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I'm looking for a book like this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95BwFLCVX9U
>>8269468
wow i don't have a recommendation but i'm enjoying the album. thanks for showing me something new today friend :)
>>8270103
you're welcome.
>>8269468
Winesburg, Ohio
Is anyone else really fucking bored by books? I only read so that people don't think that I'm a pleb, though I don't have any social life whatsoever outside of 4chan.
I'm bored by the process of reading but I love the exploration of stories and ideas and the playing with language. I'm STEM by trade and I've never been a very good reader but I do love it, reading Moby Dick has been a highlight of my adult life.
>>8269359
Honestly, reading is kind of a chore for me sometimes, I don't think that's bad. I exclusively read philosophical texts though. I enjoy the content, but you can't expect every second to be entertaining, but when you reach a particular pretty passage or something that makes it all click for you, it's all worth it.
I can't be bored because I have strong will like the Green Lantern.
I suck at Hegel. What does he mean when he refers to negativity?
>>8269358
as opposed to positivity, numbnuts. read Singer and Kaufmann.
>>8269381
Honestly dude, every time I try to read anything in philosophy and ask any question about it I get told I need to read three other philosophers before I can read whichever one I'm interested in. Like, at some point I feel like I just have to choose someone.
>>8269385
That's why you start with the Greeks, dummy.
>He doesn't own a copy of Infinite Jest.
>he owns a copy of Infinite jest
>>8269352
Do you think DFW owns a copy of IJ in H*ll?
>wen totes famalam amazeballs senpai still sucking but i ain't bust a nut nigga lyk dat totes kim n kylie n catchin pokemon #teamkanye blm desu baka senpai famtangelo
china mieville's arms are huge
Looks like my gym teacher.
>>8269318
Looks like my wife's son
>>8269318
>memeing instead of discussing why Perdido changed the face of fantasy forever
no hope
How do I into contemporary poetry?
I love everything from Shakespeare up to Yeats, but once I get into the 20th century, things get iffy for me. Are there some critical works that explains the transition from traditional forms to the experimental, free verse, weirdness?
If anyone can explain the ethos of modern poetry, I'd be interested.
>>8269204
Everything post 1970 sucks balls
All modernism really did for poetry is allow more variety in form, and most modern poets have works that you can appreciate even if you don't like the more unusual and esoteric stuff. E.g. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by Eliot, or The Idea of Order at Key West by Stevens. If you want critical explications, there are plenty: just search for some on Google or Amazon. They'll probably help you appreciate some of it.
>>8269559
I haven't really read much of it, but I'm sure some of it is good. I'd imagine it's just the more popular or famous stuff you don't like.
Be honest, who here watches the show?
Dropped it after season 2
I'll recommend you something better: Dekalog.
Watch it then tell me GoT is good TV.
>>8269174
I don't trust that polish sounding name
What are some good non-fiction books?
Pic maybe related, I never read it.
I was thinking of reading it. I'm not too interested in partisan polemics though, I hope it's a bit meatier.
>>8269136
probably the antithesis of this one
>>8269222
>Zinn
This guy is (well was) a living /pol/ caricature.
>Is e=mc2 a sexed equation?...Perhaps it is. Let us make the hypothesis that it is insofar as it privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are vitally necessary to us. What seems to me to indicate the possible sexed nature of the equation is not directly its uses by nuclear weapons, rather it is having privileged what goes the fastest...
Is this the kind of thing people in Gender Studies department study? What's the essential reading to help me understand things like this?
Cioran
>It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
>>8269134
>It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
Is this the edgiest quote of all time?
>>8269140
Yeah, he's a gold mine for them. A whole bunch of shit about how he hates god and life and wishes he'd never been born and moans about being a coward.
To say that is pretty reductive of his philosophy but I prefer reading him as comic.
This book sucked
try this one
>>8269128
>>8269131
nah do this one instead
>>8269135
I can second this
How do I look cool reading on a Kindle?
Shove it up your ass.
>>8269088
Hide it behind a book.
>>8269088
be good looking
Enchiridion, chapter 32
>And then when any advice shall have been given, remember whom you have taken as advisers, and whom you will have neglected, if you do not obey them.
What did he mean by this?
Dont listen to retards.
keep ur freinds in mined
Damn my advice was real good wtf dude why did you disobey me
Does depression effect anyone's reading progress like it does to mine?
When I was having an anxiety episode I couldn't read at all.
All I'd want to do was mindless shit like watching TV in bed.
Yes sometimes can't get any joy out of reading and it's annoying because I don't have anything else to do but drink.
>>8269000
Yes. When it is catatonic level bad I'll get no more than 10 pages a day done. That is it.
who /tao/ here?
i'm almost done with his novels. are his poetry and short story collections 'worth it?'
i like cognitive behavioral therapy and you are a little bit happier than i am
>>8268958
He's shit.
And that's the first and only thing /lit/ has ever been right about.
>>8268975
how is he shit senpai? taipei and richard yates are transcendent desu
What are the best essays or philosophical writings on atheism? Search engines aren't coming up with anything great, guess atheism isn't as popular as I thought it was.
there are no good or notable atheist philosophers. try reading some kierkegaard instead.
>>8268902
the god delusion
