Has anyone read this whole series? I was really deep in it a few years ago but I kinda drifted away from it. I know the author died and it was finished by Brandon Sanderson, is it worth finishing?
please keep to your containment thread, shitcunt
>>7692308
saged
>>7700817
My, you're a whiner. How dare people post on a board that speaks slower than an Ent? The gall.
>>7700796
i've read all of it.
it gets a bit weak between books 7 and 11 but the final few written by brandon sanderson are probably the best of the lot. robert jordan was great at worldbuilding and made some great characters but he got too caught up in the series and just wasn't able to finish it, he just kept rambling on (see crossroad of twilight, the weakest book in the series).
I would definitely recommend finishing them, you'll love the last few books.
What is the term for an early part of a work that "teaches" you how to read the rest of the work? Does it have the word "codex" in it? I'm drawing a blank here, really frustrating.
prologue
prolegomena
Foreword?
Index?
Prolegomenon?
Dramatis personae?
Incipit?
Exordium?
Didacticon?
>>7700752
/thread
Is there anything left for literature to say after this?
>>7700695
"Walt Whitman's a fag."
>>7700699
I wonder if he enjoyed Oscar Wilde's boipussy.
Just shut the fuck up already.
Where were you when it was made official?
>>7700686
Is that all that's new? flaps and cover? Is the introduction enlightening?
Masturbating my half-hard penis to porn I hate but need to get off
>featuring flaps
SOLD
Does anyone else wish they could read Old Custer?
It's somewhere here: https://libraryofbabel.info/
Also does anyone know this book in which are referenced books that only exist in fictional works?
>>7700757
>Also does anyone know this book in which are referenced books that only exist in fictional works?
wat
>>7700757
Yes, that one is also available if you follow your link.
"In God there is Power, which is the source of all, also Knowledge, whose content is the variety of the ideas, and finally Will, which makes changes or products according to the principle of the best. (Theod. 7, 149, 150.) These characteristics correspond to what in the created Monads forms the ground or basis, to the faculty of Perception and to the faculty of Appetition. But in God these attributes are absolutely infinite or perfect; and in the created Monads or the Entelechies (or perfectihabiae, as Hermolaus Barbarus translated the word) there are only imitations of these attributes, according to the degree of perfection of the Monad. (Theod. 87.)
A created thing is said to act outwardly in so far as it has perfection, and to suffer [or be passive, patir] in relation to another, in so far as it is imperfect. Thus activity [action] is attributed to a Monad, in so far as it has distinct perceptions, and passivity [passion] in so far as its perceptions are confused. (Theod. 32, 66, 386.)
And one created thing is more perfect than another, in this, that there is found in the more perfect that which serves to explain a priori what takes place in the less perfect, and it is on this account that the former is said to act upon the latter"
what the fuck does this last paragraph mean?
http://home.datacomm.ch/kerguelen/monadology/monadology.html
there's the full text
oh well
the rest of it didnt resonate too well with me
Fairly certain Leibniz is just noodling. This is what I got out of it:
>One thing is more perfect than another
>The more perfect thing is self-evident in its more-perfection by possessing a priori the identity-form of the less perfect thing
>It is because of this a priori existence that the more perfect thing can be said to interact with the less perfect thing
From Schopenhauer's "The World as Will and Representation"
What is he saying in this paragraph senpai desu?
He is rambling big words for fags liek you
Kek
He's talking about the Eucharist.
>>7700513
What have you read of Schopenhauer already, and what have you read of other philosophers before him? There's a lot to unpack.
I don't think another book is ever going to make me feel the way Moby did. Beautiful.
I felt like sharing the feel.
That's great anon.
>>7700485
The first 200 or so pages, in Ishmael's pov, are probably the most comfortable 200 pages i've ever read.
>>7700485
>Call me Ishmael.
Why did he write it like this? Why not, "My name's Ishmael." or something.
>axaxaxas mlö
What did he mean by this?
Jajajaja malou
ayylmaooooooooooo
>>7700530
visionary
Camus is becoming an Instagram quotable for pretentious normies. This is not ok
>>7710591
camus is for pretentious normies tho
Camus was a pretentious normie.
He was an incredible artist, but his philosophy was middle school tier.
>caring what random signals the proles unconsciously reflect and amplify
I've read C.G: Jungs Red book with the highest interest and I'm wondering, is there other good literature about religious psychosis that you'd recommend?
My diary desu
>>7709098
Philip K Dick did one of those.
>>7709098
Wieland by Charls Brockden Brown. Influenced Shelley when she was writing Frankenstein and is, in my opinion, the beginning the U.S. canon (Brown is certainly better than Cooper, who people often believe is the beginning).
Which philosopher has the greatest understanding of reality? Motivate your answer by referring to a body of work.
It's a progress.
Define "reality" first.
>>7708170
That which exists.
Is there a more satisfying feeling in the world than cracking the spine of a new book?
Getting through a new book without cracking the spine of a new book.
>>7699938
You're a MONSTER.
>>7699938
Cracking the spine of Beuce Wayne
In France, he praised a long list of writer-cum-penseurs from Montaigne through Voltaire and on to Jean-Paul Sartre. In the United States, he lauded Whitman, Thoreau, Hemingway, and Jack London. In Germany, the more “theory”-heavy pantheon included Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Heidegger, and Marcuse alongside Schiller, Heine, and Goethe.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/lessons-from-the-xi-jingping-book-club
Philosopher King?
true patrician king. mastered the art of namedropping to please the plebs.
Is there a more based world leader alive today?
>>7707028
For a patrician, he sure has shite taste.
Longtime nerdfighter here. Since it seems you guys don't know, John Green has had Infinite Jest on display in the majority of the videos he's done in front of his bookshelf. Plus, he quotes The Pale King pretty heavily in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlGAeJ6SIWQ
dfw is john green tier, tell me something i didn't know
>>7705185
So what? He's still a faggot.
btw, the video I screencapped is from January 2007, the month he started making videos, so no one claim that he jumped on a bandwagon
>>7705189
Shit, I meant to do a >inb4 for this