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>>9553914
its good

ideal for lazy fucks

>>9553979
>ideal for lazy fucks
Why is that?

>>9553914

It just tells you shit that's already obvious.

couldn't you tell when you picked it up and it was thicc?

Wait til you get to the end and realize you've wasted your time. King is a hack

>>9553757
>nobody ever told me how long this book is
for you

>>9553632
I've always wanted to go see Walden pond. I need a cabin.

sounds like the type of bland imagery a walden fan would appreciate

go do lsd in the forest or something, anything has to be better than thoreau

>tfw OP doesn't realize he's having a comfy mystical experience while reading the transcendentalists and "nearing himself to nature" (Rilke)

You should read Emerson next

which bible

>>9553551
Ok so I just went to a history museum today in Iceland and now i'm interested in the Bibble and christian history works

>>9553555
KJV

>>9553550
Who is this guy

>>9553550
>Additionally, a core doctrine of Spinozism is that the universe is essentially deterministic. All that happens or will happen could not have unfolded in any other way. Spinoza claimed that the third kind of knowledge, intuition, is the highest kind attainable. More specifically, he defined this as the ability for the human intellect to intuit knowledge based upon its accumulated understanding of the world around them.

>>9553550

I hear a LOT of people end up thinking the third type of knowledge is Science, or the practice of science. This is horseshit.

I've always felt that by intuition, he means intuition. Same as how, if a basketball player practice through games thousands of times, he will 'encode' within his instincts which move to make at any given variable of the game at play, garnering from just a momentary impression the right body response to this play.

Spinoza is talking about being like the Michael Jordan of life, how much more superior it is to have the bodily wisdom weft into you, rather than being another intellectual ninny having to articulate everything in the lesser form of step-by-step, 1, 2, 3 knowledge that we tend to practice. I'd guess having all of the best habits engrained into you

>Smith

Oh the irony.

>battering a strawman to make yourself look cool

kill thyself

>>9553293
At this point Friedman can only be read for historical context. In theory his ideas make sense but in practice they don't.

My dream is that I will lift so much and get so big that I will become like a neoclassical sculpture of the archetypical Greek hero, perhaps Diomedes. Then I will walk around always reading a book in one massive hand, and I will get a girlfriend. Even when I'm naked and not flexing, all of my muscles will be completely taut and bulging and I will completely dominate a room with my presence. I will fuck my girlfriend.

>>9553273
>Reading and comprehending the Greeks
These are not as mutually exclusive as you think, bro.

>>9553273
>understanding something and agreeing with it are the the same thing
what did he mean by this?

The Idiot
The Adolescent

>>9553252
Humiliated and Insulted and Poor Folk are underrated. Also, reminder to read Russian literature without a translation.

>>9553252
I like the dream of a ridiculous man, but no one ever really talks about it.

good

>>9552836
What yhe fuck we literally have a thread up about him dying. Well I guess it's up to us to carry on his legacy.

>tfw i don't believe you but i checked nonetheless

>muh antinatalism
Into the trash it goes.

>>9552545
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxZpEFJhO6k

>>9552545
Really enjoyed about 30% of his short stories, but most of it was ruined by his unnessecarily pretentious vocabulary. Sometimes he finds the right balance though

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I'd recommend getting a cheap ereader.

You can get a kobo for about £30 - $40.

Then just download ebooks and drag drop them into the ereader using usb cable.

Bookzz.org is good. So is libgen.io.

The ebook channel on the discord is good, a few guys on there have large amounts of ebooks which they'll happily upload for you: https://discord.gg/gyFF5b9.

>>9552531

Okay. Thank you.

I already have an iPad. Does Kobo have any advantages over the iPad? (Should I still buy one?)

>>9552503
I have never used bookzz but maybe?

Most people here who use tablets use a Kindle and the Kindle store (which you can download on ios)

iPad mini wouldn't be my first choice but if it doesn't bother you, then the tablet hardly matters

>>9552475
shut up
woolf is a hack

>>9552475
I wanna fuck that throat until it bleeds.

>>9553028
Stop.Virginia is pure.

>>9552374
Who?

>>9552387
top pleb

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I think Nael is great
Dunno why you used an unrelated pic, though

>>9552316
You can sexually abuse me senpai desu

>>9552316
It's not really about sexual abuse, but I'd recommend The Collector by John Fowles. It's about an art student Miranda, who gets kidnapped by a rich guy and is forced to live in a cellar of his home because he believes "she'll start to love him", when she'll see how well he treats her. In the cellar, she has pretty much everything one could wish for - except freedom. Most of the book after the first part is narrated from her point of view (as she writes a secret diary). It's exhilarating and heartbreaking

>>9552855
I want to be the abused one though

just put in some alan watts quotes or something if youre serious, your grieving family doesnt need edgy memes, leave a positive memory

also most suicides fail and leave you more fucked up than you were before

>>9552195
>just put in some alan watts quotes or something if youre serious
but I want them to be my words, not from a guy they've never known

>also most suicides fail and leave you more fucked up than you were before
Yeah, that's something I don't get
Not counting the times that people go into comas and shit, why'd you stop trying after a botched suicide?
You'd just have more reasons to do it

>>9552215
Because when they're in the middle of dying they realise that they were just being a faggot and want to live.