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>>8208576

>>8208584
Fuck off, Tony.

>>8208576
not a book, but the movie The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser is about that.

>>8208553
No. Also, most of the people you posted don't tend to do it for prose-fags, unless they're the kind that think something is good based on the sole merit of the quality of the usage of close-third.

If the prose is good they can write whatever they want, it will be good. If the plot is good, I don't think that can carry bad prose. One book with bad prose but good plot I can think of is the Dexter books, but even that got to be too much for me. And maybe even then it wasn't bad prose, just very dumbed-down.

But for real, Sam Hyde is the Sam Hyde of literature

>>8208552
any author that's ever failed

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>>8208531
start with the greeks

>>8208538
/Thread

>>8208538
Should I just dive straight in? Or will that leave me confused?

>>8208508
the concept of flux presupposes differentiation, i dont think Nietsche would agree with kant and schoppy when they said there is no plurality at the noumenal level

>>8208508
bymp

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>>8208524
good post


if you're really interested in identity and difference in Nietzsche, look no further than Deleuze. The will to power is the creation of difference that is not reducible to the identical. The eternal recurrence, for him, expresses precisely this: the universe is a continual productive process, but a process which continually produces only difference. It is not a whole (being), but a process (becoming). So there is only will to power, but it is not identical to itself and is not an essence, being, or whole.

I'd also recommend taking the question of being versus becoming, as Nietzsche did, all the way back to Heraclitus and Parminedes.

>>8208456
Alternatively: other books that do not need software to be read.

>>8208456
bump

its a shit textbook and software, it offers remedial discrete mathematics lessons. go to wikipedia and save your time. stop bumping this, this isn't a place for handouts

>>8208453
He was too beautiful for this world?

People like OP didn't want to be his friend and appreciate him for who he was.

Typical white middle class suburban kid.

i think my diary is a good start desu

We Need To Talk About Kevin
for the Oprah's Book Club crowd

Columbine (Dave Cullen)
for the non-fiction crowd

>>8208438
Just watch Elephant, senpai.

why read a book by a mexican when there a plenty of great American authors?

>>8208434
I really liked 2666 and I'll probably pick up some of his other work at some point. The way that each individual scene in the novel felt realistic but the big picture felt kinda psychelic/unreal was what I enjoyed most. I don't really have much more to add since I'm a pleb.

>>8208469
Quite succinct and a good way to put it, I might steal it.

You should try The Savage Detectives as well, its really good.

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IDS GALLED BIG BENIS :DDDDD

>>8208408
The clock is called Big Ben's
The tower is called St Stephen's Tower

>>8208757

>The tower is called St Stephen's Tower

The Elizabeth Tower

Who is this wigger?

Who is this semen demon?

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>>8208353
/Thread

To answer your question though: He's a nameless, talent-less schmuck who has managed to manoeuvre himself into a position where by he can make a living and prosper financially from other, even more moronic schmucks.

I think the book is mainly about humans having no free will while they believe they do and basically everything builds up on this believe on free will.

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>>8208345

I don't think it's /r9k/ either but that whore got the verbal btfo of a century.

DOSTOEVSKY'D

The protagonist's idea of being a badass is brushing shoulders with his boss.

He's a bitch and it's /r9k/ as fuck.

>sun
>long

dropped it before i even picked it up

>>8208329
What ridiculous ending? What Quetzel is? His nature is set up early, and reinforced often. There is the "owl" attack in the second book, with the writing on the wall four stories up. The obvious bits in his introduction. His zeal at sucking the poison out of that child. And that completely random part where he shows up in the middle of the revolution with a dead person in a shed. And Mucor not being able to see him. Quetzal is half intended as a set up for the sequel, but more its to show how warped the Whorl is, that the pope is literally a demon.The troubles with the Whorl started long ago, but they are compounded by the fact that Quetzel banned sacrificing children. There is irony in this, in that he disallowed it because he wanted more food, but all that extra bodies is what is over heating the Whorl.

>>8208329
Honestly considering dropping OP for his ridiculous post

>>8208225
I don't know, lad. If you need it you need it, I suppose.

>>8208225
It can't be that bad m8, how about viagra?

>>8208225
>he took the pink pill
pleb. pussy is a spook.

death no friends
older brother comes to visit don't even feel enough to greet him
spend all my time alone
my life has been a waste

>>8208242
Kys

>>8208217
Should I be content having died after having lived a meaningless life?
What is meaning?
What is life?
Will I have a concept of contentedness after I have died, or if I suppress that thought for all of my existence, will I never have to confront it and answer?