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Also a really good book cover, too bad the book sucked ass

>>9753668
Well I failed with the spoiler thing

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Sven Hassel's book covers are so trash they're great. Not to mention the titles: SS-Gestapo-Sturm Fuhrer vs OGPU Kommissar kind of shit.

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Maybe he thought he was hot shit as a child and could never recreate the feeling in his own life once he got older.

Also why did he legitimately believe in fucking retarded bullshit like telekinesis?

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>>9753650
Salinger is the Norman Rockwell of American literature,

great

>mfw standing at a swedish festival

Never even heard of it... Recommend?

>>9753462
>in which OP had no childhood love of boks
>in which ER writes better letters

>chapters are numbered
>divide number of pages by chapters to see the average
>chapters catch you off guard when they end up being much shorter or longer than the average

I'm autistic. Also those chapters usually end up being the best ones for whatever reason.

>girls don't want to know why Nietzsche is so smart
=/ is that a girl thing?

Cruft of Midnight Sojourn - Shantilly Peters

>>9753228
is this a real book?

Juan jose arreola - confabulario
Fernando del paso - palinuro de Mexico
Bernard bolzano - theory of science
Marguerite porete - the mirror of simple souls
Leibniz - nouveux essais

>>9753210
Why is he an asshat?

>>9753210
That sort of thing doesn't bother me.
Kind of ironic that you posted a book called "agency" for this thread, you shouldn'tlet your feelings dictate your thoughts or sway your principals.

>>9753223

He's an asshat because he's on-board with the whole Trump/Russian conspiracy that the media and segments of the government is trying to feed the population.

He's an asshat because he is very pro-Hillary. (His new book is even about her)

Just to clarify, I don't like politicians and I don't like Trump but to see Clinton and not see everything that is wrong with the governmental system, is either stupidity or blind ignorance.

>>9753115

It's a personal phobia. Big Brother knows all your secret weaknesses.

If you held me over a ledge, I would agree to anything.

>>9753115
I have a similar fear of a certain creature. I would admit to anything if the alternative was being tortured by it. Preferably as fast as I could so that it would not touch me.

>>9753091
He's not praised as the greatest intellect [sic] of our time, and his biography of Jefferson was quite good.

>>9753091

Yeah it's pretty embarrassing.

Pseuds get a +10 charisma boost in America if they have an English accent. If you can string together a sentence with multiple clauses and sound like the govnah while doing so like 60% of Americans will be convinced that you are profoundly intelligent which is enough to launch a career as a hack personality.

>>9753131
see. John Oliver and Trevor Noah on the libshit side and Paul Joseph Watson, Milo, Sargon of Mossad and Stefan Molyneux(yeah i know he's canadian or something, but the overall effect is the same) on the right

mark e smith likes him so probably

>>9752794
Yes.
I'm reading it now. I feel like he misunderstood the ending of Siddhartha but other than that it's fucking great.

>>9752794
It's a classic study of alienation, creativity and the modern mind.

>>9752749
>what did i think

>>9752765
Okay:
I thought that PKD makes you waffle on the humanity of the androids until just before the final showdown, when Pris cuts the legs off the spider and can't even comprehend why it upsets Isidore. Before that I wanted to think they were basically just a step removed from humans, but after that they seem pretty alien.

I think Deckard comes to exactly the conclusion I just mentioned. He says something about how "Even electric things have lives. Paltry as they are." It's a little hard to totally grasp his state of mind at the end, because some of what he says and thinks is in pretty stark contrast to what he just did. But that seems to be the point, I guess.

As for the Mercer thing, I don't have a clue.

>asks people on 4chan what he should think
>asking anybody but your fatherfigure tutor what you should think

desu...

Yes, sometimes. Not just literature though. Everything.

Try dedicating yourself to a specific genre or nationality of literature. Say to yourself "I will read every seminal work of Hungarian literature." Buy all the books and do it.

It won't feel like you're reading one book in an ocean of books. It will feel like you're putting together the pieces of a puzzle that is that nation's literary culture.

Please don't use the thread title like that

well he is founder of the only original American philosophical tradition

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Step aside kid

>>9752523
>>8949083

>I'm a nonce in jail

>>9752523
The Aeneid is the magnum opus of maybe the most important Latin poet (Vergil). Often overlooked and very influential in European literature in general, so I'd recommend you that. Also, Ovid's Metamorphoses.It's the main source of most versions of the classical myths.

>>9752497
Realizing you won't like every book deemed as a masterpiece (or historically acknowledged as good) is a big part of the development of your own taste and literary sensibility.

>>9752497
If you have to ask on 4chan, it is more likely than not. If you even think or worry about it, it is more likely than not. Even without any other information that you provided, I would come to the same conclusion.

>>9752511
On Anon's defense, pseuds tend to not realise they are pseuds.

yeah, obviously you can't, you actually ARE fucking worthless.

My diary desu

do things you respect for long enough and they will go away. there is the short version of every book on how to not feel that way. and as for the books which deal with them just on their own, the reason you feel that way is because you are not living a life you respect.

there's all the wisdom you need to read, the part that is actually hard is doing it. which is why you'll ignore this and believe that reading on it will help. it won't