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How does Anarcho Communism work
It doesn't.
With his hands.
ITT: help others decide what to read next and provide some info on your life/personality/whatever to help people help you
>severely depressed
>severe anxiety (social and general)
>isolated, reclusive, lonely, etc
>Lolita
>Notes from Underground
>White Noise
>Taipei
>If on a Winter's Night
>The Book of Disquiet
>>8170912
If on a winter's night a traveler is super comfy, read that and maybe feel a bit better
>self-despising yet has visions of grandeur
>lazy piece of shit
>introverted
>psued
>awkward
>vain
>>8171018
isn't this basically everyone here?
Infinite Jest, Ulysses and Gravity's Rainbow seem like good choices
So I've saved up all the suggestions that I've not purchased nor read yet. Which ones are worth getting and why?
The Beetle Leg by John Hawkes
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Milkbottle H by Gil Orlovitz
Hebdomeros, by Giorgio de Chirico
The Bridge by Iain Banks
Box man by Kobo Abe
The Other Side by Alfred Kubin
The Cantos
John Banville
The Voyage to Arcturus
Invisible Cities and Pnin
the torture garden, by gustave mirbeau
Hubert Selby Jr.
Bruno Schulz
Proust
the unconsoled
Hilda Doolittle, usually published under HD
The Changing Light At Sandover, particularly in the cosmology department.
Philip Levine.
jiggery pokery
ee cummings
Gravity's rainbow
Sea of Ink: Richard Weihe
Une Semaine de Bonte - Max Ernst
Moral Disorder
Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End
Pynchon - Bleeding Edge
Watts - Blindsight
Negarestani - Cyclonopedia
Eclipse Phase Rulebook
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
the torture garden, by gustave mirbeau
all of them
plus many thousands more
read as much as physically possible before you die
I mean, Proust's ISoLT is the among the top 5 greatest novels ever written so i'd get on that ASAP, wont be cheap to get the proper revised Moncrieff translation. Will prob take you 4 months to read
>>8170855
Most of them are pretty solid but you got memed the fuck out with this one
>The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
It's just YA shit.
You goddamn posers; I can't believe I have to make this thread. The fuck you do for Bloomsday?
Not much :(
I had a reuben with sme Guinness and meditated on the Bloomian values that I try to uphold. How about you, OP?
got high, listened to air war www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaDBpViGWWI, quoted strings in the earth and air to myself absentmindedly during a reverie and invented a brie cherry and turkey sandwich. i'm not orthodox tho, i'd assume those guys are still being processed by the constabulary.
Been thinking about reading this but everyone keeps telling me it's a bunch of rambling nonsense that isn't worth my time.
Can anyone here actually tell me how the supposed political and philosophical assertions of the book are wrong and stupid or is hating it just a meme?
>>8170796
A lot of Rand is just appeals to emotion and "muh common sense" masquerading as some kind of objective rationality.
Most damningly, the objectivist argument for free will is just "I feel like I have it"
>>8170796
Parts one and two are amazing. Part three fizzles. I would still recommend it. AS is a decent read. Even if you don't enjoy it you will still be able to generate actual opinions on the work, unlike >>8170810
>>8170796
The individual does not exist by exercising its own power, the basis of Rand's thesis for all her works. Once that falls apart, so does her prose become more obviously stale.
I'm an individual that has been through the standard bland life of a small town upbringing, some lost loves, moving to a big city for university, with nothing else interesting experienced otherwise. Lately, I've felt an itch to try my hand at writing, if nothing else, as an emotional release for myself. However, I just don't feel any sort of inspiration. I would really like to get out and have *experiences* that give me some inspiration.
Right now, a friend and I are discussing throwing a random marker on a map in an 8 hour radius of us, and driving there on a friday afternoon, and spending the whole weekend there in bars drinking and talking to every single person we cross paths with, just to have an interesting experience, and meet interesting characters.
Does anybody have suggestions to improve on that weekend trip? Any suggestions for other things to do to get out and gather inspiration for writing? Once I graduate in December, I'm additionally thinking of taking a half-year in Europe. That's a ways away, however, and not set in stone.
You better take a good long look at yourself because you are a humongous walking cliche, and I suspect you might already know it. There is no magical moment that will suddenly compel you to write, and please kid, for the love of fucking god, spare your wallet (or your poor parent's wallet) and don't waste a half-year in Europe. I'm somebody who has gone through university and seen a huge percentage of my facebook social circle go to Europe as if it's some kind of spiritual medicine, come back, and then spend the rest of their lives in some uninspired business-related job. Traveling, drugs, talking to arbitrary strangers will do nothing for you as an artist/writer; only hard work will. If you have no inspiration to write, then my answer to you is simple: don't fucking write.
You don't have any inspiration because you're not a writer. A writer writes because he is compelled to not because he is inspired to. Some retarded soul searching journey in some shitty armpit of a town is not going to uncover some untapped talent within yourself. Either shut up and enclose yourself in an empty room and start writing or find something else to do with your time.
>>8170822
My wallet has 11,000 dollars to spend as of right now, with a very high paying summer job over the next few months, an alright school-year job, and expenses covered (besides some odds and ends like some of my food and drinking) in the fall. A "half-year" is a cap. My intention was to spend time over there until I land a job interview that seems promising in my field (aerospace engineering). I would probably end up just doing a couple of months, being realistic. I feel inspiration to write, but haven't had the "spark" yet to kick off a specific idea. I've written a few movies in the past, but they were goofy comedies, and I never got around to filming them. I can feel something brewing on the horizon, I just want to get out and have some experiences to trigger it. Also take note I didn't exclusively focus on an extended European trip. I'm looking for any suggestions to get some interesting experiences to trigger some ideas to bring together what I know is floating around in my head. Drugs are out of the question, as my job is a federal government job, and I don't get into drugs anyways.
Is this board lit
>>8170704
no it's not lit. its shit. Thanks to you goddamn tumblr summer cross-posting reddit feminist warrior shitposters. I think thats everyone.
what is the literary equivalent of Seth Rogan?
>>8170751
chillax desu senpai
Does anyone find it odd that this guy was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania ... has a big nose ... and his name becomes (with a few modifications)Jewn Upkek Topkikedikecock?
>>8170690
epin
He might just be the greatest English prose stylist ever, though, when he's at his best. No lie.
>>8170711
>when he's at his best
What work do you feel he displays this the best in
How can a single male be so devoid of testosterone?
OP is angry gelatin
>>8170667
Every man will be like John Green if we continue to use plastics for everything.
>>8170698
this.
my heart weeps for the plastic people
Which of F.A. Hayek's books should I read first?
I've only read The Constitution of Liberty, but I think you could read his works in chronological order. His actual economic work may be obsolete at this point. I would recommend reading more into his politics and social theory. His ideas about the distribution of knowledge in society are good too.
What do you want to know?
If you haven't, read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Use_of_Knowledge_in_Society
>>8170669
>His actual economic work may be obsolete at this point
What? The economy is still, and always has been, a mechanism for information diffusion.
>reading Brothers K
>basically a soap opera of whiney men
>an entire chapter on some dumb cunt monk that has no impact on the story whatsover
>mfw even one of the "greatest" books of all time has filler in it and is half-baked.
did you just call father zosima filler
holy shit
i read your book and it's not that much better
>>8170398
vlad pls
What does /lit/ think of The School of Life?
http://www.theschooloflife.com/london/
Based on the name, they're probably a bunch of faggots desu
>men's designer clothes
STOP BEING SO FUCKING BLAND
>>8170314
Clothes are for homos, best male outfit is none.
How come Thomas Mann was so based? His exquisitely craftedo oeuvre brought to like the thought of his generation and fixed it in timeless allegorical tales.
One has to hark back to Goethe (pronounced "gouuoohhthe") to find a Deutsche writer of such fervent intellectual honest and incisive observational wit.
Fart
>>8170293
>How come Thomas Mann was so based?
he was a white heterosexual property-owning conservative male
>>8170344
>he was a white heterosexual property-owning conservative male
he wasn't heterosexual or conservative
read a book sometime
A scorpion asks a frog to carry it across a river. The frog hesitates, afraid of being stung, but the scorpion argues that if it did so, they would both drown. Considering this, the frog agrees, but midway across the river the scorpion does indeed sting the frog, dooming them both. When the frog asks the scorpion why, the scorpion replies that it was in its nature to do so.
I love these stories anyone know of a good book full of them?
>>8170284
Books about teaching your children responsibility
>>8170290
Nah tbqh
>>8170300
Books about re-teaching your senile grandparents responsibility?
So is this book any good?
>>8170188
>blacks are beasts
>women should serve men
>against homosexual degeneracy
I'd say it's pretty redpilled. So yeah.
It's a chore at times, but it's worth it.
It's ok, bit bizzare in some place though there's some good lessons in there if you look hard enough.
Look out for the fan base though, they take things a bit too seriously.
