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He's not wrong, you know.
Watchmen was disowned by Alan.
>The series was created by a British collaboration consisting of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins. Watchmen originated from a story proposal Moore submitted to DC featuring superhero characters that the company had acquired from Charlton Comics.
>read books because of great writing and ideas
>told that good books can only be about the "human condition"
>if your book isn't about serious people thinking serious thoughts and having serious emotions then it isn't worthwhile
When will the human condition fags fuck off? Ironically, caring about people requires the least strenuous use of empathy.
Being a robot frogposter is part of the human condition, write about that.
People say something you disagree with so you dwell on it to the point that you can no longer enjoy the things they disagree with you on?
It sounds like you were beat the fuck out.
>>8273491
>worthwhile
Values, values everywhere
Read what you want, OP.
The fuck did I just read?
Moby Dick?
Sparknotes is your company.
Twenty chapters about the sea.
Will any of his books still be read in 200 years?
HA! No.
>>8273474
probably.
They wont ecen be read in 20 years
Quality post op
What's your opinion on Murakami?
He has certainly written books.
>>8273460
That's a fact, not an opinion.
>>8273459
I read Kafka on the Shore and enjoyed the dreaminess to it. Then I read he stated that the book was like a riddle, with a different answer to every individual, requiring many rereads to solve, and thought he was an insufferable hack.
Good day /lit/
I am looking for books to improve myself, so I am looking for non fiction books.
So far I've made a small list, can you suggest any additions to this list?
History or autobiographys are also wanted.
I hope you can help me, thanks :)
The sex god method
Sexual intelligence
48 laws of power
Dress like a man, a style guide for men
Dave ramsay, The total money makeover
Adulting, how to become a grown up
Verbal judo
How to talk to anyone, 92 tricks
What everybody is saying
Think and grow rich napoleon...
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This board is really slow.
Ill just patiently wait :)
A lot of those are memey
just read Ancient Histories and Biographies
Herodotus - The Histories
Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War
Xenophon - Hellenica; Anabasis
Polybius - The Histories
Caesar - The Gallic War; The Civil War
Tacitus - The Histories; Annals; Agricola; Germanica
Suetionius - Lives of the Caesars
Plutarch - Lives of Eminent Romans and Greeks
I know this is a memepost but if someone here is actually looking for some sort of self improvement book; stop. The only way you can get out of your slum is to become passionate about something. You've got to find that part yourself because no one else knows what it will be. Fuck it could be just walking around finding bottle caps or some shit just find something
>mfw I've been reading almost non-stop for weeks now, while also writing and actually studying my notes
I finally made it
I developed habit
I encourage you to make posts like this on your blog and not here
>>8273387
this
>>8273387
Not OP, but what if this is one of those parody memes
Today while sitting in the library I asked a Chinese girl across from me how long it took her to read one of the manga books she was reading. I was sitting there reading a PKD novel I had already read while waiting for my Dad to finish browsing, and this girl had been reading them one after the other, going back and forth between her chair and the manga section, and I had only been there for twenty-odd minutes. She was too absorbed in her Chinese comic book to even notice my question. I walked away, feeling a little flabbergasted. Being immersed in a book I understand, but why...
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It's probably a reaction to the 16 hours of studying they're forced to do every day.
>>8273316
The same exact thing happened to me not long ago.
Maybe she just didn't want to talk to you.
she sent me a message yesterday at 1 am to ask if I was home, I ignored it because I was busy but I'm still thinking about it.
This is also after nearly a year of no contact
We met while I was spending a month in Australia. Messaged each other for a few days after I returned to the UK and then it just suddenly stopped. She's always on my mind.
>>8273313
I spent 5 days with her, the 5 best and truest days of my life. When I returned home we kept messaging eachother until she lost interest in me. A year and a half and 2 other girls has passed and Im still thinking daily about her.
Why does profound literature have zero effect on people compared to augmented reality?
Is this something to dismiss as for plebs? Or as something completely separate from literature ("It's not even art!", "It's not the same medium!")
Or are things just as icy calm said they would be, technology working as an integral part of art (as it always has, not that the pseuds could realise this), and creating new forms of art that capture the imaginations of people better than old art forms (2D vidya, 3D vidya, cinema, books) ever could?
>>8273302
I wish I was there.I'm so lonely.
I can't play video games anymore. I think it's because I'm an adult now.
Because the zeitgeist of entertainment changes?
Ill start.
>Gone Girl.
Shitty ending.
>Atlas Shrugged.
Self explanatory.
Notes from Underground because that shit hit way too close to home
dave eggers' a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. jesus christ what an unbearable read
This one by Banksy.
Obscure books
No such thing
>>8273099
You really don't need any more words than these when talking about gender and sexuality.
the comforts of madness - paul sayer
Who agrees with Nagasawa? I certainly do... at least in principle.
That's fair enough, but it does mean you're missing out on interesting new things.
>>8273019
This is the dumbest shit I've ever heard. Considering it was ultimately written by Murakami, I should have been expecting that.
How do you define a 'baptism of time'? How would a 'baptism of time' change the fundamental concepts and values of a book? Why does an author need to be dead first? Should we not support authors when they are alive to hear feedback and reap the benefits of their work?
This is like when people start to wank over an artist after they die, it's...
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I agree with him.
What does lit think about Alain de Botton?
>>8272888
I find his school of life stuff entertaining but in the end he's nothing more than a meme, a second class pop philosopher.
He's a meme cult leader
For the segment of the population he's trying to reach - people who are open to thought but not willing or able to invest serious study, or who haven't previously been exposed to thought - it's better than nothing.
I saw his documentaries when I was like 12 on pbs and it was the first thing that made me think philosophy was interesting and it made me want to learn more. I'm probably not alone - in that sense he's doing his job well.
Is Diogenes just a meme? As someone with little philosophical background how can I into his ideas as well as the ideas he was refuting ?
There's not enough surviving material to really "get into" Cynicism, but if your curious enough of their ideas filter down into Stoicism, so I'd recommend reading that - Stoics like Epictetus quote Diogenes a lot and use some of his sayings/general life to illustrate points they want to make.
General idea is that human relations are inauthentic, and that we should instead live according to nature. Stoics expanded on the last part to be less "eschewing social customs" and more "understand how the world works and bear no illusions about...
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>>8272883
There is no way that plato cup story is real. That's too fucking gold.
>>8272883
He was autistic
