/lit/ - Literature

I'm looking to learn more about concepts/theory of design, like what colors work together and why they work together, positions of objects ect.

Does anyone know some interesting ones?

I have a problem where if I start a book and don't finish it, it bothers me forever. Literally forever. I remember every book i never finished.

Last week I stopped reading Nietzche's "Birth of tragedy" halfway through and just threw it away because I thought it was retarded. Now I am annoyed that I didn't completely finish it, I feel like I can't have a sufficient opinion on it. Same with Kierkegaard's "Fear and trembling" which I didn't read the last 20 pages of.

Am I the only one who does this?

I no longer want to be a drooling unwashed plebian.

I have decided to start over again, with the Greeks. So far read the trial of Socrates and I have The Republic on my shelf. Which of Aristotle's books should I read? The Metaphysics?

Which of the Greeks are necessary to understand Kant and then Hegel?

>>14570046
great chart, thanks!

Are there any interesting books about the USSR? I had heard that in the late days of the USSR people felt like they were going insane. I'd like to maybe read about something like that

I've read a few japanese books (Soseki's Kokoro and Tanizaki's Naomi being my favorite) and I'm looking for other good ones

Where do I go from here? I've been skimming the descriptions of popular japanese books but nothing has caught my eye

Just finished watching the documentary "Hypernormalization". Are there any books that explain how the entire world is basically one massive psyop and we are all living in our own micro-matrixes?

After reading for a few years, I feel like I hit a wall where I realized nothing actually matters besides basic day-to-day stuff and utilitarian goals, and immediate relationships

If I try to think about an abstract issue, I just realize I cannot come to a definitive answer and It doesn't even matter if I do or not, and I also realize nobody really knows anything about anything outside of religious convictions (if you have them). So if I just keep reading I'll just keep encountering more unanswered abstract questions that don't necessarily even need to be answered.

Is this what reading yourself stupid is? I think Nietzche mentioned this in one of his books, where someone reads so much they can't even think any longer.

Tanizaki's Naomi, one of the greatest psychological exposition of the female/male psyche of all time

Go

>life is mostly about relationships, money, practical skills
>these things are difficult and stressful
>retreat into a world of abstract ideas or fictional scenarios that are largely inapplicable to real life
>this gives you the illusion you are accomplishing something while "learning" new concepts but nothing is actually happening
What exactly is the point of being "well-read"?

I have heard the argument that you subconsciously retain what you read and it is applicable in life later on, but this also feels like a big cope

>2017
>wanna start reading books
>Start with Evola and Guenon cuz the /pol/ meme
>mind is blown, think I just read the wokest shit ever written
>go back and slog through everything from the greeks to contemporary philosophy
>re-read Evola
>realize it was just intellectualized new-age bullshit from the beginning
>realize all ideology is nonsense
>realize the only ideology that matters is pragmatism
Who else has grown out of the Traditionalism meme?

I'm looking for more Japanese novels, so far I've read

>Sound of Waves by Mishima
>Kokoro by Soseki
>Naomi by Tanizaki
>Thousand Cranes by Kawabata

I liked them all, Naomi being my favorite

>>13779678
Yeah pretty much

I've spent the last 2 years slogging through philosophy. After a certain point I stopped gaining anything good from it and it just turned into vain intellectual masturbation. Each philosopher tries to be more big-headed than the last, asking questions that don't even need to be asked.

Starting around the 1800's they stop even trying to investigate the object world or the divine and just start trying to construct their own religion through metaphysics which reads like intellectual mental illness. Each philosopher makes assertions rooted in nothing and then the next philosopher comes and knocks them down and asserts their rootless assertions for infinity. It's fucking dumb.

People shit on me for saying this but writers like Evola/Guenon, the greeks, and the bible are all you need. They ask the questions that should be asked and actually answer them.