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Best books for aspiring world leaders?
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i read the economist weekly.
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>>9260578
None, books run the risk of undermining petty ambitions
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>>9260578
the hunger games
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What are the best self improvement books you know?
Pic related is one of my favourites.
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The Belief in a Just World by Melvin Lerner
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Dale Carnegie
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>>9260542
babylon ting
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1) Bestseller on Amazon
2)Ben shapiro said it was thorough
3)Political insightful.
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it's been done time and time again the 'haha this book is empty lmao because get it there are no reasons? hhaha'. I don't understand why people are acting this time like it's an original joke/ that it's actually funny
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>>9260427
Because its relevant to this time period, Democrats are already angry that Trump one and this book is just kicking a dying man in the nutsack that's why its funny its post modern cynical humour.
The Democrats also brought their own version a few weeks later.
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>>9260421
The amazon reviews are pathetic.
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Good morning, /lit/.
It has always been my dream to raise a family. From a very young age I have deemed it the most important goal in life, and recently this sentiment has intensified. I have one quite large problem though: I'm gay.
As such, I would like you please to direct me to books about the psychology/biology of child-raising, addressing the effects of a gay couple raising a baby versus a man and a woman. Perhaps also something that addresses whether aspects such as IQ and time spent with children are more important than gender.
Give me as many recommendations as you'd like. I'm only young so I've got years to read this stuff.
And don't cherry pick to give me the best outcome. I want to know whether I should raise a child when I'm older and if I come to the conclusion that it'd be too damaging to the child, then I suppose that'll have to be the end of that. I care more about a child's upbringing than the fulfilment of my own dreams.
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>>9260411
>Opens a thread about family
>Post pictures of child abuse
Why?
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>>>/lit
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>>9260411
Raising a child is always too damaging to justify on that basis regardless of circumstance.
Don't fall into the delusion there is ever a "healthy" childhood, the best you can do is develope more sophisticated technologies to indoctrinate your own fantasy narrative.
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What's makes a child prodigy so infinitely better than a young adult learner? Even if it's practice time or the perhaps that their bodies grow according to the instrument, I still think there's some metaphysical content, for instance one's identity might be entangled with the instrument he grew up learning so that it is necessary to play it; playing the instrument then becomes a powerful assertion of the self.
But is it possible to move in reverse? Can you first develop the metaphysical predicament and then conform yourself to an instrument, provided that in the process you completely reinvent yourself at the most fundamental level as if being born anew?
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>>9260368
you aren't smart now, and you weren't a child prodigy. you suck. suck my massive dong.
t. former child prodigy on the cello
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>>9260373
post dong or at least stats
talk about where you are with cello now
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Google 'synaptic pruning'
In short, your brain is just better at learning when you're a kid, if you aren't smart by the end of puberty, you will be a retard forever.
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>never uses quotation marks
If I did this, my creative writing lecturer would call me an idiot and tell me fix it.
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>>9260367
When you have multiple bestsellers It doesn't really matter what creative writing lecturers think of you.
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Then your creative writing lecturer is a fucking idiot for recognising stylistic decisions.
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>>9260367
>I must follow "rules" or I will be derided
This is why you will never do anything of note.
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Edward Gorey regularly included extra-creepy material in his writings, like pic related. He also fictionally adapted the Moors murders, of all things, into another story (The Loathsome Couple). Not even industrial band Throbbing Gristle had the immediate courage to release their very first album with the opening track all about same subject-they shelved it for a time.
Gorey never married, frequently wrote works involving children (despite not associating with them), and was an all-around eccentric bachelor who struck good on a literary career.
So the question is: What was Gorey's sexual orientation, if any? Asexual? Was Gorey a pedo but one of those well-disposed pedos who never act on their desires? etc.
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>>9260284
>one of those well-disposed pedos who never act on their desires?
Probably. Or just a weirdo.
I mean, I don't want to brag, but I've watched serial killer documentaries obsessively since I was a kid and I have weird fetishes too, but I'm not a serial killer or a pedobut I am asexual.
Some people just like fucked up things. I mean, there are people who collect serial killer paraphernalia (which is too weird, even for me). I don't know enough about this guy to commit to a theory, but it could go either way. He probably just liked fucked up things.
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>>9260304
What do you mean by
>I have weird fetishes
>but I am asexual
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>>9260326
some asexuals experience sexual pleasure, the nerves are all still there after all, it's a sliding scale. I have fetishes and masturbate, but I have no interest in actually having sex with anybody.
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Who else here is a sexual failure?
Let's get a suggestion thread on sexual failure. I-it's for a friend.
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>>9260269
my diary desu
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>>9260276
Want to hear mine?
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>>9260276
It's breddy bad
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Why did he safe the retard? And why all the birth symbolism?
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>>9260207
*Save
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>>9260207
fetishes
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>>9260207
1) for his amusement
2) I can't remember
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Please help.
I used to love books, but after a turbulent time in my life where I did not read books, I feel like I cannot return to them.
I try and try, in small bursts, I come here for inspiration, but I cannot. I have a decent collection of books (Approx 20-50), all which I'd love to read, but I cannot, I cannot find time either.
I seriously need help.
Have any of you guys gone through this before? Any suggestions?
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sometimes I reach a point where I am trying to read because I want to 'have read' the book, not because I find it or the information I'm getting enjoyable or worthwhile.
If that's the case, then read something entirely different from what you "want" to be reading. Usually I'm just fatigued by drier, lengthier books on serious subjects, and so I read a shitty pulp scifi novel or a good mystery or something just to remember its not difficult to thumb past a few hundred pages.
Don't "try too hard" to go back to reading regularly, or read books because you feel obligated to. Start with what you don't have to teach yourself to enjoy and then you may find yourself more motivated to get into something new
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>>9260223
Thank you anon, but even if I do enjoy a book, I just cannot do it. I have no idea why.
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>>9260229
there's NO reason short of being terminally ADD that you can't sit down and read for longer than a few minutes. You're just not used to it, no matter how many times you tell yourself "you can't" it doesn't mean anything. There's no special trick to focusing, just doing it.
Now what the fuck are you still doing here when you could be reading? Start now. If you make one more post in this thread I'll know you're a QUITTER and not worth wasting time on.
What are you waiting for, open the book and assert your dominance over it
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What is the point of literature?
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>>9260130
There is none.
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Don't make me start being an edgy faggot.
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Art
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Is this actually worth reading or just boring pseudo-philosophy for 2000 pages?
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fuck you, /lit/, none of you faggots ever read
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Bought this yesterday because (a) I'd heard of it, (b) that cover is good, (c) the start seemed intriguing. Sadly it joins an absurdly long backlog, though, so I'm in no position to answer.
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Masterpiece
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Labor is an advanced form of slavery.
Slavery can be explained with two unfortunate conditions: being exploited and being powerless to change this. First, as of the current societal climate, labor is absolutely paramount and necessary to a functioning society.
Secondly, laborers are absolutely being exploited to varying degrees. From the coal mine worker, to the construction worker, to the white collar office drone. If this weren't the case, there wouldn't be such a massive wealth gap between the 0.1% and the remaining 99.9%. Not to mention so many jobs without basic medical insurance. The worker himself never fully profits or is given an equal share to the value he brings to an employer.
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carl mark
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What did this guy mean by this?
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>>9259789
>White guy listening to Snoop dogg.webm
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I've been reading some Arthurian legends and the character of Merlin perplexes me. Are there any books that analyze Merlin and his role in literature?
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>>9259708
plz tell me pic-related is a guy
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>>9259708
T. H. White is helpful on his character, if youre just starting out, in The Once and Future King novels.
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>>9259781
i was just thinking the same thing
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Just started reading! =]
How long does it take you to read a book? It's taking me a long time, unfortunately.
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>>9259669
>How long does it take you to read a book? It's taking me a long time, unfortunately.
The necesary
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>>9259669
not so long as it took me to suffer through your post
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>>9259669
I usually don't finish until I read the whole thing. Generally I stop after the last page - it's a good stopping place. How that takes depends.