Now I know that a book will not teach you a personal skill. But a book can help you along with some tips that would have taken you longer to figure out?
Which book on negotiation would you recommend? Specifically in the context of business negotiation.
>>7580541
Art of the Deal by Donald 'Heil Hitler' Trump
>>7580567
That's just a bunch of case studies (if you wanted a serious reply).
>>7580541
Not really specific to business negotiation but Cialdini's Persuasion is excellent.
What stories / books are similar in theme to Dostoevsky's "White Nights"?
Lonely male protagonists, schizoid mentality, (tfw no gf", and so on.
I've already read:
-The Book of Disquiet
-Notes from the Underground
-Stoner (doesn't really fit but it's always recommended)
-Hunger
-No Longer Human
>>7580546
but perks is a joke, dont read that one.
oblomov is extremely good
>>7580546
this pic has to be a troll
at least 10/25 are making fun of subhuman robots
what is the best starting point when it comes to Jung?
of the many topics he covered, which do you guys think hold the most interest?
thank you
I would recommend his autobiography as a starting point.
After that, it depends on whether you are interested in his more technical work, or his more esoteric/philosophical work. I recommend Psychological Types for his more technical writing. For his esoteric writing, you have more options, but The Red Book, Psychology and Alchemy, and Aion are all good reads.
>>7580945
thanks
Greeks
Descartes
Hume
Kant
Schelling
Goethe
Schopenhauer
Nietzsche
then Jung
I recently read this based on many great reviews and the fact that I was in the mood for a good mystery whodunit story, but sadly the book was pretty disappointing. I must say that this was my first Christie book and I don't like her writing style at all. It's dry and lifeless and her descriptions of events and surroundings and thoughts are dull and bare. The twist seemed very gimmicky and overly clever. Everything was orchestrated in a way that forced you to think that this could never happen like that and could only come from the mind of an author. It wasn't immersive at all.
What kept me reading was the only good thing I liked. The whodunit aspect. I kept guessing and guessing and was really curious who it would turn out to be. The resolution itself was fairly weak but up to this point the mystery still kept me going. In the end you get told in detail how everything was planned and done and that's it.
I feel a bit weird honestly. The book is considered to be one of the best mystery novels of all time and beloved by so many people and I just couldn't get into it.
So, what did you think about 'and then there were none'?
The twist was a bit poor.
Also the characters are pretty illogical and towards the end start acting against their own interests just so they can be killed off.
Like the bit where there are 3 (I think) of them left and one of them hears someone going down the stairs. He lets the person in the other bedroom know and instead of going together, he goes off on his own and gets killed.
>>7580331
You're mixing something up. Blore, Lombard, Armstrong and Claythorne are left. Blore hears steps outside his bedroom and checks to see who it is. He follows the steps and sees a dark figure but doesn't know who it is. He goes back and starts knocking on all the doors to check who's not in their room. Only Armstrong doesn't answer so they conclude that he's the killer and Blore and Lombard go looking for him while Claythorne remains in her room.
Blore dies the next day when the killer drops a clock that looks like a bear on his. After that Lombard and Claythorne find Armstrong's body and Claythorne kills Lombard thinking he's the killer.
>>7580345
Eh, it's been a while since I've read it.
>while Claythorne remains in her room.
Still though, why would she accept being isolated like that? I'm aware that she didn't die until the end but she could easily have been picked off and she just rolls with it.
Ok boys, lets dump our charts.
Also where the fuck are the opiates in Confessions of a Mask?
>>7580272
>Also where the fuck are the opiates in Confessions of a Mask?
I don't think there was unless it was a subtle thing near the end or something
>>7580275
Just finished the book and i couldn't find a clue about opiates.
Does anyone have the Stephen King leading up to The Stand chart?
I felt like I read a story about a robot.
Was Fjodor so ahead of his time that he accurately predicted the beta uprising?
He and Nietzsche both predicted communism rising out of the world turning away from God (morals) so I understand
Dosti-kun was ahead of his time and still relevant today despite what some hipsters might say about him.
>beta uprising
Back to r9k, underage memer
>>7580236
I'm not a robot myself, but how the underground man was portrayed made me instantly think of the stereotypically bitter and angry robot
Would /lit/ be better if you couldn't post unless you had read a certain list of books? What would you put on the list?
Just read the first page of notes from the underground over and over and over until you are so used to those particular words that it's all you can think
Then feel free to post as you wish
it would be /r/books
actually no. that's basically what it is now and most of the threads are about the same 20 or so authors
What are your favourite books on music?
>>7580030
Anybody got a download link to read this?
Libgen's got nothing
>>7580050
Yes.
Post books where the main character is the literal definition of thinking with your dick.
I'll start.
I once saw Updike described as a "penis with a thesaurus".
lolita
in this book it's both his dick and his brain vying for control over the other
Is there a /lit/ community on any writing websites? I like HelloPoetry for its GUI and archive of famous poetry but the overall community there is shit -- as it is on writing.com and every other writing website.
>>7579856
Finding an irl writing group is superior to online
>>7579875
Speaking from experience, or...?
>>7579888
Yes. I've been in several writing groups. Knowing what kind of person you're talking to can help you judge the quality of their criticism, irl groups tend to be more serious (much easier to flake on online stuff), get to go out and have food and drink and make acquaintances, &c
I'm interested in psychoanalysis and was wondering who /lit/ likes outside of Freud. Can include literature or philosophy
laplanche, jung, lacan, gauttari
Better check out the transactional analysis by Berne, it's so much more relevant in modern psychology. Also, Freud was a cuck
What do you think, /lit/, did he convince you of Platonism, or are you still a nominalist?
I have to piss. Brb.
>>7579695
I'm neither a nominalist nor a Platonist. Realism is TRUE
take the redpill
>>7579726
2016, and still living in 2015
turn off your mind, accept empiricism, be a phenomenologist, contemplate, awaken.
Was it autism?
>>7579687
No, it was the sun.
It was the heat of the moment.
Depends on who you are talking about
Will literature ever recover from this cancer?
you didn't even try
literature is not materialism in the physical sense
Is the pic a real edition of joyce works? Where to cop?
What are the obligatory readings for sublimation or sexual transmutation? Abnormal psychology, mysticism, religion, the list could go on, I'm interested in anything you can provide me with.
freud
can you expand on the term 'sexual transmutation'?
>>7579604
This:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(psychology)#Sexual_sublimation
