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Extremely dry book

>>7979742
Very patrician tier.

>>7979883
extremely dry post

Hey OP I've read this and I didn't enjoy it. The humour is just too tame and predictable. It's clever but in a way that gets boring. It's desperate to keep you entertained, which I find rather dull. Confederacy of Dunces is so funny because you can just tell that the author (Toole) is investing his own personality into this eccentric figure ("Rape her!") but Murray is just ticking all the boxes and making a 'wacky' story and trying to keep you reading from line to line. Also is that excerpt really funny? I don't know, maybe I've just been on 4chan but I find it rather dull. It's basically mocking a guy that looks weird in a style of writing that is humorously antiquated etc.

DeLilo is a hack

He meant his dicks.

>>7979797
Get.

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>>7979678
Very good anon. Patrician quality taste. you'll fit in very nicely.

Where do people even get books this cheap?

At the cheapest thrift stores in my city, I can only get books at a minimum 3 or 4 dollars each.

>>7979678
Great. Have you read any of those before?

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>>7979677
>eel like shit afterwards.
You picked the wrong philosophers.

Read Epicurus, Strirner and Nietzsche. Best in my opinion.

>>7979694
OP here, I've read Epicurus, really neat stuff, however Stirner seems not so accessible. I've heard that he works strictly in Hegel's tradition, should I start with him?

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>>7980015
That's who he studied under, as I understand it.
It all depends on how deep into philosophy you want to go. Me, not so much, so a cursory look is good enough for me. Stirner's ideas seem rather simple though.

>>7979667
What's with the influx of /pol/ users on here recently?

>>7979667
Sticky

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>>7979667

>>7979644
We live in an age of irony.

For one; why are those that are most "spiritual" the most ardent defenders of materialism?

>>7979663
>generalisations
Spiritual people are no more inherently materialistic than anyone else

>>7980338
In the US conservatives tend to support the rights of wealthy [classical] liberal sociopaths.
I guess it's just a tendency they carry over from their support of monarchies.

Just thinking out loud.

>>7979663
*Materialistic
I should have said

>>7979600
no

>>7979600
no

>>7979600
yes

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>>7979533
Thanks for the warning

>>7979533

This book only taught me how autists are so removed from normal human experience. They're barely real people.

>>7979478
>books need to mean something to be good

where da source on that quote bitch

>>7979478
He says, not knowing that that only contributes to the theme of the book.

>>7979449
YA is

>>7979449
To look at literature through the lens of "genre" is miguided when one should instead look at it in terms of originality and sincerity. There are books written about teenagers that are good, but looking for some central theme running through them all is pointless. Trying to extrapolate a whole genre from this is even more pointless, and it exists only to cater to a specific market demographic.

nerd

>>7979398
Les miserables

>>7979398
Charterhouse of Parma.
Red and the Black, also by Stendhal takes place after the Napoleonic wars, but greatly influences the main character

The Master and Commander series but mostly on the naval war with a few minor land engagements and espionage

Is this a meme? I feel like I'm getting memed.

>>7979301
Excellent paired with Calibre and a working knowledge of book piracy.

People will remind you, as well as I, to download nice editions of your favorite authors/books to keep on your shelf and make you look very guff and artsy to guests.

There's almost always one of these threads in the catalog. Since you just started lurking I won't call you a faggot.

I love mine. It's totally worth it. I concur with >>7979315

>>7979315
I see people posting their physical libraries here and get jealous. Most of the time I can't find a physical copy of the books to buy here to add on to my library. They get more expensive too when shipped from overseas so I stick with my kindle. Guests are hardly a problem as no one ever comes in to my room but it would have been nice to have a neat looking book collection to post in /lit/ once in a while :)

Well the communists say the last capitalist they hang will be the one that sold them the rope. Nietzsche didn't want to voluntarily die, so he didn't want to be a capitalist rope maker.

>>7979300
I believe that he is referring to people who come up with one idea and then stick to it steadfastly, continually developing the one idea, and in doing so get 'left behind' in their own thought, since despite all the extrapolation they are still based in that one old idea that they had long ago. He, instead, looks to destroy his own ideas and come up with new and better ones. That way he will always make progress towards his highest possible self.

He's being silly. You can't spin yam and even if you could it would not cause you go to backwards.

Also, he grew that mustache as a joke. The man had a diabolical sense of humor.