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hey guys just finished my last exam. time to go on 4chan now. cuz you know, it's not like I can't do that after school or on weekends(retards). what are some good summer time books?
>>8174304
my diary to be perfectly h
>>8174790
care to post some
>>8174304
this
What's the best read order?
Chronological? Order in which they were written? Something else?
I want to do it "right" the first time.
>>8174276
Here you go.
Stick to the Frank books. The later ones are excrement.
>>8174276
First you read messiah, then god emperor, chapterhouse if you want and then the opriginal and children of dune.
Yuo can skip chapterhouse btw but after children of dune you might want to read heretics and sandworms of dune.
>>8174274
>Chronological?
Oh just try reading it in order of God Emperor of Dune, Dune Messiah, Dune, then Chapterhouse, then Children of Dune.
Quite an experience.
what are /lit/'s opinions on the Foundation series?
cool or cuck?
First book was ok, got tired real fast of having to love a character and then be force to toss him aside. His robot serie was god tier in comparison.
>>8174268
I liked them although I never got around to reading prelude
>>8174268
The only cool part was Trevize scoring all the alien pussy.
Where to start with Hannah Arendt?
The introduction and first chapters of Between Past and Future.
>>8174248
>reading female """""""""philosophers""""""""""
You are an intellectual insect
>>8174248
The Human Condition.
What are some good books about accepting the fact that everything is shit and getting worse until you die?
Cosy defeatism/fatalism, if you will.
>>8174170
get laid, loser
Epictetus is good. And not just because his name makes me think "epic taters," every single time.
To paraphrase: If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
TL;DR: Don't let it get to you.
>>8174174
>implying that helps
is it /lit/core or /drug/core and could you post more /drug/core
>>8174166
burroughs - junky (just dope things back in the old days)
welsh - trainspotting (also skagboys and porno, skagboys is about the first taste and then the descent into addiction, p good stuff)
bukowski - everything, it's all about being a sloppy alcoholic
kerouac - big sur (late stage alcoholism and depression, powerful stuff desu, heavy on the feels)
got your enjoyable plebcore base right there
Ryu Murakami- Almost Transparent Blue
Witkacy - Drugs
Hello /lit/
I have started with the Greeks and resumed with the Romans.
My question is after I have continued with the Christians, do I then Ruminate with the Renascence men? or do I back up to the Byzantines?
And at which time do I adventure with the Arabs and examine the east Asians?
>>8174128
get kuhrazy with the khristians
you get along with the arabics
avicenna, alfarabi, averroes etc
all these memes
you should have read the greeks and skipped to enlightenment
Songs that remind you of books
https://youtu.be/7bWdv9oTUbg
CORNCOBBER PLEASE GO
I have another good one for Blood Meridian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBXclCjvB_o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcSPK5yn9K8
Has anyone here read the series? That is, the four books on each archetype.
what did u think?
>>8174027
allow me to post meme relating to black man and the king word next to it (get ready this is hilarious): we wuz kings (the implication being that blacks were never kings but they try to make shakespeare and egypt black to justify them not being inherently inferior to the white man)
YOU
WEREN'T
KINGS
consider yourselve BTFO
>>8174038
???
the /pol/ shitposting is getting really incoherent
>>8174040
wanna argue that blacks were kings? not kings as we understand it. they were kings, maybe in etiopia, but they werent civilized and hence the WE WUZ KINGS meme is valid to combat that idea
Is Advaita Vedanta the end-game of metaphysics?
No. Immanuel Kant.
Is advaita vedanta just neoplatonism for plebs who enjoy orientalism? You decide!
>>8174021
>implying that neoplatonism isn't just bootleg parmenidism
I got this for 3.50 dollars on amazon with 2 day prime membership shipping, same with wuthering heights a while ago. What are more insanely good steals of really in your opinion "good" books like these?
>>8173899
What did you think of it? The ideas on holiness as depicted in Euthyphro are intriguing.
>>8173899
Dunno if it was a pricing error but I once got a $90 textbook like new for $20 through Amazon Warehouse
didn't even look like anyone had ever cracked it open
>>8173923
Not read it yet. I am currently reading Nausea by Sartre. I just picked it up because it was 3.50 fucking dollars and it was on my wish list.
got any novels with prophets?
looking for more cassandra types than jews in the desert. also literal prophets, not gibson/zamyatin/kulturindustrie types.
pic unrelated
>>8173889
Dune
>>8173912
its sequels too? is it good?
>>8173997
I can't speak of the sequel, Messiah, except it's on my reading list, so I enjoyed Dune enough for that.
If you like reading about feuding noble houses, deserts, and ways of nomadic/tribal folk then you should like it.
The amount of lore will either grip or repulse you, there is a map, glossary of terms and three appendices.
Has there ever been a bigger hack than this man?
He was wrong about basically everything, and a monstrous hypocrite to boot.
>>8173841
Yes, Whitehead.
>>8173841
>nu-male emasculated liberal art Bernout cuck detected
All the continentals from Kant onwards were the true hacks that have subverted Western civilization and made it succumb to degeneracy
hemingway
aristotle
hume
>ectoplasm
>>8173763
what does he mean by this?
>>8173807
cum
He sure did like willies, did old Willy.
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Is Stephen King a hack whose potboiler books purely belong in the book section of a grocery store or do you feel his works have literary merit?
I ask this because I'm under the impression that most people experience King as adolescents or teenagers, but I first read his books recently as an adult. King's works have made a big impact on pop culture and I was curious enough to see what all the fuss was about. I've come away with mixed feelings and wanted to see what other folks thought.
>>8173600
>a big impact on pop culture
who gives a shit about this?
>>8173600
He pretty much just writes airport fiction and things that belong in grocery stores more than bookstores, yes. I know this because I used to devour his books by the fuckton when I first started reading and had no idea what I actually liked and just sat around libraries reading shit like The Stand all day because his name was one of the few I'd heard of at the time.
>>8173600
>do you feel his works have literary merit
noooope
I find them on the same level as the films that have been made on them. Sometimes, rarely, I am in the mood for some small-town horror shit and that's all he's worth. I only ever got through Talisman and that was rough.
