Archived threads in /fitlit/ - Well-Rounded Citizens - 4. page

>>33868

K Bros is his masterpiece, maturing of his ideas. You won't get as woke from his other work, but they are all worth reading.

My favorite author and Ive read his entire collection of works.

I started with the brother's as well and didn't find it made an impact even after countless rereads.

My personal fav is The Idiot

>>33875
>>33876

This board is fucking based. I'm staying here. Thanks for the reccs guys.

>>34090
A Confederacy of Dunces

>>34117
Skip the false religions and just look into Christ desu senpai.

>>34548
this DESU
become Catholic

>>34559
Catholicism is the new Pharisees. They, as Jesus put it, "Bind what God hath not."

Don't put your trust in political institutions, which the Vatican absolutely is.

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>>33849
dump

>>33849
It annoys me how hypocritical they are. They say that looks don't matter (if you're a woman) but still only ever try and approach fit people.

>>33893
>browse /mlpol/ for an hour or so
>immediately want to fuck a horse

Woah... so this is the power of 4chan

>>33893
>browse /cock/ for an hour or so
>feelings for rick and morty go from ambivalence to pure hatred

Woah... so this is the power of 4chan

>>33893
> than after a couple of days you just realise it's not satisfying as you ever thought
> intrigues, jealousy, power struggle and egoism
> you just realise that a qt3.14 gf is not enough to satiate your soul

Happiness comes from within, my friend.
The next step is to learn to love yourself in such authentic way, that your self love becomes selfless.

> yfw you are the gf you were always looking for

>>33815
Hey homes, good to see someone get back into reading. If Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky got you going, try:

The Dwarf, Lagerkvist
Waiting for the Barbarians, Coetzee
Disgrace, Coetzee
The Humbling, Roth
A Personal Matter, Oe

All have heavy ethical/philosophical dilemmas central to the plots, but more importantly they're all relatively short to help ease you back into things.

Lift big read well.

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>>33845
You're a gentlemane and a scholar, I wasn't sure how much of a /lit/ response I'd receive with this apparently new merger, and your suggestions look excellent .

And to clarify I never gave up literature just 4chan, been years since I've even lurked until today. So if you have a suggestion don't hold back on length or topic. I believe if you can read Atlas Shrugged and John Galt's ridiculously long monologue in a sitting you can read anything!

Any recommendations on any post-modern authors? It's one of the few areas I've heen reluctant to dig into without some insight.

Pic of my 1st edition 1919 George Bernard Shaw

>>33865

It depends on what you mean by 'postmodern,' but Donald Antrim comes immediately to mind. He's long been considered a 'writer's writer,' and major names say he's publishing the best and weirdest stuff since Kafka. I can't vouch for all of it, but The Hundred Brothers was incredible, and his nonfiction book about the death of his mother was also very good.

Aside from that, Eco's The Name of the Rose, Calvino's Invisible Cities, and Baker's The Mezzanine (I have a rant about how Tao Lin's entire career is just ripping off of Baker, but that's neither here nor there) all are some level of postmodern and are absolutely delightful.

If you're interested in having the bigdick I Read The Hardest Book Ever ammo in the holster, Against The Day, Pynchon's newest, is supposed to be his most complex (and some argue best). You could also get into hard theory with A Thousand Plateaus and all that, but that takes a special kind of crazy -- or a grad student.

Shouts to that sexy, sexy Shaw

They already did anon and while this board is still up it will slowly die because its unlisted.

Literally a heat death.

>>34066

fuck I just realized this. Feelsbad

>>34134
The boards already too popular to die soon, and the fact that it's unlisted will keep the discussion worthwhile. The problem with the bigger boards is that they are listed and every faggot just comes in and spews their bullshit

>>34112
>catcher and the rye
in.....

But heah I agree /fit/ enjoyed the merge more than /lit/.

>and think you're some kind of individual
reading is not about reading a couple of the go to books and then pretend like you did what it takes to be better educated but you actually read diverse and complex work so you actually become more understanding. Not to just pretend.

>>34112
I'd say that /lit/ and /fit/ are more similar than one realizes
>both are loosely about self-improvement
>both invent hierarchies of prestige (manlet lmao etc)
>both have conflicting schools of thought within their communities
the only large difference is that /fit/'s style of self improvement is tangible, while /lit/'s isn't (other than posting books lel)

>>34112
At heart, I think a great deal of /lit/ wishes to teach. In the circlejerk of one-upsmanship, that becomes impossible, however. There is no kairos.

With the infusion of /fit/, /lit/ briefly became a kairotic space. Ideas were exchanged between eager, charged participants.

Frankly, I don't think there's any particular synergy between /fit/ and /lit/ -- it could have worked with just about any board that isn't a total cesspool. Heck, maybe even mlp would have sparked some good discussion, and the rest of 4chin would be making even more fun of us.

>>34127
I've got Confessions of a Mask on my reading list, but unfortunately I haven't gotten to it yet.

The core idea behind the story appealed to me, but that doesn't mean it'll be a good read.

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>>34127
Sun and Steel is about lifting, think The Iron by Henry Rollins but if it was written by Elliot Rodgers

Confessions of a Mask is about being gay, edgy and a pussy

The Sailor... is about watching your mom have sex and then killing her new husband with your school friends

Forbidden Colors is also about being gay

His other works are about suicide, wanting samurai-code in the modern world, aristocracy, being pretentious, and Japan being cucked in WWII.
If these subjects interest you, read them all. They also look great on your bookshelf even without having read them.

>>34340
Thanks friendo. Might read Sun and Steel and see how I feel. I didn't realize that he was a gay jap version of r9k.

>>34011
Go on...

its just shits and giggles for one fucking day stop taking it so seriously

>>33970
The separate boards have already returned, this is a third, temporary board.

>>33980
>temporary
april fools ended, anon. this board is permanent but its hidden. you can still go here by putting /fitlit/ after 4chan.org

>>33812
>boxing
>not becoming retarded due to brain damage
pick one retard

>>33816
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emDOPPNAq2w

>>33816
Joke's on you I only punch the bag, never spar

>>33754
im still here, anon

im still here anon

/fitlit/izen here

Why can't we stay?

n-no homo erectus

>>33616
there's literally nothing as gay as /fit/, not ten men blowing nine men, not eighty three twinks riding eighty three dragon dildos, not a twelve thousand man daisy chain, so no, but it is half as gay as /fit/

>>33616
No

>>33633

bye :'(

>>33633
In the sweet by and by
We will meet on that beautiful shore

Test to see if we're still alive