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Well Ayn Rand was an intellectual midget but she's hated not because of that but because she rightly pointed out that the American Left, which is the American government and culture itself practically speaking, are crypto-Communists.

I'm a Christian and I think her philosophy is literally Satanic. It's of the Devil.

>>7895053
Bait?

If this is real, read Aristotle and Cicero. They're level 95 Charizards to her starter Charmander.

As a virtue ethicist and author Rand has some merit. As a political philosopher, she's sort of "baby's first".

>>7893401
not read it for some time, but were they not transported in colossal Guild ships?

>>7893421
Wasn't the guild created by humans?
The guild ships needed spice to navigate at warp speeds afaik

Arrakis orbits a far off sun, basically it came close to Earth one time and everyone got in a boat and used a ladder to get onto Arrakis and then it flew off back to deep space

someone explain all the diff editions of the cantos. what copy should i get?

>>7889317
As far as I know, other than the physical traits of the book, there really isn't much of a difference between any of the editions, so I'd just get the one in the pic, which is nice, simple, and, as I've learned carrying it around, pretty durable. If you have scrilla, I recommend getting A Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound, which explains in great detail the thousands of references in The Cantos that, without it, would be difficult--in some cases, impossible--to get.

I would be okay with doing it any time in the summer. I thought I heard there were different editions that didn't match exactly too but idk.

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>>7885467
Dubliners
>mfw childbeating

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>V.

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>Confederacy of Dunces

Do you really need a whole book to learn how to speed read? It's just skimming, you pleb.

>>7900522

>I drink 30 year scotch in a beer bong because it is faster and more effective

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>>7900522

How to Read a Book

In that it tells you speed reading is for plebs and mainly only useful for inspectional reading or reading lots and lots of easy to read shit fiction.

>>7900253
Underworld by Don Delillo

>>7900253
A time for everything by knausgaard

>>7900253
I can't say for sure, but Aquinas probably has some on it.

Like every bitch writer from her century (the nineteenth one) she is kind of chilly and, I don't know, fatheaded. Her and Jane and Emily and Virginia (who was mentally, but not entirely physically, in the 19th century) and the rest, could all pretty much be the same fucking bitch. Because they sound the same to me. Bad.

Frankenstein is excellent.

>>7900143
To elaborate. They're all kind of stuck-up, and have this posh perfumey tone. Even though their actual thoughts are very vulgar and vacuous to be honest. Like they're just teenage girls pretty much. Who see life as some kind of fucked up pretend tea party. With all their dolls and shit. Come to think of it they write exactly like Alice, from Alice in Wonderland, talked. And she was like 12 years old. Go figure.

>>7899811
You should try reading their work, instead of a biography :^)

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Nothing

>>7899819
I've read most of their collaborative works: Both vols of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Kafka: Towards a minor literature and What Is Philosophy?
I'm interested in their lives as well. They seem liked they had a very powerful friendship. Just wondering what /lit/ thinks as I know people who think that all their collaborative works are a crock of shit and that Deleuze was somehow lowering himself to the new style.

What's with him and pidgeons.

>>7899630
You know he almost fought with Ayer ? /lit/ af

He's a fan of Kierkegaard, no joke.

>>7899543
Greeks. Greek histories rule ass.

Also Plutarch's lives are fantastic, especially Caesar and Cato.

>>7899550
I should have mentioned I am interested in contemporary creative nonfiction. I have studied the Greeks, and have read a lot of that relevant literature.

>>7899550
Also op, and I agree, I do like the Greeks quite a bit

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>>7899500
Look at the wiki.

The old man and the sea is a morning novel though

>>7899531

But, are short novellas?

>>7899470
Here's your reply.

>>7899470
Just read non-fiction about things that help you with your career, help society, or are interesting.

Fiction is entertainment and entertainment is a waste of time.

kill you are self thanks

ebay. just really fucking cheap shit from where ever.

>>7899353
well pic obviously related senpai

Amazon and resellers through Amazon

>>7899079
You read Anne of Green Gables?

Stoner

Lovecraft's works, The conspiracy against the human race, The ego and his own