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If you had terminal cancer, and only a few months to live, what books would you read? What would you recommend to an inexperienced reader?

>> No.6673104

the fault in our stars

>> No.6673110

>>6673098
i would forget about spooks and live my life because books are spooks

>> No.6673115

>>6673110
being about to die is not a spook you spookposting fuckwit

>> No.6673116

probably being and time

i need to prepare for death

>> No.6673164

I don't know if I'd read anymore. I see books as a long-haul form of entertainment, and when that haul disappears, I just want to live. I understand the faulty logic, as life will inevitably end no matter the time scale, but still- I'm assuming at this point in time that I have at least several decades to live, not a couple months.

>> No.6673195

>>6673098

How to Cure Terminal Cancer, by Steve Jobs

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>>6673098

I wouldn't be reading. I would be doing fun things with people who love me.

>> No.6673210

>>6673195
hahahahahaha

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n.b.: the above "ha"s are extremely sarcastic

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>>6673210

>> No.6673224

>>6673098

returning to the source aka pure being is a good thing, retard

>> No.6673242

>>6673098
can you do things?
i would read if i had a year (things like heidegger, some buddhisty things), but a few months? go to the Philippines and learn to dive, feel the sun on your face.

>> No.6673310

>>6673104
I laughed more than I probably should have at that.


Hyperion, Snow Crash, The Brothers K, The Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Dubliners and Foundation.

>> No.6673848

>>6673098
same books i would recommend to an inexperienced reader if i didnt have cancer

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>> No.6674015

I would the things written in books instead of reading about them, only a spineless social retard would choose the latter

>> No.6674018

>>6674015
would do*

>> No.6674048

The Denial of Death

and whatever the fuck else I wanted to, maybe I'd tackle Ulysses

>> No.6674060

I'd go down the Tai Lopez route and read a book every ten minutes.

>> No.6674287

>>6673980
It looks like a cock.