bookzz is gone lads. Where are people supposed to pirate now?
>>9590380
b-ok
>>9590382
This.
Also, just use libgen like the rest of us.
>>9590411
Libgen has next to nothing. Fuck off with this meme and read more
Psychological book where the father locks his son up and keeps him there for a long long time. I remember hearing about this, does something like it exist?
>>9590292
Pic unrelated lol
>>9590292my diary desu
>>9590576
fucking kek
We want to believe that there is a certain prospect in thereby there is worth in it. This is like the concept of Existentialism or rather Absurdism in Camus’ view. That since everything is ephemeral and one does not possess of afterlife (accord to him), that it is a waste of effort to simply do anything. We, humans, stand in the perspective unlike the following apropos. Thus, we believe in the concept of Formalism to the periphery of jurisprudence. That now we should look towards Ascriptivism, for which one is liable for a conduct solely because they committed it and under societal consensus it is seen as fallacious and erroneous. This is found under the study of Methodological Behaviorism, this depicts how one’s internal state depends on their status and identity in society, we choose to be unique, and take the steps to it, much like it is auspicious to us in the future. We fight for what we belief, and thus become an authentic individual filled with ingenuity. Those individuals is what we laud, and the followers come are those less reputable and not the aboriginal ones. This is the theory that Kierkegaard proposed, how one in terms of their psychological and theological stance can act differently and uniquely, sui generis. The antecedent and the latter of working towards your goal, enduring all predicaments and becoming a genuine and authentic individual for which succumbs to international attention. This is what is surmounted to, a body of social justice all initiated by the pyramid conceived and postulated by Kierkegaard, Kierkegaardism.
This is profound
>>9590259
Vocabulary Word Salad: The Post
But op, why is she holding Lolita
What are your thoughts on him, /lit/?
>>9590149
>implying i have thoughts
>>9590149
I only got about a third of the way through Flowers of Evil before lending my copy to someone and never getting it back but it was pretty great.
What should you read before starting Baudelaire?
Hey /lit/ are there any books that argue against this mindset?
>nothing really matters, your morals are spooks, love is just a bunch of chemicals in your brain, lmao
>you give those things meaning by choice, though, by choosing to believe in those illusions and by participating in them
Admittedly I'm a brainlet so go easy on me
there can't be good arguments against the truth, so none.
All you need to know is that anyone willing to put effort into writing down such arguments is acting in bad faith essentially.
Yeah
What are some good books that'll make you develop logical thinking ?
>>9589930
Schopenhauer's On Women
Hitler's Mein Kampf
McDonald's Culture of Critique Series
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Decline of the West
Art of the Deal
Math textbooks.
>>9589945
Shit post
But really OP math is your best bet for this. If you hate math try Wittgenstein's Tractatus.
I give to you the anti-meme trilogy.
Oh yes I like it
I really don't like the available translations of Gracq (monolinguist here, sorry). I feel like it's not much better in French either, but I could be wrong. Tartar Steppe is really one of my absolutes. Need to read Junger.
>>9589946
> I feel like it's not much better in French either
You've got to be shilling me. Rivage is honestly a 10/10 book with god-tier purple prose in french. Intoxicating doesn't describe it enough. Finishing it was such a "Wow, best book ever" feel.
Help me choose a theme for my poetry anthology, I need at least 8 poems, preferably in French but anything goes.
I thought about epiphany but there aren't as many poems about it as I thought.
What do you guys suggest?
Bumping again folks
About being brunk, there are some beautifull poems by Omar khayyam
>>9590129
Drunk?
How do you handle writing a novel?
I've tried my hand at it, but I just can't spit out nearly enough words. I say what I need to say in a few sentences, and after a while of enriching with details and adjectives it feels like it's completely saturated, and it still is way shorter than what it should be. I have a beautiful prose in my own language, and I play with alliterations so that makes it sound really pretty (in my opinion), but my problem is the scope of the plot.
I get overwhelmed with the story. For the novel I'm "working on" now I listed bulletpoints with what I want to happen, but it's too hard to manage knowing the scope is so big. I have a much easier time writing an essay, going phrase by phrase. I feel like after a while I keep repeating myself, all the paragraphs resembling each other.
pic related, an ugly anonymous stock image which will make sure my thread is thoroughly ignored
>>9589725
Are you me? THANK YOU for this post, I hope you (we) get some good advice on how to unleash the "extra" words.
>>9589728
I mean we're probably plebs who should read more, but I read my fair share of books and when it's me on the writing end I still can't fathom how you can fill hundreds of pages.
Actually, what baffles me the most is being able to write a whole chapter, so a dozen of pages, on the same topic.
>Have to write about a guy waking up and going to the kitchen
>most I've managed to do is one page
Granted, it sounds really nice and I think it's good writing but shouldn't it be way more? I can't add anything to it
Aye, all I can manage are short stories, the longest I've managed in less than 10,000 words. I write horror, which tends to be better off in short form anyway, but I'm hoping as I gain experience I manage to write longer pieces. I imagine it's my plots that's the issue, as the usual feedback I get at my writer's group is to trim stuff down rather than extend it.
*blocks your path*
*laughs*
*kisses horse*
>>9589626
fucking kek
ITT: post funny /lit/ related comics
She has some funny ones on the Brontës too
>>9590330
i suggest therapy
>greatest work of cyber punk ficiton
>its about some fucking weeaboo pizza delviery boy
like every stephenson novel, it starts with a single, cool idea in it and a decent attempt at a set-up for realizing that idea, but the moment it's actually introduced (and in the most ham-fisted way possible mind you) everything goes completely to shit
I really think this guy should team with a guy who actually knows how to write 1) good prose 2) good characters 3) good plots, because he probably would deserve half the profits just for his 4) good ideas
better yet someone with more talent should just rip off his books, because I would read those all in a heartbeat
>>9589565
The L Ron Hubbard character on a garbage skow was funny though.
>>9589565
It was supposed to be a comic book. It got resuscitated as a novel.
What does /lit/ think of this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthyphro_dilemma
>>>/his/hum/
we moderns do things because they make rational sense, not because we are the slave of someone else who commands us. it's pretty cut and dry desu. Plato definitely isn't wishy washy about that either
>>9589563
obviously if one believes in God, then what God commands is morally good because it is morally good, otherwise you wouldn't believe in God
if you don't believe in God, then everyone who believes in God is just a mindless drone
Its an interesting dialogue that presents the cultural Socrates was challenging. I always recommend this as an introduction to Plato because it introduces the concepts of forms in an interesting way. Christianity recognizes that things are holy because God says so, its
interesting to me to see the development of religion and how its become something more complex than what the Greeks believed.
What poetry should I read if Whitman is the only poet I liked enough to read him for hours?
Try some of Emerson's poetry, a more modern example is Ginsberg, but /lit/ doesn't like him very much.
Here is a poem of Ginsberg's:
A Supermarket in California
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!—and you, García Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?
I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
I wandered in and out of the brilliant stacks of cans following you, and followed in my imagination by the store detective.
We strode down the open corridors together in our solitary fancy tasting artichokes, possessing every frozen delicacy, and never passing the cashier.
Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in a hour. Which way does your beard point tonight?
(I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.)
Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses, we’ll both be lonely.
Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love past blue automobiles in driveways, home to our silent cottage?
Ah, dear father, graybeard, lonely old courage-teacher, what America did you have when Charon quit poling his ferry and you got out on a smoking bank and stood watching the boat disappear on the black waters of Lethe?
—Berkeley, 1955
>>9589557
Whitman
I think Bloom was one of the first to push Whitman as an influence on Stevens, but Stevens was a literary chameleon (also read all of Emerson in his youth). So try Stevens, even though his diction will be higher and more abstract at first. Start with Harmonium.
here's a nice quick one, part 3 of "certain phenomena of sound"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=61&issue=1&page=20
>The guy at the checkout at a Brooklyn branch of Trader Joe's, a wildly popular speciality grocery chain, had a spray of blond hair, a masters in literature and a California drawl on the words: "Hey, man." He was packing the soy chorizo into a brown bag when he glanced at the book I was carrying – a copy of Brooklyn Is, a 1939 essay by the author and journalist James Agee – and asked if I'd read it. I shook my head. "Man, it's amazing," he said. "Everyone in Brooklyn should read it."
>Reading Agee's essay later that day, I kept thinking of that young man and what Agee would have made of him, and how Agee's odyssey of Brooklyn might look if he were to undertake the assignment today. Trader Joe's itself stands in a section of Atlantic Avenue that Agee described as "vacant lots, the ghosts of floors against their walls: and the dark hard bars at street corners". Few of those dark hard bars exist now, but a few blocks west of Trader Joe's stands Montero's, which opened in 1945. Its neon sign and nautical paraphernalia embody something of the era Agee was writing in, but the bar no longer opens at 8am to serve longshoremen coming off the midnight shift. Artists and writers (in search of "authenticity") have replaced the Baltic seafarers. The same is true of Sunny's, a 120-year old bar in Red Hook – a waterfront neighbourhood of warehouses and old single-row homes that served as the inspiration for On the Waterfront.
>Today Sunny's is popular for bluegrass sessions and literary salons that attract aficionados from across the borough. There is not a night of the week when you can't attend a reading in Brooklyn, or several. Many take place at the independent bookstores that have proliferated in the last few years, or – like BookCourt in Cobble Hill, where I remember waiting in a long line of young tattooed men and women to hear Bret Easton Ellis read – doubled in size. And writers aren't just coming here to read; they are flocking here to live. Some, such as Paul Auster, have been here for decades; others, like Martin Amis (a stone's throw from BookCourt), are fresh off the boat. On Saturdays you can go Pulitzer spotting at Fort Greene's farmers' market, where both Jhumpa Lahiri and Jennifer Egan may be found perusing the vegetables. When Jonathan Safran Foer and his wife Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love, brought a Park Slope townhouse in 2005, bloggers gasped at the $3.5m [£2.26m] price tag.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2012/jul/08/why-brooklyn-is-mecca-for-writers?CMP=share_btn_tw
How does this story make you feel /lit/?
I don't like gentrification. I don't like either the fashion or the fashionability of artist communities. I wish Faber and FSG could've set up in hick towns so all the artists would live out in the country instead of shitting up the cities and raising rent.
wow things change and you are so authentic because you can see the shalloweness in other people trying to have fun
>>9589561
desu I hate people who shit on gentrification way more than actual gentrifiers. yes, it's annoying if people pretend to assume the culture of a neighborhood while actually destroying it. but living in surburbia isn't appealing for a lot of people, so "gentrifiers" are just responding to natural incentives by going back to neighborhoods built before suburbia happened.