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23228558 No.23228558 [Reply] [Original]

Roll for number of pages you’re reading today. Also describe your reading routine:
>how many books do you read at a time
>how many books a year
>how do you split up reading by genre
>do you take notes, if so how



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23228530 No.23228530 [Reply] [Original]

>actually ended philosophy

>> No.23228535

>philosophy
>end

Philosophy is just a big scam, it's a venture that can't be definitely anwser, only science can give the final word, and even then is open to revision, different from scanlosophy



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23228521 No.23228521 [Reply] [Original]

a video adaptation of HOW TO READ A BOOK would finally solve the conundrum of having it in book form, if I'm not mistaken

>> No.23228544

That would then add the prerequisite of How To Watch a Video

>> No.23228547

>>23228544
Then you would just need that in picture form, which is pure intuition



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23228495 No.23228495 [Reply] [Original]

Literally in his great novels there is always a prostitute who is the moral compass and the trigger for redemption for the protagonist.

>> No.23228506

>>23228495
A prostitute or a bartender is a therapist that won't report you to the authorities. The relationship between you and them is very special and people feel like they can open up to both professions.

t. bartender that has to listen to your fucking shit ass problems



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23228486 No.23228486 [Reply] [Original]

The best reading room anyone could ask for.

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>> No.23228553

>>23228539
I'd imagine the absence of women and nature, on a purely primal level, would begin to take its toll.

>> No.23228554

>>23228539
>Apart from the shower bum sex
Is this an actual thing or just a myth?

>> No.23228557

>>23228553
Meh i have done that for a long time already, and now that i have been in a few relationships i'm not bothered anymore.

>> No.23228559

>>23228551
The worst I heard is the one where inmates had them basic-bitch b&w TVs, and they had to watch specific programs on those TVs at appointed time. Not watching at full attention is a disciplinary charge.

Mandatory daytime state cable. For hours. Every day. No day-offs.

>> No.23228560

>>23228514
Some do, there is probably nothing else to do. Actually for me, there would be nothing else to do (except exercise).



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23228460 No.23228460 [Reply] [Original]

What's the best translation of Sholem Aleichem's stories?



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23228454 No.23228454 [Reply] [Original]

>buy used book
>see this

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>> No.23228500

I buy books with notes, highlighter, dog ears
I buy books with broken spines, heavily foxed pages, missing dust covers.
I do not care, so long as the text is all there, that's all that matters.
Books are meant to be read. Collecting books without reading them is no better than collecting funko pops

>> No.23228505

>>23228454
>buy used book
>book is used
>mfw

>> No.23228534

>>23228479
>At least it is not ruined by pens and yellow markers for some pretentious tictoc bullshit.
don't use tiktok, qrd?

>> No.23228550

>>23228500
This

I remember one edition of Rousseau’s works a friend bought that was filled with handwritten notes from the previous owner.
The notes were all complaints about the notes made by the translator. Previous owner accusing the translator of not understanding Rousseau.

>> No.23228556

>>23228454
I flatten it, vigorously.



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23228426 No.23228426 [Reply] [Original]

I'm starting with the greeks with this. Is it good? I'm gonna borrow it from my local public library.

>> No.23228437

If you're starting with the Greeks I recommend you get the Fagles translation of the Iliad
The Iliad and the Odyssey are by far the most important things to read

>> No.23228465

>>23228437
I'd rather read it in Spanish



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23228420 No.23228420 [Reply] [Original]

Idk if i'm on /pol/brain mode but I think that this book is a brilliant metaphor of the invasion of the West by people from the south. How we simply let them have the land with no struggle. How they can mimic us to perfection but will never make any progress in a thousand years. This is highly prophetic and genius.

>> No.23228428

>>23228420
There is a black activist that thinks the directors added a monkey that looks like him to taunt him.

>> No.23228434

>>23228428
https://www.thewrap.com/whoopi-goldberg-slams-black-lives-matter-activist-over-planet-of-the-apes-criticism-video/



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23228329 No.23228329 [Reply] [Original]

>to be, or not to be, that is the question

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>> No.23228419

>>23228391
>Are performances of Shakespeare meant to be
No.

>> No.23228432

>>23228391
Realism is the fundamental basis of Shakespearian theatre.

>> No.23228449

When I drive to work I have a habit of repeating to myself 'When he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin' and 'Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life'
My King! My Jove!
I speak to thee my heart!

>> No.23228452

>>23228350
This. I love the scope and I love how there aren't a ton of omitted lines, but the casting is fucked.

Hamlet is a College student and Kenneth was like 40. I didn't have an issue with Kate, but Billy and Robin Williams were obvious winks towards the audience. Distracting cameos.

I also think Jack Lemon didn't give a single good performance after Glengarry. Nigga was senile and the hollywood execs kept wheeling him out like they did with Kirk Douglas. Dead ass eyes.

>> No.23228464

>>23228452
>movie opens with a black persons face
>changes the order for no fucking reason
>turns the ghost scene into a ridiculous mess of editing
>is pseudo arthouse for the rest of the movie
The 'scope' is dogshit.

Also Hamlet's 30.



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23228295 No.23228295 [Reply] [Original]

Shakespeare was obviously the greatest writer of the English language but is he great because of some otherworldly, divinely inspired relationship he had with the English language that was totally unique to him or because English in comparison to other languages has quite a poor literary tradition? Do other countries simply lack a figure who displays a mastery of their language on par with Shakespeare or do they in fact have multiple artists who possess a similar skill and therefore veneration is not concentrated on one figure?

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>> No.23228373

>>23228362
>Which other English poets do you consider an equal to Shakespeare?
As far as mastery of the English language is concerned, Chaucer, Spenser, Donne, Pound, etc. But this has nothing to do with the genius of how one uses the English language.

>> No.23228377

>>23228295
Same reason the KJV Bible sounds like "the best" English, even though people at the time in the early 1600s didn't like it and still preferred the 1560 Geneva Bible, which remained easier to understand in most passages. It came just as English began being "standardized" and circumstances led to English being "standardized" around things like Shakespeare and the KJV Bible. They are "good English" because "good English" itself was determined by them.

>> No.23228455

>>23228377
Imagine not being able to identify the virtues of English which it shares with other languages.

>> No.23228462

>>23228455
You mean all the Latinate words English got from the KJV borrowing from the Douay-Rheims borrowing from the Vulgate?

>> No.23228526

>>23228462
It's about style, not the words themselves, stupid.



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23228245 No.23228245 [Reply] [Original]

Why do lonely autists think they are smart? autism and loneliness are linked to brain damage and they should be in the psych ward!

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>> No.23228508

>>23228503
not to forget there are a myriad of extremely weak copes from psychiatry, because they have never been challenged, the modern psychiatric ideology relies completely on the illusion that modern society is somehow perfect and doesn't cause any inherent psychological harm, the mythical neurotypical that doesn't have any "disorders" in todays culture would probably be ostracized and beaten down just a century ago

>> No.23228517

>>23228503
I can tell you straight up, my parents both have undiagnosed autism, and they're both social disasters, who have gone through life not really comprehending a lot, and not making a lot of friends that they didn't then lose over stupid social errors.

For the boomers, it was very easy to get a job, get a house, fall into an unhappy relationship, and operate within a much simpler system of social expectations (men are men, women are women, you get a haircut, get married, buy a dog, and have kids, watch the latest TV thing and talk about it in the office tomorrow). That's what makes them seemingly "more functional". They're not actually.

>> No.23228527

>>23228517
getting a job, house, and partner is what succeeding in society is, everyone is a "social disaster" according to psychiatrists essentialyl because they aren't HR roasties enthusiastically presenting 6 powerpoints a day before going to a coffee shop with 5 friends and being completely content without ever questioning existence.
people are "social disasters" because we are meant to live in small tribes with simple naturally assigned tasks that simply speak for themselves, nobody is actually neurotypical, if you are "typical" in mentality for living in glass termine hives happily slaving for pedophilic jews and content in things like modern culture then you should be put down unironically

>> No.23228541

>>23228517
making friends you didn't grow up with is unnatural and strange, you have to be some kind of narcissist or very naive person to truly have confidence in doing so, it sounds like your parents completely benefited from the social contract of civilization/society, despite not being social butterflies, who don't really seem to exist anyway. you kind of prove his point.
most people don't have more than 1-2 friends btw.

>> No.23228543

>>23228527
Like, my dad for example just stopped talking to all of his extended family after a certain age, for no reason.
That's autistic as fuck, and that's the kind of thing I do. Because sometimes you just hit that point where you don't dislike a person, but you have absolutely no idea what to say or do around them, and maybe you don't even realise you were expected to be maintaining that relationship.



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23228193 No.23228193 [Reply] [Original]

>reads african book
>it's actually good
damn. any good authors from the region like this one or is the rest just a farse as usual?

>> No.23228224

>>23228193
> African book
> Unpronounceable name of author
figures.

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23228424

>>23228224
>foreign book
>author has foreign name
>anon is mad

>> No.23228476

>>23228193
I've been thinking about reading one of this guy's books. Is this the one to start with?



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23228189 No.23228189 [Reply] [Original]

I'm currently half-way through "How to read a book", and I'm finding it simple but quite useful, me still being an inexperienced reader.
Recently I noticed Adler wrote a lot of other stuff, did you like some other book of his? I think I might check out some of his stuff on Aristotle once I started approaching greek philosophy.

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>> No.23228214

>>23228189
He has a very good reputation. Never read his books, so can't give my opinion.

>> No.23228272

The book is 90% good, BUT he advocates actually writing in books with a pencil. And for this he should have been publicly hanged.

>> No.23228299

>>23228189
I know him primarily as a philosopher of education

>> No.23228336

What is his stuff on Aristotle about anon? Is it a digestion of Aristotle works which are primary sources of knowledge? Is it an extrinsic reading aid helping you understand Aristotle and his times better? Is it a guide on how to read his works well? You peaked my interest.

>> No.23228376

robin waldun teaches me how to read why do i need this guy



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23228111 No.23228111 [Reply] [Original]

What are the best Slavic books about mythology or folklore?

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23228130

Russian Fairy Tales - Alexander Afanasyev

>> No.23228132

>>23228130
Thanks.

>> No.23228177

You could also read the Russian Primary Chroncile or Ibn Fadlan's account of his journey to Rus lands.
For secondary literature you have Znayenko's The Gods of the Ancient Slavs or Phillips and Kerrigan's Forests of the Vampires.



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23228101 No.23228101 [Reply] [Original]

Is there any good book of conspiracy theory? Preferably literature. I assume the best resource is the internet

>> No.23228117
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>> No.23228158

The Five Families by Selwyn Raab

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23228192

>>23228101
What you need to read is picrel



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23228087 No.23228087 [Reply] [Original]

The Great American Writer Of The Great American Novel. Melville is second. Faulkner is third.

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23228110

>>23228087

>> No.23228555

>>23228087
American Muhammad.



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23228080 No.23228080 [Reply] [Original]

Just came out of intense Bible study.

I'm even more convinced that the trinity isn't true.

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>> No.23228518

>>23228515
Denial of the one true God in favor of pagan idols (Bible).

>> No.23228520

wow. you thought you had a better understanding of some universe-creating superbeing than some other retard else on earth? what the fuck is wrong with you? fucking disgusting

>> No.23228525

>>23228520
>you thought you had a better understanding of some universe-creating superbeing than some other retard else on earth?

Yes

>> No.23228532

>>23228468

Like all heretics, you're hanging onto some verses and ignoring others. It's boring, we had these arguments 1500 years ago and you lost, get over it.

>>23228507

No one denies that theology evolved. I doubt that Paul or the apostles had any inkling of full-fledged Trinitarianism, even if it's implicit in what they say. But early Christians were probably more Trinitarian than their writings imply... Trinitarianism wasn't something they went around advertising, any more than eating the flesh of Christ, because they knew it wouldn't make sense to others and would be ridiculed. This was common in mystery religions, and later Church fathers write about it. No I doubt they had any opinion on the flilioque or any deep understanding of the logic of it, but they definitely believed that Jesus was God and the Father was God and Jesus was not the Father because the Bible says that quite explicitly.

>> No.23228549

>>23228532
Actually the doctrine of the Trinity was developped by the Egyptian Christian theologians of Alexandria.

Alexandrian theology, with its strong emphasis on the deity of Jesus, served to infuse Egypt's pagan religious heritage into Christianity. They adopted these pagan tenets after adapting them to Christian thinking by means of Greek philosophy.



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23228041 No.23228041 [Reply] [Original]

>tfw I read books from front to back entirely in my inner voice

You have an inner voice don't you anon?

it's amazing to me that 30-50% of the population has no inner voice. That is more than half of all people. I can't even imagine not having one.

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>> No.23228409

Everything I read has a voice. I even read in other accents, or have different voices for characters. I also have hyperphantasia. I basically have a movie in my head while I read, it's pretty great ngl

>> No.23228412

>>23228041
I actually read aloud so I don't forget how to speak.

>> No.23228414

>>23228041
The best way to tell if you’re a NPC is if you don’t see what you’re reading, whether descriptions or action

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23228472

How come my outer voice never sounds as good

>> No.23228488

>>23228409
>ers. I also have hyperphantasia
God this board is so gay and reddit