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I can't read a book unless it looks good.

i hardly ever touch penguin unless it's the only publication or not much information exists on other publications.

Oxford is superior, so is loeb for latin, nyrb for "obscure", everymans library is good for collections which might be hard to find elsewhere, they group up lots of authors short stories, and they look good too.

>>8025921
I can't stand the black gutenburg reprints, but the orange penguins are good, cheap literature. They also makes it easier to read Lolita in public.

What about shitposting on a Chinese bird watching image board

>>8025930
shitposting=accepting your fate
reading=fueling subhumanity and furthering your delusion that you are doing something worthwhile

everyone is laughing at you behind your back when you mention that you read books "for fun"

>>8025920
best screencap of him iv ever seen, well done anon

1984 and Brave new world come to mind. I'm sure there's more, but those are the ones I know.

>>8025910
I've read both of them, probably should've added that to my post but yeah they're great.

I also loved Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Was it the first book you've ever read or something?

what's wrong with the edition on zeno?
http://www.zeno.org/Philosophie/M/Schopenhauer,%20Arthur/Die%20Welt%20als%20Wille%20und%20Vorstellung

>>8025731
Uh, I don't speak German.

>hur dur reading a translation hur dur

bump again

>>8025669
I think I remember hearing that David Lynch is into psychoanalysis and that probably comes up a lot in his films, but I don't know any specifics. Btw, does anyone know what Mulholland Drive was about?

>>8025718
>Btw, does anyone know what Mulholland Drive was about?
A failed actresses descent into insanity. (She's probably really a crack whore though. You can do that and still be insane, how odd.)

>>8025718
Love. That's what lynch say at least.

i have fond memories of reading these as a teenager; I refuse to reread them as a snobby 30-something because I doubt they've aged well

>>8026286
Books dont age anon, you do

Terrible. A waste of my time. The world war I story was the only redeeming factor and Williams completely fucked that up too, unsurprisingly.

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage, easy

Don't. He isn't very good

>>8025642
this or norwegian wood

absolutely not, he's an intellectual of the blandest order, and is only designed to distract from reality with terms obsequious to the most sneering globalists. don't bother reading any of his claptrap. at the worst, his concepts have already been absorbed by you if you have any social awareness.

i prefer listening to him for that sweet asmr. wish he would crumple some plastic or something while he does it tho.

>>8025441

Rec me some anti-globalists who aren't drooling manosphere retards

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>>8025090
the most blatant example of classism in the study of Western Literature is leftist authors complaining about the successful

>>8025245

>leftist authors complaining about the successful

unless the successful is a leftist

there is literally no debate around Shakespearean authorship within academia

hollywood making movies and cracked articles does not count as "study of western literature"

>>8025034
>Should

Wrong question.

>>8025034
They also have beautiful passages about the virtues of man. What's your point?

As for its being outdated, what does that even mean? It's not a science.

Should politics exist?
Most political texts have violent aspects and are widely misinterpreted e.g. Maoists, Stalinists, Neo-nazis.

Is politics outdated?

>>8024174
Because she us a bad writer and a worse philosopher.

>>8024186
/thread

>>8024186
Yeah but what is it exactly about her philosophy that pisses people off, what is bad about it?

t. Normie

turns out a guy who loved his waifu was actually her husbando and her's is the real world that dreams up his

It's about Infinite Jest

some unemployed pseudointellectuals and political radicals in 2020 america

i was embarrassed when the main hero became a wife of some colored harpooner

>>8023906
Jesus
Were you wearing a star wars episode one tshirt with autismo sandals and cargo shorts? Do you have a chilibowl at 19 years old? Do you line random things up?

i mean i wasn't embarrassed by the very fact but by that he unwillingly exploited the poor harpooner likely without consummating the marriage

>>8023890
>400 level
>600 level

is it some mmo?

>>8023927
https://www.google.com/search?q=400+level+classes&oq=400+level+classes&aqs=chrome.0.0l6.2655j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

i mean forgive me if it's an uncommon system but i don't think it is

>>8023890
I'm not familiar with the burger education system, let alone the texts you read, but Bourdieu is always a safe choice. The Logic of Practice is probably the most influential of his works, and the good thing about Bourdieu is that even people with excess chromosomes should be able to grasp him. Just google for some commentary on him, plagiarize it cleverly, and voilà, you're done.

can't you get one of those white noise machines?

>mfw severe tinnitus
>can't sleep or read without white noise

>>8023605
get a hearing aid, it will nulify the tinnitus.