Brain Gains Thread

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Wew lad.

>>40621890
normal people have read the majority of the literary classics before they are 18

>>40621917
that's more like it

>>40622034
you'd read war and peace by age 18 then?

>>40622034
pretentious 18 year olds, yeah

The Art of War was stupid, don't recommend.
Meditations was amazing for my depression, do recommend.

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>>40621890
*blocks your path*

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>>40621917
>no stirner

shit list desu

>>40622224
Is this a meme? I've never met anyone who has actually read it.

>>40623755
/lit/'s equivalent to ITAOTS or /tv/'s Drive

>>40622224
>>40623755

I read it.

I liked it. I thought it was really funny at some points. Some parts stayed with me. Some parts I got really, really fucking sick of the way DFW writes.

It's not a must read, or anything. It's also definitely not for everyone. I don't know a single person I'd recommend it to.

>>40621917
I've read only fifteen out of those 100 books.

>>40623755

i tried reading it and it was just too much

mark ames hates the author too, so i just axiomatically accept that the book sucks

>>40621917
That's a lot of Kafka desu, hope you like existentialism

>>40623772
No, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is the /fit/ book, not whatever the fuck that book is.

>>40621917
Rollin

>>40623755
you've apparently never attended a college in the united states

>>40621890
i came to bitch at you for not having dostoyevsky or nietzsche, but this list is really good. i'd add michel foucalt as well, but i'm partial to his writings. maybe some georges batailles as well for the fucks of it.

>>40624383
I actually attended a very highly ranked college in the US, and I don't know anyone who read it. I guess I hadn't heard of it until after I left college though, so I never asked around.

>>40621917
roll

>>40621890
I\How is Don Quixote supposed to help me navigate complex social relationships?

>>40623755
I read it in the summer before i went to college because i didn't have anything else to do. it seriously drags in some places and it's annoying to always flip back and forth to read the footnotes, but for the most part it was quite good.

>>40623863
I've read 0 so you've got me beat.

>>40624383
>currently attending college in the United States and have never even heard of this book until this thread

>>40624383
>>40625187
Yeah I'm with this guy. I've never even seen this book before and I'm at one of the largest colleges in the country.

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>>40621890
Only book you could ever need.

>>40621890
No antifragile?