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hah! anyone else!?

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>>8007720
I cant' even read the book's title because of the low contrast.

>>8007720
i really like that cover

you should be happy to be free from the curse of women tbqh

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>>8007685
The bible

1. stop jerking off
2. fistfight your dad

Yeah, I actually read the whole thing because I had to. I was entering a prestigious PhD program and focusing on Joyce because I loved Dubliners, Portrait, and Ulysses. To my shame, though, I'd never read the Wake. I'd never even tried, as hard as that was to admit. It was this huge blind spot and area of vulnerability for me. Whenever it'd come up with my colleagues I'd just smile and nod, smile and nod, hoping they wouldn't ask me anything specific about it. "The musicality of it," somebody would say, and I'd say, "Oh God, yes, it's like Beethoven." Finally, though, I had to dive into it, and let me tell you it was tough going. Joseph Campbell's guide helped a lot. Reading it out loud helped. I listened to other people read it, read online commentaries. Eventually it started to make some sort of sense. It was like I was learning to read for the first time again, and in a way this was enjoyable. I got better at reading the book. Soon I was reading entire paragraphs without trouble, getting the puns, laughing at the jokes. I could sort of follow the story, it was like a blurry picture resolving into clarity, or like I was drunk and I was sobering up, I could actually understand it. As I became more and more adept at reading the Wake, I began putting myself to the test, initiating conversations with my colleagues about it, but specific passages this time, specific parts of the book. You can probably guess what happened. After a number of these conversations it became blindingly obvious that I understood the book a lot better than they did, they who I thought were the experts. It eventually became sort of embarrassing for them and I stopped trying to talk about it. And at the end of the day I would pack my things, catch the bus home, and settle into my apartment to read the Wake. It had surpassed all of Joyce's other works in my estimation. Ulysses, the book months earlier I would've named as my favorite of all time, the best book ever written, was now #2 to the Wake. So majestic, so ambitious, so wide-ranging, erudite, glorious, incredible was it that I couldn't believe that it was the work of one man. Best of all, the heart of it isn't complicated at all. What did I get from the Wake, what are its lessons? First of all, be yourself. Second of all, put one foot in front of the other. And lastly, just do it for crying out loud, time's a wastin'!

>>8007677
beat me to it

>>8007677
10/10

>>8007634
You posted it.

>>8007672
That's good to hear. I was expecting the first post to shit on me.

>>8007634
The Lion King.

>Catch-22
>Not interesting
?

You should go out! ... to the nearest used book store and buy something cheap that actually interests you.

>>8007516

Why did you get these books if you don't find them interesting?

>>8007327
>On conservative values
Evola

>On women
Schopenhauer's 'On Women'

>on degeneracy and corruption
Mein Kampf

>on Jews
The Culture of Critique Series

>on the current political climate
Decline of the West

>on egalitarianism
The Bell Curve

>on social justice
Nietzsche on SJWs

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>>8007360
>mfw I told someone I agreed with some of whay Schopenhauer said in On Women
>they read it, or some of it, and hate me now

pls respond

/join showderp

>>8007262
idk dude

Put the book down and get something else. You're wasting your time, BEE should only be encountered by listening to audiobook if necessary, and thats only if youre doing something that prevents physical reading.

>>8007198
the snuff movie and the gangrape of the 12 year old gril shake him up a little bit
but mostly yeah
edgy unemotional decadent coke whores

>>8007213
>BEE should only be encountered by listening to audiobook

Why?

The Monstrosity of Christ

>>8007152
You can read him in any order, really. "Sublime Object of Ideology" is his magnum opus, but if you aren't ready for its density or lack the proper background knowledge then "Violence" or "First as Tragedy, then as Farce" are also common starting points, but you can really read whatever you find most interesting. Or work on your background knowledge so you can read Sublime Object!

>>8007162
The Parallax View is his magnum opus.

>>8007144
You're feeble-minded. Start over

"Whereof we cannot speak, we must be silent."

Did you even read the fucking Tractatus?

>>8007144
>the purely logical world that Ludwig Von Witggenstein claims to exist?
He never claimed the world is purely logical.
Carnap did.

dragon's are neat

Are you sure dragons aren't just lazy writing by people who think they're original and special snowflakes but haven't done their reading homework?

>>8007297
Are you sure you don't hate fun?

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This is pretty much, "How to write clearly: the book"

This >>8007011

and write erryday. Every. God. Damn. Day.

>>8007011
Obey this man!

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M-C-M'

just do it over and over again, that's all you need to know

>>8006959
Anything written by a communist is good!

>>8006999
nice. i bet most of these fags aint never read no marx.

a fart in the wind

First things first: are you writer?

Second: I read your review, and although I didn't really look into the review itself, I have to say that I really detest the writing style. I don't often read movie reviews, but I thought yours literally made me feel labored to continue. I'm not really sure how to fix it, because it might just be the nature of the field, but I just couldn't continue on listening to someone set every scene for me without providing any points that were actually worthwhile.

So I guess, if you are to take away one constructive criticism from my reply, it would be that you are describing the film far too much and not analyzing enough.

>>8007009

I write fiction. This is my first attempt at a movie review and yours is the kind of feedback I need. Thank you. I'm going to write more and adjust the angles of approach based on feedback. I appreciate you taking the time to respond.