>>10017195
hello lit it is me again from the last thread and i looked at books from the sticky on this page i found the one in pic related.
can anyone that has read it before tell me a little about it or some stuff i should know before reading, and if anyone can tell me some words to look up in dictionary so i know what they mean
THANKS SO MUCH!
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I also looked at this one, should i read this first or men among the ruins first i cant tell
>>10022211
uh bump please
Can you gys recommend good essays and or books on justice?
Natural laws conflicting with Divine command and etc..
>>10022099
By Man Shall His Blood be Shed by Feser.
Les miserables is about human v god justice
>>10022131
That's really recent, care to elaborate on that?
What does it talk about exactly.
how do you appreciate the waves. all the characters talk in the same voice. theres no plot. no character development. are you all just a bunch of schizophrenics having independent hallucinations and pretending you are sharing it. cause this one is simply put, incoherent ravings of a madwoman.
>>10022052
>all the characters talk in the same voice
>no plot
>no character development
I find it hard to believe that we read the same book. But I suppose some people are just so broken and ignorant that even this masterpiece will elude them.
>>10022052
It's terrible, like everything Woolf wrote. She's overrated because Englishmen don't like admitting that an Irishman reinvented the English-language novel, and because women have a bottomless appetite for self-assertion and self-pity. There are so few sorta-feminist writers who are even half-decent that they have to overpraise whoever they can get. The only alternative to Woolf would be Dorothy Richardson, a hilariously, hypnotically dreadful writer who just recounted her experiences for the thousands of pages to no end. Woolf's journals reveal an overprivileged ninny who would have done better to kill herself long before she inflicted her dreadful writing on the world, and she was only able to do that because her husband was rich enough to set up a publishing company for her.
>>10022052
>he fell for the female ""writer"" meme
what does /lit/ think of David Foster Wallace? Is he any good?
I've been watching and listening to him being interviewed on YouTube and I like what he has to say, especially about post-modernism.
Did he only write novels? I dislike reading fiction, I prefer reading academic non-fiction.
Hello /lit/. Do you know of any books that follow this scenario?
A single soldier is deployed to a remote military base beyond which is a small community/villadge that he interacts with from time to time or alternatively a single soldier is sent to some kind of remote location to protect something or someone and it goes like the example above. After some time the place he's at is attacked by enemy forces. I don't really mind what genre it is.
>>10022036
dnis nigga got some thin hips
hot DANG
>>10022036
Sounds stupid
>>10022036
The Tartar Steppe?
>Joseph.... easy on the memories.
Worth reading y/n
>>10022027
Jordan Peterson is worth reading, Into the Wild I wouldn't both with but then again I am not a faggbotbrained flatlander that is disconnected from God's creation so much he has to romanticize it through a homeless retards hitchhiking
>>10022057
bother*
>>10022027
I started reading this book based off the recommendation of a friend and stopped part way through and never wanted to finish.
The Alexander Supertramp faggot was a little bitch, that's all. He just wanted to prove that he was better than everyone and didn't listen to advice or accept help and that's why his bitch ass died. He went to Alaska completely unprepared, didn't accept supplies when offered, and died like a bitch like he deserved.
>"Waaaaa I don't like society, I'm going to live off the grid and be free"
>dies because of his own stupidity
>laugh
>girlfriend gets upset
>do it another 3 times
>girlfriend leaves me for a weirdo and then runs around on a giant ring w him forever
What are the best collections of short horror stories?
Bump
Is horror a pleb tier genre or something?
>>10021978
Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti.
Full Dark No Stars by Stephen King
not even memeing
Why is it, that belief in death is seen as rational while disbelief in death is seen as irrational in contemporary western culture, even though one is not more provable nor probable than the other? Any (contemporary) good books on this that take a "pro-life" perspective?
>>10021915
because one has empirical verification behind it and the other doesn't
reincarnation is real
carry on
>>10021922
>one has empirical verification behind it
which one?
/lit/, I'm tired of the smart and boring books. Recommend me some fun and easy literature, which is both enjoyable and considered "good"
Kierkegaard's Either/Or.
really fun lit I swear.
>>10021890
The Odyssey is pretty fun and easy.
I want some recs boyos. I hear Wittgenstein has an interesting back story, anyone read his biography by Ray Monk?
yeah, it's really good
>>10022640
why good
>>10022649
yeah it was good
Are there any books similar to A heart of Darkness published in the 2000s? I need to do a comparison piece between a pre-2000 and post-2000 text. I'd appreciate help of any kind really.
>>10021848
last train to zona verde by paul theroux
>>10021862
Thanks, appreciated.
My diary, desu.
There is that guy in an online chatroom always citing names and dropping one liners on said names' ideas in order to fake good argumentation.
Should I read the people he constantly cites or just accuse him of name-dropping?
>>10021783
Is that Paul Krugman?
>>10021791
I do frequent some high brows but no. Sadly.
>>10021783
who the fuck uses chatrooms these days
what topics should i write about to become the next (female) john green? i wanna succeed
>>10021761
Love, poverty and war.And your vagina.
>>10021761
>is a female
just write about your vagina and how all men hate you for it and you're golden
>>10021764
but i want to write a YA or NA book