So can I pick this up and read it with very limited knowledge about philosophy?
>>9600642
Yes.
>>9600642
Read the 5 dialogues first, its much shorter and gives you a way to ease into platonic dialogues and it also provides context of who SOKRATZ was.
>>9600680
>the 5 dialogues
What? Which 5?
Thoughts on Jordan Peterson's "A List of Influential Books Everyone Should Read"?
too many self help books
Doesn't seem like a coherent list for the average mouth breather that gets mesmerized by his rhetoric.
>>9600571
>puts his own book in a top 15 books to read list
what do we think about hitch?
i personally love him. i don't agree with everything he says, but he is probably the wittiest person i've seen.
>>9600551
What are the things you don't agree with?
Glad God took him so he could get busy getting into Heaven
>>9600551
>we
fuck off you hivemind piece of shit i bet you watch hitchens videos and try to come up with a comment that will get liked the most
I hate this Nietczhzhejehehehzhxxchhee for having such a shitty name I have to constantly use Google to spell.
He is now "Big Moustache Guy"
>>9600465
or BMG for short
i fear for your brain if you can't even spell and remember a name
>>9600474
I have dyslexia, I remember when I was young struggling really hard to distinguish between bs and ds. One image really helped me!
All I'm doing here is Anglicizing his name for the good of us all.
Are you also studying something with little to no relation to literature at college?
I get bored as hell every single day learning useless crap like finances or marketing, all because people around me keep telling me that I can't do anything with a philosophy degree.
It's basically hell.
we need socialism bcos of this bro
if money is free then nobody needs to work and you can study what you want bcos it doesnt matter
>>9600454
why? why pay money to study something you don't wish to study? you are literally paying them for a service, why are you letting them inconvenience you in your scholarly pursuits?
>>9600454
Just do philosophy you idiot. If it were true that philosophy degrees sentenced you to a life of horror, poverty, and doom no one would major in it, yet people do and end up okay. We need people who can think
Explain this.
>>9600449
Explain this
noam "jacks off on figurines" chomsky
>>9600449
>Noam
>Gnome [noʊm]
Anything else?
>read literature or engage with any high art
>all my insecurities start to constantly torment me and I'm molded into a mindset which makes me feel distant to everyone around me.
>play video games and maybe watch some tv comedy every now and then.
>suddenly happy and able to move on with my life normally.
anyone else know this feeling and possibly stuck in a similar back and forth?
grow up feelsguy
Maybe try improving yourself instead of ignoring your imperfections with mindless distraction.
No, the first always applies to me, maybe even moreso after I've played videogames or done some similar thing to distract myself
Is this a good version of Crime and Punishment?
havent read it but iirc the Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear translations should be the best
>>9600139
wrong. if you had done your research, you would know that P&V literally admitted to the superiority of Garnett.
>>9600125
It is the best translation for C&P
I've become obsessed with Schopenhauer and he's the only writer I can relate to and read. What should I read along the same lines as him to not become pidgeonholed in one writer? Both fiction/nonfiction is fine.
>>9599897
>virgin detected
>>9599897
Ligotti
>>9599898
Yes, I am a virgin. But I'm not really bitter about it, I used to be but not anymore. I don't agree with his essay on women if that's what you're referring to.
Well, /lit/?
>>9599803
Gene Wolfe sucks donkey dick.
The truest sentence ever known.
>>9599803
Niggers tongue my anus.
>>9599803
One what? Forever be known as a one-liner pleb?
Is this book worth reading ?
>>9599667
The flicks are decent
Only the cinematic adaptations are worth watching
No, it's mediocre pop lit that happened to serve as the basis for two pretty good films.
How do I live a beautiful life?
>>9599624
SUSPEND THE ETHICAL AND AESTHETIC LIFE
>>9599624
You can start by removing your partner's dick from your behind
>>9599638
explain, you possible genius-madman
David Lynch adaptation when?
>>9599340
Never. He's too old.
Lynch probably doesnt like to read.
Not saying he's not smart, he is very, but he probably sees it as beneath him for the most part.
What's the literary equivalent of Inland Empire?
Why do people constantly quote Bukowski like he's some sort of messiah?
do they...?
>>9599255
I never heard anyone quote bukowski
>>9599255
Because the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
who is the literary equivalent?
who was that like....frat guy who wrote those dumb bro-joke kinda books? I forget his name, don't care enough to look him up.
He got made fun of a lot on O&A because he came on and told an obviously fake and unfunny story.
>>9599235
do you unironically like opie and anthony and not stern?
>>9599220