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I don't understand the difference between this book and a 14 year old's first existential crisis.

The only difference I can discern is the language and clarity of thought.

Nevertheless, it is still the same philosophy and juvenile thoughts.

I would rather listen to death & black metal to get the same message than read this.

How did this get published? How did this get recognition?

It should be a one page book that reads "read Schopenhauer"

And yet, what is an appropriate argument to this book and its philosophy?

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How do I adopt this look?

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I enjoyed this book

Did you?

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Richard "watership down" Adams died.
;_;

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Psa: This is 10x better than how to read by that Mortimer guy

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Got this book for Christmas. Is it worth pushing to the front of my backlog?

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What do ye think of this?

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Is this any good?

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How do you cope with the fact that everything is phony (inb4 dismissed for being like Holden)?

Literary theory is bs made up so that people can leech off of academia and get easy degrees.

Social scientists are idiots and weaponised by dishonest journalists as the new secular prophets telling people what to think / why they're shit. Psychiatry / psychology has become an infinitely malleable mental masturbation wank toy for pseudo intellectuals who like trying to draw conclusions in subject areas with near enough infinite variables.

Morality is never practised. A politician who kills innocent people is more popular than one who says politically incorrect things. Historians, even today, worship Hitler, Napoleon, and Julius Caesar.

So many current novels are merely narcissistic barely disguised memoirs or written by people with zero life experience.

Science and maths are practised mostly within hideously subsidised and bloated academic institutions.

Sex and portrayals of success are shoved in your face wherever you go through songs and pictures. But you're not allowed to say you want any of it.

90+ % of jobs could be done by everyone and only recruit based on looks and personality. Your genetically determined appearance factors are the largest influence of how people treat you, yet this is never acknowledged.

Literature is not an oasis, not one bit.

We live in a time where the individual matters less than ever, everywhere. People join the army for personal gratification and to feel safe in "the system" like regular wageslaves yet we live in the age of nukes.

You are mercilessly mocked and judged based on your job's social status and other economic aspects ("Bob from Grimsby" as a joke).

"Education", the idea, is pushed as an absolute good yet almost everything in the education system up to the age of 18 is stamp collecting nonsense. Your undergrad university basically brands you. It is depressing to see countless Wikipedia articles for entire universities, some of which I've never heard of, with their giant campuses filled with dumb normie students who will do fuck all, doing mostly subjects that have no objective criteria. I skip straight to the photos of the campuses rather than the statistics. The entire system is becoming a more and more efficient personal branding mechanism.

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I've been learning Ancient Greek for like a month and I can't read shit.

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How to be well read?

I feel I'm fairly intelligent, but I've read 0 books in my teenagehood, and that's a waste.

I've started buying books 6 months ago, and I've not finished any of them. I usually read (maybe) 1 chapter, and then I will completely lose interest. I'm pretty sure that it's due to the medium (my attention span is pretty low, considering that I've been fed videogames and television for my whole life).

Can I force it? Will it just become effortless if I chain my leg to the chair and read for hours everyday?

Does anyone here have any experience on the matter?

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Is this sentence grammatically correct?

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The reading for day 8 is B2 Part 2 Chapter 1 through (and including) Chapter 13, pp. 371-420.

If you can, please write up topics for discussion for today.

>New poll for day 8
https://www.strawpoll.me/11967204

>Ebooks and audiobook
https://mega.nz/#F!4QVj1b4B!BMF7h3um_c5qWHQCP_aw6g

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What the f*ck was his problem?