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Tom clancy?

>>8609289
If you're going to read fantasy you may as well pick up anything by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Dunsany or Tolkien

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Barnes and Noble's Don Quixote is the best Don Quixote edition, but not a lot of people know that. It comes with Doré's illustrations.

>>8609283
>Are there any fiction books you can suggest with deeply philosophical themes?

All of them. You just have to look and think.

>>8609283

You realize that shit like Moby Dick, The Brothers Karamazov and most other classics -- which deals extensively with typically philosophy and religion -- are fiction, right?

>>8609283
Yeah, >>8610240 is right about how many books are fiction. Were you referring to a certain subgenre of fiction?

>Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind

>which it cannot decline

For me the joy of reading philosophy is to ask myself questions of things so epistemological fundamental that any world view would be frighteningly incomplete without addressing those questions.

Of course, one never fully answers those questions (most of the time, atleast hobbyists such as myself do not) but the striving TO answer those questions is the enjoyable bit, that quest to try and make sense of it all.

The only reward you get for digging so deep is a bigger shovel.

>>8609294
Same guy

>Why not drift through life with a casual indifference?
If you're the kind of person who enjoys philosophy, I would advise you not do this since you don't want to do this.

>>8609277
>>8609294
You guys should take the redpill. It anchors your philosophy and weltanschauung in facts, logic, and reason.

We're always looking for new members on the redpilled boards (you know where to find us)

>>8609210
You'll trigger the frogposters and neo nazis

>>8609214
>Implying right-wing children have the attention span to read

>>8609214
To be fair, it is an incredibly biased pop history book.

american classic

top comfy

>>8609090
ELLIOT WROTE AN ESSAY ON IT, IF YOU'VE JUST FINISHED THE BOOK. CHECK IT OUT VIA GOOGLE.

GOOD NIGHT

Yes.

>>8609071

after falling into the nihilist pit I've encountered a similar difficulty about liking great art in conventional ways ever again.

What I'm settling on is to pass the time as pleasantly as possible, a slightly modified version of existing logic.

breaking news: you do give a fuck about other people and you're a human as well

Yes, although probably nothing can be understood, we should try our damnedest with what we got.

That's an odd way to spell vagina.

>>8609008
holy..................................

>>8608996
Beckett

Naked Lunch is babbys first.
Have fun. Remember, just enjoy the ride, don't worry about making sense of things.

>>8608996
Goethe's Paradise Lost

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>>8608979
Maybe you should try to stop being a little bitch-boy.

Make meme assignments designed to trigger the autists and edgelords in the class.

>>8608979
you have no idea if they're a gnostic or not, it might not be totally cringey

It's only written for Northamptonians, it won't make sense for anyone else.

Which street did you stop at?

Is the meme trilogy Infinite Jest, Ulysses, and Gravity's Rainbow?

AIDS

my diary desu

Did you read the primer material?

>>8608796
Hey, I was just about to start reading this, cause I vaguely remember someone on here saying it would help me understand some references in Tristram Shandy. Am I just going to get more confused reading Gargantua and Pentagruel?

>>8608796
I can't give any clarification regarding Tristram Shandy or its understanding, but reading Rabelais has its own rewards. Mainly dicking, drinking, and shit-eating but also veering into the pleasures of reading long legal citations.

>>8608796
Weeeeell, by reading Erasmus, Plato, Agrippa, some Petronius and Boccacio, Folengo, old french farces, Villon, the Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum, Lucian and the True History, and knowing some Latin and Greek, you can get close enough.

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>>8608761
damb animeposter

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I became an avid reader like three months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time on 4chan anymore.

Here's how I did it.

-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person

-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure

-Read various books at the same time. When I grab a difficult book or one that makes me sleepy I grab another and switch. This should refresh your head. Keep them thematically different. I read economics and fiction.

-It isn't a race. Reading slowly won't make you sleepy that fast. Try to acknowledge what books are for you to read fast and which aren't.

-Buy the physical copies. When you get the books from your own money you'll feel the need to read them to avoid the feel of wasting your money.

-Start with books highly discussed here so you feel motivated to discuss.

>>8608763
Didn't you complain on /r9k/ that your father didn't fuck you when you were young? lol

I dont get the hype over savage detectives
100 pages in
It has gave me boners tho

Highsmith isn't a meme writer. She's my waifu.

>>8608716
>the majority of this board has a massive hard on for Richard Yates and his insufferable novel Revolutionary Road
No.

>>8608641
Kingdom of Fear

Kafka

>>8608641
My diary desu