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>>8380036
The captain's daughter

Some of Shakespeare's comedies. Obviously, for this you'd avoid his tragedies, which although frequently romantic, don't end well and often involve affairs in one way or another. Try A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing (the latter has a mistake about an affair but doesn't actually contain one).

Anybody got a romance that involves the protagonist cucking the shit outta his rival and stealing his woman?

Then Dumping Her.

>>8380032
Jesus christ what the fuck are you trying to say? You just reduced a great novel with a great main character to an edgy dingus who "ran away" from his life to question god. How about you think for a minute, use some grown up words, and ask again after deleting this post.

>>8380032
It's semi-autobiographical, McCarthy actually ran away from a good home to live in a shack, but he brought his girl with him.
There is very little on his background, so it's difficult to tell what happened and what didn't, but with just the minor details you can tell that McCarthy was pretty fucking hardcore.

>>8380037
you have severe autism.
i just want to talk about a book.

>>8380013
>Do continental philosophers seriously believe this?
no

oh! straw-man thread! I dig it.

>if you use only an empirical system of determining cause and effect we can undoubtedly assume anything we'd like about the empirical world
Do analytic philosophers seriously believe this?

>>8380013
If bait then good bait
If not then it's just your average analytical autism, nothing to see

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yeah this is nice

>>8379969
this is not r/books you waste of flesh

he also wrote a vampire series called the saga of darren shan where he show vampires as fierce warriors and not like the stupid shit of twilight

Any book will make you smarter so long as you take the time and digest the information which is presented. Look up the definitions of the words you don't know. Read history, philosophy, science, etc.

Learn about critical thinking and any book will do it.

I recommend starting with basic economics, wealth of nations, wealth by foreign trade,(wasn't the right name but whatever look it up), Marx capital, not necessarily their work but how contemporaries have translated it. Umm machiavelli the prince, (kissingers doctoral thesis on it and nuclear weapons and foreign policy), art of war, clausowits fog of war. Biographies. Sorry, normally more coherent but on phone and working so fuck it, you get the point

>>8379903
Get some professional help, it'll make you feel special u melodramatic twat

And don't waste this boards time with shit like this, it's short enough already

>>8379903
I think you should take up jogging, it's good even if you're a poorfag and it'll help balance you out a little bit. At the very least you'll be in good shape before you kill yourself.

Before you an hero you should try hedonism. Or reading.

You care about a lot of shit, you self absorbed twat, and by "a lot of shit" I do mean "you".
>waaaah, i might have to be responsible for myself
>waaaah, why aren't other people good enough for me
>waaaah, i'm so good for my parents i believe they'd rather have me tortured than be deprived of my presence
>waaaah, it's everyone else's fault
You're a dumb, boring fuck, and you won't understand Kierkegaard so reading a book won't help you. You should just kill yourself.

>>8379894
sounds like you are a mong with the reading abilities of a fucking fart.
Go read something that don't come with a fucking toy.

>>8379904
get out of here pleb , bet you havn't even read it

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It's nerd power fantasies and 80s nostalgia references that appeal to people who vigorously read The Oatmeal and goes to "SCIENCE IS FUCKING AWESOME" facebook/tumblr/subreddits. You know, that guy on campus who has Scott Pilgrim t-shirts, a Adventure Time backpack and a unread copy of Infinite Jest.

RP1 is essentially a LJ/tumblr treatise about how Fandom Is The Most Important Thing In My Life Mom/Dad And You Just Don't Understand! Nobody does anything original, it's all just pop culture references.

Armada has a part where Generic Military Guy is set up as a bad guy because he quotes Top Gun and not nerd media. It namedrops Chris Roberts, Richard Garriott, Hidetaka Miyazaki, Gabe Newell, Shigeru Miyamoto, Peter Jackson, James Cameron and Michio Kaku. The main character wins the heart of the main girl (who is a punk gamer gurl) by having a conversation that consists entirely of pop-culture references.

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>>8379858
Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series.

>>8379858
>fiction

Can't you just think for yourself you stupid fucking ape?

>>8380079
lel

>>8379839
He's the most reddit of 20th-century authors

>>8379763
There is no "most accurate practice of the Bible". The Bible is only half of Christianity, and the other half is doctrine. Orthodox Christianity is the most accurate because it's literally the same practice that has been done since the Apostles.

>>8379763
east orthodox

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>>8379901
> it's literally the same practice that has been done since the Apostles

1000 drachmas have been deposited in your account.

Your grandma sucking off Sinatra

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>>8379677
I read We Have Always Lived in the Castle this year and absolutely loved it.

There may or may not be ghosts.

Turn of the Screw.

Socrates did exist. No idea what you're saying. Are you trying to make a statement of his popular characterization? We know him through Plato, who puts him on his hand and makes him dance.

>>8379647
If Socrates weren't real, wouldn't Aristotle have said something?

>Plato is dear but truth is dearer still.

Also, his existence is attested to by both Xenophon and Aristophanes (who wrote The Clouds before Plato had written any dialogues). Why would Aristophanes write a satiric play about someone who didn't exist?

And, finally, even if Socrates didn't exist (which literally no historian believes), so what?

>>8379665
>>8379676
OP is such a faggot he was proven a faggot twice the same way.

>>8379584
Jack Black?

>>8379584
Peter Fathead?

>>8379584
Byron?

>>8379572
probably the pendulum. because i had a vivid dream that i was cut in half afterwards.

that's the last time i eat indian food.

>>8379572
purloined letter b/c thats the one that they use to teach lacan :3

>>8379640
I didn't know that! What's the parallel made?

>>8379544
It's a pretty vast subject with a lot of different views which rely on larger bodies of philosophy.
First thing you should do is never touch anything by Krauss ever again, he doesn't know absolutely nothing about philosophy.
A lot of the things he argues against are aristotelian, but he doesn't know that, so really, start with the Greeks, The Republic, Laws, and Trial and Death of Socrates, Metaphysics, Nichomachian Ethics, Categories and Politics. With that you'll have a strong basis for other works in whichever direction you want to go.

Krauss is a hack

Pick up a textbook for STEM

>>8379544
firstly, get a textbook, don't just read shit pertaining a subject you understand nothing about.

secondly, math is the way humans have found to make sense of the world. the universe has nothing to do with math. humanity created math to describe and predict the universe trough physics.

also.
>Krauss
never again.

what do you want to study?
>philosophy
Start with the Greeks and work from there. for every hour read, you should think about it for another hour
>Physics
get a fucking textbook from where you left off in school, be it highschool or college. look into newton especially. you'll also need advanced math, like calculus, trig, and geometry to various degrees