/lit/ - Literature

Scott is a good start. Read waverly or rob roy.

>>13324154
it's extremely difficult for me to read fiction. ill get part of the way through and feel like im wasting my time and should have read something else. hence the second part of my (OP)

>>13324099
>essential Scottish

Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr jekyll and mr hyde.

>>13324154
>>13324189
considering these. thanks.

>>13324014
dude, somethings not right up there. you seen a doctor about this?

>>13324019
I was diagnosed with ADD and ADHD, but it has never given me a problem before. Maybe it's because I haven't really sat down and read a book in a while?

>>13324026
it's terminal

>>13324026
Get some noise cancelling headphones and blast this while reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHW1oY26kxQ

Mods please delete. I messed up and it won't let me. I'm sorry.

>>13324010
>>13324030
post larger images please

>>13324010
>>13324030
what is this? images for ants?

>>13324010
>>13324030
based retard

>>13323978
College graduates do.

>>13323994
Well, not all of them. And they only talk about it sometimes. And they're not very good at it.

>>13323978
I've heard from certain wandering peoples that, yes, this is a custom of one far off land

>>13323978
all the time, we're waiting for you op

>>13323978
Yeah, you can find people destroying art almost anywhere.

>>13323960
become a good writer, lots of writing usually fixes that

>>13323967
But a bunch of amazing writers took a lot more drugs than I do to write

>>13323984
they also wrote a lot

>>13323987
true

>>13323885
you don't need to

>>13323932

There are only so many hours in a day, anon. Sure, reading literature might enrich my soul, but I am a young fellow and work for a living. I could always be dedicating that time to investing in a skill or trying to find a new side hustle.

Can I really justify wallowing in things like fun when I could be toiling towards more tangible improvements of my life?

I am 24 btw

>>13323944
Read as you walk on a treadmill if you have to be so autistic about it.

>>13323944
I find often stories hold far deeper meaning then philosophy, even if it's water downed and not as thorough. Though I do respect the hustle in terms of not /consuming/, just read good fiction

>>13323900

I am a construction worker and read on my phone literally any second I'm sitting down or in the truck which can be hours a day, depending

>>13323918
yo can you get a fucking move on

>>13323873
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thirty i think but i never count, it’s a bad habit

>>13323884
read one page right now

I finished a book and started another. I think I'm about 40 pages into it. I don't know why you guys worry so much about page count though.

>>13323861
t. holden

>>13323861

I could never empathize with a character who is so weak of character as to be molested

>>13323861
shut up phony

>>13323919
fpbp

It's the plebs who DO understand the main character who hate it.

>>13323857
>I found this post on reddit

>>13323852

>>13323812
There are no discernible origins to Capitalism so long as you consider it to be the ownership of private property, it probable predates the written language. We have evidence of grain speculation markets in bronze age Sumeria, and of what were (if not in name then in principle) joint stock countries in ancient China.

The word Capitalism was invented and used to describe all existing systems, but the principle itself reaches so far back into antiquity that its origins cannot even be seriously discussed.

>>13324300
Capitalism is obviously more complicated than merely property ownership. This stretch back before the written word, the law, but the weapons and the customs where all there was of primitive law. Just look at what the native Americans owned in Pre-colonial times.

>>13324300
Capitalism is more than just "private property". When noble has a field and a serf tolls it, it's not capitalism it's feudalism. In an economic system certain way of organizing production needs to be dominant in order to call it capitalism.

Until recently most people were (and in some countries still are) subsistence farmers, not wagies.

>>13323812
Define "Capitalism".

>>13324300
The book in OP defines capitalism as a system where essentially all goods and services are produced exclusively for profitable exchange, with labor and all other economic actors commodified and dependent on the market, in a compulsory way. Laborers have to sell their labor to the owners of capital to survive, and the owners of capital have to maximize profit competitively to survive. In this situation the market is fully dominant. This isn't the same as a society which just has a class of merchants going around buying cheap and selling dear.

>>13323794
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The unique and its property

>>13323830
>>13323860
Both of these, Atlas Shrugged, and Fountainhead

>>13323794
The spook and its own

>he doesn't write down the book then read it

>He doesn't request that his library transfer rare books to a local branch so he can borrow them under a fake name and not return them

>>13323775
>he doesn't print PDFs of entire books via his printer, hole punch it, then put it in a binder
People used to do this in 2011 for classes.

Just searching a uni library catalogue and all but one I can find are in German sadly. But if you can read German, definitely the most charming stuff will be German books from the 19th century. Germans in the 19th century really liked to write "History of ______" books that were 91 volumes long and completely comprehensive for their 10-year second doctoral thesis. They're virtually guaranteed to have collated all the classic sources and to give you the mainstream, romantic narrative of the city.

>Geschichte der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, von Anton Kirchner.
https://books.google.com/books?id=D81YAAAAcAAJ
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Kirchner

>Die Entstehung der Reichsstadt Frankfurt am Main, und der Verhältnisse ihrer Bewohner / von Johann Carl v. Fichard, genannt Baur v. Eyseneck
https://books.google.com/books?id=G_FBAAAAYAAJ

>Geschichte der freien Stadt Frankfurt am Main, von ihrem Anfang bis auf die neuesten Zeiten
https://books.google.com/books?id=4DVAAQAAMAAJ

>Neuere geschichte von Frankfurt am Main, von Wilhelm Stricker
https://books.google.com/books?id=aQ83AAAAYAAJ

>>13323951
these are great appreciate the help!

>>13323772
Found an epub called Geschichte Hessens on libgen, which is a German language history of the area Frankfurt is located. Anything good or in depth will be in German desu.

Seppaku

A thread died for this. Faggot.

>>13323759
hanging yourself by using a stack of your freshly printed book as a platform

>>13323768
the thread wouldn't have died if anyone cared enough to post in it

Either falling from a great height, drowning, or lung cancer

>>13323789
who is?

cuckphilosophy is based

>>13323813
Deleuze and Guattari.

>>13323736
>>13323824
Cringe

succ bump

There aren't any Jewish people and Japan and their country is just as fucked up

>>13323712
There’s this book that gets posted here sometimes, it’s called The Culture of Critique, you may have heard of it.