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Who are the smug pepes of philosophy and literature?
>>8250234
stirner, novatore, filippi
>>8250234
Pepe: Thomas Pynchon
Wojak: David Foster Wallace
Stirner and Nietzsche are the smuggest fucks philosophy has yet produced. French guys who took after them were too busy fucking kids and other men to attain the same level of smugness.
How do I increase my vocabulary?
read
>>8250210
This, and also download a good dictionary app. Every time I come across a word I don't know I can just look it up, add it to my list, and move on. Learned a lot of great words that way. Like badinage.
>>8250210
oh bother
>been experiencing a bout of anhedonia for the past week
>can't find the motivation to read or do anything else i normally find pleasurable
>can barely even tolerate browsing the web and shitposting all day
i don't know wtf to do, /lit/. i've always been prone to these feelings, but typically they won't last longer than a day or two. this has been a week and doesn't show any signs of slowing down. what do you do when reading & other activities no...
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Seek help, you're depressed.
>been experiencing a bout of anhedonia for the past ten years
>>8250166
i don't even feel that bad or sad though, certainly not like i did a few years ago. just incapable of enjoying things as deeply as i once did and chronically bored.
What are the best short stories? I'm looking for something a bit on the darker, heavier, intellectual side of things. I've had my eye on Kafka's short stories, idk if it's worth it.
kafka's good. try the illustrated man by bradbury too. if you're snooty about genre you could read nabokov's shorts which tend to be dark too
A Perfect Day For Bananafish - J. D Salinger
Good Old Neon - David Foster Wallace
Signs and Symbols - Vladimir Nabokov
Boule De Suif - Guy De Maupassant
A Report To An Academy - Franz Kafka
On Exactitude in Science - Jorge Luis Borges
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - Jorge Luis Borges
Love of a Good Woman - Alice Munro
Flowers - Alice Walker
A Temporary Matter - Jhumpa Lahiri
>>8250089
Any of these in book collections worth buying?
How should I take notes while reading?
Do you just write shit like lines that interested you, and maybe the reason why they interested you?
How do you take notes, if you do?
Are you in school? Do you have to read the book for a class or to get a certification or for your fucking youtube book reviws?
If the answer is no, don't take notes while you read, you weirdo
>>8250048
i's juss wanna be smawta, masta
>>8250027
This meme didn't really call for me to take notes. Maybe an outline would have helped, remembering who everyone and everything is..
>read a book that is popular with many other people
>dislike its subject matter and themes
>discover that the writer is a.... g-g-girl!
>how the hell can a book I dislike and written by a roastie be popular?
>I know! Its a liberal conspiracy perpetrated by the SJWs to force their views onto society
What is the process by which one draws such conclusions?
>>8250013
spending time on 4chan
>>8250013
SJW is pretty hot right now. It has been for a couple of years but now it has reach its peak in America, hence its just a matter of time before it gets to the rest of the world with that level. Thing is, literature, movies, etc... travel faster than trends as a whole so when you have 3 movie franchises about rebel teen grill saving the world from an evil fascist dystopia youngsters bite into it in a hope for something that fills their personality in an age where they desperately try to distinguish themselves from their...
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>>8250077
ANY BOOKS ABOUT ABSOLUTE FUCKING TURBONUCULAR RAMPAGE???
like genocide or a single person?
>>8250022
Ideally I want to read about a single person going complete apefuck medieval. I don't know if text can capture the essence of thermonuclear rage, though.
>>8250007
Which books you can advise me? Now i read "A Farewell to Arms", and i dont wanna read a book about war.
>>8250000
what's your native language, OP?
>>8250018
Bulgarian
>>8250018
Ainu
What's the equivalent of the intellectual brain bomb of what you thought this book was going to be, before you realized it was utterly boring shit?
>>8249960
Realizing later that it was actually full of hidden truths, and was all around a great existential work of fiction in every regard.
>>8249960
You just haven't popped the existential cherry kiddo
>>8250021
this desu
>>8245500
Read the OP. As for the post that is quoted, please just give me another chance to prove myself, you don't have much to lose, and you can gain so much potentially.
No thanks, I already know the soul is real and immortal because I can remember what it was like to exist before my conception and birth, and I don't need you selling my email account to some spam list.
I'm becoming increasingly convinced I can't be happy for any significant stretch of time. what can i read that will convince me otherwise or convince me to try anyway? it seems like everything I do is wrong and i feel hopeless but I cant bring myself to kill myself. Even the happy people lose their health, loved ones & sanity by the end of this pointless struggle.
>>8249856
Those are good books to read, minus Harris. They won't help with depression though.
Harris's "Waking Up" podcast is pretty good. You can listen to that and get his ideas without having to read a whole book.
At the end of the day, OP, you just need to buck up and throw off your jew-induced millennial malaise, you fuckin pussy.
Your problem is you believe that people are only happy because they are deluded. You confirm this because you observe that people who are happy, also believe delusions (e.g. socialism, God, whatnot). You need to realize that is confirmation bias. There is nothing wrong with being happy with yourself or who you are (indeed, what else would you be happy with?). You don't need a good reason to be happy; being happy is enough reason to be happy.
Only self-help book I know you might like is Fuck Feelings by Michael and Sarah Bennett.
Goethe places some wisdom on...
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>>8249856
Mein Kampf was trash and the moral landscape does say happiness is everything. the whole point of the book is maximizing well being for the largest possible number of creatures. also you sound like you need to be locked up. killing nd discrimination doesn't led to the well being of creatures because their will always be people who want to kill you. everyone being n asshole doesnt make the world a better place sorry, im sure you work very hard maintaining the idea that everyone is bad but you one day youll grow up. i agree...
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go on, fill it in /lit/
fixed that for you familia
>>8249819
Nabokov's stories are very well-crafted, and he portrays his characters with great subtlety and detail. What he lacks is emotion, but that's not what your graph is measuring.
>>8249839
wtf
how did you do that
lit is there a good book about someone who goes back far into the past and uses his modern knowledge to his advantage?
Someone mentioned timeline but i saw the movie and its not exaclty whaty im looking for.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
>>8249798
I was hoping for something more serious and much more recent. Like about a guy from the 1980's or later.
>>8249935
>jetpack shit
>serious
Choose one.
Find a flaw with his philosophy. Profile: you Kant
>>8249762
•pro tip
one flaw is that nobody gives a shit and I'm all the hoot in the academy
>>8249777
yeah that caused a lot of problems internationally and they're still going. it's not really a flaw in Schopenhauer though because he did try to warn us.
Also >>8249762 read the fucking catalog before posting. this is like the fifth thread on Schopenhauer today because some buttblasted babies keep ditching threads to create new ones about him once anon proves that they haven't read or understood him. they're all still in the catalog, so you don't...
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Just marathoned the first story. What did I think of it?
You thought it was good even though you didn't understand it.
>>8249705
It inspired you to finally come out of the closet.
You enjoyed it, were excited to read The Barber, and considered getting some geraniums.
