Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 3588. page

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Lit, I'm looking for some literature that raises interesting as fuck questions. I always feel like when I read something I'm just getting a story. I want something that reading will make you discover things about yourself and the world and leave you feeling (I could put anything here) like you have a new perspective.

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Any transgender-friendly books, /lit/

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Does it make /lit/ better or just cause blissful ignorance for how shit this place really is?

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Why isn't anything philosophical coming out of East Asia?
They're well-developed, yet you don't see much Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese or even Chinese ( although that's not too big a surprise ) names in that section of the book store?
Why?
Like sure, they got their novelists, but philosophy? Nope, nothing.

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how do i know if my thoughts are stupid?

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>ITT: post books only you read

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Was Stephen Dedalus a gay?

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How do I into literary analysis and critique?

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Someone explain to me the appeal to lovecraft, I dont get it. I've read call of cthuluhu, the thing on the doorstep, at the mountains of madness, and other stories but I cannot for the life of me actually

1) care about it
2) be afraid because of it.

Every story it feels like the narrator goes on and on about how horrifying whatever theyre experience was without describing it, they talk endlessly and drone on and one about how terrifying it is, how impossible it is to describe, how impossible it is to comprehend without falling into complete and utter madness. And yet when it comes to the actual events they always seems so short, so non threatening, and so non scary.

In At the Mountains of Madness Lovecrafts main character describes his friend seeing something he has not even told the narrator causing him to go even more crazy like fucking 5 times in the book. I got it the first time, I didnt need it repeated to me how scary or incomprehensible the fear of whatever he saw was.

What do you guys think? What other stories by him should I read to change my opinion because I want to like him and his work, lovecraftian stuff is so cool but I cannot for the life of me get interested into actual lovecraft.

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More books like this aka books about subliminal messages of man-love, penises, misinterpreted for it's surface level plot.

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Hi guys I've been coming to 4chan for almost half a decade now, mostly /b/.

Lately, I've been pretty depressed and I think I need to create to get over. I've always dabbled in writing but I never really got into reading classic books, just fantasy/scifi drivel really.

I'm here to ask you all what are some books that changed your perspective, that opened your mind. Some books I've read that I've not only enjoyed but have changed my perspective are:

1984
Ender's Game
The Illiad
The Outsiders
Adventures of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer

Just a few I can think of off the top of my head. Thanks guys

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Loved Ficciones, where should i go next with Borges?

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Has anyone ever been able to rebut Bertrand Russell's "Marriage and Morals"? Even Einstein said the work was brilliant.
>Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.

>The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with a serious affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

>Even in civilised mankind faint traces of a monogamic instinct can sometimes be perceived.

>I should not hold it desirable that either a man or a woman should enter upon the serious business of a marriage intended to lead to children without having had previous sexual experience.

>Science enables us to realise our purposes, and if our purposes are evil, the result is disaster.

>Gluttony is regarded by the Catholic Church as one of the seven deadly sins, and those who practise it are placed by Dante in one of the deeper circles of hell; but it is a somewhat vague sin, since it is hard to say where a legitimate interest in food ceases and guilt begins to be incurred. Is it wicked to eat anything that is not nourishing? If so, with every salted almond we risk damnation.

Russell's father allowed Russell's mother to sleep with Russell's tutor, and Bertrand Russell grew up to be a genius and win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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>book was written by a woman
Into the trash it goes.