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What are some good books on human psychology and how to manipulate it to one's own benefit? Some that I know-
>The 48 Laws of Power
>The Art of Seduction
>The 33 Strategies of War
>The Art of the Deal
The Prince obviously
The Art of War
How To Make Friends and Influence People
Is it necessary to get a university level education in English or Philosophy to be a good writer? Or would it be just as effective to read and write a shit ton on your own?
>>7404451
Just do it ffam
necessary? no
but it helps to have smart people around to help you fully understand some texts and/or talk and give you pointers. if you have a couple of patrician friends and enough will to read enough on a consistent basis then you could probably not tell the difference.
>>7404451
It's necessary if you want a degree and want to work somewhere that requires a degree. It's also necessary if you wish to establish connections with other people with your interests and to discuss texts and ideas with people more intelligent and experienced than you.
Otherwise, if you're disciplined, you can learn and read more than a typical university education on your own.
itt we shit up books with valid but retarded interpretations of them
>molloy is about a zombie
>prove me wrong
>>7404402
That was my take as well.
Nothing crazy actually happens, everyone is just PTSD'd out the ass.
>the whole magic theatre business was a long metaphor for an aspie's first blowjob
>entrepreneur
>innovation
>proactive
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stay resentful, pleb
>>7404374
I liked it when my noble overlords had some aesthetic sensibility and weren't corporate robots who pretended to be hip friendly "guys"
What's inside?
>>7404250
A book.
>>7404250
Define "inside."
Get the fuck off my board.
Will the atmosphere of American Suburbia sour my enjoyment of reading classic lit?
It's really the only thing that's prevented me from starting with the Greeks.
>what is escapism
>>7404024
>he wasn't born into the landed gentry or jet-setting business world
Just quit now before you humiliate yourself further.
>>7404024
>that picture
I'd wager to say 35% are xanax addicts, 15% are oxycodone fiends, and some 10% are functional alcoholics.
i cant make my brain work, i sit and read and after 2 lines my brain goes to automated mode and i just scan the words with my eyes and daydream.
how do i make my brain work?
Keep at it
>>7403954
Mindfulness meditation. Proven to reduces mind-wandering and enhance concentration.
http://www.vipassana.com/meditation/mindfulness_in_plain_english.phpAdderall is for idiots. If you need potent psychostimulants to concentrate, you're dumb.
>>7403954
meditate prior to reading
What's the most interesting book by Lovecraft?
>>7403947
Kadath and all that other dream shit. Yo. That shit is whack.
>>7403995
This is correct for stories
His best work is the short story Rats in the Walls
>>7403947
Anyone else feel that there's still much potential in the framework that Lovecraft set? I've been reading "Gyo" by Junji Ito recently and it strikes me how the core is so Lovecraftian, yet freshly served (pun intended).
100 pages in to this. Literally: "What all /lit/izens wish their lives were like: the book"
tb.h I wish my life was like The Secret History by Procopius
>>7403875
Comfiest book ever.
>Mah Vermont Autumns
I wish mine was like The Secret History of the Mongols tbhonest
Wasn't this guy meant to be brown?
>>7403867
That man clearly has a hispanic phenotype. It's not the movie's fault you're a pleb uneducated in race science.
>>7403867
The man the character is based on was Mexican, and that fellow looks pretty Mexican.
Dr Gonzo was described as Samoan.
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Imannuel Kant is the most important philosopher ever and Critique of Pure Reason is the most important book ever written
prove me wrong
take it to /hist/ nerd
>>7403829
>Imannuel Kant is the most boring philosopher ever and Critique of Pure Reason is the most boring book ever written
prove me wrong
ftfytbhfam
>>7403829
>prove me wrong
But i Kant
the one book
the one that comes to mind when someone asks you what is art, greatness, and beauty
Gone Girl, gotta be
come on faggots if you want to be writers and shit you better start training those expression skills
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, the novelization of the hit motion picture.
Is it okay if I never write out my psychotic delusions about the world and keep them to myself?
>>7403750
It would be preferable.
>>7403750
Either that or you manipulate people into thinking your psychotic delusions are a shared human experience.
that is, be an artist.
>>7403750
Philip dick made bank on sharing his.
Just read him. Why was him so based? I have a hero, now.
>>7403739
because he found the most verbose way possible to say 'fuck everyone and everything do what you want'
>>7403739
he spook a lot of people.
>>7403739
>having a hero to idealize
Spooked as fuck, man. Read his book again.
Books for people that see joy in chaos and fire
Chaos and fire aren't just destruction, they are rebirth.
I'd rather see men become great through pain and misery, than live uselessly in satiation and luxury.
