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does lit approve of my next purchases?

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is there any reading similar to this? I'm going mad trying to find something. Has anyone got a recommendation or place to proceed from here? I've read it 3 times now and I still keep going back to it

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>the text is 1/3 of the page
>the footnotes are 2/3 the page
fug

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Would you recommend to read "Portrait of an artist as young men" before reading "Ulysses"?
Is there anything special I need to know beforehand?

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Pic related: I'm really into reading things that are "arcane and or eldrich" the kind of stuff i'm either not supposed to be reading or things that only very little people know about. H.P Lovecraft,Secret Files, truth about the world and people that isn't common knowlege, all right up my alley. I say free/public domain becuase i want it read it from online, buying it would break the immersion for me (yes, i am aware of how dumb that sounds)
Disclaimer: i don't have any problems with religon related suggestion's just please nothing satanic, i siad "stuff i'm not suposed to know" not "stuff that will turn me into a self-centered trashbag"
Bonus Points: any suggestions that are non-fiction and were never ment for simple enjoyment but to ttruly inform the reader

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Are there any writers who actually had skin in the game?

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Does anyone use KJV non-ironically in this day and age?

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Recommend me 5 novels that will make my prose and vocabulary stronger.

Particularly for essay writing.

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Will there ever be another Joyce?

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What is a good novel with the main character having social anxiety disorder (or anything close to it).

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>Tfw I never see H.L. Mencken mentioned on /lit/

I only just found out about him today, browsing Wikiquotes whilst stuck in work, but he seems like a thoroughly based /lit/erati patrician. Which of his works does /lit/ recommend?

>"How did one of America's seemingly great rationalists and modernists come to regard Roosevelt as more worthy of condemnation than Hitler? The answer, on the evidence of this and other studies, is that Mencken was a German nationalist, an insecure small-town petit bourgeois, a childless hypochondriac with what seems on the evidence of these pages to have been a room-temperature libido, an antihumanist as much as an atheist, a man prone to the hyperbole and sensationalism he distrusted in others and not as easy with the modern world and its many temptations and diversions as he liked it to be supposed." - Christopher Hitchens

If you can find yourself on the wrong side of edgy contrarian pseuds like big Chris Hitch, you must have been doing something right.

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Glorious dawi edition

Recommendation
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/

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I really want to become some kind of übermensch. For me that means finding maximum joy in just existing and maximising my chances of continual survival, thusly maximising my total happiness. I also believe this to be the most worthwhile thing to do, it is literally winning at life.

But both those endeavours are hindered by my imperfection and passions. I do not feel perfectly happy at all times and do not strive to fight death at each waking second. Now since this idea should not be new, someone more insightful must have written about it. Can /lit/ recommend some writings?

Also, and this might devalue my whole post in the eyes of the more pretentious of you, I enjoy reading about character who feel the same. One character I enjoy is Anasurimbor Kellhus from the prince of nothing series. Yes, this is technically a waste of time, but my powerlevel is not high enough to not read for pure enjoyment; at this point my sanity is still too fragile to just be productive all the time.

tldr Books with characters or insights relating to overcoming your dependency on external factors for happiness and achieving perfect "discipline" (not the right word because it has associations to forcing yourself, but I hope you get the point)

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can you recommend me books similar to this

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>ctrl+f
>no Stirner thread
But seriously though, while we don't have to talk about how he was right about everything, as an anon who read his Ego in German, I would like to talk different Stirner editions/translations.
What's the go-to English translation/edition? Does everyone shy away from capturing the allusion to Goethe in the introductory 'Ich hab' Mein Sach' auf Nichts gestellt'? Can you even be allowed to post Stirner without German or a sufficiently annotated version?

As for the German edition, I bought the Reclam pretty much without notes to the text and I realise that the Nachwort is a bit dated, it might not be the best.