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No, but caring about people reading at the bookstore might be.

>>9651834
Are you a fucking retard? Most people read before they buy.
Why are there so many autismos on /lit/? This thread, people complaining about others reading on public transit, people shitting on bookstores. What the fuck is wrong with you?

>>9651834
Do you even know what pretension is?

No. It could not possibly be the most pretentious thing because it is not even pretentious.

http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Charts

read an intro to philosophy

Have a list if you insist:

Thomas Nagel - What Does it All Mean?

Anthony Kenny - A New History of Western Philosophy

Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy

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Will gradually dump some of my own

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mostly pretentious experimental garbage and folk. i don't like poetry but i appreciate good lyrics a lot

>>9663250
Ambient like Boards of Canada

>>9663250
A little bit of everything.
Sea shanties, irish folk music, rock, punk rock, irish punk, electro swing, psychedelic rock, 50s swing, hair metal, whatever Devil's Train is, whatever Ocean Man is, I don't know what genre most of the songs I listen to are. I just assume it's all a subset of rock, because let's be honest, if rock subcategories were pebbles, you could build a second moon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JtpHtuWnwQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E5m_XtCX3c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbQgXeY_zi4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd9LpME3jnk&list=RDxd9LpME3jnk#t=4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PoiwwQK_Jk&list=RD5PoiwwQK_Jk#t=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvSupIEOfHg&list=RDzvSupIEOfHg#t=6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBMvUpBrWFQ&list=RDHBMvUpBrWFQ#t=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_H77Ledl_I&list=RDQ_H77Ledl_I#t=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCAAceeWA_Q&list=RDvCAAceeWA_Q#t=2

Here are the last couple songs I listened to. Knock yourself out op.

>>9662688
>Higher variance increases fluctuation
Bravo anon, you've made your fortune with that plot

>>9662706
>>9662771
Suckas

yes i tried this and now i'm an independently poor poorfag

Thats one interpretation, can you think of any others?

>>9662537
diarium mea, vere

>>9662620

Wtf is this

even right-wingers are better than neoliberals

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>>9662536
people actually identify as neoliberals?
are you mentally retarded?

>>9662542
is this any good?

Complaining about feeling detached because of [aspect of culture] is just writing about racism for white dudes. It's not profound, intelligent or high brow at this point, and it's been done in a better way than you'll ever do it countless times. Your writing starts out as cookie cutter shit and ends up as a different kind of cookie cutter shit. You will never write anything of significance, just thinly veiled fan fiction. Give up.

>>9662204
>>ends up turning into an anime-inspired light novel
>I don't even like anime

How do you know what an anime story looks like if you don't watch anime?

>>9662204
What gender are these characters? Because I would love to something that involved both Nietzsche and young attractive men running towards the ocean together.

just use excel ffs

>>9662168
If you have questions about Book of the New Sun you can message Marc Aramini and he'll eventually reply to you.

>>9662168
>do they use your reading list to advertise?
i think thats one of the main features op

>>9661894
You need to lay eyes on more pieces of writing then.

it's the greatest book I've ever read hands down. not just the craft of it but how it hits you.

Just wanted to say I really like this book as well, the amount of symbolism and meaning is crazy and the writing is amazing, great book I 100% agree. So far it's my favorite book as well.

>>9661769
>oh boy I bet this will really rile them up
>xd
You killed off a thread well before its time, murderer.

>>9661769
Pretty insightful, plus well written prose.

Everyone I know likes him

>>9661460
Get the Selected Poems that New Directions published

>>9661460
>Is there a chart?

Yeah, it only has two boxes. It goes 'You want to read Ezra Pound?' -> 'Don't, fashfag'.

>>9661460
Well, he's dead, and his grave is in Venice. His body is probably just a skeleton with some dust on and under it. You're going to have to bring a shovel and a condom if you want to get into him.

>>9661423
It's not that useful anon

>>9661423
Waste of time. The only reason it has sold anything is the title, might as well be blank.

You want to turn your life around?

Start with the Greeks.

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>>9661297
Can someone please analyze this?

Hey little mama would you like to be my sunshine?
Nigga touch my gang we gon' turn this shit to Columbine
Ice on my neck cost me 10 times 3
30, 000 dollars for a nigga to get flee
I just hit Rodeo and I spent like 10 Gs
I just did a show and spent the check on my mama
When I go on vacay I might rent out the Bahamas
And I keep like 10 phones, damn I'm really never home
All these niggas clones tryna copy what I'm on
Nigga get your own, tryna pick a nigga bone
Way to Brother Skip, boy I had a good day
Metro PCS trapping boy I'm making plays
50 shades of grey, beat that pussy like Hulk Hogan
I know you know my slogan, if I ain't bout guap I'm gone
Niggas hating cause I'm chosen from the concrete that I rose
Shawty staring at my necklace cause my diamonds really froze
Put that dick up in her pussy bet she feel it in her toes
I'm a real young nigga from the 6 throwing bows
I'm a real young nigga from the 6 throwing bows
Real young nigga from the 6 throwing bows

Are you really so ignorant that you think those lyrics actually deal with "inner city America and the conditions there"? Do you actually know what it's like to live in inner city America? Where you have to worry about your little brother making home safe from school, worry about keeping him away from drugs and drug dealers?

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>>9661297
Is this a modern love poem that accurately represents current American culture?

Boy toy named Troy used to live in Detroit
Big dope dealer money, he was getting some coins
Was in shootouts with the law, but he live in a palace
Bought me Alexander McQueen, he was keeping me stylish
Now that's real, real, real,
Gun in my purse, bitch I came dressed to kill
Who wanna go first? I had 'em pushing daffodils
I'm high as hell, I only took a half of pill
I'm on some dumb shit

By the way, what he say?
He can tell I ain't missing no meals
Come through and fuck 'em in my automobile
Let him eat it with his grills,
He keep telling me to chill
He keep telling me it's real, that he love my sex appeal
He said he don't like 'em boney, he want something he can grab
So I pulled up in the Jag, and I hit 'em with the jab like...

This dude named Michael used to ride motorcycles
Dick bigger than a tower, I ain't talking about Eiffel's
Real country ass nigga, let me play with his rifle
Pussy put his ass to sleep, now he calling me NyQuil
Now that bang bang bang,
I let him hit it 'cause he slang Cocaine
He toss my salad like his name Romaine
And when we done, I make him buy me Balmain
I'm on some dumb shit

By the way, what he say?
He can tell I ain't missing no meals
Come through and fuck 'em in my automobile
Let him eat it with his grills,
He keep telling me to chill
He keep telling me it's real, that he love my sex appeal
Because he don't like 'em boney, he want something he can grab
So I pulled up in the Jag, Mayweather with the jab like...
Dun-d-d-dun-dun-d-d-dun-dun

My Anaconda don't...
My Anaconda don't...
My Anaconda don't want none unless you got buns hun

Oh my gosh, look at her butt
Oh my gosh, look at her butt
Oh my gosh, look at her butt
Look at her butt (look at her butt)

>>9661249
Poetry is worst than anime

that looks like my dad's dog. He smokes a pipe though.

>>9661249

Song lyrics are like poetry. You like music, don't you?

>>9660971

It's almost as if the book is a comedy with heavy use of irony

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>>9660971

>>9660986
>>9661012

I'm trying to give Jane Austen a chance and take her seriously, but there's only so much woman hypocrisy I can take before it devolves into repetitive drivel.