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What are some good books (fiction or nonfiction) that read like a wise older man giving advice to a young man?
>>7573340
Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson
meditations
>>7573340
Schopenhauer's 'On Women'
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
Evola
>>7573247
>Is someone who isn't /lit/ /lit/?
Please delete your 4chan account.
his Twitter is mainly haikus so yes
Not literature not lit
What is the word for someone who is involved in society, but refuses to participate in personal connections or relationships with others?
Someone like pic related
>>7573070
Independent
>>7573070
He's a psychopath.
You are an autist. They are nothing alike
>>7573100
Do you deny that he
>refuses to participate in personal connections or relationships with others
because otherwise you're the autist, bucko
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/lit/ please stop recommending me fucking cuck shit like pic related. I am already close to breaking point and the books you keep recommending me are only making things worse. Last book I read because of here was The Sun Also Rises. I picked this one up thinking it would be something more inspiring, but it's cuck shit again. Not just cuck shit but self-effacing overindulgently nihilist cuck shit. I have a girlfriend who loves me but I treat her like shit because of these books. My therapist says every time I read one of these books I am feeding a self-pitying ego falling...
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>not a cuck
>goes to /lit/
Get out.
Hey OP you should read Ernst Junger "Storm of Steel" next. Or Celine's "Journey to the End of the Night" or Hamsun's "Growth of the Soil". Despair is presented as sensitivity to young intellectuals in order to cuck them into a life of effete liberal servitude. Basically, just read anything that was written by an author with Fascist sympathies. "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" is good as well. It isn't "pro-nazi" but the badass moves that Adolf made as a young man and the Rise of an empire in general are vitalizing...
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>>7572884
Hadji Murat is next on my list. I am serious though is it possible for a list of cuck books that I can avoid? I have a suspicion for example about Infinite Jest. Don Quixote. The Great Gatsby. Literally anything where the focus of the book is women not loving you because those books are tearing my life apart.
Hey Lit,
What's your favorite font? We all know how important aesthetic is to the overall experience of life, so what font did you choose to write your magnum opus?
I'll start:
SORTS MILL GOUDY
Pic not related.
Calibri
Comic sans
I need to write a short story, /lit/, but I'm fresh out of ideas. Please help.
An autistic child goes on an adventure with his talking dog to find the magic skull of Oogy Bogus the Angolan war chief. On the way he learns a thing or two about friendship.also he fucks his sister.
What do you normally write?
A boy falls in love with a girl.
Unable to confess, he is gifted with by a deus ex machina with the girl's phone number. Never minding the strange area code, he immediately calls her, and is overjoyed to find out that she has a crush on him as well.
But, the next day, when he recounts the previous day's confessions to the girl, she only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After some investigation, he finds out that the girl he called is not the same girl he fell in love with. In fact, she doesn't exist in this universe at all. She is the girl's...
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Is Everyman's Library's Don Quixote any good?
>>7572486
its quixotic
>>7572496
Quick-saw-tick
>>7572505
What does /lit/ think about Everyman's Library? I was thinking about buying some classic books.
Fine. Buy with confidence. One of the better publishers for affordable hardcovers of classic titles, usually uses good translations for foreign works, and typically contains sufficient notes/intro/contextual info.
they're good but expensive. hold out and look at library book sales and stuff, or at least buy used. They're all over the place.
Excellent series. Beautifully made books. Sewn signatures. There's about thirty books from them that I want to buy. I love that they pack multiple titles into one volume. E.g., Updike's Rabbit tetralogy, Didion's nonfiction, McCarthy's Border Trilogy. Love it.
They're under the same corporate umbrella as Vintage, so I hope they one day publish Mishima's Sea of Fertility books in one volume.
>someone asks you a question, and you don't quite understand what they're trying to convey
"How do you mean?" vs. "What do you mean?"
Which one is correct?
>>7572298
Depends on the question they ask.
>>7572298
Too wordy
"Say again"
"Say what"
Or simply
"What"
Are all superior
>>7572298
>Which one is correct?
they mean different things
>If we affirm one single moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event—and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.
What did he mean by this?
he meant "stop being a pessimistic narcissistic insufferable aspie dip, OP"
A'ight. It's just that, take the good wif the bad, innit? Or the bad wif the good, I don't know, I mean, take sumfin, like a Chinese restaurant where they give you them sauces for free, an life is like that as well.
So life's like that, innit? Like a Chinese dish, with a shit afterwards. Take the dish, an take the shit with it
>One moment of pleasure justifies all the shit and misery of the rest of eternity, because it was connected to and required for that one moment
He's telling you to settle for what you get, pretty slave-like mentality there, Nietzsche.
>start listening to audiobooks
>stop playing video games
>watch for Audible sales instead of Steam sales
>scratches all the same itches of buying shit for cheap
Did I become a patrician?
>audiobooks
>patrician
senpai...
>>7572138
I work a job that requires me being at an office for 12 hours a day, so audio books are really the only way I can scratch my literary itch. I just watch them and 1.5 speed on youtube because I find them a bit slow otherwise.
Audio books are pleb and will always remain pleb. Only good for YA tbqh faggot.
>I have read the western canon
How old am I?
85 years and 183 days old
bloom years old
I'd say 50
not trolling. is reading fun for you?
about 95% of the time yes.
>>7572060
Sometimes, if the book is entertaining.
Mostly, I just read for knowledge and to strengthen my grasp on characters, narrative and to improve my lexicon.
Not always, but if something isn't fun to read for me then I just don't read it.
How did the Wardine chapter make the cut?
Because it's hilarious
If you didn't feel like shit when Wardine done be cry you aren't human.
>>7571985
This
How could I finish a book I hate?
>>7571948
If you don't like the book, stop reading it.
>>7571948
The ending could bring everything together in ways you wouldn't imagine.
why would u do that
