/lit/ - Literature

>>22083789

>>22083789
Sorry, bud, but I am watching From instead

>>22083789
Rereading Cellini’s Autobiography. It’s one of my favorite books and usually takes readers by surprise. Cellini had a lot of bravado and little self awareness. It is a cross between a comedy and a swashbuckling adventure. There are great cheesy quips in it as well. Cellini defends Rome with a cannon, fights off multiple attackers multiple times, summons demons, fucks 14 year old girls, gets into heated feuds with powerful Cardinals and Popes, describes every person as either the biggest scoundrel or most virtuous person (no in between), dresses a young boy as a girl to trick people, and a bunch of other great adventures and anecdotes. It is also very informative for the Renaissance era and how things worked and went down

>>22083776
If you're a girl then you can come live with me and I'll teach you how to talk! :D ;)

nah just kill yourself

>>22083800
Never. I will astonish the world with my masterpieces.

>>22083774
>>22083809
Too late, the novel as a medium has been exhausted for years now. You were born in the wrong time.

Boku no Pico

Dune was okay

>>22083749
The Big Lebowski
Porky’s
I Spit on your Grave
Tales from the Crypt
Gremlins
American Pie
American Beauty
Nightcrawler
Jerry Macquire
Reservoir Dogs
Paris, Texas
The Dirty Dozen
The Man with no Name Trilogy
Shrek
Batman Begins
The Black Dalhia

>>22083782
this is just a list of movies a 15 year old has seen

Doki Doki Literature Club

>>22083747
You'll get used to it.

>>22083761
Does the story get more "alive" eventually?

>>22083762
Yes, or I can spoil all the most important moments for you? You’re 50 freaking pages in and complaining about “aliveness”

>>22083772
Sorry, thanks the reply, I'll keep reading.

>>22083762
Yes. All great stories increase in life as you read through them. I personally read Proust in light of certain Eastern speculations which concern a journey of increasing self-illumination; as Proust's narrator enters into the lives of many richly developed characters and grapples with many different internal ambiguities, he attains what you could call a culminating experience of vision in the final volume viz. gnosis.
>>22083779
Wasn't me, but I do also think you should give difficult authors like Proust a chance. After many years of reading I scarcely trust my first impressions of great canonical writers. Some mental toil is usually in order before one experiences the ecstasy of a poet or novelists life's work.

>>22083705
it's not that easy, you nigger

>>22083703
Just put your phone down and read. If you have an iPhone, go into settings, screen time, and set your phone on downtime mode when you want to read/focus on something. It disables all apps except the necessities like your calls and texts.
Also don’t read a book about internet addiction to fix your attention span, those books are boring and will only set you back. Read something interesting and it will hold your attention.

>>22083721
I have Android, Ill check it there apps like that
>Also don’t read a book about internet addiction to fix your attention span
I know, I was just making an off topic thread

>>22083738
Downtime really helped me out a lot. Look for something similar on android. You’d be surprised how much that extra feature can stop you from accidentally spending 30 minutes browsing bullshit on your phone.

Habits take time to change. What happens is anon thinks about reading, doesn’t do it, and then goes back to square one.
What you need is a progression: ok so you think about reading. The next time, you have to read a short poem. The next time, read at least a page.
The trick is to fool yourself into a progression. Otherwise you start over every time.

>>22083676
I thought it sucked but a lot of people asked me about it when I was reading in public. I had the sexier cover design though.

>>22083699
Yeah I did too, had to bury the book into my lap or on a table when I read it at work

>>22083706
They didn't ask me like I should be embarrassed or anything--they were genuinely curious. I only took it out in public once though--to the dentist where both the receptionist and hygienist asked me about it and then I read it in a park on my way home for a bit, two strangers asked me what it was. I told them "it's about a tour guide in Tokyo's red light district who thinks his client is a serial killer. It's a thriller that isn't as shocking as it thinks it is and I'm only going to finish it because it's short."

Not to shit on your taste or anything. Just not for me. Above decent for genre fiction though--I'll give it that.

>>22083706
Also, it's good enough to give the author a second try.

>>22083663
Are you going on a cruise? What’s wrong with treasure island?

>>22083679
>Are you going on a cruise?
No matey, I'm going to pillage and plunder some booty with me crew!!! I will of course have to read these in-between pillaging and plundering.

>>22083663
My mother said to me
Arr matey ye should buy
A schooner with many cannon
To journey as a privateer
Stand with a parrot on your shoulder
Steer a grand vessel
Find a peaceful harbour
Cut down a Spaniard and another

Get off my ass, ya wee bitty fuck
If I pull out the claymore, you're shit outta luck
Who's that girl, that pretty young thing?
After I fuck 'er, she'll get up and sing
Aye, aye, aye
Sharpen your boot and bludgeon your eye
Aye, aye, aye
The Blarney Stone brings a tear to me eye
Down to the pub for a two shilling ale
The bread on the counter is going stale
If I don't get some fresh bread soon
Gon' punch in your face and bark at the Moon
Aye, aye, aye
Sharpen your boot and bludgeon your eye
Aye, aye, aye
The Blarney Stone brings a tear to me eye
Ain't got no girl 'cause I haven't the time
Got too many other things on me mind
Patty was nice, she was pale and cute
But I threw her away like an old piece of fruit
Aye, aye, aye
Sharpen your boot and bludgeon your eye
Aye, aye, aye
The Blarney Stone brings a tear to me eye
Got ooze in my pores, my feet are all wet
Got mold in my ears, but I ain't dead yet
Got stones in me bladder, got a crack in me head
When Patty starts cryin', this is what I'll say
Aye, aye, aye
Sharpen your boot and bludgeon your eye
Aye, aye, aye
The Blarney Stone brings a tear to me eye

>>22083755
>>22083768
Yo Ho Ho mateys!!!! These shanties bring a tear to me one eye.

>>22083654
You forgot word

>>22083654
A book for an eye :DD

>think it's shitting on christianity at first and don't want to read it
>learn it actually shits on pisslam
based. can anti-pisslam books get published on his coattails?

>>22083734
Anti-islam sentiment is cringe because it's essentially pro-Jewish.

>>22083643
You might be reading awful novels and are coming to the understandable response of disinterest.
Name the last three books you tried to read.

>>22083614
this bloke have any relation to john williams?

>>22083614
Read Varieties of Religious Experience

>>22083653
This is the only one I’ve read. It was cool as a broad survey of different religious experiences. But it really reaches its nadir when he starts invoking the “science of psychology” and presenting this dated and unworkable perspective. Not sure I’m interested in reading an entire book devoted to that.

>>22083707
You could start with him and progress through the field as it developed over timd, you know like how you would in a course teaching this stuff.

He's just like me frfr

>>22083595
Ascended Norwood

Waldo

>>>/wsr/

Just grab the PDFs of Great Books of the Western World from archive.org

>>22083570
A Scanner Darkly
I'm Thinking of Ending Things

John Muir

bump because interested

This book, along with The Aleph and Other Stories

>>22083537
Chronological order if you want to try appreciate the development of his style.

Start and end with Ficciones. It's cute and fun and shows you him at his best writing and best humour.

He's actually a troll deep down. And a wicked one in some of his essays. He delights in tricking you like some vulgar occultists. Both with his plot twists and subtle alterations of fact.

Love him tho.

>>22083537
>>22083551
Also read Kafka if you want to see his intellectual inspiration for fiction