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What are the best books about investing in the stock market?
>>8245052
Something something random walks something something
>>8245052
>>/biz/
But for kindness purposes I´m gonna help you out, also see pic related.
Do you want to invest and hold over a short period, i.e. day-trading?
>your average day-trading/TA book (hint: DT/TA is absolute shit)
Or do you want to invest and hold over a long period?
>Buffet
>generally everything about value investing/ETFs
>André Kostolany (extreeeemely...
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pic related, the only right answer
Has there ever been a good deus ex machina?
What's the best way to resolve a conflict?
>>8245004
Harry Mulisch
>>8245004
I never read the books, but when I was a teenager watching The Two Towers and Aragorn/King Whatshisname went on their last ride through the army or Mordor to die fighting when Gandalf showed up out of nowhere with the Riders of Rohan I just about jizzed my pants.
>does that count as DeM?
>>8245040
No because Gandalf told them beforehand "On the morning of the Third Day look to the East".
>howling fantods
What did he mean by this?
>>8244996
context OP context not all of us have read his shit
>>8244996
The astrabilarious squelettes, naturally
>>8244996
The screaming meemies. Not meme'ing here.
Never read any horror book. What horror books should I start with ?
Lovecraft and Poe. Cant really go wrong with starting with them. Ambrose Bierce is a little more unknown. If you must read Stephen King read his short stories only.
>>8245085
I tried to read IT but it got so boring that i quit
new rare pynchon for you lads
what did he mean by this?
>>8244974
lol
>>8244974
me on the left
If one of the main themes of Harry Potter is that moral virtue is a choice rather than a result of your innate abilities, why does JK Rowling portray Harry as overwhelmingly 'good' from the time he was a child? And, why is Voldemort portrayed as being irreversibly evil by the time he was 11 years old? Indeed, JK Rowling seems to have taken the idea that 11 year olds have a responsibility for moralness at the same level that an adult does, and that any choice made by them is solely their own fault. Given that Tom Riddle was raised in an orphanage, perhaps without a...
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>>8244973
Tom was a bad apple, he was a bad influence to the other kids, trust me, kids like that, you can't help. I don't know what it is.
>there are plot holes in a poorly written children's book
Stop the fucking presses
>>8244997
But if the main villain is simply a 'bad apple' and it has nothing to do with his own choices, and if the reason Harry is a 'good apple' is only that he avoided being born a bad one, then the book seems to be undermining itself on a fundamental level.
>even we knowers of today, we godless anti-metaphysicians, still take our fire, too, from the flame lit by the thousand-year-old faith, the Christian faith which was also Plato’s faith, that God is truth; that truth is divine.
Ahahahhaa so it turns out Nietzsche admits himself he's a complete fucking hypocrite and hack. All you pharisees that wait on his every word, if you value your own beliefs, go back to worshipping your metaphysical notions of truth and the God you made.
Amazing. Nietzsche even managed to BTFO himself.
>>8244940
ABSOLUTELY BTFO
BLOWN THE FUCK OUT
how will they EVER recover??
it really, really makes you think
BASED NIETZSCHE
praise Lord KEK
spibbly eperino
Is Beyond Good and Evil a good place to start with him?
How did you come across yours?
How do you find groups outside of university?
>>8244887
I'd never be in a reading group with a woman and a black like in that pic. Fucking disgusting
>>8244908
Wholeheartedly this
Absolutely
Isn't better paperback for a book you are going to study/use a lot? More easy to handle while hardcovers are uncomfortable?
>>8244881
>caring
>>8244881
Paperback isn't as sturdy, so it depends on how much youll use it.
ebook lasts the longest :^)
>>8244890
>so it depends on how much youll use it
Gonna use it a lot. I'll carry and underline it.
I'm European, and know almost nothing about American presidents. What little I've heard of Theodore Roosevelt interests me. Where do I start, if I want to learn more about him and people similar to him?
Theodore Roosevelt was a childish fuckboy
>>8244821
Care to explain why? As I said, I'm not well versed in American history. Were the stories about him being shot while continuing to give a speech and having a medical condition while climbing some rocks total bullshit?
He has some writing you could check out from your local library. I haven't read any of it so I can't vouch for its quality, however.
I have a friend ongoodreadswhose whole deal is reading presidential biographies. I think if you google best presidential biographies you could find his page.
Is Dune good? I'm through "BOOK ONE", the first section (ends with Paul going full supercomputer IM A FREAAAKKKK) and it seems like an escapist YA power fantasy. Paul and his mother are Mary Sues.
I particularly cringed at the scene where paul and the mother was escaping the chopper and she say "heehee fight over me boys ;))) <3" then paul does a ninja move
>>8244792
the whole point is that Paul is supposed to be the culmination of thousands of years of selective breeding for the perfect specimen to inherit some black magic space powers. So yeah he is a mary sue, but there is a reason behind it. They've trained to control their body and even change chemical reactions whithin it. "I aint gotta explain shit, it's space magic"
I blind bought the first 4 books earlier this summer and read them all over the course of June. They're all pretty bad but God Emperor of Dune was a step in the right direction.
What did he get right, and wrong?
>>8244777
Only thing he got was syphilis.
>>8244777
The things he got right were the right-wing stuff.
The things he got wrong were the left-wing stuff.
