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oooooooh i"m gonna fuck ya :P

>>9025889
i like both but the genrefags of nonfic (biographyfags) are still better than /lit/fags who dont read any nonfic

>>9025923
What nonfiction would you recommend?

>>9025841
Hmmm, what's on my mind? I'm currently thinking that OP should have used the catalog.

>>9025841

--Tiny Steps Of Change__

Wearing a reversible jacket becomes
a coast only to wear on Sundays.

Beginning to breathe on Saturday
begins on the clock that rest's
on Friday .

Tonight is the night that begins
like an empty cave on Thursday .

>>9025841
Trump is going to fuck us and his hooliganistic fans that got him in are all completely retarded considering he never even talked about a plan during his campaign speeches.

>tfw nitzschean ethics
>but i'm also a coward hedonist because i engage in escapism and masturbate (don't use drugs though)
>i know i'm wrong but i'm too much of a pussy to embrace full ubermensch induced madness

>>9025807
Embrace Fascism as a coping mechanism

>>9025807
more like high narcissism

get over yourself

>>9025225

Aesthetic pleasure tbqh famalamadingdongdoodle.

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It's fun
TV is boring and every show turns into a soap opera
Video games are too addictive
Movies are mostly shit

Reading is the ideal pastime activity

>>9025225

I read to fuck boipussies

>>9025214
>reading primary texts of literal high school math
psued

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Reading right now:
Simone Weil - Waiting for God

Reading next:
Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea


Just finished the introduction of 30 pages, I feel confused, in a way, but connected at the same time. However there was one excerpt that made me sad, "Indeed, in a sense I do not exist. I am the color of dead leaves, like certain insects." What a tragic figure.

Reading:
D. Quixote

Next:
Wanted to read Homage to Catalonia, can someone tell me if it's too much of a "historical/political" book or if it is mostly Orwell telling what he did that day/the conversations he has with his friends/how the battles played out/his opinions?

>implying it's not Gramsci

>>9025211
>implying it's not Nabokov
>the man who can make you forget you're sympathizing with a pedo bear
>the man who makes you momentarily forget basic morality
>the man whose mastery of the english language far surpasses that of any american or english writer

>>9025226
>the man whose mastery of the english language far surpasses that of any american or english writer
not so difficult when you're born in a master-language country and then you have to learn a shit-language

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>>9025100

>Having a physical shelf

Look at Mr. Moneybags

>>9025246
have you even read any of those

>>9025273

Probably about half. I have a weird compulsion where I'm always adding new books so I don't run out of things to read.

>>9025067
Are you saying, comedies, and tragedies (or at least lets say, philosophical investigative narratives) should be purely judged in two distinct categories? That it is senseless to even compare them?

The worst work, that tries to include philosophical topics, is de facto better than the greatest comedy of all time that does not. Its far beyond apples and oranges.

I wouldnt go so far as to saw a work which does not, or does not a lot or as much, is bad, I would likely even say its possible one can be more good.

I guess if you define good as 'philosophical' than yeah. But then if a person likes reading non philosophical books, are they an idiot, even if they say it gives them pleasure?

Is anything that does not kill a person relatively quickly, which they claim to be pleasurable, (which does not 'directly' harm another) kosher?

>>9025067
Dude you're so high. Just go to bed.

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>>9025067
>2017
>Still trying to make objective value claims
Slow your roll there, grandpa. I guess you might've been in a coma and missed the news, but in the future we don't play that mess. God's dead and ain't nothin better than nothin anymore, cuz fuck you you ain't the bossa me. So don't let me fucking catch you bringing objective truth in my house again pal. You wanna roll with the big dogs you better be ready for some HARDCORE relativism.

>>9025015
audio books hate you too!!!

>>9025015

Why?

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when i listened to the sun also rises on audiobook i almost threw up

>>9024603
normies

he didn't like it. he just said he likes it so you won't assume he was a lonely faggot with autism

most normies are low energy when it comes to idea type stuff so they get boring pretty quick but they're still there interrupting you from your reading and writing so it's better for them to just go
he's also big on friendship though which can be cool if you wanna go out in the boat or something like that

Why does she look so degenerate

>>9024551
sexual frustration for you

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>>9024537

>>9023948
mediocre bait

>>9023948
>it never rains in oregon

Bien al contrario pienso yo dar medio
a tanto mal, pues el Amor bien sabe
que no tiene enemigo que le acabe
con más facilidad que tierra en medio.
Tierra quiero poner, pues que remedio,
con ausentarme, Amor, rigor tan grave,
pues no hay rayo tan fuerte que se alabe
que entró en la tierra, de tu ardor remedio.
Todos los que llegaron a este punto,
poniendo tierra en medio te olvidaron;
que en tierra al fin le resolvieron junto.
Y la razón que de olvidar hallaron
es que amor se confiesa por difunto,
pues que con tierra en medio te enterraron.

He is a cultist like Stefan Molyneux

>>9023711
>a cultist

Nah, he's just a star. He's not manipulating anyone, in fact there is no ''real'' community around his figure, only a lot of disorganized people who listen to what he says without basing their entire life on his preachings.

Don't compare him (or any intellectually honest intellectual, if that matters) to Molyneux plese

>>9023708

*sniffs*

I didn't read it but it was terrible.

It's a dime a dozen romantic tragedy that attained relevance by featuring cancer, which was blowing up at the time.

>>9023563
This tbqh.

woah... so sad... im ltierally cray....

>>9023355
me too

>I don't care anymore, I hope we all fuckin' burn. Fuck. I hope we all fuckin' nuke each other.

Okay, it was yesterday, but still.