Some of the stuff I've been reading here made me ask myself... can /lit/ be considered a red pilled board?
A little bit
>>8386923
I, for one, am. And I know there are a lot of other redpillers on the board. We've slowly managed to oust the Marxists and cultural Marxists as you can see in any thread on Marxism, women writers, nonwhite authors, and postmodernism.
It's a nice development
No, The Matrix is genre shit and /tv/
Can /lit/ help me decide which of my books I should take to college with me?
>inb4 library
I already have these books and I need to read them. It'll be my junior year as a chemistry major, it'll be a tough year but I know there will be times I'm just buzzed out of chemistry and will want to switch topics. The choices are arranged into groups, generally I want to take the group as a whole to be a general theme, but if you think certain books from different groups would be a better match, then feel free to mix and match.
Christianity
>A History of Christianity by MacCulloch
I've already got a start on this book. I'm believe I stopped at around St. Augustine.
>The Heliand: The Saxon Gospel
>The Holy Bible
I've been looking to be more Christian, so I've been trying to bread pill myself for awhile.
Esoteric
>Corpus Hermetica
>Alchemy
H.P. Lovecraft
>Necronomicon
Fiction
>Prelude to Foundation
>The Forever War
>Perfume
>The Mulberry Empire
This one is probably less know, it historical fiction, taking place during the British going into Afghanistan and stuff.
Nonfiction
>A Piece of the Sun
This one is nonfiction, about fusion energy
>Humankind: How Biology and Geology Shape Human Diversity
Self explanatory
What should I take with me?
>>8386892
None, get olives and oil, get ripped and enjoy the Dorian pill
>>8386892
focus on your faith, it's the only thing that really matters.
Add "Misquoting Jesus" to the pile tho
>>8386905
Can you further explain the Dorian pill?
>>8386916
Thanks. I've also been wondering if I should add something from Kierkgaard? What do you think?
Seriously. Almost every thread in this place is for genre novels. As Stephen King said, his novels are the literary version of a Big Mac and fries. Is this all you people read? Do you eat only fast food and hate to talk about filet mignon as well? Seriously, try to read something good for a fucking change. You're not in high school anymore, read some fucking real works of art.
What's your favorite book and what are you currently reading? I just finished Blood Meridian
>>8386849
Are you retarded?
>>8386849
Get over yourself
so fucking bad lol.... Thank god scifi got so much better.
as soon as i finished book 2 I deleted all the rest of my Asimov library
(Read the robot ones before just to get through to this foundation ugh such a waste )
>>8386829
those stone-cold classic covers tho
>>8386829
I thought about reading this a few days ago, but what's so bad about it? I mean come on bro don't just make an empty OP. Elaborate.
>>8386829
great critique and reasoning, OP.
kys
I'm looking for other authors with similar styles as these posted. Especially Burroughs, Beckett, Yeats and Bukowski and the three novellas represented
(others in mind Pessoa, Wittgenstein, Baudelaire, Sam Pink, Pynchon, Joyce, etc.)
Also, feel free to use the thread to discuss all kinds of complex, weird, experimental, etc. literature.
>Bizarre / experimental lit
>Camus
please read/lurk for at least a year before posting
www.activeabuse.com
check this out. modern day james joyce?
>wittgenstein
>experimental lit
is the holy bible experimental lit too?
> the entirety of the literature section of the Wikipedia page for the 2000s
Mother of god
jesus christ, 2 items for a whole century? white people ought to just kill themselves
>Openly LGBT and Scot listed separately
Isn't that redundant?
Why were Shatov, Pytor, Kirillov and Lebyadkin all obsessed with Stavrogin and wanted to worship him?
I want to have people under my control worshipping me too, that would be great. How to do it /lit/?
Easy.
1. Be rich, handsome, incredibly charismatic, and most importantlybee urself :^)
2. Surround yourself with idiots that are impressed by the above things
3. ???
4. Profit
>>8386966
Maybe there is more to it, I doubt those steps were enough to make Pytor go on his knees and kiss Stavrogin's hand before almost sucking his cock.
>>8387603
Bro slavs - aka slaves - will worship anything.
What books should I read to become /lit/? What's the best list to follow?
>>8386693
If you're reading to become /lit/ you shouldn't read at all
Why do we even have a sticky?
>>8386693
The best list is the sticky. Fuck off.
ITT Books to read while taking a shit
doc says I don't poop enough so I spend more time on the toilet now. gotta read stuff to help loosen me up.
Eat more fiber, drink more water, and squat while shitting, you doofoos.
Also, pic related is an excellent read while using the toilet.
>doc says I don't poop enough so I spend more time on the toilet now
That makes sense
>>8386584
>i dont poop enough
and how much is enough
i poop twice daily
Where do I get started with HP Lovecraft and his mythos?
What about post-Lovecraft and modern works on the C'thullu mythos?
>>8386582
You can read all the stuff for free, just get the collected works in PDF and read a story at a time. They are sorted chronologically, so it's easy to follow the evolution of his work if you really want to read all of it.
Not all of it is good, though. It gets verbose and repetitive fast. There are some gems nevertheless.
If you wanna read only the best, then you pretty much can start with Dagon,The Call of Cthulhu, The Rats in the Walls, At the Mountain of Madness, and The Shadow over Innsmouth. There are just a few, but they're a decent start.
The 'mythos' was Derleth's hack cash-in. From him on it dissolves into screwy classifications and false religiosity. You can't map it out like human religion - that was the mistake, it doesn't follow a pattern. What lent it so well to the short story form was spontaneity: a freak earthquake and dreams, stray ships, remnants at the edge of the world, missed trains, etc. Glimpses. Derleth et al. played out the cult element.
when he took that 17 year gap you think he was still writing everyday?
>>8386574
great writers don't have to write everyday, but they do have to read everyday.
>>8386577
Thanks, God.
he was probably just arguing with his friends' kids about which Bugs Bunny cartoons were the best.
>tfw someone has taken the liberty of writing the second chapter of my story
>tfw s/he's being praised for non-canon work
>tfw s/he's probably a better writer than me
>tfw writer's block
anyone else know this feel?
>>8386567
>s/he
That means that it's a girl, and you got outwritten by a fucking girl lmao pussy ass bitch
>>8386576
pls don't bully me
>>8386567
whine and give up, then.
that's what will separate you from actual writers.
>“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "Your mom's house, and step on it.”
>>8386546
lmfao my moms house?? haha you seem to be confused Original Poster!
>>8386546
what are you trying to accomplish here.
>>8386546
have you ever considered the lobster?
Alex Kierkegaard is the 21st century's greatest philosopher
>>8386439
>it's this guy again
I thought you gave this shit up after spamming your website and wallowing in mediocrity
>>8386445
Is there any other forum on the internet that people pay real MONEY to be members of?
Hey /lit/, I'm pretty decent at knowing what words most people use mean, but that's because most people in daily conversations don't use words like; axiom, propagation, melancholy, and other bigger vocabulary words, and that kind of bugs me because I genuinely want to speak to people using bigger and better words.
What does /lit/ do to learn new words and broaden their vocabulary?
So far i've downloaded the dictionary app on my phone and been trying to learn a new word a day that it gives you every 24 hours.
>>8386318
Read more. The dictionary app is pretty good. I have the Miriam-Webster one as well, which I think is better for a quick definition. Dictionary.com will have more words and variants. For certain things I'll just use google and look at images.
I look up every word I don't understand intuitively when reading. This means looking up words over and over again until you get them. Authors typically have their own vocabulary, so if you read Jane Austen for the first time it will be difficult. But if you get the vocab down her other books will be cake.
>>8386482
Thank you very much, I'll look into those suggestions right now actually.
I try to look up about 5-10 words daily just to rejog my memory but I feel like I could be doing a lot more desu..
>>8386573
IMO the best way to remember a new word isn't to just look it up. Write ten original sentences using it correctly and it'll be in your brain for life.