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Moby Dick - 7/10. Melville's eccentricities are there along with great peaks.
Hills like White Elephants - 2/10. absolute dimwit writing style thinking it's smart.
The Call of Cthulhu - 6/10. interesting enough, anti-climax ending.
Groundwork for the Metaphysic Of Morals - 4/10. Unclear arguments.
Beyond Good & Evil - 4/10. Probably the poorest and most tedious nietzsche book, but has good peaks.
Othello - 6.5/10. Not tempted to check out what else Shakespeare has.
Philosophical Investigations - -3/10. Dropped twice. Literally the Jordan Peterson of his time. (Usually unifnished books wouldn't be included but this one is disgustingly dumb).
Blood Meridian - 6.7/10. IMO the kid didn't sell out Glanton. Also this book deals with Hegel's philosophy (the judge even mentions the absolute directly) and I don't need to comment on that.
Integral Meditation - 2.5/10. Overall a decent message and has some useful advice but at the same time some things are really easy to debunk and it's poorly structured. When you say "The sky replaces the spot where your head once was." you're using a backup physical reality and are running into this fallacy because your metaphysics are so weak that stating them clearly would make you look like your head was just rammed in by an elephant.
Ion - 5.5/10. I don't know what the value in this book is but it's not the arguments socrates makes. The historical value and rhetorical value are what makes this agreeable.
King Pest - 5.5/10. Works well as a horror book.
If something is rated above a 4/10 you should read it, if it's rated 4/10 you should consider it but should take into account multiple factors and obviously if it's extremely poor and tedious you shouldn't read it, if a wheel was to be spun to decide which book I have to re-read (out of every book I've read in my life) and I had one veto I would spend that veto on beyond good and evil within an instant.
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normie books, no wonder you are retarded
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who are you trying to fool, you havent read shit
your only feedback is calling the authors cucklords and soynoobs
no one is falling for it
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philosophical works of 2024 (ordered by date of reading, earliest first):
- essays and aphorisms (schopenhauer) - 6/10. amusing and interesting.
- tao te ching - 5/10. interesting.
- jonathan livingston seagull - 2/10. embarrassing.
- ralph waldo emerson's 1st and 2nd essays - 3/10. lost some respect for nietzsche while reading.
- walden and other writings - 3/10. repulsive, naive, uncritical personality, entirely removed from the 'nature' he claims to love.
- discourse on metaphysics and the mondaology - 2/10. ramblings of a sanguine, uncritical mind; a mind unsuited for philosophy.
- tractatus logico-philosophicus - 5/10. partly interesting, partly tedious.
- manfred (byron) - 3/10. lost some more respect for nietzsche.
- candide - 4/10. unnecessarily prolonged.
- the gay science - 8.5/10. extremely interesting, varied, undogmatic, original, playful, critical. considerably different atmosphere than later works.
- genealogy of morals, and beyond good and evil - 8/10. second reading. still as interesting as the first time i read them.
- the wisdom of life (schopenhauer) - 3/10. undisciplined ramblings. offers naive advice, while pretending the opposite.
- enquiries concerning human understanding - 5/10. interesting, but proved to be much less interesting than the first time i read it.
- enquiries concerning the principles of morals - 3/10. dull, weak, sentimental argumentation. still, a couple interesting sections.
of the novels i've read, the 3 best were:
- middlemarch
- the red and the black
- ulysses
confessions of an english opium eater was the worst book of the year, and lyrical ballads and other poems (wordsworth & coleridge) was enough to convince me that i despise pretty much everything about the romantic movement
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nonspecific "books" are for normie posers
people who are actually into reading read about specific interests of theirs
ironically, someone who reads 100 hentai books is more intellectual than someone who reads the "50 top books of all time"
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(27-12-2024, 02:23 PM)Honest Wrote: philosophical works of 2024 (ordered by date of reading, earliest first):
- essays and aphorisms (schopenhauer) - 6/10. amusing and interesting.
- tao te ching - 5/10. interesting.
- jonathan livingston seagull - 2/10. embarrassing.
- ralph waldo emerson's 1st and 2nd essays - 3/10. lost some respect for nietzsche while reading.
- walden and other writings - 3/10. repulsive, naive, uncritical personality, entirely removed from the 'nature' he claims to love.
- discourse on metaphysics and the mondaology - 2/10. ramblings of a sanguine, uncritical mind; a mind unsuited for philosophy.
- tractatus logico-philosophicus - 5/10. partly interesting, partly tedious.
- manfred (byron) - 3/10. lost some more respect for nietzsche.
- candide - 4/10. unnecessarily prolonged.
- the gay science - 8.5/10. extremely interesting, varied, undogmatic, original, playful, critical. considerably different atmosphere than later works.
- genealogy of morals, and beyond good and evil - 8/10. second reading. still as interesting as the first time i read them.
- the wisdom of life (schopenhauer) - 3/10. undisciplined ramblings. offers naive advice, while pretending the opposite.
- enquiries concerning human understanding - 5/10. interesting, but proved to be much less interesting than the first time i read it.
- enquiries concerning the principles of morals - 3/10. dull, weak, sentimental argumentation. still, a couple interesting sections.
of the novels i've read, the 3 best were:
- middlemarch
- the red and the black
- ulysses
confessions of an english opium eater was the worst book of the year, and lyrical ballads and other poems (wordsworth & coleridge) was enough to convince me that i despise pretty much everything about the romantic movement
Manfred - 5.5/10. (read in 2022) Nice insights. Dimwit author thinks he's smart for describing a mountainside and writing SUPER GENERIC edgy stuff, this book was kind of like the rick & morty (seasons 1 - 3) of it's time just less enjoyable.
On the Genealogy of Morality - 7/10. (read in 2019) Extreme sophistry is contained in it near the end but it’s okay. It’s extremely epic it’s sort of like reading a stunning fiction book. Obviously not during the boring parts, but it’s amazing in terms of the peaks.
Beyond Good & Evil getting the same rating shows you're either a troll or just not really capable of appreciating stuff "currently." This is the furthest thing away from a comparison.
Can't wait to read aristophanes to utterly lose respect for Nietzsche. The gay science will still potentially be the best book out there (I've read the opening after the dogshit introductory poetry, 7-8 aphorisms after that and one long generic-sounding one from randomly browsing the 4th book) but I'll lose respect for Nietzsche horribly.
The only worse book recommendations I can think of are recommending cioran, spinoza and henri.
Wonder what you would think of the tale of genji and process and reality.
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About to be the 9th month and I've finished carl jung's red book which was mostly read in previous years but the amount read this year is nothing to scoff at. I'd say unrateable or 6.3/10.
Bartleby the Scrivener - 8/10 amazingly witty, late melville knew what he was doing. I read the previous part of the piaza tales in 2024 but didn't mention it because I was planning to rate the whole book which I wasn't going to finish in 2024. Now I just had to rate the individual tale because it's amazing.
The Colour Out Of Space - Finished less than an hour ago at the time of typing. 5.8/10 it's decent enough.
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I now have anti-oedipus, critique of pure reason from the start of the year and swann's way to finish.
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Oh I also did read "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" in one sitting. Unrealistic (plot convenience) but actually amazing. 6.5/10.
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(25-08-2025, 08:43 PM)towncel Wrote: Oh I also did read "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" in one sitting. Unrealistic (plot convenience) but actually amazing. 6.5/10.
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