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Suttree?
Bukowski?

>inb4 "My Life the book" by Faggot J Anon

>>8741597
I think it's a newer one
If its not me being retarded I remember seeing a picture with the book cover and I think there were shapes of people in suits on it

>pros
+don't have to read
>cons
-limited to what is available in audiobook
-takes longer to finish a book
-low comprehension
-not actually reading

pro: you don't need to know how to read

con: you have to take it in at.. whatever.. pace.. they.. read.. it .. at..

pro: can read it while driving

con: they mispronounce the character's names

con: uses up all of your monthly download limit

con: they turn the reading into a radio play with sound effects, different characters and shitty music

>>8742568
>con: they turn the reading into a radio play with sound effects, different characters and shitty music
This.

>>8741562
I'm replying to you to because I'm magnanimous. It's a good novel that is fictional but utilized historical events and culture well.
>redpill
Don't ever post this kind of shit again.

I read it as a kid and, while I wasn't aware of the notion, it did feel exactly like a _dad novel_. But not in the bad, military shlock sense.

>>8741562
This is the first use of redpill I've heard or seen since the election. I thought we were out of the woods with this shit.

All should read Ulysses. After reading all the major books of the canon, you should read Gravity's Rainbow. It's not good enough to warrant being read before Joyce, Dante, Virgil, or whomever. Read Infinite Jest only if you are relatively unintelligent but still would like to have a doorstop under your belt. It's really not very good.

>>8741503
i would literally suck a dick for every person on this board who has read all three with any medium or higher level of comprehension.

mostly cause 1. i love sucking dick anyway and 2. ulysses is next to impossible to comprehend, although its still worth reading compared to the other two.

source; i read half a page of it today at the library and i heard the infinite jest memes and idek what the last ones about but sounds like a joke

>>8741503
Yes they're all worth the enormous amount of time it takes to read each. Somewhere along the way the ironic dislike for the trilogy gave way to real disdain by those on the board who cannot read. Anyone who says IJ isn't worth the time might be right because a thorough read through takes about two months and it is self indulgent to the max, but it is really fucking good and isnt merely about millennium anomie like many here seem to superficially reduce it to.

>>8741457
>4.
If you moved to one of the gaeltachts on the west coast of Ireland, maybe.

Flann O'brien wrote numerous acclaimed novels in Irish, still never translated

>>8741457
that picture is grammatically wrong

t. fluent in Irish

The Psychedelic Experience by Tim Leary is a fun theory of human consciousness based loosely on the tibetan book of the dead.

>>8741425

Listen to his most recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience. Great interview.

why was this even banned? They should have allowed it to stay and just let repressive tolerance do its job

>>8741318
There's actually a lot more Latin from early Christianity and the medieval period than from the Classical period. A lot of it would is pretty uninteresting church minutiæ or inane pieties, but there are historians like William of Tyre, theologians like Aquinas, works by Dante, Petrarch (including a nine-book epic on Scipio) &c.
Moreover there were plenty of literary and ecclesiastical and scientific works written in Latin through the eighteenth century. Newton, Calvin, Luther, Erasmus, Bellarmine, Tycho, Galileo- all wrote in Latin. There are countless lyric poems and countless long hexameter epics on the Life of Christ hidden away in dusty archives.
The quantity of post-classical Latin utterly destroys the handful of masterpieces preserved from ancient Rome.
But a most of these would only be found in old books in grand libraries and such. The thing is, education has long been based on the Roman classics- Cicero, Cæsar, Ovid, Virgil- so these are the ones that get repeated over and over, and too few persons read enough Latin nowadays for there to be any interest in the rest of the literature.
There is a bit of post-classical Latin on here if you look at the subsidiary pages: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/
No one really seriously writes in Latin nowadays though, which is a shame. What there is often has the quality of "American manga".

>>8741366
>No one really seriously writes in Latin nowadays though, which is a shame. What there is often has the quality of "American manga".
That's a shame. There's a few groups trying to revive Latin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_Latin

I'd like to try and help with that one day. I'll read more Latin from the Medieval periods in the mean time; I find the Medieval Ages to be more interesting than the ancient Roman Age, anyway.

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Just search the tubes, there are lots of poets and musicians who create in latin. I think the language is bound to come back eventually now that Internet makes learning easier than ever, if even meme languages like esperanto manage to obtain native speakers

Some good stuff, take everything but Dracula.

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>>8741547
>no Bram
Epistolary novels are a gimmick, I suppose, though I do enjoy them from time to time, pic related.

>>8741298
I guess you already have the books but I just got back from a deployment and bought a Kobo right before I left. It was great having way more books than I could have read all loaded on there.

Socrates

Baudrillard.

>>8741294
This, although he's too Marxist for my tastes.

>>8741204
What's the context? Stirner would kick Diogenes' ass if he went back in time. I assume Diogenes would be imprisoned for public masturbation before the fight if he lived in Stirner's time. The muscle he would build in prison would give him the edge desu.

>>8741220
Neither is in prison, Stirner just stood in Diogenes' light, Diogenes was just mistaken by Stirner for a spook, both are bloodlusted

>>8741204

Ancient Greeks were much more built for survival and war, even an emaciated Diogenes would break stirner's glasses.

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It crossed my mind that perhaps the author of this book was shilling at the time or was this author honest in his intentions for writing?

>>8741150
>I guess my ontological world views line up with what would supposedly be called a "mereological nihilist".

okay

>>8741166
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to come across as edgy as that line seems to be in hindsight.

>>8741150
>mereological nihilist says that there is no essence at all, only existence

that's not mereological nihilism. mereological nihilism is the belief that there are no composite objects or, in other words, the belief that there are only simple objects (mereology is the study of parts and wholes). so, a mereological nihilist does not believe in tables, but if there are partless physical particles they do believe in those and those might well have essences.

the idea you mentioned is more like sartre's definition of existentialism (that existence precedes essence, at least for human beings).

Sorry, i don't give numbered ratings, they're pointless and arbitrary.

>>8741142
Okay

Savage detectives 7/10
Overrated

I remember something about the Queen of Sweden naysaying something Leibnitz asserted in his philosophy and he responded with something like "don't worry your pretty little head about it."

Sorry, I tried to find something more specific but didn't.

Monitoring this thread, academic and high-art bantz are the best

dialogues

>>8741071
legit bums me out that I'm the only person I know that reads, let alone writes.

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>>8741071
>me on the right

>>8741077
Same.

Even my smart colleagues read crap.