/lit/ - Literature

>"@bookz no such channel"

wtf? are bookz down?

It's like some 7/10 book all the 11/10 writers talk about so you have to read it.

>>2035030
>you guys aren't much of a cheery bunch are ya?

>rousseau has written the first anti-civ, anarchist philosophical essay that i am aware of. it doesn't seem to be fully acknowledged as that, but it's clear what rousseau is talking about when he declares "All ran to meet their chains thinking they secured their freedom... Such was the origin of society and laws, which gave new fetters to the weak and new forces to the rich, destroyed natural freedom for all time, established forever the law of property and inequality, changed a clever usurpation into an irrevocable right, and for the profit of a few ambitious men henceforth subjected the whole human race to work, servitude and misery."

>when i first read this book it was a wake up call to the highest degree, because i had never read someone who had such a similar viewpoint to my own before. it was a liberating experience, as if he was speaking my words.

>rousseau takes the reader all the way back to the beginning of humanity and brings you one step at a time through the development of society (and the division of labor) until we reach our current, horrible state.

>finally some realistic philosophy! beats the shit out of marx, THIS is materialism.

>no Fritz Leiber

>>1317599

>>1186538
are you shitting me?

>>1135890

You're going to the gulags first when I become dictator.

Enjoy making them anti social and never growing as a person. This is why anons should never reproduce god fuck damn i hope you are a troll

So I just finished the stars my destination...

I feel like the ending was over my head. Anyone want to explain it to me?

It seemed like it was going for a 2001 type atmosphere but it didn't seem to make any sense in the context of the rest of the novel.

>>889401

Taking this as an opportunity to greentext.

>go to bookstore
>ask for bukowski
>"is that the guy who wrote master and margarita?"
>my face

>>426940
>Gene Wolfe not an author