are there good books dealing with the pain of getting old?
(pic actually relevant)
yeat's poetry
>>7591373
not the pain but the feeling of it, then Wordsworth
Houellebecq is pretty much about how much it sucks to feel like a washed up cynical 45 year old about to die and who did nothing with his life.
What are some good books about the history of America and the United States? I'm not american so most of my life I only read about european history.
>>7591326
go big or go home
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_History_of_the_United_States
by the end of 2017 all 12 volumes will have been completed
Ecuador=North Dakota
Chile=Mississippi
Just mix mah shit up f4m!
>>7591326
not knowing your personal interests, i couldn't do much better than just telling you to look at the list of pulitzer prize winners in history and picking the ones on topics that interest you
hofstadter is a decent place to start if you really have no idea
Hi, pleb here
Recommend me something that is both entry level and good.
Death of ivan illych is my favourite book, if that helps
thank you
>>7591181
Bump ;(
The Iliad and the Odyssey
read the fucking sticky
Why do publishers always put pictures of philosophers on their seminal works from when they were older?
This pic graces many-a-cover of A Treatise on Human Nature.
>>7590919
But he was actually in his twenties when he wrote the thing, and probably would have looked something more swag like this.
>>7590919
Because that man is the very essence of patrician.
>>7590925
And what about this gremlin looking motherfucker? This pic graces the cover of the common Payne translation of his masterpiece World as Will and Representation.
The permanent archive is down at the moment, so don't rely on it to record anything of val-...
of val-...
>kek
seriously though, stuff like the links to the Gass scans won't last past a week once it gets archived, so save whatever you need.
There was a picture of an ass with a book pressing against I wanted to look up on the archive but it was down
It's how I found out actually
Also, I was wanting to search Donne and see what /lit/ had to say about him
>>7590835
This pine cone Pepe is in superb condition? Are you selling?
>>7591187
>>>/reddit/
is it just me or is #bookz ignoring the search command?
It happens to me sometimes.
>>7590697
I've been having trouble with it as well
i had the same issues. #ebooks is better anyway tho
what's a good introduction to jung that doesn't bother with his obsession with magic and ghosts, focuses on the psychoanalysis of society but doesn't take collective unconsciousness too seriously?
>what's a good book by this author that totally ignores his own life's work
lol m8 u fukin trolling?
>>7590706
lolz.
I think the person you're looking for is named Freud, OP. He was a pretty famous psychoanalyst who wrote a bunch of books, he also had an excellent beard. You should look him up.
Hey I'm writing a novel for my first true major writing project. I was wondering what the perfect opening chapter consists of? What should it include to get you the reader coming back for more? I want to blow everyone away! Any advice would be appreciated.
You probably wont have a first chapter until sometime towards the end of the book. Start with the second tbqhf
You should start with the Greeks.
"A screaming comes across the sky" is a good way to start
Books I'm committed to reading by the end of the month if possible; Phillip Zimbardo - Man (Dis)connected, Sally J Scholz - Feminism (Beginner's guides), John Hersey - Hiroshima, Craig Santos Perez - From unincorporated territory [Gumá], Fran Ross - Oreo, Claudia Rankine - Citizen (An American Lyric), Anne Carson - An Autobiography of Red.
Any anons read these?
I've read Autobiography of Red and it was good. Incredibly good. Don't be afraid to feel and cry, anon, it's only human.
Would be interested in hearing about Citizen, it's on my to read list
>>7590510
Hiroshima, truly, a different perspective on the war.
>>7590510
>let me pick up the edgiest books by people who seem smart so that i too can seem smart
What is a book that can show me how to accept myself, and start to build self-confidence?
I have some things I'm good at, and friends who support me, but I just can't see myself as someone worthy of... pretty much anything. Has anything helped you shape your mind in a healthier way?
>>7590505
Just Be Yourself by A. Normie
Meditations
Epictetus discourses
Three Pillars of Zen (you gotta meditate though)
Seneca's writings
General, life affirming philosophy like Plato, Evola, something to really get you feeling your true Self
Ernst Junger - Storm of Steel
The Saga of the Volsungs
Plutarch's Life of Pericles (http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/pericles.html)
hello lit, I'm trying to read neuromancer but can't find an e-book without syntax/formatting errors and without missing parts
do you have or know where to find a good neuromancer epub/mobi?plox halp
>>7590395
How bout a library mate?
Hey /lit/, can you recommend me some books that take place in a communist/socialist society? It doesn't matter if it's portrayed positively or negatively. I'm aware of Bulgakov and plan to read him. Thanks!
>>7590392
Dr Zhivago
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
>>7590392
Life and Fate.
Just finished this. What does /lit/ think?
I read it two semesters ago. Stylistically I wasn't a huge fan of it, nor was I fully impressed by it as a standalone work. However, I definitely think it's implications when used as a lens for other works is definitely interesting.
Basically, I think that while there is definitely a lot to be had just from Confessions, I found it more of an enjoyable experience to consider it up against other works that have to do with addictions of all kinds.
>>7590373
I learned a little bit about De Quincey in my romanticism lecture last semester. The guy's life was hilarious.
It's pretty obviously the basis for the work of Burroughs, Thompson, Welsh, etc. Besides starting the whole junky pseudo-memoir thing I don't see much else value in it.
I'm trying to read the Horus heresy book series from the warhammer 40k universe, problem is it's getting expensive, it's 15.99 a Ebook in iBooks, there are 58 books in the series... That's like 800 bucks for the whole series. I'm a prolific reader so I read a novel a week. I need a place I can buy the entire series for a discount. Can anyone help me?
>>7590313
pie
ruh
see
Those books always looked interesting to me but the high pricess didnt do it for me. Found a bunch of them at the thrift store for like twenty cents each. This first 3 HH novels were there but then the rest were a mishmash of different WH series as well as a couple more from HH.
Its a fun read, but I dont see the story coming to an end in print. We all know about the battle of Terra and how Sanguinos, Horus and the Emperor die and how the traitors dissapear into the eye of terror from various sources ... but how about releasing those books so I can actually read them.
To me it brings in a lot of stuff I thought was lacking in the Star Wars books when I was younger, that being the violence for the ost part. Sci-fi, military fiction, facist government, religious zealotry, insane use of natural resources, the sheer scale of everything!
why not read something decent?
Best books on music, music theory, aesthetics of music, philosophy of music etc.? No science please
Scruton, Roger. The Aesthetics of Music. Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-19-816727-3
Meme book but rest is Boise by Alex Ross is ok.
>>7590316
Thank you sir. Do you happen to know of any recent articles, or maybe even books. that talk about pop music aesthetics? I'm thinking like what an electronic remix of a Lana Del Rey song can do to a listener at the right moment and a few drinks deep. I unironically believe electronic and some rap can be incredibly beautiful. I realize how niche this is
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