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why don't you read it and find out

Sure, its good, but I think it gets a lot more praise than it deserves for being the first true crime book than for the actual book in itself. Dont expect anything amazing, be have been saturated by info about crimes way worse than this so it wont be shocking.

>>8358871
I really liked it op.

>>8358868
Pale Fire. Dude ain't no libertarian.

>finnegans wake
>purple prose
wew

>>8358868
>Bend Sinister, Pale Fire, and Invitation to a Beheading all have the same hackneyed plot
Are you the retard who wrote this and who are you trying to attribute it to? I can't imagine someone would put their name on it.

falling in love

still in there

stirner memes?

>>8358684
>What made you go into your first existential crisis?
Realizing I hated my major, the people I took classes with, and the path I was on when I was a junior.

>What got you out?
My brother died which forced me to confront certain philosophical questions I was too much of a coward to earlier.

>What makes life worth living?
Aesthetics, friendship, love

"Her." Infatuation phase, insecurity phase, emotional reliance, and all that of a generic rollercoaster eventually threw me into a place where I started wondering what really made me happy and what was happy and human behavior and my behavior and my insignificance and her insignificance and a load of other shit that we all wonder. After a while the thoughts got worse and more frequent, began to reflect in my daily life and what not. I try not to talk about it irl because who wants to hear about my boring troublings.

I wouldn't say I'm out of it yet, but what makes life worth living for me is becoming progressively more self aware by the day and reading. Mostly reading. Once I read all the books I'd like then I'll probably off myself in peace.

how euphoric are you right now

epic thread bro

>>8358660

God exists retard

>>8358559
you had professors? lucky bastard. all i've ever had were fucking ketchup packets and a few turtle faced librarians who welcomed me into the YA section even though i was 35 and a half.

>>8358559
He literally invented the human.
Every thought you have could not have been if it weren't for shakespeare.

>>8358559
it's not enough i'll never be a genius, but now there's fucking super geniuses out there floating around? fuck me.

http://www.donethewriteway.com/

>>8358530
You keep the idea secret and safe and add to it over time.

In the meantime you read a lot of everything - different countries, continents, time periods - and write some short stories. Theyll be bad but you improve and for your masterpiece you add you edit you learn.

Better question: where do you fuckers get your ideas?

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>>8358519
2nd most aesthetic book collection, right behind NYRB

>>8358519
They are excellent. Their collection only covers big mainstream names, so your library won't look uniform unless you're a really boring person that only buys big mainstream name books. In which case, an appearance of uniformity would be entirely appropriate.

I'm sure /lit/s opinion of them will be fairly negative but I really like them and they have recently become my first choice in editions.

>>8358446
you have to overwrite every god damn thing and then go back and hack some bits off and then write twice as much, then hack more off, then throw it all away because it's trash and someone else wrote it all already and sit down have a bottle of rot gut and really consider suicide while writing with your offhand, trying to name people you went to class with in 3rd grade. then you'll be a god damned writer.

>>8358455
shit man fuck dude shit i don't remember anything about 3rd grade

>>8358458
well then you'll never be a fucking writer. but you can become a critic pretty easily. go ruin some people's lives, eventually establish a publishing company and ghostwrite for some loser with buck teeth.

>>8358389
The Youtube movement.

postliterature

>>8358389

The movement in which we finally realize all "movements" are superficial and hold us back as artists.

My diary, desu.

>>8358217
Childhood's End, although it's more about what happens after the aliens have already invaded.

>>8358217
ayy lmao

>>8358091
he's a retard

New Traveller campaign setting probs

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>The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway. As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and tries to get a grip.

Could it get any clearer?

Okay, I'll go through this bit by bit.

>Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity

The emergence of technology. Because superior technology grants an edge, there is an automatic selection exerted through society for better technology. Ergo, "technocapital singularity."

Also see: "Darwin Among the Machines"
http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-ButFir-t1-g1-t1-g1-t4-body.html

>renaissance rationalitization

Science.

>oceanic navigation

International trade.

>lock into commoditization take-off

All the world's resources (including human labor) are re-assigned value according to its place within the above.

>Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order

See directly above.

>auto-sophisticating machine runaway

All (pretense of) human control is thrown into the trash. The economy molds the world to its own ends.

>As markets learn to manufacture intelligence

Read as: replace human input.

>politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and tries to get a grip

High-IQ monkeys chimp out.

In short: the world has been taken over by an alien intelligence (capitalism) and you are, at best, a node in the China brain.

tl;dr

>Garbage time is running out.

Can what is playing you make it to level-2?

lmfao at that graph...what a mess

>>8358041

No, but they aren't as amazing as their marketing says they are. "Most accurate translation" my ass.

>>8358041
there is better

>>8357973
You want a general view, or to go into things that specifically interest you?
As a general thing, you can try Invitation to Sociology by Peter Berger which is quite a classic

>>8358039
I haven't read enough to focus on something specific, but I'm interested in macro theory in general. How social cohesion works and people's various points of identity in a society, let's say.
I've heard of that book, I'll check it out.

>>8358374
Ok, I'll try to reply to you later tonight about these topics

i like the movie

>>8357877
I'm not sure if I've seen it, but I heard even Thompson praised it. What did you think of the book, anon?

>>8357892
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too weird to live too rare to die?

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>>8357831
>author describes a fart

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>author writes a sex scene between two consenting adults

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>>8358060
>author writes a sex scene where the protagonist is a skilled lover of women
>author is John C. Wright or Patrick Rothfuss