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So, the most recent three philosophy texts I've read are: Phenomonology of Spirit, Being and Time, and Naming and Necessity.
They have all blown my mind, and gone on my reread shelf for next year. What's another tome of philosophy that will fuck my mind?
Beyond Good and Evil
Philosophical Investigations
>>7237650
If you're into phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty's The Visible and The Invisible is a must read. It is a manuscript published after his death, so it's in an unedited state and can get tedious to read at times, but the insight provided is incredible.
I'm starting a youtube channel where me and some other people read literature.
Any ideas for a good channel name?
"The Book Review"
"Lads and the Classics"
"Goodbooks"
"The Symposium"
"Literally Literature"
"Gangsta Books" (if you're black or hispanic)
"The Book Discussion"
What kind of lit?
three dumb niggers and a book
four hipsters and a book
two faggots and a book
fuck this shit I'm retarded
fags and pages
using literature as lube
reading is gay
It's not “Discretion is the better part of valour.”. It's “The better part of valour is discretion”.
Silly peasants.
>>7237400
Same fucking thing you autist.
Sukmioff T. Enderli
OP loves cock
dreamlike/surreal stuff in a contemporary setting? the crying of lot 49 is probably my favorite book of all time and i also really like calvino, borges, flann obrien and the movie 'waking life'
any suggestions?
haven't read any murakami, does he sort of fit?
the unconsoled
>>7237249
Sort of. I'd imagine his pretty ez-mode compared to the others you mention, but I got something of a dreamlike vibe from Kafka on the Shore.
ITT: We post our favorite authors and novels.
J.R.R Lewis's' "The Screwtape Chronicles"
H.M. Melville's "Big White Whale"
>>7236758
Stubby K.'s "Farewell to Arms"
Edmund Wells "Grate Expectations"
Adolf Hitler- mien kampf
ITT we write the internal dialogues of famous philosophers as they experience the internal conundrum as to whether or not they should approach a much better looking girl and guess which philosopher it is.
> This particular philosopher doesn't even experience an internal monologue deliberation because the idea of aesthetic superiority and any social hesitation spurred on by such is not but a linguistic construct.
>we will definitely bang tonight
>As I strolled through the park I was briefly fixated upon a rather striking female. Dolled up and polished, she shined like a stretch of silver bouncing directly into my eyes and into my soul. As much as I had enjoyed this moment, my cynicism crept as it did many, and spoiled the maiden before me. I was enveloped by a surge of nothing but what seemed like anger yet calmness. As quick as the moment of awe, was the moment of realization; she was nothing more than that, a doll who had been shined. Why would I, such as myself, waste time on such a childish...
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>>7236721
>I am a beta living through women
ITT: the last fiction book you read
>>7236629
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche
Ever since I read the Wheel of Time I've been feeling disappointed and unsatisfied, nothing else has the same level of worldbuilding. tried reading the Malazan series and Mistborn trilogy, but nothing else comes close.
What fantasy sagas have worlbuilding and background on par with Robert Jordan and Tolkein and such? They just leave you feeling very familiar with the world, memorable individual cultures and regions and such, cities' personalities and reputations, like you'd be at home there.
>>7236618
Patrick Rothfuss is an obsessive worldbuilder. Don't know if you've tried him already, he's really popular nowadays. Has a nice religious story in book one that explains (without every making it explicit) why the days have the names they have, and why there are 11 days in a span, etc. Full of good stuff.
R. Scott Bakker has some worthwhile stuff, but very heavily based on real-world cultures, e.g. Romans, Greeks, Medieval muslims, etc.
To a lesser degree, maybe try Brent Weeks' Lightbringer...
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>>7237665
Shit, forgot Abercrombie. Also very clearly based on real world (Scots/Vikings, Roman Empire, and Ottoman in the First Law Trilogy, with some Renaissance Italy in Best Served Cold). Very cynical writer, though, but amazing with character and plot.
>>7236618
Bakker. GRRM is also easily better than Jordan, not sure why you rate him so highly or mention him alongside Tolks.
Nearly a decade of 4chan has turned me into a person motivated only by contrarianism.
What can I read to make myself stop?
>>7236541
Is it really 4chan that has made you like this, or is that you were like this when you were a teenager and browsing /b/ for the first time that you found something you could identify with. Were you the kind of kid who was always a bit of an outsider, somebody who just didn't quite gel with the cool thing? So as a coping mechanism you were like 'Fuck this, I'm gonna go do my own thing.' and then you found yourself on the contrarian path as a defense mechanism?
Hell, I'm just projecting...
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>>7236541
Really? I was a contrarian when I first started visiting this site 6 or 7 years ago, but that slowly changed as I aged and learned.
>>7236541
reverse-contrarianism is even worse than contrarianism. The only way out is actually learning to think by yourself instead of basing your opinions in what-you-think-other-people-are-thinking.
Best edition of Plutarch's lives?
>>7236312
Folio Society or Easton Press if you're looking for something very special.
Penguin Classics are great, not sure if they have all the lives available though.
Loeb Classic Library if you want the original Greek and English translation.
I'm sure most editions will suffice.
Modern Library Classics have the full Lives in two volumes. The translation is the Dryden translation which is imo excellent; I'm not trying to appeal to authority but I believe that was the translation that Shakespeare would have used.
>>7237797
are those all unabridged?
Howdy, /lit/. Has anyone here read Dubya Bush's 41: A Tale of My Father?
I saw it in a book shop the other day and l considered buying it, but l thought l should ask someone else's opinion on it first. Care to share some thoughts?
>>7235711
Why don't you just fucking buy it and read it and find out for yourself?
>>7235720
Maybe because l'd rather not spend money on something that might not be worth it?
Why don't you just fucking ignore threads you can't contribute to?
>>7235732
how poor are you, moron?
ITT: Post genuinely funny books. I don't think I've seen enough comedy on this board.
Would be funnier if the mouse meowed haha
>>7235679
/thread
>>7235679
Well the mouse in this book is a microstate which manages to accidentally one-up the united states, so I think the mouse roaring is appropriate.
>You want us to ONLY read literature. But guess what, the genre fiction of today is the literature of tomorrow.
>>7235655
That actually isn't far off, but it's actually "The genre fiction of yesterday is the literature of today."
>>7235684
Yeah, but he was talking about The Witcher.
>>7235696
>Implying the Poles have ever done anything worthwhile
There was his mistake
A /lit/ is working at a bookshop.
A woman enters and asks him where his cookbooks are.
The /lit/ doesn't even look up when he replies 'start with the greeks'.
>>7235609
hilarious stuff.
This thread is a shart with the Greeks
>not starting with the sybaritics
>not asking if she wanted to canoodle with the corinthians later
>not actually reading the greeks
you done fucked up, anon, you could have got a tasty meal too long to pronounce and a fuck too depraved to recount
Be honest, how many of the books that you regularly discuss on here have you actually read?3.5
Why would I discuss it if I hadn't read it? You've got the wrong idea mate.
>>7235568
All of them.
Not even shitting you. What I' read before I found /lit/ was also mostly classics.
>>7235578
That is literally the ethos of this board.
