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It's well received here. Great thread.

Up to Book 4, it's good.

>>7722834

what is the problem after the fourth book?

Dont throw anything away, save and salvage once you get gud.

Just keep practicing, study technique and refine.

>>7726163

Write a book on how to write a book.

>>7726163
quit memes

操你妈,你是文盲呀?
〉/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books
你这破贴和文学有鸟关系??

>>7726110
Lurk /lit/ for 8 hours a day

The only downside is that it's really bad for your intellect.

Seduce your professors.

>Foreward

>spoilers literally in the beginning of it

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>introduction written by some pretentious cunt literally misses the entire point of the book

>>7722959
most of them

>>7722996
I don't think so, most books that were turned into movies almost seem intended to be shown on film.
They seem more like fluffy movie scripts than books.

Maybe it's just the YA book-to-movie craze that makes it seem that way.

>>7723012
like what?

just about every piece of /lit/ i've read is better than the film adaptation.

>factual and historical proof of capitalism's efficiency

The irony is that this is basically what you can read Karl Marx for.

>>7718952
Mises does a good job for capitalism in Human Action.

>>7718952
serious bump here, I'm in the same position as OP
doesn't Ron Paul have a couple newish books on capitalism history?

Go fuck yourself

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>>7726124
/lit is not your personal ar... ghost writer.

>crossposting from reddit

My dad is pretty autistic about books and has made me do this since I was like 12. Not sure if it really helps, the binding eases up as you go through the book anyway.

>>7726088

I don't remember the last time I read a printed version of a novel, but I still know to do this.

Buy a dictionary.

I also want to know

>>7725988
The predictable responses to this book's mention, push button automation responses, really, are indicative of the existential threat it poses to all forms of collectivism, including the current lurch to the left occurring' in the United States' democratic party.

It's really two texts. A yeoman novel of middling prose quality about a remarkable inventor who rejects the fundamental tenet of victimhood forged into all forms of collectivist thought.

The second text is an interminable, insufferable, repetitive, self-impressed close philosophical polemic which completely ruins the novel text, similarly to how songs ruin the narratives of musicals.

It is the novel text's story and ideas which are so dangerous to phase-passing leftists - without producers they would starve in about 8 days. Without producers they would freeze, in the dark, surrounded by broken machines they are ignorant to operate themselves.

All of which is true, and that is why the book is so hated. Witness:

I enjoyed it for the story and ignored the philosophical bits. It really was interesting and worth reading

Hector was very overrated IMO. He couldn't kill anyone of significance

>>7725603
It's just the fact that he didn't have to die that does it for me. He basically fought his brother's war for him and end up dying for it. And to be dishonored afterwards is the icing on the cake.

>>7724823
anyone?

You're shipping your friend quite a few books!

I don't know of any workarounds. Also - no one here reads.

A box

>>7724554
pick up "the modern scholar lecture series"

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>>7724554

OP, I don't think anyone here should recommend you anything. You should at least discover your interests and create a post probing for books that belong to that field. In lieu of a recommendation, I'd rather just impart on you some advice.

If you're not a naturally inquisitive person then don't read nonfic for the sake of being able to reference something tangential and obscure in a conversation. If you enjoy reading fiction novels now, then by all means, keep reading fiction novels. There's nothing wrong with being well read. If you try to read fiction for the ethereal quest to become more knowledgeable, then you're going to bore yourself to death and not retain any of the information anyway.

Here's what I'd say: Find something your interested in, then explore it. Have you even people watched and wanted to know why people behave a certain way?

This was my essential question. I got so God damn interested in IQ that I've read every academic study and every eminent author in the field of psychometrics twice over. Then I got interested in moral psychology -- I'm a big Haidtist now. Now I'm interested in anarcho primitivism and socioanthropological concepts; I want to find out what the natural state of man truly is. Is the noble savage really dead? Was Kaczynski a mere schizoactive loon?

Start with a question OP, then make a thread asking for recommendations. Then explore that question. If you're anything like me, questions beget passion and passion begets knowledge; that's not true for the reverse.

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>>7724554
Read Wikipedia nig nog.
Not even joking. Do you know how relatively complete and relevant the information is on there?

Any mathematics/science principle, type it in, and you can see a proof and implications, where it came from, etc. Any piece of literature that's acclaimed, you can probably see inspirations and what others said about it as well as it's history.

Donate $30 to wikipedia in exchange for this service, pretend you spent it on a book. It'll go farther there than any book you can buy.

>>7723967
From what my grandfather told me, that's exactly what people were like back then (yes I'm Russian).

Yeah man why can't people from the 19th century who were first experiencing the loss of absolutes be more relatable to the nihilism we were molded in.

>>7723967
I read The Gambler, Crime and Punishment
After starting Demons I feel disillusioned by Dostoevsky, aside from your obvious bait post Fyodor's novels feel really immature compared to Tolstoy or Turgenev

promoting

>>7722651
He was a Christian though wasn't he?

>>7722662
Just goes to show