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Anonymous
2016-01-19 03:05:16 Post No.7600923
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Anonymous 2016-01-19 03:05:16 Post No. 7600923 [Report] [View this topic]

What are some good books that portray the NEET lifestyle in a neutral or positive way?
I tried Bukowski's Factotum, but I thought it seemed so fake and overly romanticized.

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Anonymous 2016-01-19 03:26:38 Post No.7600983
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maybe Henry Miller.

you might try Against Nature, as well - I haven't read it, though.

Anonymous 2016-01-19 03:29:36 Post No.7600993
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Anonymous 2016-01-19 03:29:36 Post No.7600993 [Report]

Tao Te Ching

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oblamov

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Anonymous 2016-01-19 01:16:52 Post No. 7600675 [Report] [View this topic]

How I develop a reading addiction?

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Anonymous 2016-01-19 01:17:32 Post No.7600678
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Anonymous 2016-01-19 01:17:32 Post No.7600678 [Report]

Start shooting novels. Oral intake just doesn't cut it.

Anonymous 2016-01-19 01:28:32 Post No.7600700
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Anonymous 2016-01-19 01:28:32 Post No.7600700 [Report]

>>7600675

Find an author that interests you, dehydrate his brain, crush it into powder, and line it up.

Anonymous 2016-01-19 01:46:50 Post No.7600729
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Anonymous 2016-01-19 01:46:50 Post No.7600729 [Report]

read the greek poets/dramas/philosophers

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2016-01-18 23:13:05 Post No.7600290
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Anonymous 2016-01-18 23:13:05 Post No. 7600290 [Report] [View this topic]

So /lit/ what are some good African American writers?

Is Morrison worth a dime? I have a copy of Song of Salomon, I might read it.

Also is African American ficction a somehow respectable sub category of fiction? or is it just worthless.

I want to understand the African American mindset in the mid to late 20th century. I dont mind reading essays, as long as they are illustrative.

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Anonymous 2016-01-18 23:14:16 Post No.7600297
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Song of Solomon is pretty good, but the ending doesn't really pay off. Still, the beginning and middle are great.

Anonymous 2016-01-18 23:14:47 Post No.7600299
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Anonymous 2016-01-18 23:14:47 Post No.7600299 [Report]

song of solomon is the worst book i have ever read.

not in terms of objective quality but in terms of disconnect between what it set out to do and what it actually achieved, and how blatant the exploitation of identity politics was. morrison basically prefigured the whole SJW movement and capitalized on "muh white guilt" "muh slavery" to a disgusting level.

Anonymous 2016-01-18 23:17:22 Post No.7600311
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Anonymous 2016-01-18 23:17:22 Post No.7600311 [Report]

>>7600299

Thats exactly what Im not looking for.

Im want some really progressive and foward thinking African American writers.

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Anonymous 2016-01-18 20:44:37 Post No. 7599896 [Report] [View this topic]

Hey /lit/, could you recommend any herbalism / medicinal books?

Also interested in any books regarding herbalism / medicinial teas. Thanks.

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Anonymous 2016-01-18 20:48:51 Post No.7599910
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Before you guys grill me, I would also like to preface my request with the fact that I have checked /lit/s stickied 'recommended books' - but these appear to be story orientated.

Also, I'm asking for any personal recommendations or ideas. Thanks.

Anonymous 2016-01-18 20:56:25 Post No.7599927
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Anonymous 2016-01-18 20:56:25 Post No.7599927 [Report]

Honey + Lemon + Hot Water + Homeric Hymms

Anonymous 2016-01-19 08:20:20 Post No.7601600
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>>7599910
Why would we grill you, you're already a grill :3

Anonymous
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Non fiction general Anonymous 2016-01-18 18:08:54 Post No. 7599430 [Report] [View this topic]

post your favorite non-fiction books and we can discuss them

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Anonymous 2016-01-18 18:24:49 Post No.7599481
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>>7599430
Definately that one.

I'd go with Frans de Waal or Kate Distin over that. But in terms of favourite non-fiction it would be Fear and Trembling or The World as Will and Representation. Tom Paine is good too - Rights of Man/The Age of Reason.

Anonymous 2016-01-18 18:34:07 Post No.7599507
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>>7599430
>>7599481
Definately *not* that one.

But can I recommend to you E.O. Wilson On Human Nature and A Cooperative Species by Herbert Gintis

and Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson

Anonymous 2016-01-19 07:11:27 Post No.7601488
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Anonymous 2016-01-19 07:11:27 Post No.7601488 [Report]

I'd love to see more non-fiction love.

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Anonymous 2016-01-18 17:54:44 Post No. 7599380 [Report] [View this topic]

any polish authors that are known abroad? Tokarczuk, Zagajewski, Witkacy, Milosz, Schulz? - i see them regularly in different libraries. Anyone?

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Anonymous 2016-01-18 18:40:58 Post No.7599534
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Anonymous 2016-01-18 18:40:58 Post No.7599534 [Report]

>being a consonant forest

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THIS THREAD IS NOW A GOMBRO THREAD< GENTLEMEN

Anonymous 2016-01-18 18:54:15 Post No.7599561
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>>7599380

Milosz and Schulz I know; also Gombrowicz and Lem.

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Anonymous 2016-01-18 16:15:38 Post No. 7599093 [Report] [View this topic]

I am looking for a poem I read in highschool and I can't find it anywhere.

It tells the tale of a mans life. It explains how he once stole from his mother and other naughty deeds but it also tells of his good natured side. In the end you are to evaluate the man and give the opinion if he is good or bad.

Pls help /lit/, I've nowhere else to turn.

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Anonymous 2016-01-18 20:49:09 Post No.7599912
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>>7599093
Humpty dumpty

Anonymous 2016-01-18 20:51:20 Post No.7599919
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Oedipus

Anonymous 2016-01-18 20:51:40 Post No.7599920
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>>7599093
>implying raising a family is "playing it safe"
>fucking contrarian shit

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2016-01-18 11:52:08 Post No.7598570
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Anonymous 2016-01-18 11:52:08 Post No. 7598570 [Report] [View this topic]

>Plot is important

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Anonymous 2016-01-18 11:58:14 Post No.7598577
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>he was watching a donkey eat some figs and cried out: "Now give the donkey a drink of pure wine to wash down the figs", whereupon he died in a fit of laughter.

I don't get it....what exactly is so funny about that?

Anonymous 2016-01-18 12:01:57 Post No.7598585
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>>7598577
He was phone.

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>>7598577
DUDE DONKEYS LMAO

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Essays 2016-01-17 12:40:23 Post No.7595442
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Essays Anonymous 2016-01-17 12:40:23 Post No. 7595442 [Report] [View this topic]

What are your favourite essays and why?

I'm trying to get started in that world but I don't know where to begin, so telling me which ones did you like most will be a good commence.

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 12:43:48 Post No.7595445
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Have 3 - On the Genealogy of Morals

Anonymous 2016-01-17 12:45:47 Post No.7595448
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 12:45:47 Post No.7595448 [Report]

Read these senpai:

Essays on Idleness - Kenko
The Essays - Montaigne
Moralia - Plutarch

Anonymous 2016-01-17 14:23:13 Post No.7595585
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>>7595442
Orwell has some good essays.
Politics and the English Language
Inside the Whale
Shooting an Elephant

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Anonymous 2016-01-20 04:02:57 Post No. 7604515 [Report] [View this topic]

Haven't read a book/story for as god knows how much, and I want to start reading. I don't really want the recommended reading books, I want a short story, not so short, but not a novel either, that's easy to digest and talks about a practical, concrete idea, and not some abstract shit. thanks lads.

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Anonymous 2016-01-20 04:13:19 Post No.7604537
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Anonymous 2016-01-20 04:13:19 Post No.7604537 [Report]

Camus' Reflections on the Guillotine.

http://redlemona.de/albert-camus/reflections-on-the-guillotine/reflections-on-the-guillotine

Anonymous 2016-01-20 04:14:05 Post No.7604540
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>>7604515
Try a novella seems to be right up the alley with what you ask for.

Anonymous 2016-01-20 04:16:12 Post No.7604548
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>>7604515
Junky by Burroughs

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Anonymous 2016-01-20 02:23:16 Post No. 7604271 [Report] [View this topic]

So how is that book coming along?

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Anonymous 2016-01-20 02:48:27 Post No.7604338
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Anonymous 2016-01-20 02:48:27 Post No.7604338 [Report]

Fuck off Richie, you're Sparky a shit.

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Anonymous 2016-01-20 02:12:56 Post No. 7604243 [Report] [View this topic]

Any good books that deal with anhedonia?

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Anonymous 2016-01-20 02:31:52 Post No.7604290
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Anonymous 2016-01-20 02:31:52 Post No.7604290 [Report]

try masturbating

Anonymous 2016-01-20 02:34:53 Post No.7604297
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Anonymous 2016-01-20 02:34:53 Post No.7604297 [Report]

Besides my diary desu?
All I can think of is Bolkonskiy in W&P.

Anonymous 2016-01-20 03:36:52 Post No.7604452
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Houellebecq- Whatever

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Anonymous 2016-01-20 02:08:38 Post No. 7604230 [Report] [View this topic]

What is your preferred medium to write with?

What do you like to write about?

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Anonymous 2016-01-20 02:11:13 Post No.7604238
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>>7604230
A keyboard
I like writing about Japanese NEETs that are life failures and stay inside all day. I actually have a 62 page document about a NEET named Sachihiro. I'm pretty shit at writing though.

Anonymous 2016-01-20 03:11:25 Post No.7604389
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>>7604230
The majority of my writing is done on the computer, but I take notes when revising with pen and paper.

I enjoy writing about lots of different things, but lately it has mostly been fiction loosely based in real life experiences during high school in the late 90's and early 2000's.

Anonymous 2016-01-20 03:14:28 Post No.7604396
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>>7604230
Pen and paper, composition book for drafts and a journal with higher quality of paper for personal entries. I use a small laptop when it comes to typing up work and editing.

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Anonymous 2016-01-20 01:50:17 Post No. 7604179 [Report] [View this topic]

Are there any philosophers or literature that you can recomend me that deal and talk about the Will? About the decomposition of the Will and how even though one might feel a certain way, might think a certain manner, you end up contradicting your own Will in its execution? Procrastination for example, one might want do do something in an idealogical sense, even spiritually, but he does not follow through practically. The dissonance between the trifecta of how one Thinks, Feels and Acts.

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Immanuel Kant, in great depth.

Begin with the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals.

Anonymous 2016-01-20 02:19:30 Post No.7604262
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Anonymous 2016-01-20 02:19:30 Post No.7604262 [Report]

Edgar Allen Poe's writing about perversity.

The Imp of the Perverse is one of them, although it figures into other stories and his novel.

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Anonymous 2016-01-20 00:46:15 Post No. 7604051 [Report] [View this topic]

Does anyone know of a good online companion to Ficciones? I have read it once before but I find Borges hard to grapple with at times and would be interested in seeing annotations and outside opinions on each story as I read along. Book recommendations are okay too, my College library carries a lot of criticism so there's a chance I'll have access to what's recommended

Thanks

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Anonymous 2016-01-20 01:00:48 Post No.7604085
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Don't think there is one. Passing familiarity with Hume, Berkeley, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and scholasticism would cover most of the philosophy angle.

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>>7604085
oh, th-thanks, I g-guess I'll be fine then

Anonymous 2016-01-20 02:05:08 Post No.7604218
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Anonymous 2016-01-20 02:05:08 Post No.7604218 [Report]

An Argentine author, Piglia, gave some lectures on argie TV and it is online (Borges por Piglia, iirc) if you know Spanish give it a look.
What is hard to grasp on Ficciones? Tlön... Might be the most complex, but a lot of the stories do not require reading a lot of philosophers like some anon said.

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