Is it true I shouldn't bother trying to read Umberto Eco if I'm not madly well-read already?
>>8249667
>reading Italian Dan Brown
There's just too many god damn books
>that awkward moment when you realize the only books you can read the author on are his
nah, you can read him without reading anything else, most girls do.
>tfw the book you're reading turns out to be a love story
>>8249654
>not being moved by love
Back to /r9k/, autist
>tfw the sex manual you're reading turns out to be a philosophical thesis on love
>>8249654
>tfw the book you're reading turns out to be fiction
>countenance
>amicable
>>8249603
>amiable
>>8249581
Countenance the verb is gay, countenance the noun is based. Know the difference.
Is there an online video of Zizek at the south bank centre on July the second?
>>8249548
Not as far as I can see, but there's a few other recent videos on the same general topic of Europe/Brexit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OzV53zj1PA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5apn78AvKs
>>8249650
And sho you see *shniff* the European Union is really the totality of all inverted ideology, the *shniff* body without organsh in sheer metaphysical form
I went
It was one of his better talks, he made some interesting points about power and how it functions today but the bit on brexit wasnt as good, wasn't bad though.
Redpill me on Jane Austen and the Brontës /lit/.
Are they worth reading or a meme for plebs and empowered womyn?
If they are worth reading, how comfy are they, and where to start?
>>8249533
>meme
>womyn
>comfy
Go back to /r9k/
google it
My gf studies Enlish and totally loves Janes Austen. I think they're great make-out movies and I find them hilarious because they remind me of that TV-show from Max Payne. I'm sorry that I'm an uncultivated pig
Is meme connected to myth?
>>8249512
idk u tell me bby
>>8249512
Elaborate.
>>8249512
MEME LOL XDDD
my parents will never understand MEMES!!! :P :D :))
PRAISE LORD KEK FOR MEME MAGIC!!
check dubs and Lord KEK WILLS that WE WILL TAKE DOWN REDDIT AND TUMBLR!! hehethe game btw haha (this means you losed the game)
Just marathoned the first chapter. I'm blown way.
Is it worth it to keep going?
>>8249456
Just marathoned this post. I want to blow myself away.
Is it worth it to keep going?
<3<3<3
This book
Why does /lit/ have such an enormous hateboner for this book ?
It's not just /lit/; have you ever been in the real world? I've never met anyone that thinks highly of The Great Gatsby. Even as far as forced high school curriculum goes, it's far worse than The Lord of the Flies, Catcher in the Rye, Of Mice and Men, and To Kill A Mockingbird.
>>8249461
Yeah I've noticed people calling it shitty
What I wanna know is their arguments, since no one ever goes beyond the "it's shitty" from what I've talked with people
So I asked here
Why don't you personally like it, anon ?
>>8249441
>marathoned
>chapter is literally like less than ten pages long.
How do I motivate myself to read more? I enjoy reading but I can only go for about 40 pages at a time and I have a hard time getting started. I wanted to use the summer to burn through my to read list but I've yet to finish a single book.
Semen demon unrelated
Flagellation and burgers.
She a dwarf?
>>8249423
Eat less processed foods and sugar. Get more sunlight and fresh air. You will find your ability to concentrate on reading is improved. Your comprehension should also benefit.
comfy library/ reading space thread
>>8249413
>>8249413
this one is from my hometown, i like it.
>>8249429
>at best
>>8249373
I fucking love BASED Schopenhauer. He was redpilled as fuck.
BTFO women
>>8249377
he also says 'at best' a lot
these are the many traits of the white male intellectual
>>8249377
>under28 y/o male detected
back to the kiddy pen until you're of age and have read kant
If it's impossible to understand life, then what value does trying to understand anything has?
>>8249343
You should learn the value of proper grammar.
All my life, false and real, right and wrong entangled.
Playing with the moon, ridiculing wind, listening to birds,
many years were wasted seeing the mountain covered with snow.
This winter, I suddenly realize snow makes a mountain.
>>8249346
I question the value of proper grammar.
Post the personal things you've written out.
Here is an entry from yesterday...
Woke up early, kissed this bad bitch
Rolled me up a blunt, then I took a piss
Can't remember what I did last night
I'm just tryna spend a hunnid stax everyday of my life
Money is the anthem
Black girls in the bedroom, white girls in the bathroom
Fuck what I did last night
I'm just tryna spend a hunnid stax everyday of my life
>>8249335
>Gay-Soul
pls
>>8249316
"Welcome to my diary desu.
July 6th, commented "my diary desu" in a recommendation thread on lit, shitposted some more
July 5th, shitposted some, a guy came and asked for recommendation, commented "my diary desu"
July 4th, was spent independently of my diary desu (not true because I'm not an americuck)
July 3rd, 4chan quality time desu, also wrote some in my diary..."
been reading some Trungpa Rinpoche lately after attending some meditation sessions at a shambala meditation center.
What do you all think about the continuity of consciousness and the nature of human identity considering the past and future are just functional markers utilized by our minds?
>>8249299
Stop reading nonwhites they give stupid opinions like the tripe you just wrote out.
>>8249340
I believe the continuity of consciousness is a pretty big topic within western philosphical circles.
Buddhism has some pretty accurate assements about life imo
>>8249363
I've noticed while tripping on acid that I can relate to Buddhist ideas easier, but they amount to the same things written by Western philosophers. Specifically Nietzche's idea of eternal recurrence.
What are some books that deal with sexual promiscuity?Can be from both spectrums, and/or from a positive and negative light.
Nymphomaniac from Lars von Trier is about sex-negative feminism
>>8249298
>>8249310
This thread is now a woman/feminism/female sexuality hate thread
ROBOTS GATHER 'ROUND
All women these days take over 500 dicks before they leave high school while I'm forced to be shunned forever because I'm a genetically inferior male.
And they talk about 'male priviledge'? Give me a fucking break.
WOMEN HAVE LIVES ON EASY MODE
the easter parade Richard yates