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Be nice and behave yourselves.

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TELL ME HOW GET TITTY NOW NERD BOY!

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I started reading Moby Dick. When does it get good?

The GOAT

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Never

Reading is a cope for brainlets, they try to sound smart by making citations of pseuds.

Came here after mostly browing /lit/, /sci/ and /mu/ for a few years. Really they're better boards but I've been enjoying the pure retardation on here.

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When Ahab first appears, for like 5 chapters, then it gets boring again.

There was only one Severian

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Recommend me a good novel about mail vanity and eating disorders please

I have no weights at home.
How do I start doing basic strength? Pushups and planks? Pushups and planks don't seem to stimulate legs.

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Currently reading Mattis' book Call Sign Chaos. Great read so far with many lessons to be learned. I also thought it was interesting to read about the wars in the middle East from his point of view and the shenanigans he had to put up with in regards to civilian leadership.

What are you sick cunts reading?

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Pushups, chip-ups and squats are a complete fullbody routine.

Get a door mount pull up bar and also learn how to do a pistol squat. Try reading "The Naked Warrior" by Pavel. Their might be a PDF kicking around some where.

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Anyone here can recommend "The Most Dangerous Game"? Read a passage as a kid and liked it but never got around to reading it.

hey book fags, suck my girth.

hahaha weak ass nerds, get fucked. read a book about how gay you are (your diary). hahahahahahha fuck you

Go to r/bodyweightfitness. In their wiki they have everything explained if you don't have access to a gym. Very well put together, check it out.

I am reading The Reaper, about that American Sniper. Did 1984 before that, I think. After The Reaper I'm not sure what to read. Maybe fantasy. or Maybe something I can learn from or that motivates me.

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I can't lift myself with either a chin up or a pullup do I just keep doing pushups until im capable?

You do negatives while losing weight

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I just finished Missile Gap. It was pretty trippy and it had a lot of interesting ideas. I might read A Colder War next.

Also I watched Generation Kill recently and I loved it. Is there any point in reading the book as well for some extra banter or is everything pretty much covered in the show?

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You cannot go wrong with fantasy. Tolkien is a great start if you haven't read any of his books yet.

The HBO version was outstanding. I haven't read the book yet either, but I have heard the show does a pretty good job of staying true to the book.

Could also buy a resistance band and use it to assist you.

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I've started reading Republic. What do you think would be the best next read from Greek philosophy?

The only use books have is to improvise weights with a backpack
Other than that, the only book that should be read is the Bible

I haven't delved much into Greek philosophy, and still have to dive into the republic. The closest thing I have read would have to be Meditations, which was short, but dense.

How is the republic so far?

The New Testament

I read meditations before this. I fucking loved it. I've annotated my favourite aphorisms

It's fucking tough man. The whole book is one unbroken dialogue which is recommended to be read cover to cover to make any sense. You can go book by book but there's only 4
But so far it's been a pretty fun reading. Socrates logically mogs tf out of virgin sophist Thrasymachus in the first book.

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Each page is a rep faggot.

Big mistake, were all bitter incompetents

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Moby Dick is great most of the way through though. Cetology chapters are some of the best despite the memes too.

>citations

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Plato's other dialogues. But if not then Aristotle. Make sure to read his ethics before politics though.

tripfags ruined /lit/

So does reading Japanese light novels make me big brained?

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Only if you aren't reading them in translation

I read hentai is that /lit/?

I don't know nip speak unfortunately. Maybe I'll learn it one day though importing untranslated stuff is a bit of a pain.

I just finished infinite jest and I thought it was shit, that's the only Wallace I've read but he seems like a self absorbed beta that's loves the smell of his own farts

>Recommend me a good novel about mail vanity and eating disorders please

"The postman always eats rice."

Reading Mann's "Death in Venice" and Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast"
Last finished Vonnegut's "Timequake" and Aeschylus "Prometheus Bound"
Read "Leaves of Grass" and a collection of W.B. Yeats also.
Yeats is based, Whitman is sentimentalist trash.

Unironically Bukowski or Kerouac, I'm thinking "Tristessa"

GO AWAY NERDS

NIETZSCHE CLAIMS READING OTHERS THOUGHTS STANDS IN THE WAY OF YOUR OWN ORIGINAL THOUGHT AND MAKES YOU REGIRGUTATE OTHERS THOUGHTS AS WELL AS EVERY BOOK IS FILLED WITH LIES

LITERATURE IS OVERRATED TRUE EPIPHANY COMES FROM ETHICS AND INFORMATION COMBINATIONS

N E R D S

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Related, EPIC sandwich discussion bread
Get in here, faggots.

The book is brilliant apart from the long, scientifically inaccurate discourses on the biology of whales.

If you like "1984", "A Brave New World" by Huxley and "Anthem" by Rand I highly recommend if you have not yet read.
Also "It Can't Happen Here" by Lewis and "Starship Troopers" by Heinlein (no, it is not like the movie.) His "Stranger in a Strange Land" is great as well.

Not exactly philosophy, but Aristotle's "Rhetoric" is highly recommended.

So you're into reading, user? Tell us about your favourite book.

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As always;
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the only philosophic work I've read was plato, anything past that is a waste of time

>not posting the one with citations

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>NIETZSCHE CLAIMS READING OTHERS THOUGHTS STANDS IN THE WAY OF YOUR OWN ORIGINAL THOUGHT AND MAKES YOU REGIRGUTATE OTHERS THOUGHTS AS WELL AS EVERY BOOK IS FILLED WITH LIES
Day after day Im convinced this guy was retarded
By his logic no one should learn a language spoken by other people because they will pick up thoughts and culture from the local he was born in and therefore prevent "original thought"

No, it makes your brain rot

t. hasn't read nietzsche

/lit/

Reading Randolph Stowe atm, Australian lit can be incredibly based. His stuff has a similar animistic vibe to yukio Mishima. Other than that just heaps of reference grammars on melanesian languages for my grad research project on hybrid intonational systems in creole languages

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Just hit 2pl8 bench :^)

If you read any translations whatsoever you are a brainlet, if you can't read it in the original language you have no business reading it

This is a smoothbrain opinion. Translation is an art in itself, nothing is more based than reading several translations of something you like and comparing their merits, although I agree reading the original is something you should do if you can.

Not everybody can learn every language, why cut yourself off from everything written in a language you can't read?

I never post on /lit/ because it seems to be infested with brainlets of your ilk

To a certain extent he is right. He's wrong in that you shouldn't read a translation, but he's right in that a translation is not the real thing. Learning a language is not some impossible feat, some kind of insurmountable goal. You could learn several throughout your life and read all the great works you've read translated.

When from hell's heart I stab at thee

He was a schizo intellect

SS + GOMAD

I agree. As an aside I also think the distance of the translation from the original is a factor of genre and the typological/cultural distance of the source language and the language of the translation.
translations of poetry for example are always going to be miles from the original because so much of the art of poetry depends on the phonological and morphosyntactic properties of the language and probably the specific cultural semantic of words. I feel like novels (depending on the nature of the novel in question) have a lot more metalinguistic components to the art, plot/characterisation/philosophy so a translation will preserve more of the flavour of the original.

If you want to work your legs do all sits, knee at 90° and just hold it, youll feel it working quick. Im a really big fan of holding stress positions when youre doing body weight exercises becuase its really easy to up the difficulty as you get better.

The decline in the quality of this board has been palpable the past 3 months. I honestly wouldn't recommend anything other than the sticky. There used to be some great self improvement, spiritual (meditation/philosophy) and threads discussing isolation lifts and the benefits/alternatives of them. But they have been replaced with r9k tier shitposts and COOMING/porn threads.

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Odyssey

Mao had similar thoughts on reading. He was obsessed with fiction in his youth. And said that while it is good for a boy to draw inspiration from fantasy. And for a young man to gain introspection from philosophy. A grown man should devote himself to the study of practical matters. Which are best learned through real life observation and asking questions.
Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin all shared similar views. But It's notable that they became most bloodthirsty and tyrannical when they became obsessed with enforcing their idea of what was practical, and lost their common touch with the people. In the end, they all became recluses. And grew increasingly paranoid and delusional.
It's also notable that they all had an obsession with physical fitness in young men. Despite engaging in physically destructive behaviors themselves.
Mao also engaged in semen retention. He would often have orgies with teenage peasant girls. But he would never allow himself to ejaculate. Fearing that it would rob him of his vigor and intellect.

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The Koran.

It's just a short story and a really fun read IMO go get em boy.
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>It's also notable that they all had an obsession with physical fitness in young men.

It wasn't an obsession. It was a healthy disposition. Physical fitness of young men is one of the pillars of civilization.

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>the past 3 months
Jow Forums has been shit since 2012. The Trump newfags are just the latest in a long line.

It’s worse when blatant newfags insist that their posts have always been part of board culture. Redditors need to keep their faggotry contained hiroshimoot is failing us. All Jow Forumsyps deserve the pony treatment

>cryptofascist /SIG/ generals shitting up the board get righteously purged
>"NOOO, LARPING AS HITLER YOUTH HAS ALWAYS BEEN PART OF Jow Forums."
It disgusts me.

Thank you brother.

Currently reading my way through Murakami. Loved Wind up Bird and is now halfway through Kafka.
Why is his books so darn comfy?

Post dick and paystub.
>/Spoiler/; Both are s m a l l

>NIETZSCHE CLAIMS READING OTHERS THOUGHTS STANDS IN THE WAY OF YOUR OWN ORIGINAL THOUGHT

Literally regurgitating Nietzsche.
Newfags dont realize the subtlety of Nietzsche's frequent trolling

>t. Actual brainlet.

Prefer Illiad

Read these two:

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And this:

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Just wait for his extensive and completely incorrect taxonomy of wales. It's golden.

Lel. Meant whales

Go to sleep professor Peterson, you have classes early tomorrow

there's like 10 books. I only read the first 4 too where he ends with the definition of the three parts soul thing of a wise man/city. Felt like I had to read his Dialogues first before I should continue.

Stubb’s Supper is one of my favorite chapters (chapter 64)

reading books does not make you clever. fight me

writing one does

Gay

yeah no shit

I completely missed out on all the implied narrative until i read the background stuff on the internet.

What the fuck was up with the monster at the cabin anyway?

They not just dry explorations of whales though. That's where a lot of the digressions/philosophy happen.

I remember Starship Troopers, didn't the writer claim the movie was completely OFF from the books, he hated it. Movies were good though rofl, just didn't have the intended purpose.

You shouldn't just swallow knowledge etc, but actively think. Do you agree with it? Does it make sense? It's the same as writing a paper, you have to verify the sources and see where the truth lies and what you can gain from it. But what do I know, I'm just from Jow Forums

i get the irony, and yes i have read his work.

id rather regurgitate one last time the words of a genius than 1000 more times those of 1000 retards, thanks

what succesful adult actually reads yo? im serious, reading is for kids, real adults learn practical objective knowledge, like business, and science, and when they do read books its to learn new information, not bullshit stories

most of the adults who keep reading are women and see what it has brought them, loneliness and being out of touch with the world through all the romance novels

yeah, im good where i am

enjoy your dumb books nerds

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