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oh yea the don't be a cunt is a part of the poem i think

>>7845783
DUDE

>>7845787
LSD

Isn't there a fantasy general for these questions? It doesn't deserve it's own thread.

To answer your question, take a break and come back to it. It's good, but different.

>>7845645
don't bother; read ulysses

>>7845645
>>>/reddit/

By being a NYT best selling author whose works have been continually in print.
He only does the blowjobs thing for funsies, even though he makes money from it too

>>7844455
These things called royalties

memeing
writing shitting dude weed lmao genre fiction that tryhards try to read depth into

>implying Bukowski was a great writer

Correlation does not equal causation.

>>7843877
Are you also developing a hypersensitivity that makes any opportunity to drop your self-awareness appealing, or just the alcoholic part?

>>7843865
>he can't read ij in sub two hours

>>>/pleb/

>>7843875
even if you read a page a minute, which you'd have to be fucking speedy gonzales to do given the font size and the size of the pages, it would still take 16 hours

>>7843875
Wallace forgive me.

Also, Neutral Milk Hotel, in case other people are looking for suggestions

I live in a university town and it doesn't even have a single bookstore besides textbook stores.
FML

I always see nerdylooking qt's at the bookshop, but they never have good taste

Toronto here. not many big book stores. lots of smaller ones though. elliots is the best I'd say. although the handy book exchange always has what I want and if they don't they will take your name down and call you when they get the book. they have called me twice in the past. bmv is okay too.

>Shakespeare
>underrated

lel
it should be illegal to put this words together

>>7843102
He has a lot of plays.

Antony and Cleopatra
Titus (obv)
Richard III

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Cioran was a NEET philosopher who praised non-action.

"At any rate I can say that I've read a lot in my life, precisely because I was a man without an occupation. What the French call an idler, someone who doesn't work. But in return I read. So I consider that I've done my duty all the same. But I read also in order not to think, to escape. To not be me. And too, I've always tried to find the defects in others, the flaws."'
- E.M. Cioran

>JW Did you write much through all those sleepless nights?
>EMC Yes, but not so much. You know, I've written very little, I never assumed it as a profession. I'm not a writer. I write these little books, that's nothing at all, it's not an oeuvre. I haven't done anything in my life. I only practiced a trade for a year, I was a high-school teacher in Rumania. But since then, I've never practiced a trade. I've lived just like that, like a sort of student and such. And that I consider the greatest suc- cess of my life. My life hasn't been a failure because I succeeded in doing nothing.
>JW And that's difficult.
>EMC It's extremely difficult, but I consider that an immense success. I'm proud of it. I always found one scheme or another, I had grants, things like that.

>>7842872
Thanks, just what I was looking for. Heard about him, but didn't know that he held this opinion about non-action.
>because I succeeded in doing nothing.
He truly was a master. It really is difficult though, precisely why I wanted real-world examples of it. Thanks again, I'll go read something by him.

>>7842819
>tfw you're half Oblomov/half Stolz and your life could go either way

I'm scared t b h

>>7842425
>"what would X do?"
The worst kind of degenerate

>get out of bed
>get in the shower
>shampoo hair
>floss
>brush teeth
>use conditioner
>body scrub
>shave
>rinse
>apply cologne
>apply anti-perspirant
>dress in favorite outfit
>gel hair
>comb hair
>take out bins
>sit in front of computer in silence for thirty minutes
>turn it on

Pure ideology

I just read on my phone using any reading app and whatever screen shading app.
Can't be assed to hoard books or spend money on an e-reader.

>>7842376
Actual e readers are supposed to be less tiring to the eyes.

What the heck is the third thing in the bottom row?

I'm working my way through mortimer Adler recommended reading. His how to read a book changed my life.

I'll check out independent scholar

>peer reviews

Good luck.

I think you're delusional though.

Whatever keeps you NEETs and wagecucks from killing yourselves I guess...

What are you wishing for today,/lit/?

i wish for death

>>7842245
Let me tell you, you should wish for happiness instead. You may have forgotten what it feels like, but take my word for it, it's so much better than being asleep. It's really a great thing.

Infinite Jest

>>7841973
SWTG

Reading Capital, Louis Althusser

generally speaking, secondary texts on philosophers not explicitly billed as a good intro to their work assume a thorough knowledge of the philosopher
but ur just in it for the memes so who cares

>>7841464
Not memeing. That is why I want to know which one of his texts to read first. Like before Nick Land's book.

>>7841464
generally speaking, there are still a good number of books that are actually good introductions to a philosopher's thought.

faggot

Philosophy has its origins in ancient Greece and ancient Greek philosophers continue to serve as archetypes for us, so yes, they're definitely still relevant.

nigga that made my eyes hurt. let me answer you with a more relevant question:

is contemporary philosophy relevant, knowing what was done in ancient times?

Is philosophy even relevant anymore?