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but you just ordered one, lol

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>>9670833
But I'm interested in what other people found interesting and helpful. I'd like to read several books on the matter

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>>9670729
I tattoo them on my forearms (like, real small).

I used to as a kid. I would underline words I didn't know in the book, and write the dictionary definition on the margins. I don't do that anymore, I just Google the word.

>>9670779
Me too. But reading something like Infinite Jest has made this very time consuming and annoying. What have you done in situations like that?

He is

They made wandering around in cities a science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9rive

more like the absolute neet.

>>9670662
Neither Stoicism is a cuckcore reddit philosophy. Cynicism destroyed it

Mix stoicism with absurdism

>>9670685
>calls Stoicism a cuck philosophy
>doesn't understand Stoicism
>feels superior because of his ignorance

Shakespeare

>>9670565
Shakespeare was a humanist. That is like saying The Canterbury Tales is good catholic /lit/. OP just listen to "opiate" by Tool Mkay sweetie?

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If you haven't read this then you should go ahead and get started with that.

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Hegemony and Socialist Strategy for theory
Rules for Radicals for action

The TV guide

explain how that image looks so succulent
High ISO?

Jules Verne

Thomas Merton

>>9670418
Now tell me something I don't know

>>9670418
There is no true meaning in self-delusion.

>>9670418
>implying we're not all God and we need any other meaning beyond what we decide

oh my fucking god
You read the Greeks. Homer and Sappho.
You read the Occitan Troubadours.
You read Chinese Poetry. You learn to find Chinese characters in a dictionary.
You learn Latin, old Greek, French.
Then you read.

fucking retard

no, Pound is garbage

>>9670200
Horseshit

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>>9670028
>those two mismatched books

>>9670100
what version are better to get?
are these stories all the same or they have some different vibes?

goodwill-core

no, theyre not good, theyre tom clancy tier

Please don't think that you shouldn't read something just because it's translated. Some translations are excellent and do a perfectly competent job of translating the work. It's true that you won't be reading the exact words the author wrote down, but a good translator will work to preserve the meaning, language, prose style, etc., so as to offer an experience closest to the original. The best thing you can do for yourself is sample different translations and read the one(s) that sound best to you. In general I think Constance Garnett is very good for Dostoevsky, and I'd recommend her, especially the revised versions, but you should really shop around and see what works for you.

>>9669581
Currently reading MacAndrew, it's excellent.
Avsey, McDuff, and revised/edited Garnett are also highly recommend.
Beautiful book.

I have Richard Pevear
which is the /lit/ approved version?
or truest version to the feel/mood of the story?

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>>9669493
Can we count multi-volume books or book-series as one book?

...I'm gonna. Here we go:

>The Bible (Thomas Ryrie NASB Study Bible)
>Major British Writers, an anthology in two volumes
>Plato's complete works, Hackett Publishing
>Kant's Three Critiques
>In Search of Lost Time, all seven parts in two volumes, Marcel Proust

inb4 survival guides and engineering manuals

Shakespeare (all of it)
Moby Dick
Rabelais (at least the first 4 books)
Virgil (Aeneid, Eclogues, Georgics)
Don Quixote

poopy doopy

>>9669435
I hope to design my own, well, robot (the most accurate term) which all other aspects besides its energy usage and mobility will be dedicated to vast amounts of energy and data that will support a program running as near genuine AI as possible. Including pattern recognition functions for speech, sight, and movement.

>>9669435
I don't know a lick about it but I worry in the distant future people will believe it to be unquestionable.

I think it is quite possible to have Strong AI in the not-so-near future.

I think Searle is wrong, and also I am becoming increasingly unsure whether current Phil of Mind is wank or not.

Deep Dick 12

>>9669180
The one you posted? I'd say they're tied as my favorites of his. Something Happened definitely gave me a mental crisis while reading it tho

his diary desu

>>9669139
Yes, its good fun to read while high.
The significance of the text is intensified in my experience. It also makes it much more apparent how much of a different state of consciousness you enter into while reading as opposed to any other activity.

I read in my crystal meth immersion tank

>>9669139
weed is for degenerate faggots who enjoy having the gov brainwashing their stupid stoner minds.