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>>8798881
You have kids on that site that would think a description of a dragon dildo would be a 5.0 if it has Harry Potter on the package.

Sounds like goodreads isn't the only thing that's shit

Good thing literature isn't a popularity contest--oh wait

>>8798829
I consider them pseuds.

>>8798833
well what should i do instead during my commute?

most people sleep, listen to music, or are on their phone (normiebook or texting). i don't do any of these things, except sleep

>>8798829
Just read your book, nobody but losers with something to prove will care.

Don't try to discuss Hegel on /lit/, waste of time.

>>8798644
This, Hegel was a fraudulant hack anyway.

>>8798646
The people who argue that Hegel was a hack are the same people that attack philosophers on the basis that they're "too hard to read"

It's the logical equivalent of a teenager hating maths because they're shit at it

Wheelock's Latin. Forever.

>>8798324
Five years in hs. My section was latin/ancient greek.

It's one of the last schools in my country (Switzerland) allowing students to put such an emphasis on it. Unfortunately, they're running out of recruits when it comes to greek.

>>8798336
Not OP but are you able to read the original greek texts? Like Homer, Plato, Aristotle, John Green?

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>>8798022
Same here anon. I don't tell people that because they'll think im 16, but i think we can all relate

>>8798022
It's honestly a lot better in French. Has a slightly different vibe. But yeah, no one will admit it, but we can all relate.

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I also relate to meursault
I want to kill the arab

>>8797754
That lipstick is disgusting.

>What causes writer's block?

Not having anything worth saying. What people call "writer's block" is nothing more than the cart before the horse.

First, you have something to say, then you say it. Not the other way around.

I want to fuch her lmao. Also I can't wait until her looks start to fade and she becomes unhappy.

i went straight into Kierkegaard, fuck the rest.

Read Heraclitus then skip to Nietzsche then stop.

>>8797109
I shit you not read Descartes then skip directly to Stirner then stop.

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>>8795754

25
here
Penis and Balls sundae
It's good

>>8795692
20, Ithaca, Neuromancer
I'm early in but it's pretty alright so far.

18
Central Europe
The big Gatsby
It's fine, however there are a lot of english words i'm not familiar with, which makes it a bit harder to read. i have kindle with a dictionary though, so it's not really a problem.

>>8794846
>Any other creepy novels you can recommend where the main character struggles with what they are doing or becoming?


Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

>>8795088
Sounds very interesting. Vague recollections of someone talking about it when i was in college.

Young Torless made me squirm uncomfortably, and it's pretty patrician

>>8794423
haha i prefer the sources :) *orders entire tripitaka online for thousands of dollars. it sits in my room unread forever*

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>reads The Picture of Dorian Gray once

>>8794426
kek, at least I'm not a dumbfag to go this far

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>>8793748
google "cultural commodification"

Try Capital by Karl Marx, OP. It's pretty much the classic.

>>8793774
do gay people actually like this kind of shit?
they don't find it patronizing and offensive?

>>8791953
>43% of Ameripoops are reading a book right now
Doubt it. I doubt that even 43% of Ameripoops are literate.

>>8791953
Odds of that Hipster twat actually having read it?

>>8791953
>they actually believe that socrates existed

Had to pause the video

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Probably not the exact kind of thing you are looking for but be sure to take a look at Arendt's work on totalitarianism, it pretty much turned me away from anything even close to movements and the masses and made me value individual freedom over the collective.

>>8791713
Mihai Eminescu
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Verner von Heidenstam
Ion Creangă
Duiliu Zamfirescu
Rudyard Kipling
Saki
Knut Hamsun
Luigi Pirandello
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Saunders Lewis
Cyriel Verschaeve
Josef Weinhaber
Hanns Heinz Ewers
Gunnar Gunnarsson
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Paul Morand
Jacques Chardonne
Marcel Jouhandeau
Jacques Laurent
Yukio Mishima
Jean Raspail
Michel Déon
Futurists
Baron Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola
Junger heinlein

Sir Oswald Mosley
Julius Evola
Léon Degrelle
Cornelius Codreanu
Giovanni Gentile
Oswald Spengler
Mussolini
Giovanni Papini
Celine
Houellebecq

>>8791713
Individual freedom is axiomatically opposed to hardcore traditionalism. What you actually are is a liberal as you accept liberal values.
Evola is hardly a traditionalist, he in fact rejected traditions and replaced what was the tradition of his father and his father's father etc. with Indian sperm magic and other occult, esoteric nonsense.
If you want to read up on how traditions function in general and which are the two main ones as seen through ethics, read Whose Justice? Which Rationality by Alasdair MacIntyre.
>>8791725
A great work, but not what he wants. But if I was to send myself a message on where to start with philosophy in general, this would probably be the recommendation.