Can anybody recommend me a good book on Shinto?
古事記
>>7802889
It seems like a great book but I cant read it if it's all in runes
>>7802879
It's a racial 'religion', using the term loosely. That's what I like about it.
You better not be thinking about becoming the weeaboo equivalent of a pagan LARP'er.
If you just want to study it, I can't help you there
If the opinions of agents and publishers are unreliable than how do you know if your work is any good, or if you have any talent at all?
Ask /lit/erate people
>>7802795
You don't, ever.
>>7802924
>asking /lit/
Nietzsche and Nietzsche-influenced reading thread.
r o l l
>>7802578
>roll thread
>on /lit/
>>7802585
i would like to see more roll on /lit desu
>he thinks he has to be depressed in order to become a good writer
maybe not but works with a depressing nature certainly are the greatest
the traits that would make you a good author would also help in getting into a depressed state
>>7802558
Stop with this meme. Just because your life is shitty doesn't mean you have talent for writing.
Has anyone read Jasper Fforde's "The Eyre Affair"?
Thoughts about it? What did you particularly like about it? The style, the prose?
Is that a porsche 356? Is the book about porsches? I sure love porsches.
Sincerely, your env/o/y
>>7802519
It was fun. I have a small assignment on it due next week.inb4 we're at the same uni
I was gifted this book by an english teacher (neither of us are anglos) but never read it. Am I wrong?
What is the best app to read literature on your mobile device for FREE?
that's right for FREE!
I have an app on which I read the KJ Bible for free.
OP here.
I guees I have to read pdf files for now.
>>7802414
>KJV
Good job. Modern translations always seem so linguistically bankrupt by comparison.
Hi /lit/. I've heard that the best place to start with philosophy is the Greeks, and the most entry-level book of Greek philosophy is Plato's The Republic. I found a copy of C. D. C. Reeve's translation in a used bookstore and bought it. My question for you all: did I fuck up? Is it a quality translation? Is it very readable and understandable? Does it get its points across clearly and succinctly? If it isn't a good translation, what is?
Thanks, everyone.
>>7802373
Reeve's is fine.
You fucked up thinking it's entry level.
You'll probably misread it.
>>7802373
Dude, it realy isn't that hard. Go to Wikipedia, search for "ancient greek philosophy", learn what pre-socratic philosophy is and start with it.
Also, I don't recommend reading original texts. You don't know their intellectual and historical context, thus you'll probably misread them. If you really want to start with basics, read Copleston. It's no shame.
Similar thread was started before but it died out.
Post easy to read "philosophy" books that are very entry-level (do not require prior knowledge).
Pic related, will post more below.
This is to help those interested in "philosophy" but intimidated by the dedication most guides for "getting into it" call for.
Pic related.
Tao Te Ching I would highly recommend, the following I would too if you liked the former.
You might want to skip this one if you find it too intimidating though, but it shouldn't be too difficult either.
Pic related serves as a great introduction to Buddhism, but if you're not the kind to enjoy theology, then do skip it.
Still, it would make your bookshelf look exotic to most plebians.
>>7802336
Woops.
So /lit/, as you know to live the truly literary lifestyle (that is applicable for most people on this board) one must embrace solitude.
What compelled you to retreat from society, at an emotional if not literal level?
For me, it was the realization that a majority of people (including all of my friends and family) would lose interest in me, as a friend, if I did not enlist for military service in the time of war.
Really opened my eyes to how evolutionarily molded our psyches can be and therefore how their natural tendencies don't often work out in favor of our happiness, since that is not a factor that caused their existence (some might even say that is their effect, not cause).
Pic related because any discussion on solitude is incomplete without it.
Noone?
>>7802359
This thread is about solitude. Please keep it down, thank you.
>>7802316
Self-contempt, doubt, insecurity, performance anxiety, imposter syndrome, pre-empting the shame of being excluded by excluding myself.
There, now do you have enough of my weaknesses to build a game plan against?
>ITT 10/10 hot books
>>7802245
This translation any good?
Why does Zarathustra love mankind?
>>7802161
Stockholm syndrome
Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.
>>7802161
>love
*tips fedora*
lTT: tastefully depressing books
My life.
>>7802063
Wish you would step back from that ledge my friend
>>7802054
I have to tell how "If" by Rudyard Kipling has persuasive text. Can someone help me with this as i've been working on it for hours and cant find anything persuasive.
>>7801826
"You'll be a man, my son." Is this not persuading someone to machismo and masculine tendencies, enforcing normative stereotypes to a considerable extent?
>>>/hm/
the homework board
>>7801838
>homework board
>hm
>homemork?
"And this is the Lincoln bedroom. This is one of Ronnie's favorites. He likes to relax in here and just read magazines. These drapes are based on the original drapes, a nice maroon color, don't you think," Nancy said, letting her slender fingers slide down the smooth, opulent fabric.
Mr. T reached out and covered her delicate little hand with his large, calloused one. An electricity passed through Nancy's skin, tingling down her body, and she turned to him, now backed against the window, and looked up into his eyes, tender and gentle within his manly scowling face.
"Well," she said, swallowing, "I guess that's pretty much the whole tour. Maybe we should--"
He covered her mouth with his, his lips on hers, kissing and sucking. His powerful hands grabbed her lithe body, strong as iron, and he enveloped her with an overwhelming embrace. As their tongues explored each other's mouths, she felt a spreading warmth and wetness coming from her long-neglected womanhood. As if sensing her thoughts, his hands were under her skirt, the many gold rings scraping against her thighs as he pulled down her underwear, already soaked and clinging.
He hoisted her up against the window, and after some initial fumbling, he was inside her hot gash up to the hilt, filling her with a rock hardness she had never known before. Her moans sounded like they were coming from somebody else as they filled the room. Beneath this lusty, animalistic sound, was the steady clinking of his abundant gold necklaces, as he drove his thuggish love tool home, again and again. She cried out, releasing herself, abandoning herself to the ecstasy, a flood of redolent womanliness pouring from within her as her body was rocked by orgasm after post-menopausal orgasm.
"Oh, T! T!" she cried. "Yes! I say yes! Fuck me with that big black monster! Fill my dirty republican crack!"
In response to her superfluous jibba-jabba, T roared "I pity the pussy that gets fucked by Mr. T" and railed her with renewed vigor.
Nancy became aware of another sound, distinct from the clatter of jewelry. It was the steady squeaking of her ass cheeks as they rubbed up and down on the window. Suddenly, coming to her senses, she turned to look at the view behind her. The White House lawn was filled with a large group of Japanese dignitaries, all of them looking up, thoroughly engrossed with the proceedings.
Just then, a powerful tsunami of cum-power exploded through her body, and she let out a savage jungle-cry that shook the chandeliers and caused the portrait of Chester A. Arthur to hang crookedly. The window broke, and they both plummeted out onto the lawn. As they hit the ground, T's shaft was driven to the remotest reaches of Nancy's pleasure cavern, and the dam finally broke on a biblical deluge of bitch-goo that left the Japanese ambassadors stunned, soaked, and eventually applauding.
>>7801565
Very good but couldn't you've used somebody german instead of Mr. T?
can't wait till VR is perfected so i can reenact this fantasy for real
>>7801565
I seen that reddit comment too
Just finished this.. wow
It was incredible! What did you guys think? Can you reccomend something similar?
go away
Lobotomy by Ice Pick
>>7801553