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finnegans wake

>>7698666
Preordered

More books please

>>7698669
not me.
That would be a waste, thanks though, but I generally only hear about a 70% cus I can't remember at what point in the book I fell asleep.

25. One page for each year of my life. The twenty-fifth page will be considerably shorter, and will end in August.

>>7698628
It'd be a 150 page book by John Hawkes written in his usual style.

>>7698637
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thanks anyway

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>>7698589
>is this a meme? how do i fight it?

no, read

>>7698589

Just pick a book you actually want to read.

what do you understand

more simpler

It's a shame you didn't read the Trial. I could have helped with that.

>>7698526
The script of Chinatown.

>>7698527
/thread

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>>7698526
Also, just realized
>which it's

>>7698510
grapes of wrath

Spoopy

>>7698510
Honestly, Infinite Jest left me feeling pretty weird and empty. The only thing satisfying about reading the thing is all the memes surrounding it.

I don't care what your friends are doing lad.

Why do you people still browse reddit when you are fully aware its a shit website filled with fags?

>>7698528
same reason you people browse 4chan

Aye.

Aye.

Captain

It's slightly better than Infinite Jest. So you'll love it.

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>>7698432
just got this as well OP. kinda nervous staring it. the hype is real. don't listen to /lit/ . a bunch of pseuds spamming meme books that suck in all actuality.

>>7698432

Outrage at the crime committed against both your wallet and one of your favorite books

>>7698460
>salty and calumnious

Oooh, I would have been very excited by that map when I was a kid, but I can't say I've ever heard of the series OP

Yeah I really enjoyed it. More YA than children's though.
Also more whimsical and thoughtful than a lot of current YA.

>>7698414
read the first one repeatedly, didn't care for the later books.
i remember it as being pretty gruesome

Well, first you have to find out if there really is a Freud/Nietzsche connection. I would say maybe, because they both more or less say that society holds back individual desires - Nietzsche thinks this is bad, Freud thinks this is good (or at least necessary). Other than that I don't know.

>>7698367
well when I read Freud i see Nietzsche everywhere; the concept of sublimation/repression, ressentment etc. I know most psychoanalysts try to play it down but Freud was obviously massively influenced by Nietzsche I thought that was pretty well accepted by most people into philosophy

Try this:
>Freud, the reluctant philosopher / Alfred I. Tauber.
"Rarely does a book cause one to rethink an entire field. Alfred Tauber's detailed and accessible study of the philosophical underpinnings and implications of Freud's work (and psychoanalysis in general) will have this impact on both the humanities and psychoanalysis. Tauber's rigorous framing of Freudian thought in the context of the history of philosophy (and the history of science) makes this the most important book on the shape of Freud's thought in recent times."-- Sander L. Gilman, Emory University "To his enormous credit, Tauber avoids the selective approach that is almost always taken by philosophers studying Freud. Instead of isolating facets of this multifaceted thinker, Tauber has striven to give an integrated and holistic portrait. He also provides a careful and detailed account of Freud's debt to German thinkers close to his own time. This is an important contribution."-- Jennifer Radden, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Others:
Nietzsche and Depth Psychology / Golomb, Jacob J. Editor
Freud and Nietzsche / Paul-Laurent Assoun ; translated by Richard L. Collier, Jr.
Nietzsche und Freud / Reinhard Gasser.
Nietzsche and psychoanalysis / Daniel Chapelle.

I think it's the fathers funeral flashback where I felt some sympathy for him. His family is fucked up and unhappy.
He's pretty awful for the rest of the book though.

>>7698325
I felt empathy for Jason, which isn't to say I "felt bad" for him. I understand what it's like to "see red," and whether or not one justifies that feeling, it's a terrible thing to be able to rage at that degree.

On a related note, I feel like a lot of people on 4chan would benefit psychologically from watching the interviews with Ed Kemper. Maybe I'm just projecting. I can post the link if you want.

>>7698337
do that plz.
I just remember before I read it that people would come here and talk about how Jason's was the saddest part of the novel, and other than the overall shittieness of his life there wasn't anything that really got me

Look on the bright side. The ultimate truth of philosophy is that the mystical is the real, and that philosophers are sages on the road to eternal knowledge. All of the writers you are struggling to read are in heaven and excruciatingly aware of every single aspect of every single failure on your part to comprehend their simple arguments. They can experience your shame in entire dimensions you don't even know about.

>>7698301
just realize you aren't going to get it the first time through no matter what, and that people dedicate their entire lives to reading this shit.

>>7698308
>>7698309
lol it's not even about the philosophy itself, I literally have to reread entire paragraphs just because I feel I haven't grasped it all when I really have but I just can't immediately surface the entire thing word for word.

It applies to me reading general literature as well, but it's less of a pressing issue because at least with fiction the prose flows much better.

Very different.

>>7698295
bot are shit, desu

>>7698295
The books are better overall but >>7698550 is right.

>Stop reading books and go fuck something

>>7698294
sounds like a normie

it allows people to experience things vicariously, without the risk and struggle