What are your favorite words?
Which writer uses the best words and in what work?
my last name
'g'
absolutely
platanote
light
>>7577054
ostensibly
in actuality
vapid
hedonism
cuck
>>7577069
>cuck
>sincerely your favorite word
kys m8
Why is this book so perfect?
because you are 16
It was a radio show first which gave it a long genesis and editing time.
Bought Everyman's Library edition of War and Peace. Did I fuck it up?
>>7576812
>Tolstoy
>good
You fucked up...
...just kidding.
>>7576812
>he fell for the everyman meme
No, you won. It's the Maude translation, and it's Everyman's.
I rarely hear about you guys.
What are some /lit/ memes?
Also, pic related is shit
>he came for the memes
gb2 redit pls
>>7576784
But the memes are dankest on the 4chins.
Please leave
Let us share some of our favorite theologians from the past century, Im reading The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich, who is considered a Christian Existentialist. Who should I read next, /lit/?
PS. Reminder that it is 20th century only, but if you really wanna share someone from the 19th century (and it's not Kierkegaard) well then thats fine i suppose. God Bless you anons
Based Thomas Merton
>>7576629
any recommended works by the guy?
plantinga
What literature do you wish you read/should be read before you are twenty?
Portrait of the Artist / Dubliners
Iliad / Odyssey
Dostoyevsky
Tolstoy
The Stranger
The Stranger
Kafka
Some Nietzche
The Catcher in the Rye
The Phenomenology of mind
Tao Te Ching
Siddhartha
The Giver
Brave New World
The Alchemist
Great and timeless books that are pretty short.
ITT books /lit/ will lynch you for enjoyingplease don't hurt me
u can enjoy w/e u want
just dont pretend it's good because you like it
Don't be a silly, /lit/ loves you and likes to hear your funny little opinions.
I'm reading through game of thrones right now there I said it.
There are two definitions to good. There's the definition of good referring to morality, such as good vs. evil, and there's the definition of good referring to objective claims, such as good vs. bad.
Neither of these definitions are similar to or mean "like" and it's subjective variants. When you say "something is good," you're not saying "I like something."
So why is there such a prevalent use of the word "good" being interchangeable with "like" in our society?
you are autistic if you think language is defined by dictionaries instead of usage
also nice b8 fgt
>>7576452
Why use the word "Good," something that's been useful for defining positive moral and objective qualities, to describe something you like but have little knowledge of, when you could simply use the word "like" because the predetermined definition is much different and actually applies to your stance?
Saying "I like thing" versus "thing is good" will prevent people from being pointlessly debated over opinions. It's standoffish.
>>7576460
Because the good in both senses of the word is what is desirable
Sperging over language has been the death knell for real philosophy
What do you prefer, /lit/?
Buying new books, buying used books or getting books from the library?
buying used books > library books > stealing them online > buying them new
new books
support the industry and the author
library
it gives me a deadline that isn't too pressuring
Please suggest me the best translations of the following books:
1) Notes from Underground
2) Crime and Punishment
3) The Idiot
4) The Brothers Karamazov
>>7576282
>1) Notes from Underground
whatever except for p/v
>2) Crime and Punishment
mcduff or, second option, p/v if you cant find one
>3) The Idiot
none it blows
>4) The Brothers Karamazov
mcandrew
>Notes from Underground
Ralph Matlaw
>Crime and Punishment
Pevear & Volokhonsky
>The Idiot
Pevear and Volokhonsky
>The Brothers Karamazov
Ignat Avsey
He never finished a novel.
The Broom of the System
>ends in midsentence
Infinite Jest
>just stops
The Pale King
>died before finishing
Why did he do this?
He really escalated his methods.
>>7576207
lmao
>>7576207
Fucking hell, Anon.
Just curious on what your thought are of this guy as an author?
Fuck off newshit
>“You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ [regarded by many as Green’s masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.”
>[Green] seems to have been a very sincere and troubled person, but that doesn’t mean I have to endure reading him. I even resented the use of the term from Shakespeare, when Cassius says to Brutus: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
>>7576143
I agree with most of the things he says, despite the fact he's a low-testosterone blob
Which edition of Siddhartha to get?
>>7575861
The Tunnel
>>7575861
it does not really matter much it is an enjoyable but short and inconsequential read, you should just skip the fan-fiction and read actual Buddhist/Daoist/Hindu/etc primary texts if you are interested in eastern philosophy/religion
Give me some really really short books to read so i can increase my Goodreads' read-list by a huge margin
Why not just play cookie clicker instead? Save yourself some time.
Pocket Primer (María Santiago)
Just Because You Are My Husband, Doesn't Mean I Have to Love You (Marcia Arbor)
Star-Stones (José Alberto Garcia)
Lest We Forget... (Bruce Elman)
Trismegurta [Academy Personal Series] (Pseudo-Trismegristis of Aleppo)
Frog on the Lotus (Pi Ling)
Hamster Shavings (Bart Brennel)
But Poop (Farty Butman)
As Poopy But (Elias Rectim)
Pennis Dicks (Rosa Saltman)
Opisa Fahgot (Yuri Gay)
>>7575619
Thanks, random guy!
You get a free wallpaper
"I am Ra[...]The Confederation of Planets in the Service of the Infinite Creator has only one important statement. That statement, my friends, as you know, is 'All things, all of life, all of the creation is part of one original thought.'[...]
We are those who are of [The Law of One]. In our vibration the polarities are harmonized, the complexities are simplified, and the paradoxes have their solution. We are one. That is our nature and our purpose[...]
That which is infinite cannot be many, for many-ness is a finite concept. To have infinity you must identify or define that infinity as unity; otherwise, the term does not have any referent or meaning. In an Infinite Creator there is only unity. You have seen simple examples of unity. You have seen the prism which shows all colors stemming from the sunlight. This is a simplistic example of unity.
In truth there is no right or wrong. There is no polarity for all will be, as you would say, reconciled at some point in your dance through the mind/body/spirit complex which you amuse yourself by distorting in various ways at this time. This distortion is not in any case necessary. It is chosen by each of you as an alternative to understanding the complete unity of thought which binds all things. You are not speaking of similar or somewhat like entities or things. You are every thing, every being, every emotion, every event, every situation. You are unity. You are infinity. You are love/light, light/love. You are. This is [The Law of One...]
The Law of One, though beyond the limitations of name, as you call vibratory sound complexes, may be approximated by stating that all things are one, that there is no polarity, no right or wrong, no disharmony, but only identity. All is one, and that one is love/light, light/love, the Infinite Creator[...]
The Law of One states simply that all things are one, that all beings are one[...]When your peoples grasp infinity, then and only then, can the gateway be opened to [The Law of One...]
There are no mistakes under [The Law of One...][The Law of One being universal], there are infinite forms, infinite understandings, but the progression is one[...]"
What is Lit's opinion on literary depictions of ancient gods?
>terrible taste in cinéma
>terrible taste in literature
>terrible taste in musiqué
>woman
>sex life
>a fucking leaf
REPORT AND SAGE
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