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>>9897846
like it or not, rupi is one of the voices of the generation.

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The absolute state of modern bookshops

>>9897889
Bought Milk and Honey last week. It's a real mixed bag...

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The Naked Sun by Asimov

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>house of leaves

Gave it a 4/5 in 2012, re-read it and it's a solid 2/5 for me this time around

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On the Heights of Despair by Emil Cioran

>>9897713
Probably the fact that he tears down the entire Western philosophical tradition

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Because of his aphorisms. It makes people really think.

>>9897713
The image of it.

How many people do you think read books from before the invention of photography?

>posting Michel Foucault, known historicist
>believes that culture and society is DETERMINED by material conditions
Lurk more

>>9897617
Spoon feed

>>9897603
look, there are people who like to cut their dicks off, there are people that like to put their dicks in guys butts. No amount of criticizing post-modernism (which has nothing to do with what you're talking about) is going to stop people from doing these things.

Get over it. Go read a book or something.

No but my dick feels strange and I am less likely to get easily stimulated now.
no joke.

yes, they caused me to spell correctly

honestly i should probably try meds

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>>9897346
no all of them are YA tier is not even worse with shit like isekai.
Now kys

>>9897346
Yeah the top one is probably good. Literally the only good anime I've seen so the novels are probably good too.

>>9897353

As someone who was in OP's position a year ago, this. The """best""" books don't come close to even mid-tier American YA.

Ambrose Bierce

>>9897179
/lit/ is a reformist hindu board.

I think.

>>9897179
Did you try google?

>>9897085
>tfw Theory is more interesting than real life

>>9897085
postmodernists gtfo

>>9897100
Post-modernism is theory trying to not be theory

Is not gay if balls dont touch

Life is like a box chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get

>>9897035
"see all time before you, a river rushing, life crashing on the rocks. See all life surround you, look back and it'll pass you, no not the truth, for the truth will surpass you! Scream true, your heart! You wish not to live! For a life this cruel is not worth ending or beginning, and you have yet to see the sea! so stand on these rocks, these bone crushing cosmic grains, planets to an ant, and dust to the gods, and watch the river run, as it always has, as the wind fills your last lung, and you die at last..."

I'm reading Rimbaud and POund; of course I'm ascended

>>9896846
Buy yourself a pop filter, man

>>9896843
5, if anything.

Levels 6 and Nirvana are Level -1.

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This one is extremely amusing to me for some reason.

>>9896301
Rateyourmusic and discogs are good for music. I only know goodreads for books which is kind of memey but still good

>>9896310
I get all my music from rateyourmusic at this point, i count it as part of fortune

Read everything except what is recommend here.

There would probably be a lot less hate if he stopped having three threads about him every day.
And this is coming from someone who doesn't mind him.

A mix of the the perceived need to keep one's head above the fads of the "common folk," and the tendency for young men to make their devotion to or fascination with new concepts quite annoying and loud, even if the concepts are valuable

He has some useful practical wisdom as you mention and that is it.

His 'philosophy' is pitiful, as are his critiques.

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>>9895844

>>9895844
It's very obvious you're a beginner. You write each line as self contained, neglect to really feel how they read as a whole. Your first two lines hold the rhythm you clearly had in mind to start, but by the (terrible) first line of the second stanza, you've completely dropped it. You need to pay close attention to your syllables, and your lines and stanzas as wholes.

As for the poetry itself, it's very bad; much worse than your form. Very typical, beginner sentiments being expressed here in a very vague sense. Poetry is about concrete details. About images that can be brought to life then built upon. What does an impoverished soul look like? And don't even get me started on an angered gloom. You've got to let go of abstract and work on your concrete images.

Start over from square one, read over some poems as well as tips on how to write them, and try again. Here is a poem I wrote for a prompt thread a little while ago. It's free verse, but really just pay attention to how everything is an image yet is given clear symbolism or motives. This is what poetry should achieve. Also, read Byron, Shakespeare, Dante, Eliot to get a taste.
---
Some great, old kingfisher who skims
along rims of river water,
has left their rod and bait within
the currents which gently wander.

Its plastic worm waves while hanging
sideways from a green and braided line.
Cast unknowingly by meandering
waters with no purpose in mind.

Salmon, carp, and gar swim along
beds of stone which stir the river
to life like a trickling song--
crawfish hide and minnow quiver.

Murky water muddles vision
of smallmouth hunters seeking feed.
Plastic worms may be mistaken
for the sustenance which they need.

In some forgotten, woodland steam,
at night while fishermen will dream,
a fish fights with forgotten bait,
and the standstill reel of its fate.

I'll drop one. This is an untitled modified sonnet I've been working on:

Midway lights flash in summer, spilling
neon down your back. A calliope
plays a funnel cake and kettle corn melody,
bright and meaningless, behind spinning
horses and sideshow tents that pull
up stakes and train away without farewell.

In the morning, I lay awake in bed
staring at white stubble on
the bedroom ceiling. The comforter
smells like my dead grandmother.
I lay my hands on your
impression in the bed,
still warm from last night.
I'm overwhelmed by life's tedium.

Most of the interesting philosophy on political violence is expressly about toppling the existing order by creating a legitimacy crisis in it, or exploiting such a crisis, and/or prepping your own group to replace an illegitimate and weak order. Sorel talks about that, and I think Zizek has a book on violence but I don't know if it's crap.

But I'd recommend you read Baudrillard on the possibility of revolt from the present regime, and whether it's actually ever been accomplished. I'm not saying rebellion is bad if you're living in fucking Saudi Arabia or something, but smashing a modern Western, liberal state has never fixed anything. The bourgeois system has its evils but every attempt to replace it has only resulted in totalitarian hypercharged versions of those evils. Communism and fascism weren't replacements for bourgeois values, they were bourgeois values on steroids.

The Iliad

I'm getting the strong suspicion this guy is a north american political activist interesting in committing acts of violence.