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>>8161767
My diary, to be honst.

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>>8161767
Strong Curves by Bret Contreras

Btw Puritanical values have nothing to do with nude bans on SFW boards. There are plenty or red boards where you can drop your porn folder. Its often said that your image should never be more interesting than your post, as it causes derailment to the thread. Nothing productive gets done with 200+ replies spouting "who's this semen demon" and "sauce pls"

>>8161699
>these are my friends Wojack the feel man and Pepe the frog man XDDD

Go back to /r9k/

>>>/r9k/

Also, your premise is dog shit

>>8161720
Sorry

Reading this concept alone somehow emulated the feeling of finishing a book you absolutely hated

DO NOT WASTE ANY MORE OF YOUR TIME ON THIS

poem i'm into, title needs work

>>8161725
suggestions?

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Xenagogue

Meant the indication
Sliver Plume (possible car accidents)
Moist Net,
Trying to count the trees, the mountains, the white onyx step stones, the graves, the trash
Know to not try
Shave the back of your neck to impress yourself
Oh! Sloppy handwriting; practice in correspondence to pretty inmates (reference inmate numbers here)
The men whom paved the tunnels
They call us their names, and think proud.

it's a good book. also, you should take it as a matter of course to ignore what other people say about books before you've even read the first page.

and stop thinking in terms of memes, for chrissakes

>>8161602
*a book

>>8161594
Found it relatable when I was 12, sort of but less so at 14, couldn't finish it again at 18. It's probably worth reading in a lifetime, but I'm sure there is something of more substance by Salinger out there somewhere.

Hating the book because the character isn't relatable is tantamount to meming

You should start by not wanting to be more well read than other people. Comparing yourself to other people is what 99% of the population does that stops them from being so well read, other than reading. Just read and see the book from your own perspective; and if you don't know what that is yet reading can help with that too.

Why do 4channers often have this deep need of comparing themselves to other people and seek to be 'statistically' superior? It's a really sad and juvenile way of thinking

>>8161609
Whats the point if I'm not superior to others?

Still looking for a place to start.

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>>8161552
I fell for the meme

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>>8161571
>not getting the Landmark Herodotus

>>8161575
did the sticky deceive me?

>>8161527
her YouTube= abookutopia

I hope no one reports this for raiding

>>8161532
I don't wanna raid her. just comment and be like "wow cool video sasha your so cute. you should read infinite jest. it follows this dysfunctional teenager is his quirky family! "

Iliad and Odyssey, The Enchiridion, and biographies of great men.

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>>8161430
>someone who is trying to get their shit together and had no positive role models growing up

Always struggled with this. I feel like I've spent my early 20's just trying to make up for my adolescence.

Marcus Aurelius-Meditations

No, i only highlight passages i find important and/or beautiful.

Non-fiction?

I read the part/chapter once, then pick up my notebook and a pen to take notes while skimming what I've just read. When there's secondary material available I read it before the skimming part. It works very well for me.

>>8161301
>dear friends.
We are not your friends you fucking gay cock sucking cucked faggot.
End immediately your sad worthless life.

>>8161220

What? I hear nerds praise the shit of Lovecraft all the time.

Is this bait? Because I'm pretty sure we're both on the internet right now.

>>8161223
Warhammer players aren't people

>>8161087

because her writing is subpar for literary fiction and her philosophy is subpar for philosophy. she tried to combine both and failed tremendously.

she also makes hilary clinton seem less sociopathic by comparison.

People who like her philosophy tend to be people looking for some kind of modernized Carlylian or Nietzschean great man worship for the post-industrial era (the entrepreneur as opposed to the aristocrat or condottiere). Typically Americans, since that's the one holdout of classical libertarianism left in the world. Classical libertarianism is also a cult strongly encouraged by the larger cult of neoclassical economics, which is the religion of the American plutocratic classes.

And just in general, the American obsession with money and the entrepreneurial spirit doesn't translate well across the Atlantic (see Tocqueville). European economic conservatives tend to be pretty staid by plutocratic standards, interested in protecting their class, but not in selling bombastic "REAGANOMICS SOLVES LITERALLY ALL HUMAN PROBLEMS" Bernaysian propaganda to obese consumerist proles. Carlyle-ly inclined guys over in Europe tend to go for more traditional forms of hero worship.

Her writing isn't great, and the ways in which it is not great are pronounced (giant block monologues), so she's easy to mock. But the books are decently stirring if you are into her shit.

She was also an insane cult-leader herself. Whatever values she represents to the entrepreneur-worshipers, she was just kind of a crazy old cunt, and her philosophical system is child's play compared to the real philosophical titans of the 20th century. It's relatively easy for leftists to mock.

Because she's a woman and 95% of the posters here are men.

On the fucking books board? Are you serious?

unfortunately

I have a question. What exactly is the purpose of Merry and Pippin? It's been about 10 years since I've read LotR, and I vaguely recall them doing something actively, but moviewise they do nothing except be present when events take place. Then they're treated with the same reverence that Sam and Frodo are treated with at the end? Bullshit.

Is the only reason they were allowed join the Fellowship because hobbits are sturdy when it comes to the Ring's influence, and they needed a few extra bearers in case Frodo then Sam died?

Bovary is largely superior to Les Mis, à tout point de vue.

Don't call it Les Mis. Don't capitalize les if it isn't the beginning of a sentence. Emma is a MILF.

how is the prose in the translations? The one by flaubert is by lydia davis, and hugo's is translated charles wilbour

>>8160850
good to know
just starting out with french actually, I can read spanish already so hopefully it'll come faster

>>8160724
Why do Muslim invaders have less of a right to the Holy Land than Roman invaders?

>>8160739
Why do Jewish people have more of a right to the holy lands than early neolithic farmers?

>>8160724

There's two important facts that a lot of people seem to conveniently avoid for some reason. The only reason the crusades ended in an arguable stalemate or marginal Christian victory is because the Mongols absolutely fucked the Abbasids. Also the only reason Turks (who for the notice, participated to a very minimal extent in crusading) became powerful is because the Byzantines were fucked by the crusades as well as Venitan assholes

>>8160665
>the jumbled story line is hard to follow

>reading for plot

If you are enjoying the process of reading it

There isn't a test at the end so you don't need to have memorised anything

>>8160669
Part of me feels, what is the point if I can't remember much of the details. I've gathered that Stephen is basically the main character...but everyone else I'm having trouble with.