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But the only people that think these are hard times are liberals. No Tolkien there i'm afraid.
Maybe things will get bad or something though, because I appreciate your want of good lit.

>>9067459
this

>>9067446
>beautiful
>literature
>lord of the rings
Mcfucking kill yourself.

>>9067293
>having a favourite book
also:
>"novel"
Get the fuck out.

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>>9067295
>using the lowbrow, commoner term 'book'

>>9067309
"Novel" is for psueds and YA consumer trash.

>>9067249
>objectively/objectively speaking
>from my subjective vantage point

>>9067257
kek

>>9067249
music often brings a sense of euphoria and a smile to my lips, but so too does literature.

I can read for 16-18hours a day, everyday until I finish an excellent novel. I can't listen to music for more than 4 or 5 hours in one sitting without being bored, even if it is great music.

>>9067188
a pseudo-intellectual is someone who is not particularly knowledgeable, but acts like they are for the sake of social jockeying

Actual intelligence is irrelevant. There are smart pseuds and dumb pseuds

>>9067188

If you're a pseud you'll make (and reply to) threads like this.

>>9067188
Someone who puts on the appearance of having gone through intellectual rigours they haven't.

>>9067180
Coming Up for Air

>>9067180
what are you talking about? it's all about the political critic (god tier by the way), Orwell's writing style is average at best.

>>9067220
his writing was like how the mind writes

not saying he was shakespeare but it was a comforting sentence structure

>>9067041
what are you expect with woman translator? fucking retard, try the redpill

>>9067041
Yes, OP. What are you exactly expect?

>>9067047
>not enjoying P&V
step up, nigga

please

"The Captain" is the best thing he ever wrote (or sang).

>>9066918
>Jewish tickery
Are you redpilled as well?

>>9066918
These literary tricks were much more effective back then.

>>9066921
They are Jews and they do trick people, don't be so mad at /pol/ that you turn into a retard.

Couple questions.

First
Fiction or Non-fiction?

>>9066914
Maybe some fiction to take the edge off/give me something to relate to, and some non-fiction with information about survival?

>>9066920
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea

Walden - Thoreau
On Nature - Emerson

The Holy Bible if you haven't
The Koran

Also, my condolences OP, you can still make the experience awesome.

>>9066804
>research

>>9066804
>What other texts highlight the worst of humanity with or without reason?

Kosinski - The Painted Bird
Burgess - A Clockwork Orange

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Onze_Mille_Verges

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Chants_de_Maldoror

Those might be of your interest.

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>tfw you can't hold your shit in any longer.

>>9066770
It's not "yours". It's just will.

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>>9066770
Isn't it representation?

I just make a thread on /lit/ about it

>>9066525
As soon as I finish the last sentence of a novel I close my eyes and transition into a meditative mode for a good hour or so.

Why you may ask? Well, after a thorough read I find that an hour is enough for me to get into character. I actually roleplay as the protagonist of the story I just read.

There truly is nothing like it, the immersion I feel whenever I do this is incredible: it's overwhelming. Just thinking about the sensation makes me shiver with delight.

You have to understand; before all this I was just like you guys. Angsty, sad, depressed. Basically on the verge of killing myself. Not well.

Then my friend invited me to this medieval market where we roleplayed as two honorable knights for an entire day. You guys won't believe how much respect people show you when you are in a full suit of armor wielding a bad ass claymore (the weapon was fake, but obviously the normies couldn't tell)!

Anyway, when I came back home I realized I hadn't felt that good in a long time. I wanted that epic happy feeling back. So I thought why not combine my greatest interest, which obviously is literature, with this whole roleplaying thing?

>>9066758
It was a brilliant Idea and I was so excited, but I was kind of unsure of how to go about deciding what to roleplay as. However after thinking about it for a while I decided I'd just roleplay something from the book I was reading right then.

And back then I was about to finish The Stranger by Albert Camus (pronounced Ka-moss) so my first character would be that dude. It felt pretty good because when I read the book I really got the impression that he was cool - that meant I could be cool aswell!

I won't go into too much detail but I actually googled Camus to get some inspiration (the character was obviously Camus himself heh, easy to tell) and bought a coat similar to the one I saw Camus had in a picture. It was long, like these awesome robes I once saw some monks use in an anime, and it had a pretty big collar

Then I found this cool beret at a thrift shop and decided to buy it because it looked like something he would use. Also got some cigarretts from my dads car. And then I was ready.

The next 4 weeks I spent totally embracing The Stranger. It was amazing. Since existentialism basically means nothing matters I just went around not giving a fuck about anything. Such a relief!

I started calling my mum maman and always smirked while saying it, she was visibly confused. But that was just baby steps.
Since I didnt have to care about anything I could do stuff I never dared to do before.

I started speaking out at lectures at my Uni. My coat really made it easy to feel comfortable when doing so, it was like it lent me extra strength. I basically destroyed this girl in an argument because I just kept on refuting that there is a meaning to life.

After trying to come up with something to say to counter me she just stuttered something I couldn't hear, looking at me like she couldn't believe what she was hearing (she could not handle the truth I suppose).

It went on like that, I just had an amazing couple of weeks. Of course I never shot an arab. I dont believe in hand guns. But one evening I was on my balcony and there was a group of people passing by, I dont know if they were arabs but definitely from the middle east.

Anyway I decided to throw my almost empty bottle of Mountain Dew at the group and actually hit one of them in the head. I quickly dove down out of sight and silently laughed in an evil manner. I had never felt so alive before. When the door bell rang a few minutes later I just ignored it.

I definitely recommend that you do this aswell after having read a book. There is nothing like it, I feel like I know The Stranger better than I know myself (it's no Stranger to me in other words). And better yet, this totally helped cure my depression. Im certain it would work for you guys aswell!

Im about to read a book called Lolita by Nabokov next, can't wait to roleplay as the protagonist from that book once im done reading it!

>>9066470

Stephen King is a pretty awful, formulaic author. I don't know what Kubrick was attracted to in his work, but the adaptation was miles beyond the book. Being chosen to become an adaptation has little to do with the characteristics of the book, and more to do with the artistic style of the director.

>>9066470
A money-grubbing eyesore meant to appeal to the LCD is not my idea of praise.

>>9066470
Why would an author be concerned with a screen adaptation. The greatest possible praise an author can receive is serious thought on behalf of their readership. I imagine most Nobel or Pulitzer winners would agree they'd give up the award in a heartbeat if it meant having people actually engage with their words and vision. Unless, of course, we're confusing the term "author" with the mutually exclusive term "entertainer" in which case, yeah, I guess the a screen adaptation is pretty dope.

The Holy Bible

mogadishu pbuh

my diary desu

The art of loving by Erich Fromm

>>9066148
>Kidneys matter

The Cosmic Trigger