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John Stewart Mills

>>7988420
Sam Harris.

Oh, and why?

>>7986499
I haven't any suggestions but I just came to post saying that this image leaves me feeling emotionally pained.

>>7986490
Knausgaard's My Struggle because Norway.

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Come on guys, this shit isn't hard

No femshit allowed.

What is the most aromantic and asexual epic fantasy series that currently exists?

>>7988666
It's too non-factual for any board.

>>7988687
feel free to point out any factual errors that were present in the book

oh wait you didn't read it and are saying bad things about it because you would rather hold on to your meme ideology and don't have any problems with the facts presented in the books (other than that you disagree with them)? ok

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>lemme lay down the basics, my man. the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and that's just the way the world spins. facts are facts. it's common sense!

>>7988580
Who is that cutie pie? I would love to put her beard in my special place, if you know what i mean.


Jokes aside: GRR Martin is a very original writer for his genre. He essentially set in motion a revolution on how we understand fantasy worlds and in using them to reveal deep human tensions and motivations, making us examine the rich psychology of his characters in order to better understand his world. He is essentially manipulating us into examining our reasons, through cruelty, cynicism and an exhuberant imagination.

>>7988580
>continuity
disgusting. lots of us hate Gass, so yes, we hate this hack of all hacks. "good at writing genre fiction" equals "wipes his ass neatly after he shits on my mother's grave"
you've wasted years of your valueless life reading him.

>>7988580
>blunders
Which ones?

>>7988402
I'd say that simpler prose is not inherently worse and has the capability of matching and even surpassing complex prose in certain instances, but that it tends to be limited, that the greatest novels are the most ambitious in pushing the limits of prose and able to, in incredible ways, resolve immense prosal complexity.

>>7988402
Also, for beginner to intermediate writers, "simple prose" or "Hemmingway-esque" prose is usually just a nice way of describing stupid, boring, unimaginative prose.

>>7988402
The latter. They are both equally valid ways to communicate.

>>7988152
Marxism is for half-retarded man-children who have no grasp on reality.

Although you may not be that kind of person, please do not fall for the Marxist trap, that shit kills nations.

>>7988165
>>>/pol/

This is a board for intellectuals, not shit flinging mental midgets.

>inb4 hurr durr fedora

Seriously, if you want to do nothing other than meme, leave.

Jesus christ, you can't even ask for book recommendations anymore.

>>7988165
Hello it is me, ex-Marxist guy. Thank you for curing me of my mental illness with your persuasive comment.

Virginia Woolf is a good author. You're in for good.

>>7987985
a well-written mediocre novel with not-so-subtle racist undertones. Wolfe was a better journalist than he is a novelist. when he's on point, his prose reads wonderfully, when not it's tedious and obnoxious. don't bother with Simmons or Blood, both are dreck.

>>7988104
she's actually garbage lmfao

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>>7987951

>>7987951
OP, sorry to burst your bubble of emptiness of mind but Buddha:
Probably never ever existed.
If he did exist, he most probably didn't have half of the supernatural attributes often attributed to him.
Even if he had, that does not make his ethical precepts necessarily real or less arbitrary.

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oblomov is the true enlightened one tbqfwyf

No, Colonel Sanders funded KFC at 66.

if you need to ask then yes

>>7987729
And he's going to get BTFO by Hillary.

>>7987718
The NEET is the proletarian's aristocrat.

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>>7987718

>Why do people hate NEETs?

Because life is more than doing what you want. As a member of society there are responsibilities that we face and as NEET's use the system where it helps them, they don't put anything back into it. Creating more work for those who want something better for everyone not just a select few.

>Add some books to it and it seems like the ultimate literary lifestyle.

Sure, if that's what you want in life.

>The hatred is really a bourgeois response to a class of people who are unable or, even better, unwilling to be employed, to work. And only the bourgeois cherishes a "strong work ethic", while the aristocrat loathes work and any value extracted from it.

Implying a good work ethic is a bad thing.

Implying being a lazy, selfish, entitled, spoilt, no good brat is a good thing.

>>7987749

>Because life is more than doing what you want.

Except it isn't.
Anything else is being a tool.

>>7987443
Niggerly

>>7987469
I think you mean niggardly!

>>7987471
that means something else

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"In the last 200 years we haven't had a great thinker. My judgment is bold, since Kant is included. All the great thinkers of recent centuries from Kant to Benedetto Croce have only cultivated the garden."

Sam Harris is an ubermensch

>>7986001
Do all great writers study philosophy? It's so odd to think, for instance, that Holderlin studied Kant and took him as inspiration for his works. It just seems so antithetical, one's a poet and the other one a brilliant autistic bore.

>>7985763
Only if you're independently wealthy and don't need to work for the rest of your life.

>>7985763
Do itttttttt

probably not

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>>7984786
Esperanto

french or russian, depending on which branch of leftist thought and theory you're most interested in

german is probably 3rd but really only for the frankfurt school who should just read anyways

Is that a pair of panties or the thickest bush of pubes I've ever seen