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Start with the Greeks

>>8089134
First of all, coming to /lit/ for this kind of advice was a bad ideal.

Second, reading along with audiobooks will make you stupider.

Third, if you're going straight from Harry Potter to LOTR, you're not going to enjoy it. Read some contemporary adult fantasy like Terry Brooks, Pratchett, Martin or Robert Jordan before tackling Tolkien. It's not particularly difficult, just dryer but much more poetic and meaningful than shit you're used to.

You wrote two paragraphs[2[6]] to troll?[5] That's[9] what I[8] call dedication to the craft[1].

[1]the craft of trolling
[2]speaking in first person, speaking to first person in thread[3]
[5]This symbol is a question mark.
[6]I'm[7] using these number designations as notes so the reader can better understand what I'm[7] writing since I'm bad at writing and can't convey my message properly in the text itself.
[8]selfishness personified
[9]ambiguous[10]

[3]OP[4]
[7]the author
[10]read 7 types of ambiguity[11]

[4]original poster
[11]written by some promiscuous[12] degenerate

[12]Get it[13]?

[13]The joke[14]

[14]*.

>>8089106
>Why is he so Underrated?
Underrated isn't a proper noun, it's a verb

also did you really have to include that? You already know people will hate you for that, and if you don't then you clearly aren't very underrated.

>>8089113
Why are you trying so hard to be intellectual?

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>>8089106

He isn't underrated, he is widely credited for his influence on different "isms" and also on subsequent philosophers.

If you mean underrated in the sense that there is not as wide of an interest in him by the general population as there is with others or that there is not a consensus among academics that he was a more important philosopher then others then its because he isn't really as unique or original as many people on /lit/ seem to think he his.

His ideas were just the latest iteration of a branch within philosophy that had been present since the Greek skeptics (whom Stirner cites in his book) and who many people before him had touched upon. I understand that on /lit/ there tends to be a glorification of him that somewhat idolizes and mystifies him but his ideas are less impressive when you understand that they are basically just a new take on something which had already been addressed a dozen times. Its not as though he came up with entirely original ideas and insights on his own. He was aware of previous Greek and modern skeptic and skeptic-like philosophers and incorporated what he knew about them into his own version of skepticism.

Stirner is definitely worth reading but its not as though he towers above the other major philosophers from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

>>8089076
I'm monitering this thread, i've asked myself this same question before but never really cared enough to search..

Here: http://www.library.theoi.com/

The best surviving works, as you probably know already, are from Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

>>8089101
Check out here too: http://www.theoi.com/Bibliography.html

The entire Theoi website is good for the matter.

Keep in mind there's no such thing as the 'original story', ancient Greek culture was mainly transmitted by oral forms and poets and rhapsodes used to modify the myths by their own desires. Even in tragedies, the mythical stories differ between the authors.

Obligatory warning of religious texts

>>8089022
Thanks for the heads up. I started reading the Koran recently. XD

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>>8089016
Psychology textbooks
Sociology textbooks
Highschool counselor's list of top 10 anything

For me, it was the myth of Sisyphus

>>8089012
You mean the one that literally ends with "Just pretend your happy :D"

>>8089012

ummm yeah dude just find excitement in the grass around u.... pushing boulders up mountains for eternirty isnt that bad...

That really doesn't capture how much of a qt Rimjaub was

Augusto dos Anjos.

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>>8088877
How about this one, anon?

>>8088895
I can't seem to find his work in English, has it not been translated?

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion was boring.

dreamers by Knut hamsun

Berserk - Miura

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>>8088806
They, like most people, are the tragic victims of ideology.

Unconscious desire for the opposite sex in a sufficient quantity of their residing habitat to procreate and extend their species in the ultimate goal in insemination of the macrocosm.

>>8088806
Like most things in life, its a problem of balance. The uptight stoic cliche of his time, has been replaced by a hyper-emotional, unreliable wuss, who's embraced the gradual cultural retardation that seems to be the legacy of this period, and the three generations before it.

I also think that, like so many of these types of things, he was reacting to people who were being too self-conscious, or inauthentic. People who wear nothing but trilbies and are afraid to show emotion are about as insufferable at times as Portland-types who act as if they've emerged from a Mumblecore film set.

Or maybe, he was responding to type of person that doesn't actually exist, since everybody's unique and have they're own unique problems, and he just wanted to open his books to the lucrative adult market by giving them a justification.

Infinite Jest

What symbol is that?

a girl is no one

beezleboob lol

Gurdjieff gave a very specific reason why he wrote the book that way in the introduction, you could read his others next since he did acknowledge how difficult it was for many.

dude you been smoking that beezlebud lmfao

his major collected works in a single volume, start from page 1, flip through the aphorisms, most importantly read Zarathusta.

the portable neitzsche

Also sprach Zarathustra

>using male pronouns

Literally kill yourself, you transphobic piece of shit.

the ethical slut

hahahahahahahhahahahahaha!

Has the average IQ of /lit/ users dropped by like 15 points in the past few months or am I imagining it?

Cock is one of my favorite tastes. Not only that, but balls smell amazing. It makes me go a little crazy on it to be honest. Like, I cannot get it far enough down my throat to be satisfied. I’m only satisfied when I feel those intense, powerful, salty, hot pumps of cum down my throat. When I sit back on my heels, look up at you with cum all over my mouth and slobber running down my neck, hair all fucked up and wipe my mouth with the back of my arm and ask you if I did a good job and you cannot even speak because I’ve drained all of your energy out the tip of your dick….. That’s when I’m satisfied.

i think you're being subtle enough. focus more on the psychology of it i suppose? your writing in general needs improvement however

Make it a learning experience for the reader. Explain in scientific detail what is chemically happening during the scene.

Gotta give us more than that.

>>8088586
Thinking rationally, clarity of thoughts, logic, etc.

>>8088586
5'11", brown eyes, raised by single mother, shaved my moustache last week, prefer coffee and tea without milk or sugar

lol loser

>I will never have a qt blind wife to read Borges and Shakespeare to

Killll meee

>>8088560
I'm eighteen, going to a mediocre instate school in august, starting a a sophomore because of dual credits

thinking of double majoring in neurobiology and linguistics with a minor in philosophy

am i fucking myself lit? be honest....