name a comfier book
In Search of Lost Time
Tale of two cities
The Swiss Family Robinson
If a famous writer were to write your biography in his/her style, who would you pick?
Id go with Dostoevsky because it would turn out like a modern day Notes from Underground
James Joyce in Finnegans Wake-style writing
Who is this.... Beautiful woman?
Hi /lit/ so i am currently going through a shit time in my life and am trying to remain positive and build my character so i can get through this and better myself.
Have any of you read any decent self improvement/inspirational books that you would like to share?
I read a short little book written by john bird a couple of years ago, called 7 steps to changing your life. I was never into any of this self improvement crap, but this small book was genuine, honest and not too happy clappy believe in yourself crap. I wish to re read it sometime, as it helped me to get through shit and build my character/reach my goals at that time.
Just looking for a bit more at the moment.
Excuse the shitty meme.
For most self-help books you're better off just reading / watching summaries.
There are some quality summaries on this site:
https://sivers.org/book
For video summaries, https://www.youtube.com/user/PhilosophersNotes/playlists, and https://www.youtube.com/user/phuckmediocrity/videos are decent. Watch at 2x speed to maximize efficiency.
>>7464183
Depending on how much you were file by feminism or other causes, No More Mr. Nice Guy is really good. It changed me completely overnight but the effect depends on how much of a nice guy you were in the first place.
If you're going through shit and want to stay positive I have seen Feeling Good by David Burns being recommended here for depression.
have someone read the book for you, just skim through the book, i read 30 books today. read the summary online, no one has time to read all those books and most of the stuff in them isn't even important! buy my book
Books that are overrated.
Threads that are pointless >>7464166
To be honest I think Moby-Dick was crap.
But maybe its only because its 2015 and anything of value in it has been robbed and reused one billion times so now its just a hollowed out chest of a dead dolphin.
Same with Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It was so boring its unbelieveable.
But yeah it probably would have been a goodish experience if I read these a hundres years ago.
Is this book any good, guys?
If you like well-written freaky shit it's a good time.
>>7464107
>freaky
It's trippy you donkey dong.
>>7464079
The title is stupid in that it has zero relevance to the story other than some meaningless location
I want to start reading books and I've found an interesting subject I'd want to read books about. Fantasy, scifi doesn't matter, however the subject should be about assassins. Can you help me at all?
>>7463892
The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Isma'ilis by Farhad Daftary
>>7463892
The Vagina Ass of Lucifer Niggerbastard
>>7463892
The Cuckoldry of the Cuck'd Cuckolds. The most Cucks that will Cuck.
I've been posting on /lit/ for about 2 years now, but I have yet to read anything by DFW. Should I jump straight into Infinite Jest or is there a better starting point? I watched the German Interview and the 2003 Charlie Rose interview; I identified with him immensely.
maybe read some non-fiction before but you don't really have to. Just jumping into Infinite Jest is fine
Read good old neon and save yourself 1000 pages
>>7463849
Thank you for a serious response. Something like A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again?
My brother made a promise to read any book that I want him too and I really want him to get into literature.
He's not an idiot (biochem major) however I don't think he sees books the same way I do and I want to get him hooked.
If you could recommend him one book, what would it be? Any topic is fine because hes a pretty open minded guy.
pic unrelated
Zettels Traum
read the fucking sticky
>>7463009
I have but I'm still unsure where to go. My favorite book is naked lunch which is probably too boring for him.
Are they meme books?
no, the meme books are good.
>>7462441
They're good; but they are not, as autists will sometimes tell you, the best books ever. I feel personally that if Tolkien could see what his novels have done to the literary world he would regret writing them.
>>7462442
/thread
People laugh off image related as juvenile, but I can't help but agree with it. I've been a NEET for 3 years. I'm 22, and don't have any plans to work in the near time, and certainly none to pick up formal studies ever again. I live off of my parents income. I study by investing time reading about the fields of art that I'm interested in, and experiencing these works of art themselves. I'm by no measure an expert in these fields, but I certainly strive to be. My goal in life is to make an exceptional work of art, whether it is an album, a film, a game, or a book. I know fully that I may not be able to live "leeching-off" of my parents for the years to come and that I will be forced to work a wageslave job, but for now I have 0 interest in making money, I do not really aspire to have a big house, or anything alike. My income is experiencing art, and that is available for as much money as the Internet costs.
Everyone I've talked to thinks the lifestyle that I live is pathetic and wrong, but nobody's argument has ever made sense to me. My question, /lit/, is, do you know of any piece of literature that makes an argument for a lifestyle of "laziness"? Or, alternatively, one that opposes it.
Please don't try to discuss much of it with me, I would much rather read about it in the form of a book (otherwise I would have gone to /adv/).
The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner
That's all you need.
Yeah, see the difference is that Bukowski is proclaiming it a tragedy that this is the way things are. But he recognizes this is how it is. After all, he wageslaved for decades because he knew the only thing worse would be to put it all on his mom and dad or any other person. He knew it's awful, but he wasn't selfish.
You would rather make your mom and dad experience that pain than take it on yourself. Bukowski was a trapped artist. You're just selfish.
>>7459327
This
You really think no one wants to sit at mom's and dad's and explore what they are interested in? That's what high school was for.
A great number of painters, authors, philosophers, musicians, and other kinds of artists lived in Paris between the 1870s and the 1960s.
Do you think Paris is still the bohemian and artistic capital of the world, or it has changed now? Or maybe that such thing does not exist anymore?
Also, what do you think about living the bohemian-artist life? You know, poverty, love struggles, depression, expressing through your art, knowledge, sex, philosophy... Spending all day writing or painting while listening to Chopin ...
Was this way of living killed by pretentious hipsters and that kind of retards?
probly a bunch of english teachers in southeast asia, some place you can live cheap and decadently and not work too hard at the day job and still have time to write
but lets see them actually produce something worth reading and not just getting addicted to underage prostitutes and cheap heroin
>>7457146
I don't know about Paris since I've never been there, but I would assume it's pretty shit, what with a million tourists constantly around and gimmicky souvenirs all over the place. I don't think there is an artistic capital of the world, hell art itself is pretty fucking down right now, art and literature. About that lifestyle, I would love it, but the problem is steady money. I wouldn't have a problem living on the bare necessities, but simply ensuring you have that is hard.
>what do you think about living the bohemian-artist life?
Wish it was possible to live it.
>Was this way of living killed by pretentious hipsters and that kind of retards?
I think it was more to do with the art communities around the world dragging art and literature further and further down the drain. "Pretentious hipsters" didn't cause this, they're just the users.
>>7457163
I don't know, when Greece runs out of money and if they decide to get out of the EU, maybe some place in Greece could be the next 1920s Paris. And imagine if Greece hauled ass out of EU in the early 2020s.
>>7457146
French used to be the lingua franca (no shit) until World War 2, thats why its lost its place as the metropolitan center of world culture.
There is no real center today, its just become less important in general for artists to congregate since its possible to form sub-cultures and connect with other creative people a lot easier today with the internet.
Like this very board for instance, not to overstate its importance but its a place for people with a serious interest in literature to meet up and exchange ideas and views that didn't exist just a couple decades ago.
Can we talk about Conan a little?
or, you know I can just post some pics.
Sometimes you guys recommend eating/sleeping fine, working out and all that shit to be flexy and read and write dope. What is sleeping fine for yall?
>pic maybe related
...For night imparts to everything its black colour. Therefore when we go to sleep or even wake up in the night, our thoughts are frequently almost as bad distortions and perversions of things as are dreams; moreover, if they concern our personal affairs, they are usually as black as possible and even frightful. In the morning all such terrible apparitions have like dreams vanished, as is expressed by the Spanish proverb: noche tinta, bianco el dia (the night is coloured, the day is white). But also in the evening when the candles are burning, the understanding, like the eye, does not see things so clearly as it does during the day; therefore this time is not suited for meditating on serious and especially unpleasant affairs for which the morning is the right time, as it also is generally without exception for all work, whether mental or physical. For the morning is the youth of the day; everything is bright, fresh, and easy; we feel strong and have at our complete disposal all our faculties. We should not shorten it by getting up late, or even waste it in unworthy occupations or gossip; on the contrary, we should regard it as the quintessence of life and to a certain extent treat it as sacred. Evening, on the other hand, is the day's old age; at such a time we are dull, garrulous, and frivolous. Each day is a little life for which our waking up is the birth and which is brought to an end by sleep as death. Thus going to sleep is a daily death and every waking up a new birth. In fact to complete the simile, we could regard the discomfort and difficulty of getting up as labour pains.
>>7467194
Bullshit. Kafka only wrote at night. And it's "blanca", not "bianca".
I be asking how many hours should I sleep and that kind of shit.
I don't know, dude, like 7 hours maybe?
Edmund "it's a fucking dark conceit" Spenser
William "no you idiot, Marlowe died in a barfight, everyone knows that" Shakespeare
John "boner for God" Donne
Thomas "I'm really not central to the canon, huh" Carew
Ben "it's not my fault my audiences are philistines" Jonson
Aemilia "suck-my-taint" Lanyer
David "foster" Wallace.
Would you get this as a Christmas gift?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/amaranthinebooks/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde
fetishizing objects is for freaks
this is a board to discuss literature. not christmas gifts. go away
>>7466497
it's actually for humans
It's the most normal thing in the world
