/lit/ - Literature

These are, without fail, always the most boring and generic threads on /lit/.

Let's continue listing the top 50 books on the Goodreads Best Novels Ever list. You guys have already named 10 of them. Keep them coming. Where's Ulysses? That's usually the 3rd or 4th post.

>mfw literally every aspect of the entire BOTNS is just a retelling of American Sun God myths with random Christian and Arthurian parallels layered over a bland, uninteresting hero's journey storyline

Honestly I should have stopped reading this as soon as the dead girl said her name was Dorcas.

Philosophers want an understanding of the universe that is simple enough to be expressed in everyday language and understood without a specialist education. They refuse to acknowledge the fact that the universe is not that simple. The result is the entirety of modern philosophy, stubbornly clinging to the tired arguments buried in the boundaries of their understanding of the universe, borne from their own fear of embracing their own ignorance and submitting to the one mode of thought that has ever produced any statement made from any sort of verifiable authority: scientific inquiry.

But please. Let us have another thread about how modal realism is worth time and oxygen because David Kellogg thinks math is too hard.