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Only one i can think of is harry potter ngl :HMMMM:
 
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The only book i have ever liked is Les Miserables
 
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I’m illiterate and a retard :bigbrain:
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I love Stephen King, I've probably read like 15 of his books. My favourite was The Shining, and my longest was The Stand. I don't have many insights, I haven't touched his work in like 2-3 years. I'm a lazy slop of shit rn.
 
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I love Stephen King, I've probably read like 15 of his books. My favourite was The Shining, and my longest was The Stand. I don't have many insights, I haven't touched his work in like 2-3 years. I'm a lazy slop of shit rn.
I think ive only ever read IT by stephen king, took me like 6 months to read
 
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This book is called sneetches OIP 34
It was either this one or the lorax so yk, the lorax is too mainstream. The sneetches actually matches that very well. The books message is anticonsumerist, cuz it was made by the punkest children targeted author oat, Dr. Doctor Seuss. Its antiblackpill as well if you think of it that way.
 
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It's suprising that although it's his most famous work, I still haven't read it lol. My parents wouldn't let me get it.

The child sewer orgy scene. :feelsgiga:
Iirc there was a lot of freaky shit in the book, it becomes evident that stephen king was EXTREMELY coked up when writing it
 
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super good ones also
 

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Im feeling lazy rn ngl
 
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any1 who says bible or quran might just kms tbh
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well since im a lazy bum In figured I'll just leave the thinking to my past self

here are some notes I took both on the nicomachean ethics

“Let us not fail to notice, however, that there is a difference between arguments from and those to the first principles. For Plato, too, was right in raising this question and asking, as he used to do, ‘are we on the way from or to the first principles?’ There is a difference, as there is in a race-course between the course from the judges to the turning-point and the way back.”

Aristotle here is describing inductive vs deductive reasoning. This also parallels with the ethical lesson he gives later. He describes men who can partake in good actions for the sake of the action itself(starting point) vs men who need a reason to partake in good actions(reasoning to the principles). This is somewhat allegorical to the self actualizing man vs the man who follows the herd. The self actualizing man partakes in action from his own being while the herdsmen reasons to an action from externalities.

he once again emphasizes this virtue when quoting hesiod

"And as for him who neither has nor can get them, let him hear the words of Hesiod:

Far best is he who knows all things himself; Good, he that hearkens when men counsel right; But he who neither knows, nor lays to heart Another’s wisdom, is a useless wight."

“Their life is also in itself pleasant. For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant;”

Aristotle is saying that a life filled with virtue should in itself be pleasant. For if he is pursuing a life of virtue his function is being fulfilled and thus giving happiness. This is why he says a good man must enjoy virtue, if he didn’t it would mean goodness isn’t his nature.
This once again hints at Aristotle's elitism as the highest good you can attain is one of your nature which is hard or often impossible to change
 
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well since im a lazy bum In figured I'll just leave the thinking to my past self

here are some notes I took both on the nicomachean ethics

“Let us not fail to notice, however, that there is a difference between arguments from and those to the first principles. For Plato, too, was right in raising this question and asking, as he used to do, ‘are we on the way from or to the first principles?’ There is a difference, as there is in a race-course between the course from the judges to the turning-point and the way back.”

Aristotle here is describing inductive vs deductive reasoning. This also parallels with the ethical lesson he gives later. He describes men who can partake in good actions for the sake of the action itself(starting point) vs men who need a reason to partake in good actions(reasoning to the principles). This is somewhat allegorical to the self actualizing man vs the man who follows the herd. The self actualizing man partakes in action from his own being while the herdsmen reasons to an action from externalities.

he once again emphasizes this virtue when quoting hesiod

"And as for him who neither has nor can get them, let him hear the words of Hesiod:

Far best is he who knows all things himself; Good, he that hearkens when men counsel right; But he who neither knows, nor lays to heart Another’s wisdom, is a useless wight."

“Their life is also in itself pleasant. For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant;”

Aristotle is saying that a life filled with virtue should in itself be pleasant. For if he is pursuing a life of virtue his function is being fulfilled and thus giving happiness. This is why he says a good man must enjoy virtue, if he didn’t it would mean goodness isn’t his nature.
This once again hints at Aristotle's elitism as the highest good you can attain is one of your nature which is hard or often impossible to change
yo chatgpt give me a quick essay about some random shit on Aristotle
 
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@psychomandible reading anything diff?? i dont mind a reread tbh, depends wat it is.. considering fully working thru sea of fertility, didnt read the whole series yet
 
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I read the most random shit when I used to be a kid so maybe harry potter or skulduggery pleasant or some goofy ass shit like that
don't judge I was like 11
 
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provide insight.
 
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of the top of my head

call of the wild
The stranger

I'll always advocate to read the classics
 
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A song of ice and fire
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Percy Jackson series

very mainstream ik
 
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Siddharta by Hermann Hesse

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I haven't read a fictional novel in years but I liked the book thief. If you ar looking for something non fictional Michael phelps biography the weight of gold is also very interesting
 
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I haven't read a fictional novel in years but I liked the book thief. If you ar looking for something non fictional Michael phelps biography the weight of gold is also very interesting
non-fic only. whats so interesting abt phelps?
 
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@psychomandible reading anything diff?? i dont mind a reread tbh, depends wat it is.. considering fully working thru sea of fertility, didnt read the whole series yet
Not atm I'm just reading uni shit, war of the flea is interesting tho it's about guerrilla tactics
 
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the metamorphosis - franz kafka
 
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blood meridian
 
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any1 who says bible or quran might just kms tbh
i've recently finished robert harris cicero trilogy, it was really good. Actually they were audiobooks and the narrator was great as well. I recommend it if you are interested in ancient rome
 
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