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>>9747769
>he thought a comic book maker could write a full fledged maximalist novel

>>9747842
Lmao what a retard

>>9747857
ikr

>>9747762

Learn Lacan.

>>9747762
I'm too young to answer that question but I would guess that everybody's passion comes and goes occasionally, and you should just go try something new for a while until you want to come back to reading. Get into art film.

>>9747762
Take the blackpill, read Harry Potter

>>9747663
Boredom

Were you one of those kids who actually enjoyed reading your history textbook in high school? If so, you'll love this.

>>9747664
t pleb

>>9747658
that is the worst fucking thing I've ever seen, and I'm offended on a deep, visceral level

>>9747652
Goals, anon

>>9747642
It's a really good sort of theme desu, and is prevelant throughout his works.

Also, on the topic of McElroy, there was a topic on Women and Men up a few days back I can't find, with regards to the new printing of the novel being a total scam? Can any illuminate? Dzanc fucking hacks? Is there any hope of affordable copies? What's the deal?

>>9747654

>>9741842
>>9741962
don't be a fucking moron, this is a hoax. dzanc books on their own website has no information whatsoever regarding women and men, their twitter doesn't either, which displays all of their other publications, target and book depository have miraculously claimed there was no available copy upon july 11th, the isbn directs to the hardback edition, the fucking picture clearly says "rEprint" as in eprint, and there is on site a dzanc copy of preparations for search which has the same color scheme and could be easily edited. it's a god damn hoax.

>>9747669
i pre-ordered on B&N, checked my bak statement yday after the allegations, and my card has never been charged soooo

whatever

that picture is so very excellent

something something nietzsche
idk
just looking at that image

I selectively seek out fiction to enhance my aesthetics to be honest

>>9747637
Nietzsche Birth of Tragedy
Oscar Wilde The Decay of Lying
Anything by Walter Pater especially the Renaissance
Immanuel Kant Critique of Judgment (get a selection from an art/literary theory anthology, that will be all you need)
Peep this -- https://www.amazon.com/Art-Theory-1900-Anthology-Changing/dp/0631227083 when you finish that, why not -- https://www.amazon.com/Art-Theory-1815-1900-Anthology-Changing/dp/0631200665/ref=pd_sim_14_3/135-9152422-1545608?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=7R6GG2CPZN5WCC4BYTGP

This will be a banger for you, really fuck up your thinking and put you on to some crazy shit -- https://www.amazon.com/Routledge-Companion-Aesthetics-Philosophy-Companions/dp/0415782872/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1499891950&sr=1-4&keywords=Routledge+aesthetics

Read Walter Benjamin, like most of what he wrote. If you fucked with it, peep Adorno & Horkheimer on the Dialectic of Enlightenment

This is sick -- https://selforganizedseminar.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/rancic3a8re-jacques-politics-aesthetics-distribution-sensible-new-scan.pdf

and yeah, >>9747739 , fiction is integral to all this, cannot be understated. But fuck whatever lists of shlock you find on this board, peep Rushdie's Midnight's Children, that should give you plenty to work with.
Cheers, good luck, this may fuck up your life in huge ways you aren't ready for but you'll be better for it.

>>9747593
start with the greeks

>>9747593

Definitive Ishiguro Power Ranking:

>Canonical masterpiece tier
The Unconsoled - S

>Beloved classic tier
The Remains of the Day - A+
The Buried Giant - A+

>Delightful intro tier
Cellists - A
Crooner - B

>Flawed but touching tier
Never Let Me Go - B+
>Novel experimentation tier
A Pale View of Hills - B
>Traditionally proficient tier
Artist of the Floating World - B-

>Flawed experimentation tier
When We Were Orphans - C
Nocturne - C
Come Rain or Come Shine - C-
Malvern Hills - C-

>>9747610
While I wouldn't have put this list in that order, I mostly agree with it. Didn't like TBG but whatever.

There are literally no arguments for nominalism so why don't you try yourself lad?

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>i'm a nominalist
>i belong to a class

It's like ottery

>>9747546
good point
>people call me a nominalist
more like

Life is escapism

>>9747464
>go live life
Sounds like escapism.

>>9747464
Why not both? Read at night, when there is less to do outside.

Is that the meme /mu/ author from 2013?

Hahahah I just googled him and he's fucking 35. What a sad chinky life.

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ask him what dressing he prefers with his salads now-a-days
also ask him if he knows nick land yet

>>9747413
Ask him for speedreading tips

Pringles taste fucking awful.

>spend eight months writing
>finish three sentences

Stop googling for things, just write.
Plot in more detail first, include stuff that's just there in the scenery in the notes and it'll help when you just flesh it out

Atheism is cringeworthy.

Of course! But they aren't atheist books

>>9747383
Could you recommend good books written about atheism, of course, under an atheist perspective?

Yes.

No.

No.

>>9747206
no

>implying you can understand a foreign weltanschauung without starting from the greeks all the way up to heidegger first

Waste of time. You aren't going to understand them in translation, as they are impossible to translate.

>>9747106
Read Kant

>>9747125
Kant dodges the issue, just like PoMos did. Cognitive skepticism loses its appeal in in light of the functioning of bridges and synthetic insulin etc.

>>9747132
Because...?