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Anyone else get memed into reading this guy's take on ethics? My cousin is a huge fanboy and bought it for me since I'm the most educated in the family and he figured I'd love it. I knew Molyneaux was a cult leader but holy shit do you have to be deluded to take him seriously.
he tries to 'solve' ethics with UPB in 150 pages, just lol. that isn't even getting into his arguments which are abysmal, and that even if he had good arguments he just makes a shitty copy of Kant's approach that is vulnerable to the same criticism.
>>7821884
He's regarded by the majority of people as a joke at best and a cult-leader at worst, just ignore him and move on.
Apparently he won't even try to defend UPB now on his call-in show because there's just too many holes in it and it's really shitty in general.
He has some really fucking retarded views as well so probably worth trying to get your cousin away from such societally caustic people.
try to get your cousin to read some more intelligent right-wing libertarians and ween him off the likes of molyneux and (i assume) austrian economics
>>7821912
The kid doesn't read, he listens to summaries of books on youtube and tries to talk about them. He's like 16.
The only people in the family who actually read shit other than genre fic, romance, pop science and self help are my grandfather and I, and he's 89 and in the grips of senility at this point.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/teenager-bottled-ex-countdown-champion-6802185
Be careful next time you give a book a bad review, /lit/
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I'm not sure how well Robinson Crusoe holds up.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00NIX0UPG
>89 one-star reviews
This was good, boys.
>>7819643
Is it as self-pitying as Stoner? I liked Stoner but I don't think I would want to read another novel like it.
>This was good, boys.
time to get drunk n stoned boys
>>7819661
do people really find stoner depressing?
normies, man.
Hi lit. I photograph books for a living. Yup, I actually do that. Rare books and manuscripts mostly. While I'm working I sometimes have to wait for an image to process or transfer or whatever, and that's when I come over to browse /lit/. Sometimes I make a thread and post some of the stuff I've shot, and that's what I'm doing now. Title pages, covers, illustrations, etc.
>>7815035
How do I get a """"""job"""""" like yours?
Always wondered how that's done. What resolution do you work in?
>>7815052
be a photographer then go to a library and offer your services
>>7815055
different resolutions for different material. also depending on the size of the object. we usually do 600 for manuscripts and 400 for printed material, but it varies. FADGI level 4 at least.
Who /Eckhart Tolle/?
I listen to his teachings every day. He's amazing.
what the fuck
>>7821509
What?
Hey it's one of the twins from It's Always Sunny, I love that show.
So I was voted by my school as "most likely to write a novel." Pictures for the yearbook are tomorrow. Trips decide how I dress up.
inb4 DFW Do-rag
You aren't ever going to right a novel.
>>7820711
lol
>>7820711
Quite right.
Who is your /lit/ hero?
>Hunter S. Thompson
>Monstrously degenerate, exhilarating life of absolute raw freedom
>Made a beast of himself, subsquently freeing himself from the pains of mankind
>Killed himself after doing what he loved all his life
>>7818947
underage b& just read Fear & Loathing for the first time?
the last time a non-jew was allowed to be a rockstar journalist
>Ernest Hemingway
Everything. Just. Everything.
What interesting things do they have to say?
déterritorialisation
they look sneaky, i'd have to wiki them first to make sure they aren't cryptokikes
>>7818917
don't bother. they're indeed cryptokikes.
So we have new version of "1984". A world where there is only one religion. Technically not Islam but it is a parabole of Islam since the author is algerian.
Have you heard of it, /lit/ards?
>only one religion, no opportunity to fight over which prophet was least wrong
>dystopian
thats an old idea. and it is one destined to fail.
an example is La zone du dehors.
>>7818539
>comparing a shit-tier science fiction to a great writer
>not considering kinda islamic point of view
Happy St. Patrick's Day /lit/. Post your favorite quotes from Irish authors and include a pic of what you're drinking.
"Ireland sober is Ireland stiff." - James Joyce
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
>>7821391
>My prick was stuck in you for hours, fucking in and out under your upturned rump.
James Joyce
“It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice.”
― Liam O'Flaherty
![Tsunemoto_Hagakure[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/NlWMMx7.jpg "Tsunemoto_Hagakure[1].jpg")
Is it worth reading the Hagakure?
>>7815981
Yes
I enjoyed Ghost Dog as well, OP.
>>7815981
So I read the Hagakure from a very long train ride from Chicago to here.
How do I write like him, /lit/?
Learn Russian
Drink enough alcohol that you start to feel like shit and then write long, semi-coherent rants about how shitty you feel, wording them how you think someone who enjoys their own thoughts a little too much might say them. Then, when you're sober, put these rants in quotation marks and frame a relatively dry narrative around them.
spend years in a siberian labour camp
Name a more meta novel.Protip: you simply cannot
barth in general
Yeah, Barth and DFW's "Westwards The Empire Takes Its Course".
>>7822784
His title is missing some words.
0/10 would not consider reading
Is there a religion where people see God in everything?
pantheism, probably
Taoism
>>7822665
Some interpretations of Islam
can a stupid man write good literature?
By writing honestly, yes I think so. He'd need a good grasp of the written word at least.
why do you keep posting that fucking image? what does it mean? it's pissing me off.
Yes, see: Dostoyevsky
