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if you could only save 3 books for the future generations to read what would they be?
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Iliad
Odyssey
The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra
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Martin Amis - Experience
Martin Amis - Money
Martin Amis - The Zone of Interest
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>>9858387
my dairy desu
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I'm extremely self-conscious and care about what other people think of me. Books to get over this?
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>>9858370
is there a book for that? i think it's just a matter of getting old enough that you realize that you're pretty much stuck the way you are and owning that shit and saying fuck em all or killing yourself.
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>>9858384
I'm hoping there is. I mean reading Schopenhauer certainly enhanced my view of "the world is trash and people suck", which helps.
Maybe some fiction like No Longer Human that helps me relate, or something along the line.
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>>9858447
maybe more negativity isn't what you need right now, you know?
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Roast me /lit/
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Cmon /lit/, did no one of you actually read Faust?
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>>9858367
I don't read anything
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dude colors theory lmao
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>not reading business books
>never gonna take action
>Never gonna get that promotion or start that dream small business
Seriously business books are one of the few ways lit can actually improve your life.
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i love business books and i've read so many of them, but the millionaire next door is stupid
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>>9858279
>>Never gonna get that promotion or start that dream small business
Promotion means more and harder work and that's stupid and I hate work. Yeah you get more money but I don't want more money. And I don't have a dream business.
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>>9858578
Any recommendations, then?
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What does /lit/ think of Steven Pinker? I'm trying to get through The Language Instinct right now and this is arguably one of the worst experiences I've had reading an academic. For everyone one piece of useful information he pulls ten fedoras out of his ass that have absolutely nothing to do with linguistics. Does it get any better?
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>>9858270
Blank Slate is great. He's hit or miss though.
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>>9858274
Pretty sure he calls himself a 'Feminist'
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The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it.
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And yet he couldn't be bothered to go get his picture taken anywhere further away than the back of the building where all his classes are taught
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>>9858266
>implying life has an objective purpose
Really get my noggin joggin
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>>9858266
Yes? Self discovery and satisfaction comes through facing challenges and learning self control. Prove me wrong.
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are there any books or stories that make fun of the reader in some way?
I dont know how this would be achieved but leading them on to make the wrong conclusions or bait and switch them would be the obvious choices
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I kind of felt like Phillip K Dick was a master baiter.
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>>9858260
Don Quixote makes fun of the reader.
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>>9858260
seems like those would be books in the Sterne tradition, not sure really. There are experimental things but not so much that particular plan as far as i know. i was thinking of this as well when discussing Gass and DFW making pleb filter in the beginning of their books, it would be an interesting thing to do, to fuck with the reader directly.
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What went wrong?
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That's my philosophy of rape too.
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>>9858251
he was unable to make readers want what he gives, because it's just not very good.
> embassytown
> less than three visual references in the entire thing
> nobody knows what the indigenes actually look like
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That's what pretty much every company does.
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Name me some books you liked reading that were published after 2010.
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Go Set a Watchman
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Bleeding Edge
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the luminaries
No one can be truly happy if they only try to please themselves.
How do I believe in god even though i'm an ex-religion member? It seems very blissful to believe in god, because I believe science is not the way to truth, my subjective experience is more important so believing in god will have bigger meaning for me than science ever will
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god doesnt exist....
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Recently I heard someone say "money can buy happiness, you just have to give it away," but in the middle of writing this post I remebered it was Pitbull
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>>9858333
I once gave 50 dollars to a beggar because I was feeling happy on that day. Funny how being happy makes you want to make others happy too, it's like a disease. This planet earth is like a force of bitter people v.s. happy people
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What did Hume mean by this?
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"For if one cause were co-temporary with its effect, and this effect with its effect, and so on, 'tis plain there would be no such thing as succession, and all objects would be co-existent."
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>>9858130
Some nigger that can't into original sin
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>>9858130
He means that cause and effect are always related by time; a cause is succeeded (a time elapses) by an effect. If this were not the case, there is no reason why all things would not exist at the same time and never perish
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>>9858157
What does 'co-temporary' refer to in this instance?
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I've read Garlic Ballads, what should I read next.
I need to stock up on my anti-establishment witticisms.
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>>9858100
You don't read Garlic Bread you eat it.
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>>9859013
What smells worse garlic or that guys rotting tooth
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>>9858100
read saki by hh munroe or whatever his name was.
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reccomend me some books on psychology/philosophy of identity, self, performance, narcissism, psychological narratives &c.
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>>9858086
Fuck off back to /r/eddit. Teenage whore.
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>>9858086
why?
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/lit/ caption contest
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bugs... easy on the carrots
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>>9858068
This is a redpill thread, that's why I posted a feminist and an ape. Please only make redpilled comments like: "Ooga booga" or "the white male is OPPRESSIVE!", thanks sweety
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>>9858076
>Judith "female brain" Butler
>feminist
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Is this the poorly and pathetically concocted ramblings of a self-aggrandizing loser? Or is it of a high enough quality to be considered worth devoting precious energy and time to read? The author claims it is the most important book ever written.
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>>9857969
... Goonan? Is that you?
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>>9857969
Does anyone have a link to the text? I want to teach it in a community college course I'm doing, but figure I should make sure its as good as people say first