/lit/ - Literature

>>22956612
>>22956583
see how the midwit reveals themselves. every great author in history has an inspiration they bemoan the obscurity of so to denounce the obscure is to denounce the greats. "how dare you point out the canon is mostly just random! I've read so many of them and I won't stand to see you trivialize my achievements!".
You're worshiping a list of, essentially, bestsellers. It's a similar mindset to a video game achievement hunter talking about their platinum trophies. They could have found their own achievements to strive for but instead they're complacent in sticking with achievements others defined for them. Reading a book because it's canonical is like watching a movie because it broke records at the box office; it's not the worst way to pick a good story but it's never going to get you anything beyond mid-wittery simply because of the level of simplicity required for something to get popular. And yet, right on queue, people show up acting defensive and fallacious while trying to explain why they should be respected for admiring all these books just because they were on a list and attacking anyone that doesn't agree with them and the millions midwits like them.
sorry, I don't find a book being a best-seller or meme to be a valid reason to call it great and it's a fact that the greatest and most complex works of art are usually obscure because of their greatness.

>>22720907
the weirdest thing about Rand's Philosophy to me is that if you disconnect it from her name and just ask people if they agree that singular amazing people push society forward and we should seek to make a society that best allows these kinds of people to flourish (Individualism) the vast majority of people even leftists, especially leftists, agree. A lot of them agree to an extreme degree and start talking about all the people that they think society should follow in this manner.
but mention that it's an idea by Ayn Rand and the same people will suddenly start sperging out and trying to "prove" her wrong. I've even read reviews on Goodreads that openly say this - that they do agree but hate Rand and everyone who likes her because they are the wrong people to let flourish.
It's weird as hell to witness.

Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is unironically a great and unique novel - seethe harder

Well gentlemen, I have officially read every fantasy novel worth reading that has ever been written. I'm open to recommendations but I'm almost certain your rec will be shit or already read by myself

Heard a woman stating listening to an audiobook is reading.
I do not think listening to an audiobook is reading. I think if you listen to audiobooks instead of reading you are a retard/midwit/etc.
Is listening to an audiobook reading? (No it isn't.)

>>21349912
>Why don't you bless us with whatever book can stand up to your lofty standards?
Alright, my reddit-spacing friend: Gormenghast, volumes un deux and trois and volume deux point cinq: boy in darkness

>>20732341
Truth Shines.

Listening to Audiobooks will and always be inferior to reading.

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>>18280546
Do it Yourself on Hypnosis or try with a friendly trusted expert. Not with some impersonal subscription or spiritual anchor of a person who got into studying psychology to cure their own madness (most of em).
>Secrets
Lmao we live in the digital age where you are leaking your packets all the time to the nosey financial institutions and tech giants every moment. Everyone else is a brainlet or bought out. You are a granule of abstracted scenery no different from those around you. That doesn't change the soul crushing reality that this is a cage around you and you are livestock being offered drugs as distractions. The alternative is to bear the weight of this pain and grow under its unrelenting stress as an unrelenting and uncommon manly man.
Just watch binaural beats videos and affirmation videos on your time to relax. Don't feed the beast with therapy money and credibility.

>>16361745
all people on YouTube deserve to be bullied

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>>10573097
typical

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