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will you pretend to be my gf and pretend to love me as dearly as my mother ever did but briefly, tragically and fatally, with a pretended heartbreak and subsequent despair and depression and maybe even a pretend suicide? in return i will give you pretend money.

>>7727395
post tits and we'll go from there family.

>>7727389
Don`t you fail on me

>>7727389
I suggest you just sit tight and focus on passing grade 8 buddy

why don't you just read the fucking book

Not as good as invisible cities or winters night

Halston Thromboux is a meme tier author of genre fiction with no discernible talent!

History of the third reich: the first 70 years.

930 to go! :')

>>7727309

avoid it till later, or altogether.

continue on with the plague.

>>7727354
But The Plague was a snore

>>7727309
Myth of sissyphus is super important to understand camus' view of existence. IMO it places the character from the stranger, the fall etc. into more context. The Fall was probably my favorite novel of his, I'd recommend reading it alongside sissyphus.

It's definitely much less entertaining to read than his novels, and to get the full grasp of it you need to understand who he's responding to with regards to existentialism--mainly Nietzsche and Kierkegaard if I recall correctly.

Reading Sartre alongside Camus is also a lot of fun.

>>7727288
Who's that again? Read this book when I was a kid. Man did the lost world ever suck dick

No, no, you don't understand, it's relevant!

>>7727271
Yea, its getting pretty annoying in fantasy/scifi that every book has multiple POVs now.

I mean Frank Herbert pulled it of in Dune, but in the case of GRRM you have some pretty decent stories trapped with a shitload of mediocrity

>>7727249
Nice haul.

Do you think he'll kill himself again?

"You wouldn't understand, mom."

It's a super long fucking poem about a phone book.
Who cares lad, do your own homework.

"Its a really good poem"

Why do people insist on complicating things

>>7727192
Stephen already had a whole book. Also which episode are you up to now? You haven't seen the last of him yet.

Just read Portrait if you want Stephen's perspective.

>>7727200

yeah I'm doing a 2nd read, but I'm only just finished with Hades.

>>7727205
I guess this makes sense, although the first three chapters of Ulysses are a million times greater than Portrait, idk

Chronological duh pleb

http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading_Charts_(by_Author)

>>7727191
doesn't matter. I would recommend starting with Romeo and Juliet, then Othello to get the pleb shit out of the way. his other plays are much better imo desu senpai

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Finnegan... Fin-na gan a work here anymore anyway

Why would you want to dig around in people's mouths and rip their teeth out?

>>7727163
because they work short hours and make good money so I always figured Id just use my free time and excess money to pursue what I actually enjoy

and i found it preferable to being a doctor

now I'm getting this weird feeling that I might make a huge commitment (of both time and money) to something Im not sure I really want to do

furthermore, if I don't really want to do it, will I even survive in dental school? theres no doubt its cutthroat and some passionate jewish kid who's smarter than me will just outperform me and leave me in the dust

>>7727176

There are "What Color is Your Parachute Books" that help you to determine the correct jobs for your personality but in general these kind of tests and guides are not going to be of much use. Our degenerate modern thinking is that somehow you will find some path that will be your true calling that is in line with your true self and will guide you to personal fulfillment through work.

In reality, that's probably all bullshit. Your ancestors spread shit in wheat fields everyday to survive and still managed to live lives fulfilling enough to motivate them to carry on and procreate.

What you select as a way to make money will ultimately not matter as much as the thing that drives you to exist. For some that is religion, others national identity and others family and community. Rather than obsessing over the career that, by itself, will never truly fulfill you and look for a real reason to exist.

Here's a few positive things about dentistry:

>heres no doubt its cutthroat and some passionate jewish kid who's smarter than me will just outperform me and leave me in the dust

Dentists make a lot of money because few people can and want to do it. If you can make it through a decent dental school, you will probably be fine.

> Lack of meaning

A dentist provides a real service to his community. People will always have fucked up teeth and be thankful for those who can alleviate that problem. Rather than think about what's in it for you, think about what kind of service you will be offering to those around you. As a dentist it will certainly be greater than the guy who writes code for some small part of some dumb silicon valley start up that couldn't exist without massive VC.

To start to break yourself out of the modern "finding my true self through career mentality" read all the posts under the narcissism tab at thelastpsychiatrist.com.

>>7727104
who?

>>7727114
master chief at the end of halo 3

>>7727118
The ring is activated.