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>gener

It's a realistic portrait of Russian life during the early 1800s. Lots of the novel is just fictional characters in the campaigns against Napoleon

There are no wizards or space robots

>stuff that make one think

sounds like you would enjoy Atlas Shrugged.

>>8814938
Ayn Rand is not considered a philosopher.

>>8814939
>It is not a philosopher if I don't like it.
If NEET Marx is considered a philosopher I don't know why Rand wouldn't be considered one

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>>8814947
This proves that you read neither.

trick question
faulkner was trash

Does anyone actually fucking read corny cobby Cormac McCobthy?

imagine being retarded enough to disparage faulkner even as a meme

>>8814917
>tfw he didn't get away with it
Fuck Adult Swim.

Seems like it could be a fun read.

Might buy it for the same reason I bought Tundra

I'd love to read it but fuck paying nearly $100 for an imported book

Are you reading it out loud? I sincerely hope you're not speed reading verse.

You really have to train yourself to read it slowly and properly, both in terms of the rhythm and considering the meaning.

Try listening to some poems spoken by competent people on Youtube and you'll see.

you have to pay careful attention to the language. if you don't have access to the OED you need to get it. any college student should be able to access it. unless you're 100% positive you know exactly what a word means you have to look it up. precision is important so you have to be able to pick out barely perceptible shifts in tone, meter, imagery. pay careful attention to pronouns. read a lot. read slowly. learn how to read properly (when to pause and how long for certain things like commas and line breaks and enjambments)

>>8814829
I'd like to dive into those titties if you know what I mean.

>>8814834
And I'd like to dive into Nietzsches abyss.

>>8814834
probly fake
prolerby trap

>>8814800
>inb4 redditors go ape shit and inhibit any serious discussion from taking place

>>8814803
>implying this isn't obvious b8

>>8814800
because unfortunately "academics" only teach leftist ideologies and anything otherwise is raycist, gayphobe, muzziephobe, etc.

I agree with Christopher's opinions on religion, but he got BTFO by Peter on everything else.

>any time he has come face to face with an actual intellectual or historian he gets btfo
Examples?

>>8814764
Copy and paste the link;

https://youtu.be/3CNeDtZmpjU?t=2018

>>8814777
He is correct though.

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>>8814708
What about when you think your writing is just okay or passable, but those who have read it thinks it's amazing or great?

Ask him about it and why he thinks it's good, admit I don't get it and ask for the skeleton key

Try to get a phenomenological sense of what he finds important or poignant about it

If he says some stupid shit like "I DUNNO.. IT'S JUST REAL GOOD!" I'd be sceptical, but if he shows that he's making interesting points or conveying something he can convince me is new or amazing, I'd be interested in what he has to say

Easiest situation and best case scenario, he remedially demonstrates to me in dialogue that he is demonstrating some cutting-edge insight and I am converted to his cause, but if I still can't see it, if his vision is just too peculiar, like it's some Schoenberg-level superweird unpalatable thing and I just have to take his word for it that he's crystallising human relationships or his unique way of seeing the world through it somehow, I would probably advise him to keep showing it to weird fuckers and seeking someone with a resonant mind like some kind of Glass Bead Game shit until one of them notices the unutterable leitmotif of his own genius in it and goes
>Wow, a fellow Schoenbergian who is trying to solve Einstein's paradoxes using alternating capital letters and inserts from titty magazines! I get this!
because there's not much else I can do at that point

>>8814708
n/a

That he should kill himself.

>>8814707
Stoicism

Start with the greeks

>feeling that I'm doing fuckall with my life for lack of ambition and desire
Read Zizek and Han

>>8814707
My diary desu no joke

Yes, that book was KOTOR2.

Gravity's Rainbow desu. The real world isn't as nearly as fun, wacky, or shit-filled

>>8814659
Is this book even good or just a meme? I mean, is it hard to read?

>>8814580
Not too great, but they could soar if you support him. Tell him you've got his back, and that you, too, also like traps and would want to read his masterwork. Then post it here for us to masturbate to.

^^^^

>>8814598
This

whose

the clause "woman who reads books" has woman as the subject who is doing something to the book, the object. So it's who.

>>8814569
but the man is seeking the woman, the direct object, yes? and you use "who" to refer to the subject and "whom" for the object. so he should use "whom," so it says "man seeking woman whom reads books." that is what's correct.

garden and gun

>>8814548
>magazines

What are you, a woman?

>>8814557
Sometimes

>>8814540

I have a copy and I do intend on reading it at some point due to historical curiosity.

Having thumbed through it, it does seem that it really is true that it is a terse, turgid, unpleasant read, which is how I've heard the book appraised as an item of literature once people get away from the historical context. "and so what was so very good about that", "therefore what I next did was to X", "and now it is so very necessary as to Y", the prose reads like that.

If you are very interested in the history of the period or the general memery, go ahead and read it I guess. Otherwise I suggest that you can skip it.

>>8814540
I had to drop it. I know enough German to tell it was hideously translated, but not enough to read it in the Muttersprache. The general consensus is that it's long-winded and dull, but this is probably influenced by the translation and the fact it was dictated. There are plenty of threads on this in the warosu archive, in future you should check it before posting "is x worth reading" threads.

>>8814565
Ok I was unaware such a thread existed thanks