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Descartes is a thinker's thinker.

>>8307599
Because you're French?

Anyway, the correct answer is Sam Harris.

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>>8307599
>>8307604
Both wrong!

Obvi Richard Rorty

>>8307557
>BL
Whoa

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the west beat them to it anon

>>8307570
Everytime I am reminded of the existence of that bastardization the gap in my soul gets a little wider and a little harder to close

Don't worry, I didn't start reading seriously until I was 23. I started simple, reading pleb fiction then I got interested in comparative mythology and I started the Greeks after that

>>8307532
It's not too late to become well-read, right? I genuinely want to become a bookworm.

I won't start reading seriously until I'm 63. For now it's wet n' wild baby!

>>8307464
It varies from book to book. I took a couple of breaks from GR and Mason & Dixon but I read Ulysses pretty much in one shot.

>>8307464
>Anyone else need to sometimes put the Big Novels down for a short period just to "recharge", so to speak?
no

>>8307471
Thanks, I read GR almost a decade ago and I remember reading that book in the weirdest way possible. It took me a few months, and I'd be rereading certain chapters over-and-over like the Major Marvy chases, Franz Pokler, Lyle Bland and the masonic pinball whatever, Byron the Bulb, until I finally finished. (I was 19 and pretty much smoking pot all the time, which, to be honest, kinda helped...)

And I actually thought about M&D in relation to Ulysses, because M&D has many, relatively short chapters, while Ulysses has a handful of very long episodes, and I kinda read it "in one shot", too.

>>8307402
Extremely high-functioning autism.

People mistake a lack of charisma for being wrong.

good goyim

>>8307406
Specifically, what's he wrong about in your view?

>inb4 everything

I would not discourage you from seeking out your answer in the sticky.

>>8307388
Well I seeked and nothing was there.

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>Well I seeked
Actually you 'sought'.

Have you considered asking the untermensch over on /pol/ for some of their le redpill recommendations?

Hunter s. Thompson. Not even memeing.

>>8307438
Agreed

>>8307311
Harry Crews.

Shutup and read Gaddis already

Have you tried not being a little bitch?

>>8307314
I have, his writing does not strike me as anything I would have liked to write.

>steals shamelessly from English and French history
>is originaler than le tolkien
> makes conventional use of tropes in an especially tedious way
>"is creative"

congrats you outted yourself as a pseud

Martin himself cites Tolkien as being one of his primary influences for A Song of Ice and Fire, actually. Tolkien was a legitimate scholar, who invented entire languages for his works. To say that Martin is "more unique" is missing the love letter that his fantasy works are to Tolkien in the first place. Not to mention what the previous poster said about many of the aspects and names from Martin's stories being taken straight from the history books.

>>8307377
as a scholar, tolkien had a quiet career, doing much, but nothing overwhelmingly groundbreaking. he was brilliant, but not a genius. the invention of languages gimmick is going to be cheapened in the near future. a computer can generate a full lexicon in a fraction of the time if takes a human.

>>8307206

“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.” - Virginia Woolf

>>8307238
Fuck that

>>8307206
Same actually. I read one English book and one French or Japanese book at any given time. I open random Epictetus Discourses as well.

Another subdivision I make, is that I can only do one "project" book at a time.

>>8307199
>is he the best science fiction writer?
No
>or is he famous for withholding the fact that his writing is science fiction
No

He's famous for being the founder of Scientology; for being a con-artist; for being a writer of junk sci-fi; and for being a pederast - in that order.

>>8307199
No he is a shitty writer but I really admire his narcissistic temerity. I wish I had some of that spirit.

>>8307239
are you saying lord xenu isn't real?

Tao Te Ching

>>8307186
The Intelligent Investor

They have a board for that, it's at /his/

Not that anyone cares, or indeed knows what "literature" means (it doesn't mean "books")

Anyway, I just finished with Grayling's "Among the Dead Cities" and can't recommend it enough. It can be a bit preachy (and he does compare the bombing of Dresden, morally, with 9/11 so prepare yourself for a few "wew mate" moments) but it's extremely well-researched and worth it alone for the analysis of the RAF bomber command's rationale behind Hamburg and the Pacific theatre discussion.

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Yes, if you go Kaufman's.

If you're feeling unlazy enough to learn another language, I recommend Mandarin Chinese (the way they form their words with their letters is fascinating (Chineasy))

Feck the Greeks

Kaufmann

nietzsche is so universally correct that you can read it in any language and still understand it, even if you don't speak that language

>>8307073
It matters not what you say if no men have ears to hear it.

That is to say there is nothing guaranteeing you will become a good writer. You may be able to become a writer that sells books, but in literature, the reader requires a refined eye to pick out the gems from the mud.

>>8307073
What does being a good writer mean to you? What is it you are trying to learn? Is writing a skill? What would you even write about? What is it that makes you want to write, or be a good writer?

>>8307073
>the 10 000 hours rule
bullshit

>>8307036
sorry I don't go to parties with faggots (actual homosexuals) and girls that have tattoos. too edgy 4 me.

>getting invited to parties

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>tfw I bring my copy of Infinite Jest and read in the corner