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Just what is your favorite book, /lit/?
The Maze Runner
The Theatre and Its Double by Antonin Artaud
>>8167722
Gravity's Rainbow, easily.
Is 'the Selfish Gene' actually worth reading or is it as debunked as some of the anti-Dawkins crowd says it is?
>>8167716
>reading liberals
Kill yourself, bluepilled faggot
>>8167716
it's not literature
Kind of boring, but good in other ways. I never finished it (started back in highschool), but I remember some rich guy saying that it was one of the most influential books he'd ever read. Yeah, too bad it was just boring, bullshit science though
Do you guys name your characters common believable names or do you give them made up post-modern names to make your story seem smarter than it is?
Turns out, Gogol is po-mo! /lit/ is full of discoveries
Holy damn, your handwriting is atrocious. Are those supposed to be A's or triangles
>>8167706
Triangles, these are post modern names.
>first two books are straight-forward crime thrillers
>last book is supernatural spooky telekinesis and mind control bullshit
what the fuck was he thinking?
desu isn't subversion of expectations a good thing though senpai?
>first 53 novels are garbage
>OP reads number 54 anyway
what the fuck was he thinking?
>>8167675
What do you expect? The only good things he's written were The Shining and the short story collection Different Seasons. For the rest he just gets stoned and plops out some drivel and it's sure to make the best seller lists.
>you will never be someone's favorite author
Bet if you wrote a book, no matter how shit, you would be your mothers favourite author.
>>8167612
What if my parents have died before I wrote one?
if you even release 1 book you'll be someones favorite author. in fact releasing only 1 book gives you a higher chance at being someone's favorite author because they'll use your obscurity to heighten their own self worth when talking about literature with their friends.
>17-19
>read literature non-stop
>22 now
>read one book this year
Who /failure/ here?
>aged 19 read 160 books / year
>aged 20 read 200 books / year
>age 21 read 9 books / year
>age 22 read 0 books this year
at least I got the greeks in when I had the drive i guess
>17-20
>read classic literature non stop
>20-30
>just read pynchon over and over
cram it homo
I'm reading this and I'm wondering if it's worth continuing since i'm getting confused a lot. I didn't really understand the threat the adenoid dream prevented and I'm at the part about Slothrop's relatives gravestones and i've got no idea what's going on.
I read infinite jest pretty easily but this is on a whole different level. Should I keep trying /lit/?
Try starting with the Greeks first
>>8167465
Same here f a m
It took me a few pages in to realise these people were army people
>>8167488
this
Hey /lit/, sorry for the pleb question, but is this a decent reading order for Nietzsche?
Untimely Meditations
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
The Gay Science
The Birth of Tragedy
Beyond Good and Evil
Genealogy of Morals
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Case of Wagner
The Twilight of the Idols
The Antichrist
Ecce Homo
Nietzsche Contra Wagner
Is there anything I should take out/any unnecessary works that aren't important or good? Anything I should change up? Also, do you guys have any good recommendations for secondary...
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I apologize for the gap between Untimely Meditations and Human, All Too Human. It is pissing me the fuck off.
>>8167437
Did you read Schopenhauer?
I'd start with twilight of the idols, ecce homo and zarathustra.
Anybody got suggestions for milhist books on gunpowder period pre-WWI conflicts that are NOT about the American revolution, the American Civil War, the war of 1812, or English-French focused Napoleonic period? Stuff like the pike and shot period or the Italian wars.
War and Peace.
>>8167484
That's a novel. I'm looking more for stuff like Gibbon's Decline and Fall of Rome or Robert Massie's Castles of Steel.
>>8167544
Decline and Fall is outdated, and is only read as a grand series of novels.
Also War and Peace is absolutely a historical text. Tolstoy was the first Russian writer to fully understand the invasion if 1812.
Would you let Chomsky make tender yet dominating love to you?
Can you write better than this man?
No one can write better than the Meme God.
He already published many books and made lots of money so probably not.
>>8167321
Not yet
what are some good love stories? I've been reading a lot of the memes from here and they have left me feeling empty and hollow. in the past I've read never let me go, the virgin suicides, the English patient, the remains of the day. so I guess more shit like that.
mel gibson lookin jacked
lolita
>virgin suicides
>love story
>>8167627
the boys were in lovewith the girls
What's the worst book you've ever read all the way through?
Many moons ago. Complex bullshit is fascinating.
Basically this book and all of Dan Brown work in my opinion.
>>8167258
This. Friend who recommended it to me did not enjoy hearing my feedback.
What's the comfiest book you've ever read?
a rebours
The Waves by Virginia Wolf
>>8167226
my diary, desu
What do you guys think of this reconstructed ancient Greek pronunciation of the first lines of The Odissey?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOvVWiDsPWQ
>>8167203
And here is Aeschylus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuoKgbDgdek&list=PL942E6CB97EFE79FD
>>8167203
>>8167229
>>8167203
Why does he sound like an extremely well endowed Japanese man who's baked out of his fucking mind?
