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The God Delusion.

I'd love to sit in a crashing airplane together with someone like Hitchens, just to see how quickly he finds his way back to god.

>>8494628
too late, he died slowly of esophageal cancer and never sought god

>roach

fucking no

ZETTEL’S TRAUM
Die Schule der Atheisten
Finnegans Aufwachen
die autobiographie des albert einstein
Leben und Abenteuer der Trobadora Beatriz nach Zeugnissen ihrer Spielfrau Laura: Roman in dreizehn Büchern und sieben Intermezzos
Die Schlafwandler
nachschrift
Liebe Frau Strigl
Geschichten vom Herrn Keuner

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Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten.

>>8494409

I'm sorry to interrupt, but why speeding?

>>8494409
read a summary beforehand or skim once before reading

terrible if youre a plotfag but knowing the framework everything fits into beforehand saves so much time

>>8494416
Read quickly, more books at once. I'm not strictly "speed-reading", just want to increase my speed without harming my comprehension

>>8494362
The worms were cool
I left the book at my dad's house and never went back to get it so all I really remember is the kid reciting a prayer to himself and some stuff about giant worms

>underrated

You are on the /lit/ board
Know your goddam words.

>>8494362
this is actually a good post, thanks anon.

>>8494345
just go out and make a new one

>>8494376
was it removed?

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>>8494345
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXvAd7COpJY

>>8494339
He's great, but gets repetitive. The more of his writings you begin to digest, the more you realize he's reiterating the same theme, which is 'go with the flow.'

I'd say read 'The Wisdom of Insecurity' and call it a day with Watts. Also read up on the idea of a 'mad monk' or someone possessing 'crazy wisdom.'

I find that Buddhist tradition is useful to understand Watts because the more you read about his personal life the more empty his words become. But, his whole point is that he's a sinner, not a saint. He is flawed, as are we all. Keep that in mind.

>>8494354
i didn't find much info about his personal life, but I know he was alcoholic/ adulterous. But shouldn't we separate message from the messenger?

>>8494380
Sure. It's just more difficult to do when the messenger is espousing a certain way to live.

That being said, I don't think Watts' lifestyle contradicted most of his message.

>Only speaks English and irrelevant Jewish languages (Hebrew's day has passed), failed to become fluent in Latin, Greek, German, etc, despite years of dedicated study
>His criticism is hit or miss, few insights, and mostly exaggerations of his own opinions.
>Self-appointed himself as some kind of guardian of literature. Despite this, his works on criticism, including series he edits, are mostly filler and will be forgotten after his death.

>>8494204
Yes.

(((Bloom))) is a meme.

>>8494288
(((literature))) is a meme

>>8494200
Depends on the sitcom, if its something patrician like MASH then no, only enhances it

>>8494200
The Seinfeld episode with John Cheever (along with some reviews I've read of his works) is the main reason I have not read him. So, yea I guess so.

Isn't that Richard Yates?

I think Ballard is better to be honest

>>8494104
Ballard is better. Delany isn't bad by any means but it's like he intentionally wanted to be a less than popular author.

>>8494209
in the sense that Delany probably felt it would make him look more "elite" in terms of the literary world if he wasn't as popular.

for instance would it be worth it to get his book "symbols of sacred science" over something done in this decade?

>>8494099
Pretty cool. I guess the gist of it is not one tradition has a monopoly on the universal but the essential is that your tradition is a tradition with a hierarchy.

Although it's baffling why Guenon, a Catholic, seems to have completely ignored Eastern Orthodoxy, which put tradition at the center of their religion, and opted for Sunni Islam instead.

He was probably right about Islam (at least in his time) upholding it's traditions in the face of modernity better than Catholicism. Who knows if he'd feel that way today.

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>>8494099
He is named after these monkeys

Everyone should read a dictionary cover to cover before starting to engage in serious literature

Turns out the zebra did it

malcolm x did that and someone killed him

>amazon
>physical books

you get what you deserve.

>>8494163
Not OP but they do this with my ebooks too

>>8494079
pounds as money or pounds as weight

i read it like he recommended it: i opened it every now and again at a random section and went backwards and forwards from it
i enjoyed it, there's a lot of good stuff in there and it worked well

>>8494092
Honestly I would be screwed if I wasn't reading the annotated version where Ballard explains some of the paragraphs. I find it hard to follow since I'm pretty unfamilar with the 60s and 70s eras in general.

I keep asking what am I supposed to be getting from this. It just seems like some pop culture references mixed with violence and obscenity purely for the sake of it but not really offering a commentary on any of the real world events or characters it makes references to. Again, I'm only about a quarter way through the book and reading it in order

>>8494074
What is remarked on in this book is so removed from common experience, in such a shocking presentation, that it doesn't really need to be consciously contrasted, unless one is autistic.

There are only 2 worthwhile stories in this collection, the rest are just variations of those two. Have your wheat, then move on.

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>>8494011
>in a university study of MKULTRA, in it's documentation about the programs, a "related item" is a scientific journal article about 'gender identity disorder' AKA TRAPS, TRANNIES, SHEMALES, LADYBOYS, SISSIES, CROSSDRESSERS, MENTALLY ILL MIND CONTROL VICTIMS.

https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/968053

So? Who cares? Citizens belong to their government. YOU ARE PROPERTY.

>>8494032
Spoken like a true cuck. You deserve it.

>>8493980
It's a great description of a teenager's worldview. Captures all the major points beautifully.

>>8494000
Trips of truth.

>>8493980
I don´t agree with the people who think he should just "man up". Other than that i feel exactly like you after i read it a few months ago, was also dumped before.
I also read Faust I recently and while being interesting i liked TSoYW more.