/lit/ - Literature

>>23269685
>>23270722
>Valancourt Books is an independent small press based in Richmond, Virginia, specializing in new editions of neglected classics, with an emphasis on horror/supernatural and LGBT literature.
Occult faggots. got it

>>20765996
reddit moment

>>20760492
>atheist materialist
>female
>liberal
She's not even a boss. She's just some low level grunt.

Why are zoomers like this? They are all so gay and conformist.
https://youtu.be/ykH_aFVV-V0

I don't like these normie tier "conservatives" in the mainstream sphere like Ben Shapiro or Jordan Peterson who act like they're so brave and edgy but they're completely pussified and castrated and they don't conserve anything. All they do is act as the safe and "acceptable" opposition to the progressives. Half the time they are just defending yesterday's liberalism from today's more radical liberalism, like feminists vs trannies. And they love to criticize white leftists but they don't saying anything when it's a Jew. It's annoying because this is what "conservatism" is in the normie world now.

What books have you read that have completely changed your perspective on things?

In a way it is sort of unfair to name some writers like HG Wells, George Orwell, or Aldous Huxley for this thread because they were not really "predicting the future" so much as planning it.

>>20565678
>caring what a woman thinks
Are you really that much of a spineless normalfaggot? Is this what /lit/ has become?

You people make fun of neocon boomer Christians (which is fair enough in itself) but then you turn around and say that Marxism is basically Christian.
Leftists have no self-awareness.

>duuuude everything is le simulation bro!!!!!
Do you people even think about these ideas before you accept them?
The same argument that refutes gnosticism also applies here. If the world around us is fake, then your knowledge that the world is fake is also fake, thus refuting itself.
Zoomers have literally no grasp of basic logic and epistemology. You will believe the most retarded things just because it's trendy.

>>20545216
This is so fucking gross. Why would a person write this?

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.

Is anyone here familiar with literature on clan structures, Western and Eastern, matrilineal and patrilineal, and their successful strategies in marrying daughters, ordering the family, and maintaining dynasties? I was going to ask anthropologists on reddit but I thought I would ask you first.

>>19931711
Depends how of good they have lived.

Men are in their prime in their late 30s and early 40s, provided they have lead a physically active life, have secured a business, and have remained intellectually active (not limited to read books).

Most people, probably me included, will reach 40s being fat, poor, lonely, resentful, and in my case a stupid snob.

Give me a simple plot idea I can turn into a novel.

Any good finance books?
In particular stocks, regulations, or how the US economy works.

Already read:
>Wealth of Nations
>Richest Man in Babylon

Have you ever learnt a language or enough of a language to read a book in it's original translation?

>>15190139
>2666 is the only good book of Bolanos

The Third Reich would like a word with you

>>14598728
What isn't escapism? When you grow out of you ebin 20s phase you'll realise how stupid and shallow all of this normalfag shit is and wish you never got involved in any of it. This is all a mid-life crisis. (quite literally, you will not live to be older than 50 given the current state of things) You are starting to get more tired, less motivated, and you've realized you have absolutely no reason to live, no anchor to this mode of existence. This won't be fixed by socializing with retards at a bar or drawing furry porn in exchange for bitcoins. The solution is to examine your life and come to terms with it. Start with the Greeks.

I strolled around the university campus alone, taking in the sound of the crickets and the cool night air. It brought me back to happier times, nights at P____ Park waving sparklers around with other children without a care in the world while the adults fanned charcoal at the barbeque pit, sounds of bright laughter dancing through the air. Even when the sparklers had fizzled out, we never felt reluctant to leave, thinking with our childish innocence that those salad days would last forever. We would line up our bicycles, count “Three, two, one!” and pedal down the path, imagining that we were Lewis Hamilton or Schumacher or Räikkönen zipping around a Formula One circuit, flanked by those ubiquitous street lamps. The lamp posts here, however, shone the warm colour of the sunset, and I did not have anyone to share it with. I thought that lamp posts must be the loneliest objects in the world: Each one was flanked by another two of its brethren, yet none of them would ever know another’s touch.

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I usually rewrite stuff at least five times before I show it to anyone so yeah this is a new paragraph I shoved into one of my stories I swear I'm usually better

>>13320110
Makes you kinda wonder why they banned the book. Nah, I guess there's no reason, right? It's just spreading harmful, dangerous opinions that are completely unsubstantiated, right?

>>13311524
>Isn't blooms canon list really long anyway? I doubt anyone on lit has read it cover to cover. Instead of defending it, anon, why don't you try reading it?
Why don't you instead of being a clueless retard?

I have a $10 voucher for eBay. Which book should I buy out of; Starship Troopers or I am Legend?