https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/4kn8ve/seven_incredibly_tough_books_for_extreme_readers/
Have any of you read this pitiful comments section?
hmm what's this 'reddit' site? seems pretty interesting
>>8077854
It's the best possible example of the stifling and soul-crushing aspects of the Heideggerian term Das Man.
>"No Naked Lunch? The only book i've ever given up on in disgust. 2Gross4me."
>not owning the meme editions of the meme trilogy
stay pleb lit
>implying you've ever read a book in your entire life
>>8077430
What would the meme editions of the other two be?
>>8077449
Is there any reason to?
ITT your favorite Books and why you hate women.
My favorite book is Lord of the Flies and I hate women because of their shameless exploitation of the sexual revolution, which they blew out of proportion thanks to their many beta providers and inherently degenerate nature. It has been over 50 years ago, yet you're still using it as an excuse to be controlling whores ALL THE TIME: the insane manipulation of media, the casual sex, the atrocities you're committing against mankind with the rights men GAVE you thanks to your beta "friends" in the Western...
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i chuckled
>>8077401
My favorite book is Mason and Dixon.
I don't hate women in particular but I do hate poor people and roughly half of all poor people are women.
>>8077401
my favorite book is lolita. its easily the most emotional, passionate book ive ever read. i also love the great gatsby, even though a lot of people call it a pleb book. just because a book can be accessible to plebs doesn't mean it isnt patrician. gatsby has a lot of depth, but plebs manage to enjoy the book without noticing that depth
i dont hate women, but i am desperately alone, and at times that makes me resent women
What are some good books about feminism? Positive or negative, fiction or nonfiction.
>>8077073
Vindication of the rights of women - only feminist book you need, the rest is trash.
>>8077073
Well, if you let peoples words hurt you then you're weak. It's a fact. It's not like they're smacking you in the face with a rock or physically assaulting you. If you spend a year in a ghetto neighborhood you'll get insulted just about every other time you leave the house.
So I sat down the other day and spent ~2.5 hours and read the entirety of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. I really enjoyed that experience and loved the relative brevity of it. Really comfy experience. It was like watching a long-ish movie. What are some more books around a hundred or so pages long that can be read it one sitting?
>>8077020
Of Mice and Men
Almost all Shakespeare
You can probably finish The Catcher in the Rye in 2-3 sittings
>>8077041
Of Mice and Men has a sad ending tho. I'm especially looking for books that are "comfy." Shakespeare seems like a good idea, thanks anon.
>>8077020
Any novella, really
>"Dude, just be, you know, uhhh good and nice and beeee yourself... and shit! Uh, like, yeah, and so but..."
DFW / Marcus Aurelius / Seneca hate thread?
>>8076679
biz marcus and the fat tyrant teacher are opposed to being yourself, they're all about forcing yourself to conform to some spook of what is natural, which ironically requires decidedly forced behaviour.
>>8076691
What dat pic from? Slacker? A good film?
>>8076679
DFW wasn't a stoic.
Thomas Pynchon power rankings itt:
I'll start
1. Mason & Dixon
2. V.
3. Gravity's Rainbow
4. Against the Day
5. TCoL49
6. Inherent Vice
7. Bleeding Edge
8. Vineland
I'll just rank the ones I've read.
1. Bleeding Edge
2. Inherent Vice
...
3. Gravity's Rainbow
8. Mason & Dixon
8. V.
8. Gravity's Rainbow
8. Against the Day
8. TCoL49
8. Inherent Vice
8. Bleeding Edge
8. Vineland
>>8076562
reading is hard, huh?
>Wake up at 8.00
>Coffee
>Body excercise
>Read/study
>Eat something
>Listen to classical music
>I don't know...
>Wake up at 5:15pm
>buy can of monster and chocolate croissant
>Porn till 10:30pm
>get KFC
>Porn till I fall asleep
repeat
>wake up at 12 (okay, 1)
>cereal
>misspend life
>supper at 6
>where did it all go so wrong
>meal at 10:30
>no one can know my failure, better eliminate all human contact except for mom
>bed at 3
It's a difficult life to live, but working is even worse.
My work schedule changes all the time, so my routine is constantly changing. I mean, it's 2:30 AM and here I am at work.
Also, how is this /lit/?
You get one chance to tell me why light novels should be treated any differently than novels such as The Great Gatsby or The Scarlet Letter.
you mean they should be legally allowed to urinate in the same bathroom?
They generally have pictures, don't they?
Explain to me how light novels differ from more verbose picture books. What makes them "light"?
The clue is in the name. They're not very mentally demanding or intense.
How are some writers capable of producing so many books?
some of them enjoy writing or feel the need to write things out and when you have a lot of time to do it you do it
I think you know the answer to this anon. Not even a half, no, a fourth, or his books are well thought out in the slightest. And the one's that have something going for them have some of the shittiest endings I've ever seen.
Better example would be RL Stine's copious number of Goosebumps books he's written. Not one of them is not utter formulaic trash that's even bad by YA-standards
>>8071221
>"Not one of them is not"
>criticizes others' prose
How did this shitty book make a whole nation vote for Hitler?
>>8070511
A century of socialist theory and glorification of the state.
>>8070511
It wasn't the book.
It was his top tier oration that got him into power. Once he'd done that he made everyone buy his shitty book.
>Obligatory lazy Crippled America joke.
Recent Purchases?
Thomas Pynchon-Mason & Dixon, 1st Ed
The Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss
Salman Rushdie-The Satanic Verses, 1st Ed
Montaigne-Selected Essays
Another Republic-Poems, anthologized by Simic & Strand
Fadia Faqir-Pillars of Salt
Yasunari Kawabata-Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
Ron Rash-One Foot in Eden, signed
The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories, edited by Fuentes & Ortega
Natsume Soseki-And Then
John Williams-The Man Who Cried I Am
Naguib Mahfouz-Arabian Nights & Days
Ron Rash-Above the Waterfall
Wurmbrand-Tortured...
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You can download all of these.
>>8067280
OP BTFO
>>8067265
Boring as fuck
I'm only posting this because I think the drawings are cute
Good for you.
>>8056460
rolling
>>8056590
>Quotations from the PG Collected Works of Gilbert Parker by Gilbert Parker
>Awkward for your friends and gratifying to your enemies
>Carrying with him the warm atmosphere of a good woman's love
>Freedom is the first essential of the artistic mind
>I was born insolent
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Can /lit/ recommend me some good books about the first world war? I find that it to be a really interesting time in history, both in and outside of the conflict.
While lurking I've seen people speak highly of pic related, would it be a good start?
>i find it really interesting
lol gtfb to reddit
>>8080065
how convenient
>>8080054
It's ok but I prefer Brit stuff
Diary of an infantry officer
Goodbye to all that
Some desperate glory
First bits of journey to the end of the night
Also poetry
Sassoon
Counter attack
suicide in the trenches
The general.
Wilfred Owen
A terre
Frankau
Voice of the guns
This is not a meme thread
I am looking into reading some Aristotle, probably want to spend about 3 months on him, I know that isnt enough time for him, but I want to move on to other stuff.
Should I fuck with secondary sources on him, or just read some primary, if so which primary is the best intro?
Im interested in everything about him, ethics, metaphysics etc
>>8079999
skip Aristotle. he was a moron.
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>>8079999
nice horn pupper