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Just got done reading pic related, what are the best books on serial killers and/or psychopaths?
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>>8149527
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NotOp.
What fiction books are about fucked crimes with well detalled murder scenes?
Like Hannibal series...
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>>8149647
>Like Hannibal series
Damn anon that was my answer. Do you see?
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He's a Marxist, right?
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I don't know that he'd adhere to any specific school of thought but he is certainly left-leaning/critical of capitalism.
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Is determinism disproved by quantum mechanics? If there is an inherent probability distribution to the universe, can there really be any certainty with regard to the unfolding of events? How is this connected to free will?
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>>8149418
uh oh
it's a "/lit/ tries to do science" thread
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>>8149425
something hangin out of her nose
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>>8149418
hidden variable theories have not been ruled out. so no.
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Essential music journalism reads? Lester Bangs was pretty /lit/.
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Lester Bangs didn't exist.
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>>8149404
england's dreaming by jon savage
that one by greil marcus about americana. forgot the name
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I've been reading:
England's Hidden Reverse, by David Keenan, which is exceptional
& Wreckers of Civilization, which is good but less actively engaging.
I don't know if either of them necessarily count as "journalism," but EHR definitely does, to my mind, more so than WoC.
You might consider subscribing to the Wire and looking through its digital archives. They're the only decent source of music journalism anymore. Tinymixtapes is okay if you can put up with their overwhelming avant-teen pretensions.
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we're my parents illiterate?
they always pronounced it stein.
wtf is this shit?
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>>8149340
>we're my parents illiterate
judging by you probably
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>>8149359
I don't get it
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>>8149340
People see this spelling and think it's a radical change from what they remember from their childhood. In reality, it's not "barren-stain," it's "burn-steen" in most American accents.
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dude wtf is a palindrome
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>>8149336
no it isn't dude
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>>8149336
Madam, I'm Adam
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Considering his contributions to literature, do you think he was justified to make those scathing criticisms about authors like Conrad, Faulkner, and Dostoyevsky?
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>>8149332
His criticism was a proto meme
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>>8149332
I respect him for having his own opinion and criterion for literary judgement, even if I often disagree with it. Far better than the mass of people who are slaves to the tastes of others.
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>>8149332
everybody can have their personal opinion regardless if they made a contribution to the literature or not
What book are you getting your dad for Father's day /lit/?
My dad and step dad are both fairly religious. I was thinking about getting them each a copy of pic related
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I got my dad Post Office by Bukowski. My dad was a mailman and he got a huge kick out of the book.
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I don't think my dad has read a novel in his life.
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My dad is borderline illiterate.
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I`m looking for a book like Majora's Mask.
>Dark atmosphere
>Looming threat of death
>Subtle but growing discord
>Dissolution of moral values
>Not everyone can be helped
>Existential loneliness
>Eternal recurrence
>Grief and death
I consider those to be some of the themes presented in Majora's Mask. What bookshould portray these themes?
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>>8149002
Pic related
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Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Mis.
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>>8149002
The Fault In Our Stars
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What's the most epic novel you've ever read? That one you goosebumps just by remembering it
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>>8148943
The Fault in Our Stars
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>>8149045
Epic!
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>>8149068
LMAO. Shitposters aren't welcome here either, quit shitting up the board or actually post about fucking books.
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I ordered these books. Did I do good?
Recently ordered books
The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
Plath, Sylvia
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Penguin Classics)
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Apocalypse Culture
Parfrey, Adam
The Journal of Albion Moonlight (New Directions Paperbook)
Kenneth Patchen
La-Bas (Down There)
Huysmans, Joris K.
Tales of Ordinary Madness
Charles Bukowski
Moravagine (New York Review Books Classics)
Cendrars, Blaise
Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
Emily Brontë
Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets, No. 4)
Ginsberg, Allen
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
Samuel Beckett
Junky: The Definitive Text of "Junk"
Burroughs, William S.
The Temptation to Exist
Cioran, E. M.
The Birth of Tragedy (Dover Thrift Editions)
Friedrich Nietzsche
A Brief History of Western Philosophy
Kenny, Sir Anthony
The Story of Philosophy (Touchstone Books) (Touchstone Books (Paperback))
Durant, WillThe Norton Anthology of Poetry
Allison, Alexander W.
The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority (Dover Books on Western Philosophy)
Stirner, Max
The Norton anthology of modern poetry,
Ellmann, Richard
2666: A Novel
Roberto Bolano
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary exerpts
Plath, Sylvia
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Don't ever make a thread like this again.
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>>8148727
>The Norton anthology of modern poetry
Would have been better off with the English poetry anthology unless you already have something similar
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What are some books that will help me to become as independently-minded as possible, when it comes to formulating viewpoints/arguments/etc?
I'm tired of just repeating what other people say because I like the sound of it, but I don't think I have the confidence/intelligence to conclude things for myself.
I remember reading about Foucault who, after having read Nietzsche, pretty much left his job/etc without a second thought to pursue his own ends. That's the sort of intellectual get-up-and-go I'd like.
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Read Aristotle. He'll teach you the tools.
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>>8148720
Do you not see the irony in asking for a book that will tell you how to think for yourself
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>>8148720
Well you can do what Foucault did and read Nietzsche lol. Bataille is good too, but that might take you too far.
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why is this allowed
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Capitalism. Freedom. People make what people are going to buy.
Don't like it? Jerk off to a Chomsky lecture or something.
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because it's hilarious
I saw pic related at the book store today. It gave me a chuckle knowing that someone like you would get rustled seeing it
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>>8148697
Why shouldn't it be? They're trying to get kids into classics by giving them wacky covers. There's nothing wrong with that. It's not like those godawful shakespeare emoji books.
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>tfw just played with my brother's vive virtual reality headset thing and now that it's off everything seems unreal
what do i read to get away from this chaotic feeling i have?
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>>8148659
What if you're being driven by a consciousness somewhere else, in a location you can never travel?
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>>8148669
what
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>>8148659
This man...in my country, he is everything.
He also beats the shit out of kids, though.
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Is her philosophy worth reading, /lit/? Is she some sort of radical capitalism advocate?
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Mostly anti collectivism. This being the source of all evil
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Are you serious? She literally doesn't even do philosophy and is easily disproven on all points.
I could debunk every thing she said, but that would be too easy. In fact, the only thing she ever got right was atheism, but she didn't even understand that atheism is necessarily humanistic.
What a joke.
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>>8148607
>Is she some sort of radical capitalism advocate?
she's an autism advocate who believes the state should have a monopoly on force