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I read How I Learned to Snap a few years back and enjoyed it immensely. I haven't had much luck finding similar books though, so I'm wondering if any of you have read anything like it.
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>>8446257
Pretty gay desu senpai
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Mishima wrote a fair amount of gay stuff. This one is pretty autobiographical, Confessions of a Mask is the other one people usually bring up when they discuss his perspective on human sexuality.
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Genet
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What do you pretentious faggots think of Turgenev?
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>>8446178
I've only read Fathers and Sons. I enjoyed it.
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>>8446245
This.
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I like him a lot. In some ways he's a lot dumber than Dostojevski or Tolstoy but he's a great storyteller anyway. Lots of dusty roads, old villas and unrequited loves instead of spiritual torment.
My favourite is probably Home of the Gentry.
Who here /notlitlifestyle/?
>always wanted to live as an artist
>on a fencing team, win multiple literature competitions, know 3 languages, play guitar and trombone, in theatre, art competitions
>get to college
>forced to major in something not lit because of the economy
>now a lame economist who reads and plays music in his free time while sometimes fencing
Just end it
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>>8446162
Take the redpill lifestyle
>neet
>complain about women and nonwhites all day online
>have multiple waifus
>watch anime
>decry degeneracy
>????
>PROFIT
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>>8446162
>forced
By whom?
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>>8446177
There's no jobs within lit, and art school is too expensive.
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>Can spell Nietzsche without looking it up.
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>>8446133
>finally reached a staged where I realized that I don't need to ever read women or nonwhites again
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>>8446158
>inb4 muh middlemarch
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>>8446169
Actually that's the only female book you need. And Invisible Man for nonwhites. I read both, and they're brilliant.
Now I never have to return
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Which COUNTRY has produced the greatest literature?
Have your say as to which nation has produced the greatest literature throughout time, whether it be Rome and Greece with the old classics or Britain with Shakespeare and the Victorian writers.
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>country
>nation
Which one is it, now?
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>>8446077
Britain (I include Ireland)
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What's the difference?
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The way I like to make my chicken breasts is quite simple. There is the normal way, and, my friends, the cultured way. Shakespeare once said, "you are what you eat." And I'm not a chicken breast. So I have to make sure that I'm eating something far more masculine. What I do is this. I freeve the chicken breast until it is solid, and then I drink a few cups of water. Then I pee all over the breast: it is actually sterile, and warms the outside while giving the center a rock hard core. The outside represents the male ego, steamy and sterile, sterilized by an even feminized society. The center is the male id -- cold, hard, determined. This becomes an icon of my very being: and then I must eat it. But the outer layer is still quite wet, so I use the male body's natural napkin, the scrotum, as a drying agent. This is because like any self affirmed male, I respect my natural Dasein. The chicken breast is now at the crossroads between food and thought: and while some might take the fork in the road and eat the breast, I choose to watch it for a while before consumption. It is cold, it is perfect, it is Me.
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I wish someone had just told me the truth right up front, as soon as I was old enough to understand it. I wish someone had just said: “Here’s the deal, Wade. You’re something called a ‘human being.’ That’s a really smart kind of animal. Like every other animal on this planet, we’re descended from a single-celled organism that lived millions of years ago. This happened by a process called evolution, and you’ll learn more about it But trust me, that’s really how we all got here. There’s proof of it everywhere, buried in the rocks. That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. “Oh, and by the way … there’s no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny. Also bullshit. Sorry, kid Deal with it.
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IJ is even more edgy than I remember.
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>>8446807
This is actually from one of the Angel chapters in Women and Men
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why is this generation(millennials) so spoiled?
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They aren't. Baby boomers and Gen Xers are the ones who were spoiled, and are the ones who will be remembered as the ones who destroyed Western civilization.
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>>8445846
>spoiled
>can't get a job because theor parents voted to outsource all labor to Pooinlooia etc.
Boomers for sure. The only war they faced was the Vietnam but they got all the economic benefit from young men dying throughout Europe in WWI and WWII. All the WWIers got was a decade of decadence and another of total depression. WWIIers got to see their kids grow up listening to Rock and Roll getting a shit load of economic parity just by going to a shit state school and working in any field still around today.
Millenials are only spoiled by technology imo. Gen Xers were a bit spoiled in the same way as the boomers though, by Reagan's massive government spending increases that let so many of them take a shit on the floors of government property and still get a nice government job. So many people around 40-50 who got nice government careers despite a 2.0 GPA in college who now make over 150k a year here in Washington DC and NoVA
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>>8445860
If Gen X fucked shit up, Gens Y & Z aren't exactly doing much to fix it. If anything, they're revelling in it.
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wot is da greatest booke of da 21st centry so fer eh?
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The Art of the Deal.
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>>8445825
Infinite Jest by Thomas Pynchon.
Why is norwegian literature, music and film so bad?
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>>8445780
No idea but Norwegians girls are God Tier desu.
Then again I like any girl who speaks one of those rough, Germanic languages. German girls are hot as fuck.
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>>8445788
nod really :DDDD
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>>8445780
Joyce thought Ibsen was the best playwright after Shakespeare.
He learned Norwegian and wrote fanboy letters to Ibsen.
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Hey /lit/.
I'm looking for some comfy books. What I mean by "comfy books" is the kind of books that you read when you want to relax or have a couple of nice giggles.
>Pic unrelated
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I forgot to mention, I usually read light novels (weeaboo lit) when I want to chill. So yeah, if you know any light novel or anything like that I would be thankful if you recommend me some.
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>>8445770
>weaboo lit
To think that I was just about to provide a serious answer to this.
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>>8445770
Why has so much of 18th/19th/20th century been philosophy been devoted to refuting nihilism in some way?
What is so bad about nihilism? Why did it scare these guys so much?
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Change has an additional degree of difficulty for those who favour tradition and stagnation even in response to observable transition (slower rate of response/greater resistance to etc)?
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>>8445707
this is why conservatives are intrinsically simple, stupid people.
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>>8445720
actually, you just described liberals.
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Summa Theologiae: Complete Set (Latin-English Edition)
is this the best edition of the summa?
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>>8445687
Yes, assuming you have the ability to understand latin and have the will and prerequisites to understand Aquinas, who has a very specific language and a mindset alien to the empirical liberal modern man.
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>>8445693
what degree of latin should be known?
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>>8446266
A high one, considering it is a complicated text for anyone in their mother tounge.
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> As the riches of this world do not make me happy, so neither do its truths.
So what is his reason for living? If not living for material goods, or ideas, then what is the point?
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may as well
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>>8445626
>reason for living
spooky
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>>8445634
> may as well toil your life away endlessly attending to your biological functions for no purpose
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>> just read name of the wind and wise man's fear
his attempts at fedora-tier witty dialogue and certified virgin grade relationship advice is the cringiest shit I've read in my life
can I fucking find one fucking fantasy series that doesn't seem like it was written by a 13 year old NEET?
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Tom Holt's books under his 'KJ Parker' pseudonym.
'The Hammer' is quite good.
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*tips katana*
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The Ea Cycle, David Zindell
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What do you make of Borges?
I'm having difficulties trying to understand what he's trying to say.
I'm going to read of his stories to judge well, but generally speaking, what do you think of him?
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>>8445564
>reading non-whites
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>>8445605
>Welsh, Portuguese, English
>nonwhite
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Sometimes I think OP's quest on 4chan is always irrelevant to what is actually addressed in the thread.
All I wanted was different opinions concerning this guy's literary work.