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Yeah I'm reading the dialogues right now and Socrates is a fucking dumbass

>>8077238
some of the arguments are so fucking ridiculous.

>wisdom is a virtue
>doctors are wise but they do not compete with other doctors
>unjust people compete with other unjust people
>therefore injustice is not virtuous

something along those lines. it was a convoluted mess.

>>8077198
So many of these on this board. People who think Aristotle and Aquinas actually solved anything beyond a shadow of a doubt are the absolute worst.

Juvenile

"i would prefer not to"

not even a single meme. What am I supposed to do with this shit?

>>8077106
Vonnegut lived like a coward, wrote like a coward, and died a coward.

Books with metaphors and allegories are a waste of time.
You can interpret it however you want, some people like to circlejerk about that shit but in my opinion it's just pointless

please god delete this thread

>that kindle 9.7"
When they'll remake a Kindle that can read PDFs properly?

I like to own physical copies of my favorite books tho

>>8077108
yeah, all shitposting aside i get this.

>Prisoners of the water drops, we are only perpetual animals. We run in cities, noiseless, and the enchanted posters don' t touch us anymore. What are these fragile enthusiasms for, these dried up jumps of joy? We know now nothing but the dead lights; we look at the faces; and we sigh from pleasure. Our mouths are dryer than the lost pages; our eyes turn to no aim, hopeless.

>There is nothing more than the cafes where we reunite to drink refreshing drinks, these diluted alcohols and the table, more gooey than those sidewalks where fell our dead shadows from yesterday.

>Sometimes the wind engulfs us with its big cold hands and ties us to the trees the sun cuts out. Together we all laugh, we sing, but no longer feel its heart beat. Fever leaves us.

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>open book
>"Chapter 1"

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>book makes the first letter of every chapter huge and ornate

>open book

>its a page

>its made of paper

>close the book

>burn

>mfw fiance and I debated whether or not it was JAY ARR or Junior

what confirms this tho?

jay on ar?

it's pronounced "janovelr" pleb

>>8076832
Totally agree. The movie in particular did a much better job of giving all the dwarfves personalities, as opposed to just disappearing into a void whenever Bilbo didn't need them

>>8076832
>>8077562

>millennials

>>8076832
>>8077562

Not only are you faggots, you're both retarded faggots.

Down on the west coast
I get this feeling like it all could happen
That's why I'm leaving you
For the moment, you for the moment
Boy blue, yeah you

It's getting harder to show it
I'm feeling hot to the touch
You say you miss me
And I always say I miss you so much
Something keeps me real cold
I'm alive, I'm a lush
Your love, your love, your love

I can see my baby swinging
His Parliament's on fire when his hands are up
On the balcony and I'm singing
Ooh baby, ooh baby, I'm in love

I go for minimal electronic, ambient, and any jazz that isn't my bonkers free jazz stuff while i read

but i prefer quiet

>>8076828
I really enjoy ambient music/witch house. Wonder/Wander and Halfaxa are some of my go to albums.

>>8076812
His cue card

the clock to see how many more hours of suffering he has until he's paid

He's trying to find out where the vending machine is. He needs a Mountain Dew stat.

>>8076806
>muh reddit/tumblr
The target audience was children you retard.

Neither Reddit or tumblr existed when Harry Potter was published.

It's just a kids book. Kids loved it when they were young, and that love swept them up and made them think it was the best thing ever. If you have no nostalgia for it, and you're an adult, there's little chance you'll enjoy it. A friend gifted me the books in high school, and I couldn't get through 5 pages. It's obviously a kids book.

>>8076806
It's literally a fucking children's book, however you didn't realise this before reading it I have no idea but that's the only concerning thing in your entire anecdote.

The primary and realistically only reason it is so popular because of the nostalgia everyone has including Reddit tumblr and even this subreddit because Rowling tapped into the psyche of the child really well and in her latter books the romantic hooks of the teenager

>114 pages
I will read one page and come back, it better be good you piece of shit

>>8076793
>a large story I've begun assembling for my senior year of high school
>for my senior year of high school
No.

>>8076809
Ok I'm back, sounds like juvenile shit. The 'audio' shit at the beginning is copy pasted from V.

On the Road was the most teenager book i've tried to read in a long time and gave up.

Also please start with Junky and Queer before going into Naked Lunch

>>8076774
What do you mean "teenage book"? That it's edgy and masterbatory? Because that's what I'd been led to believe about Kerouac, but Big Sur seemed almost the opposite of that. It seemed like a humble description of a lifestyle that could easily be romanticized. But I guess that is the later book after he had matured so maybe you're right, but I'll see.

And I already have Naked Lunch so too late

>>8076786
On the Road is just that generic teenage tale of finding yourself and doing what you want and just driving around like a listless loser. The people who loved Boyhood are the same people who will and do like On the Road. The character's names are trash, the plot is real sleepy, and there's just not much there going for it. Stick to his poetry.

You're not going to understand Naked Lunch anyway, but y'know if you read the two prior, at least you'll have the context that this guy is coming from to better step up to the plate

So this sounds normal to you:

I've read the books of Shakespeare and Rimbaud

>>8076682
they wrote poems though

>>8076686
Rekt.

le btfo le REKT EKS DEE EKS DEE EKS DEE EKS DE LELELELELLELELELELELELELELE EPIC MEME FOR THE WIN U MSAD BROXD U MADE U FKIN MAD BRO XD XD XD XD??

>“the most consciously-patterned and richly-textured prose that any Irishman has written in this century, except Beckett and Joyce.”
fuckers always forget about flann o'brien

>>8076648
If Joyce was so great why didn't he write in Irish?