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>>8500368
>'It's daddy.'
As if Freud can be reduced to such a simple phrase.

Git gud

>>8500433
yep it actually can
i can't believe the amount of freud nuthuggers that exist in this board it amazes me

>>8500433
>>8501499
Guattari was a psychoanalyst while Deleuze was influenced by Freud and Lacan's theories of drives, repetition, erogeneity, etc.

It's just the Oedipal theater model of the unconscious that they had trouble with. What the quote in the OP doesn't show is that for D&G, even if the Oedipus Complex theory is correct, psychoanalysis still can't provide a solution to people's problems precisely because it gets stuck itself in the Complex while reducing everything to it. Maybe there are analysts out there who are much more subtle about it, but D&G had trouble with those who received patients stressed by social injustice for example abd who could only ask them about mommy and daddy.

Somewhere around 200 but a lot of it was crap. Or kids books. Don't worry about how many, if like you said the books you have read were good quality. That probably means you are better at selecting decent lit to read, as opposed to someone who picks up books at random (and wonders why they suck.)

I've read under 50 books in my life. Have read nearly all the famous Russian novels though, but that's not really an excuse.

In the course of my entire life? Like 300

>>8500305
Unbearable. He should have become a programmer or something.

>>8500305
he's amazing. loved atlas, Europe central, 13 stories and his 2spooky4u ghost stories.

>>8500320
you haven't read him. pleb detected

start with the greeks

bottom's dreams

jeremy commonforth - the urine tapes

also, is the opening chapter the only one told from the first person perspective?

endnotes because tennis:)

>>8500257
Its a meme book and you fell for it, get out now before you waste even more of your time

>>8500248
Killing people just gives them sexual pleasure.
>This why when the 00000 is launched a human must be inside
He puts his sex slave inside
>He's the only thing that can stop this? Hence his search for the bomb.
He can't. He was just experimented on as a child and is just trying to find out why.

>>8500248
>humanity has become
No, they always were

Wait is Byron the light bulb an allegory for Slothrop?

Because children suck at it.

>Why do adults write children's stories?

Often because their own childhood sucked ass, actually.
A.A. Milne's father died when he was 12.
Hans Christian Andersen's father died when he was 9.
Lewis Carroll's mother died when he was 18.
Mark Twain's father died when he was 11.
Lucy Maud Montgomery's mother died when she was almost 2.
Kenneth Grahame's mother died when he was 5.
Roald Dahl's father died when he was 3.
P.L. Travers's father died when she was 7.
C.S. Lewis's mother died when he was 9.
Lucy M. Boston's father died when she was 6.
Frances Hodgson Burnett's father died when she was 3.
When you look behind a children's classic, you very often find a lost childhood. It isn't always a dead parent--J.M. Barrie's loss of his older brother (who was 13) when Barrie was 6 cast a deep shadow on his life, as did Rudyard Kipling's exile from India to abusive stepparents when he was 5--but it is prevalent enough that whenever I look at a great author now, I ask "Why did you write a book for children?" and there is often the beginning of an answer in the author's own broken early life.

>>8500224
>What are the best childrens authors?

Roald Dahl without a doubt, when I was a kid I read all of his books like 4 times each, such a great man.

He has the face of someone who hunts for government secrets in the backyard, snout to the ground, and dismisses perfectly good mushrooms or perhaps - only incidentaly, mindlessly - sets them aside for those of his hours unaccounted for.

love me some vollmann

>>8500038
Soooooooooo he's gay?

>>8499977
>I thought this was supposed to be a story about manly men doing manly men things, not something this C U T E!!!
I know right? That's just what I thought when I got to that part of the story when I started reading it about a week ago. Quequeg and ishmael are the cutest couple, that was like yaoi tier when quequeg put his arm lovingly around ishmael.

men could show affection to each other without being seen as gay or effeminate in the past

>>8500187
Which was really handy if you were gay

>>8499917
Those are too hard.

>Moby Dick
>To Kill A Mockingbird
>Catcher in the Rye

>>8499917
>>8500469
>cant play fun /lit/ games because i've read all of these

WHY EVEN LIVE

>>8500469
have read all of OPs

is to kill a mocking bird about a black guy who does something wrong and then a white attorney getting him acquitted?

Your brain does indeed need to exercise, like a muscle to maintain and expand it's processing power.

Doing things you struggle with is good because it means you are pushing your limits; don't see struggle as a sign that you are doing something wrong, but a sign that you are doing something right.

Do you not also find difficult tasks more satisfying to complete than easy ones?

I had to stop reading in the morning because I felt sluggish for the entire day. I do it at night now and feel like I might be getting better sleep because of it

>>8499997
Sometimes when I'm laying in bed reading I have to put down the book and get away from the bed because otherwise I'll feel an overwhelming urge to fall asleep, which has happened numerous times, and I am not a fan of mid day naps.

>>8499880
how do i drop out of the social world to read but still get invited to stuff?

>>8499883
stuff like what

You can be stay-at-home 5 days a week to work on /lit/ shit and do weekends with your friends. Isn't that how people who regularly work spend their lives? Works fairly well for me, not hard to enjoy books while paying attention to the world around you so you have stuff to talk to people about.

One thing I currently can't wrap my head around is maintaining a relationship, thinking about my past gfs and the lifestyle I'm maintaining right now I can't imagine having a girl around other than a secretary. Too much mental and time-intensive effort involved.

>>8499865
Missing Ulysses / 10

>>8499865
let me know how the gold bug variations is

>>8499865
put the vollman in the fucking garbage

other than that, you're set

welcome to the club

>>8499854
It's shit. It felt like it was written for a 12 year old. I read 30 pages or so and found myself too annoyed by the author trying to be cheeky so I deleted it off my phone

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>>8499854
>Went into Charing Cross foyles on a whim
>Picked it up and read a random page
>literally Bazinga tier references, not to mention oddly fedoralike writing style
How is shit so popular with normies? It's not even a good setting.

>>8499854
it's adored by SJWs

>>8499834
only do things that directly fuels your heart

>>8499834
If it makes you feel better they almost certainly won't make a penny

>>8499834
What made him think he was ready? he's never been in a mma fight, only sparred with his trainers. WTF?