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>>7892361
More like how to be an asskisser.

I've read it, it's okay if you're too autistic to understand social cues or just a sociopath wanting to improve their manipulation skills.

I've also read How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading. I cannot justify reading it completely, just read the summary at the end of the chapters, you won't miss anything important. It's good if you come from a poor educational background where reading wasn't encouraged, it feels redundant otherwise because you pick up all of the strategies mentioned along the way.

No, the issue is that they are mostly subjective ramblings of an individual that wants to make money. I do not wish to change anything about myself, but I'm open to change when it comes. I.e., I would like it to be on my own discovery, with my memories and connotations so I can back it up instead of referring to a book.

>>7892361
pic related is a capitalism-centric guide to functional sociopathy

his other book "how to stop worrying and be happy" is a guide to resilient narcissism.

great job, dale.
PS did you know that he only adopted the last name 'Carnegie' because of the then-recent popularity of the guy who built Carnegie Hall?

>goodreads
>any good
>anyone there reads

why don't you do something worthwhile?

All you're doing is reinforcing a shite outlook. "Look at all these IDIOTS. God I'm so much smarter than these absolute plebs. Guys look at these idiots haha aren't we so much smarter?"

>>7892296
peril/risk are only prerequisites for shitty plot-driven genre fiction (LOTR, chinese cartoons etc.)

>>7892304
/thread
>consider yourself /lit/

The guy was wrong because Log Horizon was never about life or death tension, it was about exploring the ideas of an MMO merging with reality. Not to mention they do lose out on memories when dying which makes death keep an element of tension.

>>7892264
Why do you want to read faster?

>>7892264
Subvocalisation and speedreading are memes; read for comprehension and depth, not your goodreads bookshelf e-penis.

Read at your own pace you fucking autist it's not a race

>death of OP's thread

>>7892326
:^(

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>>7892257
>Decline of the West

>>7892193
>tfw NEET
>tfw living in low-income housing
This is exactly how I imagined "T R A D I T I O N / M Y S T I C I S M" readers would be.

>>7892193
I meditate watching soap operas.

>>7892193
>practicing hermetic alchemy
What will your life had meant at the end? Surely there is something better to do.

David Mitchell is my favorite author. Every one of his books was truly a great read EXCEPT Slade House, could not relate to coming of age british people in the 80s

>>7892579
Great opinion mate.

no, you like cock

hobbitts r fucken gay

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>>7892164
u fookin wot m8
ill fookin hook u in th gabbah

>>7892154
The first swig from the patrician cup will tell you that he's trash, but at the bottom you will once again find that he is a great author.

>>7892137
Yes, but in a very different way. It's not hugely descriptive (being a kids book), but unlike the film it's super tight in plotting.

>>7892137
>Is the book as good as the movie?

But it isn't a good movie.

>>7892204
I'm sorry you had such a horrible childhood.

wow what an insanely dumb argument

is this why certain philosophy really filters up into mainstream awareness, because the rest of it is ridiculous language games

>>7892026
Nice rebuttal, moron.

>>7892049
he's right, although it's not necessarily feigl's fault. it's just a really stupid method of reducing things to an aspect and then bringing in what was lost in the process in the form of a paradoxon. the irony of this method is that it relies heavily on a form of reductionism that it criticizes and assumes it works just like that in science or a person experiencing something.

a lot of classics are hilarious but they aren't labeled 'comedy'

>>7891915
Kingsley Amis, pleb.

it's all because some douchebag named jorge ate the pages in the 1300s

>>7891893
here's a pdf of 'Justice as Fairness' for anyone who is unfamiliar but interested in this;
http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/rarneson/Courses/RawlsJustice.pdf#page=4&zoom=auto,-151,579

anybody

>>7891975

tldr Rawls doesn't even

thanks Kirk

I have read his novels translated by Harmon and his short stories translated by Muir

I am interested in reading The Castle, at least, by Muir, because I read his translation emphasizes the theological reading

I prefer Harmon's prose translation however, and am wondering if the newest Schocken books edition of his collected stories is still primarily Muir or if it has new translations by Harmon (it doesn't list one translator online because though Muir does most of it in my edition it's various translators throughout)

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>>7891856
Shut up Franz

>>7891766

anything by Swinburne

Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward

Depressing poems are the worst.

Positive poems are the best.

Whenever I imagine Pynchon doing this when I get lost in a difficult passage of his, I make sure to jizz onto a printed out picture of his face to maintain my dominance

Gene Wolfe is actually pretty straightforward in his writing, its just the techniques he employs tend to baffle people because they arent used to them.

He's just writing what he himself would read, honestly.

I need to reread BOTNS.