Sup /lit/
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I have his Syntactic Structures book waiting to be read.
Should I?
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I heard antiflag is gonna play at the house of blues this month do you want to go?
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>>9139271
>not going to a used bookstore
Pleb detected.
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Logic textbooks
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>>9138875
what kind/?
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>>9138896
one that is good at explaining logical proofs
In addition, a good predicate logic text would be appreciated.
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>>9138914
please respond
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What books should a ugly man read?
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No Longer Human
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Start with the Greeks. Caring about your appearance that much is a womanly behavior.
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The Bible
ITT: books you will never fucking get to read
this and War and Peace
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Why? Are you deaf and blind double hand amputee?
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I've read like 6 books and one of them was W&P; you can do it.
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I hold a deep love for GEB. Please give it a chance!!!
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Do you have one of these? I respect my books. Do you?
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>>9138123
I don't want to be invited to bible-studies by illiterates.
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>>9138129
it's not only for bible m8
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>>9138123
no. i want my books to suffer.
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I swear to God that fucking picture makes my blood boil.
All those pretentious maggots (for understandings sake I refer to them as normies) that put themselves on a high pedestal and proudly emphasize that they, indeed (ladies and gentlemen you may or may not believe it!), read books. How does their mind work?
>"I read books,that means, I am smart"
You can notice them on the way they speak about themselves. Whenever they emphasize how much they read books, as well as taking tasteless photographs of themself posing (as unnatural and "cute" as possible) with a book or just letting everyone know how much they've read without you asking, you know exactly what you're dealing with. In my experience females show such behaviour way more than men.
I assume in their retarded thought-process they think back to the one time they paid attention in history class and how only scholars and higher ups had the ability to read and that's why they associate the act of reading with being intelligent. Added with the romantizing of reading books in media and social circles they try to sustain that image of themselves. Books are a medium like any other and vary strongly in terms of quality, but they act as all books are inherently good pieces of fiction and everything else is below.
Depending on what you read you may gain more insight on certain subjects, however the most important part and the one normies don't even think about for a second is, that you have to process it (,but of course how could they, if their oh so great mind is completely occupied with gossiping, celebrities, spending money or if or if not Jake is cheating on them!). You have to form your own opinion of what you've read and think about what you would've removed/added to make the piece of literature better. If you read let's say a philosophical or religious work and agree with each and every point and do nothing but quote the creator without processing both your worldviews or not adding a piece of your mind, your thoughts and life experiences you're nothing more than a parrot. It's just frustrating that normies that associate themselves with literature think of their mind as a deep, sky blue ocean, when it takes a non-retarded person two minutes to realize s/he it's a dirty puddle by the roadside.
I hope you are not like that.
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not sure whats worse
a gymcel with an ugly face or a wittgenstein shitposter
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why do you care so much? get a life, nerd
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>>9137977
lol ok
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What are some books about Nazism?
Specifically about the actual ideology and the ideologies within it. The shit about the racism, the aryan/Nordic race, their plans for Europe and its links to European mythology.
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Mein Kampf
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>>9137691
Basically this. But keep in mind that nazism is mostly a demagogic ideology. They made things up as they were needed.
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>>9137675
Ian Kershaw's biography of Hitler.
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>age
>location
>what are you currently writing
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Undisclosed age (but old enough that I should know better than to be here)
NorCal
Been working on a novel for some time now. Lots of false starts, reboots, and character assassinations, but it WILL come to life eventually. It's my masterwork.
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>>9137018
>Undisclosed age (but old enough that I should know better than to be here)
faggotiest post i've ever seen on 4chan kill yourself
t. 29 year old faggot
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>>9137018
>Undisclosed age (but old enough that I should know better than to be here)
If you are so terrified of being honest on an anonymous message board where no one gives a shit your book is probably garbage and lies
t. the same 29 year old faggot again who is still mad about this holy shit i am a fucking loser for even caring (i also live with my parents and am 8k in debt)
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Do you dislike pop psych and similar dumbed down books? Why? And how intense is your distaste?
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>>9136273
It has done significantly more damage to humanities' (rightful) place in people's general life discourse, than STEM, the usual suspect, old severely autistic card, could ever hope to do with his severe autism
although I would extend the definition to diss on all of psych, since popularity is in it's essence just a quantitative measure, while the qualities remain the same for either pop or obscure
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>>9136302
Is English your seventh language or something?
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Why would anyone hate psychology but embrace philosophy?
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same tho. I'm so far behind this year already
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Get on my fucking level
desu tho 2 of those books were less than 100 pages
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I've read about 15 so far that I can think of off the top of my head but that was mainly last week and the first week of January, I was drunk most of the rest of the time.
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Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.
The Double. His best work, though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's "Nose."
The Brothers Karamazov. Dislike it intensely.
Crime and Punishment. Dislike it intensely. Ghastly rigmarole.
99% of /lit/ BTFO
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Does he ever go into any more detail than this? He is effectively just hurling insults at him. I get it's just his opinion, but surely he has a deeper reasoning than that, if he was willing to publish said opinion.
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>>9134833
Nabokov isn't infallible Anon, you'll notice he said a lot of outrageously contrarian things in his 'Recommendations.'
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>>9135032
They may be contrarian, but they are right.
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Is it as good as everyone says it is, or is the hype misleading?
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Creatively disappointing, also emotionally uncharged when it intends to be otherwise. Depends on what you read for I guess.
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I finished it last night and thought it was really good. Never read any Saunders before.
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>emotionally uncharged
There were some things that fell flat, but I disagree for the most part.
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what's his deal
besides everyone liking him I always forget what his stories are like- like magical realism but folksy and "humanistic"?
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I enjoyed it. What should I read next? World Order?
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>>9131759
You're going to enjoy this even more.
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>>9131759
If you're interested in serious political thought, then you should pick up some Trump books to broadne you're mind
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>>9131771
Thx
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One of the most overrated writers ever?
I'm not a /lit/huanian by any means, in fact I barely read at all, but I am good at writing, and recently had to read The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway for school and found his writing style dreadful. Thoughts?
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>>9131319
>Thoughts?
Lurk moar
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>>9131339
>Thoughts?
You're wrong
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>>9131319
>I barely read at all, but I am good at writing
>recently had to read Hemingway for school
kek
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What was his fucking problem?
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>>9128106
asians don't have souls.
try a redpill
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>>9128106
he was a whiny faggot
i hated this book
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Some men are born broken and cannot fit in society