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I've been feeling listless and unsatisfied for various reasons, many of my own, but I don't want to get into it.
What books do you guys recommend for helping to figure yourself or to deal with reality? I know it's a blunt and stupid question, but I'm NOT looking for shit like The Power of Now.
Help a pleb out, please.
>>8010371
Kys.
>>8010378
Nope, suicide is not option because it's not about wanting to die like a drama queen.
>>8010371
Of Human Bondage. Read it.
Is it worth it to pursue the career of an author, or is that a foolish and pernicious idea?
That's pretty stupid.
Do you have a gimmick, drive, and chops? Also I always thought being an author meant you'd have some extra cash to go along with your minimum wage job.
What are some of the best cosmic horror stories? I just finished this and I loved it and would like to read more things like it. I've read the basic Lovecraft stuff.
>>8010163
Other Hodgson stuff, of course (In TheNight Land is good), plus maybe The King in Yellow?
>>8010311
I read he got blown up in WWI
>>8010163
William Hope Hodgson wrote about a dozen short stories for his character Carnacki, a ghost finder/supernatural/occult detective. They are all collected in one volume by Wordsworth.
But I suspect you would enjoy some of Robert Howard's short stories. He was a peer and correspondent of Lovecraft's and prone to mimicking him in a more crude, comic-book fashion. Lots of barbarous tribes, strange deities, and magical objects - and the necronomicon.
There are several collections out there. One short...
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Any mexibros here? I just got done reading México Bárbaro and I have garnered an interest to learn more about the history of my country. What books would you recommend?
Nueva Historia General de México, editada por el Colmex.
Los de abajo, de Mariano Azuela es una visión de los estragos del fiasco que fue la Revolución.
Vision de los vencidos, para el.México prehispánico.
Los libros de la SEP, papu.Gracias por la recomendación
El.fondo de cultura economica también publica muchos libros acerca de la historia de México o de personajes importantes, y son buenas y baratas.
Best short story collection? I have to go with I, Robot.
The collection detailing your sexual encounters
>>8010111
you know what i regret this post, its mean, and im not even sure it makes sense
im sorry
>>8010123
>the day the shitposter regretted it
Anyone got any literature related to depersonalisation disorder?
I read nausea and it seemed pretty plausible that
rocquentin had it
Anyone here got it? I'm sick of it, I think I'd rather be dead but too much of a puss to stab self
>>8010048
I have a pretty bad case of it. It's one of the most irritating things in the entire world, because it's almost impossible to relate with other people. With depression, at least people can somewhat understand what you're talking about, and the idea of depression has been memed enough so that people realize how shitty it can be..but with depersonalization, no one really gives a shit.
>>8010048
>>8010060
find and read this.
>>8010060
I know what you mean. Everyone except close friend whose had experience with it is dismissive of it. I can't concentrate on anything and I have to stare at simple things like 'remove card now' when paying for something for like 3-5 seconds before it converts to any sort of appliance meaning. Or at least I used to, now it's automatic even though I'm never quite sure I'm doing the right thing.
It's a pain in the fucking ass. People inspire me with as much emotion and empathy...
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This might be an obscure thing, but I must ask anyway. Do any other anons here, when disgusted by the rest of the covers for a book, design the cover for and typeset a version yourself and get it printed? I did this for Finnegans Wake. I thought all the existing editions for the book were shit, so I made my own. After I read it, I sold it on eBay as a rare book for ten times what it cost to produce.
Anyone else do this?
link
Yeah doesnt everyone
>>8009931
>I did this for Finnegans Wake. I thought all the existing editions for the book were shit, so I made my own.
Pic?
books that made you stop reading for a while
The best science fiction ever.
>>8009833
Why did it make you stop reading for a while?
>>8009851
i bought it hoping to find the ideas behind the man, what I got was a lot of detail on landscapes and a flamboyant display of himself.
Gotta chose and read a book considered literary merit by the college board. recommendations (short one please). Ive read: Hamlet, Oedipus, Antigone, Candide, The Metamorphosis, Native Son, Old Man and The Sea, and Waiting For Godot.
>>8009769
Start here.
>>8009776
Honestly think this would be rather fun. Give it a try OP.
>>8009776
>gramor by a woman
What's /lit/'s opinion on Hunter S. Thompson? Particularly his Fear and Loathing series? Where to go after reading ...in Las Vegas and Hell's Angels? Because that's all I've read by him, plus The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved. But that's it. What should I read next by him, /lit/?
>>8009742
you've already read everything good this man has produced
it's time to move on
>>8009751
Who would you suggest?
>>8009756
milton
joyce
goethe
dante
shakespeare
Is there any genre fiction with "literary value"?
It has genre value tho
>>8009600
Then, by definition, it becomes literature
define literary value in any way that isn't a spook
What does /lit/ think of A song of Ice and Fire?
Got all 5 books today and so far i'm really enjoying it.
/lit/ hates it because they don't like reading for fun. They like "good writing" whatever that's supposed to mean.
>>8009593
Wow
/lit/ sounds like shit
>>8009593
Immature reader detected. Once you learn for interpretation, you don't go back to escapism.
I've picked up "the death of Ivan ilyich"
What am I in for?
>>8009585
Ivan dies
>>8009585
Ivan is sad that he is dying :(
Ivan should have left the interior designing to the women and gays
good lord
should i lay down 50 smackers for j r?
I'm in the same boat
>not buying the hardcover
Spend that 250 buckeroos without remorse, my friend.
I've got a 20% off at Abe Books that I'm about to burn on it. I haven't been able to find any Gaddis locally.
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why read when its all about the face?
>>8009500
Personal enjoyment.
those eyes are horrendous though. white devil
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Because 'the face' can pull you bitches while you are young, but being a patrician gets you bitches always, and some of them actually have money, not just teenagers.
