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>>8864196
Don't try to hard to "get the point" and just try to follow each passage as a valid story in its own right.

Why are you exactly not enjoying it?

I'ts because of all the conspiracy theories that the book is making fun of? the point of the book is that you should not only question these theories but all the real "facts" that surround the stories like the JFK assasination.

If you believe any of it, you might as well believe all of it.

If you don't believe all of it, you might as well believe none of it.

Either option is good.

>>8864170
/lit/ - literature

Like 24.

>>8864170
how old were you when you gave up on life

>>8864084
what's there to redpill? one of the greatest pieces of fiction ever generated by human hand. best climax to a novel i've ever read. thunderbolt!

it's 3/4 the cover of the recognitions

>>8864110
Yet still 2.92 MB

Why do Americans have such a cult of success that there is a whole genre of books devoted to become rich and/or a celebrity? Why not just take satisfaction in your own work and a live a good life by your own estimation?

I don't get how anyone could be inspired by the manufacturer of electric cars.

Those books together are a shit composition

>>8864143
That dude literally has no new ideas just regurgitates the shitty ideas of nasa and others, the hyper loop is shit, spacex is just nasa but paid by private sector, which nasa was partly too, and tesla is alright but wasn't his idea from the get go

>>8864029
Tell us your thoughts on Plato. What do you like best about him? Favorite book and ideas by him?

>>8864051
the allegory of the cave

>>8864029
I double majored in political science in addition to philosophy, and am now gainfully employed in a profession that offers middling to high pay, and that I find to be validating work.

Your problem is not that you picked the wrong major, it is that you are a depressed ex druggie. Go out an make something of your life. There are plenty of gainfully employed philosophy majors who had the vim to make themselves useful. Whinging on a mongolian basket weaving forum isn't going to turn your life around for you.

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Recommend
>Nabokov - Pnin
Beautiful prose, hilarious, sad. It really has everything I could want in a novel.

> Dostoevsky - Demons
Slow start but really the last 500 pages (esp last 200-300) are some of the best writing of his. Kept me on the edge of my seat while receiving philosophical enlightenment.
Letdown
> Nabokov - Lolita
I know most of you have already read this and I'm late on the game, but what a piece of horseshit. The prose is overwhelmingly rich, to the point of losing its effect. I get it, H.H. is a pretentious anti-hero...but Nabokov is able to be way more tasteful than this, and without the edgy pedophilia meme.

>>8864067
>filtering your experince of a novel through buzzwords
>implying Humbert's prose ever loses its force
>implying it is Nabokov the one writing the novel

It's ok if you don't like it, but do better criticism next time.

>>8864067
I disagree with you on Lolita.

Will make a proper refute when I'm not drunk and think properly.

No.

>>8863923
No.

>>8863923
There should be no reason to get an oasis, the voyage is just a Paperwhite with physical page buttons.

>>8863909
This looks nice. Might check it later

>>8863909
Unsong
http://unsongbook.com/
In the late 1960s, the Apollo 8 rocket to the moon was launched. After a successful launch, the rocket proceeded into the upper atmosphere where it hit the crystal sphere surrounding the Earth and cracked a hole in the sky. As stranger things begin happening, it becomes apparent that the Judeo-Christian creation myth was true, and the divine is returning to the world. The story follows a professional Kabbalist, who works as an office drone for a company that researches the divine names of god, which when spoken have a specific effect on the universe, and copyrights them so they can sell them for profit

Fine Structure
https://qntm.org/structure
Every year, a random person on Earth is struck by lightning and gains superpowers. Each new superhuman is twice as powerful as the previous one. This has been going on for ten years. Side note: despite the description, this is pretty high concept sci-fi, so if you enjoy that give it a try.

The Northern Caves
http://archiveofourown.org/works/3659997/chapters/8088522
An online message board devoted to a cult fantasy author wrestles with his baffling final book. Parts of it are written in an interesting message-board/forum format.

>>8863936
Fanfiction edition:

Harry Potter & the Methods of Rationality
http://hpmor.com/chapter/1
A complete rewrite of the Sorcerer's Stone. Petunia Evans has married an Oxford biochemistry professor and young genius Harry grows up fascinated by science and science fiction. When he finds out that he is a wizard, he tries to apply scientific principles to his study of magic, with sometimes surprising results.

Luminosity
http://luminous.elcenia.com/story.shtml
A complete rewrite of all of the Twilight novels featuring a protagonist who takes action in her own self interest and is not weak-willed.

kys

>>8863850
>kys
good argument, please develop it a little

>>8863855
you are a pathetic memephagous, useless for both the internet and the world. why the fuck should a person with a minimum of intelligence come here to write "prove him wrong" out of nothing. WHO GIVES A FUCK ABOUT YOUR IDEAS ON LACAN, WHO GIVES A FUCK ABOUT YOU
>prove him wrong
kys memephagous

I feel you bro. If you want to know what I do, well, I put up silence in opposition to their speech. I don't give a shit if they consider me empty or inferior. I just laugh inside.

Why exactly do you assume your thoughts are better than the ones of those you've talked to countless times? Odds are they just aren't articulating their thoughts well and you're too shallow to synthesize their points and instead listen to their messy diction instead of their thoughts and blow it all off as being thoughtless.

>>8863860
What is your name? Does it start with an F?

>>8863822
Just read The Oresteia and then move on to russian literature. Legit no reason to waste your time with the greeks.

>>8863823
What about Homer?

>>8863830
If you're interested in reading The Iliad + Odyssey, then you should read homer. If you want to read Homer because you want to read Ulysses someday and say AHA! when you run across a reference then don't even waste your time.

If it's a complete sentence within the brackets, then that's perfectly correct.

>>8863793
No, I mean (something. Like) this.

>>8863808
That never happened anon, you're a phony. A big, fat phony!

>>8863746

nobody

>>8863746
me desu, it's al reflected in my diary: an anthology

There may have been some orcs or fucked up people but essentially nobody

a dildo

death

13 tripods

>>8863716
>How do you enjoy a book that you dislike?
I don't read it. Even if it was written by the greatest author ever lived.

For school and its mandatory, just read it.

Or be lazy and sparknotes the fuck out of it.

Instead of sparknoting a book you could have read it and learn to develop an opinion about it.

>>8863716
Middlemarch made me cry twice ama.