where should I start start with Soeren Kierkegaard?
>>7603241
start with the greeks
If you want to start relatively simple and small, The Present Age.
Otherwise, Either/Or and Fear and Trembling.
>>7603241
Try The Concept of Anxiety, not really easy for a first reading but worth it. It's one of his most interessant concept.
Which is the best order to read the Nietzsche works?
>>7602597
chronologically
don't
>>7602597
i read antichrist first, then geneology and gay science then twilight and beyond good and evil. this is a pretty good sequence. kind of like when a movie starts with the final scene.
Has anyone here genuinely committed themselves to a life of asceticism and self-imposed detachment from life (as far as is possible without dying from starvation etc)?
Which books deal with characters of this sort?
>>7602169
Siddhartha deals with pure asceticism, but it doesn't endorse it.
I've definitely been planning for it. I'd like to save up enough for some land out in the woods and one of those ten by ten prefabricated cabins, or even a storage shed. I'd use a wood stove and cook beans and rice. I'd scrub my own damn clothes. I'd grow veggies in my garden. Prayerful meditation every day, write every morning and evening.
I've been thinking very often about hermitage, and it's a rather attractive looking lifestyle desu. Renouncing the world for a life of simplicity, humility, and possibly service depending on the type of hermitage I follow. The Russians have it right with theirs, a minimal life and constant availability to help others through listening and work. Share what they have, seeking wisdom, etc.
>>7602947
Anyway, regarding books.
My Side of the Mountain, kind of along the lines if Hatchet, but way comfier.
Oh no, your house is on fire !
You have the time to grab only one book and save it, what's its name ?
OP here, pic related is mine
Plato - Complete Works
the one i'm writing
Michel Tournier died today.
One of the best french authors ever.
Can we have a memorial thread?
http://www.afp.com/en/news/french-author-michel-tournier-dies-91
Literally who?
>>7601841
>Michel Tournier
Au cinéma
1996 : Le Roi des aulnes, film germano-franco-britannique réalisé par Volker Schlöndorff, d'après le roman éponyme publié en 1970.
À la télévision
1990 : La Goutte d'or, téléfilm français de Marcel Bluwal, d'après le roman éponyme publié en 1985.
ça vaut le coup ?
Recommend me something mate.
What are some good books that portray the NEET lifestyle in a neutral or positive way?
I tried Bukowski's Factotum, but I thought it seemed so fake and overly romanticized.
maybe Henry Miller.
you might try Against Nature, as well - I haven't read it, though.
Tao Te Ching
oblamov
How I develop a reading addiction?
Start shooting novels. Oral intake just doesn't cut it.
>>7600675
Find an author that interests you, dehydrate his brain, crush it into powder, and line it up.
read the greek poets/dramas/philosophers
So /lit/ what are some good African American writers?
Is Morrison worth a dime? I have a copy of Song of Salomon, I might read it.
Also is African American ficction a somehow respectable sub category of fiction? or is it just worthless.
I want to understand the African American mindset in the mid to late 20th century. I dont mind reading essays, as long as they are illustrative.
Song of Solomon is pretty good, but the ending doesn't really pay off. Still, the beginning and middle are great.
song of solomon is the worst book i have ever read.
not in terms of objective quality but in terms of disconnect between what it set out to do and what it actually achieved, and how blatant the exploitation of identity politics was. morrison basically prefigured the whole SJW movement and capitalized on "muh white guilt" "muh slavery" to a disgusting level.
>>7600299
Thats exactly what Im not looking for.
Im want some really progressive and foward thinking African American writers.
Hey /lit/, could you recommend any herbalism / medicinal books?
Also interested in any books regarding herbalism / medicinial teas. Thanks.
Before you guys grill me, I would also like to preface my request with the fact that I have checked /lit/s stickied 'recommended books' - but these appear to be story orientated.
Also, I'm asking for any personal recommendations or ideas. Thanks.
Honey + Lemon + Hot Water + Homeric Hymms
>>7599910
Why would we grill you, you're already a grill :3
post your favorite non-fiction books and we can discuss them
>>7599430
Definately that one.
I'd go with Frans de Waal or Kate Distin over that. But in terms of favourite non-fiction it would be Fear and Trembling or The World as Will and Representation. Tom Paine is good too - Rights of Man/The Age of Reason.
I'd love to see more non-fiction love.
any polish authors that are known abroad? Tokarczuk, Zagajewski, Witkacy, Milosz, Schulz? - i see them regularly in different libraries. Anyone?
>being a consonant forest
THIS THREAD IS NOW A GOMBRO THREAD< GENTLEMEN
>>7599380
Milosz and Schulz I know; also Gombrowicz and Lem.
I am looking for a poem I read in highschool and I can't find it anywhere.
It tells the tale of a mans life. It explains how he once stole from his mother and other naughty deeds but it also tells of his good natured side. In the end you are to evaluate the man and give the opinion if he is good or bad.
Pls help /lit/, I've nowhere else to turn.
>>7599093
Humpty dumpty
Oedipus
>>7599093
>implying raising a family is "playing it safe"
>fucking contrarian shit
>Plot is important
>he was watching a donkey eat some figs and cried out: "Now give the donkey a drink of pure wine to wash down the figs", whereupon he died in a fit of laughter.
I don't get it....what exactly is so funny about that?
>>7598577
He was phone.
>>7598577
DUDE DONKEYS LMAO
What are your favourite essays and why?
I'm trying to get started in that world but I don't know where to begin, so telling me which ones did you like most will be a good commence.
Have 3 - On the Genealogy of Morals
Read these senpai:
Essays on Idleness - Kenko
The Essays - Montaigne
Moralia - Plutarch
>>7595442
Orwell has some good essays.
Politics and the English Language
Inside the Whale
Shooting an Elephant
Haven't read a book/story for as god knows how much, and I want to start reading. I don't really want the recommended reading books, I want a short story, not so short, but not a novel either, that's easy to digest and talks about a practical, concrete idea, and not some abstract shit. thanks lads.
Camus' Reflections on the Guillotine.
http://redlemona.de/albert-camus/reflections-on-the-guillotine/reflections-on-the-guillotine
>>7604515
Try a novella seems to be right up the alley with what you ask for.
>>7604515
Junky by Burroughs
