I'm a Christian, and I post on /lit/ and /his/ quite a bit. I enjoy Russian literature and the regular shitposting, but also the threads about Christianity/religion/theology. But, although I like them, I can't understand why they exist. Why is there a Christian community on 4chan, of all places? How did we get here, and why do we stay?
I'm also a brainlet, so any ideas you can offer are welcome.edgetheists need not reply
Because of fedora memes.
>>9252215
everyone else is doing it ironically bud
>>9252215
This is a mission field. The people we're witnessing to don't like to think of themselves as a mission field. Yet nevertheless they are.
Welcome.
And also welcome is Russia's embrace of her christian church, and Putin's Christmas message that the West should be ashamed of being ashamed of our Christian heritage.
What are some magazines to send short stories to?
TAR
>>9252173
what do you write about and in what style?
>>9252206
Dark comedy absurdist postmodern fiction
Can someone elaborate what exactly antriragile is and how can one become that.
no idea
HTFU
>>9252149
Thats obvious but how does one do it, because its easier said than done.
I want to read a book that makes feel the most extreme emotions, a book that will blow me the fuck out, that will go inside me and mess around with the cabbles of my mind. A book that is like electricity, a lighting falling inside of me, a massive bomb that could destroy a city. What is that book, where is it?
Pic unrelated.
A book like this doesn't exist. There's books YOU may find that make YOU feel that way, but I doubt there are books that universally have the same power.
Read what you want, whatever interests you or seems even a bit interesting, eventually you'll find it.
>>9252114
Hermann Ungar - The Maimed
it's not pretty.
>>9252114
Disgrace by JM Coetzee gave me many different feels, all of them pretty intense
I want to start to get into detective stories. What are good authors to start as a virgin of this genre?
Everyone is pointing me Agatha Christie
>>9252079
>Everyone is pointing me Agatha Christie
For good reason.
and Conan Doyle. Maybe also Simenon (Maigret) but from a "detective stories" point of view, he's not as good.
>>9252086
This. Get off /lit/ and read.
What is the literature equivalent of R Plus Seven?
>>9252066
Who cares? He's the p4k skrillex
>>9252085
Rude
flatland
>grandpa, is it true that you wasted your entire life on staring at book pages instead of bravely experiencing new things and embracing the unknown?
What the fuck? Reproduction is evil who the fuck are you?
>>9252035
>Another question like that and you're going back to the orphanage, capiche?
I'll show you some of the unknown, little girl.
why is this mspainted and what else is she reading?
this is the original pic
the book she's holding is oscar wilde i believe
though it's a staged model pic (if that isn't obvious)
she's a model for the KJP brand (they make gay bracelets selling it through lifestyle marketing on instagram)
>>9252268
wot'n deception
>>9252298
>wot'n
is this a word
Usual reading pile thread? Interact with others, rate, share thoughts, recommend.
Leviathan, by Hobbes.
Democracy in America, by Tocqueville.
Metaphysics (Aristotle)
Prolegomena (Kant)
>>9251834
don juan is great if you just let it flow over you
>middle c by william gass
>essays by montaigne
>ulysses by joyce
>the nyrb classic of lampedusa's non-leopard writings
taking nyrb classic recs. have read several: invention of morel, stoner, amsterdam stories, bresson on the cinematograph and i think a couple more - loved all of them. joined their 'bookclub' on a discount, but it's only 1 book/month.
>>9251909
Democracy in America is a riot of a read, De Tocqueville's observations are fundamentally correct even now. Everything he says on the psychology of the "democratic individual" is worth considering.
>>9251972
My first Castaneda book, recommended by my girlfriend. Didn't know anything about it beside the general psychedelic gist of it, I wasn't expecting what looks like an anthropological analysis of Yaqui epistemology. Pleasantly surprised.
As an Italian I'm actually fairly surprised at the fact that Lampedusa's other writings were collected and translated in English, they're barely even known to exist here. Hope you enjoy them, care to talk about the nyrb book club? Didn't know such a thing existed
Hamlet is an artistic failure.
anything written before 1957 is objectively shit and you know it
>>9251816
That's a bold statement.
>>9251816
what happened in 1957
Reddit recommends to starts with the Prolegomena before attempting to read his first Critique
Is this a good plan or should I go straight for the Critique of Pure Reason?
Yes it's good to read it beforehand. He clarifies things that were criticized at the time.
You have read David Hume, Descartes and Leibniz already?
Read all the prefaces in the Critique of Pure Reason and read the transcendental aesthetic. If you feel like you have a grasp of those things you can just push on through the rest, but if not then the Prolegomena is good.
>>9251808
Most of Descartes' works and Hume's Enquiry. I didn't intend to read Leibniz, is it necessary?
I want to a good list of politics related books. Preferably rightwing. Can you help me /lit/?
The Prince
by Machiavelli
Just search pol's archiver for mega.nz links and check them out dumbo
>>9251807
Half of them are about kews
Whats a good book that'll lift me out of depression lads
Of Mice and Men
>>9251785
is that your diary desu?
>>9251783
Not even memeing
rate my writing sample:
'once upon a time the guy did the thing and it fucking sucked. so then he did another thing and that thing fucking sucked as well. so then he kind of like took a shit and a piss and that was it so then he was real mad about the shit and the piss that he did on the front lawn of his neighbor's property so then he was then in the then inside of the mothership and that was why he didn't finish his homework in time for supper so den he was back to the past again in another hit sitcom called The Big Bang Theory "
you should go back to your homework
>>9251751
how rude
>once upon a time
> the guy
dropped
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/17/nobel-laureate-poet-and-playwright-derek-walcott-dead-aged-87
RIP in piece
inb4 edgelords
so, who's next?
>>9251770
Pynchon or Delilo
Love Walcott's poetry. RIP goodnight sweet prince. But why did he always seem so grumpy?