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>>7585444
You don't read a lot of philosophy

>Poets:
Rilke
Emerson
>Writers:
Joyce
Ovid
>Philosophers:
Shestov
Schopenhauer

Poets:
Blake
Chaucer

Writers:
Tolstoy
Tacitus

Philosophers:
Plato
Heidegger

>>7585444
You've got a bleak outlook on life, but believe you can persevere through it.

>>7585463
You've got a bleak outlook on life, but believe you can sniff farts through it.

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Poets:
Crane
Donne

Writers:
Melville
Hawthorne

Philosophers:
Heidegger
Aquinas

>>7583065
start with the greeks

>but I don't know where to start

Reddit is a safe bet.

7th grade would be my guess

>KER-PLUNK! My turd slammed into the toilet water, showering my hairy ass with piss-water. In some act of divine mercy, the utter mess of chipotle-infused garbage I had eaten the previous afternoon had managed to solidify itself into one giant log, rather than tormenting me for hours as a greasy stew. I knew that this was somehow a lucky day. A red letter day.
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

Because it was two hundred years ago

>>7597245
Metre.

>Over
2 syllables
>O'er
1 syllable

thas it

>caring about the least interesting beat
at least kerouac was cute

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degeneracy

I'm pretty sure Ginsberg didn't write this ...

>>7597072
If there's a John Dies At the End audiological tape, then that would fit.

I imagine that I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream would be good.

Definitely The Fall of the House of Usher. It reads like it was made to be heard read aloud. He even wrote the final phrase in all caps in the original script, ostensibly indicating the reader should hear it in a booming, horror-movie-preview-guy type voice. If an audio version included a couple key sound effects, it would really be terrific.

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>>7597082
That was a fucking awful film.

>>7596899
One of the great moderns, on par with Joyce.

I enjoyed the two Tropics and Black Spring
got bored with The Colossus of Marousi even though it's supposed to be one of his best
never finished Sexus. I wasn't all that impressed with it.

>>7596732
How many poetry threads do we need?

>>7596735
I am truly very sorry my kind sir, excusez-moi, I shall no longer blatantly waste space that rightly belongs to your literary confessions threads.

>>7596732
My favorite poem is the love song of j. alftred prufrock by T.S. Elliot. I don't really know why. It just is

>>7596531
Emmet, pls respond

They shut down ages ago senpai.

Sorry

>>7596758
Proof or it didnt happen

No. I have no friends.

>>7596685
Or slaves.

No but I think my mom will be a Thelma Toole.

>>7595554
my diary to be honest

I went to a christian elementary school. In class, we had to read some parts of the book together. given the fact that i was about 6-11 years old at the time i can't really say what is worth reading in the litterary/moral sense.

Nevertheless, I really enjoyed the books of David and Samson, pure for the storyline. its nice, like reading a novel if you have a modern version of the bible. The book of Caïn and Abel is a classic brother story in which, if you have a brother, you can definitly identify yourself (though the ending is a little bit extreme to say the least, no spoilers). The new testament is a bit overdone by Hollywood so it might be nice to re-read it, see where the story originates from. And the book from the new testament where Petre continues his journey is really good too.

Can't really think of anything else now. Hope this helped mate. Good luck!

>>7595554
Ecclesiastes is pretty well regarded, I've heard.

>>7595541
Atlas Shrugged

>>7595559
good joke

1984, BNW, We, The giver, never let me go

Off the top of my head

It somehow became a fucking meme to hate Don Delillo here. Ignore obvious shitposters.

White Noise is a brilliant novel, OP. What did you like most about it?

>>7595507
I enjoyed White Noise, Libra and Underworld.
Didn't care for End Zone, which in fairness was very early in his career

>>7595507

>asking whether /lit/ likes Delillo

Lurk moar before posting

>>7595364
Yes. Skip Buddhism and go straight to Taoism.

>>7595364
>Buddhist philosophy
>Buddhist
>Philosophy

>>7595364
Buddhist philosophy is a massive corpus.

The earliest stuff is the abhidharma of the Pali canon, literally "phenomenology." Might check out Nyanaponika Thera's Abhidhamma Studies: Buddhist Explorations of Consciousness and Time.

Mahayana philosophy is usually depicted as being comprised of two pillars - Madhyamaka and Yogacara. For Madhyamaka the principal work is Nagarjuna's Mulmadhyamakakarikas. Use the Nishijima translation. For Yogacara Vasubandhu is the main guy. I can't think of a good intro book on that.

The third phase of Buddhism, Vajrayana, things get much more complicated. For the Tibetan tradition, Tsongkhapa, founder of the Geluk sect (the Dalai Lama's sect) is very straightforward and systematic in his writings, and forged an extremely precise form of Buddhist dialectics. In Japan it was Kukai. Around this time Chan/Zen was born in China. Huineng's platform sutra is a good starting point. Then there's no shortage of English books on Japanese Zen, so I won't get into that here.

Buddhist philosophy, as you can see, is a very general umbrella term. Lots of stuff there.

>>7594718
>>>/r/books/

Not my favorite writer but you can talk to a lot of people about Breakfast of Champions or Slaughterhouse.

I like Breakfast of Champions more of the two

>>7594724
Kill yourself?