Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 2710. page

>>8625777
The classic philosophers. Averroes, Al-Ghazali, the list probably goes on.

thats one fugly tranny

>>8625791
eat this flower, dear (:

>>8625770
So Tolstoy and Dostoevsky shouldn't be read?

He clicked send and his shitpost was sent with lightning speed onto that board full of fucking losers. All thanks to the five million megabyte per second internet connection he had on his world record sized yacht. He set aside his gold plated, diamond encrusted Ipad, and turned toward his five super-model wives. These were international waters, and everything was permitted, including polygamy.

After the three hour sexual romp he was tired, and decided to read some boring book about rocks or something, before drifting into a peaceful sleep atop his bundles of hundred dollar bills.

Yeah it's fun.

>>8625699
Better for whom? It did alright

>>8625699
this is fucking cool

>>8625699
>mfw the author became an SJW

>>8625631

Google.

>>8625631
It's about the nature of reality.
How everything takes its root from a spiritual plane. The material world is merely a shadow of that spiritual realm, perfect and intemporal.

Of course you there are also more "down to earth" explanation, aka pretty much the majority of sci-fi books from the 20th century, but it's about the spiritual nature of reality, really.

Seemed to me to just be an elaborate "darkness (ignorance) to light (knowledge)" metaphor.

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>>8625376
because of patriarchy

her memoirs are nice

>>8625376
dylan was cuter
it is important

>>8625277
Thanks for the recommendation. I've read his essay on Van Gogh and enjoyed it immensely, his prose is off the hook

>it is downright insane
heh

ap

>I know Artaud is kind of déclassé these days

why is this? what are the modern trend of art theatre?

And I didn't even mention all about Islam and his politics.

I think he's great but I cannot agree with his thesis in the Moral Landscape, and neither can I agree with his retarded support for Shillary Clinton.

By the time every serious moral philosopher has rejected utilitarian ethics Harris discovered it.
Kinda funny.

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bum peen

>>8625156
Bit harsh desu

>>8625061
Mein Kampf has a section on propaganda.

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I became an avid reader like three months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time on 4chan anymore.

Here's how I did it.

-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person

-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure

-Read various books at the same time. When I grab a difficult book or one that makes me sleepy I grab another and switch. This should refresh your head. Keep them thematically different. I read economics and fiction.

-It isn't a race. Reading slowly won't make you sleepy that fast. Try to acknowledge what books are for you to read fast and which aren't.

-Buy the physical copies. When you get the books from your own money you'll feel the need to read them to avoid the feel of wasting your money.

-Start with books highly discussed here so you feel motivated to discuss.

>>8625060
thanks dude

What determines reading speed, /lit/? Is it to do with how much reading you did as a child? I'm not super-fast by any means, but I find it hard to imagine what reading slowly is like.

>>8624827
third crystal castles album

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The music I like
Same as in every other situation I listen to music in

Are you one of those people that need a special playlist to work out?

>>8624834
Yes, anime soundtracks and Queen.

I was thinking some ambient shit would be good for reading public, any recommendations. Usually, i just listen to Chopin's nocturnes but that gets too distracting.

Don Quixote

Why do you need to go to the future?

>>8625793
implying you can avoid going into the future in any way

try to hold the passing day and tell us if you succeed

And but so
1) this thread is garbage
2) your comparison is retarded, and but so are you
And but so and but so.

>>8624606
I'd compare vaporwave to alt lit

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/lit/ is the literary equivalent of vaporwave. It tells you to start with the Greeks so you can be familiarized with that kind of aesthetic, then tells you to go all the way to Pynchon and DFW: the 80's and the 90's, so you can complete the postmodern and aesthetic vision of reality.

Is there a meme generator where one can make fake Penguin classics yet?

If not, someone should make it.

Lmao

>>8624447
Southern Gothic

The Making of Mankind by Richard Leakey.

Great book, probably outdated but I recommend it anyway. It's a great introduction of it, it tells stories of how they work, of their method, of what they know so far and the legacy of it to society.

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>>8624213
Came here to post this. Origins Reconsidered is also good.

The field is in such a state of flux that any book is outdated before it goes to print. Read the journals.

>>8623920
I have, when I was in my post-Stranger, black boot wearing phase. It was semi-decent, I didn't get as sucked into it as I had hoped, which signalled the end of that time in my life.

>>8623924
I didn't pick it up in an effort to conform to my personality, I just saw it at a rummage sale and got it lol.
No black boots here

>>8623920
If you checked the archives you would already have the answer to your question you mong.