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I'm torned. I feel like this question is both interesting and uninteresting, and I don't know what to say about it.

Genetic modification will make this possibility a reality, and then you'll see. It matters slightly, only for the uneducated. But...

'For at bottom the masses are willing to submit to slavery of any kind, if only the higher-ups constantly legitimize themselves as higher, as born to command—by having noble manners.'

If such a person has noble manners they will submit to him anyhow.

>>9310386
Yes, if the author has breasts and a vagina then it's usually not worth reading.

It depends on the person. It could really change a writer's perspective on literature but it would mean nothing to a brainlet with a low attention span

>>9310340
>listening to Hunter Thompson
guy was literally nuts

It's pointless and most of all boring.

Joyce trolled marshal McLuhan with this shit, so he just have been onto something

>>9310135
The arse full of farts

you have to read it with a thick Dublin accent and then it makes absolute sense.

Who is that fucked up autist? I could stick my cock in his ass until I hear him screaming and puking blood

>>9310066
I copy and pasted wrong the actual quote is "when I think of ice cream..."

Anyone who refers to sprinkles as "jimmies" is a fucking psycho

Not featured in that picture, that's for sure

>>9310013
Pinecone is great man

Where's David Foster Wallace?

>>9309669
You dont need to have read the books to understand the story of the games, the first one is pretty shitty though. I liked the books when I read them although they had their flaws a mary sue-character for example who gets added in later parts. Also keep in mind that I was 15 at the time. Its definetly a lot darker and edgier than classic fantasy, if thats a pro or a con is up to you. The german translation was pretty good from what I remember, cant say anything else about other languages. These books are not master pieces, far from it but you could do much much worse.

>>9309669
Just try reading the book you posted. If you don't like it at first few stories in, drop the series. Keep reading until you stop enjoying them.

>>9309744
the first game or book?

>>9309764
I figured I might do that as well
I just hate reading on a monitor and thought about buying the books directly if they were good, but I'll try getting it from the internet

i don't really care about angels, so i can't recommend you anything. but why are you interested in them?

>>9309563
It's early fanfiction. Cool stuff, but not theologically supported.
Have you read the book of Revelations? A lot of ideas about the world beyond ours come from there.

>>9309921
Because angels referenced throughout the Bible, which I'm currently reading. Angelology is comparable to Greek mythology in some ways. Also, I think it fascinating that angels are so different than human anatomy. They're so alien-looking.

>>9309928
Not yet, friend. I'm only on the book Isaiah right now.

guilt is a spook for beta males

The first Magic The Gathering book, Arena I think, is amazing and the comfiest book I've ever read. Definite guilty pleasure

i dunno bout books with adverbs in the title

>>9309104
Of course. Such coincidences are never without meaning.

why not

it's not like you've got anything else to do

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>>9308935
>favorite character
Pic related

David

>>9309120
Kropotkin? In a Phrygian cap?

>>9308562
Fanged Noumena?

Conngratulations Landposter, you got one

a book

Jesus suffered

>>9307640
You gotta think about the cultural context in which he lived, anon.

>>9307640
This was Dostoevsky trying to be deep, he was very bad at it. His best books are satirical.

>>9307242
eb00ks by cause iam(me) fucking poor i dont have library-book-store near my house

As someone who steals all forms of entertainment, books are the only exception. I can't really put a finger on why, but ebooks makes the whole experience of reading feel inauthentic. Many a time have I tried to read ebooks when I was out of money and the library didn't have the book I wanted, but I never get far.

The formatting of ebooks usually triggers me.

>>9307190
Books should be returned to the earth via burning

>>9307190
>Go to used book store
>Acquire store credit
>Buy more books

>>9307190
I DON'T

>>9307070

I tried reading it but I kept losing attention and browsing 4chan instead.

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>>9307081
lmao great banter

Been put off reading it just because it was published in 2012, idk feels like the internet has moved on a lot since then. Pretty open to being talked round though