>>25171809
how is it?

>>25171835
It necessitates suffering

>>25171809
the title and cover is more interesting than the book

House of Leaves kind of posits itself as dangerous to read towards the beginning.

>>25171809
Self-published shlock

>>25171809
Might be onto something. I was reading it by a river while downing some beers and smoking the occasional spliff. Suddenly It hit me and i emptied my can into a river and walked back home to clean it up for the next three hours before going to sleep early. Any other time when I crack open a beer it's like a malt pacifier that i suckle until I pass out. That night i couldn't care less about anything other than for a peace of mind and what's objectively best for me.
The act of thinking what I'd do if I could do anything ceased all of my wants and still does so but not to that degree.

>>25171809
It's enlightenment in under 200 pages. Absolutely amazing
>>25172168
House of Leaves isn't bad, but it's incredibly overrated. The people that pretend House of Leaves is cogitohazard wouldn't survive TMOPI

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>is that??
>is that electrical engineering????
>AAAIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE IM GOING INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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>>25171809
I read Fear and Trembling a while back and I vaguely remember Kierkegaard lamenting about how some people might go crazy after reading it.

>>25171809
It's ok, mediocre prose and didn't show me anything I didn't already know. Might blow your mind if you haven't been paying attention to things. I highly recommend it if you think that the highest goal in life is to eliminate suffering.

>>25171835
good book

>>25172409
This happened with Critique of Pure Reason, I’m not so sure about this, though.

>>25172409
I don't think it was about "going crazy" I'd say it was more about it forcing to you question your worldview to such a degree that you wouldn't be sure what you actually believe or understand.
Kierkegaard later wrote this:
>One has to begin with paganism. So I begin with Either/Or. In that way I have managed to get the age to go along with me without ever dreaming where it is going or where we now are.... If one begins immediately with Christianity, they say: This is nothing for us—and put themselves immediately on guard.
If someone reads Fear and Trembling and thinks "huh, I don't really know anything about faith at all" I think it did its job.

>>25172257
People overrate House of Leaves because they go into it not expecting it to be a literal YA-tier novel.

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>Cognitohazard
No such thing. You need to go back now.

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>>25176233
>No such thing

>25176468
What did xir mean by this?

>>25176233
>No such thing
There is, but a lot of people conflate it with ideas which harm their knower like The Game, which I've just lost, btw.

>>25176471
>He doesn't know Franz Liszt, the man who's piano concertos made all the bitches go (literally) insane.
What's wrong with the kids these days?

>>25171809
it was supposed to be a warning not an instruction manual

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>>25171809
this is literally just existentialism produced by the type of person that works in IT. The typical it worker knows much shit about computera but nothing about actual philosophy or sociology. Reading a philology book on how antiquity niggas actually lived would break their brains.

This shit is easily refuted by basically any philosopher, really literally any one of them. IT niggas are a plague on this earth because at least anime watching mcu fags dont use their degrees and expertise on unrelated subjects to postulate their Reddit philosophy wanks

>>25171809
someone should check this dude's property for missing people