Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 2939. page

>>8472517
Skip the Iliad and go straight to the Odyssey.

>>8472517

>john green is a perfect representation of the pseudo-intellectualism that is /li/

>>8472626
Thank god this is /lit/ and not /li/

>>8472503
his best books are by heidegger and borges

>>8472533
this guy got this right.

derrida = jewish wannabe heidegger

>>8472553
heidegger = nazi wannabe nietzsche

>>8472477
No.
Should I? Christian charts are usually pretty bad.

Why would Christians recommend Tolkien

>>8472541

Lot of Christian themes in his work.

>>8472383
No.
You will spend the time better reading something that isn't shit, like Hilaire Belloc or Tocqueville or Kirk.

Yes. It's always good to expand your world view by reading things that directly contradict it. allow yourself to be more expansive and live and experience things more complexly.

>>8472391
>>8472396
Both of these are correct, depending on how you approach the book.

If you aren't respectful, open-minded, or flexible, the you may as well not waste your time slogging through something just to fuel your edge.
If you're genuinely interested in learning about gender then obviously you should read it.

>>8472358
Go to university.

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>>8472363
I'm already at University and I'm learning fucking nothing.

Also Australian universities are likely different to what you're thinking of. We learn about one specific area and that's basically it.

I am a friendless KH virgin NEET ascetic currently at stage IV of the Norwood Scale and an addict to hardcore pornography for the best part of ten years, and what I've noticed in my reading of hundreds of blog posts, reddit comments and message board discussions between women or at least frequented by women is that "slutty" women, aka women who are perceived to be very sexual and whose characters are associated with sex and eroticism tend to be relatively predictable and unadventurous in terms of open-mindedness when it comes to having sex and personal preferences associated with the act itself, largely, in my opinion, because their characters and perspectives are overwhelmingly the result of a culture which promotes the sexual experience while continuing to shame and ostrichsize those who may be perceived as "weird" or "obsessed" about something that is not conspicuously advertised as something one is allowed to be obsessed with, while those girls considered "shy" or "studious" etc tend to be extremely perverted, in terms of their appreciation of unconventional sexual acts, I mean I myself have viewed hundreds of amateur of videos wherein the female protagonists resembled the kind of girls that I mistakenly perhaps in retrospect identified as naive, innocent, childlike in their desire merely for romantic affection and so on during my four years in college (during which time I attracted but failed to ask out a single one of these girls, for reasons my psychologist and I have spent the past 1.5 years attempting to work out) but who were actually likely to be the exact kind of girls who enjoyed things like golden showers, analingus (given), "rape-play", daddy roleplay, choking, spitting, hitting, spanking and roleplay in which she was the "unwitting" victim and / or captor of a malevolent, aggressive, callous male using her body for to appease his sadistic ambitions.

>>8472351
>good female authors that aren't dykes
/lit/'s stepping up its game
>>8472356 meant to say anything by Edith Templeton

>>8472356
Fpbp

>>8472297
crime and punishment
it has a cool name

>>8472300
this.

>>8472297
How much land does a man really need

Kandy Kolored... is a really intelligent analysis of the ways American culture transformed in the aftermath of WW2. Some of the most vibrant prose I've ever come across as well. Haven't read anything else though.

Anyone have any input on his latest, which apparently attacks Darwin and Chomsky?

>>8472261
>Kandy Kolored

I'll check this one out. Someone else recommended me From Bauhaus to Our House, too. Have you read that one? I'm not sure which one to read first...

>>8472261
I like that suit he's wearing but I have no idea who he is.

>>8472258
my diary, desu

>>8472258
The Wind in the Willows

>>8472269
Always considered this one more of a Winter read, still a good recommendation though.

both are ugly

They're the same book

although the first looks best

>>8472245
>>8472246
Those are the options I have (book depository). I don't really care about aesthetics. Quality is my concern.

More Russian literature of course, Tolstoy was a top nigger.

Also stick to P&V translations because they're great

Jacqueline Wilson's discography

>>8472193
ive never seen a copy with art on the cover

im sure there is one though

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>>8472155
Do you want to cross off which titles you've read so far in this chart?

I have some charts in my hard drive I can share.

Go straight to the pinnacle of the Western Canon:

>Infinite Jest
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Ulysses

Then you can move on to the second besr set of novels ever written:

>2666
>The Tunnel
>The Recognitions

And finally the third meme trilogy:

>Women and Men
>Hopscotch
>Finnegans Wake

And dont forget these:

>In Search of Lost Time
>My Struggle
>The Magic Labyrinth

>>8471999
If everything is psychoanalysis theory, yes.

>>8471999
Yes. He was never wrong

>>8471999
I was expecting her boobs to pop out, they were on the brink of it the whole scene. Disappointed.

>>8471993
Read him and find out for yourself

he is what JK Rowling readers like to pick up when they reach high school

>>8471993
>fear of sounding like hipsters on r/books?

Pretty much. Most people here who hate him seem to just have picked up on the "So it goes" meme without having actually read him.