Has a book ever given you a sense of purpose and direction which didn't fade after 15 minutes?
>>8028535
Read Whitman's Leaves of Grass
>>8028632
>life is good because i get to look at trees
think i'll pass
>>8028535
lol go ask your DAD
Was Shakespeare autistic?
>>8028503
no. why do you make dumb threads?
"he" was a black womyn
Nope, but you are.
I will reveal it at the fifteenth post.
Max Weber
Freud
>>8028497
Yes he's Max weber!!
Anybody read anything by this author? My sister knew her back in college and said her writing was shit (i'm guessing that is based off of her fan fiction or something).
I'm pretty sure it's generic (albeit praised by the NY Times and USA Today, apparently) YA fiction. Curious if /lit/ has read any of it, though.
>>8028429
looks like something dear to heart. probably nothing special, but it was probably special to her and that's all that matters. good for her.
i will not take part in your hate bashing op
get a life
Well she's at the helm of a new genre of contemporary fiction so she's more important than either you or your sister or anyone here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New-adult_fiction
>Bliss Edwards
Not reading that shit.
Which philosophy book or author do you feel has been the most mind expanding to you?
>>8028424
Ayn Rand
>>8028430
and why?
SAM HARRIS
What do people think about self-publishing a novella as an E-book? I will soon have finished my 17,000-21,000 odd novella and am under the impression that publishers are not interested in novellas unless you're already published / have readers. Is self-publishing an E-book the way to go? Anyone got any tips?
>>8028395
I have one tip... but your mom is too busy licking it.
i hacked your computer and read it, it;s shit. don't bother
Cheers guys, anyone else?
I'm looking for a book that faces the philosophical challenges of life, and digs deeper into them than I could hope with my mere intellectual ability. I want a book that faces the complete pointlessness of life, the mystery and search for knowledge, the disappointment of accepting what we don't know, the struggle to overcome the meaninglessness and pointlessness of existence. Do all great thinkers decide that they want to kill themselves because they realize that life isn't worth living? I want a book that tackles these questions.
Fiction or non-fiction? Try reading "Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique; Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky" (its on library genesis) for a meta overview of the problem.
ASKJAJSKJAKSJKASKAJSAJKJASKSAJ
For this you will need to learn German
I want to get into Byron, but I have no idea what to start with- help?
Also, is there any preliminary reading for Byron? Or can I just leap right in?
Don Juan, obviously.
You have been reading Byron. You have been marking the
passages that seem to approve of your own character. I find
marks against all those sentences which seem to express a
sardonic yet passionate nature; a moth-like impetuosity dashing
itself against hard glass. You thought, as you drew your pencil
there, “I too throw off my cloak like that. I too snap my
fingers in the face of destiny.” Yet Byron never made tea as
you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the
tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table – it is
running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up,
clumsily, with your pocket-handkerchief. You then stuff your
handkerchief back into your pocket – that is not Byron; that is
you; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty
years’ time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it
will be by that scene; and if you are dead, I shall weep. Once
you were Tolstoy’s young man; now you are Byron’s young
man; perhaps you will be Meredith’s young man; then you will
visit Paris in the Easter vacation and come back wearing a
black tie some detestable Frenchman whom nobody has ever
heard of. Then I shall drop you.
>>8028298
Before Juan you absolutely have to read Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
>hahah, anon you're so funny. Have you ever thought about writing a book?
i have written several, all to be released from a temperature controlled chest 3 days after my heart stops beating in a location indicated on a note in my bank safebox at the TD bank at Fenwood Heights.
Of course I've thought about it...
Where are the fucking car keys?! Can you get up and help me look?
5 to 1 that chick has a cock
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/subway-creep-william-faulkner-busted-rubbing-woman-article-1.2632507
Absolutely disgusting, I hope they take away his nobel and pulitzer prizes
>>8028252
>>8028252
>Tfw this is my fetish
Is there any essential nationalist literature?
Der Hessische Landbote
it's your fault you posted that picture
What nation are you talking about? Every Nation has their own essential National literature
Could a good philosophical work be composed entirely of memes?
Philosophy is transferred though memes, yet not composed of them.
The fallacy of the subjective is that it subsumes yet is also too reliant on the ontological.
>>8028186
it's already been done.
Hello /lit/, I haven't read a single Stephen King book since I'm just getting into literature.
What S.K. books would you recommend to me?
>>8027993
Skip this shitty author and read the sticky. Start with the Greeks (and The Bible).
>>8027993
I've only read Pet Sematary but that was pretty good
>>8027993
>What S.K. books would you recommend to me?
None
Why are pages used as a measure of length and not word count?
>>8027970
Because then publishers couldn't use huge letters and massive letters to inflate the size of the book and make little Timmy/disappointingly not little Stacy think that they're reading *really intelligent doorstoppers*.
"Alright class. Tonight's homework is to read to word 2,643. Oh and don't forget, be ready to review words 1,158-2,227 next Tuesday."
easier to reference
>but you could just use lines!
how would you know where the line is located?
So /lit/, do you read multiple books at once?
I try not to, but if I'm reading a huge ass tome then I'll start reading other books inbetween. I think I read like 5 books while reading Brothers Karamazov.
Yes. I will read something more comfy and something more challenging side by side and pick one depending on my mood.
>>8027963
>a confederacy of dunces at the bottom
>botns third from the bottom
can't place the rest.