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>>9502686
Was it a fighting fantasy book?

>>9502698
Is that a genre? I don't recall. I remember that it reminded me of The Highlander, which is what attracted me to it.

I read the first chapter or so, and it had a good deal of action.

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>>9502698
Neat, I wondered the same thing.

My favourite was Caverns of the Snow Witch.

Who would win in a fight?

>>9502609
ben stiller bjj blue belt master

>>9502606
both are cUcKS good grief

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>>9502526
Can I get a link to the website that has all of these

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>>9502534
That's just how the comics save.
>>9502554
you're supermega retarded if you can't do a simple reverse image search

Did Vladimir Nabokov ever express an opinion on Ayn Rand?

>>9502519
Hire someone to do it for you

>>9502535
I'm a poor uni student

Yes. Plato dislikes democracy for many reasons. He's saying that the elect, gifted, and wise should not (must not) be "chained" to the whims multitude, which are (almost by definition for Plato) the opposite of wisdom. Everything that makes the wise man wise is a product of his refining base opinion INTO wisdom, and the mob is base opinion personified. It's the roil of baseness from which wise and select men are supposed to differentiate themselves.

He's combining that position here with a general disdain for the fickle mob. He dislikes it on a personal level as much as on a philosophical one. It killed Socrates and descended into demagoguery and tyranny during the War. Mere inclination, fickle opinion manipulated by petty demagogues who said whatever the mob wanted to hear in a given moment (i.e., always changing, inconstant thought) ruled Athens, choking out the wise, and even putting them to death when they tried to stand against it.

Plato doesn't like democracy.

>>9502538
Thanks anon.

Also, it just struck me that I'm reading a work called 'the Republic,' which goes opposite to a general democracy.

I'm still confused about how Plato suggests enacting his ideal. We want the philosopher-king to lead, but the philosopher-king rarely comes to fruition because because of the wants of the masses. Further, Plato suggests that those who want power are least equipped to wield it [sailors v. Stargazer]. So what's the deal? How do we enact the virtues of the philosopher-king without falling into all the traps along the way?

Yup. The greeks hated democracy. Aristophanes wrote his plays to denounce the demagogues; but the common rabble is the common rabble

>>9502463
>Today OP was a faggot. Again.

that's a hateful image op.

>>9502463
December 13, 2016
Diary:

Woke up. Holy shit, that bullet was meant for me.

yeah, and that's why i don't read at all. i'm waiting for the genuine curiosity to come back.

nah man its because we're hoping we find the thing that we been missing.

but yeah you right its hopeless

>>9502437
I read sci-fi and fantasy novels exclusively because it pisses /lit/ off.

Nearly finished Platform.

I couldn't find Atomised/ The Elementary Particles in the bookshop I usually go to, unfortunately.

The one book that hit me hard, I know that feel OP

is there a difference between the atomised and the elementary particles publications besides title? i'm american and want to buy, but atomised is like 2 dollars cheaper

Trash, all of it

>>9502156
Why?

>>9502156
Picture of Dorian Gray isn't trash, senpai.

Books where infedility is a theme can be cathartic even when you weren't cheated on. I recommend Herzog

pleb but norwegian wood
years later and it happened again
was thinking about going back to it
maybe it'll become a thing with me...

>>9502110
that makes sense, luckily I have a copy. maybe Madame Bovary as well.

>>9501988
my diary desu senpai

>>9501988
Recommend some. You sound like a connaiseur of all things homo, op.

Yeah, I did. I read INFINITE JEST.

>>9501877
Because Sartre wrote his stances in long, difficult philosophy books, rather than focusing almost entirely on novels.

it's about philosophy, not prose

Nietzsche wrote better than either of them btw

>>9501877
>when Camus did a much better job with every single one of his books?
Camus mostly wrote fiction, not philosophy. Even his essays are not particularly philosophical, but closer to a divulgative writing.

Sartre wrote philosophical treatises making full use of a vast encyclopedic knowledge, books upon Camus writing is based on.

>Why is Sartre considered the bigger existencialist
What do you mean by "bigger"?
The most well-known, yes; the best, certainly not.

>>9501671
Because they have text to speech. And no, I don't like audio books.

>less weight = easier to carry around and read in bed
>could hold a thousand books
>you could change the font, spacing and letter size
>hipster whores like them

Meh, I recently bought my first e-reader and I'm still in the honeymoon phase.

>>9501687
What did you buy, anon?

I do as a historical curiosity. I've tried to read it twice and given up almost immediately each time.

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>>9501573
No because if I want to read pseuds bitch and moan about (((globalists))) I come here for free

>>9501591
Why?
>>9501595
What authors do you read whose ideologies you do agree with? Or at least respect

>>9500887
Latin is a dead language for lawyers and LARP fags

>>9500918
Latin is great for poets and writers.

>>9500922
Why?