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perhaps

>>9001255
are you a girl (girl)?

>>9001255
yes

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Stop changing the rules of the game when you lose all your skin.

Finish your damn book already Taleb. I don't want to read it in disconnected and unfinished fragments on the internet.

Taleb is actually worth reading. He's a no-bullshit intellectual that doesn't obfuscate or try to sound deep. Not pretentious enough for this board, though.

>>9001232
take the redpill instead, kiddo

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>>9001236
back to /pol/ with you

Yeah Jonathan Franzen

I wish I could have orgies with supple girls from the age of 5 and experience the most immersive virtual reality ever created after popping 5 re-branded xanax.

>>9001418
I know, right? Imagine being totally in peace with your place in the world (social strata), not getting old, not grieving...

>>9001213
>Also, the book's future depiction didn't seem reallt that bad at all
that's the point. it's supposed to provoke the question of whether we would be willing to trade freedom and knowledge for comfort and happiness.

>>9001138
as opposed to shitposting on a baverian polka rally

>>9001138
>looking at art through a market lense

read more berger pleb

>>9001138
I wonder about the thought process of someone who would type out this kind of rant to post it here.

>>9001105
When capitalism dies (it won't).

>>9001105
I will consider it after my SUCC arrives in the mail

>>9001114
this

posting because of the full body wince i just went into thinking of the implications of culture in 20ish years

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I listened to the audiobook, it was comfy.

>>9001100
The standard work in English is "The Greek Myths" by Robert Graves. But it's more of a reference book than an attempt at narrative. Ideal if you need to look up classical allusions by other authors.

>>9001039
What do you mean by being 'honest and true' to yourself?

>>9001039
Maybe.

Our culture is completely obsessed with everything and everyone being "authentic" and we despise the fake and pretentious. If this is a good thing or not, I'm not sure.

>>9001039
certainly. when one writes, his very character is poured into each sentence.

How much did all that horseshit cost?

Why do you punish yourself OP? What are you sins?

>>9000980
Burn everything except The art of the deal

it's top five for me for sure. and i'm old and have read lots of books

my favourite thing is just how infectiously enthusiastic melville is. it's so fun to read. obviously it's a masterpiece on every level, but the one that makes it so joyful is that how clearly and beautifully his love of the subject pours out of every page

>>9000948
Really and excellent book, I could say the same thing. People complain about all the whaling knowledge I guess but I sorta liked it.

>>9000948
In terms of fiction I'd agree. For me it's the GOAT novel.

>>9000938
if he knew that sofs would produce 4chan he would have been for it

>>9001098
Pardon my ignorance, what is "sofs"?

>>9001107
Society of the Spectacle

>>9000751
the bible desu

>>9000751
the greeks

>>9000751
Complete Stories of Hemingway.
Why?
>language is easy, and the stories are normally fairly easy reads
>though not demanding in the terms of prose, they aren't artless pop-lit
>can be appreciated without prior knowledge of lit
>popular enough that if you want to talk about it with people outside of a mongolian throat singing board, you probably can
>if you like it, he has a large body of work to continue with
>written recently enough that you don't need a great deal of historical context that you wouldn't already have

>>9000731
He was a normal kinda guy that got thrown into an superficial world. He couldn't cope with it and became crazy as he couldn't draw a line betweem who he really was and who he needed to be to function. This resulted into violent power fantasies and a hatred for everything, as nothing really appeared to be genuine or real to him anymore.

>>9000731

He was a psycho, senpai.

>>9000745
Do you think he really committed those murders or that they were just fantasies? Also I can't help but think there were some homosexual urges he struggled through during the book, given all the weird tension with Luis.

>>9000754
Makes sense desu

Dude I love Dan Simmons, lets do it!

>>9000717
yeah!

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Is this makioka group too? Did you guys finish?

>>9000685
because they had mental problems and didn't noticed

>>9000685
because company usually involves inferior roastwhores, i.e. women

REAL men avoid women, especially modern degenerate whores who only crave cock and money. The white man is best left alone so he can pursue his ethical nature, where he can remain pure

>>9000702
so you can suck their dick and let them vitamin your ass, right?