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>>8914299
Read Kafka (Metamorphosis), Calvino (If on a winter's night a traveller/ Cosmicomics), Boulgakov (The Master and Margarita), Borges' short stories, Gogol's short sorties, Svevo (Zeno's Conscience). All relatively short books which are extremely fun to read, imo at least. Should get you hooked reading.

>>8914299
>>8914299
One flew over the cuckoos nest
Study in Scarlet and other Sherlock Holmes short stories
Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy (series)

Good novels, novellas and series to get proles into the patrician tier hobby that is reading.

>>8914299

Portrait of The Artist as Young Man

>>8914201
I would recommend you start with the Nicomachean Ethics; it is, in my opinion, Aristotle's most readable work. If that still is too difficult for you, Aristotle might just not be for you.

Aristotle is brutally, horrifically difficult, and even when you think you get him, all you've really accomplished is reading enough secondary scholarship on Greek/Aristotelian philosophy that you get the mainstream idea of what he's talking about. Then you read Heidegger's interpretation of Aristotle and it all falls apart again, or a handful of other, even weirder things.

If you've read Leibniz though I don't see how you could be so fucked though. I'm fine with Aristotle and Leibniz still pisses me off to read.

Just read him with extensive commentary.

>>8914201
Aristotle can be very difficult. Also keep in mind, Aristotle did not write, his works consist of the lectures that his students transcribed. As the other anon said, start with Ethics, its his easiest and possibly his most important work. You can also try reading secondary literature like Aristotle for Everyone by Adler, its a retarded sounding title but it neatly summarizes his work which will be helpful when you read the primary source, trust me.

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Gare a ( with ` over it ) qui la touche.

Beware whoever touches it.

Google this: "Dieu me la donne, gare a qui la touche" ("God gives it to me, beware whoever touches it")

>>8914233

''Gare à qui la touche'' Is that it?

I'd translate it to : Whoever touches her / it, watch out! or Bewar whoever touches her / it.

>>8914051
Because he appeals to certain philosophical notions of behavior, motivations and such. I've never met a person who was super deeply impressed by Dostoevsky who actually understood people*. His fans are always people who don't understand people at all, but are obsessed with creating models that "explain behavior".

Really they like this aspect of him, this pseudo-profound analysis of the human condition, that's full of errors of causation, that attracts people to him. More advanced thinkers see right through his bullshit perspective and move on to more important things.

*in particular, fedora Christians like Constantine are attracted to his views

>>8914078
Only on 4chan would you find a post like this.

>>8914078
>only autistic systematizing model-creators like dostoevsky's depictions of humanity
>BEEP BORT. DOSTOEVSKY'S CHARACTERS ARE FULL OF ERRORS OF CAUSATION. DOES NOT COMPUTE

you are projecting

I know it's pleb and >genre fiction but a fantasy/sci fi book club mite b cool

Let's read either the Iliad or the four great tragedies of Shakespeare.

>>8914025
I'd be down for these too tbqh

I usually buy from Half.com. Any benefit to ThriftBooks?

I mostly purchase from Thriftbooks and the most I've ever run across are a few pen notes and underlines here and there. Nothing I would necessarily say was distracting.

>>8914225
I don't know about half.com but I can get free shipping on purchases over around ten dollars iirc

>>8914281
alright thanks

its british

>>8913877
Ameritards BTFO yet again. Dubs confirm

>>8913858
lol. stupendous truly wonderful spectacular.

>repressed dude

yup, definitely

>Today, Weininger is viewed as misogynistic and antisemitic in academic circles but was held to be a great genius by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein


hmmmm interesting

>>8913853

>Is he our guy?

No. Kys.

The professor was visibly shaken, and dropped his chalk and copy of On Grammatology. He stormed out of the room crying those ironic post-modern crocodile tears. There is no doubt that at this point our professor, Michel Foucault, wished he had pulled himself up by his bootstraps and become more than an AIDS ridden sadomasochist interested in fisting. He wished so much that he had some kind of truth to hold on to, but he himself had written to disprove it!

The students applauded and all rolled into American universities that day and accepted Wittgenstein as the end of philosophy. An eagle named “Formal logic” flew into the room and perched atop the copy of "Principa Mathematica" and shed a tear on the hardcover. The last sentence of "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" was read several times, and Karl Popper himself showed up and demonstrated how dialectics is nothing but a means of justifying contradictions.

The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day. He died of the gay plague AIDS and his "books" were disregarded for all eternity.

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Isn't it pretty to think so?

>>8913776
>hermeneuticist

Do analytics actually have an issue with hermeneutics? Are they that retarded?

I say we start one for Anna Karenina

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>>8913800
Anna Karenina, the whore?

That picture is too lewd for a sfw board

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>Kendall and Kylie Jenner published a book before you
So it's not...

>famous people write a book specifically to satisfy and indulge the curiosity of the commoners who are obsessed with them and place them on a pedestal

Is Kylie Jenner a modern-day Julius Caesar?

Is it good though?

It's more of a translation problem

Buddhist texts talk about ending 'craving' (tanha) - this is often translated as desire

Desire has a broader semantic field in English, it could mean craving, but it could also simply mean wanting something, a volitional stance.

>>8913735
This comic is unfunny garbage for redditors

>>8914385
Isn't even simple "want" a part of dukkha? Doesn't one's temperament towards dukkha also need to be altered?

i donno bro read some literary mags, there's always a half dozen forgettable poems about non-edgy stuff every eissue

>>8913676
Yeah, just read a variety of lit mags. There'll be a lot of agenda-driven stuff in nearly all of them, but they don't consist entirely of it. Also read anthologies that aren't curated by ideologues.

What are you looking for in a contemporary poet?

>>8913729
Free verse done right. You have to know the rules in order to break them.

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>>8913587
We discuss him more than most poets.

And there's always that one autist who calls you an undergrad when you make an objective statement about what the themes of the Waste Land and then ignores your post asking him to tell everyone what he thinks the poem is actually about, because I know you're reading this asshole and you're a pseud fag and you need to leave this board

Where do I start with Eliot?

>>8913587
Prufrock is amazing but Wasteland is overrated.

rupi thread is over there
>>8909072

Kill a guy in self-defense
Burn down a church
Record black metal albums in prison
Complain about black people on the Internet
Get out of prison in only a couple decades for murder because you live in Norway

if you wanted to be taken seriously, why did you post that pseud and pathetic hack?