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>reading a book by a movie director
>going to /lit/
Are you fucking kidding?

>>7986688
I liked 2. A lot. 3 was decent.

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>>7986725
There is an exception to this.

Also I hear that Tarantino wants to start writing novels.

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>>7986637
Yeah, why not.

Now go read.

Paperback for short books, hardcover for long ones.

>tfw too poor for hardbacks

>>7986622
Are you thinking about sending them to an agent?

>>7986640
Yup

>>7986622
bump, anyone?

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>>7986613
The internet is a cheap substitute for regular human interaction. Twitters is that but on speed.

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>>7986638
How cutting and innovative your insight is. Social media is, like, shallower than talking to people.

I'm asking for accounts to follow that consistently post interesting articles or link read-worthy material.

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>>7986648
It was just an elaborate "none" to your initial question.

>asking /lit/ what to enjoy

kill yourself

Do whatever you want, m8. Like what you want.
I've read a decent amount, and while I concede that many works are more unique or better written, this still stand as my personal favorite. I think it's beautiful.

The fact that you need to ask people what to like is enough to determine that you shouldn't enjoy anything, ever.

Make your own opinions

at any rate you most definitely can. One of my top 5 books of all time, loved it. And most of /lit/ loves Delillo too unless they're memeing

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>>7986481
Enjoyable. Primarily.
My satisfaction is what counts, though I'll let a reputation direct me, so on occasion acclaim should be considered.

It's a lot like the way that painting looks.

>>7986481
sweaty, fast paced, thought provoking and intensely heart breaking

>>7986469
You're missing the whole point of the Nietzschean project. His goal is to affirm life, and to do that means the destruction of reactive values. You can't understand Nietzsche without understanding the difference between active and reactive forces, and between the will-to-power and the will-to-nothing. Chances are you're interpreting power as representation (a classical Hegelian mistake) and not as the genetic and differential element as it exists in Nietzsche's thought. Deleuze elucidates this better than I ever could.

I don't understand your question.

>>7986505
im thinking of power as in like power knowledge relations, the creation of knowledge, the processes of subject construction, etc mostly in terms of Deleuze, Bhabha, of course Foucault but in a history after him sort of way

>>7986463
You should read the book again man. It's definitely not something you should give to a girl you like
if you fucking leave me i'm going to kill myself

How educated is she, and how attractive are you?

She will either: find it weird you even gave her a book, or will love that you gave her a book so she can brag to her friends about how sophisticated you are, regardless of the content.

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>>7986463
Brav the authors name is literally cunt. Don't do it

I find it quite bizarre Eisenberg gets work, ya.

A an amateur movie based on this movie would be the cherry on the icing on the cake that was the life of David Foster Wallace (TM)

What is up with his left arm? I can't discern where his hand beings.

Down by the bay.

#bookz

>>7986446
The library

You have to eighteen to post on this website.

>>7986394
>major work is titled "Beyond Good and Evil"

Wow OP, you really nailed this one

>>7986396
Unfortunately you don't have to have the mind of a normally developed 18 year old.

Once you read sufficiently interesting literature, most anime will seem sort of bland unless you're in it for the wish fulfillment stuff, no? I stopped watching anime about 10 months ago (other than Ghibli). Also, downloading anime is a hassle.

but anyway, do whatever you want, entertainment is entertainment

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read novels based on anime?

read the light novels of your favorite anime(s) until you have the desire to read something better.

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>>7986190
The "Do my homework for me" bait is FRESH this morning!!

Plato's massive jump in logic that I am sure many people raised eyebrows at is that you can upscale an individual to society, then apply what seems right to society to the individual. It's cool but I do not find it convincing.

On top of this I believe he was utilitarian, this adds value to Mill's otherwise weak defense of his philosophy where he says that he was not saying anything new and that humans very naturally equate happiness with the good. If you read the book carefully Plato mentions two principles underlying his notion of a good republic, and the whole structure of it: happiness to all classes and in equal amounts (I do not see this emphasized anywhere but yes he does very, very explictly say this in the Republic if only in a few words) hell this happiness can even be said to be hedonistic based off how the republic came into being because people just weren't satisfied chillin like tribals and eating acorns or what not.

My conclusion is that noone in the book is right, courses should drop Plato and Aristotle, instead starting with Desecartes, then moving to Hume then Kant and then some elementary Russell Frege and Wiggie all supplemented by logical readings along with easy papers by other analytics.

All other philosophy besides this eased to be treated as crap and feel good blabbery.

>>7986807
The city-in-speech isn't meant to be a real society. This is the mistake too many readers of Plato make. The CIS is a logic exercise. Of course whole, huge classes of people won't all be blocks and lumps like they are in the CIS. The whole entire point of that argument is to find what justice is. The whole entire point OF THE WHOLE BOOK is the find out what justice is. It says some amazing things along the way about politics and metaphysics and the soul, but ultimately they're not the central aim.

And I do think the Republic's final conclusion about justice is quite right, and really pretty difficult to refute. What is justice, really? Justice is an internal order. Justice is having your soul, your mind, properly constituted. It's a state of being, not any act of the state or any individual. Though it CAN be an act of the state, insofar as the state is properly ordered.

Actually, you know who's right, in the end? It's not Thrasymachus. It's Cephalus, of all people, right at the start of the dialogue. Cephalus says that justice is giving to each what they're owed. He turns out to be right. But WHAT are they owed? The Republic, as a whole, answers THAT question. It determines what all men and women are ultimately owed. It's what all men, and all women, deserve in their own lives.

>>7986056
Michael Jackson (seriously) books are pretty good.

This is a literature board, not a "general books on any stupid fucking topic" board you Fosters-swilling lout. Maybe ask 420chan's /hooch/ board, at least that would be the right place to ask.

Being enthusiastic with retarded shit like beer is pitiful.