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fuck you

>>7517505
The communist manifesto then right after some Ludwig Von Mises and Friedrich Hayek to cure you of autism

>>7517505

WWW.reddit.com

>>7517392

Grossman is highly favored

>>7517392

The Spanish translation

Grossman is overly mannered and fails to convey the humour imo. Rutherford is better.

>>7517374
*and Mother Night seems pretty different for Kurt Vonnegut; not as silly or whimsical as his other stuff.

>>7517374
i'm half way through cat's cradle at the moment. really enjoying it. maybe i should start finding my karass

>>7517385
That's all anyone could hope for.

>>7517115

Is that a recent picture?

He is wasting away.

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Gass is ready for action tho

>>7517115
> cuddle while he reads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLBXe3z9zx8

yeah, i'll pass

>>7517107
How about you read Animal Farm? Animal Farm.

>>7517118
just read this before you read any of the others, it's pretty short but quite good.

>>7517107
Not Nietzsche, that's for sure.

Animal Farm is literally just a slightly mushed up history of the Russian revolution with added bacon.

F451 is pretty mediocre, but that's just me.

I'd advise Orwell's essays, honestly.

>>7517087
all of them
im a sensitive guy

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Herodotus,

>tfw will never live an aesthetic life in 5th century Greece

>>7517110
>iktf bro
>mfw I will never travel around detailing the weird religions and peoples of the ancient world

It's some good.

Any good in particular you're looking for?

>>7517079
Uh, is it better than American Psycho?

Yes. Or at least, I liked it. Pretty chill, for a p-man book. It's cyberpunkey. A bit.

>>7517058
wait a sec, has hiro finally grown bored of the wordfilter

hiro a cuck

cuck my shit

fbreader is good

UB Reader. It's decent.

bump! basically looking for a book equivalent to Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music or any of John Fahey's work on American Primitivism

>>7516928

The Education of Little Tree is about a young Cherokee growing up in the 30's, if that counts.

>>7516971
that sounds really cool, not exactly what I was looking for but I'll be sure to give it a look anyway!

The oppression of the Sith will never return.

>>7516935
Pardon me?

OP here.
…or shall buy some other edition? Also, recommend if there's any better edition, thanks.

Knowing what happens allows you to enjoy the technique, method, and story more.

http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/archive/newsrel/soc/2011_08spoilers.asp

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/aug/17/spoilers-enhance-enjoyment-psychologists

I'd even go so far as to say most literary texts purposefully have spoilers in the introduction so that you are forced to focus on the mastery of the work rather than just wondering what happens next. They're trying to make you not so pleb, whether or not that's actually working.

>>7516725
>reading the introduction first

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>spoiler in the outroduction

Penguin is an amazing publisher. You're a fucking retard if you think otherwise.

>>7516657
Is this then some RPG character kind of deal where you traded your ability to fly for that to type?

>>7516653
I don't keep track of Le publishers track record, but explain what Penguin has done wrong.

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>the professor looks confused when i mention the meme trilogy

>doesn't use the IPA to convey pronunciations

>>7516582
show as in 'show me the money'. now you can appreciate my professor's buffoonery

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>>7516283

> philosophy of perception in particular and knowledge in general.

The big innovations in thinking that became popular due to Hume are largely a result of how he related his general philosophy of perception to his skepticist epistemology. If perception ultimately yields only a sequence of overlapping events, only sense impressions of objects and scenes flowing with countless others always into the past moment, and no sense impression of any necessary connection of causal links by which to rationally account for each perception's relations to other perceptions, and no sense impression of what this "self" is that is doing the sensing and thinking to begin with, I don't know how Hume's brand of skepticism makes way for much ambitious speculating about how the first-person experience of perception and consciousness relates to the body and its sense organs and their surroundings.

Spinoza's Ethics also gives a very generalized overview of how a human's perception relates to their intellect and its knowledge, but generalized for a different reason; he operates at such an abstract level, combining and clashing concepts that are lifted so much from vivid sensory data and easily understandable examples, that he doesn't talk too much about how things outside the body can affect the mind through sensation and perception. In fact, he doesn't truly accept that physical objects in space cause reactions in our thinking minds, because he separates the domain of thinking from that of extension, conceiving them as two parallel but non-interacting domains, among an infinity of others that humans have no knowledge of. Spinoza's epistemology is significantly more reliant on rational argumentation for what it counts as "knowledge" compared to its skanter reliance on sensory perception and induction.

>>7516453
So, would you say that Spinoza's thesis is that each man is an island to his own perception, whereas Hume suggests that the world hurtles past each person rather than the other way around?

>>7516283
Locke and Berkely

Does he like dogs?

Read him Where the Red Fern Grows

harry potter sounds about right

>>7516222
As much as any child. Thank you, anon! It looks cool, putting on the list.