Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 671. page

>>9744808
begin with the sumerians

>>9744845
Clay tablets of the river people

Start with the Mesopotamians (particularly Gligamesh, Atrahasis and Enuma Elish), consider optionally reading some Egyptian works (The Book of the Dead [just don't get Budge's translation it's bad], Sinuhe, and A Man and His Ba). Then unironically start with the Greeks, alongside the Bible. Pretty much all of the surviving Greek works are worth reading, especially if you want to read later literature.

After finishing the Greeks, outside of a few pieces of literature that pretty much everyone should probably read (The Aeneid, Metamorphoses, Don Quixote, Shakespeare, etc.), where you should go really is more up to you, and what you are interested in reading.

You can consult one of any number of canon lists. Bloom's is pretty comprehensive, and Adler worked on a few decent lists.

Make sure to read secondary texts as well. Especially for extremely important texts like The Bible and Homer.

>>9744779
The fabled new Thomas Pynchon book.

>>9744779
I'm gonna be honest, I don't recognize any of this.

>reading anything post 1945

>>9744758

I do not yet know the answer to this question but I hope to in the future. I made a close study of the founding documents some months ago and the Federalist is on my backlog.

There are 85 pieces. The collection has been characterized as a work of political conservatism in the general sense, but I'm not sure as I haven't read it.

There are also "the anti-federalist papers" anon, something I didn't know about until a few years ago. The type of thing that wonks (people who closely study and follow the United States Government) would know about, but the average person doesn't.

Jay's.

>>9744758
10 and 51
They were pretty smart guys. All three of them. They nearly convinced me things were going to be great even though I knew how shit things would turn out. (If they knew a mulatto would one day be elected President, they would have stayed loyal to the king and paid their fucking taxes.)

>>9744561
The burden of proof is on you my friend

>>9744609
>Well, consider this argument that rests entirely on believing the soul is indestructible and that the gods exist...

>>9744609
it's intuitive, therefore justified and fully kosher

Alright considering all of his questions are totally inoffensive

I would kiss him.

I did fine

>>9744511
cool, i happen to be a privilege denying white male and I hate women and coloreds too! pepe vult and seig heil!

>>9744518
I mean, dude literally murdered and cremated that girl. I understand struggling to sympathize somewhat. Couldn't disagree more that it's bad, just somewhat morally difficult.

>>9744539
read up in the history of white supremacy dude, I shouldn't have to be telling you this.

>>9744461
use the wiki sage

If you're looking for manosphere stuff... try no more mr nice guy, or for a more academic feel Sexual Utopia in Power by Revlon.
If you just wanna bitch about online men's movements, then go fuck yourself.

>>9744461
I read a post from this guy on Reddit and was criticising his writing. Got shit on by a bunch of bros , banned from the sub and doxxed. So I go back later to find out the guy has wrote this book, and this is suppose to be the bible or some shit for redpill bros. I really think the writing is interesting, but that he's a horrible writer. I wish he'd of taken my offer to help him edit his shity posts. Like, hey, how about letting a dyslexic edit your work you fuckwad, cause your formatting is terrible, your prose are boring, your structuring of information is shit. Your writing brings in to question any logical statement you make because it's so disorganised and cluttered with unexplained jargon. I will personally punch anyone who paid for this.

But I bet he's actually a cool dude, though. I'd tag along if it got me laid. Or I could just watch or something creepy.

>>9744434
Q T

>>9744434
Maybe it's because each time a woman is brought up /r9k/ posters come scurrying out of the woodwork.

>>9744462

Well what I find particularly saddening is that people who do this just make sex figures out of female writers, are only concerned with the material aspect of literature. It's not unlike /pol/ Christian larpers who put on a guise of the Church's "reactionary" doctrine by posting that anime Christian chick having negative opinions of blacks or gays. Sure, you could say the Catholic Church has/had been historically reactionary but that's not at the forefront of their teachings throughout Christ. It's just people who only view things like commodities.

>>9744423
Semel. Youre welcome.

>>9744423
back to /fa/, pretentious 16 year old minded faggot

>>9744423

the german idealists, from kant and those that followed, developed aesthetic theory well enough that you would be pretty occupied if you decided to explore it.

Is this question real? Of course it fucking does. It's still the most important written thing in theology.

It's a pile of dogshit defending the most braindead hypothesis (abrahamic monotheism) of all time, what do you think?

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>>9744417

>>9744255
were against liberals and people who use alcohol and drugs.
be virtous and take the redpill of whiteness and masculinity and ethnic genocide

>>9744266
are you vegan?

>>9744255
Don't start. He's a hack and PR merchant for "the entheogenic experience" ie drug yourself and have a spiritual experience lol. Same goes for his brother Dennis.

>>9744253
Real men breed white children instead of engaging in degenerate behavoir, sweety

"Dude lmao" is probably one of the worst memes of all time in the sense that it's so simple that it gets picked up by all these retards who don't know how to tell a good joke so they beat this one into the ground and since the mods don't punish for it they never get a good slap across the face that tells them to stop.

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>>9744253
story 3: Aurora

Thus spoke Zarathustra and history of western philosophy by Russell

I don't actually read, I come here for the memes

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>>9744126
Dr. Seuss taught me to read, then the next big one was HG Wells. My cousin got me a set of The Time Machine, Invisible Man, and War of the Worlds for my 9th or 10th birthday, and that was pretty much that... branched out into Jules Verne, Three Musketeers, King Arthur stories, etc. There was also some Wishbone involved at some point.

>>9744042
genesis

it should be the very first pre-requisite to post in this board

what are some non major religion ones?

2001 by Kubrick

>>9743999
I finish everything I start, that's my only rule in life.

>>9743999
I finish everything I start because I'm no quitter

>>9743999
I always follow my will, that's my only rule in life.