/lit/ - Literature

My father got covid and he's probably going to die. He told me to bring him a book before they put him into a mechanical ventilation. He likes novels and shit. What should I bring him /lit/

Almost finished my Masters thesis, have no idea what I'm going to do afterwards.

near 50 replies in a 5 books stranded island thread and no one mentioned Robinson Crusoe

>>9076614
you have to be more quiet anon

>tfw 4chan is shit
>interest specific boards will teach you how to take flight but will clip your wings so that you'll never stray too far
>they'll take decent care of you and you'll consider leaving multiple times but what's better, being stuck inside the zoo and getting fed or being out in the wilderness
>everything is shit but you still have dreams of finding your perfect oasis

>>7477603
>or as Nietzsche says, use them as a rug on your ladder
>use them as a rug on your ladder
>rug on your ladder
>rug

>Come home drunk from a night out
>Buy a book on Amazon
>It's the third book in a series and you haven't read the first two
>And you're not even a fan of that genre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv7LwFPp3SY

>>5423742
Loooooved this book.

>>5415631
>tfw can't train muay thai after shoulder accident
i just want to train

I don't know...

/lit/ seems to alternate between the best board on this site and a cesspool of unbelievably acid shitposting.

I'm sorry the thread's gone belly-up from the get-go, OP. I know that feel all too well.

As for your question, Augustine's "Confessions" did a lot for me, even though it's not explicitly didactic.Gary Wills' Penguin translation is stylistically excellent, despite the fact that I can't stand him otherwise.

Hey /lit/,

I want to buy my mum a book. She doesn't read much but she's told me that she'd like to read something 'nice'. She's a hardcore devout Catholic, so I thought I'd get her The Screwtape Letters, or something else by C.S.Lewis (I've only red The Letters though). Do you think that someone who reads mostly magazines would enjoy it?

Do you know of any other Catholic-friendly (or something like that) books?

Love isn't a singular source for creativity. Some people find solace in reflecting on their tribulations. They think about times of awkwardness or being out of place. In a lot of ways, authors may also be pushed to write about times that they felt isolated-- as their flaws and mishaps are the effects of the dispositions that put them into that hole.

Love for a topic or so is very constructive in certain aspects. But when it comes to more contextual literary situations, limiting yourself to the feeling of love will only narrow your content.

I think that I've always desired a writer's lifestyle because to me it represented some sort of bohemian leisure that symbolises the escape from the tedious obligations and repetition of work. Now that I'm on welfare I realise that one doesn't need to write to live in such a delicious way. In fact, writing may very well get in the way of enjoying myself.

Still, as my leisure expands halfway into the second year of doing nothing at all, I sometimes get this little urge to do something instead of nothing. It's barely noticeable but it's there sometimes, usually in the early hours of the morning after a sleepless night. I think that if I will write anything it will be a tribute to the idleness that has brought me so much pleasure, perhaps in the form of a novella, but in such a way that the work will allow both the working man to be indignant and the fellow NEET to find some justification in it. Sort of a subtle sketch addressing multiple aspects of this kind of life and the good and bad sides that come with it through a semi-autobiographical narrator. It may be dismissed altogether or take another few years to actually write something down, but time is on my side.

i want to read romantic literature

a collections of romantic poems would be nice