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Agreed.

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Yes, OP. I absolutely will help you validate your self-worth by praising your obvious intellectual superiority based on the number of meme novels you pretend to like.

>>8657613
What does /lit/ think of Shogun?
asking since i picked it up recently

Also how is that book on the Tao?

>>8675311
No because they look like shitty genre fiction anyway. Tbh though, I doubt you'd need to put to much effort in - its not like genre fiction authors can expect much intellectual exertion from the general public. In other words, I think learning naval jargon to read those books would be a waste of time, but if you're really intent on reading those books, you could probably do so without really learning too much.

Just read Moby Dick. Then you won't even want to read that shit afterwards, a win-win

I liked how my version of moby dick had some explanations to the jargon used in the back.

Moby Dick.

Happy to see Peterson and his ideas begin to propagate in the cultural consciousness.

Its like, go us, aye?

>>8674853
/lit/

>>8674649
Stale bait, try again.

>>8674657
Kys

This anti schopenmeme board thing is old

>>8674649
generally speaking, one has to be a philosopher to be considered a top philosopher

>>8674575
Borges, although people wank on and off about if he is or isn't fantasy. Either way, you'll probably enjoy it if you like things that are not real and things that are experimental.

Wolfe and Borges are probably the best

>>8674806
>>8674816
Been meaning to read him, os I'll get a collection soon. The only other fantasy writer I've been happy with really is Brian Catling.

Cormac McCarthy if you haven't read his stuff already. Start with The Road, work your way up to Blood Meridian.

Flannery O'Connor

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>>8674108
Thanks brother.

get her ugly ass face out of that

>>8674020
That pic is cringy as fuck.

What was going through her mind as she struck that pose

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Welp, wrong picture.

>>8673987
>analytic philosophy
>stopped being autistic

I think it's worth reading them to understand their worldview, but logical positivism is definitely dead as fucking dead. Wittgenstein is making a bit of a comeback after having been crazy fashionable and then unfashionable because of how sick of people abusing him everyone was. Frege and Russell are still important in the philosophy of mathematics, and the Vienna Circle's program is at least interesting.

I think there's something valuable in trying to understand how these people were straining so hard to ground themselves in logical positivism and atomism. Personally their worldview is as alien to me as it seems to be to you, but that's exactly why I want to understand it.

It also has more roots and more branches than I might have thought. I started researching the Marburg neo-Kantians (as opposed to the squishy, Geisteswissenschaften-und-Hermeneutik Baden neo-Kantians), and there is a lot more there than meets the eye. They are not just precursors to Vienna. They are also making a comeback, btw.

I also think continentals go too far in the opposite direction themselves. I am a continentalfag by nature so I'm all about the geworfenheit and finitude and shit, but we have kind of reached a rut with it. Whenever I excitedly tell this one friend of mine that I've finally figured out Derrida or some shit, he always says something like "great! Now you understand Redundant Formulation #817-B of postmodern nihilism, aporia, and relativism!"

>>8673919
Because Rowling doesn't give a shit about her own universe anymore.

I haven't read it but my friend worked on the Polish translation and says it's the worst job she's ever gotten.

I saw a gypsy reading it while waiting for the bus
Top tier trashbook for plebs

>>8673924
Find an epub/pdf version online. The whole thing will take you 1.5 to 2hrs max to read. Then you'll see how bad it is compared to the main HP books.

Gonna have to say Atrocity Exhibition.

crash is the purest

Only read High-Rise and didn't particularly like it. Far too heavy-handed, is his other work similar or actually worth a read?

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>>8673795
>Do any of you do "morning pages" or a similar exercise everyday?

I try to fact check some of the people on this web site:

http://thezog.info/list-summaries/

every morning as a kind of crossword puzzle. So far I only found two or maybe three mistakes (people incorrectly identified as belonging to the wrong ethnic group) on the entire list.

>>8673795

I go to study literature, faggot. I write so much i think paragraphically. i don't need to do any of this queer shit to stay sharp. i breathe language.

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After years of doing small pages here and there, I finally googled writers block techniques and found the worst cases of it so I could compare their methods.

In all instances, habit was the biggest factor, followed by 'just start writing, even if it's just a diary entry', and then of course lifestyle. Stress, exercise, sleep, etc.

What's working for me right now is setting a timer and trying to do two hours of solid writing a day. I can split this up into two hour chunks, or four half hour chunks, but unless I am feeling absolutely like garbage-in which case I will allow myself an hour to write, then I have to fucking do it. No matter what.

I plan to have a rough draft done in the next six months, and I've set myself to write, bare minimum, 2 chapters per week. Obviously if the story is finished before those six months, I will start editing, but I wanted to give myself plenty of room to be able to butcher, chop, and alter stuff without feeling like all those months of hard work produced nothing.

>he doesn't type with only two fingers

1000 is the bear minimum hear, lad,

>>8673712
My language has long ass words.

Diary of st. Faustina
Interior of a Castle
The New Testament

>>8673716
Thanks Anon.

>>8673711

the consolation of philosophy by boethius

it was tremendously influential in the medieval ages

>>8673701

05:56 btw.

>>8673701
I remember watching this four years ago. You just found it?

>>8673727

he's young and new to all this so he doesn't know old content from new.
>h-hey it is at 05:56 btw.
lol