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Did you find any hot chicks to suck your dick at books?

>>9253358
No.

>be employer
>see resume
>"i've read a lot of books"
>into the trash it goes

God help retarded people, and those even worse off, like dear OP.

If that seems pretentious to you, just go on ahead and give yourself that lobotomy you've been postponing on for so long

I mean, what's even pretentious in that phrase? Express your thoughts, try and be more articulated than a wooden Planck with a buzzword stenciled on it

>>9253320

I think OP is trying to say that he believes Jack London is trying to impress the reader with fanciful writing, which is a bit pretentious. I still like the book though.

Probably the most hilariously wrong work I've ever read, considering the amount of autism that went into it.

>>9253281
Know of his claims but haven't read "The End of History and the Last Man."

Most of his argument seems to rest on the premise that liberal democracy is better for "most people" (and thus "all people") than any other sort of extant state. By his definitions, it's hard to argue against this.

Does he have any actual criticisms of communism other than the stock "muh stalin" or "it hasn't been tried"?

>>9253315
It's primarily an economic and moral criticism - one he believes that Communism is destined to fail economically both to maximise the wealth of its citizens and as an overall system (tending towards collapse). And the general criticism that he believes it errs towards totalitarianism and restriction of freedom.

>>9253277
not always, no.

>>9253277
It is preferred.

>>9253277
Usually it's not bad because it's inherently a bad construction, rather it almost always conceals more interesting logic or actions.

People generally don't mind when great authors do it because they know what they're doing.

Compare: "The People were given the Torah at Sinai." It makes no interesting claim about who gave them the Torah.

Hi Angela

whod've thunk it would be the right that that embraced post-modernity so thoroughly

>unironic socialism
>in the year 2017

Read a lot, and look up a word literally every time you don't know what it means. You have to be diligent about that.

>>9253168
I get that part. What I'm having difficulty in is remembering all the words I look up. I mean how often do you look up a word only to completely forget it a day or two later?

>>9253203
oops I meant to respond to >>9253178

why

I've only read the Monk bio, how's the other one? And wasn't there supposed to be one out soon or recently?

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>>9253095
>unironically
>liking
>Remarque

Hermann Hesse, if you count him as Swiss

>>9253095
I've read Im Westen nichts Neues and I absolutely hated it desu.

if you punched him would he hit back

>>9253108
He'd reee, grab a hot iron, and probably attempt to swing at you with it.

*spoils american movie*
ha, got you

>>9253070
Discipline and Punish

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>>9253070
Everything before the 20th century

Why do academics love post modern french cucks

we didnt talk about Wittgenstein at all but these retards cant stop talking about french like Foucault

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Lucretius is clearly the greatest Roman author

Decline and Fall is top 3 books all time desu

is this book good?

https://www.amazon.com/Romans-Village-History-Earliest-Western/dp/0199730571

probably
maybe

>nggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

>>9252988
When you discuss a book at all, you're discussing it's meaning.

Books and art are nothing but "meaning".

How retarded are you?

Nah, that's pretty much all you need. Enjoy, OP.

s/Hamlet/Complete Shakespeare/

>>9253003
What is this gay retarded bullshit you're doing? Is it some faggot nerd shit?

>Spengler
>reactionary

I don't think he is, he's just a pessimist philosopher of history, and his historiography is, frankly, pretty sketchy.

>>9252891
reactionary literature is the redpill

>>9252891
don't read the fucking abridged edition

No one cares about these memes anymore?

Comfy podcast, I'm only an hour in, give me time my man

>>9253999
I never even heard of the guy on the right