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I have a high IQ. What should i definitely be reading?

>> No.23224170

gotta go with call of the crocodile

>> No.23224183

>>23223982
The Satipatthana Sutta

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>> No.23224361

>>23223982
Starship Troopers if you have time,you are not going to regret,it´s very encyclopedia Britannica ,military and very narrative explanation rather than common action.
Here´s the link.
https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=2C5173C61AC0DC2DAAFC3F22C756BB9C

>> No.23224458

>>23223982
That depends. How old are you and how well read are you?

>> No.23224573

>>23224458
52 and very

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>>23224573
In that case, I find it out of place for me to make suggestions. I should be asking instead, but since you have asked:

I recommend the writings of Reinhold Niebuhr—his thought-trails can be rough, but they are the sort which are readily conversable. If you haven't recently, I recommend the Federalist Papers. Hamilton's essays are really just fun to read. And these three poems (which you hopefully have never seen before; which remind me of one another) "Out, Out—," by Frost, "Taking to the Woods," by Henry Taylor, and "Traveling Through the Dark," by William E. Stafford. For me, Frost, perhaps, has the more practiced hand, but I am not wholly convinced. For me, Taylor takes the cake in this battle. Stafford is a bit out-classed, but manages to produce something interesting anyway (and Taylor was a reader of his work). There's an old essay, "My Semantic Assents and Descents," by the philosopher J.J.C. Smart, for some reason it was playing on my mind awhile ago. Perhaps you'll find it comfy—like Eggs Benedict with coffee. That's how I take it. I honestly don't know. I'm not old enough, being thirty-six, nor well-read enough, being almost certainly an undiagnosed [and therefore, untreated] case of adult-onset adhd, to know what to tell you. Answer me something. When you read Blake's "The Clod and The Pebble," where do you stand? That poem is as high IQ as poems go (as I'm sure you know). I believe I know where Blake stands, but little do I know where I do if I don't, do I?

>> No.23224655

>>23223982
That's not how it works. Preferences are entirely your own.

>> No.23224665

>>23224655
He didn't say, "what should I prefer," but "what should I definitely be reading." Those are worlds apart.

>> No.23224673

>>23223982
Homer

>> No.23224912

>>23223982
A different board.

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>>23224170
Fuck off Frank. No one cares about your sub-garbage-tier gibberish, or your gay studio apartment that your parents deposited you in.

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>> No.23225247

>>23223982
The Culture of Critique

>> No.23225248

>>23224673
Yes, Marge?