I remember the first time I heard someone reference the "Red Pill". I was embarrassed for them.
To willfully admit that your ideology is as shallow as a late 90s blockbuster seemed as though it had to be a joke, but no. The cultural illiterates have taken over and this was simply the lowest common denominator. Something with which all the lost souls dealing with their inadequacies in an uncaring world could identify.
I cherish the days before I knew such depths of human idiocy existed, the days when I associated intelligent thoughtful figures like Eliot, Yeats or Goethe with conservatism only to now have them replaced with Yiannopoulos, Spencer and Jones, true intellectual midgets.
I yearn for the time when debates were Buckley vs Chomsky and not Sanders vs Cruz.
I do not understand this parallel timeline and I want it to end, in nuclear twilight if it must.
>>9095462
>>9095462
>The cultural illiterates have taken over and this was simply the lowest common denominator. Something with which all the lost souls dealing with their inadequacies in an uncaring world could identify.
>I cherish the days before I knew such depths of human idiocy existed, the days when I associated intelligent thoughtful figures like Eliot, Yeats or Goethe with conservatism only to now have them replaced with Yiannopoulos, Spencer and Jones, true intellectual midgets.
>>9095495
If you think Yiannopoulos, Spencer and Jones are intelligent reasoned people, you need to reevaluate your life choices.
>>9095462
Your taste in art is alt-right.
How do you remember what page you were on for next time you pick up the book and resume reading?
I have tried memorizing the page I was last on, but often forget the next day. Then I started writing down the page number on the inside cover of the book, but there are a lot of numbers there and it gets confusing (especially if I am reading the book for a second time).
How do you keep track of this?
I just read the whole book in one sitting.
use a bookmark if you're having that much of a problem remembering it, you dullard.
>>9086178
autism?
*blocks your path*
OwO
>>9102246
*gets shot like Peter Weller in Robocop*
>>9102246
*transforms into a cat*
Given his personality, do you think Lovecraft would be fine with some of the more tongue in cheek treatments of his stories (Cthulhu plushies, Munchkin Cthulhu games, etc) or would he sperg about people not taking his stuff seriously?
>>9102138
How the fuck would we know, you dumb retard
I think he'd care more about the fact that negroes have equal protection under the law as whites now.
>>9102153
I'm asking for your opinion based on your perception of his character, stupid.
what is the literary equivalent of this album?
Jay McInerney
Bret Easton Ellis
Later Interpol is Chuck Palahniuk. Bright Lights is such a masterpiece though.
>>9100529
probably something bad
i honestly love totbl though, its pretty derivative but the songs are insanely well-written
>>9100529
>highly derivative and incredibly boring
choose any recent fantasy novels/series.
What's the bare minimal books one should read to have a basic understanding of politics?
>inb4 my fight from Mr. adolfo
THE GREEKS
>>9100360
Dumb question you brainlet. Strictly speaking you don't need to read any books to understand politics. Reading history will give you a background of knowledge to form your own opinions. Then once you find an idealism you agree with, find books that support/explain that and books that criticize it.
>>9100399
not really, I want to have a basic understanding of ideologies.
You're getting locked inside a prison for the rest of your life, you're only allowed to take 1 book with you. What will it be /lit/?
The Count of Monte Cristo
A really good edition of Shemale Fuck Fest
I tried to read a Cormac McCarthy book and thought, why doesn’t this cocksucker use quotation marks?
Consider the possibility that the cocksucker is you.
>using quotation marks when literally anyone with a brain can figure out whats dialogue and whats not with just a few seconds of thought
Joyce and Gaddis were right
Something about wanting the writing to be as simple as possible to read. He doesn't use semicolons either.
Who's the David Lynch of literature?
>>9098609
yeah this guy, his name is toby onest and he wrote my diary
>>9098599
Probably David Lynch
I'm trying to get a fair view on christianity. I'm trying to understand it but also understand the view of its opponents. Here's the list of books I have right now:
>Religious books
The Bible
Selected Writings of Thomas Aquinas
Silence by Shūsaku Endō
The City of God by Augustine of Hippo
>Atheist books
Works from Hume maybe?
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Modern:
The God delusion by Richard Dawkins
The greatest show on earth by Richard Dawkins
God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens( This one might not be as relevant)
What are the most essential works missing from that list?
Of you want a some modern ones supporting Christianity you could read Feser or McIntyre.
Belief in God in an Age of Science
Confessions
The Consolation of Philosophy
A Life of Jesus
Answer to Job
>>9096342
Any specific books that stand out?
Finished the Hobbit.
100 pages into Fellowship.
I'm absolutely loving these books. It's so fucking comfy. His writing is simple, relaxing, easy, and fun.
I've sipping tea and coffee enjoying rainy days reading these books.
I just have one question tho? What other Tolkien books do you recommend. I just got a good deal buying The Children of Húrin (hardcover).
But am I suppose to read some of his works in order? Should I read the The Silmarillion first?
I have put off reading Tolkien for so long, and now I'm finally reading him and I don't regret a second of it.
It's... wonderful comfy reading actually.
I'm currently reading through the Silmarillion myself. It isn't as daunting as people say. Give it a read-through and you'll be glad you did.
Think of it as reading The Bible. It's more a collection of stories with interwoven themes and some recurring characters instead of a continuous story. It lays the groundwork for so much in the Tolkien universe
I'm glad you're enjoying it anon. If i were you I would read Silmarillion after the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. If you really wanted to, you could also read Tolkien's translation of Beowulf, Tolkien himself didn't feel like his version of the epic was very good though, but it might still be interesting to you.
>>9089966
>Think of it as reading The Bible. It's more a collection of stories with interwoven themes and some recurring characters instead of a continuous story. It lays the groundwork for so much in the Tolkien universe
That is good to know. This is the kind of response I was looking for. I appreciate the assist, thank you.
>>9089973
>If i were you I would read Silmarillion after the Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Any particular reason The Silmarillion is chosen to read after the LotR Trilogy? Does it answer some questions the Trilogy does not?
I've made a mistake, /lit/. My university has an agreement with the Department of Energy to share time on a joint supercomputing project, and one of the professors I do research for was recently cleared to request time on it. The only spot we get is incredibly early in the morning, so last week I was supposed to supervise the output, but I uploaded this shitty program I wrote in python to procedurally generate books instead. I had been able to get paragraphs off of my laptop if I let it run long enough, but this thing wrote 50,000 fucking words in 20 seconds.
I was able to upload and run the research just fine, but I emailed the book to the head of the English department, and he asked me to come to his office and preceded to lose it. I had used "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" as the input texts, just because they sounded interesting together, and evidently he had a problem with either one or both. He threatened to tell the dean about the supercomputer misuse, which could be a felony, and I'm pretty much guaranteed to lose my scholarship (which I only got in the first place because I have ADHD.)
I'm scared shitless because I had already posted it to Amazon, with a cutesy title and topical description and some meme tier cover art, really laughing it up, before he freaked out, and now amazon support has locked my account without removing it from the store. Is it going to be worse that I tried to monetize it, should I still try to take it down, or does it not matter at this point? What the fuck do I do?
Get an agent.
>implying that all books aren't written by computers anyways
>>9088479
haha i like that can i have that picture?
ITT:
>we mention our biggest problem(s)
>recommend books (non-fiction/fiction, whatever) on how to help others with their problem
I'll start:
>Zero execution. I do a ton of research, I dream of writing and stuff, but I don't have the discipline to execute on these things.
>Is The War of Art a good book for this? Other recommendations welcomed
>Is The War of Art a good book for this?
No. It's a run of the mill "inspirational" self-help book that will tell you nothing you don't know already, and it won't teach you to have discipline. If you're lucky it will motivate you for a couple of days and then you will be again where you are now.
You're looking for something to do instead of writing to stop you procrastinating from writing? The problem's you. Write. When you try to think up other things to do which are not writing, write instead. When you are thinking about writing, write instead. Fucking write something is the answer.
Reconciling individual freedom with political society.
I've been reading Hegel because I've been told it's exactly this problem which his philosophy is all about but I haven't really found a satisfying solution yet.
How does one go about seeing reading as a hobby rather than a chore? I do not read enough literature, never have, and anytime I pick up a book and try to read it, I only get a few chapters in before I start feeling anxiety over the large amount of pages left to read. I enjoy TV and video games, as well as mindlessly surfing the web, but when it comes to reading a novel, I just cannot stay focused. Any advice? I want to read, and I want to enjoy it. Sometimes I feel as though I have some ADD, though I have never been diagnosed. I aced all my English courses in high school and college, and I am a decent writer and actually enjoy writing when I have to. But I cannot and never have enjoyed reading. What is wrong with me?
Stop watching TV and playing vidya and learn to focus. Try meditation, that helps.
>>9079824
>I am a decent writer
>I cannot and never have enjoyed reading
pick one bucko
>>9079824
Find a book you like
Post 'em my lads.
You could say I have too many B&N copies