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why does everyone rave about this shitty self help novel?
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i dunno, why?
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>>9418592
Because a lot of people are very stupid.
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>>9418592
I've only read Veronica Decides To Die. The shitstorm kept away from that one.
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Is there anything redeemable about Hegel?
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>>9418541
His vision of philosophy being not a cage match of bitter foes but a harmonic fugue of different actors in the story of thought
His insistence that there is meaning to and a science of culture
His belief that ideas change history fundamentally
His authoritarianism
His masculinity
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>>9418603
so no
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>>9418611
Only non-philistines can redeem Hegelian prizes
nice dubs
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How do I learn Latin? Something like pic related would be helpful
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>>9418450
Linga Latina 1 and 2. They're on the net somewhere.
I'd have a grammar to read too; just search Google Books for one, the Allen and Greenough is on there for free.
Vale, frater.
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>>9418476
That's what Lingua Latina 1 and 2 are.
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>finally get a day off from work
>get nasty ass head cold that mostly feels like a sinus infection
>too sick to focus on writing
>too sick to try and read
FUCK
How do you guys deal?
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shut the fuck up
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>get ereader
>lay on side
>prop up ereader
>???
>profit
>get wireless mouse
>open kindle app on laptop
>magnify text
>???
>profit
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>>9418449
Know of any good youtube channels by chance?
That Chilling Tales For Dark Nights is really hit and miss.
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ITT: We make our own list of books to read before we're 30
What does /lit/ make of this article?
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/33-books-everyone-should-read-before-turning-30-a6746496.html?cmpid=facebook-post
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>>9418404
I've only read like 7 on the list, they're all pretty good, not sure about the rest.
and as for books I'd like to have read before I'm 30, that's a little too longterm for me since I'm only 20.
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>>9418404
That list started off strong and went to shit very quickly.
Hard to make a list of books to read before i'm 30 since that's going to be 100s. I'm only 21 right now. I'd definitely put Walden on that list though, for those of you that have not read it yet.
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It's too late for me.
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>trying to read 19th century or older English works when English is your third language
I need a dictionary by my side to read most of contemporary literature. Shakespeare is basically unintelligible to me. Is there no hope for me? Am I doomed to be illiterate for the rest of my life since I can't even begin to read most of the canon?
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>>9418358
Just read more and get good, English is my third language as well and I'm 2000 pages into the Bible and have no problems.
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>>9418358
read more brainlet, that way you'll be able to read even more
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>>9418368
Why would you read the Bible in English if it's your third language? The original's in Hebrew and Greek.
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please recommend something by an indian 2017-04-23 07:14:53 Post No.9418350
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please recommend something by an indian
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I am indian but growing tired of reading foreigners.It seems distant,so i want to read some indian writers who aren't trash pop-lit
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There's Salman Rushdie
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>>9418374
I have read some of his work but feel like he writes for non indians and presents the indian society with its complexities but there is little depth in his work but thanks for the suggestion
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"My experience using the Loo: overcoming the ultimate challenge" ~Pajeet Gupta
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I want to read the Nibelungenlied in English, what is the recommended translation?
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>>9418347
>Lern Deutsch
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>>9418347
Burton Raffel
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>>9418348
Already know danish, one germanic is more than enough
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zen and the art of narcissism 2017-04-23 07:05:32 Post No.9418316
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zen and the art of narcissism
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>I want to write a book about how smart I am but I don't want to seem vain...
>I know! I'll write a 'not-auto biography' about this genius philosopher who just happens to be me! I went through electro-shock therapy so I think that's appropriate subject-author distance.
>And I'll call the tales of the condescending lectures I give to my friends a 'Chautauqua.' It's very quaint and it normalizes my behavior by making it seem like an American tradition!
This is classic behavior for the 'Silent Generation' (who I wish had stayed silent). They considered themselves those who said what others had been too stupid to say, doers of what others had been too stupid to do. The Kerouacs, the Fondas, the Nicholsons, the Bukowskis, the Warhols; all those who enjoyed the unrivaled economic success of the post-WW2 American Empire while pretending to finally find 'the truth of the matter.' Easy Rider Harley's filled with cheap and plentiful fuel, driven on highways built by Eisenhower, paid for by tenureships in unneeded public universities of a student loan debt trap in its infancy. And you know they collected their retirements at the end of it all.
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There were a lot of 70s books that aged poorly.
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>>9418316
>Peeing myself was a religious experience
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>>9418316
As a road trip novel I actually really enjoyed ZatAoMM. I also enjoyed the parts about Richard McKeon. Past that, the book is just an earnest defense of sophistry, which is fine for what it is I suppose.
Pirsig's 'Lila' is better in terms of his 'metaphysics of quality' theory, FWIW.
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Which adaptation of the Bible has the best prose?
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Probably the septuagint or the vulgata. Certainly not kjv
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>>9418311
in English?
the Jerusalem Bible
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ITT: Post a book you didn't get, others tell you why it's good 2017-04-23 06:25:52 Post No.9418164
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ITT: Post a book you didn't get, others tell you why it's good
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>>9418164
He was dead the whole time
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>>9418164
Infinite Jest
DFW is a lewd pseud
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I just finished Frost by Bernhard today and while I liked it, I don't really know what to make of it as a whole other than the sense of desolation, provincial decay, and creeping insanity of the whole thing.
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Why is this meaningless letter still allowed to exist?
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I know right! And why have Q when we can just use KW?
XDDD
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>>9418142
because "ch", you cockslap
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Check this out
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Why aren't Menard works discussed here?
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>>9418034
His Quixote was particularly impressive
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>>9418043
Derivative.
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Why aren't Menard works discussed here?
Post what page you left on so you don't have to use a physical bookmark.
I'll start:
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>>9418032
I don't use a bookmark. I just remember what was happening in the book where I left off, and then just scan the book with my eyes (i.e. read it) from the beginning until I find the part where that thing as happening, and take off reading from there.
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>>9418032
472, but I have a bookmark
/ex-yu/ literature thread? The last were really good.
I need some recommendations for improving poetic meter, and improving my poetry in general (serbocroat languages only).
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Havent read any Serbian literature ever, so this should be interesting.
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>>9418087
actually It really worths
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I’m drunk.
I’m drinking.
On my 3rd cup of wine and I’m buzzed.
A few months ago this wouldn’t have been enough to
make me laugh.
I guess I’m not the drunk I used to be.
Either that or life isn’t as
sober
as it once was.
Either way my dick probably won’t work after this.
-rare bukowski