/lit/ - Literature

>read Oxford’s book on the Pre-Socratics
>Read the Trial and Death of Socrates
>about 1/4 of the way through Republic
>bored to tears by Republic
How do I get through this so I can move on to the interesting stuff? I have lost my will to read Plato. It’s so repetitive

which is better

I've spent most of my lifetime automatically being obsessed with fiction (in any medium), and don't know anything about the real world. I want to get into nonfoction. What are the most and least important types of nonfiction books to read? If you were to rank the following:
>Arts & Culture
>Biography & Memoirs
>Business & Economics
>History
>Philosophy
>Psychology & Self-help
>Religion & Spirituality
>Science & Nature
>Social Science

>>15123944
>tfw i'm older than her but she looks 10 years older than me

What are my /lit/ frens reading?

>30
>Meh. I'm still working, but I can't see my gf because she lives on the other side of the US border, which is killing me inside
>The Decameron, Palm of the Hand stories

If someone asked you for the most important bit of life advice you had, how would you respond?

For the purpose of improving writing skills?

>>14869149
why his sentence so BIG tho ?

Oh, so you enjoy discussing literature? Which of the four Classic Chinese Novels is the most thematically rich? Best plot from the unexpurgated The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night translated by Richard Francis Burton? Conceptismo or culteranismo? Fav character from Orlando furioso and La Gerusalemme liberata? Best French dramatist of the 17th C? Who is the greatest Russian essayist? What did you think of Böhme's work? Berkeley or Hume? Which narrative mode do you employ most when writing your masterpieces? Trochaic pentameter or anaepestic tetrameter? Well, don't keep us in suspense.

>in a word,

Is there something such as Post truth? Or are people really stupid?

If I read the philosophy canon backwards can I unlearn everything and become enlightened?

>>14610888
So basically, the main character and his girlfriend meet a rich man, who reveals that this whole time the girlfriend was working for him. He hired the girlfriend to get revenge on the main character who spread child pornography of his sister but got away with it. The main character pulls out a gun and kills them both before being shot himself. But then he wakes up and finds out the meeting was just a dream and he goes on a trek to redeem himself.

Did Marx really think Capitalism is irrational?

I've been returning a lot to the /lit/ Philosophy Project (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/mobilebasic?pli=1))
and finding it quite useful I thought, does /lit/ has something similar for literature? (Prose, Poetry)
A guide that goes through every period and movement of Western Literature. Like the charts The Greeks or The Romans but going beyond that. If not, should we make it?
Also, I’m aware of the Wiki, but seems like random recommendations more than a structured approach.
Thanks for reading and fuck frogposters.

>>14578935
I mean, it's morally sketchy but the term "Manifest Destiny" is metal as hell so fuck natives.

>Fucktards who made stupid decisions which caused them thousands of dollars of debt want the government to take care of them
>Everybody else doesn't

Inderestin...

>>14545898
it would have been much wiser for the reader and your life to have put book 1 first and the preludes at the end, then.

Helloo yes this is a thread for butterfly so if you are not, can you please not post... okay hey what boook are you reading?
And what booook would you recommend?

i read plato's republic but plato literally doesn't talk at all throughout the whole thing. why is it his republic if he didnt contribute anything?

>>14487282
I liked it more for its metaphysical themes and especially the prose than the horror. Cool read though.

>reminder it's okay to not have an elaborate reading goal for 2020
>reminder it's okay to read slowly and at your own pace
>reminder it's okay if you haven't read [important canonical work] yet
>reminder it's okay if you don't enjoy reading a beloved classic
>reminder it's okay to put a book away if you aren't understanding or enjoying it
>reminder it's okay to enjoy reading genre or commercial fiction
>reminder it's okay to read for pure enjoyment and not for complex philosophical reasons

>tfw can’t decide what book (fiction) to read next
How do I decide? My shelves are 90% western canon material so anything I choose will be good. That’s the problem