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What good ones did you guys read?
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>>8430583
Seabiscuit, by Laura Hillenbrand
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>>8430583
Levels of the Game by John McPhee
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>>8430583
Plato.
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What did he mean by this?
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Dayyum this nigga is ugly.
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he must have never go real crazy
he must mean some "yolo" tier crazy
bukowski is a hack and a degenerate, and i dont use that word deliberately
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MOM'S GONNA FREAK!
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I need help, /lit/.
I dropped out of college and want to spend my time working and reading. Only I'm not at all good at interpreting and understanding literature.
I've started getting back into highschool shit like Slaughterhouse 5 and Siddhartha, But haven't read anything since, and that was two months ago.
What entry-level books do you recommend for someone who wants to get interested in reading?
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>>8430563
we have a sticky and numerous meme charts bra
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>>8430571
Shit, thanks. Thread deleted.
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The sticky and charts suck balls
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I dont know what it is about this guys, but every book I read by him, it impacts me so much more than any other book. I dont want to exaggurate, but it is such an enlightment reading his books.
What are your favorite books by Hesse?
And do you know any similar authors/books?
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>>8430536
that's a jersey shore tier tan he's got going there
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>>8430536
Demian is bredduy gud methinks
helped me grow as a teen
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>>8431195
I'll second Demian. Praise be to Abraxas.
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Is still possible to make some money writing erotica to sell on amazon?
Are there any kinky porn writers here? What is your experience with writing erotica?
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>>8430521
There's a Cracked.com article on it actually. Not bad might be enlightening.
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>>8430521
From what I've seen as recently as two days ago, yes, these things still dominate the bestseller lists in the kindle store, especially the short reads sections.
I thought of writing one once but I couldn't take the idea of it seriously enough to actually do it.
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Any tips on genre/length/level of perversion?
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Anyone else think his life up to the reverse jihad is extremely comfy?
People often talk shit about him but it seems like he's got a good thing going.
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>>8430478
seems like hes kinda just existing to me... not really forming meaningful relationships, just going through the motions
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Yeah, he has a job, a hot girlfriend whom he sleeps with regularly and sweetly, he can casually ask people to come back for fish and wine. It seems comfy as fuck.
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>>8430486
he really enjoys things like going for a swim and cups of coffee and wine and thicc girls and such and doesn't get upset about all the stuff that usually rustles people.
he's like a french winnie the pooh.
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Wtf i hate god now!
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>booty-blasted christfag tears
delicious
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>start to read this book ironically for fedora meme points
>mfw end up agreeing with it and finding it logical and well reasoned
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Is Dawkins the logical conclusion to fedora-core?
Why is philosophy so hard to understand? Why don't they just make it easy?
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I feel like this is a shitpost, but I do kind of agree. It oft seems that the world of philosophy has become too esoteric and now it's just full of assholes circlejerking eachother over their "obscure references"
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>>8430422
It's not something to made easy it's just that you probably struggle with certain concepts or how certain philosophers describe them
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>>8430422
Blame Derrida
Seriously though most philo seems tough when you skim it but if you diagram their arguments out everything becomes comprehensible
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I'm just so jaded with art / literature / philosophy / humanities as a whole. I've repeatedly talked about the Munchhausen trilemma and the academia-media-publishing industrial complex and its relation to social posturing. I can't stand all of it. Even Harold Bloom fucking agrees with me.
There are more tiresome trends I'm noticing as well. The institutionalisation / academisation of things is brain-dead. There are so many low IQers / underagers on here talking about which degree they should do to be a writer (and analogous topics on /tv/). Holy lol.
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>>8430412
culture is dead anon, we live in the era of technology.
they aren't meant to coexist, sadly.
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>>8430412
five years ago this would be dismissed with a "cool story brah" and destined for page 10 with only a few failed OP bumps
alas, those days are long gone
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>>8430412
Munchhausen trilemma is just cited by sour grapes humanitiesfags who can't grasp STEM subjects and so deny their truth altogether. Worst part is, they think scientists don't know that what they're doing is only human labels put to phenomena and rely on inductive assumptions/axioms, and think they're actually being clever
Claim your /lit/ waifus
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ur waifu a shit. best waifu, mine, pic related
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Jeff Mangum Died For (ID: !rAl8Mz2mp2)
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>tfw no Jewish intellectual qtgf
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I wish I could save her in some sort of time machinesmelling of semen
Anyone read Dianetics?
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>>8430346
Ayntology is more widely read here.
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>>8430346
Parts of it, any particular question or issue with it?
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>>8430346
Yep shit is fucking crazy yo this guy was a fuckin goober.
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>humans are always motivated by self-interest, even in what seem to be acts of altruism.
>lol u can murder ur mum if u want to my man but you have to empower yourself first
This doesn't compute. If Stirner was just a proponent of laissez-faire psychological egoism as many on this board claim (i.e. descriptive "all humans operate like this and that's ok") then he would
a) not bring up spooks. How do "spooks" fit into a world view of psychological egoism when they obviously satisfy the spooked or by the principles of this world view the spooked would not subscribe to them?
b) not bring up all these fringe cases that clearly violate the principles of descriptive psych. egoism in 99.9% of people. Oh wow if I felt like it/"empowered myself" to do so I could slash your throat and not feel bad, that's good to know.
His raison d'etre in the 21st century meme format (because back then there was no established field of psychology so he is excused) must then mean instead something that goes beyond description-- and my guess is it's a spineless flavor of naive ethical egoism with a pretend-masochistic twist: "look, you think you are acting in your self-interest with this psychological satisfaction of [altruistic, self-denying etc. actions] but you are doing it wrong, the spook [ideology/meme] is controlling you and robbing you of your creative expression (creative nothing and so on). You can love but only if you have Jesus levels of empathy for the person. If you only stick around because it gives you mild satisfaction then you are still subjecting yourself to the spook. Stop feeling sad for plebs etc.".
Funnily enough this fits in perfectly with the pussy attitude to life of many intelligent but insecure young men, the empathy part is consequently an alibi, a back door for when people rightfully calling you what you are, an apathetic and naive egoist and if this is true then to see Stirner's philosophy as anything beyond that is cognitive dissonance and Nietzsche did it better.
Really makes u think :/
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>>8430291
they don't always satisfy the spooked
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>>8430291
Read his fucking works first you cretin
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Even religion, therefore, is founded on our egoism and — exploits it; calculated for our //desires//, it stifles many others for the sake of one. This then gives the phenomenon of //cheated// egoism, where I satisfy, not myself, but one of my desires.
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Has anyone read this?
Was it any good?
It seems like an appropriate read thematically considering the massive amounts of immigration into Europe recently.
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>>8430273
Isn't it just a more erudite proto-hollaback?
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>>8430273
All I know about it is that /pol/ seems to have a raging hard-on for it. Which is usually a clear no-no for me. Then again even a broken clock is right twice a day
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>>8430312
Why do you exclude something based on the fact that a particular group likes it?
Isn't that like judging a book by its cover? Or a person by the colour of their skin rather than the content of their character?
>it's a Don Quixote attacks innocent people for no reason episode
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>it's a stream of consciousness episode
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>>8430283
he is the GOAT tbqh
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>>8430283
Your mom is a sacred cow
I have four hours to kill in NYC tomorrow. What bookstores are worth going to other than pic related? Used only. Midtown preferred.
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>>8430193
Whichever one is busiest and has most people. Or if you don't want to get caught, the least busy where you are least likely to get caught.
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>>8430193
I really can't think of a better one than that. I found shitloads of out of print hardcovers for ridiculously low prices there.
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>>8430200
what do you mean by "caught"?