Post a book.
Call out a name or call out a whole list.
The names called need to read that book.
Multiple names edition: people always complain about their supposedly common names like Ahmed and Toshio not being called out so let's take out as many /lit/izens as we can.
Noah should begin reading the Russians.
Christopher
Calvin
Gregory
Ryan
Kyle
Felicity
Erin
Lauren
Mohammad
scot or scott dude read up my man
Pete/Peter
Phil/Philip/Phillip/Phillippa
Charlie/Charley/Charlotte
Willis/Will/Bill/William
Elliot/Elliott/Ellie/Elsa
Sarah/Sara/Zara
Arthur/Art/Artie/Arty
Harrison
Richard/Dick/Richie
Hi /lit/, most "advanced" book I've read is Kafka's metamorphosis. What books are the standards to be on par with you fags?
Finnegans Wake
Bottom's Dream
Parrot your opinions from Harold Bloom's The Western Canon, act like everything not mentioned there is shit, and you're good to go.
Infinite Jest, Gravity's Rainbow, Ulysses. Read them in that order. Though GR is "technically" more "difficult" to read than Ulysses, you are making a big mistake if you don't read at least a hundred books between each of the big 3
She's better and smarter than Heidegger.
>zionist agent tries to infiltrate the catholic church before ww2
nice try
Reminder Edith Stein was killed for her Jewish heritage and not martyred for the church.
>>9770841
>tfw finished another chapter
How's YOUR writing coming, writers of /lit/?
good. getting published and shit. Haven't made a dime yet, but whatever. Been kind of blocked for the last week, so I might go out and steal some children's underwear or something to get back in the groove.
>>9770199
I've never written anything longer than 6 pages before throwing it out. Sometimes I write awful edgy high school tier poetry and hate myself for it :^)
>>9770199
How can I write when my writing is absolute shit. I won't be a competent writer for another 3 decades.
Who are some good/influential right wing philosophers? And no memes like Rand please.
>>9770173
de Maistre, Carlyle, Schmitt and Vico are objectively the best the right can offer..
Ernst Junger, Leon Bloy, Nicolas Gomez Davila
>>9770173
Start with Maistre
Let's think "well-rounded," /lit/. What are some essential activities to teach you wisdom that books just can't quite supply you with?
>inb4 obligatory suicide joke
>>9770000
>he reads because "he likes it"
>>9770012
Are you obligated to read for some kind of external reason?
>>9769987
You can get knowledge from books, but only life can give you wisdom. How will you be able to understand anything if you have never experienced love?
Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread
Which version of "Complete Works" of Plato is the best?
The one you posted
the one which is complete
A Thousand Platos
Can we get a thread of reccs from each quadrant of the political compass? Feel free to use the more specific compass with numbered regions. This is just something I threw together as an example but my reccs are:
1. Marx
2. Hitler
3. Bakunin
4. Stirner
I thought this would be a good thread for giving people options if they want to challenge their worldview (I'm a libertarian myself so reading Marx is going to be frustrating, but I need to do it to know I disagree with it).
First proof to me that the quadrant exist, why would it be more dimensional?
>libertarian right
>Stirner
REAL AMERICAN HOURS WHO UP WHO UP WHO UP SMASH DAT MUHFUGGIN INABILITY TO DISCONNECT THE CONCEPT OF SELF INTEREST FROM CAPITALISM BUTTON
Does anyone know the graph I'm talking about? It takes the political compass and numbers it, with a key on the side listing the various viewpoints. I'm trying to find it but if someone else could post it that would be great.
>>9751905
I can't prove that, in fact I'm certain this is a vast simplification of political views. But it works as a general rule, if you look at the bare bones of certain political beliefs and narrow it down to two axes.
What are some good novels about trans folk?
In general I don't like trans representation that is too cloying or political. Really enjoyed Last Exit To Brooklyn's depiction of trans women who were sexy, smart, conceited, drug-addicted, and generally fuck ups.
You won't find any since the only people who care about trans issues are trans people and they are too fucked in the head to write good books
>>9751884
Is this really true? Hubert Selby wasn't trans, but seemed attracted to their status as outsiders enough to write about them. There's no other examples of that?
>>9751872
Sacred Country, by Rose Tremain.
Any interesting literature about the Zodiac Killer, or related to media-darling murderers like him and Jack the Ripper?
I'm not sure. No, I don't think so.
>>9776099
Normiesoft word keeps saying im writing fragments
>>9775836
>Even needing such a feature
Do you retarded?
Why won't you just use notepad?
Just go into options and fiddle around with the autocorrect options. I'm pretty sure you can stop it from looking for sentence fragments while still having it check spelling.
>>9775836
This probably doesn't solve it but you're using incorrect grammar in speech. It's
>"Whatever the person is saying," they said.
You can decide whether to put the comma inside or outside.
Give me the finest rants against the aesthetic way of life you can supply. I've been an artist since childhood and beauty has betrayed me. It slips out of my fingers, only to return again to taunt me. I am getting cucked supremely by this whore. I used to love it, but no more. I don't want to even be tempted by the feeling of stepping outside on a warm and healing day. Can't trust it.
Only the man of genius can see the beauty in ugliness.
>>9775832
Kierkegaard, in general. Fear and Trembling would be good, especially if you're from a Christian background.
Roger Scruton has a book on it.
im looking for something simple to ingest.
a mystery novel that will keep my mind busy while trying to learn coding.
any suggestions?
pic unrelated
Read the Murder of Roger Ackroyd. You're welcome.
Ten little indians if you had a shit English experience in high school.
>>9775293
The Mysteries of Winterthurn. It's very good and you'll be thinking about it for weeks. Things are subtly implied rather than explicity stated, so you have to figure things out yourself.
Merleau-Ponty is really very good. Coming down off Plato's concept of The Many and The One, his view on perception and identity is exceptionally comfy.
>>9775090
dumb phone
Tired: Existentialism
Expired: Phenomenology
Wired: Psychoanalysis
>thus things are said and are thought by a speech and by a thought which we do not have but which has us. there is said to be a wall between us and others, but it is a wall we build together, each putting his stone in the niche left by the other. even reason's labours presuppose such infinite conversations. all those we have loved, detested, known, or simply glimpsed speak through our voice. no more than space is made of simultaneous points-in-themselves, no more than our duration can sever its adherence to a space of durations, is the communicative world a bundle of parallel consciousnesses. our traces mix and intermingle; they make a single wake of public durations
good god is the rest of this book this comfy?
is this a good meme or a bad meme?
no meme is good meme
>>9775062
>pic related
Here's the very beginning. Just read the two pages and tell me what you think
>>9775079
god i miss reading this. i'll have to put it on my re-read list.