why haven't you read Gorilla Mindset yet?
I have a copy, I might as well
MONKEY MIND MIKE SAY
OOOH OOOH OOOH
MONKEY MIND MIKE SAY
AHHH AHHH AHHHHHHH
MONKEY MIND MIKE SAY
BUILD OWN PLATFORM, DUMMY!
MONKEY MIND MIKE SAY
EEEE EEEE EEEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcXC9o9mRdg
Not a fan of charlatans. I despise all of these political twitter aggregates; right or left. They're frauds.
ITT: authors who are red flags.
If I meet somebody who claims to like this talentless hack, I know not to value their opinion on anything else moving forward.
Do you read his works in Japanese? It's pretty hard to translate the literary nuances of Japanese to English.
>>9643418
I am Japanese. I live in Japan.
Do you like this writor?
In Japan he is no person.
No one likes him.
This is means you American are bad
for buy so many his books
He's actually good, but his problem is that his style it's really repetitive.
Read Hard boiled wonderland and kafka in the shore, ignore any faggot who reccomends tokyo blues.
Does having a career totally unrelated to writing or literature negatively impact your ability to write? I just graduated college and am about to start working as a network engineer. I'm afraid that I'll slip into a routine of just focusing on work and spending my free time recovering instead of reading and writing enough to be competitive with someone who does nothing but write. I've thought about trying to become a technical writer so that I'm at least spending time writing, but I don't know if writing technical documents written in the simplest language possible would help me write literature.
I solved this by forgetting about network engineering after graduation, never getting a real job, becoming a neet, and studying literature.
>Not being mentally ill like all great writers and making irrational self-destructive choices
>MFW could be working in field there is shortage of workers while paying taxes but am instead draining the public purse
>>9643345
>Does having a career totally unrelated to writing or literature negatively impact your ability to write?
It gives you things to write about other than writing itself, as well as money so you don't die of starvation.
>>9643871
Yeah OP there are network engineering jobs where you setup some really specific system and travel around a shitton. That might be good if you're looking for inspiration for writing.
>he thinks free will exists
I mean it like... it might, but it's like something that we can't really like ... access ... given our like material 'reality'.
>>9643255
is ideology, and ideas, and idealism actually just literally material?
doesn't really matter. what matters is that if you think there is no free will, you will fall into existential crisis, so it's not very practical to think that way irl. might be interesting from a philosophical point of view, but is it really worth it to fuck up your life for philosophy?
has anyone on lit gone to their local bible study. I am thinking of going to mine but a 7 am start seems screwy for a book club. Will there be omelettes?
>>9643214
dogshit thread kys op
>>9643220
>being an autist and reading alone
>>9643214
Is it King James or something else?
Why is John Green such a popular and successful author?
he basically took the dfw model and feminized it.
Because he appeals to mentally ill, neurotic, SJW faggots of which there is no shortage of currently?
>48 cheerios
Will this book help or make worse an existential crisis?
it's shit holocaust propaganda that only tells you common sense, iow "people who keep a positive outlook are more resilient in crisis". NO WAY?
>>9643212
One lessons it teaches is that cognitive needs can be met prior to meeting physiological needs. That debunks the widely taught hierarchy of needs pyramid by maslow. what's funny is that I had a psychology teacher who praised that pyramid and that book without seeming to ever make that connection.
I've heard good things about the book, didn't read it myself yet though
As for the crysis, well that depends how it manifests in you, it varies from person to person so not everyone has the same problem they need to solve in it
Can't hurt to read a book though, can it
>Best
The Gay Science
>Runner Up
Beyond Good and Evil
>Most Overrated
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>Most Underrated
Untimely Meditations
>Worst
Human, All Too Human
on the genealogy of morals >> beyond good and evil >>>>>>>> ecce homo >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the rest
>Most Underrated
Twilight of the Idols
never see it mentioned and the section on the four errors alone is one of the best passages in his work
>>9643242
That would def be mine as well if I didn't think Untimely Meditations was way less talked about. Problem of Socrates is such a good section.
pic related
press x to doubt
A Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
I hate the utopia theme; I've read probably 10 of them. This book kicked ass. My view hasn't changed on the subject, but BNW far surpassed my expectations and I was sad to put it down and sad when it ended. It made my "Top 10 Best Books I've Ever Read" list.
They've substituted Caesar for Trump in their production, what do you think of this?
Lincoln would've been better
>>9643117
Anglos
>>9643117
gonna lmao when he gets attacked by a schizo
>tfw literally can't write a story without giving the main character your first name
I don't know what it is. I get fucking distracted. It just seems wrong when I read it and they're not sharing my name.
Does this make all my work self-insert shit?
this is actually really odd and probably a symptom of a sort of retarded narcissism. A kind I can't even shame, only pity.
>>9643118
maybe OP has a dope name and anything else just doesn't rate
>>9643122
It's WIlliam.
I don't even think it's that amazing of a name, but when I name the main character Chris or Robert, it distracts the hell out of me and I can't continue writing until I replace it with William.
Let's have a thread about this fucker. I've yet to read a story by him that I disliked. However:
>tfw I can't stop imagining Peterson from "A Shower of Gold" as Jordan B. Peterson
>>9643076
How can you be alienated without first being connected? Think back and remember how it was
>>9643094
The ending of that story gives me the feels
>>9643076
That fucking cat-piano...
Also, "The School" is hilarious
Has any philosopher (past or future) been able to refute Camus' take on absurdism?
>>9643040
forgot to add: without appealing to religion or spiritualty
>>9643040
I don't think Camus' philosophy really lends itself to being refuted or even be up for discussion. I'm not aware that he made any actual technical claims that might actually provoke debate. Pointing out that life is absurd is insightful but also kind of superficial.
>>9643058
Well, yes I can see what you mean. Why do you think it's superficial?
what does it mean?
>>9642997
If I had a knife, I'd cut off my fucking head right now
>>9643000
your mouth
smells
like flowers
i think
you are
a vase
Probably some lame shit about light in darkness
Through an odd twist of fate, I am beginning to become Severin of Venus in Furs. It is a quite identical situation in modern context. Dom/sub relationship, with myself as a slave. Ask me anything.
why do my spaghetti-o's keep making lightning?
>>9642875
I hunger...
Did you happen to finish the book dumb dumb ?