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Is there any? I believe they would have more juicy information
Aside op pic, How to Win Friends and Influence People and any book made by Donald Trump they all suck.
>>8261451
> self help
philosophy for stupid people
>self-help meme + le edgy banned books are better meme
i suggest you kys
I'm a Catholic with Protestant leanings, and while I've read the New Testament (still slogging through the Old), I also like reading heretical literature because I like how certain people try to defend their religion.
I've had fun reading J.F Rutherford's books on 'Christianity.' Jehovah's Witnesses are a unitarian cult, and he was one of their leaders then. Do you guys also enjoy reading heretical literature? Which books are you fond of?
A R I A N
>>8261415
Barabbas by Par Lagerkvist is a good book. But I'm not sure whether it could be considered heretical, though.
I don't like reading heretical literature because I like being orthodox
Are there any good books that take place in high school or have a high school age protagonist?
>>8261359
Quarantine? I wouldn't bother with teen books, do you want adult books?
>>8261382
Yeah I would prefer adult books.
Can anyone recommend me more books like this? Specifically ones dealing with the themes of loneliness and alienation?
>>8261337
I'm reading the Bell Jar by Plath rn, and I feel like it has a lot of similarities. I'm interested in what other people recommend, though.
Do androids dream of electric sheep revolves around loneliness and apathy.
>>8261337
>>8261362
Factorum by Bukowski. Basically Catcher in the Rye, minus the complaining and more sex and drugs. Thats trivializing it tho, and im not trying to talk down the quality of Catcher, but thats how I felt when reading factorum; it was Catcher on steroids, or rather vicodin.
I guess another way to look at it would be if Kerouac wrote Catcher and added a couple degrees of vulgarity uncharacteristic of his own writing.
Good books for people who have given up on life and only enjoy nature and music?
the bible
>>8261334
nature, music, literature
that isn't giving up on life m8 that is a warm embrace
Is Max Payne /lit/approved ?
>>8261315
I liked it
It's the fourth best video game of all time.
From a strictly aesthetic and creative standpoint what are some great books of philosophy, religion, or history?
I don't care if it is intellectually irrelevant, willfully eccentric, contains ridiculous theories, etc.
>>8261310
The Nichomachean Ethics. I've had this thought that it is basically the best start to philosophy because of Aristotle's experience in Western and Eastern worlds. As such, his works incorporate (or should, I havent read any books discussing this idea) both eastern and western thought, which at the time were at a sort of crux where minds like Plato and Laozi emerged and left their own imprints.
Basically, philosophy as a whole converges at Aristotle and diverges after. I've never had a chance to...
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The first part of Either-Or by Kierkegaard is pure aesthetics.
Heraclitus, Empedocles, Plato, Lucretius, Augustine, Montaigne, Pascal, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein
>But to return back to the Moors, where I left off; they are an instance of that cruelty of disposition which was anciently in their nature, and how in a country abandoned
of the true Christian religion, after it has been first planted and professed among them, the return of heathenism or Mahometanism has brought back with it all the barbarisms of a nation void of religion and good nature.
>I saw enough of these dreadful people to think them at this time the worst of all the nations of the world; a nation where...
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>>8261211
>can't even greentext properly
bad show OP.
>>8261215
I assume it's copypasta that wasn't copied/pasted properly
Bad show OP.
I'm about to read these and then the sequel The Golden Cat.
Does lit know of many other books like this? I've read Watership Down and Tailchasers Song but most other books with this style are aimed at young adults or children such as Guardian Cats: The Lost Books of Alexandria and the Warrior Cats series.
I have also read The Sight, Fell, Fire Bringer, and even Julie's Wolves.
I greatly enjoy the grand storytelling adventure style and enjoy the strange but oddly familiar feeling of it being told by an animals perspective. Especially with cats since...
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>>8261207
>>8261340
Thank you
>only confident in english
>dislike most of the anglo-american tradition
>reading in translation is a cop-out
w-what do?
>live on earth
>dislike the earth tradition
>not reading is a cop-out
what do?read English literature you fucking moron
Shut up and read Moby Dick
>>8261041
Really? Why?
Should I bother reading this after seeing the movie?
No. Read Beds in the East or The End of the World News then Earthly Powers.
yes, the experience is different because you have to absorb the narrative through the heavy slang
also different ending
Yes. The slang is much more prominent in the book and makes for an overall more memorable experience and lasting story. Also they cut the final chapter of the book from the movie so even if you decide not to read the whole thing, at least read that chapter.
What are the best or most overlooked french realist/naturalism books.
I've covered most of the russian realists, and just bought a collection of stories by maupassant, I think it's my favorite literature movement, i'd appreciate more.
Bumpity
>>8261029
who are the others besides Roarin' Leo?
Zola, Stendhal, Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas (kinda transcends that movement though)
Recommendations?
>>8260976
Welles? Welles.
>>8261804
How boring :(
>>8260976
Under Milk Wood
what is the Salacious B. Crumb of literature?
>>8260878
Michel Houellebecq
>tfw painting thread was deleted but this one won't be
fuck the mods
Poetry Rating thread. Post your poems, score others on a scale of 1 to 5 (where 5 is best original poem you've seen posted on /lit/) and 1 to 10 (where 10 is your favorite poem).
For example:
"There once was a boy named Chase
Who had the world's ugliest face..."
> 2/5, 0/10
The folds of our clothing
Damp with mouths warm, animal air
Heart beaten heat making many breaths stale
Low fog in the stitches, and hanging on strings
Soon mildew garments in abandoned house backyard
Become yellowed rags, dew-dotted
Where rusted clothes pin spring soon snaps
and spoiled wood crumbles
or at last line breaks
And someday soil chews the fibers gently
Making mud of memories before baking
Come summer a clear dirt clot bursts
with dust under unknown shoe, then
Cold coming all green things lay down brown
And sink...
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Take from my heart's deepest well
its reddest blood
Each long draw subtle scraping
with bucket clanging, scooping out
Let my voice creak and rust
a high and shaking pulley
So your little thin-rope
to greater depths may go
>>8260857
not bad
