I remember reading a biography on Alexander the great as a teenager and never has a person inspired me so much. I want to get inspired again /lit/, so post some biographies of some ubermench, which will inspire a worthless NEET like myself to become a better person.
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.
He transcends man.
def not my diary desu
>>9645328
Thank you. I remember someone recommending this in another lit thread, was that you? I had forgotten the title but the description of the book sounded just like what I was after.
>I see these cats in my sleep.
>I see these cats in my dreams.
>Why cant the cat on right just my wife?
>Shes always in my wet dreams (the cat on the right), so why cant she do it in my normal dreams?
>They always give me a piece of cake and tea, and when I wake up I have to go pee.
>If god would only knew fate, I would have been the cat on the rights mate..
what's this from?
Nekojiru Gekijiou
I am looking for some specific books
I want sad books
Books that make you feel like shit or simply really sad
>>9645144
Haven't read it myself but 4.48 psychosis by Sarah Kane is just that
Any, ANY, book by Arthur Schopenhauer.
Han Kang's 'Human Acts' ...
:)
> it's a young karl ove lusts after attractive norwegian blondes episode
>>9645124
I've been to Norway
I relate
>it's a karl ove spends an hour cleaning the bathroom episode
Just finished reading it. It was my first Pynchon. I thought I was going to read it in like one sitting but it took a few days (I'm not a native speaker). What did you think of it? I'm really confused and reading what you guys think might help me understand it.
I really dislike it on my first time. I had no idea what to expect. When I read it months later I loved it. The mystery atmosphere was thicc
I just can't seem to sit down a few hours every day and read through an entire book. I have a lot of literary interests, but when I want to delve into a field, I end up losing steam.
Has anyone else dealt with this issue? How to overcome?
willpower
As I always say in threads like these:
>read something you're genuinely interested in. don't read anything for meme value
>turn off your computer and put away your cell phone. Better: Go away from home to a peaceful quiet place like a library or a park to read.
>don't expect to immediately be a master reader. habits form over time
https://archonmatrix.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Dolores_Cannon_The_Three_Waves_of_Volunteers_and_the_New_Earth.pdf
bible of our time
What are some /lit/ approved, comfy books about love from a male perspective? I need some escapism right now. Preferrably melancholic books where the guy is kinda shy.
Yeah I know that I'm some /r9k/ faggot. Please help me, I want to feel a bit of warmth in my heart. Please.
>>9644679
My diary desu
>>9644679
No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
MY
*deletes all adjectives and adverbs from the novel ur writing*
there I made it better
kanye is a sentient adjective
I hate the fact that its "unruly" to use words that may be uncommon but have really specefic meanings. It's annoying when I can use a word but it'd be seen as purple of me.
What are some books that ignore this little unspoken rule?
Most of the good ones
Nabokov is what you are looking for.
>>9644627
I hate that about myself.
People look at me strange as if I'm some alien when I use something outside 5th grade vocabulary. My friend told me that I intimidate people and that I can come off as cold. I was completely oblivious to this before I asked my friend what a girl I was crushing on might think of me. Fuck, /lit/ ruined my social life. Even in HS people referred to me as "school shooter" and I didn't think much of it, but only now do I realize the implications of that nickname.
Red pill me in X
Is it patrician?
no
sage
>>9644589
For real?
It's imagery and reoccurring symbolism are kinda blowing me away
>>9644589
Also it's got a child narrator that is inherently unreliable and his superstitions makes it feel like a fiction in reality. It's phenomenological in a way
I'm a Creative Writing graduate. One of my peers has 20+ stories published in magazines and another has multiple poems published. Meanwhile, I haven't published anything.
The people in the Critique Threads like my writing. But I haven't sent anything out to magazines yet, because I want what I send out to be near-perfect. I don't want some shit-tier meme stories shitting up my legacy, so some critic in the future can laugh at me.
What does it all mean?
When a dilettante has done what lies within his capacity to complete a work, he
usually makes the excuse that of course it‟s as yet unfinished. Clearly, it never can be
finished because it was never properly started. The master of his art, by means of a
few strokes, produces a finished work; fully worked out or not, it is already
completed. The cleverest kind of dilettante gropes about in uncertainties and, as the
work proceeds, the dubiousness of the initial structure becomes more and more
apparent. Right at the end the faulty nature of the work, impossible to correct,
shows up clearly and so, of course, the work can never be finished.
t. goethe
Why humans feel superior? Only because of consciousness? Isn't everything alive? Water, air, rocks, planets, the universe. Even artificial intelligences.
Just started reading this, is it normal for ones first interaction with Socratic and Platonic thought to rustle all your mental jimmies?
I love this book, been shilling it on /lit/ for a while.
>>9644235
When will "The Passion of the African Mind" be coming out?
>>9644281
I do like how Liberia was a protectorate of the US during the scramble and received 100,000 dollars in investment so the US could send freed black slaves there, and today they rank just below the Congo for HDI, which was brutally suppressed and enslaved. Really activates those almonds
This is my most recent haul: recommend me books based on these.
>>9644226
kys
>>9644226
My god this post is bad
What's so bad about asking for recommendations based on three genres of writing?