/lit/ - Literature

>>18568571

>books that give the desire to conquer

>>18040915
>What compels someone to comment on a book they never read?
People using that book as an excuse to make comments on something they don't understand. I've never read a book on quantum physics, but I can still argue with people that read such a book and have come to the conclusion quantum physics means everyone should shove cacti up their asses. We're not arguing with Fisher, we're arguing with the conclusion people here who have read Fisher are presenting.

Capitalism is not a system, it's a lack of a system. People in this thread are acting like not only is capitalism a system, but a horrifically flawed system that could only naturally lead to some sort of bureau-corporatocratic nightmare hellscape. I haven't read Fisher yet, but I can still easily point out to those that may have that you can't blame a vacuum in space for whatever eventually fills it being something you don't like.

>>17455308
I have a 2:2 in History from Leeds Met.
Sold weed to other losers throughout then put it all into chainlink and bought a restaurant.
Suck my (massive) cock, gayboys.

>>15938602
>Sexual Dimorphism doesn't even apply to humans
>Why do so many people insist on us becoming animals
what kind of retard are you

>>15801104
I'm halfway through the Iliad for the singular purpose of understanding the greeks better and I can firmly say this is some boring ass shit. I read Hamilton's Mythology and Strauss's The Trojan War so I have a very decent idea of what actually and supposedly happened, and the stories themselves are indeed fun and interesting. But Homer is a shitfucked storyteller. He has no concept of pacing, of setting a scene, of dialogue, of scale. Do you think there's any benefit to reading him over just learning the stories themselves?

>>15801124
>What's the point of reading Homer?
>"Good stories"
>But I can get those same stories somewhere else from better storytellers
>"But all those storytellers studied Homer"
>I'm not trying to become a storyteller
>"WHY ARE YOU EVEN ASKING THEN YOU FUCKING RETARD?!?!?!? READ HIM OR DON'T FUCK OFF TO ANOTHER BOARD THIS IS MY BOARD"
Calm down, buddy. You got so excited you forgot to finish building the strawman before you began tearing it apart.

>>13806976

>>13161011

>>12370131

Math is fake because I read the first half of chapter 17 in Calculus: A Buttfucked Approach and didn't get it.

>>12225313
>overeducated 120 IQ pseud who dispensed catchy phrases and epically owned the zeitgeist of his time (which is to say he actually adhered to it), His philosophy is incredibly simple and unchallenging