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I know this guy is a meme, but what little I know of him I find interesting.
Problem is, I've never read any philosophy. I got 30 pages into the ego and it's own and my head hurts, and I barely understand it.
What can I do to alleviate this problem?
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start with the cro magnons
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>>8582813
Read extremely slowly and take notes.
Reading philosophy rigorously is very different from reading literature for shits and giggles.
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>>8582825
I suppose I'll have to up my game then, usually I grab a book and sit in bed and just read to my heart's content.
I should look at it more like I'm studying something rather than just reading then?
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What is a straightforward example of post-ironic literature?
When it comes to television, Million Dollar Extreme would be an example; it's somewhat sincerer humor that is distorted by exaggeration
Can't think of any equivalents in literature
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>>8582791
>giving any credence to bandana man's bullshit
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My diary obviously.
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>>8582791
My Twisted World
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can't decide which book to read first - Crime and Punishment or Notes From Underground?
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>>8582734
Notes is shorter, start there.
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>>8582734
Crimes is one of his most important and well written novels.
Notes is a couple of loosely connected short stories about a delusional edge lord.
You choose.
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just as important: which translations are the best?
What are some essential anti-women books for someone who's redpilled or want to be?
I've already read My Twisted World, 'On Women', and Sex and Character.
Need recs
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the rational male, rollo tomassi
any chateau heartiste post with a game, girls, beta or alpha tag
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>>8582710
What about Vilar's Manipulated Man? Heard she's pretty redpilled even for a women
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>>8582722
looks like trash
thinking women are evil is purple pilled
the true red pill is accepting that they're just as fucked up as guys, which is the shocking part
but do they maipulate men? sure, when you're 30% weaker than the avg male, your hormones evolve to give you other advantages. not a bad thing, just a fact.
saved you reading the book
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Anyone here into biographies? I've been enjoying Robert Caro's extensive research into the life of LBJ. It's super deep and relates Lyndon's own fabricated myths of his upbringing with interviews of his contemporaries. I'm only on volume 1 of 4, with the 5th volume waiting to be published.
I've never seen a biography like this, but it's fascinating. Can anyone recommend other biographies that are as well researched and as readable? I plan to read all of Caro, as well as his book on Robert Moses.
What else is good?
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>biographies
you love self help books too, i assume.
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>>8582968
You're a goddamn scrub
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>>8582698
It's pretty great. It's amazing how dirt poor Johnson was growing up, and how he rose to power through sheer tyranny of will. I'd like to read Caro's book about Robert Moses
Anybody got other political bio recs? I'd like a good bio of Zhou Enlai
ITT we apply the Gilbert schema to books we've read and other guess what it is. Maybe exclude the first three because location would make it too easy and the other two don't really work for whole books.
Organ: Kidney
Colour: Teal
Symbol: Man
Art: Literature
Technique: Parallax
Mine should be easy.
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>>8582622
this is the stupidest "smart" idea for a thread i've ever seen
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>>8582622
Go read a fucking book, retard
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>>8582622
You realize Joyce was fucking with Gilbert when he came up with this? Like a lot of his work it was a joke much of his audience wasn't in on
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>Straight White Male Problems: The Novel
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DUDE
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>>8582563
Funny how Straight White Male Problems are far more interesting and well-written than minority problems, huh?
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>>8582563
>straight white males
>"problems"
Nice meme
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What have you learned from reading philosophy? How do you see life?
Is it pointless? How am I supposed to find meaning and give my life purpose?
Is absurdism red pulled?
Discuss.
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Lurk more, faggot
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>>8582393
Made me redpilled. Realized that continental muh feels shitters was useless for numale humanities libcucks.
Realized that science, analytical philosophy and traditional values and hierarchies are the way forward if we want a racially pure ethnostate where women know their place.
Equality is a cancer
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>>8582393
Made me a nihilist.
Why does this board have such a hardon for Virginia Woolf?
Just tried reading The Waves and it's unreadable. Makes no sense and is basically gibberish.
Is this what happens with woman writers who write with muh feels rather than rationality and logic?
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>>8582378
>Makes no sense and is basically gibberish.
I wish it were this good.
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>>8582380
That's what I thought. Total trash.
Only a woman could've written it
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>The author is a woman.
There's your problem.
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>try to enjoy Vonnegut
>not enough of a redditor to do so
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More like Vonneschlecht, am I right guys?
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>>8582274
go away
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>>8582274
that's actually clever
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>parents are avid readers
>there is shitton of books at home
>shelves are not labeled
>books are put on shelves randomly
>there are 2 layers of books on some shelves
>some books are in the damp garage
>i will never be able to catalogue them
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>>8582255
Jelly
Thought I had a lot of books until I needed hook line inspo, realised I have next to no books
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>>8582258
How many do you have?
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>>8582255
>I will never be able to catalogue them
They'll die one day, anon - sooner than you expect. Then you'll find you already know it all, having lived it in some sense, and the only books you'll want to read will be your mother's diaries, to soothe your deep sense of regret.
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Doesn't the fact that this was rejected from nine publishers prove she only lucked out with HP? The only way she was able to finally get it out was by using her connections.
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>>8582209
All it proves is that children's books are easier to write and sell. I mean, yeah she's a hack but I doubt she's much worse than Stephen King or whatever with her adult oriented shit.
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>>8582209
it is just sad since because it shows all this shit is luck.
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>>8582214
>All it proves is that children's books are easier to write and sell.
That's pretty much flat out wrong.
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Is this worth Reading?
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>>8582083
yes, its like the bible, best way to find out way you disagree is by reading it
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It really isn't
People just read for the fact that they read the evil "mein kampf" book by the guy who killed le 6 gorillion
But that book itself is trash, dont waste your time on it
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Read the first chapter of pic related at the library.
When does it get good?
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>>8581914
You can drop it if you don't like it by the time all the ETA and Ennet house characters are introduced.
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When you become a better person.
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p694 desu
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Jerusalem or Gravity's Rainbow
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My reading style usually involves having one big ambitious book which I interlude with shorter 'fun' sci-fi, fantasy type books.
Ive just finished Ulysses and I am unsure on wherever or not to read Jerusalem or The Crying Lot of 49, closely followed by Gravity's Rainbow next.
I already own Jerusalem, whilst an unfinished book taunts me I dont want to waste my time on it if its not good, I'd also love to get into Pynchon.
Anybody read both and can offer advice?
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>>8581905
I don't really know anything about Jerusameme, but you can read Lot 49 in one or two sittings because it's really short.
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Making your own decisions is considered a sign of a well developed and adult mind.
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>>8581905
Moore said something like "Thomas Pynchon's V. was my first experience with a real masterpiece. It shows in Watchmen. Most writers seem to prefer V. over GR, since it's just incredible that it got published at all.