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who are the biggest whore users in literature?
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Guy de maupassant for one. He even died by using them
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me from my diary desu
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>>9073791
the french
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There was a quote about holocaust, by some writer(?), that every art created from genocide onwards should be concerning holocaust.
Anyone knows the quote?
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I don't know the quote but it sounds like somejewbullshit.
If that were the case all art should be about the genocide of the midianites or some other genocide that happened 1000's of years ago.
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>>9073571
gertrude stein I want to say
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bumping bcs other threads are shit anyway
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>he doesn't have a steady stream of royalty payments coming in from his books
Literally why don't more of you fags swallow your pride and self-publish. Easiest way of making money for someone who can string a few words together.
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What do you write?
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>>9073563
Where did you self-publish?
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>>9073563
Maybe I'll do it someday haha
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Write what's on your mind.
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>>9073556
I think a lot about what I'm about to write that I end up not writing anything at all. It's frustrating.
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>>9073596
iktf
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I seem to be linked to people only because of the pity I feel towards them :(
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>>9073496
trash
enjoy your bump fucko, no one else is gonna respond to this shit
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>>9074922
lol yeah okay
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>>9073496
>its totally cool to run around having permiscuous sex with everyone and everything you can get your dick into because it's natural.
>When someone does something bad to you and you feel natural urges to do harm to them, you refrain, because otherwise civilization would descend into barbarism, you goof.
Why is it okay to obey one systemically dangerous urge but not the other?
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I have Snow Crash and Neuromancer on my kindle waiting for me to read them. Which one should I read first, and why?
No idea what this book in the center is, this is just the first picture on Google that came up when I looked for an image with both Neuromancer and Snow Crash in it. I'm open to reading it if you feel I should.
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Snow Crash is on some level a response to Neuromancer, so I think it makes more sense to start with Gibson. Both stand on their own though.
High Rise is probably the best of the three books itt, but it isn't cyberpunk.
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>>9073350
That's cool then, I just grabbed them because they were two cyberpunk books I've heard good things about. I had no idea there was a connection like that. I guess that's as good a reason as any to pick Neuromancer first, thanks.
Any speculation as to why High Rise is in the image?
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>>9073380
Well Ballard is kind of a 'punk' author with sci-fi trappings; he just isn't recognizably 'cyberpunk' in any way. I'd speculate that if you dig that type of literature, you'd probably appreciate him as well.
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Can anyone recommend a book about Buddhist concepts and ideas? I mean a book which would as in depth as possible talk about concepts such as Śūnyatā and what happens to one's soul after death. I don't need a general book on Buddhism, there are lots of them, but a book on the ideas behind Buddhism.
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>Buddhism
>metaphysical bullshit
>when Buddha said again and again how none of that shit fucking matters
kek
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>>9073067
I don't care what the Buddha said. I know there is some metaphysical bullshit in Buddhism and I want to know about it.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tibetan_Book_of_Living_and_Dying
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I will meme this Nazi into /lit/'s culture
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Recently read Hunger, starting on Victoria. Where to next?
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>>9072324
Growth of the soil
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>>9072319
Please dont. Hes too good to become a meme
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What translations of Dead Souls can you recommend? Also looking for a nice edition (talking translations of course) that contains short works like The Overcoat, Diary of a Madman and The Government Inspector.
I don't really like how P&V translations read so that's not an option.
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Gosh he looks like my 0/10 cousin. She's so ogly
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>>9071906
without a fucking doubt, no contest, guerney.
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>>9071933
Sounds cool anon. What about his short works?
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I've realized that I'm woefully ignorant of the influential figures and thinkers from Roman History. I want a book that will give me an overview of who the great roman thinkers and statesmen are, so that I ideally could then dive in deeper into those whom I find interesting
I'm currently thinking about diving into either
1. SPQR by Mary Beard
2. Rubicon by Tom Holland
Do you have any other recommendations?
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>>9071886
Idk how much Rubicon will help you with intellectual figures of Rome. But it is a great book, almost biblical in tone, about the civil wars. Good, fun book.
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>>9071886
Lucy, Plutarch and Suetonius
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>>9071886
you might not believe me but City of God
he references all of the great Roman writers so much that you'll walk away with a pretty good idea of what they're all about. You'll know a good amount of history too although the chronology of everything is hard to follow.
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Has there been any good books about metaphysical conspiracy against the human race? Want books about the occult and esoteric shit the giverment ane corporate elites do.
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>>9071800
You want Robert Anton Wilson. Also maybe Phillip K. Dick.
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>>9071800
>Psychic Vampires from the 6th dimension
Alex Jones squeegee'd my third eye right the frick open.
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ITT post books that are just incredibly difficult to get through because of the intelligence of the writer. In other words, not because of some artistic bullshit like House of Leaves or Infinite Jest, but because it requires rigorous amounts of logic and comprehension to follow.
I'll start
John Maynard Keynes - The General Theory
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Anything by Nietzsche
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I would expect Von Neumann's works to be ridiculously difficult. I have his book on game theory and I have yet to read it.
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Democracy by Henry Kissinger
very informative book. Would recommend.
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what did she mean by this?
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Fucking SJW nonsense, retconning wizards to be Indians
We all know they were intended to be white English brits
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>>9070664
holy shit SJWs are evil. Fuck Rowling, women don't belong in writing. Another example of the West falling
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The only philosophers I like are Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. All the other philosophers I have read are boring.
Is there anything that separates these two from the others? I am trying to determine which branches of philosophy I should focus on.
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Who all have you read if those are the only ones you like?
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They are probably the two philosophers with more literary talent.
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Read Cioran.
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Discuss this masterpiece here.
I've read both Russian and English versions, both have a very distinctive and unique narrative style. Though I found the Russian version a bit more comical.
You?
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i can't read russian and I haven't read this book
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Lolita seems like a weird book to read in Russian unless it's your native language and you don't know english. It was written in and about Americans in english with a great deal of uniquely english wordplay, and only later translated into russian by Nabokov himself because he worried that other translators would get it wrong
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>>9070182
>one of the very few works which is translated by author himself
>seems like a weird book to read in Russian