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>>9969905
Awful publication funded by the CIA.

it's shit

Durrr I listened to an audiobook instead of reading it myself and missed everything. What do?

>>9969879
>there actually is an audiobook
what the fuck

Actually kind of hilarious

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>>9969751
Just go straight into the trilogy senpai. It's 20 bucks on Book Depository, and well worth it! Great prose that you can read aloud.

The Greeks.

Waiting for Godot. Then read the rest of his plays. Then "Proust", then the novels (chronologically). After that, anything and everything.

>>9969707
postmodern lit is literal shit, lots of scat humor and rape

postmodern art is all googly woogly

postmodern philosophy is angsty

>>9969707

postmodern lit is primarily concerned with two things: first, the acceptance of the fact that everything worth saying has already been said and a sort of coming-to-terms with that through frequent use of allusion, reference, and recombination of existing materials; second, a shared reader-author awareness that fiction really is fiction and doesn't have to pretend to be contained, coherent, consistent, or work inside any sort of box, and a resulting increase of interest in formal creativity (see, for instance, DFW's footnotes, Pale Fire, or the cancer that is House of Leaves).

postmodern art is all googly woogly

postmodern philosophy is angsty

Angsty?

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while the barnes and noble leatherbound classics are very great books (price, design, mechanical build) I like the penguin hardcover classics more. the selection of titles is far more minimal but the designs are more aesthetic

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>>9969585
I love this one

Neocons are like watered down, retarded Trotskyites.

>>9969920
>2017
>Believing in the trotsky neocon meme

>>9969475

liberal institutionalism is the most retarded international theory. American primacy is the way to go

No, but it'll probably take you two hours to read if you really wanted to.

>>9969445
read Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum" instead. it has more content than dun brown's work, and is funnier besides.

>>9969445
No.
People say Dan Brown might not have literary and historical merits, but at least he writes good plots. But he does not - I predicted the ending after the first 30 mins of the movie.
Probably Eco (Name of the Rose) instead, haven't read it but classic is a classic.

>rationalists claim they explain consciousness

>let's explain consciousness but let's not actually talk about consciousness
seems pretty reddit to me

science is not welcome on this board. GAS ALL MATERIALISTS

read socrates' works

Well obviously one should have a basic understanding of the pre-socratics before they start with the greeks so they understand what socrates, or at least plato's recordings of socrates, was going against.

Read the sticky.

Marshall Hodgson's Venture of Islam

Reza Aslan's No God but God

Muhammad by Martin Lings. It is based on the earliest sources.

I'm probably not smart enough to know, but the doom and gloom over technology is getting really fucking tired

>>9969278
But it's only getting more justifiable

>>9969260
no that is just technological-determinism. so he's missing almost everything.