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23197403 No.23197403 [Reply] [Original]

Is he the perfect embodiment of the 48 Laws of Power?



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23197302 No.23197302 [Reply] [Original]

Why everyone on this board goes autistic on this book now?
Is it bacause of the movies or is /lit/ contrarian?

>> No.23197316

>>23197302
I'm reading and its pretty alright.



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23197248 No.23197248 [Reply] [Original]

I hate Anemone so fucking much its unreal..

>> No.23197325

Muh crocodile

>> No.23197375

>>23197325
White girls fuck dogs
Jap girls fuck reptiles



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23197238 No.23197238 [Reply] [Original]

Who should I read on psychoanalysis? Where do I begin?

>> No.23197385

>>23197238
Freud is probably as good a place as any.



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23197235 No.23197235 [Reply] [Original]

>you don't get it, Torvald. I MUST slave my life away for Schlomo. being a stay-at-home mom is so boring...
What did Ibsen mean by this?



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23197199 No.23197199 [Reply] [Original]

>Topics appropriate for discussion

- Pens, Pencils, and various other types of stationed equipment

- Paper brands and types

- Inks

- Carrying Cases

- Pen Design

>Previous Thread - >>23149745



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23197141 No.23197141 [Reply] [Original]

I can’t find pdfs of this book series pls if anyone can help i would appreciate3>

>> No.23197236

>>23197141
try annas-archive.org



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23197138 No.23197138 [Reply] [Original]

>A Novel
uh yeah, i know.

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23197146

>>23197138
He must be so well read, finally a literate husband!



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23197127 No.23197127 [Reply] [Original]

There are some good books in western fantasy but they are the exception rather than the rule. Just imagine trying to create a top ten list of the best fantasy books that came out in the last ten years. In contrast when it comes to anime, it seems there is a great deal to choose from. Not just the rare exceptions. For some reason western fantasy though seems to have nothing unique. Everyone wants to be the next Tolkien or now the next Martin. They will make a very intricate world and they will try to make it as realistic as possible and as gritty as possible and then after all that realism and grittiness and in depth lore ends up making the series more of a chore to get through rather than it being a fun adventure. Everyone is trying so hard to do anything but write fun and unique stories that western fantasy becomes a bloated boring mess.

>> No.23197183

Gurm himself is perfectly emblematic of the primary problem: it isn't humble, and it certainly isn't concise. Even in Tolkien there was the problem of it starting off great and slowly winding down, but at least he didn't feel compelled to write 30k pages.

>> No.23197194

>>23197127
Comparing anime to fantasy is retarded. Anime is not a genre. It is a medium and method. Of course there is more to choose from, in manga you are only limited by the constraints of the medium. Fantasy is just what it sounds like. Escapism.

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23197282

>>23197194
I’m trying to say that in anime they do fantasy better than western fantasy novels do

>> No.23197307

>>23197282
Native isekai slop



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23197094 No.23197094 [Reply] [Original]

Which Pynchon should I start with?

>> No.23197104

>>23197094
The one that clicked with me first was Mason and Dixon. I actually tried Crying Of Lot 49 first but didn't find it impressive.

>> No.23197139

>>23197094
I'm currently reading V as my first pynchon book and at the beginning I was really liking it and there are some occasional pages which are really interesting but also a lot of parts seem to be so fucking nothing (but also weirdly interesting in the ennui of them)
I'm about 200 pages in btw



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23197091 No.23197091 [Reply] [Original]

Your opinion on the author, Allan Nevins? I'm getting a book by him on Grover Cleveland.



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23197071 No.23197071 [Reply] [Original]

Are books about personal growth like picrel actually useful?
I can't help but a sort of cynical outlook on those type of books thinking they're only there to trick normies into consooming.
Am I wrong? Are there any worthy personal development books that one should read?

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>> No.23197088

>>23197071
Well, self help books are the most popular in America and America has some of the worst social mobility of the western world. Do a 2+2.

>> No.23197160

>>23197071
They are not a scam but have no universal use case. They are written for the wider public-underclass that lacks virtue and education and if you compare people from that background: the ones who read them outperform the others who don't (read at all). But for someone from the educated / elevated classes it is completly worthless to read them because they have the competency and ressources to access actual useful and informative literature and education pathways.

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23197396

>>23197071
we have this thread every day

>> No.23197404

>>23197071
It's not even literature.

>> No.23197405

>>23197071
They are just like wish wash farting and believe me I've read some and I laugh at myself that I fell for it.
Better read some good philosophy and fundamental understanding of topics like psychology, economics and history. It will give you a better perspective and definitely expand your consciousness about things in everyday life



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23196995 No.23196995 [Reply] [Original]

>Pynchon’s another one whom I regard as really kind of old fashioned. I like early Pynchon. I like The Crying of Lot 49. I like Gravity’s Rainbow. But the Pynchon of Slow Learner [sic] and Vineland, which I didn’t like very much, seems to be making the same tired jokes—“look how shallow and superficial the culture is.” All right—I’ve been told—TV itself now tells that to me. It just seems like more of the same. I’m not as big a Pynchon fan as some other people are.
Was he right here?

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>> No.23197032

>>23197015
>I have a personal aversion to people who do that. They tend to be overeducated, secretly conceited, with a faux neurosis that makes them difficult to deal with.
The bandana and glasses didn't tip you off?

>> No.23197046

>>23197032
No. I've known some nice people who dressed weirdly.

>> No.23197066

Seems odd to mention Slow Learner in that context since it's his early work before Lot 49 and GR

>> No.23197077

>>23196995
Pynchon is a fantastic writer. He lived a charmed life and came from a well established family.

I think people generally are inclined to resent those who not only have money and friends, but who are also brilliant on top of all that. It doesn't seem fair. People are too scared to admit they live in an essentially unfair world so they begin looking for problems in the individual and their work.

>> No.23197177

>>23197077
in a challenging fourth year math course I took there was this stupidly hot posh girl named Aviana who would only show up to half the lectures, and would have insightful questions / comments once in a while. I can’t say it wasn’t upsetting.



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23196976 No.23196976 [Reply] [Original]

Who is a "good" author you think is shit?

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>> No.23197263

>>23197260
Lol I don't know, I started reading his books 3 times and I just couldn't... which doesn't happen to me often. I left Blindness through the half of the book, and I couldn't even finish the first chapter of another one... Sun and Moon something

>> No.23197270

>>23197263
You should suck dick for money dude cause you are sharting cum all over me

>> No.23197312

>>23197270
>sharting
Wow, that was very visual.
You should try writting
>would be better than Saramago

>> No.23197335

>>23196976
Mark Fisher

>> No.23197350

>>23197087
this. i tried reading the secret history and the writing style and prose were so atrocious and horrendous i couldnt finish chapter 1



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23196962 No.23196962 [Reply] [Original]

What are some books that deal with the subject of resentment?

Is resentment a valid response /lit/? Would you say it's important to resent some of the time?

>> No.23196973

>>23196962
First it´s Nietzsche and others talked about this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ressentiment
Books i don´t know others can help you

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23197011

>>23196962
Too many to list, Nietzsche is as good a place as any to start, although psychological theories on the subject may be a contender. I would say it is an inevitable aspect of being human, so this means that trying to pass judgment on another's resentment is best summed up by what the bible had to say about he who is without sin casting the first stone. That aside, what the individual does about resentment is what matters, and the best remedy is smashing it with a hammer.

>> No.23197050

>>23197011
How do you smash it with a hammer?

>> No.23197070

>>23197050
What is the root cause of your resentment?



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23196930 No.23196930 [Reply] [Original]

any books like this
>dark sorcerer takes on naive but ambitious girl as apprentice
>girl ignores moral qualms of dark magic because she wants power
>dark mage takes advantage of her and controls her mind and body
>lots of smutty rituals
think Svengali but fantasy setting

>> No.23196949

The Snow Queen by Andersen is this if you don't mind gender reversal and no smut. Goethe's Magician's Assistant has fewer of the features.
You're probably looking for something styled on those

>> No.23197372

>>23196930
bump, just learned that I need this



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23196923 No.23196923 [Reply] [Original]

Is it possible to read Cormac MacCarthy throough a religious lense? His work seems to delve into pessimism and damnation, redemption doesn't seem possible in the stories he creates, such as Blood Meridian. However, despite it being a story about the end of the world, The Road seemed more optimistic about a possible salvation of the human soul. His writing is also reminiscent of Biblical Gsopels, as several authors have mentioned, both in style and how he treats his characters and themes. I'm not sure I can reconcile these views, however. I'm not religious, so my perspective is extremely limited. That's why I'd like to hear different opinions.



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23196921 No.23196921 [Reply] [Original]

EXPLAIN PALI CANON TO ME OR I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU! DON'T DUMB IT DOWN INTO SOME VAGUE SHIT! EXPLAIN PALI CANON TO ME RIGHT NOW OR I'LL LITERALLY FUCKING KILL YOu!

WHY THE FUCK DID IT SPLIT INTO FIVE? WHAT IS DIGHA NIKAYA? WHAT IS MAJJHIMA NIKAYA? WHAT IS SAMYUTTA NIKAYA?
WHAT ORDER SHOULD I READ THEM IN? well, all of them are too long, I only want to read one, SO WHAT SHOULD I READ?
WHY IS KHUDDAKA NIKAYA CONSIDERED "MINOR" AND "SECONDARY" WHEN IT CONTAINS DHAMMAPADA AND SUTTANIPATA?
DON'T DUMB IT DOWN OR I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU

>> No.23196925

you already made this post, so here the same answer as last time
https://suttacentral.net/start?lang=en

the canon is here from the PTS team,
https://americanmonk.org/free-pts-sutta-ebooks/
you can read all this in 1 month if you are neet, otherwise jsut do this :
take 1h to read that and you'll be up to date and know more than 99% of the alleged buddhists :

>start
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN19.html
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/AN/AN6_63.html
>middle
https://suttacentral.net/mn148/en/sujato
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN12_51.html
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/AN/AN11_1.html
>finish
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN54_8.html

>> No.23196932

>WHY THE FUCK DID IT SPLIT INTO FIVE?
Isn't it split into 3? Although ig if you don't want to be a monk or expert on theravada theology you only care about the nikayas
>WHAT ORDER SHOULD I READ THEM IN
In The Buddhas Words gives you a pretty decent order to read suttas w/ commentary. Past that, either read suttas with themes you find interesting or randomly pick them
>>23196925
Didn't know this guy already posted this, rip



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23196888 No.23196888 [Reply] [Original]

Which to read first? Are both worth reading?

>> No.23196895

>>23196888
>Are both worth reading?
In translation? Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh.