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>I read books that are harder to read than Harry Potter because they make me feel like an intellectual
>>8166412
If you feel like an intellectual and do things intellectuals do, you have good chances of actually being an intellectual.
>>8166412
take the redpill
>>8166412
Thank god for this thread, I thought /lit/ was a boring place not like my maternal /b/ and homely /r9k/.
What other /lit/ related websites do you read/browse? Do you subscribe to any magazines?
reddit.com/r/hugeboobshardcore
or
bigboobsfilm.com
both excellent
lacan.com
how many unread emails do you think zizek has in his university inbox
?
Hello /lit/. I finished the book I was reading and i have now started and stopped 4 different books because I'm not in the mood for something dark and serious. Upon looking through my kindle and at my bookshelf Its become apparent that I don't have anything humorous that I haven't already read.
Basically I'm wondering if there's any books you guys can point me towards that are light hearted, funny, and well written? Everything i've ever read that was funny was also really dark and I just can't be bothered with that kind of book at the...
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>>8166284
Houellebecq makes me chuckle.
Possibility of an Island and Soumission both were pretty funny.
>>8166300
hmm that doesn't seem to be quite what I'm looking for
I feel like any author who wants to write something people will refer to as "literature" wont spend their time writing something light-hearted.
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison. My favorite short story.
http://hermiene.net/short-stories/i_have_no_mouth.html
Thoughts?
>>8165792
>go to goodreads to add it to my to-read
>see this as first (most liked) review
what the fuck us the world turning into?
>>8167613
It's almost as if you shouldn't read hardcore body horror dystopias if people (women) having a bad time is triggering to you.
>>8165792
It's excellent, and I used to consider it my favourite as well. Not so much after reading Gogol and Borges, who I legitimately consider the very GOAT of the medium, but it still ranks highly.
I just finished Ubik. The story was similar to a punch in the stomach.
Any similar books? Preferably combining philosophy, uncertainty of reality and sci-fi. That makes me uneasy.
Would rather if nobody mentioned K Dick's other books, as they are pretty easy to search for.
>>8165220
>>8165220
The Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut.
Are there any philosophers who argue that the thing to strive for is love/a loving nature and go into detail on their ideas of how to do this. I feel like love (not just romantic) is the only thing worth staying alive and making an effort for but I don't know how to go about it
>>8165161
Epicurus, kinda.
Erich Fromm also kindasorta.
Some forms of Christian ideas, I guess.
Philosophical/secular Buddhism also, but it's more like a natural result.
Many philosophers were of the opinion. But there weren't a whole lot who managed to work it into their theories. Probably because psychology and especially cognitive-emotional psychology are just about not taking off. Meaning that we simply didn't really understand what we meant by it before. Like intelligence. Everybody kinda-sorta...
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sorry if it is a little hard to read
Who here feeling /comfy/?
I just realized. I am pretty darn comfy, eventhough life is financially unstable. Is it because i choose it to be so?
Nevertheless, /comfytextsthread/.
Ones to read before sleep.
Ones to meditate over
Ones to dries your tears and eyes
Or ones to fulfill your spook secret guilty-pleasure?
As OP; I can go first. Mind with me, meter is not my thing, and no, im not a cuck because i write prose.
>Pour it, poet!
Open up, not spit, pour it, poet!
A bird that flew by said
The winds are changing and so should you
For life is never a headwind fight
but another mystery to dissolve
between your fingers
To catch the words is to catch a bird
And to catch a bird is to kill a bird
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Critiques are welcome ofcourse, but contribute aswell lads! Remember, /comfy/.
>this poet
>on 4chan
I can rest easy now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnZnnkJxoC8
The translation actually kind of kills it but I already went through the effort of looking it up so here you go.
>I listen exclusively to classical movies
but they got some nice soundtracks m8
>>8165099
Daddy zizek
bump
Pablo Picasso spent his entire life trying desperately to do something new, something unique. He moved from style to style, mastering and then abandoning both modern and classical methods, even trying to teach his trained artist's hand to paint like a child.
In 1940, four French teens and a dog stumbled upon a cave that had lain hidden for 16,000 years. Inside, they found the walls covered in beautiful drawings of men and animals. When the Lascaux caves were opened to the public, Pablo Picasso visited them, and as he stared at the prehistoric hunting scenes, was...
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>>8165026
Picasso sounds like a KEK
>>8165047
You don't know shit.
>>8165052
i know he made degenerate art in attempt to subvert western civilization and decency and morals.
What is writing?
Why do we write?
So we can learn to sharpen our pencils, Alfred.
We ought to write for existence itself because only existence exists; we are only its dream. The existence calls to its dream, and so I answer.
It makes you feel as if you are doing something meaningful/with purpose, so you don't loath yourself in boredom.
I've just came across some of the most retarded shit I've ever seen regarding e-books.
Why are some e-books on Kobo not available in certain countries? Isn't that the purpose of them being "e"!?
Any one knows how to trick the Kobo store on this?
>inb4 buying e-books
>>8164499
Go away, stupid frogposter
e-books still have publishers. Those publishers only have publishing rights in certain countries
>>8164499
There is no "inb4 buying ebooks"
Stop buying digital goods for inflated prices.
Have you read the entire works of any authour(s)? Who?
>>8164137
Lovecraft. Some gems and a lot of trash, honestly.
>>8164137
Philip K. Dick. His straightforward prose is easy to digest, and his books aren't very long.
Once I read "The Unvanquished", "Pylon", and "The Reivers", I'll have conquered the Corncob Chronicler.
Bulgakov
Borges
Emily Dickinson
Pushkin
Pic related would browse /x/ wasting all his talent roleplaying.
Would? I do already.
>>8164126
I love your work.
>>8164140
Thanks, mango. I appreciate the kindness.
I recently came across this work and I wanted to ask /lit/ if it had any other examples of under-appreciated dystopian fiction or dark alternative histories. I found Lewis' "It Can't Happen Here" to have a bit of Twain's satirical bite a la Letters from the Earth and the imaginative scope of Dick's Man in the High Castle. It was a fun read, particularly considering current events.
The other "unappreciated" dystopic work I can think of is The Camp of the Saints, which reads about as imaginatively as The Turner Diaries. Help me out,...
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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.
>>8163972
Darkness at Noon
>>8164689
Does /lit/ know any other dystopian fiction that isn't Brave New World, 1984, or We?
Every single time this topic comes up, it's always We that gets brought up, and usually in a post that simultaneously is condescending in regards to the other two like it makes the poster so well-read just because it's not in high school curriculum like those.
I mean, I enjoy We as much as the next /lit/izen, but can't anything else get some love?
On that note, and to respond to the OP, I...
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Recommendations
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
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Any recs for erotic sci-fi and fantasy? I don't care about subtlety, just hotness.
Help me name my JRPG parody. I'm thinking something with Eternia, Fantasia, Tales, Quest, and/or Chronicles, maybe with a fantasy name generator generic name in front of it. Or just Eternia Fantasia Quest Tales Chronicles, but if I can't make it euphonic I probably shouldn't.
Loving parody, poking fun at the cliches but playing the story mostly straight a la Soon I Will Be Invincible.
>>8163896
Gave the Selected Fantasy chart a little update; replaced two authors books with better (in my opinion) starter books, replaced the YA pick, while good is probably not what people here are interested in and took off Hobb/Locke Lamora because they're actually kind of ass. Give it a look if you're looking for something new to read.
Also I'll take this moment to shill 'The Buried Giant'. Everyone here needs to read it, it's short, stand alone and very good.
