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I'm a self-help cuck. Maybe it's just because I walked off the job and proceeded to drink Wild Turkey till I felt like shit posting. But here it goes.
I am worried that I am more interested in the idea of being smart than, you know, actually being interested in things, intensely perusing them, and thinking creatively within that given field of interest to thereby smart.
I'll go ahead and save you the memes and say yes I know I'm a god damn pleb, and I should probably kill myself.
I read a lot (just like any other c/lit/fag) and write...
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You'll grow out of it.
>>8245659
get over yourself
>>8245659
>I should probably kill myself
Seems like you have all the advice you need
where start with phillosophy? so far have nitche
>>8245657
I fucking hate nu-males so much
the geeks
>>8245667
t.nu male
I just started reading this, and it's really good.
no i'm watching the anime for free
>>8245654
but if the first three volumes don't sell well, they won't do the rest
>>8245648
it's pretty sugoi
why do authors enjoy the company of cats more than dogs?
Because cats rule and dogs drool!
because cats are feminine and dogs are masculine
>>8245632
because pussy
how has he never been involved in a scandal or something? Did he never get in an argument with someone in 60 years? If someone hated
him he could just say "pynchons a racist" and force him to come out of hiding and refute the claim. I'm surprised no one tried
baiting him. i'm not even famous and if I got into an argument with someone there would be 4 of my friends talking about it on
twitter and calling me names and picking sides, i dunno i find his life confusing
>>8245594
>having friends who would argue over your positions on social media
Truly, a normie.
>>8245594
Pynchon doesn't exist. He's a fine mist of a myth conjured by a loose collective of engineering majors who have friends in the humanities.
>>8245594
one of his former friends he cucked authored a buttmad article in playboy, you can find the first half online quite easily
>there is so much i don't know
>there is so much I will never know
how do you cope
>>8245552
>1. don't know anything
>2. take the redpill
>3. ???????
>4 PROFIT!
>>8245552
Accept that everyone else is in the same situation. Accept that this will never change. Don't pretend like you know more than you do. Move along.
And why does Accumulation of knowledge matter so much to you? If you cared more about quality than about quantity you wouldn't make idiotic threads like this one.
I'm facing my own ghosts here and there is an idea that haunts me and it's making me feel miserable all the time: the idea that there is one way to do things that is better than all the others. The idea of this certain path that exists somewhere that will tell us the secret of how to do anything and be anything, and that we are actually able to know it. You know, that there is one way that is correct, out of all others. Or maybe I can say this one way is out of reach, but at least we can revolve around it, as if that certainty was actually there.
I need an antidote...
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>>8245540
shutup faggot lol
>>8245540
youd literally need a machine that calculates what everyone else is gonna do and predicts market variations and fucking political changes etc... All this things ultimately change ur life greatly, then itd have to determine based on this predicted changes whats better for u.
chances are the best u can do is know ur skills and needs and to just hone them so you dont suck as a person. If you dont know what you're good at or what you want then chances are youre a retard.
It aint that complicated nigga.
Tao te Ching
I just got done reading pic related and all I have to say is that, well, I think Atlas shrugged is beyond underrated
The way she details characters is remarkable, the way Rand constructed the world is so close to how bad our world is, it's almost terrifying, and the plot twist with Galt is almost Shakespearean in how revolutionary this book was to international politics and the way humanity views culture
>>8245490
What's your opinion on My Twisted World and Mein Kampf?
>>8245490
>almost Shakespearean
>almost
Don't hold back anon, we all know Rand is the second coming of Shakespeare. Did you see the film adaptation? A fucking classic.
I have some issues with the book, both in an artistic sense and a social sense, but I notice its harshest critics are meme-spouting liberals who never even read it.
Ron Paul for president.
![Pepe-The-Frog-Happy-14[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/4qeP8AH.jpg "Pepe-The-Frog-Happy-14[1].jpg")
any books that go into details and describe vividly the rimming of girls' buttholes and sniffing 'em?
i really like girl stinks made by girl holes
>>8245454
Ulyssess
>>8245789
go to hell where you belong, you ass sniffing cunt. and for gods sake, use some fucking listerine, turd-breathed monkey.
>>8245454
gravity's rainbow
"Earlier in this game she was nervous, constipated,
wondering if this was anything like male impotence. But
thoughtful Pointsman, anticipating this, has been sending
laxative pills with her meals. Now her intestines whine softly,
and she feels shit begin to slide down and out. He kneels
with his arms up holding the rich cape. A dark turd appears
out the crevice, out of the absolute darkness between her
white buttocks. He spreads his knees, awkwardly, until he
can...
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Fantasy novels can run the risk of having very similar worlds. Without creative worldbuilding I loose interest really fast. I saw a post about creating a world that had vasts forests instead of oceans. The forest deepened and grew the deeper they got, with giant deer instead of whales etc. Does anyone here have interesting ideas and settings they would love to right about?
>>8245419
Op here
"right"
I'll go kill myself for that mistake when this thread dies.
>>8245420
You were write to correct your mistake.
>>8245450
kek
Alright so I need feedback on these series, I'm thinking about reading them.
The Demon Cycle series by Peter V. Brett
The Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks
The Broken Empire series by Mark Lawrence
The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie
The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson
The Gentleman Bastard series by Scott Lynch
The Powder Mage series by Brain McClellan
The Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks
The Raven Shadow series by Anthony Ryan
The Magicans series by Lev Grossman
The Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne series by Brain Staveley
The...
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Jesus christ. There's nothing wrong with asking. But check the catalog. Go to the sffg. And don't ask people to give you information about several hundred series.
Ya what this anon said >>8245436
Also, just a warning, Stormlight was so good that I had to stop reading for 1 week because everything else paled in comparison.
>>8245436
Sorry, I wasn't expecting people to give me feedback on EVERY series I listed. I just wanted feedback on the series that they have read, or at least heard of. Didn't mean to overwhelm anyone, just if you read the series then some feedback on it would be good, that's all.
I don't come on /lit/ whatsoever so I didn't think to check the catalog first, my mistake.
>>8245446
Yeah I've also heard that Stormlight is a phenomenal...
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I fell so far behind in literature. Half way through college and I'm just starting to read some pretty basic level shit, pic related. I've always loved dystopian and almost any fantasy book with great world building. Does anyone have suggestions to get my sub-par ass back to better reading levels?
>>8245369
If you haven't read the canon by age 15 then there's no hope. Why aspire at anything when you've already failed at a literary life? Forget about literature and continue living your pleb life in bliss, you'll only live in misery and suffering if you don't; or just kill your self.
Catcher in the Rye
Old man and the sea
Of Mice and men
For whom the bell tolls
Once you finished those, read Notes from the underground
Then if you so wish to, dive deeper. We will be here waiting for you.
>>8245398
Surprisingly I've read 2 out of the first 4. Thank you for your suggestions.
Ugh
What the fuck did I just read. A fucking turd
Did Auster write any book worth reading or should I just never read anything from him ever again?
I've started reading Dubliners in parallel and it's so fantastic in comparison that I feel Joyce and Auster don't even share the same profession.
If someone holds Paul Auster in high regards, please explain.
Also, should I read Portrait of the Artist as a young man after Dubliners or go straight to Ulysses?
Should have read Joyce way before, his ability to encompass the human condition is awe-inspiring
>>8245268
Portrait before Ulysses. The other way around doesn't make much sense. Haven't ever read Auster, so couldn't tell.
>>8245268
>tfw took an Auster class where we read 7 of his books
One trick pony, really. The New York Trilogy and Book of Illusions are decent reads, though.
That book ends in a very strange way.
Should've read the New York Trilogy first, your reading of Brooklyn Follies would have been more critical. His books after 2000 are very slice-of-life, which was the pleasure I derived from Brooklyn Follies.
What are /lit/s thoughts on Gargantua and Pantagruel?
Also rate the 5 books from best to worst
3 > 4 > 5 > 2 > 1
Major /lit/
3 > 2 > 1 > disciple
Haven't read the last two yet.
>>8245169
>disciple
What do you mean?
Also my bad, it was supposed to be 3 > 4 > 5 > 1 > 2 but in my edition of the book Gargantua's adventures are the first book, and Pantagruel's first adventures are the second.
>>8245178
>>disciple
>What do you mean?
https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Disciple_de_Pantagruel/1875
Like 4 & 5 it may or may not be by Rabelais (though detractors' arguments are IMO the weakest in that they all boil down to it not being literary)
>1 > 2
Right, I mistakenly went by internal chronology instead of publication too
What's your pseudonym, /lit/?
>>8245156
Andrew Źdroniew
>>8245156
Richard Johnson
Friends call me Dick for short
>>8245156
Don Quikong
