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>>9721735
>Moby Dick, Ulysses, The Brothers Karamazov, the Master and Margarita, East of Eden

>>9721735
>>9722468
Faggots

>Gravity's Rainbow
>The Sot-Weed Factor
>Darconville's Cat
>Infinite Jest
>Light in August

Schopenhauer was not a good writer as far as I can tell. He is known mainly for who he influenced. Literature among other things fosters emotional intelligence. Rigor doesn't factor into it. To study literature is also to study history, at least the history of ideas. If done with systematic rigor this pursuit has applications across many relevant fields. At any rate, literature is a hobby as well. Why don't you go make fun of the origami crowd for not being engineers.

>>9721716

I completely agree. But then why do you guys and shitloads if people irl pretend that books such as Dostoevsky's have "incredible philosophical insights"!

>>9721725
Dostoyevsky's books often address ethical philosophy. He was also a very good story teller.

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>>9721630
That's the wrong list. But you're right. The list isn't perfect, but it gives you a vague idea of which books are the best of the best.

>>9721630
>Grapes of Propaganda
>worth a fuck

>>9721647

>Finnegan's babble

>worth a fuck

calves, same as the animal.

>>9721619
Wew that was quick.

wtf I love this board now.

>>9721596
Calfsies. It's cutesier.

>>9721552
duh?

>Men of learning are those who have done their reading in the pages of a book. Thinkers and men of genius are those who have gone straight to the book of Nature; it is they who have enlightened the world and carried humanity further on its way. If a man’s thoughts are to have truth and life in them, they must, after all, be his own fundamental thoughts; for these are the only ones that he can fully and wholly understand. To read another’s thoughts is like taking the leavings of a meal to which we have not been invited, or putting on the clothes which some unknown visitor has laid aside. The thought we read is related to the thought which springs up in ourselves, as the fossil-impress of some prehistoric plant to a plant as it buds forth in spring-time.

>Reading is nothing more than a substitute for thought of one’s own. It means putting the mind into leading-strings. The multitude of books serves only to show how many false paths there are, and how widely astray a man may wander if he follows any of them. But he who is guided by his genius, he who thinks for himself, who thinks spontaneously and exactly, possesses the only compass by which he can steer aright. A man should read only when his own thoughts stagnate at their source, which will happen often enough even with the best of minds. On the other hand, to take up a book for the purpose of scaring away one’s own original thoughts is sin against the Holy Spirit. It is like running away from Nature to look at a museum of dried plants or gaze at a landscape in copperplate.

>>9721552
Good reading habits and proper annotation/note-taking solves most of those problems. Instead of reading what somebody thinks, you're thinking about what somebody else thinks, often with your own flavors too. The best part of taking good notes is that your thoughts don't have to be remembered, so when you have a particularly good chain of thoughts, they will automatically be saved for posterity in their full glory.

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>look for a very specific plot
>find exactly one (1)
>prose and style are absolutely awful

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>>9721498
>reading for plot

>>9721449
>they write in genres
Is that the literary equivalent of "speaking in tongues"?

>>9721355
What drives a person to become a tripfag?

>>9721356
Easy for people to know OP is
recognition in threads
a lil bit of infamy

>>9721357
I like when they trip so I can filter them out lmao

Complete Works of Plato
Complete Works of Aristotle
Kant's Three Critiques
Hegel's System of Science (Phenomenology of Spirit + Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences)
Heidegger's Being and Time

>>9721477
That's cheating.

1. Complete Corpus of Western Philosophy
2. Compete Corpus of Oriental Philosophy
3. Complete Corpus of Middle Eastern Philosophy
4. Complete Corpus of African Philosophy
5. Complete Corpus of Native American Philosophy

>>9721240
dunno about céline, but house of leaves isn't a good place to start

>>9721240

I'm reading journey... it seems dated. Most of the novelty centers around things we're already aware of- war is inglorious, colonies are miserable, love is ugly, etc.

celine is a good place to start for an edgy 12th grader

I don't know what you mean by redpill but it's a good book and you should read it regardless of whatever preconceived notions you have for it.

>>9721102

>western images of the east are racist

There. The whole book can be summed up in one sentence. I saved you time. You're welcome.

It's probably the other text next to Judith Butler's Gender Trouble that has informed today's tumblr identity politics.

There are a lot of reasons it's actually a very faulty argument and it basically just stirred up more shit and resentment and makes the media landscape so obnoxious all day.

>>9721100
k ty

Depends, do trains make you hard?

>>9721095
if you want to read rand, read fountainhead.
it's the better novel and has the least crazy take away.
It's also 2/3rds the length.

Tropic of Cancer

bump

(im a girl btw)

Nick Land.

>Porcelains of Dune
>Haircuts of Dune
>Pointed Hats of Dune

God, didn't frank leave the lad enough money, plus getting money from continuing sales of dune that he had to rape his fathers corpse?

>>9720783
The "Legends of Dune" trilogy was pretty good (includes "The Butlerian Jihad"). Hunters and Sandworms "wrap up" the original story, but they're pretty meh in my opinion. Fuck everything else; cashgrab bullshit.

Louis XIV's diary entry of July 14, 1789
>nothing today

Ulysses speech in The Divine Comedy

>to be or not to be
>Ivan Karamazov's on God
>sermon of the mountain

I've been walking down the street when I noticed that the population was droping. "This is weird" I thought, only a monster would do this. I came back to my house and I went in the rat cave. I realized that there had been some metallic objects that followed to a building. "It's times like these to investagate and find out what monster is doing this." So Orville, faster than a cheetah, he took his suit and ran out the cave to find the vile villin.

Orville A.K.A Rat Man searched for the missing people. He followed the trail of metal objects. He then noticed the objects were moved all over Cheeseburg. "Hold it right there!" a mysterios voice said. I imedetly stoped and he said "I have orders from the boss to kick your hiny and make sure you don't find his hideout!" So Rat Man fought the robot to find the missing people. First Rat Man puched the robot in the face and knocked out the bots voice chip. Then the robot tried to trip Rat Man, but he failed to do so. Then the robot teleported back to his hideout. Dang! "Another villan escaped!" said Rat Man. Soon after the battle I found the bots voice chip. "Pherhaps I will see the same technology in the robot all over town. "And proboly their are more robots."

So then I used the string cheese to cilmb up a building to see anything suspicess. Then I spied a 1950 warehouse. "This is a good place for a hideout," I thought. Maybe their is other vile villans working for the boss. Then *BLAST* robots sorounded him and they were coming. Rat Man knew what to do....... fight! Then it started and they fought for an hour. The robots used hi-tech weapons to destroy Rat Man. Luckily Ratman had a hack-system. He then programed it to control a robot, but it took time.