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>>8652743

BOI PUSSY

>>8652849
Is there boipussy in this book?

>>8652743
>ow the edge: the book

>>8652715
just
stick
with
the
dick

>>8652715
Most people start with Moby-Dick and then move to Bartleby and Billy-Bud and the Encantadas. I'm working my way through all his works right now, and the only order-related thing I can recommend is reading Pierre and The Confidence-Man after Moby-Dick. If you want, it's also interesting to read up on his life and what he was going through while writing Pierre.

It doesn't really matter, though. You could read them in the order they were published or read whatever sounds interesting.

>>8652715
i read Billy Budd years ago and then read Moby-Dick kore recently.

just read whatever u want bro

>>8652699
The world in it is too Chinese-inspired for the majority of fantasy-readers who are racist white males.

>>8652704
Redpilled (and hence viciously racist) fantasy reader here, can confirm.

I hate women and minorities btw. And people with active sex lives

>>8652699
I think it's pretty popular, no? Seems a lot more visible than most books written in the 1950s.

Obligatory "holy. . . . . I want more"

>interesting as fuck

i likey

yea that's definitely not it.

"Snow Crash"?

>>8652448
*the

>>8652448
>the subtle knife

>>8652450
the Subtle Knife was fine; it was shorter than the others so its scope was smaller, but it was elegantly told and the angels were well introduced, plus the confrontation with the orphans was well used. Spectres were one heck of an antagonist, too

>>8652416
>thumbnail
Is this some sort of visual representation of how your happiness is slowly decaying because of Schoppie's pessimistic views?

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>>8652416
Only good thing he write was 'On Women'

Pepe approves!

no you aren't

>>8652363
You realize and accept that that is your reality at the moment.

>>8652363
I love history and I can read ~15 pages per hour. I'm not able to study history for this. I try, but I can't go faster.

>>8652371
>>8652363
i take comfort in hope that i'd be able to read all of my books before i die

i've bought many but so far read so little

This is a Zen koan. Just google them.

>>8652373
Thanks.
I'd want people to post good ones.

generally it's called a parable or a fable

also i believe a few "zen koans" are bs, i recall i met one which was actually a fable written in the soviet union in 20ss or 30ss (about a frog which refused to drown when it fell into a milk pail, it is also commonly admitted to aesop which is not true either)

I have never cried because of a book, the closest I was was when I read the ending of The Brothers Karamazov.
The only thing that can bring me to tears is a something like a movie with the perfect soundtrack, music can really resonate with me.

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Only one enemy remained; two if you counted God.

>>8652288
I don't care much. I just want someone who's not miserable.

>>8652300
This.

Plus, recall what, I believe it was Nietzsche, said: "when a woman becomes a scholar there is something wrong with her sexual organs". You don't want your chick to be as bookish as you. Think about what lame self-doubting hyper-selfconscious antisocial bullshit led you to become bookish. Why would you want a mate who similarly fled the world in order to spout about Proust? A cool chick with her own interests who doesn't lock herself in a room with books for a week, like I do, but who's down to read a book I lend her now and again is best.

I wouldn't care much because I'm not lit pro myself, but I would like her to at least read fucking something and not be one of those mindless facebook/instagram drones. Also would be better if she read something else than YA shit like twilight, but I guess even that kind of stuff is better than just twitter feeds.

>>8652280
One does not read "steppenwolf" without reading "Demian" and "Siddharta" first. Well, "Siddharta" is optional, but "Demian" is obligatory.
In fact the correct order should be: Demian, Siddharta, Steppenwolf, The glass bead game.

>>8652280
I didn't liked it. Maybe I was too young or too dense, but I found it utterly boring. The only alright part was when he was talking about the burgeoise.

>>8652354
This.

>>8652247
Ego death is for cucks

>>8652247
Well, to say the least ego death is just cheap mans way to understand what life is.
The means how you get to this is mostly threw psychiatric drugs, which get you to a stage where your brain gets rid of all the walls, lets everything flood threw your brain and incorporates everything together. Closeminded people consider this egodeath, as they are bluntly forced out of their perseption.
The risk involved for non ready participants is very strong psychological trauma, which often can't be undone.
If you can't deviate between yourself and reality and need these drugs, you are weak to some extent. Then after using them and belittling others of your so much superior thoughts, is hypocritical.
Alltogether i would say these things are not ready to be used. Though i do advocate the thought of more experiments, which can help finding cures psychotic diseases by breaking their structures, as current studys dictate.

Ego death is bad because you're abdicating personal will. It's becoming an animal while still being human.
It's a valuable experience. They used to perform lobotomies to improve quality of life for he severely mentally ill and it was quite popular. Revert them to a childlike state forever.

If I put it like, 'you become a child again' does that sound positive to you? Everything you learned is useless and gone. You return to the garden of eden of childhood, but at a heavy cost.

Some will choose that willingly, some will not. That's a very personal choice.

>>8652152
Bookchemist is way less pretentious, I had to unsubscribe this guy after his third "sex and death *sips wine*" episode)

I sometimes doubt that his name is actually "Cliff Sergeant"

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When I was born that man was there,
Tall and strong and fair of hair.
He watched my mother give me birth,
As I fought my way onto this Earth.

That man would rock me off to sleep,
Would wipe my tears when I did weep.
He watched me go from crawl to walk,
And smiled with pride when I learned to talk.

That man taught me to ride a bike,
And even how to fly a kite.
He taught me to know wrong from right,
When to run and when to fight.

That man was made of many parts
A teacher of lifes skills and arts
Full of love and full of care
With much to give, and much to share.

As I grew older so did he,
But that man was always there for me
His love, unspoken ,but strong and clear,
Of that I have no doubt or fear.

Time passed, that man grew old and frail,
No longer strong, but weak and pale.
Now I helped him, as he'd helped me
A debt to repay, no charge, no fee.

And now that man has left this life,
No longer parted from his wife
Memories are all that we have left
Of that man who was the best.

Who was that man, you may well ask?
To tell you now is my last task.
It makes me proud, it makes me glad,
To tell you that man, he was my dad.
My father died recently and I could not find a suitable poem to read for him
at his cremation that reflected what I wanted to say, so I wrote my own.

because i'm drunk and there's no point in reading at this level of inebriation.

It's not even 8am yet, I just got up, jesus christ anon give me a break.

>>8652121
Same