I just wanna read something that's really trippy, like you know how when you're laying on the floor listening to a really long droning album or something? I want that in book form, I want something philosophical and meditative that I feel I can become more one with, you know what I mean? Being an atheist, and having a deep seated hatred of religion for most of my life now, I can say that I am very much a spiritual person, except not in the sense that most people think of spiritual; I don't believe in the supernatural and I'm a positivist, and that supernatural bullshit is just for people who have no interest in understanding the world through reason, and don't realize that if you're not trying to understand the world through reason then you're really just making shit up and all your ideas are absolutely worthless, especially if you're just basing it out of some fucking book, and for morals.
No, I'm not looking for religion, and doing something someone else tells me to regardless of whether or not it's right, I'm interested in waking up and feeling whole, and feeling like I am me, and I exist in this universe and I feel comfortable with that. Maybe I'm just a hedonist to you then, in that sense, but to be honest everyone's perception of what spirituality and what the world actually is is so fucked up, sometimes I feel like the only intelligent people in the entire world are me an other atheists like me
>Ramayana
>Ulysses
>Quaran
>Clarissa
>Man Without Qualities
>Complete Plato
>Tracatus Logicus
But two are a lie hhahhha
>>8320949
Wittgenstein, Sartre, Kafka, Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, St. Augustine etc.
Of course the last three have religious overtones, but they can be appreciated from a secular perspective.
Go back to /mu/ jesus fucking christ, I'd say read Beckett's Trilogy but knowing how much of a faggot you are you should just read some Auster and Murakami and mull over how fucking deep you are.
I love to read.
But I can't focus. So I skip a lot of stuff. Sometimes the important for the plot stuff. It has been happening again and again. Since I was a kid. So I just give up.
This pissed me off so much today that I got drunk on monday.
>>8320922
Stop browsing internet for a week, and you'll see the difference.
>>8320962
OKAY
>>8320922
>Kerdt Caboin
Does he hate Californians?
>>8320892
Who doesn't hate those libcucks
"California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom."
everyone hates californians
t. a commiefornian
I've ben thinking a lot about this issue and while I've been buying physical books in the past, I've been reading almost exclusively using the Kindle app since 2014 because physical books takes up a lot of space.
But I wanna hear what you guys think.
Yeah but what about when India gets revenge for all the poo jokes and you have no power. No kindle now
Physical books are more comforting. Digital books are more convenient.
>>8322352
Urm, I don't get it.
THREE GREATEST WRITERS EVER:
SHAKESPEARE: USELESS "FAMILY MAN"
DANTE: LITERALLY A TRAMP
MILTON: LOWLY SCHOOLTEACHER
WHAT DO THEY HAVE IN COMMON?
THEY WERE NOTHING MORE THAN MIDDLE-LOWER CLASS CHUMPS
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
ARISTOCRATIC BOURGEOIS WRITERS LIKE GOETHE, HUGO ETC ARE PURE SHITE
RICH PEOPLE CANT WRITE GOOD LITERATURE
That's not how logic works, OP.
>THEY WERE NOTHING MORE THAN MIDDLE-LOWER CLASS CHUMPS
literally all three of them were among "the 1%" of their time.
>>8320835
I agree but Milton is garbage.
just bee urself :^)
But I'm frightened, Albert.
>le_absurd_face.jpeg
when life gives u lemons make lemonade :)
any works of literature that portray us all as unwitting pawns working on behalf of some larger force? idea has been on my mind lately and i'm interested in what the greats may have written about it.
not necessarily looking for something conspiratorial involving an illuminati-like group, though i'm not necessarily opposed to those either. ideally the 'force' would transcend humanity in some way.
>>8320746
Das Kapital
>>8320746
The trial
Any history book.
>start reading Nietzsche
>manage to convince myself that Nietzsche has an answer to nihilism
>realize that "start with the Greeks" doesn't just apply to literature but philosophy even more so
>start with the Greeks in philosophy
>find new motivation in life - can't kill myself before I've read Nietzsche
>read every day
>life starts looking better
>everything going ok
>can't bring myself to read for a couple of days due to mental illness
>back to wanting to kill myself
Is it even worth it or will I just be disappointed in the end anyway?
>>8320678
You may want to treat the mental illness, you fucking idiot
>>8320686
No shit man, that hasn't been going too well though. And now my Psychologist is on summer vacation.
>>8320690
Have you tried just being yourself?
Why does /lit/ hate George R. R. Martin?
>>8320658
Because he is popular at the moment.
>>8320663
/thread
Because he shit talks Tolkien constantly, while being a worse writer and world builder (and far and away more unrealistic with interactions, despite his claims)
Plus he's a fat annoying piece of shit
Is there any book reviewer on Youtube that fits the following criteria:
1. Reads challenging books
2. Has never reviewed a young adult novel
3. Is male
If so please link them here.
There's Better Than Food who is a meme here, but his reviews suck
>>8320590
You need more rigorous criteria.
To my knowledge, the Better than Food guy has never reviewed a young adult novel, he is male, and he "reads" challenging books.
But he is not worth watching for even a second.
If you really must watch someone's youtube videos about books, I don't understand this desire, then you should find someone that fits the following criteria:
1. Attractive (to you).
2. Pleasing voice.
3. Some other quality you like to watch
To my knowledge, there is no one on YouTube reviewing books in a worthwhile fashion.
>>8320620
Cliff is very attractive and he has a nice voice too
What's the best Asian language to learn for books?
>>8320540
english
>>8320546
thats not asian desu
>>8320598
its the best language to learn for asian books
I want to read a poet (or writer of any kind of literature) that presents the same wealth of imagery, the same incessant overflowing of metaphors that Shakespeare’s work possesses.
I can’t find any other writer that loves metaphors and verbal fire-works as much as Shakespeare, so I would like a suggestion. Many poets (famous poets) are most of the time just making versified prose (the language is simple, the metaphors classic and predictable, everything balanced and ordered: I am thinking in writers like Virgil, Horace, Goethe): they know a lot about rhythm and elegance, but they don’t have the same baroque jungle of Shakespeare’s plays.
So, if you guys can offer some suggestions I would love that (and please, no Joyce: he rarely offers us something as beautiful and poetic as the ending paragraph of The Dead; his poetics are different).
Try Neruda, post some of his poems here if you want
>>8320558
I would love that. Have read some of his work and liked a lot. But if you can post some of your favorites, please, do.
Shakespeare was (and still is) the king of metaphors. No one equals him.
That being said Donne has some pretty unique metaphors. Read "the flea" for a good example.
How do i write decent high school girls characters?
watch the anime k-on, you will learn a lot
>>8320532
>it's an 'OP is a /ressentiment9k/ frogman who wants to talk about how inferior the girls who didn't want to fuck him in high school were' episode
>>8320565
shut up virgin
Has anyone here read on LSD?
You can't really do it while peaking, but reading while coming down is dope.
I've read Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man and some ee cummings poems while tripping and they were both fantastic.
What do you recommend to read while tripping?
nothing but i wrote lot of incoherent ramblings i had trouble to read next day, despite having very profound feelings like "OMG I FOUND IT" while writing it
Flip through a dictionary at random; that's always been really fun for me.
I've never read on lsd, just couldn't focus for Shit. Now pot on the other hand, I'm pretty Gravity's rainbow was intended to be read high.
Post books you knew nothing about when you started reading them, but they turned out to be great. I guess you could call it a positive surprise. Ill start with this gem.
>>8320489
Mein Kampf. Thought it was a meme but it changes my life
Schopenhauer's 'On Women'. Though it was some bitter /r9k/ loser but really it was the most redpilled thing I've read since Hitler
I thank those two for the man I've become today
Genuinely interesting. I thought it would be a collection of unfounded "wisdoms" à la facebook Confucius quotes, but there's actually some pretty interesting thought behind it all.
The introduction did half the work, I guess though.