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Hey /lit/, may I get a recommendation of some good financial literacy books, I've listened to the audiobook from Robert Kiyosaki - Poor dad rich dad and really enjoyed it.
here you go m8,
>>8257659
>>8257882
and heres another i htink they have mostly the same
Alright /lit anything on the science of meditation, breathing, lucid dreaming or outer body experiences that go beyond testimonials? I would like to keep it science based.
>>8257539
What's the point of measuring something that you can experience anyway?
You need spectrometers to show you the beauty of a rainbow?
>>8257539
DMT: The Spirit Molecule is very interesting.
My Big Toe by Tom Campbell.
He has a youtube channel you can start with.
>book contains black people
>>8257535
what even is this?
>>8257576
someone who doesn't read trying to fit in. we should let him know nobody reads here so he doesn't have to try so hard.
>>8257535
this is only ok if they're a jazzman or the help
yes, that's probably true.
>>8257530
>UKLG will never be your aunty
>she will never feed you home-baked cookies
>she will never tuck you in bed and read you sci-fi stories until you fall asleep
>>8257530
I agree.
Word of Unbinding sucks though
Was he redpilled or just a cuck?
I'm against censorship, but if there was a way to erase the word cuckold from history I would in a heartbeat
>>8257492
I know that OP is a cuck
>>8257496
It would just be replaced by another word with a similar meaning
There's a translation of Zettels Traum coming out from Dalkey this September. Has anyone here read the original? If so, would you recommend it? Anyone have any thoughts about the translator, John E. Woods?
>>8257488
no one can read that shit, you just look at parts of it
after you pay a couple hundred bucks for it
>>8257488
no ebook = no sale
I'm 38 and Neet, living with my dying mother. Soon I'll have to get a job (wew) and run an old broken down house (no qt) and dealing with bills (you what mate). What are some fictional characters who are in this situation but end up just fine, happy ending type deal.
No self help shit senfampai.
>>8257494
You forgot to recommend a book.
>but end up just fine, happy ending type deal
heh... better get used to the sad endings
you're in one.
>>8257470
true
view from castle rock was boring
>>8257473
/thread
>“Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.”
Was he right?
philosophizing is about ignoring fear and trusting words one reads in books instead. It's like a solitary version of socializing to be honest.
Philosophy of the academics? Probably. Not that there weren't good academic philosophers, but if history forgot them it wouldn't forget much.
Philosophers who are actually sticking their nose out? Risking grave loss to say what the masses don't want to hear? You might argue they are foolish--but not cowardly.
>There are idiots on /lit/ right now who actually fall for the "Ancient Singers actually memorized the entire Iliad!" myth
Why are you fucks even here?
>>8257402
rabbis memorize the torah so i dont see how itd be impossible
>>8257416
>Iliad
>Word Count: ~150,000 depending on translation
>Torah
>Word Count: 79,976
And remember, the Iliad we have today isn't even half of the original's length.
Modern bards are documented memorising and repeating the Sundiata stories and Balkan epics in bardic format
Mahabharata singers actually straight-up memorise and don't even use bardic format, and it's much longer than Homer
What was the point of this
I don't understand, was it all just a long, winding, confusing tale about how women are whores and men are bad people, but that's okay because that's just how the world is?
The fuck, man, is this really the writing of the best author of her generation?
Dammit, OP, I could have gone my whole life pretending it would be about a frog hospital undergoing management restructuring. Fuck you, I'm going to pretend you lie.
>>8257294
>tale about how women are whores and men are bad people
how is this what you got from this book.
>>8257340
Please, tell me what you got from the book, I'm desperate for other opinions on this.
Can someone help me finding a pdf of Infinite Jest? i really need it and i can't afford the book.
I got the book, I can scan all the pages for you
>>8257216
nobody "really needs" infinite jest
>>8257216
>cant afford a 25 dollar book
wat
Was Sherlock Holmes a Mary Sue? He was literally never wrong.
>>8257208
...someone hasn't read Scandal in Bohemia.
You'd have to be pretty delusional if you don't find anything wrong with a coke addicted, anti-social misanthrope that... Wait, I just remembered I'm on 4chan. Forget what I said.
>>8257373
tee hee
What are the great Australian contributions to the world of literature?
The JUST series
By Andy Griffiths
There is no beach in all of australia that looks that pretty.
Add a few fosters cans and some semi-but-not-legally-homeless nigger to the background and I might believe it
>>8257203
It looks like WA.
My mum is a Leninist/Trotskyist and keeps trying to get me to read this book, does it have any literary merit or is it just pro commie trash?
>>8257189
It's really good. I find the Russian revolution the most fascinating period in history
If you're the kind of person who uses phrases like 'pro commie trash' you really do need to read more about communism - even if you still disagree with it, books like Reed's communicate perfectly the enthusiasm of what was still perhaps the most important moment of the whole of the 20th Century, doing a good job to explain it as a myth if not as a historical event. Read this book - and some other entry-level Marxist stuff, the manifesto, Edgar Snow's stuff on China, etc. - and you might understand why communism has been an essential part of the global...
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>>8257245
Well nobody wants to read disguised propaganda. I think that's what OP meant
