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is there anything more epic than blood meridian?
>>7913206
The Illiad and The Odyssey
>>7913209
fuck off nigger
>>7913206
Try reading a book by someone who doesn't visit a thesaurus every other sentence.
Do actually hold any sincere belief? Whatever it may be: dialectical materialism, the dasein is thrown in to the world, the jews pull the strings, christ died foru our sins, "we're actually just brains in a vat" and so on and so on. I genuinely want to know whats your personal experience with the knowledge and modes of thought you encounter in your life an how it is shaped by them.
I'm mainly interested in people who study philosophy (doesn't matter if academically or not), but everyone is free to contribute if he or she wants.
Oh and...
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>>7910153
I have no belief system.
I compulsively masturbate from the moment I wake up until I fall asleep. I've been doing this for 2 years while I slowly run out of student loan money.
>>7910162
we could be friends
>>7910153
I have no belief system, though I try to experience life as truthfully as I can.
Why do people act like not experiencing hedonistic pleasures (think /r9k/ or regretting not having partied/traveled) is such a bad thing?
Like eating, fun while you do it, but meaningless as soon as it's done. You don't think back of all the 1000 good chocolate cakes you had and the time you ate them. At best, you think of the platonic ideal of eating chocolate cake and how nice that is, but the past events, after having eaten chocolate cake 3 times say, don't contribute to the feel of thinking back how great chocolate cake is.
If you spent your...
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It stems from the time immemorial belief that the grass in greener on the other side.
Why do people act like not living is such a bad thing?
Like eating, fun while you do it, but meaningless as soon as it's done. You don't think back of all the 1000 good chocolate cakes you had and the time you ate them. At best, you think of the platonic ideal of eating chocolate cake and how nice that is, but the past events, after having eaten chocolate cake 3 times say, don't contribute to the feel of thinking back how great chocolate cake is.
Yes, being alive is great while you do it, but over as soon it's over.
>tfw I only sort of got laid in highschool
>"And he was, truly, the catcher in the rye."
Fuck this hack
>"now they were reaping the grapes of wrath"
Sigh
>"Just at that moment, the clocks were striking nineteen eighty-four"
Alright guys, time to figure out the best authors of all time. You get three votes, and I'll compile all of them into a list, hopefully it doesn't end memetastic like last time, I'll start
1. Dostoevsky
2. Tolstoy
3. Kafka
1. William Gass
2.John Hawkes
3. William Gaddis
>>7895679
>hopefully it doesn't end memetastic like last time, I'll start
>1. Dostoevsky 2. Tolstoy 3. Kafka
Go away
>>7895679
You've read Dostoevsky or Tolstoy in Russian? Or Kafka in german? No? Then you are not qualified to rank them as the best authors of all time.
ITT: Recent purchases/additions.
What books have you recently added to your collection?
Houellebecq's Submission and The Map And The Territory
Williams' Butcher's Crossing
Woolf's To The Lighthouse
Foster Wallace's The Pale King and Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
Knausgaard's My Struggle (Book 1) [certainly planning on picking up the other volumes if I enjoy it]
Calvino's If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
I think I got a nifty little bundle with this lot. What do you guys think of these books?
>>7922512
Bought To The Lighthouse too, hope we both enjoy it! I don't like buying multiple books at once though. In my experience it just serves to create bigger backlogs, reading one than buying another is ideal for me.
>>7922541
That's true, it definitely clogs up my backlog, but sometimes temptation just gets the better of me. Hope you enjoy To The Lighthouse too, anon - a few people I know on Goodreads said it's one of the best works they've ever read.
Reading books is infinitely better than playing video games. So, tell me, e/lit/ists, why do so many teenagers and man children still play video games?
>>7921340
I read 50 books a year. I work slushing shitty poetry for a magazine. Ironically, the poetry I see here is much shittier than what I see at work.
I still play video games almost everyday. I'm 56.
>>7921344
man child confirmed
I've had 2 separate people recommend the Lombardo translation to me, is it actually good?
two separate people as opposed to....two people who are the same person?
>>7921192
well I mean he's great on double bass pedals but he should never have bothered returning to post-seasons Slayer at all, and it would be great if he worked with Mike Patton again.
Are there any books by men? Not women. Not homosexuals. Not nu-males. Not faggots. Just men.
All those thing can be men, anon. ;3
I swear /lit/ wasn't so sexualised
>>7919698
John Updike's Rabbit, Run
Let's have one of these.
Template
I'll be dumping some that I have.
Feel free to create your own and discuss.
How would you explain this book to your parents/normalfags in a way that doesn't paint you as a budding child molester.
>>7922545
>Hey anon, what are you reading?
>Lolita
>Oh, what's it about?
>It's a complicated love story
>That's cool, see you later
>>7922545
A well-written book about a middle aged man who falls in love with a 12 year old and slowly goes insane.
I hate how every cover is essentially just a young looking body
its not even enticing just insulting to my sensibilites and what the book is really about
I just don't get this guys at all.
>>7920508
Too much LSD and weed.
hes britishand got scammed hard
>>7920508
I don't really know who this is, but his physiognomy indicates that he's likely addicted to masturbation and cannabis.
Name a better mythological character.
Protip:You can't
come at me bro
>>7923880
prometheus is a pretty cool guy, eh steals from the gods and doesn't afraid of eagles.
Jesus
have you rolled with the romans yet
>>7920208
>Continue with the Romans
>continue
>not Resume
>>7920208
Reading Comentarri de Bello Gallico atm senpai.
>>7920208
Livy da god
Post 'em, /lit/
y-you first
any hope of getting 4chan goodreads group up again? afaik all the current ones are long dead
>>7918694
Yay! I did it!
I need to make a second goodreads. Mine is half-full of stuff I'd read for work, so the recommendations are all outta whack.
It's such a good system, though. I found some great books through it.
