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Machiavelli

This book changed my life. I used to always charge uphill to fight my enemies and I would consistently try to confront chariots on the open and flat field but this book finally set me straight. No more executing spies for me, now I give them money to turn double agent and set them free.

The Selfish Gene

>>9024889
First of all, it's all on libgen and boookzz.
Second of all, there's no Bottom's Dream .epub

>share nothing in the first post
you're a piece of shit OP

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>>9024889
sure have some Politically Incorrect Books
https://mega.nz/#F!B4dB2SzQ!h_pMC30v2a_y31iD0dy0sg

desu it’s better to grab books from the ‘individual files’ folder – especially for earlier packs – because I’ve found better versions (and .epub versions) of some books, and haven’t updated all the .zips.
unfortunately if you try to ‘download as .zip’ that folder, it’s currently 2gb, which means you require the mega plugin. To avoid this unnecessary step, you can manually select half the files and ‘download as .zip’ a couple of times.

>>9024868
Why do you care? Nobody here likes Dickens anyway

>>9024868
This is just how this field works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

There is probably a lot of gold philosophy/literature buried deep in the sands of time since literary success is really random

>>9024868
There could not be a fucking Plato in 2017, dummy.
'If Plato was alive today' is an absurd statement. Try and read the words you are typing for once and dwell on what you are actually saying.
How can you even come to think that you can separate a thinker from his historical context? Plato/Socrates for example makes no sense outside of the context of Athens after the peloponessian war, and Nietzsche makes no sense separated from late 19th century modernity.
And how would western thinking even look without these thinkers (assimilate they did not write in their actually time, but are instead alive today)? Our entire tradition is conditioned by these thinkers so your hypothetical scenario is actually completely unable to be thought out, since our whole perspective by the force of its shifted historicity would be totally and utterly different and unthinkable.

With that said, neither Socrates or Nietzsche were revered in their lifetimes; neither was Kafka for that matter. What constitutes a 'classic' is not only its intrinsic artistic merit (when speaking of literary works) or the absolute validity of its claims (when speaking of philosophy), neither its critical acclaim in its own time; rather, 'classic' pieces are held in this light because they have had an impact either on or even transcending their respective areas and thus in part constitute the and condition the historical time where we find ourselves today; and moreover, studying thinking that was written under vastly different historical circumstances than our own helps us grasp the very fragile contingency of our own times and how everything could look vastly different.

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>>9024667

by whom? faggots?

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>>9024669

>>9024583
Embarrassing moments. My mind subconsciously omitted that word when writing the op.

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>>9024583
It is your emotional mind taking control of yourself over your wisdom mind, and that happen due to the lack of self discipline in your daily life.it is yi and xi minds.

>>9024583
>Is there a book that covers this?
write it dude, its all you, you got it

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>>9024487
bro every time I make a mira thread even when it's talking about /lit I get banned. be careful.

>>9024487
old age really caught up to her looks wise. I feel bad for women.

>>9024487
What work? All she does is smoke weed, write about weed for vice and tweet. That one book she released with tao lin was all just actual tweets from them.

>>9024464
the 21st century IS the Lilith timeline

>>9024484

Or maybe the timelines refer to perception instead? Lilith wanted to fuck Adam because he was a Chad, everything was perfect and nothing wrong and they had everything handed to them, meanwhile, in the Lilith timeline they had to actually overcome struggles facing things like death, sin while being shown how cruel reality could be.

>>9024533

I meant in the Eve timeline in the second part.

>>9024422
holy fuck. you should probably learn English before you read him

Start with "Gravitys Rainbow", its generally considered a light introduction to Pynchons books

>>9024459

This. If you start anywhere else its likely you'll get frustrated and won't finish

>>9024416
isn't this what the bible was?

>>9024416
I have no idea what you're saying, but I like Albert Camus in this picture. He is so attractive and manly.

>>9024476
if u love him so much why dont u marry him LMOA

JK Rowling, George RR Martin, and R.A. Salvatore

Bill Ayers, Saul Alinsky, and Karl Marx

-Thomas Aquinas
-Saint Augustine
-Donald J Trump

>TORVALD WHY HAVE YOU BEEN PROVIDING FOR ME FOR SO LONG FOR FUCK SAKE IT'S THE 19TH CENTURY GROW SOME BALLS AND LET ME BUY ALL THE DRESSES I WANT

Bravo Ibsen

>>9024430
Torvald wasn't providing for her, he was providing for himself. She was just another possession to and for him. Did you even read the play?

>>9024367
Does she give them cyanide and shoot herself?

then why don't you do it? make a website or so

did any1 else think pic related was Hitchens

>>9024404
Would /lit/ be down for that? I could try to get crowdfunding through Kickstarter

My childhood/10

There were always the little comics with the toys which never had any text and it frightened me because I had no clue what was going on
It was usually a small segment of a (I guess) larger story and there was stuff like tentacles coming from lava and the bionicles looking scared

The first movie was fucking ace, the second I can't remember but the music and very hazy memories of the end battle

I have the Bionicle guide book here somewhere

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>>9024699
Didn't take long to find

"The original Bionicle guide - The adventure begins. The hero has been chosen."

Now skimming through the book, the Bionicle world is pretty heavily christian influenced isn't it? With the Kraata's being the natural evil that comes from Makuta, the Toas being reborn stronger, etc.

>>9024350


I think I got my parents to buy me the schoolastic box set because it came with a gold mask and then never read them

>>9024344
Bible

Studs Lonigan

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>>9024344

>>9024252
yes, we know you're bitter your country is a dumpster fire right now.

>War is peace
>Freedom is slavery
>Diversity is strength
We've been living it for decades

i literally just read 1984 and this passage wasn't in the book