Stop reading enemies of human liberty such as Helvétius, Rousseau, Fichte, Hegel, Saint-Simon and de Maistre
>>24952571Shut up, Anglo-Prot.
>>24952571Very well, then; I shall apply myself to Locke.
if there is any author which should have his books publicly burned it's karl popper
>>24952571>Read le Jews insteadYou'd trade these "enemies of human liberty' for enemies of God. That's what your liberty amounts to, hatred and rebellion against God.
Liberty is gay. It enables women to have autonomy. It's so disgusting and very antithetical to Aristotelian ethics (not that I fully agree with him, but his take women is based).
>>24952186...Bluetooth? It's a screen that displays text. What the hell do you need Bluetooth for? Don't say "audiobooks," since at that point it's all the same whether you use a phone or e-reader.
>>24952224What for? The internal storage of any e-reader can hold literally tens of thousands of books....It's fucking comic books, isn't it?
>>24947416>>24947434imagine reading pic related on an ereaderereaders suck whenever formatting is important to the text
>>24952546I don't understand color ereaders. If you want to read magazines or comics or multimedia why not use a tablet?
>>24947416>buy a used book on ebay>find a 20 year old photograph halfway through the bookYou poorfags will never understand the pure sovl of reading books.
Penguin always seem to have the best covers but it seems gay to just have a shelf of Penguin stuff. What do?
Collect what you like and call others retards for having inferior covers. Simple as.
I think it's impossible to make money off of sharing abstract knowledge. Can you prove me wrong?Because I've tried to make money off talking about philosophy and its just futile. I thought of the 48 laws of power for instance and then I realized that book is just obvious hot garbage.I thought of so many other things like economists, internet bloggers, and even psychologists. And they're all either just spewing lies and falsehoods, writing a whole load of useless filler, or making money in some weird abusive way like taking taxpayer dollars, embarrassing college campus kids or something like that.I think if I could go back in time with the best writing possible, I couldn't convince anyone that the Earth revolves around the sun in a way that makes me money...
>>24952773I think it's impossible to make money in general. I just can't seem to do it no matter what I do. Sucks not being from a decent family who can set you up with a bullshit "job".
>>24952840>wah wah my family didn’t give me handouts Shut up faggot. Make some money like a man.
>>24952773>I think it's impossible to make money off of sharing abstract knowledge. Can you prove me wrong?There are many people who make a living solely from technical blogs
>>24952773It's not impossible because people have done it and still do it. What you mean is: it's very hard, and a lot of factors go into it. Yes, indeed. That's not a particularly unique insight.
>>24952773the only way to make money through mere knowledge (so not skill e.g knowing how to do x but rather knowing that x) is through deceit and corruption, see charles ponzi and wallace fard muhammad or joseph smith.
>Cat's Cradle>Quetzalcoatl
>>24951812I couldn't finish this book. It was terrible.
>>24951812THE.MEGABITCH
>>24951812this kind of requires you to pronounce "Cat's" like "Katsu," korean fried pork cutlet
Best writers for increasing your vocabulary?
>>24949924I would say most author between 1750-1850
>>24952282You can't count
Hemingway
>>24950722Sublunary is so beautiful.. thanks anon
>>24952871You aint seen nothing yet, apropos Donne:Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admitAbsence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.
Redpill me on Dr. William Pierce. Are his works worth reading?
>>24949071>but pierce is a faggot sodo you think if you just keep repeating that without any evidence it'll magically become true?
>>24951910pierce is a faggot and a pornographer>>24951395how about all the scenes where jaeger cups his posslq's boobies and she asks him when they can do something about the white birth rate and he says later honey i need to do improbable terrorisms>>24949476do muslim terrorist manuals come with sex scenes in which the terrorist protagonist refuses to get his concubine pregnant
>>24951910>>24951395>>24949476by the way this is what a heterosexual racist sounds like
>>24952109so is your entire "proof" that Pierce was supposedly gay that the fictional character he created didn't immediately impregnate a female character?not sure if you're dishonest or just really that stupid
>>24952223Is this real? Ngl this is something a 15 year old would write
What’s the male version of this? I’m tired as fuck
>>24950524So then both are straight and asexual? as in, the nerdiest gayest ugliest people people I ever met were fucking each ragged in the theatre department of High School. Seems like Gay incels just don't exist.
>>24944451every single D.E.I. character he did not have to "include"
>>24950524So you think it's a pure coincidence that statistically a higher % of men than women don't have sex and a higher % of men than women has no children?
real answer is Houellebecq's extension du domaine de la lutte
Great novel. Best of the century, even.
How to get into Henry James? What do I start with? Pound said only to read The Sacred Fount after about 20 of James' novels...
>>24952725That's good advice. Daisy Miller, Aspern Papers, Washington Square, Bostonians, What Maisie Knew would be good starting points. Portrait is the classic but it is also huge. There's a good Penguin anthology called Selected Tales, sort of a "greatest hits" for HJ short fiction, and a very good two-volume set from Everyman's Library under the title Collected Stories that has pretty much everything a casual or even advanced HJ reader will ever need.
>>24952767I'd read at least one (earlier) James novel before Portrait and Maisie after Portrait because then you'll get to see a clear development in the prose style and way in which he deals with the inferiority of his characters. Maisie especially is when I personally think he makes a major breakthrough.
>>24952747>>24952767>>24952804Thanks guys. I'll pick up Washington Square and go from there.
>>24952725Here you go, anon. Some nice anon made this a couple of years ago and I used it to get into James. Have read all his works now and can confirm this is the way to go
>>24952804>inferiority of his charactersMeant interiority.>>24952866Hope you enjoy it.
What is there even left to read after him?? Why is his prose so good?
>>24950176reading lolita for "symbols" that represent social issues at large is like attending communion to get drunk or becoming a buddhist to bulk.>>24948719>If you actually tried writing seriously, you'd see that you can't write well about the stuff that you you find personally disgusting or isn't your fetish.nabokov has written about diarrhea, gay sex, gay sex during intestinal infections, old people sex, murder, torture and his characters all have qualities that are his complete opposite. his next two novels were about a man who can't speak english and a terrible academic. on the theme of children, he definitely valued childhood (going by how much of SM is dedicated to his own) and thought of losing one's childhood as a great source of pity, pity being one half of his formula for beauty.
>>24946325Biggest pseud magnet of all time. Has never had anything interesting to say. His art is useless, and he himself would be the first to tell you so. You will outgrow him once you've lived a life.
>>24951035What is the use of art?
>>24951035Use case of art?
>>24946378As in Pale Fire?
What's the funniest book you've read?
>>24952538
>>24951462The Pickwick Papers and Norm's bookAuthors would be Wodehouse and Swartzwelder
>>24951462I actually don't recommend reading it as you will come to see just how many modern authors and even comedians are completely derivative hacks. (Vonnegut in particular who deserve exhumation and crucifixion upside down for his kleptocratic writings)
>>24951738Love this lil book like you wouldn't believe. Also, for any posters bemoaning the lack of romance in novels for men, Lucky Jim has a great one.
probably American Psycho
Are there any librarians or library assistants here? How did you get your job? I want to be a library assistant but Ive found it difficult to find a job.
My mom ks one. She got in with a bachelor's degree in equine science. Without an MA you can only be a librarian for small-town libraries though
>>24949864I once I got a job as a library assistant in a call center. Didn't last for more than six months because I didn't fit in with anyone else. Basically you had to fulfill ALL of these categories.>must be a woman, if not must be gay or be able to be mistaken for gay>must be firmly left wing, if not you must be old and fulfill all the other categories>if you're black and have a legitimate disability you don't have to follow these rules
>>24952061This, except you also have to have a degree for some reason to sit there and handle books. I've been doing this all my life, why the fuck do I need an advanced degree to be a glorified store clerk?
>>24952061All of this sounds like you are just shit at talking to women. I guarantee you're exaggerating this because of your own inability to talk to the opposite gender in a friendly way without wanting to fuck them. You're an incel.
>>24952180>sit there and handle booksIt's not just that, there's some research involved. But researching is a learned skill, if you aren't completely retarded in search engines and know how to use boolean operators you're ahead the curve already.It should be determined with a competency test and certainly doesn't need a four-year degree.
Books on the topic?I find reading about organized crime fascinating. Too bad im too much of a pussy to join.
How do I get into James Joyce if I'm not Irish and I got filtered by Finnegans Wake?
>>24952658Yea
>>24952593Isn't the other bitch better?
Joyce, like all great "Irish" writers, were of English stock. That is, their ancestral origin was in England. Having moved to Ireland in late Middle Ages or early modern period for administrative aristocratic purposes, colonial.
>>24952808>having moved to Ireland in late Middle AgesDescribes almost the entire population of Ireland. There's been enough admixture, both ways and over a long enough period, that Irish and English are genetically indistinguishable, and this has been the case since at least the 1850s when most of the primarily Gaelic stock either died or migrated.
>I am made in such a way that I do not care much for the output from your Wholesale Safety Pun Factory nor for the darknesses and unintelligibilities of your deliberately entangled language system. It seems to me you are wasting your genius.
>what if... the bad guy, um, like rapes and kills and such?The Judge is a cartoony villain, something you'd find in an Alan Moore comic like The Killing Joke.How does anyone take American letters seriously when you realise the entire McCarthy Universe (MCU) was just made to be a backend of Hollywood slop adaptations?
>>24948752Harold Bloom read more than you or I and praised McCarthy's prose
>>24950091>noooo he should have been having sex with 40yo roasties with dry, barren pussys
>>24949972>McCarthy is adapted by Hollywood for a reason Shakespeare is the most adapted author of all time.
>>24948666Only capeshit people aka straight while males give a shit about this author. Modern straight white males are the most standard unipolar people on earth. They somehow love to pretend what they stand for is deep is moving but when you look deep into it it's a carbon copy of what the next guy has to say. Most boring shit ever. No wonder they get shit faced drunk, that allows them to come up with whole new ways to interpret all that.
>>24948674>right in the Toadvine
