Are these any good? I was considering buying the Hesiod volumes; is there a better option?
>>9981352
I bought their Ennead, which is the only unabridged version available and from the limited amount of time I've spent flipping through them they seem alright.
The books are tiny, not that great quality and unless you're trying to learn greek/latin not very useful.
>>9981365
Everyone on this board should be trying to learn Greek and Latin.
is there a single kind of post that you could imagine that would forever deter you from returning to /lit/?
>>9981282
Nah, I've read every fucktarded opinion on here (and written so so many myself) so I'm basically immune
>>9981282
That just makes me excited. I hope so. That'd be a great post.
No single post, but a shitty enough and spammed enough meme might do the trick.
It happened on /int/, it can happen here.
Then I can finally leave this hellhole behind and look for greener pastures.
50 pages left of This Side of Paradise and it's just now getting somewhere. Was Fitzgerald a fluke? One-hit-wonder with Gatsby? Hack fraud?
Gatsby isn't even his best book, clown
>>9981283
Elaborate.
>>9981291
The book The Great Gatsby is not his best one. He has written a better one and that better one has a title and the title of it is Tender is the Night and it's a good read.
I'm confused guys. Should I hate the ending or love it?
>>9981110
Did you read Fall? It's really a two-parter.
>>9981110
What you should do is read the next book.
I'm a huge proponent of all four books, to be honest. The ending of the fourth alone carries the low-points.
>>9981131
Not yet. I'm going to though.
ITT: texts/thinkers to help someone who understands the world through modern science become more 'spiritual'
Pascual Jordan
The Holy Bible
St. Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica
Jesus of Nazareth - Pope Benedict XVI
Welcome to the true faith.
Alright, horror thread time:
What are you reading now? What are you wanting to read?
Who is/are your favorite authors? What's your favorite horror/weird fiction story/novel?
I've got "The Great God Pan/The Hill Of Dreams" by Arthur Machen, "The Fisherman" by John Langan "Sylvan Dread: Tales Of Pastoral Darkness" by Richard Gavin coming in the mail in a couple days, so I'm going to have a lot of reading to do.
>>9981056
>>9981048
Not reading anything right now (just got back to uni), but over October I plan to read My Work is Not Yet Done by Ligotti, and maybe the Hellbound Heart novella by Clive Barker. And at some point in the future, maybe over Christmas break, take the plunge on Cyclonopedia.
Don't really have a favorite as yet, but The Shadow Over Innsmouth is nice, along with certain bits out of Songs of a Dead Dreamer (mainly The Frolic and The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise)
What are some novels about giving up half of your life to make someone else rich and being treated as nothing more than a producer and consumer?
so stop whining, be the boss, or you're just a failed normie
>>9981120
>just give up half your life enslaving others for slightly more money instead lmao
>>9981041
Bartleby the Scrivener obviously
Masterpiece
>>9981032
You need higher standards.
>>9981032
It could be abridged by about 250 pages and nothing of value would be lost.
>>9981032
Im guessing you are 19-22
Hey /lit/, could you please write some pathetic melodramatic phrases? I like to read things like that.
I post on /r9k/, I've really got it all figured out.
>>9980981
I would have killed myself if I hadn't found a cartoon frog that embodies my every emotion.
>>9980997
that's actually an even better reason to kill yourself
Alright, just about wrapped this baby up and I got some fucking questions.
I agree, for the most part, with Guenon's spiel, that is modernity is a confusion of individualism due to an underlying [and unifying] common metaphysics.
My irritation with the book, and maybe it's because I'm a brainlet, is that Guenon constantly reiterates how the loss of 'tradition' contained within the metaphysics is what has led to the chaotic modern world, but he never defines what this valuable 'tradition' is.
Guenon writes that remnants of this 'tradition' and found in various iconography and dogma of the Catholic church, although the church no longer knows the truth of what it tends to and keeps burning, but again, doesn't elaborate on specifically what this 'tradition' means.
I understand the premise of the book. Holy metaphysical fire went out for the west, is still tended by some obscure groups who no longer know what they protect, we're fucked. But, WHAT is the holy fire? Is it just a belief in God? In a higher power?
Spell it out for me Guenon.
>>9980936
Fucked up that first sentence in my drunken stupor.
"I agree, for the most part, with Guenon's spiel, that is modernity is a confusion of individualism due to an ABSENCE of underlying [and unifying] common metaphysics.
>>9980936
Not the best explanation but Tradition partly has to do with the idea of perennial philosophy, which is the idea that the majority of religions have aspects that tie themselves to each other and a greater truth.
>>9980959
So, should my next book be Huxley's?
Further, Guenon has a stick up his about Catholicism and EasternTM Religions being the truth and the light [except Buddhism]. Is this due to their structure? Their caste? Guenon seems to suggest that religions are more valuable for their societal structuring power than any innate 'moralism.'
Which makes me question what the perennial philosophy is if not, ultimately, a moralistic golden rule? Do unto others as you would have done unto you.
What is the easiest, lowest common denominator kind of fiction to write that actually sells? Light erotica?
Detective fiction / Crime fiction
>>9980869
ATM it seems like female-targeted erotica is more successful. And it's usual about being dominated either by a billionaire, a cowboy, a bad boy. Someone strong, powerful taking the passive, normal woman and doing something normal, but slightly kinky. Like picking them up against a wall etc.
>>9980899
>women just want to be dominated by chad
Lol these books they love just confirm their true nature.
What's your top 5?
>>9980822
>Ulysses in middle tier
>Atlas Shrugged in God-Tier
That list is garbage
>>9980822
I appreciate the updating of a classic meme OP, thank you
How can we subvert safe, middlebrow atheist reddit science culture? Pic related
smoke heroin
>>9980787
It already has been subverted, science is a joke reduced to another political arena and atheism is for virgins and has a very poor public perception.
Reddit subverts itself due to how the site is set up.
>>9980801
This.
Black science man is hated on the site now.
3 years ago that would be unheard of.
The Dead is the last short-story in Dubliners. It has an intriguing title that can lead to many interpretations as to why it is called "The Dead". Of course I have some clues myself, but what do you guys think?
I kind of have a very important test tomorrow and something tells me we'll have to analyse its title.
>>9980783
We're not going to do your homework for you.
entropy
>>9980783
It's a cliche but the end paragraphs are some of the greatest ever written
What books will give me empathy for females and some understanding of what women 'do', or what a woman actually is?
Not a pickup manual, im not asking how to get pussy, im too far gone for those things, something preferably from a womans perspective that explains womanhood in the same way Storm of Steel or McCarthy explain what men 'do'.
Asking for a friend btw
>>9980780
Dubliners, specifically the dead.
Having a gf
go suck your moms dick homo
>>9980780
The Second Sex