Chugging through Part 3 of Zarathustra
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rooneymcnibnug wants to read Against A Dark Background by Iain M. Banks
Against A Dark Background by Iain M. Banks
Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the …
rooneymcnibnug wants to read Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #1)
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rooneymcnibnug commented on The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
rooneymcnibnug commented on The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
First part of Thus Spoke Zarathustra was pretty good. I especially liked the end - it really served as proof to what Kaufman mentions in the intro of this collection about Nietzsche being a “bridge between positivism and existentialism”, which I think is much needed these days.
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rooneymcnibnug wants to read The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
The Book of Disquiet (Livro do Desassossego: Composto por Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros na cidade de Lisboa) is a …
rooneymcnibnug wants to read Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
Berlin Alexanderplatz (German: [bɛʁˈliːn ʔalɛkˈsandɐˌplats]) is a 1929 novel by Alfred Döblin. It is considered one of the most important …
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rooneymcnibnug commented on The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
Great forward by Walter Kaufman, of course. On the segments so far.. well, the man sure could aphorism.
Looking forward to finally reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra in full here soon.
