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>>9920580
It's just a nazi drinking honey

>>9920580
The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw.

I thought that picture was of two nazi men kissing.
Did I win the prize?

>>9920573
I haven't read the book, but the movie was a very good comedy with dramatic elements. Of all people that a time-traveling book could center around, this is about Hitler, and it does a very good job at portraying his mannerisms and other characteristics realistically, rather than half-heartedly or to the point of over-simplification or parody. I liked the earlier half of the film most, which is probably what I would say for the book as well. My main reason for that is that the beginning and first half of the movie is more light-hearted comedy, and while there are funny moments spread all-throughout, it gets noticeably more serious in tone by the end.

>>9920817
I liked the more mind blowing meta commentary to be honest. The earlier half wasn't really all that funny or had jokes that haven't really been done before.

>>9920573
Read it when it came out in German (I'm not German).
Made me laugh a lot, which made many ask what anon was reading.
Fun times.

>>9920571
phenomenology of spirit is the book that began the process of rehabilitating the sophists,

This could easily be converted into a "the virgin blank/the chad blank" meme.
Don't do it, though.

>>9920571
Sophists have been in charge for the last 2500 years preaching the benefits of Plato.

More like One thousand and one nights of cucking amirite? Haha

>>9920467
>terribly translated

What translation are you reading because Descartes in English is really good for a philosopher

>>9920467
ah to be that unaware and naive again.

The Germanium and Parker's Back are two of my favorite stories by Flannery O'Connor. Both focus intently on the titular item, which is her schtick, but the first has a "tidy" ending which underscores her point while the latter is messy, ambiguous, and equally poignant. The two show the growth as a writer and bookend her career.

Just realized that out of my entire book collection the only female author is Emily Dickenson's poetry. Am I a bigot?

>>9924200
>Actually owning a book by a female author
Lol.

>>9920466
Better than Marx.
Das Kapital is so poorly written I am having troubles to read, even if with me wating to read, is more like a chore than reading actual philosophy.

i started reading it as way of better understanding the transition from mercantilism to something more similar to the economic policies of our days. I'd say it worked for me. It's funny that Smith calls himself tedious and boring at certain intervals in the book but i personally coudn't put it down once I started it

Smith's ideas have their own skeletons in the closet.

Filthy dumb, vermin scum.

Why couldn't it get published today? I've read most of them, but it was years ago and mostly as a young adult.

my diary desu

>>9920370
>this was voted as the greatest novel of the 20th century
by whomst????

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>>9920370
what is objectivism?

>>9920373
By the readers. It wasn't on the critics list at all. Ignore the OP

>>9920333
no. you do need to get a lot of bad writing out of your system however.

>>9920333
No, tho you need to keep eye on what you are writting. Somethings fit well, others dont. Thats why you need to re-read what you wrote from time to time. To fix here and there.

Won't hurt. 4 novels is nothing. 1k pages can be shat out in less than 3 years doing literally 1 page a day.

>>9920238
Try making interesting characters that have a plot tied to them. You can write about anything, so just describe what someone does.

>>9920238
I'm actually having trouble with this as well. I've been slow cooking the plot for a novel for a few months now, and I've got a few scenes burned into my mind, they're so clear I can see them playing out whenever I think of them or write down excerpts from them. But everything is so scattered and disconnected that I have trouble reconciling the sum of the whole with the final product itself.

Is there a certain outline or goal I should have while I'm writing these seemingly disconnected scenes, or should I just micromanage everything and hope I can plaster it all together in the end?

>>9920238
Sometimes it comes naturaly, but others I need to come with something meaningfull to connect A to B.
I usualy try to avoid unecessary filler, unless I think that fillers are related to the plot or meaning of the book.

Pseudo-intellectual is another way of calling someone a fraud.

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>>9920214
you think you know stuff when you don't

>>9920202
"The Unique and Its Property" Wolfi Landstreicher.

The one (The Ego and His/Its Own) that everyone has read is fucking shit.

>>9920774
Thanks for the late reply!
What are the principle differences? Are they really substantial?

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>BIG
>FOREHEAD
>MAN

Just walk away from the screen.

Ask yourself why you can't stick to reading. More likely than not, you should just read easier material, or make it so the material can be read more easily (by improving your vocabulary and/or keeping a dictionary open).

We go to things like the internet, TV, movies, and video games because they're easy sources of relative entertainment. Literature can be even deeper than them, but you have to put in some work: the harder the work, the more likely you are to just go to the simpler activities.

>>9920201
I'm looking for something more unnecessarily complicated, could you help me out here, buddy?

heh u think reading is hard while your in school, wait until you actually are working!

t. Electrical engineer

>>9920114
You're gonna die anyway so reading or not doesn't matter much. Savor the few books you can read... after all you did choose utility over erudition. We need you anon, never forget that

>>9920114
Change majors if you can. If not then perhaps try getting into grad school for something that is more meaningful to you than the STEM meme.