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>>7466263

judging by the MS-paint cover, yes

>>7466263
Yes: you have made a horrible, horrible mistake. Don't even read it: it will do more harm than good.

>>7466307
elaborate
>>7466304
i'm assuming you don't know who piero scaruffi is

>>7466234

I like that quote, but I think it speaks more to Hunter's ability to define himself against the backdrop of that era than it does of the time itself

It sounds like rose-tinted glasses because it was the time when he made most sense as a person, so it's not so much about saying "hey, this era was objectively great" as it is about saying "this is the context in which I could subjectively view myself as a part of something"

>>7466234
Dat last paragraph tho.

>>7466234
>>7466234
The sixties LSD counterculture was attempting something extremely ambitious. If you read up on the leaders of the psychedelic movement, this doesn't sound like rose-tinted glasses at all, because there WAS an optimistic, earnest attempt to roll back the weak points in contemporary life, and it would have felt amazing to be part of that attempt, but it did fail, and Thompson doesn't defend its methods and leaders. There's another passage in Fear and Loathing where he talks shit about Ginsberg (or Watts? I forget) who was a huge leader and hints that such hippies just weren't cut out to bring meaningful change to the world.

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>tfw a great idea for a dream finally comes to you in a novel

>great idea for a novel comes to you in a dream
>try to write the entire dream down
>read it out
>it's an incoherent rambling mess

Every single time.

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>tfw a novel comes to you in a novel

>>7465913
>having a preference

>>7465943
>thinking

>>7466055
>being

>indirectly

>>>/pol/

>>7465842
I can think about sources of philosophy in Kabbalah studies, the way it gives texts another relief and how it influenced philosophy (i.e. hermeneutics), but I don't know if we can say it "simply" has it source in Jewish theology. Things seem more complicated than this... There are a lot of works presenting modern Occident as it "thinks itself" as being at the confluence of Athens and Jerusalem, that may be a track to follow. (While keeping in mind that "presenting itself as something" and "being something" are not necessary the same thing)

macbeth

Macbeth. That was too easy.

>be me
>kill a lot of people
>it backfires

There, now I've summarized all the plays

>>7465654
Cioran, perhaps?

>>7465654
Nietzsche

>inb4 plebs say nietzche wasn't a pessimist

>>7465654
Celine

>>7465430
May I have my cigarettes, please, Miss Ratched? Miss Ratched!

it was good

super american though and the actual theme is super annoying and stereotypical ameriburger thinking (INDIVIDUALISM! HEROIM! FREEEEEEEEDOMMMM! FUCK THE MAN!!!), but it was done in a way that made you actually like the characters

It is a good book.

Fishing scene is 10x better in the book.

The moment when Chief catches a glimpse of Randall in the rearview mirror, haggard and tired, is the beginning of the end.

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>>7465062
>taking life lessons on the worthiness of living from someone who shot himself in the head

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>mfw i'm getting more and more open to the thought of suicide even when my "life" seems to be getting more "promising". It almost seems god-damn logical.

>>7465062
>Favourite books of his?
I smiled.

Madame Bovary

Classics:
Little Women
Jane Eyre
Madame Bovary
Scarlet Letter
Maybe Anna Karenina?

Contemporary:
Parable of the Sower
Handmaiden's Tale
Americanah
My Brilliant Friend (really great series and highly critically acclaimed)

>>7464765
Alice in Wonderland, & Through the Looking-Glass

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In Search of Lost Time

Tale of two cities

The Swiss Family Robinson

Id go with Dostoevsky because it would turn out like a modern day Notes from Underground

James Joyce in Finnegans Wake-style writing

Who is this.... Beautiful woman?

For most self-help books you're better off just reading / watching summaries.

There are some quality summaries on this site:
https://sivers.org/book

For video summaries, https://www.youtube.com/user/PhilosophersNotes/playlists, and https://www.youtube.com/user/phuckmediocrity/videos are decent. Watch at 2x speed to maximize efficiency.

>>7464183
Depending on how much you were file by feminism or other causes, No More Mr. Nice Guy is really good. It changed me completely overnight but the effect depends on how much of a nice guy you were in the first place.

If you're going through shit and want to stay positive I have seen Feeling Good by David Burns being recommended here for depression.

have someone read the book for you, just skim through the book, i read 30 books today. read the summary online, no one has time to read all those books and most of the stuff in them isn't even important! buy my book

Threads that are pointless >>7464166

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>>7464166

To be honest I think Moby-Dick was crap.
But maybe its only because its 2015 and anything of value in it has been robbed and reused one billion times so now its just a hollowed out chest of a dead dolphin.

Same with Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It was so boring its unbelieveable.

But yeah it probably would have been a goodish experience if I read these a hundres years ago.

If you like well-written freaky shit it's a good time.

>>7464107
>freaky
It's trippy you donkey dong.

>>7464079
The title is stupid in that it has zero relevance to the story other than some meaningless location