Age

are you calling me a faggot

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Sorry there's something lacking in my post.
Badomboomchi!

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Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Dante, Cervantes, Peterson

Nope.

>17
>William Blake, Seneca, Xenophon, Coleridge, and St. Augustine

68
Hillary Clinton, Trevor Noah

>420
>deleuze, deleuze, deleuze, deleuze, deleuze
0/10
5/10 Shakespeare, Tolstoy ++ Peterson --
>69/10

0/10

4/10

0/10 go back to leftypol

enjoy your ban

i can't find myself enjoying fiction but

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Hegel, Schelling, Whitehead, Aristotle and Plato

philosophia perennis and so on

>15
>hobbes, montesquieu, vico, novalis, stirner

18 :-)
Steve Cole
Robert Muchamore
Martin Hanford
Elisabetta Dami
Thomas Pynchon

23, pic related

24.
Shelley, (John) Clare, Kafka, Goulson, Rackham.

69 loll
Hemmingway
Kerouac
Henry Miller
Steinbeck
Melville

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O'Connor, McCarthy, Faulkner, Pessoa, Cervantes

Pretty shitty taste ITT

>be me, a random guy on the an anonymous online image board who decides to tell everyone how shit their taste is, even though taste is entirely subjective, without posting a single thing they like.

>20
>Henry David Thoreau, Henry Louis Mencken, Henry James, Henry Hazlitt, Henry Fielding
>Pretty much anyone named Henry desu

23
Dostoevsky
Hemingway
Joseph Heller
Milan Kundera
Italo Calvino

>23
>Cervantes, Nabokov, Blake, Pynchon, Durrell

Christ, I’m too old for this board. Bye forever, Veeky Forums

>26
>Joyce, Proust, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Homer

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Gogol
Hawthorne
Nabokov

I wouldn't rate my interests. Not worth it for someone. I'm not well-read. I just pick up some things I've heard of and put it down if I dislike it and repeat til I strike gold.

10/13

Thank you for your service

>19
>Tao Lin, Kurt Vonnegut, J.G. Ballard, Lena Dunham, Alan Watts

Old enough to feel self conscious about still being here
Houellebecq
Ballard
Saki
Wodehouse
McCarthy
Assessment of Veeky Forums: insecure children/ 10
Self Assessment: cynical failure of dubious sexuality/ 10

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Shakespeare
Joyce
Woolf
Housman
Chaucer
atm

>33
>Matthew, Mark, Luke, John,and Paul

19
DFW
William Gaddis
Hunter S. Thompson
Pynchon
Franzen

>25
>Douglas Adams, Michio Kaku, Darren Shan, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Israel Regardie

1066
Shakespeare
Cervantes
Goethe
Villon
Kevin B. MacDonald

> 20
> Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dante, Homer, Virgil.

>22
>Hesse
>Exupery
>Pessoa
>Alain de botton
>Tolkien

Literally pleb tier lol you bought that scam artist's books ahahah

>23
>Vollmann, Krasznahorkai, Gaddis, Houllebecq, Voskuil

hi

>29
>mccarthy, kadare, wolfe, kazantzakis, conrad

>23
>Melville, Dostoevsky, Cervantes, Plato, Baudelaire

Thanks user, get fucked shills!

>26

>Joyce
>Goethe
>Lispector
>Beckett
>Gombrowicz

18
Shakespeare
Updike
Arthur Miller
O'Brien
Crane

Those are really good picks for a youngster

differentfag

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Gabriel Marquez
Tolstoy
Dosto
Cormac McCarthy
Yasunari Kawabata

pls recc best intro to gaddis user?
j r and recognititions are supposed to be enjoyable but brutal reads because of their unconventional/esoteric narrative structure
does he have short stores or other stuff more approachable?
more people need to read marquez he is a bro. his short stories are challenging but rewarding spooks

>age
the 18 meme
>5 favs
william gass
gabriel g marquez
herman melville
flannery o'connor
maybe john ashbery
>if i had to add a more obscure dude who i've been checking out recently but doesn't make the cut
pierre guyotat is edgy af but the style is neat

>post facts about yourself threads
>some facts stay the same because people tend to repost what others do
>this is literally the definition of a "social trend" or "meme"
>autistic user thinks it's literally all just one person trying to datamine, of all things, peoples' ages
And every pepe poster is the same alt right skinhead trying to meme the country into voting for Trump. Every Veeky Forums post ever made except for yours is part of a large one-man conspiracy designed to block your concentration and waste your time.

18 year old
Jorge Amado
Hemingway
Geoffrey Blainey
Tolkien
Agatha Christie

I reckon his school of life project has some bullshit, but you haven't even read the books. Why do you try to fit in so much in this echo chamber?

>18
>Toni Morrison
>Virginia Woolf
>Margaret Atwood
>Emma Lazarus
>Al Franken

>18
>rainer maria rilke, dostoevsky, tolstoy, aldous huxley, albert camus

I read Consolations of Philosophy and it's trash

21ys
William Blake
Elizabeth Gaskell
Sinclair Lewis
Thomas Pinecone
Reza Negarestani

>All these fucking ""18"" year olds
It explains so much

I think it's a very useful book for people with no philosophy background, and much better than self help bullshit.

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Homer
Sophocles
Plato
Shakespeare
Melville

10/10

Hell, at least kids are reading

20

Flann O'Brien

Don Delillo

Knut Hamsun

Herman Hesse

Italo Calvino

kawabata is patrish

cool

Seems legit, have you read Under the Volcano?
>24
>Augustine, Montaigne, Gogol, Lucian, Kierkegaard
Pic related

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Dostoyevsky, Emerson, Shakespeare, Dan Jones, C.S. Lewis

>666
>Hitler, Bernays, Luther, Goebbels, Wyndham Lewis
:P

Csikszentmihalyi
Crowley
Lovecraft
Blatvasky
Stephen Flowers

> 33
> passive nihilism rising
> falling for a mass movement for meaning

>23
>Steinbeck
>Vargas Llosa
>Tom Wolfe
>Chekhov
>Salinger

>23
>Woolf, Milton, Nabokov, Dickens, Hemmingway.
Great Expectations was a slog when I was a kid, but when I re-read it was way more heart-felt and compelling.

>Ayn Rand
I guess good otherwise? I honestly find it hard to imagine people unironically enjoying Beckett and Pound. They're great writers to be sure, and extremely influential. But as a personal favorite? Naw.
6/10

Interesting/10

Blake is the shit. 8/10

tolkien/10

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Plato
Ovid
Montaigne
Shakespeare
Schopenhauer

i like
i like more
i like most

>18

>Goncharov, Chekhov, Sterne, Celine, Dos Passos

I fell for the "Montaigne is like your funny, intellectual uncle!!" meme. Shit bored me to tears and he came to no new conclusions. Why do you like him? I'm seriously asking

>15
> Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Kaur.

>25
>Stephen King, Joji Miller, Tao Lin, Ayn Rand, and Greg Sestero

>21

>james augustine aloysius joyce
>dante alighieri
>guimarães rosa
>melville
>homer

What is data mining? What does he gain from it?

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William Faulkner
Gordon Lish
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Denis Johnson
James Joyce

>23
>mccarthy, delillo, burgess, joyce, nabokov

>24
>Charles Dickens
>JK Rowling
>JRR Tolkien.
>Lewis Carroll
>Mari Jungstedt/Anna Jansson

>18
> John Stuart Mill, Shakespeare, Bertrand Russell, Thomas Paine, Marcus Aurelius
I haven't read much

>23
>Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Homer, Dumas, Cervantes

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Keats, Pound, Shakespeare, Melville, Southey

Honest question: What do you like about Dickens? He writes pulp in my opinion. Is it just the way he writes the pulp that entices you?

>33
>Hitler
>Goebbels
>Mussolini
>Schmitt
>Yockey

>he fell for it

I’m not the guy you asked, but for me Montaigne’s process is much more interesting than any ‘conclusions’ he comes to. His essays are really just a man being very honest about his experiences, fears, thoughts etc. without worrying about contradictions or how they mind hinder his reputation. Maybe they aren’t to your taste but, for me at least, he’s just an extremely comforting and wise voice that’s as at ease writing about thumbs as he is the death of his close friend.

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>35
>Hesse, Murakami, Dostoyevsky, Orwell, Robert Anton Wilson

this guy has some of it

But mostly, the dude is the best. There's a reason Nietzsche puts him above Schopenhauer as someone who brings joy to the world. Montaigne deeply read Plato and Seneca (two of my very favs) and Plutarch (just like Shakespeare did), and he writes as an amalgamation of those writers plus more. I could draw quotes from any random page of my edition but first I'll throw a couple things out there. He has talked about his chronic pain (kidney stones) and how he'll take that any day over the anxieties people aren't used to. I relate to that heavily (and I find it funny that elsewhere in On Experience he says he doesn't drink a lot of water, never really did). He is one of the very few out there who are outright against learning Latin or Greek unless it's an experience like his where he learned Latin as a child. He admits his Greek is dead because of this, and in some points he says he wish people read for the meaning rather than the style. (And in another areas he praises style, but less so, but anyway, going back to what other user says about contradictions, Montaigne is the master and the dude admits it. His whole skepticism motto [one he had hung on his wall, a quote by terence] is the only certain thing is uncertainty).

He praises friendship and admits to the fickleness of a relationship with woman (and also admits that it might just be possible that a man and a woman relationship could reach the heights, but then claims that there is a reason the ancients shied away from it). He, like Shakespeare with Rosalind and Cleopatra, mentions that, "As fathers hide their affection from their children, likewise wives are prone to hide theirs from their husbands, to maintain a decent respect." And if it was just for this line I would be thankful for Montaigne, who singlehandedly helps any man in any relationship. Some quotes:

>I mortally hate to seem a flatterer; and so I naturally drop into a dry, plain, blunt way of speaking, which, to anyone who does not know me otherwise, verges a little on the disdainful.

(I'm going to purposely go to "Of Cripples" for this next quote because it heavily relates and is great)

>I myself, who am singularly scrupulous about lying and who scarcely concern myself with giving credence and authority to what I say, perceive nevertheless that when I am excited over a matter I have in hand, either by another man's resistance or by the intrinsic heat of the narration, I magnify and inflate my subject by voice , movements, vigor and power of words, and further by extension and amplification, not without prejudice to the simple truth. BUT I DO SO, however, on this condition, that for the first man who catches me up and asks me for the naked and unvarnished truth, I promptly abandon my straining and give it to him without exaggeration, without overemphasis or padding. A lively and noisy way of speaking, such as mine ordinarily is, is apt to be carried away into hyperbole.

(cont)

I guess to address your "no new conclusions" I would say that if your goal is to live happy, then Montaigne has the conclusions. Plato and Seneca and Ovid and Horace helped him there, and they can help us too, but so can Montaigne.

>For our boy, a closet, a garden, the table and the bed, solitude, company, morning and evening, all hours will the the same, all places will be his study; for philosophy, which, as the molder of judgment and conduct, will be his principal lesson, has this privilege of being everywhere at home.

Cf. Martial and his epigram about just letting the boys keeping well and having summer to themselves, in order to learn. Montaigne himself doesn't outright quote Martial here but just like in the rest of the essays, if you're well read in especially Seneca, you see the influence.

>And when I undertake to speak indiscriminately of everything that comes to my fancy without using any but my own natural resources, if I happen, as I often do, to come across in the good authors those same subjects I have attempted to treat--as in Plutarch I have just this very moment come across his discourse on the power of imagination--seeing myself so weak and puny, so heavy and sluggish, in comparison with those men, I hold myself in pity and disdain.

>If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat such-and-such a food, don't worry: I'll find you another who will not agree with him.

>What shall we dow ith this people that admits none but printed evidence, that does not believe men unless they are in a book, or truth unless it is of competent age? We dignify our stupidities when we put them in print. It carries very different weight with this people if you say "I have read it" than if you say "I have heard it." But I, who do not disbelieve men's mouths any more than their hands...

>I do not make it my business to tell the world what it should do--enough others do that--but what I do in it.

>"Nothing Shall I, while sane, compare with a dear friend." - Horace

>"Elegance of style is not a manly ornament" - Seneca

>"The companions of Demosthenes in the embassy to Philip praised that prince as being handsome, eloquent, and a good drinker. Demosthenes said that those were praises more appropriate to a woman, a lawyer, and a sponge, than to a king...

(and a little later)

>Plutarch says further that to appear so excellent in these less necessary qualities is to testify that one has misspent one's leisure and study, which should have been employed in more necessary and useful things.

>contagion is very dangerous in the crowd. One must either imitate the vicious or hate them. Both these things are dangerous: to imitate them because they are may, and to hate many of them because they are unlike us.

(again he doesn't quote or credit Seneca here, but this is a very close paraphrase of one of the early letters)

>26
>Gogol, Twain, Mishima, Bulgakov, Selimovic

Alejo Carpentier, Dostoyevsky, Víctor Hugo, Borges, Cortázar

I'm 23, sorry I forgot