are there any pop-science books you've enjoyed?
>>25182792Submissive sycophants like you deserve to have their heads crushed with a mallet.
>>25182809U mad bro.
>>25182643It's not hyperbole, you get mad and wanted a strawman to take down.>This is literally the same argument for the "addictive" nature of social media.So ice cream is the same as heroin. Damn you're so smart! Really helpful to blur everything so now we consider ice cream and heroin as being in the same categorie. Thanks for muddying the waters.>libertarian theoryI wipe my ass with your theory, so does the rest of the world.>gambling just didn't exist before the state legalized itIt's about volume, dumb gorilla nigger. Is that the next thing you're going to blur? Some people gambled in Las Vegas so nothing changed when every human could gamble on the go from their phone 24/7 on literally everything.>Just don't use themHow about we ban them? Works better.>when are you going to stop using 4chan?Never. Do I need to point out the difference between a 4chan and an Instagram? I guess Meta just pumps money into research to keep you hooked for nothing since it´s just the same as an imageboard. Hey you should contact Mark Zuckerberg! You're a very clever guy and you should tell him he's wasting his money!
>>25183104>It's not hyperbole, you get mad and wanted a strawman to take down.Says the fag that cries and throws around threats of violence on the Internet lmfao.>So ice cream is the same as heroin. Damn you're so smart!A difference in degree is not a difference in kind. In principle both would be addictions (provided you buy into the dopamine argument used against social media) even if they vary in their "seriousness." And since when were we comparing ice cream to heroin? I was comparing ice cream to social media, which is the actual subject at hand.>I wipe my ass with your theory, so does the rest of the world.You and the rest of the world are total clowns. Which is why the world is shit.>Some people gambled in Las Vegas so nothing changed when every human could gamble on the go from their phone 24/7 on literally everything.That has more to do with the availability of the services provided by the Internet. Which doesn't have much to do with legalization. Piracy is illegal, yet tons of people do it because the Internet makes it easy to do.>How about we ban them? Works better.Again, privacy is illegal, how's that working out? And the erring reason binds, if someone comes to particular conclusion, like say placing bets on an app, it's immoral to use force to negate that person's judgement. If someone makes a bad decision as a result of their own poor judgement, it's up to them, no one else, to deal with the consequences. In fact by resorting to force, you're implicitly saying that you have no argument against it, and thus have no valid grounds to claim that you know better.>Never. Do I need to point out the difference between a 4chan and an Instagram?Let's look at the definitions of social media provided by the Cambridge English dictionary, shall we...>websites and computer programs that allow people to communicate and share information, opinions, pictures, videos, etc. on the internet, especially social networking websites:>forms of media that allow people to communicate and share information using the internet or mobile phones:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25183155>You and the rest of the world are total clowns. So you're saying... that libertarian was a utopic ideology not based in reality all along?
ITT: we post pictures and recommendations for liturature based on the pictures.
>>25181698A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers
>>25182494Hogg
Ginger Snaps edition.OLD: >>25125217
>>25182903I got that but I was forced to use an ebook to read it because I don't like the double-column text on each page. It's just too small for me.
>>25182967>>25182975>How are Robert E. Howard's horror stories? Are they any good?They're great. You have the stories that draw strong influence from the writers he liked (Lovecraft, Machen, Doyle and Kipling) and you have the more Howardian horror stories that have either have a lot more action and adventure or draw from the tales of his native Texas and the slave folklore of the plantation south. get the del ray horror stories because it has more stories, howard's poetry and some good artwork to go along with it
>>25183271Does desperately pivoting from your original points normally work for you? I thought the problem was that it was DRM protected? Or that I "didn't actually own it". Now it's that it costs money, any money whatsoever. Maybe your problem is that you're a broke little pissant who doesn't understand technology?
>>25182902I practised my Spanish with this collection:https://tercerafundacion.net/biblioteca/ver/ficha/1440
>>25182902Dark Forces and 999 are great.>>25182940I broke my Lovecraft cherry around 12 with the collection Black Seas of Infinity (from a book club). I recently ordered it again for nostalgic purposes even though I probably own most of the stories in other books.>>25182967That's an excellent collection.>>25182971Write what you know and make it creepy>>25183065I don't care what any snob on /lit/ thinks that book is a great adventure.
We should be more like the Japanese
>>25174044What are you a fan if right now?
>>25173636this is an old copypastabut still necessary it seems
>>25174149Why don't you read them again? I have a few that i like that I read again
>>25173586I'm gonna... I'm GONNA CONSOOOOOM
>>25180469bullshit, Japan has always had a culture of prostration. commoners on that island have always been forced to worship their overlord class, the social framework has simply modernized since WW2. contemporary Japanese consumerism is the result of hundreds of years of ruling classes conditioning regular Japanese people to treat their "superiors" as infallible and it shows in their complete submission to corporate flagellation
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>>25183436This anon,bitch nigga,out here allquixoticand shit.
>>25183441lmao everyone here is a blogging third world ESL, nobody even reads on this joke of a board. shut the fuck up dork
>>25183455Factually incorrect.
>>25183457yeah man whatever you say. just make another post about how your crush doesn't like you even though you do pushups in your bedroom to stay fit or whatever
>>25183455Desolation Angels is a book I've read I got 2000 more examples. Shall we continue?
I remember school and university, where trying to get good grades and paying attention in class made teachers and other students think I'm a nerd, when I would actually just study, say, math on my own, with a tutor, in class, read about it online and still barely pass exams and testsI easily learned english as a child, but when it came to learning a third foreign language in school I was very below average, one of the worst students in my group, it was humiliatingI've now tried to learn a few languages (French, German, Latin, Spanish, Russian, probably a few others I've forgotten too) and I've struggled with them a lot, even studying every day for 3 hours (I did manage to keep up that pace) would generally not net me anything. it doesn't help that there are so many charlatans in the language learning "hobby space" that you don't even know what "method" to use while learning a language. probably the worst thing is that language learning communities are full of intelligent people who have many languages under their belts and this is their special interest and you can't compare yourself to themI like reading books and don't really like video games or TV, so I spend a large chunk of my free time reading. I know a bit about history, philosophy, things like this which automatically make other people think you're intelligent, but it's a bit of an illusion and I've disappointed pretty much every teacher I've had in my life. in general I am a pretentious failure who is well read enough, knows about history, philosophy and thinks he's intelligent, so I can discuss things with other people, but honestly, with the philosophy that I've read it's more that I memorized the logic but don't actually understand anything at all. it would take one actually intelligent person who's read enough as me to show that I'm just a complete fraud and retardI'm too stupid and lazy to ever learn another language
>>25181017>most people on 4chan are above average intelligencecrazy shit to be saying
>>25180947>>25181027>muh logic>muh i can't learn languagesit is you believing these things make you unintelligent that makes you unintelligent
also OP you seem to be confusing being well-read with being skillful. you are probably decently well-read but not skillful. skill is about getting certain things like writing/woodworking/singing/programming/etc. down to muscle memory through years of practice. being well-read is about having a bunch of facts/dates/names in your head on demand. in my opinion and in the opinion of most of the people i talk to, we would prefer to know people who are skilled rather than well-read. however, if this makes any sense, you seem skilled at introspection and being humble, and i find that admirable myselfmy advice, if you want it, is that once you see yourself actually get better at a skill it becomes a bit of an addiction to get better at from that point on. i recommend trying to learn specifically Italian to a basic speaking proficiency, having a bit of a celebration for yourself, then pushing yourself even higher. writing down observations you see from native speakers on youtube or twitch will immerse you way better than just reading books or rote memorization of grammar. no specific method beats raw practice. in bocca al lupo
>>25180947>probably the worst thing is that language learning communities are full of intelligent people whoI'll stop you right there buckoan intelligent person does not learn a language unless he needs it for something (sex, money, or other freudian stuff)... and if he actually needs it, there is zero change it will waste any time on some "hobby space"
>>25181027>but everyone I know thinks I am a legitimate genius.does not have to do with YOUR iq but with theirsI've seen 70 IQ people worship me because I could turn on a computer. does it take X IQ to turn on a computer? no. does it take 70 IQ not to know you could also do it? yes.
They did not speak. They were men of another time for all that they bore Christian names and they had lived all their lives in a wilderness as had their fathers before them. They'd learnt war by warring, the generations driven from the eastern shore across a continent, from the ashes at Gnadenhutten onto the prairies and across the outlet to the bloodlands of the west. If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained within it creatures more horrible yet and men of other colors and beings which no man has looked upon and yet not alien none of it more than were their own hearts alien in them, whatever wilderness contained there and whatever beasts.
what books to read to a baby so that it does not go full chud
>>25183256Also, because a literal schizo in a burger king crown is less mentally ill than any tranny, ever.
>>25183256The end result of this one sided vice signaling culture war is an algosorted rw echo chamber that funnels people into terrorgram channels where they swap cp and groom kids into being mass shooters. You can always justify it by imagining the other side is worse and you'll always have someone to affirm that viewpoint because it's an echo chamber. This is "actually existing" yarvinism as leftoids say.
>>25182919He understands. He's a liar just like all his western assets.
>>25183175>Epstein hated Trump.but trump loved epstein... much to consider!>>25182512the adam friedland show is my favorite center-left podcast
>>25183180I want recommendation from non chuds about how to stomp the chud out of my baby.Chuds will be put in camps when Kamala bros rise up in 28
>WE WUZ HAVIN SEX AND SHIT
>spends over a decade (70s-80s) physically weak and emotionally numb due to undiagnosed hypothyroidism>his mother dies at 57 and his son is born, he can't feel anything at either event because of the disease fucking with his mind and body>is basically a walking corpse when he finally gets diagnosed after years of doctors not knowing what was wrong with him, doctor tells him he should be dead>wakes up one day in 1999 to find his 18-year-old son Eddie suddenly dead of meningitis the morning after he appeared mildly ill with flu>gets such a bad case of covid he almost dies, has to be put into a coma for over a month, wakes up blind in one eye, deaf in one ear and has to painfully re-learn to walkAll this, and he writes the most whimsical and joyous poems and stories for children. How does he do it?
The indomitable human spirit.
You write about what you don't have.
What do you think about D.H. Lawrence? Have you read any of his novels/ poetry?
>>25182664>i proved you wrong because I say I did!Email your mom the link yet?
>"When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language."Never read this D.H Lawrence character in my life, but I already like him...a lot.
>>25179048Glad to see others have already recommended later not quite so well-known novels, Kangaroo and The Plumed Serpent. Regarding his poetry: he was a very talented user of strict forms who wrote some really nice lyrics earlier on; later volumes, like Pansies, develop a loose free verse that it like transcribed talk, fortunately very interesting talk. There is a great volume of Complete Poems published by Penguin, I recommend.Lawrence was amazingly productive; he was capable of exceptionally good writing in both prose and verse; naturally enough, not everything he wrote is up to his own best standard.
>>25179060If Dialectical Materialism is correct and metaphysics doesn't exist and it's all just Physicalism then...Why is fascism wrong?
>>25182856when he's bad he's exasperating, when he's good he's exhilarating. worth reading
How do I become "well read"? What is the IMDb top 250 equivalent of books?
>>25183451Read these
>>25183451>What is the IMDb top 250 equivalent of books?The /lit/ top 100, of course
>>25183451>>25183460search for a few /lit/ top 100s (~annual chart) and other chart threads, read what you think sounds interesting, do this for several years
>>25183451well read refers to having a wide spectrum of books
>>25183451idk i just read whatever I feel like but maybe look into that harvard 5 foot bookshelf bullshit
>Genesis was a snore fest of lineages that I didn't bother to remember(This begot that guy, that guy begot him, him begot he, no one in-between has any relevance to the plot so you could've just skipped them and said that he was a descendant of this guy)>It still had enough edge/grit/tension to keep me reading through it>Start Exodus, know that there were alot of adaptations and homages to it so maybe this one is better>The entire first act is just a cycle of Pharoah refusing to let 'em go, then a plague comes, then he let's them go before saying 'SIKE!'>The rest of the book is a tent building guideYeah, I think I understand why even the fans don't even read ts
>>25178804It's PSYCHE, not SIKE.
Bunch of retards here have no idea of the knowledge hidden in plain sight in the old testament textsFucking faggots
>From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. “Get out of here, baldy!” they said. “Get out of here, baldy!” He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.
>>25181888Baka missing out on >The church is literally referred to as THE BRIDE of christ
>>25182402The knowledge that jews worship an infanticidal demon from the Sinai?
If I buy a newspaper will I have power and influence in the year 2026?
>>25183438Jeff Bezos is so retarded
Literarily speaking how did these books gain so much popularity among a certain type of white woman?
>>25183367>>25183366Where is your Kafka? Why read English works in translation when you're clearly fluent in the language?
>>25183366https://rodnavira.cz/clenstvi/
>>25183412Castle (Zámok) is right there, anon.
>>25183429Oh. I am retarded
>>25179561new thread complaining about 0,001% of the population
