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>hairdresser: so what do you want
>wittgenstein: I want the flat top
>hairdresser: got you senpai
he sliced it off with one swipe of his katana

>>8063767
Start with A.J. Ayer - "Language, Truth, and Logic".

No it isn't. That book assumes you've read his prior work.

Best place to start is a contemporary introduction to Philosophy of Language and its history, which will introduce you to a broad range of theories, Wittgenstein's among them (yes, PI was a theory of language despite what some might say; if you talk about something and state that that something is such-and-such then you're basically introducing a theory), concerning the relation between language and the world. Then you can dip into either Tractatus or PI or both. Both books are cryptic as hell so you might as well read some secondary literature first; someone like Hacker will suffice.

how many scatological passages does it contain?

>>8063561
Don't you realize that we hate all books here?

>>8063561
One of my all time favorite books!

It has beautiful prose, but /lit/ probably dislikes its message about vilifying a down-to-earth hedonistic lifestyle.

take a leap of faith and fuck off to /soc/

nice hair anon

>>8063422
get some vitamin E you greasy faggot

how is it? everyone here always says it's terrible

>Aomame spends an entire fall locked in an apartment, where the book becomes her only entertainment. Aomame's days are spent eating, sleeping, working out, staring off the balcony to the city below and the moon above, and slowly reading through Lost Time.

is it as comfy as it sounds?

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It's been a while since I've read a book. So, I just want to read a classic that's funny and enjoyable the whole way through.

>>8063321
I haven't seen much wrong, what threads do you think should go?

>>8063325
>>8063321

>>8063172
>>8060208
>>8062882
>>8063336

>>8063325
Just a few. Not OP, btw.

>>8063179
That's a cool picture you have there, lad. Mind if I save it?

>>8063200
you don't want that one. digging the sword into the ground like that would dull the blade.

>>8063179
Editors, especially freelance editors, are a meme. You honestly don't need one. Just proofread your shit a few times and make some changes wherever you think they're necessary. It takes a while to develop a sense for this sort of thing, but after editing a 200+ page book of your own a few times you'll more or less be able to do any editor's job on your own.

"help me"
"i can't"
"why"
"i need help myself"
"help me then help yourself"
"okay"
"huuuupmhhhh"
"..."

>>8063169
hold on, i'm melting into the floor.

oh, that's okay, i am too.

hey, i have some candy, want some?

sure.

>>8063169
these women look like
sandals and they are melting
why are they melting?

how did you miss the fucking title

>>8063084
Leelo en el idioma original maldito idiota, cuan dificil es aprender otro lenguaje?

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>>8063107
>judging a book by its cover

>>8062940
no its fucking boring garbage about spitting and riding horses

its not in the canon. it's supermarket genre drivel tier. they're desperately trying to secure a deal to make a movie out of it so they can sell more copies to same type of people who buy dan brown books.

>>8062952
>>8062963
These.

Fuck Corncob Toritillas YeCarthy.

I don't really care.

literature is literature. it's not meant to be good, it's meant to be words

a ghostwriter wrote them a pulpy sci-fi YA novel that flopped, so no. Embarassing trash.
>inb4 they'll be fine, but of course they will

Guys? Anyone?

>>8062308
Most people here only reads vapid shit like IJ, Pynchon and Bolaño, anon. Sorry.

>>8062162
ehr, I might get to it, I was intrigued when I skimmed through the first pages once when wasting some time at the Uni library

>>8062052
Grow the fuck up.
Charles worked in a fucking post office for 10 years before someone actually cared about anything he wrote of cause he's going to be a bitter cunt about employment.

>counting the time on a crisis
>being able to do it correctly

nah, youre just pretending.

I'm tired of hearing about this sort of self-pitying, melancholic drivel. There are so many ways to achieve the things that you want, yet you come here to whine about your life, about how everything would've been so much better if you had made a different choice somewhere. Just because it seems easy to shit out some app and sell it to Microsoft for $6B doesn't mean you would've done that. You probably would've been watching a Warren Buffet interview, wondering why you hadn't gone into finance instead. It doesn't matter what you do, but don't wallow over 'what could've been'. Making a choice and sticking with it will get you to where you want to be in a much swifter and more reliable fashion. Don't you see the opportunities you have? You're in one of the highest paying industries in the world, you've got the financial stability to develop personal interests, and you're in an excellent position to generate plenty of capital for any start-up ideas you might have, to hire programmers that are better than you ever would've been, and to end up with a much better product compared to when you would have done it all yourself. If you people would just stop whining for one moment, and realize that passivity and self-reflection is entirely detrimental to positive personal development, that making a bad choice and being persistent with it is very often better than making no choice at all, then all you fuckers would be much happier, much richer, and much less prone to shit all over /lit/ with your self-centred bullshit.

>>8061813

Very much. His conversations with Geir are top-tier.

he was great as Aragon in Lord of the Rings

>>8061813
looks cute, would pet

>>8061790
>Greene
>Level 1
If they mean John Greene then the creator of this chart is a faggot, John Greene is trash

>translated by P&V

>>8063459
It's Graham Greene you illiterate retarded faggot

this is really honestly emberassing, disregard it completely op, i really don't mean to troll

They did it as a joke, these are all meme authors (although some of them definitely are important in american literature).
Just look into famous or acclaimed or canonical american writers, find a book that interests you and read it - if you find it too difficult move onto something that is easier and then return the previous work later. You don't need all these flowcharts to tell you exactly what to read, just use them as a way to find similar works to the ones you enjoy.

Isn't Infinite Jest post-pomo ?