/lit/ - Literature

T.A. Buckley
<spoiler>It's the only one I could find at my local library and i'm only 10 pages in</spoiler>

>CAN IT BE
>HAVE I DISCOVERED...


>LE TRUE MEANING OF LE WORD?!!?!?!?

>>15303687

>mfw so far centrist I make everyone, including moderate centrists, uncomfortable

>mfw never read a non-fiction book, ever

if i want to learn something i just google or wikipedia

>>14870712
so in the end we should trust experts while also being critical?

I've only read one book, but it's the complete dialogues of Plato, so that's like, equivalent to a thousand "normal" books.

>>14261526

Literally all philosophers are entry level if your smart enough.

>>14239414
>>14241237

>mfw homo volcel

>>14045348
>It really tells you everything you need to know about the depth of thought of the average American Conservative versus the average American liberal.

What are books that convey the depth of thought of the average American Centrist?

>>13660851
>complains about ad hominem
>proceeds to ad hominem

lmfao this is your brain on incelism

>>13611677

>reactionaries react to things

woah

>>13580584

>mfw to intelligent to waste time reading primary sources

>mfw read 12 pages today but it was 12 pages of Plato so that's like, a billion pages of a normal book

>read Hume
>understood everything perfectly
>tfw didn't start with the greeks

>>13174078

>tfw to intelligent to believe in silly conspiracy theories

>Poop and Pee

>>12719921
>>12720031

>mfw make up your own opinions without reading anything

I have opinions on nearly every author in the western canon and I haven't read a single one of them.

>mfw reading books backwards going sentence-by-sentence so I can fully appreciate their construction and autonomous beauty without letting thoughts of story or characters get in the way

Hello, lit.
I disliked: for whom the bell tolls, the stranger, no longer human, lord of the flies.
I liked: dune, wind up bird chronicle, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, montaigne's essays

What would you recommend for me to read?

>>11580704

1000-1500 depending how busy I am

>I like Stephen King

>see shitpost with a lot of (You)s
>copy paste it to another board
>make sure it's a board with little cross-over posters
>change the details to fit the topic
>get just as much maybe even more attention as the original shitpost

>mfw I've read The Tale of Genji, Don Quixote, War & Peace, The Brothers Karamazov, Moby-Dick, The Golden Bowl, Ulysses, In Search of Lost Time, The Man Without Qualities, The Magic Mountain, The Lord of the Rings, The Recognitions, Gravity's Rainbow, and Infinite Jest, all multiple times

>>11232139
noo