/lit/ - Literature

Does anyone here have any experience with requisitioning custom books from a printing press or manufacturer?
I presume it would be expensive, but nonetheless it would be of interest to design books to desired specifications be it text-size (point), paper quality (GSM), covers, binding, and - of course — that which was the reason for promulgating this thread - physical size and page-thickness. This would permit the user to have more freedom in making such a pastime truly his own by means of realising that a book is not a just a text, but a lively story of metadata spun like a tapestry by engineers and industrial processes.
Imagine - for example — if you will - a pocket edition of Mein Kampf as its full size is even smaller than a full-size KJV, Guenon in Dyslexic Typeface considering his typical demographic, and perhaps a series of perforated tabs that lead to the cover page in a non-linear fashion (viz. magnetic tape data-access vs. optical disc programming/ reading) to facilitate a more rapid access to segments of the Missal, Lectern, CCC, usw..

Which language has the best literature besides English?

I've read 1 book this year. I read 23 last year. I simply lost all motivation for literature. Joyce's complete works is coming today though; I read Dubliners and liked it. I am going to read Finnegan's Wake first

I'm looking for books (and thinkers) that proceed from a certain assumption: the assumption that our lifes will be radically changed by the inevitable (climate) apocalypse.

To give you an example of what I mean by this: I am not interested in what a contemporary Marxist economist thinks about the current exploitation of workers by capital; I am interested in the consequences the approaching (climate) catastrophy will have for the capitalist system and how a radical left can take advantage of the new situation.

Another example: I am not interested in what it means to behave ethically under the present conditions; I'm interested in what ethical behavior will look like in a Mad Max future.

In short: I am looking for books (and thinkers) that take the apocalypse seriously, that see an all-changing rupture coming, and that position themselves, on the timeline, behind the rupture, that is: position themselves in the apocalyptic (or post-apocalyptic) reality.

You know anything like that?

Books on how to cope with the unrelenting, merciless evil of the world?
I've realised that there is no such thing as good. It's a lie, an illusion. It doesn't exist. There exist only differing shades of evil and awfulness. Even the lightest shade, love, is tinged with selfishness.

Posted about this last week. Newish bf has like 15+ copies of this book. All different covers. He seemed kind of embarrassed when he admitted it was his favorite book.

What does this mean? I've honestly never even heard of it before? Why would he be embarrassed? I ended up buying him another copy and he seemed really embarrassed again about it when I gave it to him.
Then the next time I went to his place he put his whole collection away somewhere. When I asked him if I should read it, he then said that I probably wouldn't like it. Why doesn't he want me to read it?

Why wouldn't he think I would like it? Should I somehow force him to let me borrow a copy? Or just find an ebook version somewhere. It's really bothering me that he doesn't want to share this book he supposedly loves so much with me or he is being secretive about it.

Could it be that it was a special "thing" he shared with an ex and doesn't want to share it with me now?

ackchyually education today is better than it was in the pas-

Nietzsche was THAT cute as a kid?
I had no idea...

(Sorry anglofags, you won't understand)

Was Philip Larkin (1922–1985) an honorary librarian, or just a LARPing faggot??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxxd3fbLgFs

>tfw a fanmade Minecraft mod does a much better job at diversifying Middle-earth than the Tolkien Estate-approved billion-dollar Amazon show
It may seem baffling to first hear this statement, but the Minecraft mod also gives us a reason as to why making Middle-earth more diverse is not bad, if done properly.
If we analyse how the Minecraft mod is much better at diversifying Middle-earth, it's a very simple answer: The Minecraft mod made OC races to represent people of colour, and fanfic backstories were even written for these Minecraft OC races.
Meanwhile, Amazon just blackwashed and tokenises existing characters and races to fill a diversity quota.

The Minecraft mod had more effort in diversifying Middle-earth and made it in a way that still respected Tolkien's texts, while The Rings of Power just blackwashes certain characters with no story explanation and even if it would make less sense than just keeping them white.

At least the Minecraft mod sounds like something Tolkien could have come up with if he wanted to add more races, while The Rings of Power just perverts what Tolkien previously established.

>Jesus was an ubermensch!
>Will to truth is the will to power!
>Spiritual aristocracy!

Silly mental gymnastics.

Which do you prefer?

What books one needs to read to become a copywriter? I am planning to become one after finishing law school. I don’t wanna be a Lawyer.

Not gonna blogpost, so I keep it short:
I have extreme emotional issues, mainly anger and hate. An entitled cunt skipped the line in an airport in front of me, it happened four months ago and I am still fuming that she got away with it, that she is a cunt and I'm such a huge cuck I didn't kick her teeth in then and there. One of many examples I think of multiple times daily and that agitate me daily. Lately I noticed heart palpitations, my resting pulse is 110-120 probably from my 24/7 emotional distress and fear I'll just drop day sooner rather than later if this keeps going on. 100% unironically, I'll die of a heart attack before 30 if I keep living like this, I am 27 now.
To the point: I am looking for books that will help or guide me to becoming completely detached from my emotions, ideally before I fucking die or kill someone.
I found "On Anger" by Seneca, sadly not a physical copy, but it'll have to do. But is it even a good book? People online seem happy with it. Do you know any other books that will please fucking help me? I am pretty new to reading, so nothing too compliated, I never went to university and have no background knowledge of philosophy/psychology etc.
Is starting with On Anger by Seneca a good place? What about Meditations by Markus Aurelius?
I judt googled my issue and found that a lot of pages reccomend those Greek stoics. Would you too and if yes, which books? If I get no replies I will start with On Anger tonight and hope my attention span isn't completely shot.
Thanks.

Which book has influenced you the most over the course of your life? My personal pick is The Monster's "Philosophical Investigations."

Can I get a quick rundown on historical fiction?

Is it like fantasy but without magic, trolls, elves and etcetera?

>be me
>working at the local public library
>lunch small talk with a female colleague
>she can't stop talking about that stupid Outlander series
>"you should absolutely read it, Anon"
>"I'm not really into isekai"
>"lol, I'm talking about a novel, not a manga"
>mfw

Hello frenz
I am looking for advice.
Reading inspires me and I use it to learn to embody certain skills and attitudes.
I am learning a lot about persuasion, seduction, charm and such.
I am looking for recommendations for books that contain high quality dominant male characters with wit, charm and maybe even a kinky edge.
I have read some of the classic Libertine writing, which, although good, are old and a bit too fanciful.
Do I really need to read 50 shades? What are some better ones that feature dominant, witty men?

>The horse lay deadfaced over the head of rock. Sand had collected through the wind and silvery glints had held gluewise across the bare open flesh of the dead animal. Flies that were still alive passed quick the eightysix gunholes, and fell sudden about them, dying a death in which they had died. The horse was slain at the crest down to latch, a fatal slice white and thickening with fat, which had been let with blood, pugged in the hot failure of the horse, and boiling pink and pulsewise in a sponge that filled the gutless thing. It had been impaled in such a way that it would not live anymore.
>-Fuck said Brax.
>-Language, said the Judge.
>-ye Fuck said Brax.
>The horse had no legs. The penis of the horse lay inverted.
>I'm going to have sex with this horse, thought and also said the Judge.
>Brax watched him do so. The world was a little like that, watching strangely the fact of someone placing his heavy penis inside tubish insack of an imposed horsecock. Though it was being raped, the heart of the horse did not beat with any sympathy to the loosed blood, clutching outside of life deadwise in excellence with the nondead precipitate systems that callously mechanised the anima biota. The continental unworking stomach of the animal was freed from the bearing of a soul. The horse was dead.

>“Damn you damn you damn you.” He sucked her nipples till she cried out half in pain and half in pleasure. Her cunt became the world. Her cunt became the world.