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>>8161836
You've pretty much nailed how they operate. Which is better depends on where your interests lie. Analytics focus more on specific philosophical problems and you tend to find them working on problems in metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, phil of science, and so on. Continentals tend to focus heavily on the humanistic side of philosophy, concerned with ethics, aesthetics, history, ideology, etc. There is certainly crossover and often you may find them working on the same problems in different ways. Many take the distinction to be a historical anachronism at this point. But this is generally how it breaks down.

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dude, A=A lmao so deep

>>8161836

Since I'm human and I have feelings as well as opinions and love the aesthetic grandeur of a grandiose statement, I'll go with continental philosophy.
More fulfilling.
I'll leave the autists with their silly approximations.

>>8161626
I just thought it was really boring and uneventful. it also wasn't hard. why do people say it's hard? I just wrote down characters names and there relations and it even goes into italics when the time changes. I wish it didn't. but yeah he's shit.

>>8161626
Let's turn it into an 'OP hate thread' instead.

>>8161626
You're a fucking faggot

>>8161626
>Elder von Corncob
This guy needs to stick a corncob up his ass

>>8161157
Mein Kampf
Atlas Shrugged
Art of the Deal
Ride the Tiger
Turner Diaries

>>8161157
Sorry, you can't post that without dubs

>>8161172
>>>/b/

the game xDDD

>Obfuscation is good.
>Simplification is easy.

I like when textbooks didn't pull their punches. I always go for older textbooks when learning a subject, because the new ones are designed for spoiled homos who can't read more than 12 pages a day if it doesn't have pretty pictures.

>>8161040
Yes. Modern language education is directed towards average idiots who will never learn a language no matter what they do.

By paying attention and ignoring what people say. A lot of ASoIF is adequately, if unexceptionally, written; a lot of the Great Gatsby is poorly, however elaborately, written.

>>8160928
>The Great Gatsby is poorly written

Oh, come on

>>8160919
It's something you recognize immediately if you have any understanding of language. Someone will post that passage from one of the ASoIaF books about Dany shitting in the field. Look at that and you will understand what bad writing is.

Poor writing can also have to do with the plot, but that doesn't seem to be what you're talking about.

Rating art on a numerical scale is stupid.

But Kafka wrote some good stuff

He's slightly overrated IMO, but still very, very good.

Make sure you check out The Judgement.

You betcha I rate him!
I rate him apple out of vermin.

>>8160416
applying for autismbux is about your best bet

blackmail notes.

>>8160416
kill yourself

>>8160294
yes

>>8160294
there's a chart somewhere.
I see it every once in a while when these threads come up

Black person as in black american? A person from africa? What about a latin american that happens to have dark skin? What the fuck did she even mean?

>>8160291
Pretty much all of Titus Andronicus.

Literally all of fiction because it was needlessly created for your enjoyment.

>>8160314

That's not a reason. I doubt they were thinking of me at all

>>8159686
book of disquiet

>>8159686
maybe Huxley's The Island

Probably asoiaf desu.

Or maybe the first half of ride the tiger where he pretends he understands philosophy. He should have just said feels>reals and saved 140/240 pages

Or Fahrenheit 451 fuck that turd

>>8159312
He's published more than you have friendo.

I'd say he's more qualified to talk about literature than 95% of this board at least.

>>8159312
I don't like to see non-whites published either.

>>8159345
>black
>more qualified to talk about literature than whites

You're on the wrong board, sweetheart.

Read the motherfucking sticky

>>8151147
Yeah, there's a poetry chart, but it tells me nothing about what I might like. I am also a big book buyer, I often buy a book or two that's recommended to me every time I make a thread on this forum.

>>8151151
>regularly making rec begging threads
looks like it's time to commit suicide

the only good poems which he wrote it's those about jelicle cats and pollicle dogs

>>8164185
Yes it is totally worth getting, just skip the shorter poems and read prufrock and the waste land along with a couple of the others. The ones about Sweeney are pretty anti-semitic, so skip them too, if you really are that afraid of the right wing.

Although, surely if you hate the right wing wouldn't you want to read the right-wing poems to 'know your enemy.' You can't really hate a whole political ideology but not read the literature. If you hated religion you wouldn't not read The Bible or The Koran would you?

I say buy it and read all the poems.

>>8164185
Is that the chart which has Blake there lmao? That one's trash.

Eliot is not really concerned with politics in his poetry. He's never didactic. His aesthetic is conservative, but in an abstract civilisational way.

I can't say what you'd like or not, but considering Eliot is probably the most-read English poet of the 20th century, millions of people who aren't right-wing are able to perfectly enjoy his poetry.

>>8164173
I get most of my books from gen.lib.rus. ec

Have you considered using an adblocker?
Many of the oneclick hosters on mobilism are still shit with an adblocker, except maybe zippyshare which doesn't hide the download button in a million other download buttons.

I miss megaupload.

(kat.cr sometimes works well for me too - gen.lib.whatever recently has several broken mirrors for each book, only [1] works but is slow)

>>8164214
i use ublock origin, but i'm not worried about the buttons not working; i'm worried about the fuckers sneaking malware through just because i clicked on a shitty link.

>>8164204
>I get most of my books from gen.lib.rus. ec


> searches for bruce sterling
> twenty thousand results from guys named bruce or sterling
> searches for "bruce sterling"
> two dozen results, most in italian
> searches for "bruce sterling" english
> search engine shits itself

i guess you get what you pay for, except last time i tried to buy ebooks online i got "we don't sell ebooks outside the US" from six different places, including amazon

>>8164021
it's nonsense
are you sure you translated right?

>>8164037
The original line is in English and it's that one, "Came as far as saw me". I'm trying to translate it into my language.

I've found some links that might shed some light:

http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/have-you-come-far.2633419/

https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110511050630AAAABw8

But I'm still lost.

>>8164039
Can you post the song? Context might help.