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>>8422907

Phenomenology of Spirit

my diary desu

>>8422907
Hamlet
Othello (Iago's consciousness is the important one here)
Don Quixote
Ulysses
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Portrait of a Lady (not as great, that's why I put it at the bottom here)
etc

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>mfw the alzabo enters the cottage

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>>8422856
>the heirodules on the grounds of the House Absolute

Stuff like On The Road and Vonnegut just cause you can't really appreciate them past a certain age.

Kafka and Dick would be a good start

>>8424074
Dick?

>>8424565
Bane?

>>8422779
No because he was a stuck up asshole, who didn't care what anyone else thought. I mean he would get upset with people for thinking they have the capacity to make decisions in regards to mortality or virtue, and claim to not do so himself; but, of course he had a "divine sense" which is just the same goddamn thing, I hate that over riotous piece of shit. He did the same bullshit work around when talking about rhetoric and the Sophists he did the exact same thing as them but just called it by another name, and then he used the excuse that he was a poor piece of shit to justify himself. Fuck Socrates.

>>8422800
take it easy freddy

>>8422800
t. Aristotle

Why would there be actual literature for this? Outside of self-help, of course, but you can Google for those.

Quitting smoking isn't hard 2bh. I've done it hundreds of times.

>>8422769
"you can do what you will but you cannot will what you will"

There's an example for you why there would be lit on this.

>>8422707
Fuck me that shitpost should start with you're.

>>8422707
Make him your wifu and live far away in a village teaching local kids grammar

Let him impale me on his harpoon.

>>8422681

http://www.bookdrum.com/books/blood-meridian/9780330510943/bookmarks.html

you'll find this useful, enjoy

>>8422681
You should probably read the Border Trilogy before you read Blood Meridian. That way you're used to Cormac McCarthy and his westerns. Or at least read The Crossing before you do Blood Meridian.

Just read it. It's not that difficult and it's totally worth it.

Wondering this too. I don't read enough contemporary stuff but so much gets posted that I can't keep up.

>>8422643
I usually just watch booksandshit on YouTube.

>>8423193
Had not watched that in a while. I'm hoping that she will turn patrician and dumps physics for math.

>>8422636
Is this an actual part of the Goodreads site?

>>8422654
Probably. I just googled an IJ pic for the fish joke. Then it's all serendipity. http://www.identitytheory.com/david-foster-wallace-velveteen-rabbit/

>>8422673
>“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”

>“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.

>“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”

excerpt of DFW's favorite story.

>>8422557

Your problem is that you were raised by the internet and video games. You can only focus on visual and/or interactive media and hypertexts. When confronted with a linear text like that of a book, your brain has trouble focusing on the information.

This isn't hopeless. You're still young, so your brain is still malleable. Stop using the internet and playing vidya so much. When you try to read, go to a quiet peaceful place. Somewhere like a park is preferable (studies show that nature helps the brain focus more than loud city-scapes).

Baby steps.

Read five pages a day.

Watch movies. No 17 second youtube videos.

NO VIDEO GAMES.

Good luck.

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read visual novels desu

its books for people with adhd and its gonna get you used to lots of text

>>8422548

Definitely the latter.

It'll make you realize how fucking carefree life used to be for anyone in the 19th century who had some money. It was pretty much just going wherever you wanted and having shitloads of experiences.

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>>8422548
I liked Iphigenia in Tauris, and now want to read his Italian Journey.

>>8422548
I didn't (couldn't?) finish Faust 2.

>>8422492
Mein Kampf
King Henry IV Parts I and II
King Henry V
In fact, all of Shakespeare's histories, although these deal most explicitly with it

In an unexpected way, dystopias like 1984, BNW, We, etc., get into the mindset of seemingly cruel leaders and explain their rationales for oppressing people.

>>8422492
Darkness at noon sort of

>>8422513
Thanks, mind if i asked if you have something more recent in mind?

>>8422487

They're certainly more durable. I find the introductions/foot notes/appendices/other critical crap is usually more interesting. Translations vary like with all publishers.

>>8422487
I find that Oxford are on balance generally better than Penguin, but it depends on the work in question. For example, the Oxford edition of L'assommoir by Zola is the best, but for Germinal the Penguin translation is better.

Everyman's >>>> Penguin >= Oxford

>>8422466
It's not funny.

>>8422462
Beowulf was written ~500 years before El Cid. Trying to read Vulgar Latin is a fairer comparison than Old Spanish.

And yeah, only dedicated early Medieval historians can read Beowulf in the original.

oh shit nigger

It's true. Pynchon ruined himself with pot and TV just like the Beats.

>>8422970
Vineland is one of his strongest. DFW was jealous that Pynchon again did the stoner novel better than he did.