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I like reading, but it's hard to find a book that's not full of bullshit.

Why is that?

Also, you mean BS as in boring or as in something that is full of unnecessary stuff.

People pack pretty much everything with their agenda and I almost always disagree with their agenda.

Then maybe it's time to review and doubt your bullshit agenda.

Booooiii, what have you even seen of my agenda? Or do you always assume?

Logically, if you proclaim that everyone else's agenda is bullshit, I can only assume so for your own agenda too.

"Everyone else's" is incorrect. I used the words "almost always." Even I find things I like. It's just a matter of separating the wheat from the chaff, which is a tiresome endeavor, no?

In our premise, it still is valid. "Everyone else's" and "almost always" are only minuscule differences. the fact still holds that you would think that "most" agendas are bullshit, which is still enough reason for any rational person to also think that your agenda (for saying that) is also even more bullshit.

Walking to work instead of using a vehicle is not something to be proud of. You're just needlessly tiring yourself with the monotony of whatever you do - walking - while you have a vehicle at your disposal.

I can see that your agenda is bullshit. Wink, wink.

Is that your anus talking? oh okay. Wink wink

I've seen that you disregard obvious truth when that obvious truth is inconvenient to your position. That's exactly what the writers I'm talking about do. There's no appreciation for truth. It's just.. endless self-flattery.

I don't see any of that. Fucking use examples, can't you do one thing properly?
And you're the conveyor of truth. Being in an anime forums sure does illustrate that.

Just a minute ago you were trying to argue that 0 is the same as 1, essentially. It's obviously not, but that didn't stop you from flattering yourself by trying.

I was hoping you had a little self-awareness and could see your mistake, but that's a lot to hope for in someone who enjoys flattering himself by arguing on an anime forum, I guess.

lmao, you really are something. Let's have a comparison shall we? Since you seem abit slow. 0 is (in this case) 'nobody has a bullshit agenda' and 1 is 'everybody has bullshit agenda'. Keep in mind that I never said 0 = 1, now, let's see to something else. 0.9 is 'almost everyone has bullshit agenda'. Mathematically, you can easily round up 0.9 to 1, it's not a big of an issue, you'd get some minor discrepancies but the truth is still, maybe not wholly, there. Do you get my comparison and why I considered 'almost' and 'all' as the same, we aren't looking for exactness, we are just looking for truth and this is enough to pin point it.

There's a big, fat fucking difference between "everyone's agenda is bullshit" and "almost everyone's agenda is bullshit." You're trying to argue that that difference doesn't exist because.. why exactly? Flattering yourself? Afraid to admit you made a mistake? I mean, that, or you can't see that big, fat fucking difference because you're about as sharp as a century-old butter knife.

Stop trying to argue shit that you're obviously wrong about and I might have a little respect for you.

There's not much really, read my post again. I've explained it for any half-brained person to understand. The difference does exist, but it's significance can be heavily doubted.
How am I flattering myself with mathematically proven arguments?
Oh hi Ever_Onward's anus, nice to meet you again.

Think about it a little. A person who says EVERYONE ELSE is wrong is likely wrong himself. A person who says ALMOST EVERYONE is wrong acknowledges that others are correct. That's the big difference. I hope you don't need my help with anything else.

The latter does not acknowledge that others are correct, since you're so exact about things, don't start nitpicking on me man. The latter acknowledges that some are correct while most are wrong. And since you've been talking broadly about it, a person thinking that most of his views, opinions, and thoughts as worthwhile while most other are wrong in whatever they think is retarded (This is broadly speaking, since you've never specified about any topic/subject, I'd only assume that you're simply too high up your ass in general).

If I acknowledge that 100 people out of 5,000 are correct, it can be said that I acknowledge that others are correct.

It's those crazy bastards who think they're the only right one.. Those are the ones you want to watch out for!

*sips choco milk*

Sure, half truths, I can work with that (since I employed it, unlike you I'm consistent) but wouldn't that also make my previous point (about 0, 1 and .9) also valid?

usually, a human life time cannot incorporate anyone to realistically be 'always right' or even be 'almost always right' in everything. Einstein was a prodigy, yet he died wishing he knew more about mathematics. The fact that you think you've grown enough opinions and experiences to think (without anything to back it up) that most people around you are simply wrong, while you and your 'almost always right' goons circle jerk around each other is disgusting. I tried conversing mathematically, but I think it's too advanced for you now, so, I hope this clears it up.

*sips previous post*

Your rando math bullshit doesn't mean anything to me, sorry.

I'm not right because I have superior ability. I'm right because I care more about the truth. Most people don't care much about it. They want to flatter themselves. They want social status. They want comfort.

Lmao, calling basic knowledge in math, correlation and probability bullshit basically discredits every thing that you said, will say and whatever your puny brain would ever think of. Your attention span is that of a tortoise and you keep dancing around my points like a fucking imbecile and comment on whatever suits you whilst ignoring the rest.

I honestly can't argue with someone that doesn't even understand basic math and English. Have fun being inferior.

Aug 23, 2018 7:17 AM

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Yarub said:
Just because it's named The Lord of The Rings doesn't make it an excuse to make the books boring as fuck. Well, GOT does have boobs there, so I might consider that offer

It's not boring. You just don't seem to have a taste for high fantasy. That's not Tolkien's fault.

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And that is what made the movies infinitely better than the books. They did give justice to the battle scenes, they comprise a chunk of the movie and I'd wager more than half the budget.

You're placing unwarranted emphasis on "battle scenes" as if they're some kind of important element of fantasy. Giving justice to the battle scenes also implies that Tolkien was wrong for not placing an emphasis on it, which would be to miss almost the entirely the point of Lord of the Rings. This just seems like a classic example of misinterpretation and bad readership.

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I've read the books except The Return of The King, again with the comprehension statement. Who the fuck is Tom Bombadil? I can remember his name but I also remember his story was boring as fuck. Was he the guy that was with Gandalf in that birthday party? Again, rather unnecessary occurrences. I'll elaborate later in the post.

Okay, so you don't know Tom Bombadil. You do know that's literally the name of a chapter right?

There's literally no point to continue this discussion with you if this is the case because it's such a huge lapse of knowledge that it's essentially akin to having not read the books at all. He literally makes up an entire chapter in The Fellowship of the Ring and is one of the most commonly discussed characters that don't make it into the movies. I don't think he's particularly good, but if you don't remember Tom Bombadil that just means your understanding of LoTR is incredibly poor. Any knowledge of how well the books give "justice" to battles is incredibly dubious at this point and I almost don't feel like typing out the rest of my response.

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If the supposed 'fan' don't really care, then how do you want the movie industry to care to make movies for your fantasy books? I'm reading this as "I don't have anything to say so I'll just ignore the whole point and comment about how I don't really care, even though I did careand made of point out of it a post ago, oh and let use a word he's used just to make it seem provocative".

The movie industry is just interested in catering to people who want to see great action and cinematics. Fans of the books wanted to see their favorite battles come to life, and they got it. The point isn't that the movies are bad. Quite the contrary, the movies were extraordinary given what they turned out to be, but to conflate the movies being great and them being better than the books is just ridiculous. The books are still far more engaging as works of fantasy. Not only are the characters more meaningfully fleshed out, the world is done well, the battles are perfectly acceptable in their form, and the journey of the ring from the Shire to Mordor is exceptionally more fleshed out and "epic" in its embodiment of the conflict at large. There are so many places discussed in the books that just aren't present in the movie, characters and moments excised for the purposes of an epic cinematic experience. Which is fine. Again, this isn't a knock on the movies.

They just aren't as good as the books.

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Finally, you're just approaching this as what a 'fan' of the genre should be doing or appreciating. Trust me, not everybody who reads LOTR wants to invest time in it's lore, they just want the story. You don't buy a car to examine every inch of it and learn how it works, you just want to drive it. I'm not a fan so don't treat me like one.

Yea but it's clear that you aren't a good driver to begin with, so regardless of the analogy it just doesn't seem like you really gave LoTR the time of day. Again, the fact that you keep on harping on the importance of the battle scenes is just a sign you don't actually care about what's good fantasy or not. You just want to see something exciting.

Which is fine. Just know that you're approaching the books from a position of myopia. :P

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Aug 23, 2018 7:19 AM

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Ever_Onward said:

Psyches said:

Why is that?

Also, you mean BS as in boring or as in something that is full of unnecessary stuff.

People pack pretty much everything with their agenda and I almost always disagree with their agenda.

This just sounds like you need to be better at looking for books.

Aug 23, 2018 7:26 AM

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@Yudina
Nope. It's actually the case where his head is so high up his ass, you can't really tell if it's his brain or his ass doing the talking. Maybe they're the samething. He should read fantasy, they barely incorporate much of the writer's agenda in direct ways.

Also, I've read your reply. Would reply tomorrow or something.

Aug 24, 2018 1:43 PM

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I have meself a book about vehicle maintenance and how all the tids and bits work in automobiles, not exactly fine literature but i'm still burnt out on that stuff so rip
B0i the edge is so thicc in this topic you can bite and chew that shit
@Ever_Onward @Yarub y'all dudes gotta watch a movie on rabbit or something you weebos xx

Aug 24, 2018 1:55 PM

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recently finished ''kill the next one'' by federico axat, i 100% recommend it its mindfucking and it rlly reminded me of perfect blue

Aug 24, 2018 3:34 PM

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I'm currently reading "The Winter of Our Discontent" and, so far it has been a very pleasant experience. I find its one of those books that can depict certain human traits as greed, shame, lack of morals and the struggle that is to stick to our values when everyone tells you to ignore them, in an exquisite way.
The way the author makes this critics is also extremely crafty yet, it isn't over tedious or complex.
All in all, it's a forever theme and I find it extremely relevant to our times.

So far, I highly recommend it if you're into social criticism and, getting a glimpse into the mental constructs people make up to forgive and convince themselves of acting in ways they once despised.

Dec 19, 2018 3:24 AM

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I finished Kizumonogatari. I liked it just as much as the movies, which is too say quite a bit! Araragi's internal dialogue was a lot of fun. I listened to the audiobook version which was surprisingly decent, I looked up to see if they were going to have any more audio versions and it looks like there doing NekoMono White, so I will prolly check that out when it comes around.

Dec 19, 2018 7:40 AM

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been rereading we need to talk about kevin - always a good read

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Dec 21, 2018 5:36 AM

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I started reading Overlord and I like it so far. It's well written, maybe because it's an official translation. It really changes from the last LN I've read.

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Dec 21, 2018 5:39 AM

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I'm reading HighSchool DxD, but i have to say that the first season adapted things up to volume 3 quite well.

Jan 5, 2019 11:30 PM

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Lost_Viking

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I recently finished a book on Norse mythology and now I'm reading Eye of the World, the first book in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.

Jan 6, 2019 12:15 AM

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I've kept "At The Mountains of Madness" on hold for quite a while which I have no excuse for since it's so short and not a difficult read. It's just I've been lazy and too focused on other things. This is my first entry into Lovecraftian horror, and I find his version of horror (that being fear of the "unknown") to be interesting but not what I expected. Still I've found his descriptions of the setting and exposition to be well-written and very detailed. He also crafts a very creepy atmosphere which fits just right. I will finish it eventually; I promise.

Jan 14, 2019 9:57 PM

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Breezing through Skyward by Brandon Sanderson. If you're a Sanderson fan you'll like this book, no doubt.

Do audiobooks count? I'll go with yes

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (audiobook). Jeremy Irons' narration is great. I'm having a slower go at this one. I usually listen to audio books while driving/cleaning/doing other things, but I think I may just have to sit and listen to this one. It requires a bit more focus to get everything.

Was looking at reading Consuelo by George Sand next, but not sure.

If anyone wants to throw out a recommendation I'll gladly take it.

Jan 24, 2019 3:26 AM

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I'm currently reading Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow. It's a thorough account (800+ pages) of George Washington's life that exhausts every facet of the man that he was. I've had it for over a year and I'm still only halfway through it. Very much worth the time I've invested as it brings to life perhaps the greatest American patriot there ever was.

Jan 24, 2019 4:28 AM

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Riddley Walker by Russel Hobart. A very good book, even though it's nigh-undecipherable at times because of the language it was written in: a highly degraded version of rural Kent dialect, spoken in-universe by the residents of post-nuclear England millennia after the apocalypse.

Feb 17, 2019 11:15 PM

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Just finished The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. Perhaps bordering too near grim dark for my taste, the characters kept me on until the end. Say one thing for The First Law Trilogy, say that it's good. That being said, I don't think I'll continue reading the standalone novels.

I think I'm gonna pick up Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett next to start his Discworld series. That and maybe Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, or something else that catches my eye.

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Mar 19, 2019 4:19 AM

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I want to be a writer, so I read different types of books. From science to fiction. It's difficult, but I try. For help I speaks with professional writers from https://writingpeak.co.uk/custom-essay-writing, who helps me with themes for essays.

Mar 19, 2019 4:55 AM

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am readings Elixir in Action 2nd Edition by Sasa Juric. is a technical book abot a programing language

is recenly caem out & honesly the best book i've read abot the topic. the books written by the languaeg's creator is more like a reference book. reading this one liek having a mentor sit down with you..

Mar 19, 2019 6:04 AM

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Gone by Michael Grant.

Mar 19, 2019 7:10 AM

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I'm reading the Summa Theologica but I often use it situationally when it comes to apologetics aswell as just general study.

I'm also reading a book on economics which outlines a corporatist society but it's kind of been on the back-burner

Mar 20, 2019 4:12 AM

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The Count of Monte Cristo. It's been on my shelf for a couple of years and I've finally committed to reading it. About a 1/3 of the way in and it's already a favourite, just fantastic.

Mar 21, 2019 9:40 PM

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I'm sitting at the airport and forgot the book I wanted to read at home, so I bought Looking For Alaska at the airport. I borrowed it from a friend a year ago and now I reread it.
Really like it.
I cried and loved at The Fault In Our Stars and this isn't as heartbreaking, but enough for 5.30 in the morning lol.
Great start for the Leipzig Book Fair. x3
And I'm a "I cried, so 8-10/10"-type of human being.

Apr 1, 2019 9:33 AM

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I re-read WWZ. Still holds up after a while.

Apr 4, 2019 10:25 PM

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Off to Be the Wizard by Scott Meyer. Mostly enjoyable, pretty funny, and sometimes annoying. Overall a good light read, though it's the kind of book where the more you think about it the less it makes sense.

Up next I got two books. Collections of John Muir and Robert Frost.

Apr 5, 2019 5:16 AM

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greysolive

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Rainbow Six for about the 4th time. Love it.

Apr 15, 2019 5:37 AM

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I have a habit of reading a single book at the same time.

Currently reading They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

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𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘐 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵?
𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘺?

Apr 15, 2019 7:13 AM

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recently reread no longer human - really enjoy dazai's writing style.

AnimeFreak-San said:
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Apr 15, 2019 10:00 AM

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I'm reading a few books. I'm reading Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and terrible typhoid mary by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.

Apr 15, 2019 4:17 PM

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Just finished Holy Sister by Mark Lawrence. As the final book in the trilogy I expected a thicker book dammit! How cruel to make me wait a year for it and it be so thin, finished it less than a day and that was pacing myself! Was good, can't wait to read it again =D

May 8, 2019 9:39 AM

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Got started with The Greatest Show on Earth by Dick Dawkins. I wish to learn more about evolution as a concept. I also heard he provided very adequate levels of theist shaming. I'd love some of that.

May 8, 2019 10:53 AM

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I just started reading Supermarket by Bobby Hall aka Logic. I'm not too far along yet but the beginning grabs your attention, that's for sure. If it keeps up it'll end up being one of my favorites of the entire year!

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May 8, 2019 12:14 PM

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I'm currently reading "Days of Blood & Starlight", the second book from the series "Daughter of Smoke & Bone" by Laini Taylor. Lately I'm into YA works a lot, though the first book of this series was unnecessarily long. The 2nd book finally is right into the story and is way more interesting.

May 8, 2019 6:05 PM

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Right now I'm reading Paper Towns by John Green, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The latter I've been reading off and on for nearly a month now - it's so goddamn long, lol. It's my favorite of the series though, so I'm savoring it.

May 8, 2019 9:00 PM

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"An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory" - Daniel V. Schroeder and Michael Peskin
"Functional Analysis, Sobolev Spaces and Partial Differential Equations" - Haïm Brezis

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May 9, 2019 2:15 AM

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A word of advice, unless you're planning to be an economic historian, don't read the original publications of past authors. They fucking suck at writing, make shit up and pass it as "SCIENCE", and tend to think they always have the biggest dick in the room.

May 9, 2019 11:56 AM

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right now I reading those articles https://artscolumbia.org/category/euthanasia-essays/

May 9, 2019 1:01 PM

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Been reading The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

I'm super super slow, though

May 9, 2019 1:21 PM

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I'm reading Native Son. It's decent. I don't really have much to say about it honestly. There's more to examine than Catcher in the Rye but it's still relatively barebones.

I just finished the second part where the authorities capture him.

May 9, 2019 1:25 PM

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Eclipticurse said:
"An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory" - Daniel V. Schroeder and Michael Peskin

Hmm, I'm quite interested. Do I need to be a physics undergrad to understand any of the contents in this book?

May 9, 2019 3:25 PM

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I am reading the 9th Asterisk Wars Light Novel I really like this series.

May 9, 2019 8:56 PM

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Eclipticurse

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Yarub said:

Eclipticurse said:
"An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory" - Daniel V. Schroeder and Michael Peskin

Hmm, I'm quite interested. Do I need to be a physics undergrad to understand any of the contents in this book?

You need mastery over everything taught in quantum mechanics in an undergraduate program in addition to a full year of graduate quantum mechanics. (It's an intro to quantum field theory, not quantum mechanics :P)

If you want to start at quantum ground 0, pick up Sakurai's "Modern Quantum Mechanics". It's a completely rigorous and self-contained book, and you should be more than ready to start Peskin afterward. (If you work consistently, it shouldn't take any longer than a couple of months.) Of course, this is assuming you have a perfect grasp of multivariable calculus and linear algebra.

(I'm actually of the [unpopular] opinion that all serious study of theoretical physics should be postponed until one has taken mathematical analysis at the undergraduate and graduate level [i.e. up to measure theory and functional analysis]. You'd be surprised at how many of these high level math concepts show up in physics but are swept under the rug because they demand technical treatment and most people in the class don't have the background to deal with them.)

May 13, 2019 11:28 AM

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