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>>8138544
start with the greeks.

OP Here.
I forgot to ask, but could you recommend me any good books that may help me with this?

>>8138544
>>8138550

You won't change your entire personality by reading a single book. You do it through experience and introspection.

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>>8138451
Review brah?

Finnegans Wake is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is significant for its experimental style and reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language.

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Of course it has, guys like Houellebecq are evidence.

>>8138398
Does the entirely of analytic philosophy count as literature?

yea yam yam

yamborghini high lambo by the crib
this is how it's this is how we live
bitches bitches bitches

this is such an awful, awful cover

>>8138408
let's only discuss the literature itself please. the cover is immaterial.

what

>>8138382
This

muh freewill

uhh... you literally posted a picture proving the opposite
paul auster has made a whole career on having nothing to say (and written some good books, too)

>>8138326
It's a retarded and deluded statement.

I want to write about navigating identity, living in the margins of society, on love and optimism, I want to narrate a dreamy aesthetic, breaking down barriers, being stuck in bed with depression like an anchor around your throat, double entendre and visual puns, why I'm right about everything, a soft touch on the nape of your neck, dead sparkling eyes, the sound of an ocean crashing over and over and drowning out your mind.

>William Vollmann

I really like You Bright and Risen Angels but jesus christ if Vollmann isn't the goofiest hick looking motherfucker.

>>8138302
somewhere out there Pynchon sheds a tear and doesn't know why

Who is James Joyce? Who is Virgina Woolf?

the jerk store

>>8138166
1984 is the crawling of books

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>>8138194

first post best post

>>8138014

>save publishing

And ruin literature all the while

My dad might like this

So he's inventing short stories and novellas? Literally the only new thing about this is the standardised pricing.

>>8137999
enjoy the carver, trips.

>>8137999
I'll join you, OP, as soon as you burn that Vineland

>>8138083
why the hate for Vineland. it's a first edition :D. I probably won't read it for a while. still have to read against the day and inherent vice first.

boring dreck for women

saw it at the thrift store yesterday for .50$ and decided to leave empty handed instead.

>>8137859
It's on my reading list, I've heard good things.
>coming to /lit/ to validate literary tastes
yeah don't do that

387 so far

>>8137820
lol.

Read about 500 so far. ugh, it's just my passion. I'm living in a cabin btw guys, incase you were interested.

I DON'T KNOW

I'M NOT GAY


HERO IS FIT AS FUCK BUT BEATRICE BTFO HER FOR THAT QUICK WIT

I haven't gone to barnes and nobles lately, i'm trying to read other authors, sorry about that.

>>8137685
His prose style is like Poe on bath salts. I think it is fair to call it 'bad'.

>>8137685
He's good. In tailoring his own genre, he became its primary example and his oft-criticized writing style is crucial to the genre's weird atmosphere. You cannot call him a bad writer, for what he predominately wrote. He struggled with dialogue, but he knew that and rarely ever attempted it. Nevertheless, his influence during his lifetime and beyond it was and is vast. What more can be said of the man?

>>8137631
which of your pleb idols was dismissed, anon?

>>8137638
Do you really think I'd venture an opinion? And I came here looking for recommendations.

It's 4chan, I'm not sure what you expect. Every now and then there are some really good discussions, but yeah, most of it is filler where we throw around our memes mindlessly.

>Does everyone here just share the same opinions

pretty much. post something that goes against the general board culture without backing it up with thoughtful insight and the thread will be shit. Theres a difference between a thread that says "Why do you virgins dismiss female authors" and one that brings up an interesting point about say, Virginia Woolf's work. Sure some of these specific threads will die off, but every once in a while they strike gold.

>>8137425
Read Tolstoy.

>>8137425
Depressing lit does not help at all. And people need to stop perpetrating this meme. If you truly want to get better, I hate to say it, but you have to do all the things that mom told you to do. Talk to someone, meet people, hang out in a nice environment, live a healthy lifestyle. Meds in my experience are hit or miss, and kind of dangerous. Depressing lit is helpful sometimes, when it allows you to realize that you're not the only one in the entire universe who thinks this way, and it helps you to validate your experiences and have a few moments of cathartic bitterness and spite against the world, adds some aesthetic to your suffering, which helps. But this is a never ending rabbit hole. You will not get better, but will instead continue to wallow deeper and deeper in your suffering, making your problems more and more complex and more and more inescapable, until you realize it may be too late. Depressing lit is some of the best literature, definitely, but if you really want to escape depression, it's probably not the best idea to immerse yourself in it.

>>8137425

Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Dr. David Burns, Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy (more or less CBT [Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy] in book form; not that I'm an advocate of eliminating therapy or medication if they're necessary, but this is solid and not typical empty self-help)

For fiction, I'll mention Siddhartha and hasten the backlash against that title.