/r9k/ approved literature

>>25931529
The author killed himself. I guess real life doesn't have such a happy end kek

I know that fucking feel
Nothing worse than getting immersed into some sort of story and identifying with the character only to have the MC start having sex like its no big deal. I usually drop it immediately afterwards.

>>25931599
Welp. He was a really great writer, but you could tell he shoehorned in a happy fate for Craig to appeal to the normalfags.

Just started reading Steppenwolf by Hesse. Is this robotlit?

>>25931624
>only to have the MC start having sex like its no big dea

Its hard to write a book about someone who just spends all day wanking in his room and shitposting online.

For people who do leave their houses, sex sometimes ends up happening.

>>25931700
Nice assumptions and robot shaming. I've had several jobs and go to college. I leave the house quite often and I assure you that sex does not "just happen" for non normals.
When it happens in a book or television/movie all its telling me is that the writer was pretending to understand a world he has never set foot in.

You could have a character interact with others in many ways but degenerates always want to see a spicy sex scene.

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that book is based on the guy's actual twenties, but he never met the girl
it ends the way it does because the author was a literal robot just hoping for a happy ending

1981 - 2013

>>25931758
>When it happens in a book or television/movie all its telling me is that the writer was pretending to understand a world he has never set foot in.

bam. hit the nail on the head. That's why I'm looking for books by robots, for robots.

should I read catcher in the rye?

>>25931529
>>25931599
Literally came into this thread to say this. I was a fan of Ned, all throughout high school my fav book was be more chill by him. Give it a shot it was really good. Anyways, I began communicating with him shortly before his death through email. Was a very genuine guy and seemed like he was happy to have someone reach out for him. Sometimes I feel bad because I just stopped emailing back because I didn't want to waste his time. Now I wonder if things might've been different. Oh well. I'm drunk and this has made me very sad

>>25931877
Maybe if you're in high school

>>25931877
They didn't make you read that in high school?

Yes, absolutely read it.

>>25931877
How old are you? If you're still in school give it a shot. If you're any older it'll probably come off as whiney and pretentious but its good for those formulative years.

>>25931822
Directly from Wikipedia:
>He is survived by his wife Sabra Embury[23] and their son, Felix

so yeah shut up about the robot thing, he wasn't a khv

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>>25931529
Lmao pleb

>>25931906
Yes they did
But I didn't

Why have I never seen Nausea mentioned when it comes to books for /r9k/? Everything he says in it is so perfect

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I love this book. I think that the protagonist is the epitome of the self-aware human, and I wish that I could strive to be more like him.

Probably on my all-time favourites, as I never found myself disagreeing with his point of view.

>>25932003
Sartre was a disgusting person

Then again so is half this board

>>25932121
How was Sartre a disgusting person?

>>25932134
He's a smug, slimy atheist

As opposed to the superior Camus, who, despite his atheism, isn't revolting and narcissistic

>>25932155
What's wrong with being an atheist? There is no valid argument to justify the belief in gods.

>>25932155
camus was an agnostic.

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>>25932274
you don't get it, there's not any point in continuing this

It's not about atheism

It's about the aesthetic of the atheist

It's "gross"

Back to reddit, here here.

>>25932333
"Agnostics" are agnostic-atheists. As Camus wasn't religious, he automatically defaults to a position of having no belief, which makes him an atheist. But as he did not speak in absolutes about the nonexistence of God, he acknowledged it as a possibility, which makes him an agnostic. Thus, he's an agnostic-atheist. All proclaimed "agnostics" are agnostic-atheists.

>>25931890
Oh, man. That's so cool that you got the chance to talk to a guy who's so genuine. He was also one of my favorite authors in high school.

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>>25931529
I read this book in high school, and I think it was pretty good. I related with the MC Until he questions whether he's gay or not, I ain't no fag

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>>25931599
>>25931700
>>25931822
>>25931877
>>25932155
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>>25932411

This thread is full of original double digits

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>>25932274
There are several valid argument to justify a belief in a deity of some form

>God exists in the understanding but not in reality.

>Existence in reality is greater than existence in the understanding alone.

>A being having all of God's properties plus existence in reality can be conceived.

>A being having all of God's properties plus existence in reality is greater than God.

>A being greater than God can be conceived.

>It is false that a being greater than God can be conceived.

>Hence, it is false that God exists in the understanding but not in reality.

>God exists in the understanding.

>Hence God exists in reality.


I'm surprised more people aren't deists.

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you have 5 seconds to name a more /r9k/ book

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>>25932474
Didn't even read the thread before posting. weird.

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>>25932627
Schopenhauer's Essays to be quite honest

>>25932601
What the fuck are you talking about? That in no way proves beyond a reasonable doubt that God exists. All you're saying is that for an entity to qualify as God, it must be omnipotent with no superior. That's it, that's all you're saying. You simply arbitrarily say that since you imagined this fantasy character, it must exist to fulfill its ridiculous premises. As it stands, it's entirely possible that you could be incorrect in your beliefs, and God could not exist. How can you hold faith in something so outrageous unless you're absolutely certain?

When you say "God exists in the understanding" all you're saying is that you have an overactive imagination. He doesn't exist anywhere, as what exists is your imagination, not the things within it.

>>25932601
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological_argument#Criticisms_and_objections

>>25931758
>robot shaming

holy keks I'm glad I woke up today

>>25932366
>talk like a philosopher
>think like a pleb

I hate this sudden trend. The reason 'agnostic' isn't a good answer to the god question is because it's an epistemological position, not a theological one.

A lot of new atheist literature is focused on 'claiming' and 'disclaiming'. Influential figures like Einstein and Hitler respectively.

>>25932795
The point he's making is that it could have been a reflective piece with an unhappy ending, where the character is faced with drama or some sort of struggle, but due to his horrid personality flaws, it causes him to descend further, which eventually climaxes with his destruction.

>>25932822
Being an agnostic-atheist is the only reasonable response to the god question, as there is no way to settle on whether god exists or not. Everything else is simply dishonest, even if the answer is more absolute and clear.

You shouldn't be making claims that you can't prove.

>>25932361
>being a sheep and caring about "the aesthetic"
Oh the irony

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>>25931957
>tfw you realize that human nature is to constantly be pulled in contradictory directions

>>25931529

"A Fan's Notes" is about a paranoid autist that gets sent to an insane asylum and given insulin shock therapy.

Most of the book was written from inside the asylum, its a true story.

Good read for slightly older robots. Also very dense with magniloquent words for the vocabularian.

the catcher in the rye was a pretty neat book that drew out the idea of everyone being who they say they aren't and pretty much opened my eyes to see that people are exactly like this irl and helped me from not killing myself

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>>25932274
Atheists are annoying, and the reddit circlejerk culture that they inhabit is annoying. Its not that they're wrong, its just that they're insufferable.

I may not believe in God but I don't go around calling myself an atheist exactly because I don't want to be associated with these disgusting faggots

They've ruined fedoras, and they've begun to ruin vast swathes of literature and philosophy, because when I read it now I just have fucking euphoric fedora-tipping reddit atheists in the back of my mind.

>>25932864
Just make the slight jump over to apatheism. I'm pretty sure you would agree that there's no real point in worrying about or even questioning the existence of a god, no?

>>25932910
Then you're just being pretentious. The very notion that you would call yourself an "apatheist" simply shows that you feel the need to consider the problem, question his existence, and have a ready-made term to describe yourself in relation to the subject.

>>25932954
>The very notion that you would call yourself an "apatheist" simply shows that you feel the need to consider the problem
Not really, it's just an admission that I have thought about it before and decided it's not worth my time to think about it in the future. Whereas an agnostic refuses to make a claim out of uncertainty, an apatheist refuses to make a claim out of indifference. There's no problem with having a term to make the distinction.

>>25933043
You forgot the pretentious part, as apatheists are apatheists just so they can insert themselves where they're unwanted and claim, "I'm above this conversation, aren't I cool?" They are the religious equivalent of nihilists, or those people who say, "art is subjective," just so that they may discourage critical thinking.

>>25931916
The point of the book is that Holden is whiny and pretentious, and therefore a stupid little shit.

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Beta society hating MC, reminds me of reading posts on this board

>>25933110
>apatheists are apatheists just so they can insert themselves where they're unwanted and claim, "I'm above this conversation, aren't I cool?"
I don't understand why you're jumping to this conclusion. It's nothing about being "above" anything, I don't believe people are inferior to me in any way for having whatever beliefs they have so long as they can justify their beliefs in some meaningful way. If anything, apatheism is just agnosticism taken to an extreme. Why even think about the table if you're not going to lay any cards on it?

>>25932058
I just bought it because you said it was good. If it sucks I'm going to kick your ass.
>>25931529
The Captive Dreamer is an interesting book. It's a frenchmans diary during WWII. He originally is a journalist but enlists for the Nazis foreign legion and fights until the end of the war. Resonates with me because he was young and ready to take on life but he didn't really know what he wanted to do/ what ideology to follow. Also any Sherlock Holmes collections are good. I like burning through a few stories a day now that my oneitis finally gave my fucking books back. Brave World and Island by Huxley are good too.

>>25933146
Holden is in a fucking mental facility you tard. He isn't whiny and pretentious -- he's losing his goddam mind.

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Very good book for robots right here

>>25933342
>Wake up in my gooey poo poo pee pee spiderweb
>Looks like mummies little roachie needs changing!
>Start screaming in intelligible bug speak
>Sister comes into my room, fucking cunt, I was calling mummy
>Lift up my carapace and shit all over her face
>Begin screeching for tendies and locks of her hair
>Dumb cunt doesn't even understand
>Hear mum and dad crying downstairs about my ascendance into NEETdom
>Live the rest of my blissful live scuttling around the room, getting fit, eating tendies, and no longer being a fucking wagekek

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>>25933229
is that my demon hunting husband

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https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1173808-elliot-rodger-manifesto.html

>>25933538
10/10 Kafkaesque af famalam.

>>25933342
>tfw it perfectly describes neetdom
>even down to the protag dying and his family being happy for once

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>>25932487
there's a special bateman specifically for this density of gets

>>25931667
Great book, should be on every robots list.

>>25932058
>dat robot lady
>dat blue-eyed young man