How many physical books do you own right now?
>>8157742
1,225.
I've got three more coming in the mail in a couple of hours.
>>8157742
one bookshelf of fiction and another of textbooks at my house.
another three bookshelves worth of fiction boxed up at my mom's boyfriends house.
~100 books
I feel like this place needs a thread to discuss theatre.
>what plays have you read/reading/want to read
Currently reading Angels in America (part 1). Surrealism is always a fickle thing; trying to imagine how the characters move without seeing the play prior to reading it is left to the imagination (which I have non)
>>8157676
Hitler and the Nazi party considered surrealism degenerate art.
If you want to be redpilled, you have to stop with that sort of subversive shit
>>8157682
Ahaha, being a stormfag is not the same of being redpilled. Being redpilled in the arts means that you can differentiate self-congratulatory,rehearsed lies masquerading as art and real art. From the sounds of it you don't know either.
>>8157689
There are some pretty obvious links from psychoanalysis and Freud (Jew "science" and a Jew respectively) to surrealism.
Educate yourself, sheep
So, how many of you have actually read "the ego and his own"
and what is your honest opinion about it?
>>8157604
I'm a redpilled white supremacist National Socialist who thinks the most important things in life are the traditional family, race-purity, and nationalism.
He didn't spook me one bit.
He has become a meme because it serves the cultural marxist globalist agenda.
>>8157604
I have.
It seems flawless logic to me, but I'm suspicious by the fact that not many people seem to agree with him.
The book forms a nice whole outlined by the first three pages. It's a "must read" of philosophy, even if you disagree.
>>8157604
funny pic
"Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal... If you allow them to achieve complete equality with men, do you think they will be easier to live with? Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters..... All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, yet our women rule us." - Cato The Elder (around 195BC ; Rome)
Best books about this based patrician?
>>8157508
/lit/ is a mostly liberal board. All for the liberation of womyn. Needless to say you aren't getting recommendations.
>CAREFUL WITH THE EDGE FAMOUS ANCIENT SENATUR AND HISTORIAN XDDXD!!1!1!
>>8157508
he kill hisself
>>8157962
No he didn't
In what books do I find what cannot be expressed?
troll'd
Tractatus
>>8157052
No, serious. Could not find appropriate picture and unicycle frog already taken so posted inappropriate picture
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Recommendations
>Sci-Fi
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General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
>Fantasy
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Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
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What's your favorite work of Sci-Fi or Fantasy not written in your native language? What foreign...
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>>8155979Tokyo Ravens.
It's like Japanese Harry Potter except Harry is actually Voldemort's reincarnation and Hogwarts was secretly run by Death Eaters from the beginning.
30 days until The Great Ordeal
Get hyped!
>>8156002
Also, not saying it was well-written by any means or that the fans who translated it into English from a Chinese translation were better prose stylists than your average hobo. It really did capture my imagination, though.
has a book ever given you a boner.
>those books
What a waste. What a shame. Pity.
>>8155959
Lolita
The saoilor who fell from grace with the sea
Story of the eye
Also:
>8% battery life
kys
>>8155959
i tend to get a boner while reading, even if i'm reading something that's not exciting or even really that interesting.
What makes this good literature?
Whales are fucking sick, and any whale-related media is golden by default.
>>8155629
correct
>>8155623
The accurate digressions about whaling culture of the 19th century.
As you would in a novel
even if you're not gay
Hung
Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs
>>8155209
Someone who could show me that men actually care
What are you currently writing? Novel, short story, poem, screenplay etc.
I'm working on a shitpost, I'm twelve words in (started in January).
>>8154962
high altitude kek
>>8154958
I am prewriting an apology from the point of view of Ivan IV as he sits in this chair. I want to channel marquez in The General in His Labyrinth and make ivan an unreliable narrator.
The play just had its first preview and the plot is worse than garbage fanfiction.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/10/harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-spoilers-here-s-the-plot-of-the-play.html
Some highlights:
>This blond boy introduces himself as Scorpius Malfoy, son of Draco. Despite the kids’ open discussion that his real father could be Voldemort, Albus decides to stay.
>Albus is intrigued by this older girl with silver and blue hair
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>jk Rowling
This isn't literature
Delete this
>>8154904
>Bane, the centaur
NOOOOOO SURVIVORS
>>8154904
A novel adaptation of the play is coming out on July 31st.
So I've been reading Nietzsche, Dostoiévski and Bauman recently and end up concluding that I'm a nihilist who denies political institutes, moral values and the meaning of life itself. Hence, I see no point of spending time caring about life choices such as college courses, or a vague definition of success for instance. The result of all this scheme is a miserable, weird and hell of anxious 20 years old man. I'm slightly losing my interest in everything. What should I read, what would enlight me, what do I do? Not sure if I had to post on /lit/ or /his/, but here...
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masturbate
The metaphysical philosophy understood through the study of the spiritual Traditions of humanities high cultures
>>8149228
how does anyone go through those three authors and come out a nihilist
Why does /lit/ hate Stephen King? Or at the very least not think highly of him?
Too accessible. Standard /lit/ elitism.
Granted he has written some really shitty novels, but he's also written a few gems. It comes with the territory of having such a high output. There's also probably an anti-commercialist bent to the hate. I don't think too highly of him and I don't think I'm ever going to read him again.
Noticed a lot of self-insert wank. But then again what part of writing isn't ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
>>8147640
What did you last read of his?
Something
yeah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H67hGgfT_iw
>>8161265
>tfw you've become pigeon man
I want to read some non-fiction in between tough books.
Can anyone suggest a great biography? Something funny or something about war might be nice. But I guess the subject doesn't matter as long as it's interesting and well-written
>>8161092
Mein Kampf
>>8161092
Peeling the Onion by Günter Grass is pretty good I've heard, also talks about his experience in the war.
>"tough books"
What a fucking pleb.