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I LOVE Ahegao

>>8823140
Yes. Have you considered kys?

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>borrow multiple books by a single author
>only finish one of them

>borrow books for the maximum lending period (One Month)
>return them unread
>check them out again a week later

I can't stop.

>>8823116
gains take like two years, three hours a week, plus hitting your macros, which takes no extra time, to acquire
you could've and should've done both

>>8823116
As >>8823123 said.

What makes you think you have to choose one or the other?

Should've done yoga and learned a martial art instead. Better for your mental health than reading pseudointelluctual posturing and more practical applications than useless muscles.

>>8823089
the coelacanth is irredeemably wrong
it makes god guilty

>>8823089
>Human
>Homo
more like "OP is here" amirite

according to this stupid chart im related to a monkey??? a god damned monkey?? lmao gimme a fuckin break

>>8823051
>The clerk who rang me up gave me a weird look, why would she?
it's probably the first time she saw a non-YA book

>>8823070
She would be quite out of place if that were the case. The store's known for having ancient books of every genre. I even once overheard a customer complaining about how they didn't carry enough modern lit.

I was just wondering, since those guys know me as a regular, and they've never acknowledged what I bought until today. This book is pretty much an impulse buy, and it was for $8. I know nothing about it, and I pretty much bought it for the surrealist and abstract art inside.

>>8823094
Do you know mathematics? Not kiddie shit like calculus but know how to read proofs? Set theory? Discrete?

The book is not easy to read and ultimately doesn't deliver on what it is hinting at.

Mein Kampf

>>8823014
I like how people bring up this photo as some sort of atrocity, not realizing that they were literally burning a trove of homosexual propaganda--not anything of objective literary or scientific value.

Magnus Hirschfeld's WHK was essentially a gay lobbying group of its day and deserved to be closed down for the public good.

>>8823283
>not realizing that they were literally burning a trove of homosexual propaganda
source? and what were some of the books?

Nah, they're for women and kids.

>>8822980
>good

What is good? What does good mean? Is good palpable, measurable? Can I test for good? Can I compare one to another and find that one contains more good? Can it be good to me, but not good to you? Can it be both good and not good at once, to just me? If it were good, why would you need to ask? Would good be immediately discernible? Is good intrinsic? If good is obvious, why would you ask if something were good? If the movies were shit, can the books be good? But if the books were shit, must the movies be shit? If the books were shit and the movies were shit recreations of the book, does that mean the movie is good? If the movies being shit shocked you, could that be why you expect the books to be good? Are the books good enough to ask an internet forum? If they are not, why is this question asked? If the books are so bad as to necessitate discussion, wouldn't that make them inherently good? Does my replying in this manner imply that the books are worth this reply? Does my reply in and of itself cause the books to become more good? Why would I even reply if I did not think that the books were good enough to warrant a reply?

TL;DR The books are shit.

>>8822980
Movies are for fags and homosexuals.

>>8822925
>What happened to daddy's body?
>It was in the cellar freezer last night.
>Oh fuck. When is mommy getting home? Oh fuck, oh fuck! I'm having a panic attack!

>>8822925
>to help with grief
Looking for a catharsis with something really sad? Fiction or non-fiction?
Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion comes to mind. Helped me out.

Odyssey

>>8822925
meditations by marcus aurelius

>>8822911
he refused to use my pronouns so i fired him

>>8822911
I did a long time ago. I confessed my repressed loathing of Jews and he laughed at me; he's not the alt-right hero they want him to be. Otherwise he was pretty helpful, lent me a few self help books by kabatt-zinn and Viktor Frankl that helped me sort my shit out and get over my antisemitism.

>>8822922
really?

Diogenes

>>8822909
/thread

>>8822915
>>8822909

what should I read by him?

All white men are racist you fucking shitlord.

Now pay for my tampons or I'll scream rape.

I would gain a slightly increased appreciation for his work desu.

>>8822855
his books might not be shit in that case

If we don't count bathroom/food breaks, probably 12 hours. If you do count those breaks, about 6.

I have sat and ate through some novels in 3 1/2-4 days without doing much else between small breaks except maybe a half hour of being outside to get some exercise and stretch.

Probably not more than 4/5 hours. I get headaches if I read for too long, I probably need glasses.

>>8822565
well i woke up and read until i fell asleep

thomas pynchon said something?

>>8822481

>He doesn't listen to the Pynchon Podcast every Thursday

Plen as fuck

>>8822481
this.
it's a poor attempt to diss DFW.

>>8822425
it's cause life is a contradiction, bro

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Kafka's "dream logic" revolves around combining steps which are locally sensible to create something which is globally absurd. The contradictions are intended, but you're supposed to reach them via a sequence of sensible steps.

>>8822438
Are you sure the book is actually absurd and you're not just a pleb?

Kill Heidi

I would make the little princess beg for more

>>8822330
I would marry Dolores Haze, she's so cute and perfect.

>>8822330
I don't know any of them very well, but I'd say based on the images, marry Princess, fuck Anne, kill Heidi.
It's just an elaborate way of asking for a ranking.

faggotry

>>8822275
It's called "not reading autistic masturbatory philosophy and actually doing something with your life"

>>8822275
Voluntary egoism.