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>>8309604
His prose isn't great but calling it shit is a bit exaggerated

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Today I finished 'do androids dream of electric sheep' and I had the exact same impression. I thoroughly enjoyed the underlying sociocultural and philosophical stuff and the mise en scene in general, but his style and especially dialogues are a bit forced and underwhelming. idk, am i crazy?

fucking kek. Just publish it, it will help you realize no one cares and your "unpopular opinions" were well known and shit to begin with.
Good luck, OP.

>that i think society should take notice of

geeze man

Everytime you read a frogpost you die a little.

Read Plato, my man

>>8309505
>http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-nonfiction/

those are some weirdo lists. But I don't know how you'd ever create a 100 top non-fiction list.

I'd disregard the reader's list, looks like trolls managed to subvert it.

The only books that are on there that I really dig are the Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Ways of Seeing and the Autobiography of Malcolm X

shit lists. the oe on the left has a couple of decent ones tho.

>scientology
>2nd place

lel

you suck

Dick sucks

>>8309198
no it doesn't

>>8309175
well yeah, duh

>>8309175

If you ever see a phrase like that on the front of abook never, I repeat, never read it.

>Don't judge a book by it's cover

Fuck off

i have no hands and i must shitpost

>>8309143
For Buddhism, read the Diamond and the Heart Sutras. For Hinduism, start with the Bhagavad Gita. Those are the necessary foundational texts for those two traditions, but there are tons more after them.

>>8309143
The Aryans came from Central Asia and settled in northern India between the Indus and Ganges rivers sometime in the 2nd millenium BC, bringing with them a religious practice based around rituals like sacrifice, fire purification and doing drugs. The hymns and mantras from this religion survive in the Vedas. Eventually, around 600BC, this Vedic religion became refined and developed into a compilation of philosophical texts called the Upanishads, which became the core of Hindu philosophy. Around this period (the same time as le Greeks begin doing philosophy also), people start questioning the traditional caste system. The Buddha comes along and breaks with mainstream Hinduism with his idea of escaping suffering through detatchment (obviously simplifying). Heterodox schools like the Buddhists, the Jains and others start gaining ground up to the birth of Christ. Hinduism adapts by creating works like the Bhagavad Gita and codifying a "classical Hinduism", after this Buddhism goes into decline and instead spreads outside of India into Tibet, SE Asia and China/Japan, each merging with the local traditions there and developing the 3 main schools of Buddhism that survive today.
Theravada: likely the most "pure" school,
Mahayana: Buddhism taking on a *lot* of influence from local mythologies and Taoism
Vajrayana: the form of Mahayana that took hold in Tibet, weirdly esotericist and involving stuff like achieving superpowers

Taoism is basically a philosophy that came out of traditional Chinese folk religion.

>>8309366
The Bhagavad Gita is superb. Easily the best religious/spiritual book I've ever read.

Unfettered Mind

Constance Garnett

I read the Maude translation of Anna Karenina and loved the prose. I would recommend that, and it comes Tolstoy approved.

fell for the meme too and now im minoring in russian. gonna start the language classes in a little over a month.

i think the fascination started when i was 16 and played stalker then read roadside picnic

stay strong comrade

>>8309117

no book has so confidently advertised as a virtue its authors' illiteracy.

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>>8309127
Stay mad. Lmao, look at this.

>>8309117
Nice bait. That book is absolute autism
>>8309151
Start with the Greeks

anon- Hi Socrates, I'm a frogposter
Socrates- Go away

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end my life famalam

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>>8309079
>transported to ancient Greece
>oh shit I don't know which on is Socrates
>walk up to the oldest dude there, that's probably scrotes
>shit I don't know Greek
>try to argue through charades
>get arrested
>I'm a slave now
>Socrates walks in
>starts pounding my boipucci
>mfw

Clean water ain't red, OP.

>>8309074
t. Globalist

>>8309063
You keep thinking about it after you have read it.

>>8309032
Start with the greeks

>>8309032
Since you understand what makes a great writer and what makes a shitty writer you should be able to appreciate deeper works, instead of "cheap" fiction. However, "cheap" fiction can be entertaining as well from time to time, but I don't consider that "reading". More like time-passing.
It's the same with music. You may listen to a shitty pop album while cooking, but it's not really like closing your eyes, being concentrated and listening to a full jazz album. It's not active music listening, it's 100% passive.
The same goes with reading. Reading passively a "cheap" fiction book's good, but it's not really active reading and as a result you aren't used to actively reading and can't really appreciate a deeper book when it's the time to read it.

>>8309032

you can read fiction which requires no exertion, just don't think that you're better than people who only watch television or play video games. nobody judges you for reading normie-books, but they really don't better you in any way.

most people I think start reading at the behest of some 'existential crisis' or other. Good literature more often than not serves as a sort of consolation for having lived. Like: "yeah this pretty much sucked for us as well and in much the same way only it was five hundred, a thousand, four thousand years ago."

I always recommend weird writers to people who want to get into proper literature-- Franz Kafka's short stories (they are insanely short) or something like Notes from Underground

why am I not allowed to read YA when I am a YA

>>8309031
It never gets much deeper.

>>8309042
YA isn't for young adults. It's called that to make the children and teenagers who read it feel more mature.

>>8308947
>Anything good or even redeemable
>SHV
No

>>8308947
that's pretty good. What book anon?

>>8308947
Only part of the book I found to be likeable tbhfam.
That and the part with the horses being driven by the men beyond exhaustion with bleeding mouths and cracked hooves.

The rest is smug mumbling.

also no, that's not the best paragraph

Even if he said it, I don't think he believed it. I remember once hearing that John Lennon called Kubrick to see if they wanted to collaborate on an adaptation of Lord of the Rings and Kubrick dismissed the idea because he considered the trilogy unfilmable.

clearly no

>>8308915
That was probably just a polite rejection.

>>8308867
Chuck Tingle Michael Wood and Roberto Pinchas probably do.

link us guv

>>8308867
Shill your book for us OP.