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I do.
You should read it in Spanish though.

>>8403980
but I don't speak Spanish

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>>8403959
I'm in love it, so /lit/ probably hates it. Also someone is gonna call me pleb in like five minutes after I post it, as it always happens.

Pretty sure general consensus here is that it's top 5 of all time.

>>8403902
ebin

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

>>8403895
Totally doable, but you better get off 4chan and start. Have you done any secondary reading? I'm assuming you're done with the primary source.

>>8403907
Yes I have some reading and some sources. I'm now trying to summarize 3 text into my paper

It's for college btw.

>>8403895
Yes. Draft up a rough plan for the essay, get the relevant literature and just start writing.

I wrote 8,000 words in one sitting when I had no other option, although I'd done a couple of days planning.

Well, he has to make a living.

What do you expect him to do? Live in abject poverty because you're a fag who can't handle advertisement when it's about pop-philosophy, but you can when it's about candy or sneakers?

>>8403576
Read his books you absolute fucking retarded nigger. What the fuck do you expect from YouTube videos you asswipe.

>>8403576
his anti romantic talk is top notch

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>>8403043
>Plebussy

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Sorry

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LB5YkmjalDg

>>8403052

>I hate something because it's popular

you probably think Shakespeare is overrated too.

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>>8400703

Answers in turn

I'm not even sure what a meme is, so I will be working by the idea that it is a unit of cultural transmission.

SFFG memed me into reading Gene Wolfe. He is a writer of genuine literary merit, more so than many of the texts I studied at degree level. If fantasy is ever studied seriously, it will be Gene Wolfe first, before Tolkein.

Your pic lacks Arthur C Clarke, pic related

I share a surname with a Brandon Sanderson, and I still do a double take when people meme him, and refer to him by his surname only.

Fantasy produces the most memes because it has the most cliches at its worst, more so than sci-fi, which is a genre with more breadth.

>>8400703
>What meme did sffg get you to believe?
Wolfe being worth reading

>sffg memes that changed your life
In WoT the way the characters endure suffering was an important concept. I had learned it before I ever read the series, but I still give it credit because it recognized the phenomenon.

>Which genre creates the most memes
Typically the one with the most exposure and (due to volume of content and appeal to the masses [who, by sheer odds will have poorer tastes and therefore require a lower caliber of content for enjoyment]) largest audience.

E.g. Fantasy, anime, or Erotica. However, erotica isn't something discussed publicly, so there is no meme creation.

Fantasy and anime.

there is but I con't find it in my /lit/ folder

>>8400456
You only ascend if you've read George's writings

Why don't we create one right now?

The more mathematics you know, the better. If you really want to glide through much of the technical fields of analytic philosophy (phil of math, language, logic) I suggest getting a BSc in maths first.

If not, just work through Joseph Schoenfield - Mathematical Logic.

>>8396226
>Getting into formal logic seems essential to understand modern philosophy
Not exactly, depends on what you are interested in.
>What are some entry-level books I should read?
Not very familiar with the subject, but I'd say Wittgenstein, Russel and Godel are the most important authors from which a lot of contemporary philosophy was born.
Also, moden philosophy is everything since Descartes.

>>8396276
>not exactly
Logic courses are like 1/3 of the curriculum in analytic-oriented philosophy departments, seems pretty fucking big to me.

>>8409016
Atlas Shrugged

>>8409016
The Stranger

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Nietzsche obviously

>>8408648
Dostoevsky

>>8408650
Anyone of his books specifically? (Not OP btw)

>>8408908
Dostoevsky is actually a Russian nihilist. This guy is trolling. But Dostoevsky's most popular reads are "Crime and Punishment" and "The Idiot."

Yeah, I'd agree

>>8408502
But isn't manual labor also selling the body ? and more prestigious careers selling the mind ? How is prostitution more base than either of those ? Your argument is pretentious and it assumes that human beauty has any value beyond the physical, which is baseless. There are billions of people in the world and a single individual has no value beyond what someone will pay.

>>8408534
>Sexual feeling is not a sensation that can be turned on and off at will: it is a tribute from one self to another and—at its height— an incandescent revelation of what you are.
Manual Labour and thinking are not the same.

>>8408490
go to fuck yourself.com

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>>8408509
Oh, you went there!!

>>8408535
so you didn't go to the website I'm guessing?
your loss... I guess the title keeps plebs out

adderall

Watch less TV/Play less games
Read more books
Do math/something challenging regularly

also, if you are new to reading, don't start with hard books. Just read something that you like, don't care if it is pleb tier OP.

I enjoy reading. That normally does the trick.

you can ride a horse, or even a large dog

>>8408330
I am too big to ride a large dog or even a small horse.

>>8408347
>ywn be able to ride a large dog or small horse
okay, now you can be upset

I want Rupi Kaur to sit on my fucking face and grind downward as hard as she can.

>>8408326
I never understood /b/'s obsession with x-rays.It has to be one of the most boring types of porn.

Also he's not famous or anything and opinions will probably vary wildly, but this guy's stuff is probably my favorite as far as contemporary poetry goes because it seems like he's willing to take a lot of risks with it, which feels like an increasingly rare quality in poetry these days.

https://crossingenres.com/time-e805de1cc356#.y8dn65qrh

https://crossingenres.com/april-21st-88e87d03e5b7#.vrgn5k83u

https://crossingenres.com/june-13th-483fdf121e26#.imimzagbh

>>8408326
lmao honestly white men are more oppressed than anyone right now lmaooooooo