Can someone point me toward some journals or other first hand writings of the mentally ill?
>>9822838
the red book
but other than that, I'm interested as well
my
4chan
A reddit tier friend just sent me this
I honestly found it interesting
Discuss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBRqu0YOH14&app=desktop
so what do you think about it?
>>9822816
Seemed like much ado about nothing to me.
"The world is a void and nothing matters, have fun"
literally babby's first nihilism intro.
>>9823717
This
Great video and really fun to watch but the ideas behind it are basic.
What's the funnest book?
The Bible as you smirk to yourself knowing that there are imbeciles who STILL believe that shit.
>>9822773
Don Quijote is pretty fun. I read it when I was an edgy "reading is for fags" teen but I was surprised at the familiar humor.
Is there any notable literature by a white man that doesn't have anything to do with being a white man?
Is there any notable literature that does? I honestly don't think there is.
>>9822715
Watership Down, ya fuckin fool.
>>9822715
checkmate whitey!
What are some subtle /lit/ clothing that you guys wear?
kys
>>9822712
>No-gods-no-masters.com
for only 39.99 I too can look like the discerning egotist that everyone envies
>he hasnt read more than 70% of the books in his bookshelf
efags need not apply
>>9822523
>70%
that's low. 90 is closer
>>9822523
Why would I need to own books I have already read?
I have read about 5 books from start to finish in my entire life. Four of them are by Nietzsche, the fifth one is a Beethoven biography.
My bookshelf has literally hundreds of books: all the classics, philosophy, essays and so on. I have only skimmed them, some of them I have never opened. It's a shame I know. Will I be excused if I say that I'm battling with depression?
When will I outgrow existentialism?
>>9822512
When you finally get a job, snowflake.
When you reach six feet.
>>9822525
>a job is the meaning to life
Fuck off wageslave
Describe what a Venn diagram does, how it works and why it's useful.
>>9822459
I don't even know what board this belongs on.
>>9822459
Its a means to represent overlapping sets, useful to humans who aren't great at cognizing commonalities between multiple arrays
It's used to show what Germans would call Schnittmengen and it can be used to humourous effects, for example when you have two circles called "OPs" and "fags" and the overlapping area is labelled "(You)".
>describing someone's words as droning parrot-like utterances rather than actual concepts, like "freeze peach"
Is there a name for this rhetorical device/ad hominem?
Being a retarded little faggot
Did somebody hurt your whittle feewings OP? Yeah that shit is obnoxious. The only people that I ever see doing it are the SJW types.
>>9822483
Altwoke faggots are much more obnoxious than SJWs. At least the former know not what they do.
What is the problem with roundabout, mumbly, needlessly vocabulary-prone writers and how can we convince people that they're not smart for writing like this, unless they're deliberately trying to decrease the amount of people who can understand them out of a justified elitism. I think we should burn all the thesauri. People don't need help to be pretentious. Random Latin phrases that have less glamorous-sounding English equivalents also need to stop.
your life needs to stop
>>9822452
look into "Anglish"
English without Latin.
Or just learn german
>>9822452
Some people genuinely read to feel smart- or more accurately, smarter than others. That's the audience for these writers.
They're also the loudest audience. The only thing better than feeling like you're smarter than other people is acting like you are in a social setting.
Then actual smart people, like you and me, probe their thinking, and end up bitterly unimpressed by the empty platitudes and maxims and references that apparently turn a novel in to a piece of "serious literature".
Just try and ignore them. They're easy to spot.
I seriously can't read this book anymore. I don't understand why this book is so beloved. I can't stand this Humbert Humbert character. "Oh, I'm so eloquent and verbose, but I'm also a pedophile who pretty much exclusively talks about fucking this girl". Enough! It's so bad that I pick up the book, and I can hardly get past a single page because I just don't understand what the point of this story is.
In a book like Siddhartha, I get what the point is. You're on a quest for enlightenment. I don't have a problem with books that don't have a clear purpose, but this one doesn't seem to have much purpose beyond the "prose" and the drama.
I am not beyond having someone explain this book to me in a way that makes me appreciate it to the point of being interested in it.
The opening literally tells you what its about.
Humbert is going on a self-indulgent and highly biased rant about his pedophilic escapades.
>>9822442
I bet you're the type of person who needs to "identify" with the protagonist.
Honestly I have a hard time reading any sort of romance novel.
post your favourite book covers.
in before something inappropriate
>>9822624
I wonder what the japs about the sketch comedy due of kamikaze pilots at the end.
What do you guys think of Martin Amis? I just picked up a copy of Money which I'll probably not get around to reading for a couple of weeks. Opinions on Kingsley are welcome as well.
>>9822286
I thought The Zone of Interest was, well, interesting. Nothing spectacular.
he has a cool voice
>>9822286
His best friend was Hitchens. That's all i know.
What did he mean "We need to put humans into zoos"?
Because the tiger is out
>>9822228
you've misheard him, he actually said "we need to offer humans up to zeus". sloterdijk is a well known advocate of polytheistic human sacrifice.
As far as popular fiction goes, what do you think of Stephen King? Is he a decent writer? Do you think he has (or used to have) good ideas?
thinking about reading it. Tried to read a couple King books, never got very far. Then I read that there's like, kid sex in it? Which kind of skeeved me out. Been thinking about reading it lately. The new movie that's coming out kind of reminded me.
You read it op? Do you think it's good?
I think he writes good characters, but his books are famously hit or miss.
>>9822207
IT is the only book of his I enjoy.
>>9822195
I read him alot when I was young because my mother wanted me to start reading adult books and these were accessible. I think they vary massively in quality, with stuff like Misery, The Shining, IT, Different Seasons, and Needful Things up top, and most of the rest, especially after he stopped doing drugs, at the bottom. His prose is terrible
"x", he said
"yz?"
"xwg"
He looked uncomfortable, glancing up the stairs.
"xyz...x"
but the ideas he came up with are the results of a good mind + narcotics, and should be respected.