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I can't read anymore. I keep thinking about how I'm eventually going to die and therefore, any reading that I do is useless and any knowledge I gain, too, is useless.
What is my problem, /lit/? Is it just depression? Have any of you faced similar forms of reader's block?
Stop being a fucking pussy and enjoy your life while you have it
>>8115739
nigga, its not a readers block. accept death as a fact and move on
no other philosopher comes to mind than Camus, because i've always accepted death as a part of life
>>8115739
>I can't read anymore. I keep thinking about how I'm eventually going to die
Do you also stop eating because eventually you'll be hungry?
Thoughts?
>>8115734
a cute crow
crows were his favorite animals
>>8115734
Series started off very, very good. Gunslinger is probably the best thing Stephen King ever wrote.
Quality dropped off dramatically in the later books.
>>8115757
Pretty much.
The Dark Tower was supposed to be King's magnum opus, and if I'm not mistaken, he wanted it to be "his" LOTR.
The Gunslinger is by far King's best work, and TDT could've been so much better than what it turned out to be.
Basically, anyone interested in the saga should read the first book and be done with it.
The second book is good, and the third and fourth are alright, but starting from the fifth, it goes downhill fast. King really fucked up on this one.
Recommendation
>Fantasy
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>Sci-Fi
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General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
33 days until The Great Ordeal is released.
Is your body ready for more Kelmomas killan, Sorweel getting cucked and Achamian daughter fuckab?
Get hyped.
>>8115580
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Hola, 4chan-migos... Any good books on rhyme theory?, in english or spanish
Pic somehow related
>>8115438
Joyce vs Shakespeare?
>>8115445
Seuss v Shakespeare
>>8115438
Is this "YouTube Month" on /lit/?
if you're attempting to seriously claim that the OP pic could anyhow be somewhat related to anything remotely connected to literature, you need to start rethinking your position effective immediately or else state the time and place of where you wish to fight me barefisted. You fucking retarded summery underage fucking underage retard summer.
are comics literature?
could a comic win a nobel prize?
>>8115361
your picture explains it adequately
They are related to literature but their own thing. I could see a graphic novel winning the Nobel Prize in Literature one day, but it'd have to be by a third-worlder.
>could a comic win a nobel prize?
Definitely could. Nobel prizes don't go to works of literary merit.
books, essays, articles ect. that can convince a person to kill themselves?
existing between wanting to die (not enough to do it) and wanting to live (not enough either) is painful. I've heard out the pro-living side for a while and its all lies or "life sucks but accept it". It's clear life isnt worth the trouble but i cant bring myself to the final step
The Qu'ran.
Find a meaning, anon. Even if it's to shitpost all day.
the bible
You've got to be fucking kidding me with this shit. I mean I opened this up with no preconceived notions nor sense of what the book actually was about. I'm about 7 of his journal entries in now, all I can think is that this makes the vaguest of fucking sense and I have to re-read sentences so many times over again before I finally feel I get what he's trying to say. You know know why that's what the fuck? Because it's really hard, this book is hard to read. I mean, why do people think this is some of the best writing of all time? I mean, do you think...
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>>8115336
>t. lower consciousness pleb
>>8115336
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you're supposed to read it at 2:30am after years of existential angst turning into bitter cynicism have softened into a numb indifference
if you are a normie you have no chance
Just picked up this book. Is it any good?
>>8115297
It's probably biased and inaccurate towards a positive portrayal of American history.
Anyone ever notice how many threads we have of OP buying a book and then asking our opinion on it, without having read it yet? What goes through the brains of people like this? Wouldn't it make more sense to ask before buying?
Or how about actually reading the damn thing, and then make a thread what you thought of it, and ask for opinions?
I don't get these dumb threads.
>>8115339
It's called bait. It is meant to incite, notice the context and content of these threads. It's always similar, if you get my meaning.
Hi /lit/,
What is your view on the novels and short stories of Hemingway?
He was fat.
His son was a tranny.
His complete short stories, Finca VigÃa Edition, is one of my favorite books.
What is the best portuguese translation to Plato's Republic and why?
Should I learn ancient greek just to read this masterpiece?
>>8115181
Brazillian Portuguese, forgot to mention that.
Carlos Alberto Nunes. Nos volumes publicados pela editora da UFPA.
>>8115200
That sounds hard to find, I want to buy the book.
Do you know of a more easily obtainable edition
what's your favourite piece of philosophical fiction? i just finished the stranger and loved it. what criteria does a book have to meet, in order to be classified as "philosophical fiction"?
>>8115153
Steppenwolf
The Bible
>>8115153
>philosophical fiction
Fiction with a philosophical theme
I liked Nausea.
Can someone recommend some feminist literature? Specifically on the subject of gender (so more 3rd wave feminism).
I used to consider myself a feminist and very pro-trans and gender identity in general, but after a long time of not studying it, I've heard some arguments from the new right movement that has made me question the validity of things like gender and the legitimacy of transsexuality. I'd just like some perspective, especially given that I have a friend who might transition soon who I of course support on the surface and on an emotional level, but...
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>>8115151
The Handmaiden's Tale.
Also keep your baiting threads to a minimum. We already have one Ann Coulter shitfest thread, we need not another one devolving into political screaming from people who haven't read anything past high school.
Conserve these threads one at a time, if not never, to decline the little posting quality left.
pluto - the greeks
>>8115154
Read it, first of all.
Second of all fuck you. Did I say anything about feminism being wrong or did I try to start something by making an argument? No. I'm asking for recommendations to further my education on the subject, because it's an important topic, you sperg.
Is this good? I'm about to buy it.
Are there any other good books on intellectual history?
>>8115109
>Are there any other good books on intellectual history?
It's an entire vast field of study, OP. So... yes, there are.
If it takes "Freud the pseud" seriously, discard it.
>>8115170
Congrats on spouting baby's first intellectual opinion.
If Schopenhauer came back to life what would he say about Nietzsche's philosophy?
He'd say Nietzsche's a charlatan.
>>8115088
Pic related.
On a more serious note, they had a lot in common; Nietzsche clearly respected Schopenhauer. I don't think the former effectively rebuked the latter's pessimism, however.
Good try, though.
>>8115104
Superficially, they had a lot in common. Both had an autistic dislike of Nationalism/Patriotism, for example.
There was a big difference between their deeper tenets, however; Will to Live vs Will to Power, etc.
as a struggling writer I find this book highly offensive. his first book is a giant fuck you to pretty much all artists and critics. I can see why he wasn't more popular.
>>8115046
Most very successful people in the arts are narcissistic. Narcissists are also good at knowing that they're narcissists. If you can't handle being called a narcissist, then you probably aren't cut out to be an artist.
>>8115046
As a struggling artiste myself, I think you're a pussy queer and that Willie G was absolutely right about everything in this book.
>>8115064
I can't even finish this book. every time otto talks to someone they think he's gay or he plagiarized his play.
do they think he plagiarized it because it's good or because he quotes wyatt (who is usually quoting someone else)
