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Okay so, I am trying to get into reading. I want to find a place where I can actually hear about the books, instead of just seeing a bunch of titles and what not. I have watched basically all of better than food book reviews book reviews, some of them multiple times. I almost want to get every single thing he recommends, I've gotten a couple. But beyond him, a valuable resource indeed, what are some places where I can find good books. I look at the lit charts, it's just a bunch of books I know nothing about thrown together by the title and cover. Not helpful.
>I have watched basically all of better than food book reviews book reviews,
6/10, bit obvious
>>8071978
what's wrong with better than food book reviews?
How do I motivate myself to become extremely hard working when my massive brainpower allows me to clearly see the meaningless of everything, the impossibility of knowledge, and the triviality of all philosophies?
>my massive brainpower
Please be a troll.
Nihilism is the least productive view you can have. I find it best to just forget it exists.
>>8071888
Get up and do it
How much time do you spend browsing /lit/ vs reading books?
>>8071887
>he can't do both simultaneously
>>8071887
But browsing /lit/ counts as reading...:^)
In the past 5 years, I have spent about 4x more time browsing /lit/ than reading books.
I have spent about 30x more time browsing 4chan than reading books.
Thoughts?
>>8071883
Only whores like it.
>>8071925
>Repent sinners
>>8071883
I thought it was a quality novel. It was a fairly painful read, but I didn't have any desire to stop reading it.
Tereza was a fantastic character (or would have been had she been a bit more realistic) and her unrelenting cuckoldry wasn't fun.
To me the story seemed like an elaborate piece of metaphorical evidence to testify against Nietzsche's idea of eternal recurrence, but it was still a neat story on its own.
I know this is a weird request, but I need someone who is the smart version of Russell Brand, while also being the Russell Brand of literature.
Basically, what I want is someone who can keep that engaged, passionate, funny, lighthearted tone (like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YR4CseY9pk) but on the written word, and who is also not a retard.
It can be about politics, but it doesn't have to. I'd actually prefer fiction.
Slavoj ʒiʒɛk maybe.
>>8071818
I'm writer. Ask anything.
No offense, but I don't think you're intelligent enough for literature.
I'd stick to youtube, if I were you.
You suggested me this book and it was shit. Why did you do this to me?
>>8071796
Shitty in what sense?
>>8071814
It's written boring, and predictable. There's not a lot of atmosphere, and I was looking for atmosphere of the wasteland. Also, it felt like all of these authors used some standard science fiction formulas and having it be in wasteland was just a feature, like writing a romance on a tropical island
>>8071832
you may be right, but you had pretty vapid reasons for going into it in the first place.
We all know that the biggest loser, Adolf Hitler liked to listen Wagner. What author did he like to read?
>haha hey guys Hitler is such a loser am I cool yet hahahaha please
That's who you put down to feel good?
The worlds most hated man?
Does your life really suck that much?
Try aiming a little higher dude.
Nietzsche
>>8071778
>Hitler was Hitler (for better or worse)
>after his death, he is reviled by all
>this makes him a safe target for all kinds of base people to take shots at him
>cowards attack him because they're too frightened to attack any sacred elephants
>mindless status quo worshipers attack him because the mass told them to
>brainless ideologues parrot their party slogans against him
>weaklings spit on him for imposing his will, in an age that glorifies the weakling and denigrates the will
>and so on and so on
>people with noble character are inherently repulsed by these types of people and their behaviors
>they naturally want to distinguish themselves from the mass and deeply suspect its platitudes, they naturally dislike those who "kick someone when he's down," they have a (submerged) disdain for weaklings and cowards that can never be overwritten
>tfw the more a systemically pussified culture shits on Hitler, the more the occultated substrate of truly noble men slowly, imperceptibly gravitates back toward him
>tfw society shifts with them, pulled by their centre of gravity
>tfw the collective instinct of the herd, unconscious by definition, can't sense this shift, and continues to graze on its stale platitudes
>tfw another will rise
>tfw it is inevitable
>tfw too dumb for complex, difficult books
Self-pitying, self-loathing /lit/ thread. Also, what are you reading or about to read?
>tfw get sweaty and nervous everytime i look at poetry
I want to like poetry, i think i do like poetry, i have multiple poetry books, but god is it hard, I'm going to buy some more entry level poets like kipling so i can work my way up.
I'd love to write poetry one day but without a doubt if you aren't trying to mirror the greats you'll end up looking like shit.
>>8071646
I came here to ask anons what order I should read the works of the Cthulhu Mythos.
It will be my very first supernatual kind of reading so I dont want to miss the good ones.
>>8071646
Train your self to be able to handle gradually more deep and complex ideas
![Nietzsche-Friedrich-Portrait-1860[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/PYKH57V.gif "Nietzsche-Friedrich-Portrait-1860[1].gif")
>God is dead
How could something that was never alive (or real) die? Wtf...
prove God don't exist
protip yuo can't
protip
AHAHAHAHAH
>>8071639
The idea of God, obviously.
I think Nietzsche and all those other 18th/19th century German idealists would be surprised, and possibly alarmed, at just how durable religion has proved to be.
>>8071644
*durable/enduring
Also, can we stop having new threads for every single Nietzsche quotation?
What are the best nonfiction books you've read?
Pic unrelated.
Art of the Deal
>>8071631
>>8071653
absolutely based literature my fellow red-pilled gentlemen
Gf is studying international politics. What books do I read to keep up with her?
read /pol/ desu
Read what she reads.
I. Is there a flowchart for Faulkner's books?
II. What is his best book?
III. Does he shit on Hemingway?
IV. Would you count him as continental and/or existentialist?
V. Is he the American Tolstoy?
Also general discussion.
>>8071590
I. Did you check the sticky?
II. Absalom, Absalom, IMO but I The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying a very close seconds. If you read him, read all three of those.
III.On a personal level, yeah he talked a lot of shit. From a literary standpoint it's like comparing a soccer player to a football player. They both write, but they do entirely different things with their work.
IV. Yeah, probably a continental, I haven't thought much about him as an existentialist though. There may have been a slight...
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>>8071590
I. Pic related. For some reason it excludes Light in August, though – don't forget it.
II. As I Lay Dying.
III. Yes.
IV. This is nonsense. He's a modernist – would you ask this question of Joyce, Eliot or Pound?
V. See above.
I just finished As I Lay Dying and it was beautiful. The characterization in that book is something else.
"No hallowed skein of stars can ward, I trow, who's once been set his tryst with Trystero."
What did he mean by this?
If you can't understand that sentence then move on. Don't stop reading cause of one sentence.
it means even fate cant trump whatever plan trystero has for you
No one can protect you from Trystero.
I've only read Heart of Darkness so far and I'm interested in reading more of Conrad's writing. I'm on a tight budget, so I have to settle for just one book. What should I go with, Nostromo, or Lord Jim?
>>8071465
Neither, Nigger of the Narcissus and The Secret Agent are his top tier works
>>8071470
The Secret Agent it is then. Thanks a bunch, familia.
>>8071465
nostromo is his best imo (read jim/hod/short stories), definitely get that.
Does anyone know of a good instrumental piece that is good for ambient music when reading mystical fantasy? I like some light music while I read to keep my mind focused.
>>8071453
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBnyyfvDwX8&ab_channel=AtmosphericBlackMetalAlbums
https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/Dungeon+Synth/
The best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIoILN_KrhU
