Friendly reminder that nrx/dark enlightenment is reddit fedora shit
Ulysses, Gravity's Rainbow and Infinite Jest are some of the highest rated books on /r/books
>>7852352
>on /r/books
how would you know anon
>>7852337
Begone philistine! the most learned gentlemen scholars have always gravitated to the perennial ideals of Monarchy, Faith and Tradition.
Where do I start with Russian literature?
>>7852299
Start with the Greeks.
greeks
I started with Crime and Punishment. Dost is my boy
Is Project Gutenberg a good place to download ANARCHIST EBOOKS?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gutenberg
Is this a meme?
Read some anarchist philosophers and learn about world history and the history of capitalism instead of reading shit from that website. It's probably some sort of honeypot to begin with, and the books there just aren't well written.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/index.htm#anarchism
How necessary is Aristotle? He's drier than Kant desu
No philosophers are really "necessary." If you're reading philosophers for "necessary" I got some bad news for ya.
Aristotle's writings are just a bunch of lecture notes slapped together by his successors.
>>7852140
They're necessary to understand the foundations of Western civilization beyond "Jebus did it and made us hapy XD"
Can I get an analysis of this video? I want an explanation of exactly what is wrong with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS4jk5kavy4
Sounds like Odysseus has read some Nietzsche/Stirner/Machiavelli
Also all the stupid patriarchy/women shit is just annoying
He is too opinionated. I am all for treating women well but what does this have to do with interpreting a work from 3000 years ago
>tfw you read books so good that every other one is a step back
>>7852093
>tfw op's post is so shitty every subsequent post is a step forward
>>7852093
>Not understanding being a moment to moment nihilist.
>Not understand the temporal decay and ornatement of art.
that's how I feel about my own book I'm writing. honestly I'd rather just re-read over and over again what I've written so far rather than read anything else.
ITT: Books women will never understand
>>7851904
this tb h
WOMEN OF /LIT/ BTFO
WHEN WILL THE CARNAGE STOP!!!
>>7851904
fucking this
Damn, son.
laugh riot one minute
rip your heart out and stomp on it the next
utter pleb shit
kys OP and kys that guy above
I was looking into the other books in the series - I ended up reading what happens between LD and The Streets of Laredo and now I want to hang myself.
When does Lovecraft get good? I'm reading through his entire collection of stories right now, about halfway through. His stories so far have fallen into three categories
>The crazy adventures of some guy in a dream. Look at all of this crazy shit in this dream, so fucking crazy woooooo
>Look at this creepy thing, it's kinda creepy but there's a normal explanation. But what really happened in the end was it was waaaaay spooky woooooo
>Look at these crazy monsters and how weird they look. Crazy right?
I'm reading the reviews of this stuff, and in every story it's saying that even Lovecraft thought it was shit. How am I supposed to enjoy stuff that its own author didn't even write? There have been a couple of good stories, but most of them have been shit. Also, I don't really understand why Cthulhu is so popular or why that's the story that sticks out. Yeah it was better than most of the stories I read so far, but it was still fairly boring.
>>7851764
1/10 made me (you)
>>7851836
I'm not baiting though. When does Lovecraft get good? Because it's been shit so far. The Music of Erich Zann was good. Call of Cthulhu and Re-Animator were okay. The rest were mediocre to shit.
>>7851862
Do you just not enjoy horror, dread, or impending doom? What did you think his stories were about? They are all about dreams and monsters and aliens and other worlds.
Specifically which stories did you read? Maybe take a crack at the shorter pieces. But if you don't enjoy ones like Cool Air, Pickman's Model, or The Temple then maybe Lovecraft isn't for you.
Does anyone else here force themselves to read books they find tedious because they 'should' or because the books 'must be' good and if you don't like them you're just not trying hard enough?
Did this hit too close to home?
yes doing that with blood meridian right now
>>7851810
>another yecarthy propaganda victim
RIP friend you got memed. corncobs-man is literally stephen king tier.
>Camus, Albert. Dislike him. Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me. Awful.
>Conrad, Joseph. A favorite between the ages of 8 and 14. Essentially a writer for very young people. Certainly inferior to Hemingway and Wells. Intolerable souvenir-shop style, romanticist clichés. Nothing I would care to have written myself. In mentality and emotion, hopelessly juvenile. Romantic in the large sense. Slightly bogus.
>Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.
>Faulkner, William. Dislike him. Writer of corncobby chronicles. To consider them masterpieces is an absurd delusion. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me.
>Hemingway, Ernest. A writer of books for boys. Certainly better than Conrad. Has at least a voice of his own. Nothing I would care to have written myself. In mentality and emotion, hopelessly juvenile. Loathe his works about bells, balls, and bulls.
>Mann, Thomas. Dislike him. Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up.
>Sartre, Jean-Paul. Even more awful than Camus.
what the fuck was this guy's problem?
>>7851220
Source please.
Cornfather was right about everyone except for Faulkner
Really seems to have a type in terms of his resentment for existentialist and absurdists, I used to really like Camus, and while I can level with a person's outrage towards that movement for being too....quasi romantic, to zealously go out of your way to individually criticize writers of the movement seems a bit counter-intuitive in a broad sense... Don't get me wrong I still love Camus, I just think I got out of that all I could, thoughts? Personal experiences? Recommendations? Shoot.
I've started a journey to transform myself into a renaissance man. Going back to school for Physics in fall and have started a reading list of pic related. Any other literature that you would recommend?
Already read through most of Orwell so far
>>7851111
You could start forgiving what you read on Orwell
>>7851130
You mean "forgetting"?
>>7851130
Found the butthurt Bern victim
>benjy is the sound
>jason is the fury
So is Quentin the 'and'?
>>7850607
is that shadow raping
http://furry.booru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=sounding
>tfw going on a road trip with the family for Easter weekend
>brought along comfy Clash of Kings GoT book
What are some good /lit/ feels my dudes?
>genre fiction
JUST
>>7850567
Well it's genre is fiction, but okay.
>>7850561
>tfw saw kid in my Math class reading Clash of Kings
>tfw when I saw a pepe on his phone once out of the corner of my eye
Travel the world then read books, or read books then travel the world?
Neither; read the world then travel books.