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>see qt3.14 reading Moby Dick by herself
What do I do lads? Is she patrish or pseud?

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Im trying to get my promising nephew to like literature. He likes fantasy and adventure but I dont want him to read that Percy Jackson bullshit. What does /lit/ reccomend for beginner books?

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>tfw low reading comprehension and can rarely find deeper meaning in literature/art
Is there anything I can do to get better at it or am I just fucked?

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>dick
lol

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Just ordered this. Is it any good?
And what about Andrew Roberts in general?

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>Call me Moby-Dick.

What did he mean by this?

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Let me explain why I'd recommend this book to everyone: Plato is stupid.

Seriously.

And it's important that you all understand that Western society is based on the fallacy-ridden ramblings of an idiot. Read this, understand that he is not joking, and understand that Plato is well and truly fucked in the head.

Every single one of his works goes like this:

SOCRATES: "Hello, I will now prove this theory!"
STRAWMAN: "Surely you are wrong!"
SOCRATES: "Nonsense. Listen, Strawman: can we agree to the following wildly presumptive statement that is at the core of my argument?" {Insert wildly presumptive statement here— this time, it's "There is such a thing as Perfect Justice" and "There is such a thing as Perfect Beauty", among others.}
STRAWMAN: "Yes, of course, that is obvious."
SOCRATES: "Good! Now that we have conveniently skipped over all of the logically-necessary debate, because my off-the-wall crazy ideas surely wouldn't stand up to any real scrutiny, let me tell you an intolerably long hypothetical story."
{Insert intolerably long hypothetical story.}
STRAWMAN: "My God, Socrates! You have completely won me over! That is brilliant! Your woefully simplistic theories should become the basis for future Western civilization! That would be great!"
SOCRATES: "Ha ha! My simple rhetorical device has duped them all! I will now go celebrate by drinking hemlock and scoring a cameo in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure!"

The moral of the story is: Plato is stupid.

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What does /lit/ think about Simone Weil?

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So /lit/ favorite Ben Brooks just had his novel "Grow Up" reprinted by Penguin.

>"In this bawdy, raucous, and unabashedly frank novel, youth is certainly not wasted on the young

>Hailed as "one of the most hilarious and well-observed accounts of teenage debauchery you are ever likely to read" by the trendsetting British lifestyle magazine Dazed & Confused, Ben Brooks’s Grow Up is a shocking, stylish, and very modern coming-of-age story.

>As Jasper J. Wolf careens through high school, his list of to-dos includes: get high with friends, seduce the hottest girl in school, and, last but not least, expose his stepfather as a murderer. But as growing up soon teaches him, what he wants and what he gets are often wildly different—and decidedly unexpected."

Excerpt(s) below!

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How many of these alpha male red-pilled ascetic reactionary pessimist philosophers are you able to name /lit/?

Any fewer than 25 and you leave 4chan forever.

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Thoughts on Ockham? Is he important in philosophical journey? Should i read Sum Of Logic?

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what are your favorite german authors /lit/?
i need some good books that were originally written in german...

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Bravo Homer

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Is there any literature on how, in recent decades, leisure, hedonism, casual sex and even drugs kind of joined the sphere of "obligations" you're supposed to attend?

Back in the day, these used to be means to escape or at least seek momentary refuge from the reality, the daily duties and the obligation and demands of society. Counter-cultures centered around those things became a way to reject the stiff life of work, discipline, religious self-restraint, moral conservatism, family-oriented sexuality and all the rest.

Now, it's right up there with them. For young people, a shocked "you're not a virgin anymore?!" of old days became a shocked "you're still a virgin?!" because the underlying assumptions shifted from negation of bodily pleasure to a constant chase of it. The sexual revolution happened so a bunch of dorks could freak out about being virgins at 18.

I know I sound like a reactionary, but I'm not. I'd like some literature on how society codifies its values and man's relationship to them. You know, about how the content changes but something about the structure remains intact. And some philosophical shit on how to escape it.

Sorry if this is all too stupid and/or vague.