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In a really passive way it'll help you learn to make complex connections.

>>7335374
It won't make you smarter, but make you feel and seem smarter.

It will improve many things, but of-course it depends on what you read. You will become better at reading for one, and you may find that your critical thinking skills have improved. But, it all depends on what you read: read a book on logic and your logical thinking will improve, read a book on the history of Mesopotamia and your knowledge and memory shall improve, read a book on bicycle repair and your DIY skills will improve.

>>7335299
Lolita, read it and only it and only it for the rest of your dull life.

So what does this OP like.

everything on Oprah's book club

>>7335267
Was he wrong?

His methods were good, but his ideas completely discredit him.

>>7335267
is tHis mr robot

>>7335252
>reading Pynchon in Spanish

JUST

>>7335252
That would be 11/10 if not for the checkered border

Still a nice looking copy though

>>7335306
I actually like the checkered border, as long as it's clean.

>>7335369
Fuck you.

>>7335369
>>7335371
What a meme to be alive, truly.

>>7335400

Why wouldn't you?

https://youtu.be/Zs00RHaCkAo

Yeah, it made the writer really rich

>>7335137

Absolutely.

I was severely depressed and highly suicidal in college, but after catching an episode of Oprah on my mom's TV I knew I had to see this for myself.

In one months' time between buying the book and finishing the program, I got a GF, lost 140 lbs, joined the Masonic Brotherhood of Omaha, and won 400 dollars

Can you recommend some?

>>7335069
Fuck yes, started reading Panlong and I shall seal the heavens. Was planning to start reading ATG as well.

>>7335070
Pretty much the two i've started, they start slow but get good after a few chapters.

>>7335069
Chinese here.
Don't waste your time on that.

>>7335053
what u posting for

>>7335064
idk if i should read my infant moby dick or let it watch disney movies idk what to do

>>7335067
at such a young age, i doubt an infant would understand either moby dick or disney movies

I would play with it to improve motor functions

it's an infant, after all. One step at a time

>>7334938
Probably. What's it to you anyway?

Socrates was not only ripped, he was FUCKING ripped. Pretty much every Greek philosopher, poet, tragedian, and so on would have been, because they were all adult male citizens, and either had to fight in the army or (later) row in the fleet. Or both.

People underestimate the level of physical exertion these things required. These guys worked out EVERY day. They worked out so much that they actually liked working out. They lived to work out. Their entire leisure time was composed of working out and getting gay over how hot their bods were in the balmy Mediterranean sun. The first ten fucking pages in Plato's FIRST dialogue have Socrates lusting over a teenager's sweaty, manly pecs through his toga. Socrates likens himself to a lion that is about to gobble up its prey. He can barely control himself. That is how the Western philosophical tradition starts: homoerotic lust for ripped abs. When Alcibiades, the manliest man in history, bursts into the famous drinking party, at which the guests are discussing the urbane topic of Love, it is to ask Socrates why he never fucked him in the ass when they cuddled. You know how the dialogue ends? Socrates goes to the gym and works out.

Modern recreations and reconstructions have not even succeeded in duplicating the physical feats reported of the Athenian soldiery - that is, the Athenian citizenry. Often, modern historians doubt that these feats are even being accurately reported, for instance the straight dash of the Athenian army across the entire field at Marathon. This is because modern athletes and bodybuilders can't even do these things, even with relatively light gear compared to what the Athenians actually carried. It took a team of Olympic master rowers to even APPROXIMATE the sailing techniques of the Athenian fleet, outside of combat conditions, on a placid sea. The entire Athenian fleet was regularly capable of these maneuvers, season after season, year after year, campaign after campaign. The sole engine of these maneuvers was muscle. Raw, sweaty, heaving Athenian muscle. Athenian men were the envy of the Aegean.

It is understandable that modern historians, coming from a society of flabby, skinnyfat wimps, are unable to comprehend the sheer manliness of Athens. Socrates saved Alciabiades in a hoplite battle in the Peloponnesian War. Aeschylus, the tragic poet, fought at Marathon. And all of them worked out and fucked ass, at every moment they weren't literally inventing Western civilisation.

They were all gay pedos. Except Sparta, they were just gay.

Bhagavad Gita
Dhammapada
Tale of Genji
1001 Nights

>>7334863
The Venture of Islam
Secret History of the Mongols / Secret History of the Mongol Queens
Oral Literature in Africa

Great Tang Records on the Western Regions

>>7334813
Like The Odyssey.

>>7334813
Maybe shitty teen love poetry but written with enough depth that it takes a small amount of effort to understand.

The form would have to be simple.
It would have to maintain its musicality (or whatever) when read both aloud and individually.

A vague political message that doesn't take too many risks but looks like it does.

Weirdness for the sake of weirdness is a must.

Incorporate social media in some way. I don't even know how. But you're gonna look hip as fuck if you post enigmatic tweets about your book.

Basically, it would be awful.

This isn't historically how popular poetry looks, but this is how it might look now.

>>7334814
i mean like modern homie

>>7334529
I'm guessing its your first Pynchon novel?

>>7334532
No my second. I liked TCoL49. But this was just stupid.

A series of visually striking scenes that will flow better during the second readthrough

Slaughterhouse-Five
Anna Karenina
Notes from Underground
In Search of Lost Time
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Of Mice and Men
Light in August
Ham on a Rye
To the Lighthouse
Hunger

>>7334548
Tried to mix it up, with some longer books, and short ones, and more difficult ones, and easy and fun ones.

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If nothing else these will sure as hell keep you busy for a year.

>>7334282
Yes, it was pretty shit and misogynist.
Sure it was "raw," oh so authentic, and important to the sexual revolution, but fuck him and his little book. Also, I find the last point to be worrisome rather than praiseworthy.

>>7334282
You're missing an unselfcensored absolute madman from the 1930s.

It's really something special for its time.

>>7334361
What's the last point? Couldn't endure it to the end.

it's a children's book about a small mouse with a red hat that lives inside a mushroom

illustrations with warm colors and at least some pages that take place in autumn mandatory

>>7334269
The little prince

>>7334269
Lorf of the rings is happy. Various comedies, Wodehouse and Wilde. Three men in a boat, some Dickens.