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He has certainly written books.

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>>8273460
That's a fact, not an opinion.

>>8273459

I read Kafka on the Shore and enjoyed the dreaminess to it. Then I read he stated that the book was like a riddle, with a different answer to every individual, requiring many rereads to solve, and thought he was an insufferable hack.

This board is really slow.

Ill just patiently wait :)

A lot of those are memey

just read Ancient Histories and Biographies

Herodotus - The Histories
Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War
Xenophon - Hellenica; Anabasis
Polybius - The Histories
Caesar - The Gallic War; The Civil War
Tacitus - The Histories; Annals; Agricola; Germanica
Suetionius - Lives of the Caesars
Plutarch - Lives of Eminent Romans and Greeks

I know this is a memepost but if someone here is actually looking for some sort of self improvement book; stop. The only way you can get out of your slum is to become passionate about something. You've got to find that part yourself because no one else knows what it will be. Fuck it could be just walking around finding bottle caps or some shit just find something

I encourage you to make posts like this on your blog and not here

>>8273387
this

>>8273387
Not OP, but what if this is one of those parody memes

It's probably a reaction to the 16 hours of studying they're forced to do every day.

>>8273316
The same exact thing happened to me not long ago.

Maybe she just didn't want to talk to you.

she sent me a message yesterday at 1 am to ask if I was home, I ignored it because I was busy but I'm still thinking about it.

This is also after nearly a year of no contact

We met while I was spending a month in Australia. Messaged each other for a few days after I returned to the UK and then it just suddenly stopped. She's always on my mind.

>>8273313
I spent 5 days with her, the 5 best and truest days of my life. When I returned home we kept messaging eachother until she lost interest in me. A year and a half and 2 other girls has passed and Im still thinking daily about her.

>>8273302
I wish I was there.

I'm so lonely.

I can't play video games anymore. I think it's because I'm an adult now.

Because the zeitgeist of entertainment changes?

Notes from Underground because that shit hit way too close to home

dave eggers' a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. jesus christ what an unbearable read

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This one by Banksy.

No such thing

>>8273099
You really don't need any more words than these when talking about gender and sexuality.

the comforts of madness - paul sayer

That's fair enough, but it does mean you're missing out on interesting new things.

>>8273019

This is the dumbest shit I've ever heard. Considering it was ultimately written by Murakami, I should have been expecting that.

How do you define a 'baptism of time'? How would a 'baptism of time' change the fundamental concepts and values of a book? Why does an author need to be dead first? Should we not support authors when they are alive to hear feedback and reap the benefits of their work?

This is like when people start to wank over an artist after they die, it's horseshit to make themselves seem diligent when they're really just intellectually lazy and unwilling to engage content until other people form an idea on it.

I agree with him.

>>8272888
I find his school of life stuff entertaining but in the end he's nothing more than a meme, a second class pop philosopher.

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He's a meme cult leader

For the segment of the population he's trying to reach - people who are open to thought but not willing or able to invest serious study, or who haven't previously been exposed to thought - it's better than nothing.

I saw his documentaries when I was like 12 on pbs and it was the first thing that made me think philosophy was interesting and it made me want to learn more. I'm probably not alone - in that sense he's doing his job well.

There's not enough surviving material to really "get into" Cynicism, but if your curious enough of their ideas filter down into Stoicism, so I'd recommend reading that - Stoics like Epictetus quote Diogenes a lot and use some of his sayings/general life to illustrate points they want to make.

General idea is that human relations are inauthentic, and that we should instead live according to nature. Stoics expanded on the last part to be less "eschewing social customs" and more "understand how the world works and bear no illusions about it".

Anyway that's my take, I'm by no means a scholar in this regard I focused on Plato and Aristotle, but hope this helps!

>>8272883

There is no way that plato cup story is real. That's too fucking gold.

>>8272883
He was autistic

How many fart jokes have been made at his expense?

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>>8272863

>>8272863
I assume all of it is shit because he is fat and ugly and thus must be a man of weak character and spirit.

>>8272850
He was always just an attention-whoring memer. The publishing industry artificially created the hype behind him.

>>8272850
alright with glimps of brilliance

>>8272850
can you at least first use the archive next time?

Because you didn't understand it.

>>8272830
>tfw I still imagine Odysseus as my high school english teacher

>>8272830
Because the Iliad appeals more the contemporary notion of the shunned, ostracized (anti-)hero. And you probably don't have a family so you have no idea what the yearning for home would feel like after a long absence.

For me personally, Iliad was far more appealing because of the topic of death and the human condition. It also yielded more insight in a society so distant from our own, not merely because of the shame society which is so different from our own guilt society. But also because of the inherent futility of life and how we try and give meaning to this brief time on earth that we have before we descend into obscurity.

>>8272815
yes

>>8272815
no

>>8272815
maybe