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Ye

For school yeah
For my own benefit no.

right now im reading a long book on my own and a short book on the side bc im part of a book club with some friends

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>>9042134

why do people assume Nick is trying to be an edgelord, his ideas are simply an interesting and very possible synthesis of Nietzsche, Deleuze, Foucault, Lovecraft, and Marx

>>9042138
The thing is that all those guys were edgelords. Not that there's something wrong with that.

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More antihero than supervillain. Verging into one of those guys the hero of a bog-standard action thriller meets somewhere in act 2 when looking for guidance on how to defeat the real bad guys. Marx + Deleuze + Lovecraft + drugs is a recipe for psychosis and that's what happened to Nick Land. He looked beyond the veil.

If I was looking for a deeply-buried goldmine of super-villain material I'd go with pic related.

>>9042117
define 'newly'

>>9042122
Books released in the last few weeks.

>>9042122
Books released in the past few days

>>9042086
I don't trust the real me to anyone I know because I don't respect anyone I know enough to do so or want to do so

No, I take Rilke's advice.

I let friends proof-read stuff that I write for thenhell of it, but for stuff where I pour myself out, I agree with >>9042094

Harder to play vidya with one hand.

>>9042057
nice bait thread
reading requires more focus, because like vidya it doesn't continue without you (like anime) but can't be read while mentally checking out (like unengaging vidya)

You are what you practice. If you read great works that are the culmination and result of lifetimes, cultures, periods of time, idea systems, etc, you gain perspective and understanding which makes you a wiser and better person (in theory). If you play video games, you sometimes experience a sliver of the same thing, but more often you develop specific muscle-brain connections in the fingers and hands, develop reaction time, learn to strategist and cooperate, etc. Anime, like all other storytelling media, provides the same sort of benefits as many forms of literature, although, in my experience, to a lesser and less profound extent.

>>9042046
why japanese?

>>9042048
Nihongo cartoon books have the quality of being written by Japanese people from the quixotic land of Japan, an island across the water from me. This island has very unusual inhabitants as you're probably aware. Japanese are unlike any other indigenous race, and my future plan is to learn their stupid language, sometime perhaps depending on certain factors. One Piece all-time sales are below the American comics Superman, Batman, meaning cartoon books from Nippon are popular on a global scale just below America. I'd prefer to invest in the _other_ rather than the familiar.

I don't know, but I love One Piece, it's fun as fuck.

>>9041953
I feel I am the only soul to have enjoyed huxley's "Ape and Essence," it reads like an old sci-fi movie except with a purpose beyond entertainment. I liked it, but I see why it's not his most popular book.

The Book of Ebenezer Le Page. The comfiest, most humbling book I've read. Makes me wish I was a Guernseyman.

>>9041953
Never read God's Demon by Barlowe OP but I know of it, I'm a big fan of his art/books.

Early church music is based, but most classical music in general is pretty good as long as it doesn't get too rowdy (like some symphonies). Piano sonatas and string trios/quartets are especially likely to be small/quiet enough to fade in the background.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pdKhgjxQpM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8hQSMxa7gk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WNCBPdetG4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVYU99NjwYI

>>9041949
Brian eno

Sacred music my man. Anything recognizable lyrics or really crazy sections (like fugues maybe) can be distracting

>>9041934
>incredibly bored by Brothers Karamazov
>recommend Vonnegut
>Vonnegut recommends Brothers Karamazov
wew lad.

I'd say read Sirens of Titan because it's his only good book, but maybe Slaughterhouse 5 is more your speed; it's his shortest and most accessible

>>9041942
Vonnegut has an incredibly different writing style than the shitty BK translation I was reading, so I don't know why I'm getting wew-ladded. Anyway, thanks for the recommendation, I guess.

>>9041974
What translation were you reading?

>>9041905
Because they never went looking for his head

>>9041914
they did dumbass Hal acknowledges it in the very first chapter

It wouldn't destroy the skull necessarily.

>>9041868
I'm not tackling it until i get done with FW
so i'll get back to you in 15 years

Test

>>9041868
wtf is it. is it a story? does it have characters. I hear you can't translate it to English.

Homer or Aristotle

>>9041817
The minoans

Start with the Sticky

>>9041743
Yes, of course you are. If you're too stupid to take the time to get used to it you don't deserve to be reading. Get The Riverside Chaucer if you want footnotes and glosses.

>>9041743

If English is your first language you should be fine with reading Chaucer in Middle English (unless you're a pleb who has to read Shakespeare in a "modern" translation). Read some guides and look up how to pronounce it. Yes it's tricky at first but you'll get used to it eventually.

>>9041748
>Getting used to it
If you think you can just pick up Canterbury Tales and just read through it you're a fool. You have to take classes to read and understand it

>>9041693
she should have been executed for what she did

>>9041713
Elaborate?

>>9041693

Meme

same

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>>9041660
>_>

->I don'T feel

-Sid

"Now if I fuck this model, and she just bleached her asshole, and I get bleach on my T-shirt, I'mma feel like an asshole."
-Friedrich Nietzsche