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What is the publisher of those black and silver leather-looking bound books?

retarded /pol/yp
petersonfag but somewhat respectable

Heron Books, the series is called "Books That Have Changed Men's Thinking". I picked up a bunch from a second hand bookshop for cheap and I plan to get some more.

Half-right, I got Gulag Archipelago before I'd heard of JBP. Got the Dostoyevsky ones on his recommendation though.

One of many

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fuckin' nerd

Hey thomas

My current stack.

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>the will to power
everytiem

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checked

>petersoncore
lame
>Brothers Grimm
highly based

Bruh I just read the prince and am half way through the strange death of Europe

What a wasted get

R8 me

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meme
meme
throw away taleb
absolute meme

We have a somewhat similar taste. Are you also working in the "data science" space?

Read "The Road to Wigan Pier" after the homage.

Would you say I should read the homage before Wigan Pier? I've just ordered the latter but never got started on Homage, not too familiar with Orwell.

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>Hitler
>Spengler
>Evola
These are great.

>Nietzsche
>Aurelius
Get some healthy advice instead.

Uhm, no, depends on your interest I guess.

In Wigan he talks a bit more about poverty and
socialism, in the homage about hypocrisy of the commie left / the press and well, if you don't know yet, about war and how weird it is. Since I am interested in Spain, I read the homage first. Wigan is slightly more interesting though.

hide and sage all stack threads

Should read both regardless, I do like his views on socialism. Thanks user.

need more pics of mom

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>slovenly slut in leggings
>trucker hat
>xbox
>wall to wall carpet
>electric stove
>obviously american cardboard mcmansion

that's the decline of the west alright, maybe add some starbucks, a netflix account and some weed

L Ron Hubbard lol

>a scope atop the stack
truly american

Actual only good one in the thread.

>L Ron Hubbard lol
If you know your enemy and you know yourself then there will not be danger in a thousand battles.

Yeah doing MSc in statistics, plan to get into data science / machine learning after I graduate so I can make $$$ and buy lots of books. Hopefully the bubble doesn't pop soon. What kind of work do you do?

the book is absolute shit lad

The drunken mom in the background is just icing on the cake of this failure of a stack

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>Ansichten eines Clowns
I've been meaning to read that. Looked promising by the first few pages.

Yeah, I was just reading it before I looked up on the screen. It's a pretty interesting character study that also happens to be a very captivating read.

before anyone asks yes i was born yesterday and just started reading books

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>I do like his views on socialism.
So you are a socialist?

Not at all a bad start, though.

thank you user im trying

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Why are American houses so ugly?

Good choices. Catch-22 is always my go-to rec for new readers who want something good.

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Really excited about all of these.

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Heart if darkness is so good. Conrad wasnt born english and didnt write until later in life so its even more impressive.

They reflect the ugliness of their owner's souls

Real art is not compatible with capitalism. As a result all American houses are hideous, identical, and poorly built with cheap materials. My grandfather was a carpenter and built the house I live in. A normal American house is not likely to last more than a generation. If you ever happen to drive through an American neighborhood, you will be quite saddened. It's the definition of Orwellian.

Heart of Darkness is still my favorite piece of fiction.

I first read it over 10 years ago. I didn't like it very much. I remember finding it meandering. Should I give it a second go?

I was expecting to love it, as I really like Apocalypse Now, but it didn't click.

very indo-european

>P&V

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the girl exiting symbolizes your romantic prospects after internalizing Evola

It could have just been an age thing, but if you read it when you were 20 I'm guessing you still won't like it. It's not action packed or anything, it's just really pretty. The entire book is styled like the actual journey the protagonist takes: dense and, like you pointed out, meandering, and even seemingly pointless. His writing is almost poetic at times, and the rhythms in your head as you read reflect what he is describing. And, beyond all this stylistic intricacy, is a debate that the novel doesn't even really answer about what is different between colonizers and colonized.

But if you're not interested in that debate, or if you're not in it for the prose, then you won't enjoy it.

I feel like that's a compliment on this board.

for you

>abridged

>If you ever happen to drive through an American neighborhood, you will be quite saddened. It's the definition of Orwellian.

that's not what "orwellian" means you little shit

>Atlas Shrugged

Don't bother.

TL;DR: WHAAA WHAAA ME SPECIAL AND MAKE THINGS CUZ ME INDUSTRIOUS. NO ONE CAN REGULATE ME BECAUSE OF MY FEELINGS WHAAAA. ALL INDUSTRIOUS PEOPLE ARE GOOD AND MEAN OLD REGULATORS ARE JUST TRYING TO TAKE AWAY MY FREEDOMS.

Pretty much all there is to that book, if you are looking for stimulating subtle insight look elsewhere. The book's agenda is heavy handed while being disingenuous about the necessity for regulation.

tl;dr of tl;dr: Ayn Rand is a hack.

atlas shrugged is the least of the problems with that stack ... only one worth reading are the Prince and the Bell Curve (and then not for the reasons he probably bought it)

>trs
mike enoch is an obese retard

triggered american detected

Cringed. Seriously, go back to /pol/ or whatever other shithole you edgy high schoolers crawled out of. This board is for literature.

no seriously, you're using the word wrong. "orwellian" means a despotic surveillance regime where dissident thoughts are punished. it has nothing to do with shallow lowest-bidder materialism, which is what you were critiquing about in your post.

I used it to refer to the copy-pasted dark colored atmosphere described in 1984

The United states is equal parts Orwell and Huxley. We are one of if not the most self medicated countries in the world but we are also the most policed.

>Orwellian
I have yet to see someone use this word online while not saying something utterly retarded.

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>The United states is equal parts Orwell and Huxley
Here he is.
The american armchair political philosopher.
>contemporary society is a mix between BNW and 1984 guise am I being profound yet why isn't nobody calling me smart yet

It's not, considering how much you see "nerd culture" derided.

it's used pretty frequently for 'government or academia redefining words for rhetorical mind-control purposes' which is a valid use

Does tearing people down online give you any fulfillment?

1) If it does then you're life is truly pathetic.
2) If it doesn't then you're energy is wasted due to your criticisms being shallow and unproductive.

In short. Stop being such a faggot. I stand by my original post because I feel there is truth in what I said.

Here are the books that i am going to read this week.

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I was 21 when I read it for the first time. I'm all for good prose, and I understand your points, I just remember not finding it all that captivating.

I was also reading a lot of Faulkner at the time, as well as McCarthy's border trilogy, so maybe it was just too different for me to like it all that much. I would say that I appreciated it more than I enjoyed it. Currently reading The Rape of Nanking, and the ugliness in that book reminded me of the end of Apocalypse Now, so I was considering giving Heart of Darkness another shot.

>Nerd Culture is derided

Maybe 20 years ago, what decade are you living in?

yeah it's almost kafkaesque

derided on Veeky Forums, he means

Yikes OP why don't you read a real philosopher like Schopenhauer? Instead you bought the /pol/ starter pack.

>Does tearing people down online give you any fulfillment?
No I just want retards to stop invading and polluting my virtual spaces. Go back to crabbit I didn't even read the rest of your post

>No I just want retards to stop invading and polluting my virtual spaces

>Muh safe space.

People like you are the problem.

Even Ayn Rand said that if you didn't want to read her huge novels you could just read her political articles.

>666
Coincidence? I don't think so.

No people like YOU are the problem. You managed to write two sentences and both of those are memey soundbites. Get lost you crabbitor.

Like most hacks, if their material is dense garbage then you need to pickup the cliffsnotes. The fact that she knows she is a hack is somewhat endearing. That is until you realize that she is smart enough to be self-conscious but not smart enough to put down a pen.

>Retort is literally NO U

The absolute state of this board.

>I have yet to see someone use this word online while not saying something utterly retarded.
Good, because Orwell is utterly retarded. People keep invoking him, but his predictions weren't accurate. Authority has taken on a much more subtle albeit still pervasive form, and the naked power of mid 20th century totalitarianism seems quaint in a way. People always talk about Huxley and Orwell. Huxley still is somewhat relevant but I think Orwell should probably be replaced by Vonnegut's Player Piano as a predictor of modern social ills.

She probably wrote novels because she felt it was cathartic or something. Or to propaganda. Or both.

I don't subscibe to her ideology, but I don't think less of her for writing her books. Basically she was doing her own agitprop instead of waiting for someone else to create art based on her principles.

britain becomes more Orwellian by the year dude

I forgot about them.
Oy mate, you got a license for that point?

bin that post m8, we will find you

are you a normalfag /pol/ack and is that your fuckboy skater roommate?
faggot
cool flip flops user

>Huxley still is somewhat relevant

>Antidepressants and pain killers are being prescribed at epidemic rates.
>Morbid obesity is at an all time high- almost half of the entire untied states is morbidly obese.
>But user, food ain't drugs! People don't eat to escape the hellish life they are predestined to live.
>Operation Prism
>Cambridge analytica
>Rampant speech blocking because of the ramification some words have on "feelings"
>Unprecedented police brutality
>Unprecedented police budgets and employment
>6 people control all of what we see, hear and think on all major media

Ya user, keep telling yourself that Orwell and Huxley are only moderately applicable to our daily lives.

It's a crying shame how stupid people have become.

I will be sad when we can no longer exchange bantz with British anons because Veeky Forums will be banned in their country.

I concede that I was a bit harsh in saying she should have dropped the pen. I still feel that her ideals boil down to my greentext.

>Another barrage of memey soundbites
Your mind is governed by internet memes

Kid's have been saying NO U way before the internet was around JR. You obviously had no comeback so the only thing you could do was resort to what a child would say when they're wrestling with the fact that they are incorrect.