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>>9833959
Confessions by Augustine was pretty life changing. Everything after Book IX isn't essential though unless your really interested in patristic exegesis

>>9833962
Thank you!

The Strange Death of Europe - Douglas Murray

Literary equivalent of "dressed by the internet"

>>9833822
Missing Lolita/10

>>9833822
>Fukuyama and Huntington
Nice, my dude.

>>9833754
He didn't mean literally dead, you dumbass. He meant dead to the plebs. God is dead because so many God to have no value. Though, value is subjective.

>>9833778
Andd,, I;ve done to much cocaine tonightt. I'm going to go shoot myself.

>JUJST 1 MORE CHAPTER!

>Plebs believe this

Nietzsche probably spent years working through thousands of texts, challenging himself every single hour of every day, literally driving himself mad...to work up the courage to say those words

John Bath - The Floating Opera

>>9833698
Barth*, and funny you mention that, it's one of my favorite novels and I can actually see that connection now that you mention it.

Blake?

http://monologues.co.uk/Military/Rifleman_Brown.htm

>>9833629

poems are made by fools like me
but only /pol/ can win the presidency.

>>9833629
I once spent a couple weeks memorizing random poems. Some pretty lengthy, some only a couple verses. Two years later and I've forgotten 90% of it all. It's a pointless endeavor imo.

>>9833587
Cryptonomicon has some merit, it is at least unique and has some interesting ideas about security, wealth, and perceptions of history.

I cant write it off as genre trash like I can say, Snow Crash.

>>9833618

this

his writing style otherwise is trash

>>9833618
Yup. Crytonomicon was an interesting read if not a fucking bore half the time

>>9833490
I'm glad someone did.

Clap yourself on the back.

I liked the worldbuilding, I thought some of the characters were surprisingly nuanced in their views and reactions to the society they inhabited and get that it must have had more political significance in the wake of the Iranian Revolution, but my main issue with the novel is the prose. It's alright for the most part but at times it gets to feeling like a bad Virginia Woolf impression that's hard to bear reading.

that looks p dank is there an audiobook version

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>>9833455

Don't start shit by massacring Roman citizens.

the book of mormon

>>9833357
your diaries daysue

>>9833357
I read Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy with my gf once. She's not really a reader so we chose something lite

>pls no art house horror
Now this is pretentious

>>9833266
The strain trilogy by del toro
Let the right one in
Roadside picnic (reads like a modern setting)

>>9833269
Art house horror is some of the worst crap ever put out, regardless of the medium.

b-bump

>taking the Santa isn't real bluepill
pleb

>>9833113
>be literally me
>sometimes I can be figuratively me, literally someone else, or figuratively someone else
>but in this case, i am literally me
>anyway here's a story about how much of a faggot i am

oh, this thread again

>>9833099
It's much easier to make sweeping scary generalisations based on a few wikipedia pages than actually read Dialectic of Enlightenment

>>9833099
>daily reminder that in 'Dialectics of Enlightenment' Adorno and Horkheimer praised jazz as the ultimate form of music and denounced the value of all high modernism and compositions by classical composers, solely to raise the stock of blacks in the US which would enable them to start procreating with white women which would further the 'mass-brownification' (Adorno's term) of the white race
>daily reminder that in his One-Dimensional Man Jewish intellectual and Western subverter Herbert Marcuse elaborated a theory that tried to discredit the advances and progress of capitalism by proposing that capitalism in fact never did anything positive for humanity, but instead that all the cultural progress and achievements that have ever been made, was done by bolsheviks (even in Ancient Greece, Rome, and by the Egyptians)
>daily reminder that the Frankfurt Institute at Colombia University (after they moved to the US to tear down the social fabric of the US) were notoriously famous for their underground basement facilities which were closed to the public and which -- according to several reliable witnesses which have since been silenced by the liberal left -- served to infiltrate academia in the US by inviting unsuspecting and pro-capitalist professors down there and through KGB methods subverted them to bolshevik-feminism and degeneracy
>daily reminder that Eric Fromm, through his psychoanalytic theory which was supplemented by dialectics, tried to prove that in a socialist world there would be no such thing as car accidents, because there would be no paternal authority figure when everyone are 'equal'
>daily reminder that Jürgen Habermas -- through his theory about an 'ideal speech situation' -- tried to elaborate how white heterosexual men should never be allowed to participate in public discourse or the trading of ideas, because these people are -- to use his famous phrase -- 'inherently oppressive'.
>daily reminder that Max Horkheimer tried to use material dialectics to prove that pedophilia was merely a social construct and that it was incumbent on all elderly Jews to exploit children sexually and in fact was their moral duty to do so in the name of 'progressivism'
>daily reminder that in his 'Negative Dialectics' Adorno sough to prove that an object is never equal to its description from which concluded such outlandish things as 'the generally accepted bourgeois notions pertaining to so-called "evolution" are categorically false ... because Whites are never only Whites, and Blacks are never only Blacks which bears witness to an oppressive categorization imposed by Fascistic ideology to divide the proletariat' and '[if women can be said to have a vagina] does that stem from the normative use of language and its rigidity in opposition to dialectical change, and can a vagina in such a case even be said to exist?'

>>9833149
>Adorno and Horkheimer praised jazz as the ultimate form of music
m8 everyone knows that Teddy hated jazz

>>9833092
Still takes dick for a living so why should I give a shit?

>>9833095
because she reads gary lutz goddamnit

No one who prostitutes herself for a living can be earnestly smart.

>>9833069
The original cultural marxist and subverter of tradition and propagate individualism and idealism.
Jump ahead and go straight to Schopenhauer's On Women

>>9833069
Read his complete works in chronological order.

>>9833089
Annotated or unannotated?

Tragic: I recommend The House of Mirth. Comic: Pride and Prejudice or Emma.

>>9833054
My First Love by Ivan Turgeniev

>>9833054
>a sad and lonely beta cuck
Silas Marner