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What type of books do you think is absolutely waste of time reading?

>> No.12535300

>>12535283

Harry Potter

>> No.12535302

the bible unironically

>> No.12535366

>>12535302
bait too obvious

>> No.12535373

Everything not a technical manual.

>> No.12535566
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>>12535366
Christcucks get the rope first.

>> No.12535580

>>12535283
It depends on who or what's "time" is being "wasted" eg reading fiction may be a waste of time to the self that must work - and that usually has the self that must eat barrelling down on it - very weighty. But to find yourself reading only to feel that time has been wasted? One self wanted to read - it may even KNOW that fiction does *something*, but the cold articulations of the self that must work, weighing against the reader the rabid self that must eat, all unknowingly steered along BY THE SELF THAT MUST DO; THE SELF THAT MUST LIVE, UNSHATTERABLE HOLY RELIC, KNOWLEDGE OF DEATH KEPT NAIVELY FORBIDDEN TO SERVE A BANAL EFFICIENCY TO NO END OTHER THAN THE ONLY ONE IT *DOESNT WANT* ALL OF THE SELVES SOMEHOW CONVINCED THAT ONLY THEY HAVE THE ANSWER - ALWAYS TOO SERIOUS BUT NEVER SERIOUS ENOUGH

>> No.12535629

>>12535566
even if you're not a christcuck it's still worth reading because it's a huge portion of history and philosophy. literally everyone living outside of east asia should have read at least some portion of the bible.
one day you'll grow out of your arrogant teenage shell and realize even shit you don't agree with is worth listening to.

>> No.12535633

>>12535283
On my death bed, I feel like I'll realize everything was a waste of time, even productive activities.

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12536327

Thoughts?

>> No.12536332

Realism. Just go outside.

>> No.12536348

>>12535283
philosophy that isn't christian or in the form of narrative fiction. i'd rather read bronze age mindset again over some sperg dyel thinking people care about his diary entries

>> No.12536369

Not a type of book, but Animal Farm seemed quite a waste of time as it just was a big metaphor about communism

>> No.12536426

Books that only serve to affirm some pre-conceived notion of identity. So for below average performing 4chan losers this would be anything on the doomer charts.

>> No.12536449

most fiction

>> No.12536458
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12536458

Any work that depends on the Labor Theory of Value, so all Marxist and almost all post-Marxist alienation-theory works.

>> No.12536482

>>12535283
anything related to the holocaust

>> No.12536520

>>12536482
what about books that debunk it?

>> No.12536546

>>12536520
Comedy is fine

>> No.12536552

>>12536327
yes

>> No.12536560

>>12535302
>>12535566
The most pleb opinion in this thread. The bible is one of the foundational texts of literature. It has shaped the history of mankind. Countless philosophers and artists have taken from it and/or commented on it. You can't fully appreciate art, philosophy or history without reading the bible.

>> No.12536564

>>12535283
your pic

>> No.12536568

Anything written by atheists. If your whole worldview is materialistic with no conception of the soul or metaphysics, then your opinions can be safely discarded.

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>>12536546
cool

>> No.12536600

Self-help and business books. 90% of books tagged with NYTimes best seller. Non-fiction books that don't interest you in the slightest.

>> No.12536603

>>12535283
Any of that Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault, Barthes, Baudrillard, Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Derrida, Lacan stuff.

>> No.12536620

>>12536600
THIS

>> No.12536621

>>12536568
>materialistic

he thinks this word means anything

>> No.12536625

>>12536458
also Smith and Ricardo

>> No.12536646

>>12536603
Basically "that" outgroup stuff.

>> No.12536703

>>12536568
>Your opinions have to be rooted in wishful thinking, totally unfalsifiable, and confirm every bias of my worldview to be worth something.

You should be gassed.

>> No.12536719

>>12536458
so the Wealth of Nations?

>> No.12536727

>>12536603
>>12536458
>>12535302
>thread is nothing but brainlet cope
surprise surprise

>> No.12536733

>>12536458
the labor theory of value does not say "workers deserve all the money"

>> No.12536827

>>12536703
It isn’t a coincidence that all the great writers were religious men. If you’re an atheist you lack a special insight in both the world and human beings to be worth reading. If you can name me an atheist who’s deeper than Dostoevsky I’ll reconsider.

>> No.12536835

>>12536703
brainlet bugperson

>> No.12536836

>>12535283
DFW doorstoppers
Others

>> No.12536845

>>12536621
retard nigger

>> No.12536849

>>12536584
based

>> No.12536855

>>12536703
the real "wishful thinking" is you thinking your sins will go unpunished

>> No.12536864

>>12536719
he's just pre-marxist, so yes

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>>12536621
a lot of them are though desu. take the average person who identifies as a New Atheist (ie redditor) and I guarantee you they'll have all the new fucking toys.
t. atheist

>> No.12536872

>>12536864
he supported the Labor Theory of Value

>> No.12536873

>>12536845
no u

>> No.12536887

>>12536870
Post-modernism was a mistake.

>> No.12536892

>>12536864
oh look, it's another episode of my favorite show: "How A 19th Century German Economist Is Responsible for Everything I Don't Like."

>> No.12536896

>>12536584
fuck off kike

>> No.12536903

>>12536872
>>12536892
all economists are gay. economics is inherently homosexual

>> No.12536905

>>12535283
friendly reminder that freud was completely right about the oedipus and elektra complexes in their basic kernel that a boy's first love is his mother and a girl's her father. i went through it firsthand so i speak from experience. freud is laughed at today as a kook but he was very right about a few things. based freud

>> No.12536908

>>12536903
economics is the math you use to make buildings and empires. how the fuck is that gay?

>> No.12536912

>>12536908
becuase of the implication of butt sex

>> No.12536918

>>12536568
>metaphysics

He thinks this word means anything

>> No.12536936

>>12536908
retard

>> No.12536938

@12536918
retard

>> No.12536952

>>12536905
>girl loves her father.
that's not how it works. men experience "castration anxiety" so they become jealous of the father, thus making them unconsciously wanting to fuck their mothers. the daughters, on the other hand, gets "penis envy". since she is jealous of both the woman and the man, she directs it at herself, giving her passivity and a general boredom with phallic activity.

>> No.12536968
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12536968

Autobiographies obviously

>> No.12536970

>>12536968
Orwell's autobiography on Spain was pretty good.

>> No.12536975

>>12535283
None, honestly. People can get something out of just about everything. Just keep thinking and pushing yourself.

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>>12535283
all of them

>> No.12536995

>>12536952
yeah i disagree w all that, i specified the "kernel" of boys first love is his mom, and conversely for a girl and her dad

>> No.12536997

>>12535373
>The medium is the..
oh, wait

>> No.12537007

>>12536560
Unfortunately.

>> No.12537008

>>12535283
Freud or anyone who has monstrously influenced the way [we] think now is not a waste of time like it or not. This seems obvious.

>> No.12537009

>>12536995
it happens to boys but it doesn't happen to girls. girls experience penis envy.

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>>12537007

>> No.12537028

>>12537009
seems like its the bois who have the bussy envy these days

>> No.12537032

ones you dont enjoy or which dont serve a basis of knowledge to the reading of a book you will enjoy

>> No.12537043

>>12537028
only the ones that didn't have a proper oedipal family. maybe their father was too much of a cuck.

>> No.12537058

>>12536600
Came here just to see if this was posted already. The only right answer.

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12537059

surprised no one's said it yet, but unironically anything written by a woman.

>> No.12537063

>>12537032
/thread

>> No.12537087

>>12536348
I bet you love evola.
>>12536458
Based.

>> No.12537092

>>12535302
>not reading the Bible for aesthetic reasons
überpleb, I bet you read Dawkins.

>> No.12537100

>>12535302
what if I really want to know about how the ancient jews killed non-virgin brides on their father's doorstep though?

>> No.12537179

Anything Jewish.

>> No.12537409

>>12537059

Shirley Jackson is a quality writer desu

>> No.12537427

>>12535302
Based
>>12535366
>>12536560
>>12536727
>>12537092
SEETHING christcucks

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>>12537179
excuse me

>> No.12537462

>>12535283
which book of his talks the most about phallic mothers?

>> No.12537503

>>12536827
Atheism hasn't been around anywhere near as long as religions have and atheists have never been as common as religious people. Of course there would be few or no atheistic writers on the level of Dostoevsky. Most people would agree he's an elite, world class writer. To completely condemn atheist writers forever because they aren't religious is absurd.

>> No.12537508

>>12537503
cope

>> No.12537517

>>12537508
That post shows him coping fine

>> No.12537710

>>12537503
no atheists are just brainlets

>> No.12538137

>>12537454
remember this from when I had to memorize a passage of the letter from birmingham jail for my high school english class

>> No.12538152

>>12537710
>people I disagree with about things no one can prove are stupid
you are a true example of humanity's best

>> No.12538179

>>12537710
>no atheists are just brainlets
Agree.

The word "just" isn't necessary though

>> No.12538236

>>12537059
The Alexiad is great you shut your fucking mouth.

>> No.12538351

>>12535580
Just turn your brain off bro

>> No.12538843

>>12536327
Fantastic

>> No.12539730

>>12536733
Marx sure seems to think It does.

>> No.12540012

>>12536369
Animal Farm is a book you can finish in a hour and its not even a bad book either cmon guys....

>> No.12540043

>>12535283
Fiction

>> No.12541458

>>12536560
Shut up nerd

>> No.12541475

>>12535302
This, today the bible is a gigantic waste of ones time. There is no aesthetic worth of saving, every single aspect of the bible have been explored better and to exaustion by better writers.

>> No.12541488

>>12535283
the greeks