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In the grand scheme of thing reading (aside from entertainment) seems like a waste. How can I convert the knowledge I gain from reading into money?
Who cares about money, aim for virtue and power.
But, if you read enough youll realize monies lack of value, thats what an raynd taught me atleast.
>>8265908
>Money lacks value.
>Ayn Rand.
Pick one nigger.
How can philosophy boil down to anything other than assertions + marketing when the Munchhausen trilemma clearly shows that all philosophies are based on feelings?
It also shows that scientific objectives are based on feelings too?
>>8265752
>feelings/reason dichotomy
Did you ever really think about the above, or do you just blindly regurgitate every single meaningless trope society has ever fed you?
All ethics can be reduced to feels. Everything normative can be reduced to feels. That does not make it unsound.
Philosophy teaches you to think critically and rigorously. It may even teach you the virtue to stop being a frogposter.
>>8265768
I didn't say feels were unsound. But obviously deciding what is sound or not is based on feels.
r8 my grandmother's book stack
Having cookies at grandma's house OP?
>>8265587
pleb as fuck
the strokes
So /lit what do you think about my interpretation of Martins Song of Ice and Fire?
Let’s begin with the bottom:
>Dorne: Territory of House Martell, obviously stands for southern Europeans, they look like Europeans with mostly brown skin
>Reach: Territory of House Tyrell, definitely France: Full of gay knights but sexy manipulative women
>Westerlands: Territory of House Lannister, treacherous incest bastards, whose main effort is to gather power - so obviously Britain
>Iron Islands: Territory of House Greyjoy, brutal idiots who aren’t able to build up a functioning economy so they rape and plunder everything everywhere – Scandinavian Vikings
>The north: Territory of House Stark, humble people highly influenced by the Germanic skin shifter meme but there are also abominations like the Boltons – definitely early medieval Germany
>Beyond the Wall (Wildlings, not the others): These are actually white niggers; they look like whites but live like cave men – so definitely Russians or general Slavs
>The Rest are Arabs and Sandniggers, except the Dothraki, who are basically red skinned niggers who fight more or less like the Golden Horde/Mongolians
>>8265573
God, is this whole board entirely pretentious faggots?
What's some literature dealing with bug chasing/gift sharing subculture?
Mein Kampf
The Koran
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Will I look pretentious if I read in public?
My apartment is uncomfy as fuck, and not in a way that can be romanticized either.
What about walking around the city with a book in my hand?
Do you really give a fuck?
>What about walking around the city with a book in my hand?
Walking around reading is stupid and impractical though. Sit the fuck down and actually focus.
Library?
If it's a sunny day and you feel like enjoying that shit instead of sweating and smelling indoors, just fucking do it you dolt
Lay it out for me right now.
underrated post
>old lit
>read a book then complain about it
>new lit
>complain about not reading a book
>>8265478
fpbp
What was this guy's fucking deal?
>>8265412
Very good writer; Vienna, Viennese literary styles, and Austrian society and governance were really distinctive and he was a master at using them / depicting them, combined with a strong personal style.
>>8265412
The Metamorphosis. Second-greatest masterpiece of 20th century prose.
>>8265412
He was a genius of his era, but also had a sense of humor that holds up to this day. Also I was surprised with just how much empathy I had for Gregor Samsa.
I've been reading his work and enjoying it, just wondering what the consensus is.
What are his best works? Worst works? Personal favorites?
>>8265387
2666 and The Savage Detectives are both pretty highly-regarded here.
>>8265397
2666 reads like a wikipedia article
I recently wanted to make reading a habit and realized how fucked my concentration span is. Just reading ten pages in one go is a challenge to me, even though I'm really interested in the book I'm reading. I just constantly have the need to do something which rewards me with dopamine quicker than reading. Is there anything I can do to fix my attention span?
Turn off your computer. Go sit somewhere without your phone in reach. Practise.
I became an avid reader like three months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time on 4chan anymore.
Here's how I did it.
-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person
-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure
-Read various books at the same time. When I grab a difficult book or one that makes me sleepy I grab another and switch. This should refresh your head. Keep them thematically different. I read economics and fiction.
-It isn't a race. Reading slowly won't make you sleepy that fast. Try to acknowledge what books are for you to read fast and which aren't.
-Buy the physical copies. When you get the books from your own money you'll feel the need to read them to avoid the feel of wasting your money.
-Start with books highly discussed here so you feel motivated to discuss.
>>8265359
Is that a meme or actual advice? Because I saw this several times already.
I'm going on vacation soon, and it's a 13 hr car ride. I was thinking of reading pic related, but do you guys have any other suggestions?
>>8265317
I thought this was a "book covers that spoil the plot" thread. My mistake. carry on
>>8265317
bump
can't wait until they find a cure for cancer
Not really literature but it has to do with books so. I don't really knew where to go, sorry
One of my bookshelves is completly full of books, like there is no space for air in it and yet from time to time if I push with my fingers I can push the books to the back of the bookshelf which I do eveyr single time. How are the books slowly drifting away from the back of the bookshelf? Does this happen to anyone else? Do I have a pseudogeist? Do I need to buy IJ and put it in the middle so it balances the bookshelf? Halp.
>pseudogeist
genuinely kek'd
gj anon.
probably something to do with you taking books out of the shelf and inadvertently moving it slightly now and then.
>>8265316
>I need to buy IJ
and step on it
>>8265319
I don't take any book from that shelf. It's one of my oldest shelves so every single book there I have read and I don't really reread any of them recently, it just happens.
Let's say today, I pushed them all back to their place, if I wait a week it wouldn't be visible, but if you were to push with your finger they would slip back into their place. I'm going insane over this, I swear I stood over my bed one morning staring at that shelf.
How do I become "well-read"? I want to be a pretentious pseudointellectual.
>>8265251
Start with the Greeks.
>>8265251
>I want to be a pretentious pseudointellectual.
well you're off to a good start.
You don't have to read anything to be a pseud. You don't even have to own any books, though it helps to have them as props.
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>I
It was so bad, /lit/
It was everything you told me it would be and I didn't listen
What did your siblings con you into reading recently?
it was pretty good
It feels offensive that some people will read this but never read The Divine Invasion
>>8265240
How is the divine invasion even remotely related?
Do you read books more than once?
>>8265158
Depends, some things benefit from a reread (either to catch details and nuances you didn't see the first time, or just because it was good enough to want to experience again), others you can finish and be okay with having finished.
>>8265165
Yeah, depends on the book. Most of the time, I just read certain chapters that left an impression.
I've probably read The Alchemist at least 6 or 7 times.
Deal with it, h8rs
