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Best sci-fi novels with literary merit? 2017-09-07 12:09:15 Post No.9991246
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Best sci-fi novels with literary merit?
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2017-09-07 12:09:15
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Self-explanatory. I'm already reading pic related.
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a voyage to arcturus
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Altered Carbon is the best Sci-Fi book of all time.
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Define "literary merit", chucklefuck.
Anyway, The Forever War I feel has merit because it harkens back to the original point of sci-fi: using technology as a setting to present a contemporary view on society by way of metaphor. It's good regardless, but having military experience heightens it.
Also, The New Sun series is solid overall, great commentary, astounding prose, wicked sense of humor etc
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So which books do CEO's read then?
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"Prince" by Makiavello because they usually go to politics after a successful carreer in companies.
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>>9991054
Have you ever seen Bill Gate's recommended book lists? They are pleb AF, like pop political books and reddit-tier comics about depression.
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Dumbass self-development books to pat themselves on the back that they're the ones doing it, and not them just riding the wave of whatever momentum luck has granted them.
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So how do we deal with the problem of consciousness impermanence?
To be teleported via the induction of your physical matrix into a mechanised data bank and re-assembled at a distant location is no different, with respect to what your consciousness experiences, than losing consciousness in the process of sleep.
We die each night, we die every minute. A stranger awakens in your body and in your bed and in your clothes each morning. Never knowing that the memories they hold as accurate reflections of reality are nothing but the imprints of a decision making process that has turned to ash, and seen it born from them.
The nature of consciousness is such that any break in experiential sensation runs parallel to that of any other break. Meaning there is no such thing as consciousness permanence. Sleep and death are cognitively identical sets of stimuli.
Has anyone ever tackled the problem as to why we shouldn't just kill ourselves?
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I did, thou in particuluar shouldst.
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>>9991042
Son you're upsetting my 160 IQ.
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>>9991036
Wouldn't be a problem if you didn't have such a mystical view of consciousness, but admittedly it's hard not to.
Your consciousness is instantiated by a stimulated nervous structure. It is different every time but loosely the same enough throughout it's time to be named. There may be no thread connectecting all the iterations of yourself other than the history of your structure and I'm not quite sure why that isn't adequate anyway. Also would explain why consciousness is even
I don't see why you would kill yourself over it.
ITT: Underrated books
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sincerely underrated, though that cover is a monstrosity. the book itself is a delight
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>>9990989
That is a bad cover for an excellent book.
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sincerely underrated, though that is a bad cover. the book itself is an excellent book
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READ
MORE
THOMAS
MANN
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>>9990780
>Thomas
>not Heinrich
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reading is for fags, I'll see you booktards on the day of the rope
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>>9990789
Lösch das
Which country 'produces' the best theologists? Is it Germany?
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>>9990698
Theologians
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>>9990698
The seed of all evil is in Germany so they gave us Luther, Marx and Hitler. Their theology is likewise twisted, hence Rahner.
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Egypt
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What's something good I can read on a shroom trip, something that will give me some good insights or something that compliments the experience
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Have a nice trip
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>>9990857
nah. a book shouldn't be smaller than the ideas its based on
Read the gospel of John (or listen to NIV version on audiobook). It's less harsh than the other gospels, and it really ends leaving you stirred up with love.
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>>9990648
I really, really like this picture. Where did you get it? And I wouldn't really read on a shroom trip T.B.H., but that depends on you. Go outside, do it with close friends, be creative. Reading is for later.
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>tfw will always be a pleb without a solid grounding on philosophy
>tfw the only legit way into philosophy is majoring in philosophy
>tfw dont see any point in working your ass off just to get Derrida'd at the end
It all comes down to u cant know nuffin, always
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When will the philosophy meme end?
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Derrida is important to philosophy. Literally his point is to read philosophy
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>>9990610
8 6 12
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>>9990610
There are reading lists everywhere.
Stop trying to justify why you're a lazy shit
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>"UK publishing industry remains 90% white, survey finds"
>"Research indicates diversity has improved in recent years, but a generational change is needed to balance the book trade, according to researchers"
>“I think publishers have been very proactive in trying to encourage diversity” said bookcareers.com’s Suzanne Collier. “But it is going to take a long time for this to take hold, and until that figure is reduced to about 60/40 we have not got true diversity.”"
http://archive.is/9lyl0
Why the FUCK is Britain so racist?
90% of people working in publishing are white!!?!?
When only 87% of the British population is white!?!?!
APOLOGIZE NOW
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Europeans will always be more racist. They are just figuring out that implicit bias exists, for example. This is also the same country that's cool with being horribly racist to Poles because you can't be racist against white people.
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>>9990564
I bet it's way more jewish than white. Fuck this anti-white bullshit though. They really think they can flood our nations with foreigners and get away with calling us names if we disapprove of our own displacement? Whites need to start destroying this system and sending the hordes back home before we're wiped out by these savages.
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>>9990578
Reported for hate speech.
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I'm so fucking bored with life. I feel guilty for not learning tonnes of stuff in my free time and not trying to make money and not reading lots of boring books. If I'm not doing everything everyday for 16 hours a day then I feel guilty. Procrastinating life by wasting it on the internet minimises my guilt. It's crazy logic but it is what I do.
I do so little at my job and stay there for so few hours despite my contract saying 9-5, you wouldn't believe me if I gave details. Nonetheless, being an ugly subhuman beta is hard work when you see attractive women everywhere, especially younger Chads and Staceys. I am locked out of society. Society is a scam that wants to use me up and throw me away. The workplace for normies is a place where they go to socialise with their clones and be judged by their clones.
I have an everythingstential crisis. I wish I had the autism that let me work on one thing for 10 hours.
Background:
>aged 26
>no friends or social life since 18
>no female attention ever
>went through university with zero social experiences
>became the loner nobody talks to within two days of my current job
>never been to pub, club, or party
>missed out on all the 16 - 22 formative social experiences that people look back on fondly (teen crushes, school prom, school dances, university fresher's week, any sort of relationships at all)
>know that women all have 5000 tinder matches and think the average male is ugly; seeing attractive women everywhere is demoralising
>feel completely bitter and detached from others due to being an ugly subhuman; lifting weights did nothing
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>>9990550
Start working out my dude
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>>9990550
>tfw recognize this shitpost
>realize it's been refined and improved
>it's almost even good
I understand how your position, anon. I occupy a similar one, except that I have neither a job nor career prospects. It could be worse.
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I'm lonely. I never left the house today. At least I have this book to read before I go to bed tonight.
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You're not lonely now that I'm here, anon! I'll read Tolstoy's Albert before going to bed tonight.
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>>9990450
>never left the house today
Wow. Make another the when you don't leave the house for two weeks.
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>>9991295
>two weeks
Wow, make another comment you haven't left in two and a half months
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Is it the yelp of books?
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65907084
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>>9990390
The Internet was a mistake.
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>>9990390
dick
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>>9990390
Going through your favourite books and reading the shitty 1- and 2-star reviews is a great way to get angry at human stupidity.
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100% accurate
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>Plato at both the top and the bottom
accurate
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>>9990358
What the hell does this even represent? Obscurity or difficulty?
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>>9990375
the amount of internet points you get on /lit/
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>>9990183
Fuck you Gregor
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This guy looks like he really doesn't want to go to work.
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Get this thing out of this board. We can't have you here. I hope you die!!!!
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let us discuss mcelroy. No one can write human characters and interactions better than him. ancient history made me think about how my ego effects my recolection of memories and how my perception isnt actually true.
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>>9990066
bump u stupid faggots
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>>9990081
YUO STUPID ENTRY LEVEL PUSSIES FUCKING KILL YOURSELF LEARN TO READ AND PUSH BOUNDRIEDS THIS NIGGER MAKES YOU QUESTION WHAT A BOOK IS AND YO DONT EBEN READ HIM IM DRUNK AND YOU ARE GAY KYS
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>>9990112
How's the prose?