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Can I sell you my copy? It's new, I've only read the first page.

>>9247531
If your reading comprehension is fine then sure, read the first few pages on Amazon and see for urself.
Otherwise, Inherent Vice is way easier and still v good so go there.

I read it a few weeks ago, I enjoyed it, first Pynchon for me

>>9247508

Not sure where he was going with that stuff about Descartes but I don't completely disagree with the first part. If somebody is gonna be a stickler about how I use my time, I have to admit that not every philosophical idea I've ever grappled with has practical value, or at least the practical value wasn't apparent to me. Sometimes philosophy really is just mental masturbation. I'm not convinced that this is some terrible thing for philosophy, but it's a reasonable criticism

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>>9247577
Cookie-cutter response desu

>>9247508
Why would anyone care to improve your shitty life?

>>9247479
>17:49
is any of it memeworthy?

>>9247479
>she thought infinite jest was hard

Dropped

>>9247486
no it's just pleasant

Joyce

>>9247485
examples

>>9247476
italo calvino

>>9247447
That's a good sign.
If you think your own writing is good it is 100% shit

>>9247447
My diary desu

The only times i don't think that my writing is shit are when i feel bad for other reasons.
like once i wrote a short story about a little girl raped by his cousin, it was the best thing i wrote but after i felt so bad and ashamed.

i aint no hollebecq girl

how did he get to fuck so many bitches, if he looks like that?

>>9247427
It's the alpha mindset man

>>9247344
survival=bare necessities
"I work to survive" =food
augmented survival=bare necessities AND non-necessities
"I work to make a living" = nice house, car, clothes etc

>The real consumer has become a consumer of illusions.
augmented goods are illusory and have no value

>The commodity is this materialized illusion, and the spectacle is its general expression
when you buy augmented goods you are essentially buying a piece of paper issued by the system (ie worthless) that permits you to pretend to be somebody you are not (ie narcissism). Then you display that to others (spectacle), and you try to get them to play along.

should i order this book and simulacra and simulation?

>>9247950
How familiar are you with Marxism is the first question I always ask people who pose this question? I would try to get to grips with his theory of value as much as possible before you attempt this book because as much as it appears at first glance to be a simply a polemic about modern consumer society, it is fairly dense and requires some foreknowledge about Marxism before you can fully get to grips with it. That being said, I'm not suggesting you wage through the three volumes of Capital and the Grundrisse before you read this (although at a later date, I would certainly recommend it), find a simple introduction or something, Ben Fine's Marx's Capital is very good and concise.

we have this thread
every day

let me try

Op. always a faggot, never loved

>>9247305
I am dying! Or am I?

It's a mystery/horror/existential thriller.

>be literally bred for slavery from the moment you are born
>unemployable, just being shunted from seasonal placement zero hour contract work (((full time))) """jobs"""
>can't pay rent
>can't pay bills
>getting evicted

I have zero skills, 11 years of mandatory education where they do everything to make sure you know as little as possible

Why did I have to be born to shitty retarded toilet cultured immigrants who's laissez faire attitude and dumb fairy tales left me with zero skills an inablity to engage in pragmatic european ice age evolved thinking patterns?

Is any of this even real?

Hello?

>>9247299
Its the burden we lonely few have to bare, I'm glad you dealt with that perfidious cunt in a rational manner, I would have gone over board

>>9247317
Which country do you live in?

>>9247267
The Tao of Pooh. Only for thirty something men instead of 30+ women.

High end self help but still fundamentally in line with garbage like The Secret

>>9247267
You study in Utrecht mate?

>>9247291
hey man fuck you that pooh book is gold

>>9247259
Great, another idiot

>>9247262
NO, I'm completely sincere

0/10 for never having actually read Nietzsche or understanding what he means by the overmen aka E V O L U T I O N not just deciding to be an overman

The world is more powerful than you are, so it is ultimately harmful for you to struggle against it.

>>9247253
It means no matter how hard you try you'll always be nothing more than an ungeziefer in your dad's eyes.

>>9247253
not a great translation, it should be "In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world."

>>9247240
We used to. Who remember that? Haha

>>9247244
I remember.

;_;

>>9247244
Pepperidge Farms remembers

>and even likens his works to fast food

Where did he do this?

>>9247245
http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/books/20-things-you-(probably)-didnt-know-about-stephen-king

>>9247232

I like his writing style. It's very simple.

>>9247218
what is worthy to be called a self is control, which there is not.

only a retard would called the bundle of ideas a self.

>imaginaning
Opinion dismissed.

>>9247218
Why don't you red him and find out.