I'm guessing

>>9698375
Reading atm critique of judgment and he is an astonishing philosopher, but boring and repetitive as fuck.

Excellent sleep aid.

>>9698364
Don't even bother with hacks like Derrida and Foucault.

Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Ethics, Politics, Metaphysics; Descartes Discourse on the Method, Kant's Critique of pure reason, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil.

Read/Listen along with these Leo Strauss's lectures on Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Politics and Ethics (these are available on the Leo Strauss centre website); Kojeve's Introduction to the reading of Hegel, Carl Schmitt's The Concept of The Political.

>>9698364
>he hasn't read Nietzsche first
>he hasn't read Heidegger first
just stop now tumblrette you'll never be an intellectual stick to sipping coffee worthless whore!!!

Dude these books are crafted to perfection. Each word takes like 10 minutes to write.

>>9698331
>worshipping words
Look at this boring aesthete

Because melville was of a class of people who actually devoted his life to his craft, not thinking arrogantly that he can create masterpieces while working a STEM-job, because writing is just a "fun hobby." you can't master the english language by writing a couple hours after work

Poland in general is a fantastically underrated country. What inspired you to learn Polish might I ask? I picked up a bit before when I dated a Polish lady and travelled there a bit, very fun language but really difficult.

Joseph Conrad is definitely my favourite Polish author but I'm not sure about his Polish language stuff. Andrzej Stasiuk has a very good reputation might be worth checking out

>>9698253
Polish literature is amazing. Romanticist poetry and prose are surely great, Non-divine Comedy by Krasinski is easily a masterpiece but I'm not sure if it's within your reach, the language gets kinda hard. Newer stuff, and easier to read - obviously Lalka, by Prus (but I guess you've got that figured if he's on your pic rel), Sienkiewicz, then basically entire 20th century is worth reading - the poetry gets ridiculously good (Lesmian, Czechowicz, then Herbert, Miłosz), and the duo Schultz - Gombrowicz is the pinnacle of prose really. Also Witkacy. Wyspiański.
That's the tip of an iceberg basically.

Tadeusz Konwicki