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Notes from the Underground, though the Underground Man's intellectual capacity is far above 92% of the people on 4chan.

Nausea, too. The protagonist is basically a NEET wandering the city, trying in-between soul-searching to write his book.

two of my favourite books too desu senpai

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>>8445555

>>8445831
This is shit and not what you're looking for.

Closest I can think of right now are Temple of the Golden Pavilion and maybe Woyzeck (doesn't really fit the frogposter but he's definitely a loser).

What is love?

>>8445559
for you

>>8445560
wtf i hate /lit/ now

>>8445500
I imagine Schopenhauer knew his 'On Women' was the pinnacle of human-philosophical thought

>>8445500
My diary (not honest).

Obviously not life is about always being hungry. The best Authors live alone, write alone and win the Pulitzer prize alone

They're real, and I own a copy myself. Have you never seen one in a store?

>>8445422
A lot of people say claim it isn't real though

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>>8445435
You might be on to something here.

100 Years of Solitude go through the entire lives of a dozen characters.

The Autumn of the Patriarch mostly sticks to one though if you're not trying to overwhelm yourself with sweet fictitious biographies.

Either way only read Marquez.

>>8445315

Sinuhe

The Tin Drum goes from childhood to adulthood

Tattoos are for degenerates.

>>8445254
It's gaudy pleb shit

>>8445243
Should've used more sunscreen anon.

I have tree on my forearm, to lazy to take a pic tho.

Lots of degenerates have fucking ugly tattoos.
Lots of ok people have ok tattoos. That's all.

Anarcha feminism >>> radfem

Though if you're reading any feminist works if should be Beauvoir

>>8445223
>Beauvoir

OP, don't pollute your mind with the ramblings of this crazy slut.

Germaine Greer

The Holy Bible

>>8445208
im looking for non meme books

>>8445209
Not a meme, lad, she needs Jesus.

Post rare stirners

>>8445181
>Damn
Damn

>>8445189
Damn

>>8445191
I needed a pic and thats what I saw first. Teh Rei fits in all situations

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Do you guys drink milk while reading?

I just realized that I drink about 4L of milk every day.

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usually just classical or ambient

frogposter thinking his opinion matters

>>8445150
There's a meme in society of some kind of entrepreneurial post-capitalist industrial-scientific "productivity" thing, and they are expressing the meme because they are demi-conscious memebuoys floating on a slurry sea of currents you can only see if you zoom out.

It's exhausting even trying to give an answer to this question. You need to like phenomenologically bracket every single word and write a book explaining that they aren't even people. They aren't even conscious. They aren't even having "opinions". STEM people are like robots with human skin stretched over them. To say "they are dismissive of the humanities" is implicitly to admit I think there's a "they". STEM people don't even fucking exist. They are a statistical gaseous nebula of random particles wafting across continents and periodically expressing junk they picked up along the way. Why would you even talk to them?

Talking to a STEMfag is literally like being some kind of Buddha, ascending reality, then coming back down and talking to bees who were dudes in past lives. I'm sure these bee niggas can be saved or whatever, but let's just wait until they're back in human form. Don't walk around going "BEES, STOP BUZZING, PUT DOWN THAT POLLEN, LISTEN TO ME ABOUT HOW EVERY CONCEPTUAL CATEGORY YOU HAVE FOR EVEN THINKING OF THINGS WAS SHAPED FOR YOU BY AN UNCONSCIOUS SLUDGE OF MEMETIC POLYALLOY THAT FLOWS IN PREDICTABLE CURRENTS FROM YEAR TO YEAR THROUGH THE HIVE IN WHICH YOU WERE CONCEIVED"

>>8445156
This copypasta is great because it's true

Don't just delete everything. Salvage any passages you think are decent and save them in a notebook. Organize notebook by topic. When something else you start writing brings you to a similar topic, rip anything good out of that notebook and for it in. Later, cull this project the same way. Repeat process until most of your text is not shit.

Tl;Dr be Thoreau

>>8445128
came to post this basically

Make outline

I've only ever bought one paperback over 1100 pages and it was pretty floppy and cumbersome.

I read that book in paperback form, and mine was a lot cheaper and less durable than the Penguin Classics books. The paper was about as thin as a cheap Bible, so it was light and small and managed to stay in one piece the entire time I was reading it.

As long as you don't buy shit like Wordsworth, is going to be ok. I have the Oxford edition of TBK and it's good.

No, but great novelists have written mediocre screenplays before. Sorkin is easily the most middlebrow of middlebrow garbage btw

>>8444987
Dalton Trumbo
F Scott Fitzgerald
William Faulkner

Nathanael West

>>8444852
when im reading and i come across a word i dont know, i google it using my phone and write down the definition in a notebook i carry specifically for vocab. i review this notebook every once in a while.

>>8444863
Doesn't that break up your concentration while reading?

>>8444872
while it does break up reading, i dont misunderstand any passages anymore. a lot of words are guessable through context, but my guesses are probably wrong 1/3-1/4 of the time.

i've been thinking about just underlining the words i don't know and coming back to them later. reading lolita got fucking SLOW at points because i was looking up so many words.

with all that said, i really stand by the notebook idea. it could be done with flashcards or a flashcards app or something too though.