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>>8702740
This was my moms favorite book 2 years ago.

she only reads melodramatic female centric best-sellers

>>8702753
I mean how bad did i fuck up majoring in philosophy?

My girlfriend wants me to read that book.

>>8702775
>I mean how bad did i fuck up majoring in philosophy?

It depends, i majored in history but I ended up marrying a doctor so its all good. Do you have a girlfriend thats pre-med or applying to med school?

Alternately, if you want to live the /lit/ life thats fine, but are you european and debt free and able to live the NEET life?

Did you receive a full scholarship, are you minoring in pre-med or business?

Or are you from a middle class family and paying to read Kant. If so, kys or you know, change your major.

what's up with these threads lately? is this the same faggot every time?

also, don't kys, my man

beauty is pretty worthless

>>8702689
It's the only thing worth living for

What? What did the book do to hurt your butt?

>>8702665
It is accepted as historical fact despite being full of lies. many people just get off on the edge, I have read some books that have north korean camps were they shove fists into pussies or women are bought and sold, then fucked as their monthers in law hold them down while the husband does the deed. if you are going to make shit up then don't sell it as historically accurate.

>>8702676
>It is accepted as historical fact
By who? It's marketed as fiction. I have never heard of it.

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Sensibility, pain, pleasure, discipline, sacrifice, submission, passion, time, plans, dissatisfaction, vengeance, ritual, piety, obsession, uncaniness, disgust

It's mostly a way for me to sort my own neuroses.

How materialism is a farse, defences on tradition and hierarchy, the legitimacy of social constructs and kultur, the sacred aspect of waifuism. There's more, but these are the themes I have fleshed out more or less.

>>8702788
Tell me more about the sanctity of waifuism.

I would recommend picking up The Jerusalem Bible and Jesus of Nazareth by Joseph Ratzinger as the preferred commentary.

>>8702487
Noted, thanks.

You really should pick up an annotated version. The Bible has a rich history and is full of interpretations so you need a solid understanding which you can get from introductions and annotations.

Personally, I'd recommend the Norton KJV one. People complain that it's outdated, but the Norton edition tells you which parts are mistranslations or obscure, so you can appreciate the great language while knowing what's accurate or not. However if you really don't wish to read 400 year old English, than Oxford will still be fine.

As for actually reading it, just dive right in. Although one technique I'd recommend is to first use this 61 day chronological reading plan which highlights the most important parts

https://www.biblegateway.com/reading-plans/chronological?version=NIV

You'll have a good sense of the shape of the Bible and its most important figures and themes. Then you can do a deeper reading of the books you're most interested in, which I hope would be all of them because while some parts are definitely more interesting than others to read, there's plenty of beauty and wisdom in almost all the books.

Note: I am not in any way an expert in the Bible or Christianity. This is just a common reader's opinion. If anyone has any learned objections to make to my advice, I'd actually welcome it very much.

Fuck off, dumb frogposter.

>>8702461
go back to /r9k/.

Read Schopenhauer's 'On Women' and Elliot Rodger and have daily circlejerks there, frogposting scum

>>8702463
>>8702471
>They think frogs aren't an inherent part of 4chan culture
wew

>>8702355
Survivor by Paluhniuk

You just paraphrased the plot. I realize how unfortunate the author is.

>>8702355
wait who's this Bone chap?

>>8702392
an ugly man in a dated sweater that asked a question that is not relevant to his fame. a useless blip in this terrible campaign season. a living meme that wont be remembered by anyone

No one's quite like David Foster Wallace, I'm afraid.

Interesting challenge--writers who lack depth and are viewed as deep by shallow people, chase fads, have only the most fashionable opinions, and died too soon...

Hemingway?

JL and the Mona Lisa have the same mouth.

>>8702346
Halloween is over. We can all stop trying to think of horror works that arent Stephen King or early 20th century pulp writers that are worth anything, because there arent. Inb4 ligotti, he is a one trick pony.

>>8702346
Lovecraft, the only right answer.

Inb4 some contrarian shitstain comes and pukes out a retarded argument

>>8703820
When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.

>>8702290
I am against Chads, Stacys, SJWs, egalitarians, roasties, libcucks, socialists, communists, vegetarians, normies, sexually active people, nonwhites, Semites, and sodomites

>>8702297
you wont be making many friends with that attitude

>>8702308
>implying the attitude didn't come as a response to social ostracization

wouldn't say better but Portrait is awesome desu.

I think most people who have read Ulysses would say it's better. I just found it to be more memorable. I can only remember a few parts of portrait

If I found this boring will I like Ulysses?

>ecstasy
>reading Stoner
lmao

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>>8702220
I drank 14,000 cokes over the past year and i think i have major intestinal damage

>>8702241
Assuming you mean the 200ml cokes and the past year means January 1st, 2015 to January 1st, 2016, you consumed 7 litres of coke per day on average.

>>8702220
>Not beer
Shoo, you have to be over 18 to look at this site.

trash thread. rethink your actions, young memester.

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I'm not exaggerating :D

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Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people :D

>>8701999
Enjoy going to prison because you didn't call some bitch "zhe".

>>8701999
>not getting the point-the post

>>8701999

I feel like he doesn't come off well on interviews, especially around this area. He is not an expert on the area, but he is clearly still trying to formulate and express himself within the confines of the dialogue with which he is forced to engage.

Try some of his lectures on his YouTube account. I really like the 'Necessity of Virtue' and 'Slaying your Dragons'.

tell us what you think it was about
protip: you missed most of it

>>8701982
A woman who falls in love with the mythic Tristero + and conspiracy around it (hence the irony in her meeting the Inamorati Anonymous guy)

>>8701990
>>8701982
+ in the end becomes more isolated than she already was