Why does everything need a book?
because the fags from the scifi and fantasy general need more shit to read
Because the name alone means the book will likely make more money than some sincere young novelist's attempt at proper literature.
Hey guys, I'm by myself in Columbus, Ohio at this big ass Barnes and noble, rec me some SHIT.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/42809878-christian-ave-lallemant
If you want to go off my interests then ^ but I don't give a fuck rn.
Buy the books somewhere else. Save some money.
>rec thread
fuck off
>>>/wsr/
>>8199503
Why would I want Rec's for literature on a fucking general board? Get over yourself.
I bought this book yesterday. It's premise speaks to me, the writers it quotes speaks to me. Mainly Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass.
I thought it would be more about actual wandering, since I love taking long walks and think about things or to not think at all, but to feel.
But I must say I'm quite disappointed. It's covered in such a pretentious sauce of a secret society and shit. I don't want or need that. But still it speaks to me on some level.
Is Walt Whitman any good? Do I just need to read him? Also Henry David Thoreau.
On some level I feel ashamed that stuff like this speaks to me and some quotes can render me to tears. But I have to accept that that is what I need apparently.
Please help.
>Is Walt Whitman any good?
Oh, shut the fuck up.
>>8199469
Why?
Bumping because I'm sincere. Normally I go to /out/ and /tg/ and I'm new here.
Am I asking about meme tier writers or something?
just finished this in one sitting and really enjoyed it. What did you guys think?
>>8199097
muh anxiety
1/10
Was a rather exhausting read for me, because of those really long sentences. Everyone who read it must know what I mean. But other than that really good and the last chapter as well as the afterword have one of the best closing lines I've ever read.
Favorite novel.
What e-reader do you use? What do you recommend?
Looking to get one myself.
Just Got my Kobo Glow HD today and I'm having a blast. Ask anything you want.
>>8199090
Kindle paperwhite, I heard kobo is better when it comes to epub formats though (as in; no need to convert the file)
>>8199090
Kindle Touch, Kindle Paperwhite, KoboGlo HD are beloved here, and the difference is in pic related.
Calibre insta converts so Kindle and Epub are not a concern.
What's your opinion on Warrior Cats?
all the weird kids in middle school read it
Christ, I remember reading these. For a middle school kid, they were alright, but now that I think about it, they were just weird.
>>8199057
>What's your opinion on Warrior Cats?
They're much like Battletoads, I find.
What is the best English translation of pic related? Also, are there any good resources for comparing translations of philosophy texts?
>>8198932
What an idiot you must be if you still didn't get that all translations are bad and don't substitute for their original versions. Learn the language, that's the only way.
>>8198982
Cool and helpful response, faggot. Obviously translation loses some of the information and nuance in the process, but it is both incredibly time consuming and unrealistic to learn every language interesting books were originally written in.
>>8199343
>but it is both incredibly time consuming and unrealistic to learn every language interesting books were originally written in.
how about hanging yourself then?
this book is really good
i'm going to keep making charles portis threads until i'm convinced enough other people like him
Good luck. I've been shilling him on and off for years. Dog of the South is the correct choice for best book so good for you.
A bunch of my favorite authors are in their 80s now so I wrote a them all letters a couple weeks ago. I'll post if I get a response from Portis.
>>8198928
True Grit is awesome.
>>8198928
>i'm going to keep making
Don't do it. See what happened to Gass because of gassposter's obnoxious enthusiasm and insistence to promote him? Now we're starting to get all sorts of people who are clearly unprepared to read Gass making "I can't believe I got memed again, this book is not what I thought it would be, guyz" threads. Then we'll see another breed of smartasses taking cheap shots at his style the way they do about BM ("He crushed the infant's skull, wiped his face with the tortilla and spat."). Just give it time.
I haven't read any Portis. Still, knowing /lit/, I think I may have a point, don't you?
Materialism is comforting to minds that cling naturally to concrete objects. Every mind is impressed with the concrete, but it is the materialist who is so taken by the nakedness of brute matter and its mechanics in the world that he refuses to contemplate the world in any other way.
The materialist has not gone beyond the charms of idealism or theism, he simply does not feel them. The materialist desires the world to be rid of all mystery, to reduce everything to simple formulas. This is why he so slavishly holds onto his belief. He is most impressed by the concrete because it is easily grasped.
>>8198856
Not biting sorry. Sounds like you're trying to convince yourself more than anything. Good luck with that, whatever makes you feel better about your beliefs. Btw, the fedora meme? It's to poke fun at atheist elitism, your post makes it clear though it's not limited to one side of the argument however.
>tips fedora
>We've reached a truly remarkable situation: a grotesque mismatch between the American intelligencia and the American electorate. A philosophical opinion about the nature of the universe which is held by the vast majority of top American scientists, and probably the majority of the intelligencia generally, is so abhorrent to the American electorate that no candidate for popular election dare affirm it in public. If I'm right, this means that high office in the greatest country in the world is barred to the very people best qualified to hold it: the intelligencia, unless they are prepared to lie about their beliefs. To put it bluntly American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
>I'm not one of those who wants to stop Christian traditions. This is historically a Christian country. I'm a cultural Christian the same way as many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims. So, yes, I love singing carols along with everybody else. I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
*tips*
>>8198865
>>tips fedora
All that resentment
Are there any books that can help me get over my terrible self-esteem and constant feeling that I am incapable of doing anything difficult that is worth doing? I just feel like a worthless piece of shit who will probably die with not a single accomplishment to look back on in life. All my friends have moved on since I graduated HS three years ago and I am still a neet living with my parents and have bounced around jobs, and I don't really have any way of getting into college. I constantly feel bogged down and depressed to kickstart my life and I really just hate myself and want to end it all.
No. Do some charity volunteer work.
Join the french foreign legion.
Find something and pursue it wholeheartedly. Or see a psychologist. Go to college, learn a trade, volunteer, and stop shitposting on an anonymous Congolese hemmoroid treatment Manga group.
yfw all books will be just emojis in 10 years. ,':^)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01H5GRJVO
it's already happening.
https://memewallstreet.wordpress.com/2016/06/23/man-makes-living-translating-literary-classics-into-emoji/
>>8198768
I will probably be able to read faster. Symbols/characters>letters/words
>>8200029
It's a superior prose.
>>8198768
>3 posters
I dread the day inane teenagers convinced themselves emojis are hieroglyphs
What was your childhood defining book? Mine was this. A survival story about being lost in an alien wilderness
GOAT
I read almost all of his other books too. Doesn't the protagonist become the slave of qt girl? I wished that had happened to me at that age.
>>8198750
He did. She became his waifu too unless i remembered incorrectly
>There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.
>We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Is this philosophy?
>>8198683
>There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.
What did he mean by this?
He has a toddler's understanding of the teenage philosophy known as existentialism, and doesn't know what 'atheism' means.
There's a reason why deists are not technically atheists.
>>8198758
Are you a deist, Anon?
And if so, what convinced you of the deistic position?
>he fell for the categorical imperative meme
>>8198624
>he fell for the virtue ethics meme
>he fell for the ethics meme
>he fell for the analytical philosophy meme
What are some books that have Traveling as a main theme...international travel is what i had in mind, where it is meditated on etc. etc.
>>8198535
the book where I traveled around the world with your mom and fucked her silly (in all her orifices)
Eat Pray Love you faggot.
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor