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it's schmultzy and popular, it's enjoyable enough but not really 'good'

recommend what exactly? you could read the bible or the quran i suppose

>>7712442
Im a good Cat Lick boy i read the bible
And take your Saracen filth books away from me

>>7712432
The Painted Bird is just like "The book thief" and is appropriately dark. Also recommend The Wasp Factory as an equally similar book. Finally Las-Bas by Huysman is right up your alley.

>>7712402
You will sooner or later get used to being stuck in only one life.

This depression might be re-ignited sometime ofcourse, but then you will again get used to it.

I'd add some bullshit on how it works and why we always dive into acceptance of everything we can't change but that's some elementary school level philosophy so I rather don't.

>>7712402
You'd feel the same no matter what the fuck you would be doing. Coke, hookers and money wouldn't change the fact that you feel something was missing.

Well, I didn't read this book any farther than the first chapter because it felt like it was written to shock people in the fucking midwest studying STEM. The Bateman class was to my taste portrayed much more realistic and much more succinctly in the "Hyperboloid of the Engineer Garin" and the "Dunno" series.

its been a while but

pre ww1 tensions
two agents porpentine and bongo-shaftsbury (forget who is who) from enemy sides meet at a ball event or something and meet up with victoria wren
they spend the rest of the night with victoria and some other folks despite being enemies

on the train one of the agents tells a little girl he is a mechanical man. i never undersdtood if he was meant to be some degree of a cyborg or if he was just joking, i think the latter, but symbolically he does represent the mechanizing effects of modernization (as another key figure comes to later on)
then the one guy kills the other guy at a play(?)

its told from multiple perspectives, from what i recall, a cafe server, a ball waiter and wannabe anarchist, a farmer,(?) a train conductor, some con man and ex child predator, someone hiding in a bush (a burglar?) and then like an objective pov with no character attarched

>>7711640
All those POVs are stencil


Also OP is a re-written version of a previous story of pinecones, it may help to read the older one. I think its called Under the Rose.

>>7711640
thank you

>>7710769
Achilles isn't an actual historical figure, but there are tons of historical examples of both moralities

>>7710769
Achilles was just being controlled by his emotions.

>they fell for the Hegelian meme

it's written by stephen king

It's +800 pages long.

>>7710161

My dad liked it, so you might too, idk

>>7709964
Read JR and agape agape

>>7709965
Is JR better ?

>>7709964
No, but you're probably not ready

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Here's mine

This chair belongs to a couch collection but it wont' fit in the living room so I just threw it in the corner of my room

I love chilling here and reading, or in my bed

And I did that painting

>inb4 shit quality pic
I know

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>>7683836
your pic is out of date. anon posted this one recently

>>7683836
I was just thinking about this...does anyone know a general good chair for someone with lower back pain? A more supportive, upright back chair? or a more cushioned chair...I just need something that helps ;_;

Yeah you spammed it here a bunch of times before. It's still mediocre and unoriginal.

>>7712021
Assuming you're really this clueless, it'll probably go nowhere and you'll end up right back where you are now in a couple of months.

where do you live?

>>7712021
If your CV is fucking shite (I'm guessing it is) they'll just have you to do some trivially easy work that only a complete fuckup couldn't handle. Just don't be a retard, show up to work, be polite and do what you're told. You can read after work is done(still more than enough time for that) and you'll overall probably be happier because you're actually doing something with your life.

What Proust are you talking about? ISOLT?

no, taleb is a hack

>>7711869
I read it in my 3rd year (Econ student), it's pretty much the most important book that influenced my way of thinking (among with Anti-fragile later). So yeah, I'd definitely recommend it.

>>7711871
with him being a "hack", why is it necessarily a bad thing?

>>7711904
thanks for the feedback, actually my statistics teaching assistant recommended it, and the book really does seem intriguing. did it influence your choices in specialization?

I don't really have any recommendations for you OP, but I'll bump for interest.
Maybe read Foucalt's Pendulum? It's about the Knights Templar and other various secret behind the scenes shit. It's not exactly the same thing but it's in the same vein.

>>7711621
nice, thank you. i was stuck on the illuminati sort so i didn't even think of the knights templar.
mainly looking for examples of rituals
sex, sacrifice, etc

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>>7711595
I recommend "La-Bas" by Joris-Karl Huysmans ("Tief Unten" in German translation since i assume you're german, pic related is the edition i own), it's about a writer who is introduced into a secret satanic cult in Paris. I think it's exactly what you're looking for. One of the first novels dealing with Satanism in the modern world, there's even a detailed description of a black mess.

I appreciate that you mentioned Arthur Schnitzlers Traumnovelle, how did you like it? Did you read any other of Arthur Schnitzlers work? Unfortunately he's rarely mentioned on /lit/ although being one of the finest writers in german language.

>>7711165
An island rising from the shit sea of genre fiction.

I like her story well all the men just play football while the women rule. Never read EarthSea saga. Should I give it a shot? Has a.non ever read Elric?

I got about 2/3 of the way through this book and had to put it down. I just couldn't bear the dry prose and dull characters. The only interesting thing about it, and what got me to read as far as I did, was the premise of the one-gender species.

>>7711001
using a manual as instructions in how to write a poem is the opposite of Dada

>>7711052
this poem is going to brilliant, worthy to be sung by Lady GaGa

>>7711159
she said, from the inside of Friar Lawrence's basket

>>7710952
>tfw same nose as beckett

I'm a massive fan of his novels and short stories. if you're new to his stuff I'd def recommend either his short stories or the film version of many of his plays in a great project called Beckett On Film (def. worth torrenting). do not touch Watt or Molloy/Malone Dies/The Unnameable if you're unfamiliar with his stuff even though they are by far and away his best works.

>>7710952
Godot is pretty Goodot

>>7710348
come back when you've finished

>>7710348
he should have just called it Cancer: The Book

>>7711334
Naw, that was Tropic of Capricorn.