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What's the best mob book to read?
My teacher is basically a larp Italian who pretends he's in the mob and will let me read a mob book for extra credit to get an A . Thanks

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Masterpiece.

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Just got a fake twitter account for the first time. Anyone /lit/ related worth following or should I browse some memos and deactivate my account?

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what does kojève mean by this?

pic related. it's page 9 in his introduction to hegel

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I started trying to read again thanks to lurking on /lit/, and I'm in the process of developing a habit of reading daily. Something I noticed is that I often find myself "stuck" whenever I read a long description of some environment/physical location, especially when I don't recognize the words too well. I only have a vague, intuitive idea of what the environment looks like, and when I try and focus and piece it together, it doesn't make sense (why would this side-walk be here if the park is facing this way, why did we climb into someone's yard if we're coming from the beach, etc. etc.)

Has /lit/ ever had issues with this? Do you just read through it and not worry about it too much? Is it just an issue of unfamiliarity with vocabulary and physical environments? And finally, how do I improve? Also, any general remarks about visualizing would be useful, sometimes I pause when reading when I can't quite visualize a character, so I have some generic image as a result

Thanks in advance

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I'm looking for a spanish 12-part book series, started in the 1960s and continued into the '70s (I think). The first books are apparently more plot-oriented while the later ones are more focused on philosophy. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

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What are some essential translated writings to get more into Asian cultures and philosophy? I'm more interested in the culture of the collective and its benefits for society from a more objective point of view rather than one that engages with the collectivist position as something assumed to be inherently good.

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I think in order for us to continue making fun of John Green it is imperative that we actually read John Green, so what I'm proposing is a John Green read along. I have a copy of looking for Alaska at home (it's my gfs I swear (I would know I purchased it for her)) and I'd be willing to post a few pages a day to a thread. What do you lads think? Regardless of what you think I'm still going to do it. So come along and join in!

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It pisses me off when I see people here post their shelf and it's filled with secondhand shit and paperbacks. If you're going to buy crap why don't you just pirate?

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Best books about Justinian? General best Historians?

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Schopenhauer influenced:
>Nietzsche (greatest philosopher in the last 200 years)
>Tolstoy (greatest novelist of the 19th century)
>Wagner, Mahler, other classical musicians
>Schrödinger/quantum mechanics
>Einstein
>Wittgenstein (greatest philosopher of 20th century)
>Rilke (greatest German poet of 20th century)
>Hardy
>DH Lawrence
>Bergson
>Proust
>Borges
>Nabokov (greatest novelist of middle 20th century)
>Yeats (greatest English poet of 20th century)
>Baudelaire/French Symbolists
>Melville (the peak of American literature)
>Poe
>Machado de Assis
>Beckett
>Freud
>Joseph Campbell
>Zapffe
>Karl Huysmans
>Kafka
>Flaubert
>The list goes on and on.

Hegel influenced:
>Some obscure British philosophers no one reads anymore like F. H. Bradley and McTaggart
>A bunch of charlatan professors from France like Lacan and Derrida that no one will read in a few decades
>Marxism (which freedom and democracy left on the ash heap of history)
>That funny sniffing guy on YouTube

When did you realize Schopenhauer was right about Hegel?

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in a 'pre-med' program but doing poorly with no current chances of getting into medical school and thinking about switching to pure math, something i was passionate about in grade 12 (2 years ago), but too unsure in my abilities to know if i'll do good in that either. confused as to how i went from feeling so safe to so lost.
can /lit/ recommend a novel or other reading for this feel?

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Any madmen here that have actually read the entire western canon?

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what the fuck did I just buy edition

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>Nationalism
>Individualism
Lol, pick one