/lit/ - Literature

Thinking of doing a reread soon

Clash of Kings is great
Does Bran's POV eventually pay off btw?
Should I read Wheel of Time if I'm enjoying ASOIAF? It seems to be similar

Greetings you retarded nerds hahahahahaha /j. Do you plan on reading anything juicy over winter break /s? Related, anyone got nonfiction audio book recommendations?

>>18316426
I often ride my bike about 8 miles to a local coffee shop that's usually empty. Good coffee, a workout and some quiet readin is always comfy. Have gone through many books there.

If I were to name a specific single reading session though, I recall sitting on my deck at sunset reading Brothers Karamazov. Was sublime.

A Hero of Our Time
Keats: The Complete Poems

throughout my life i made friends through circumstance and jokes. i have been pretty friendless for years and want to change that.

started learning about epicurus recently and his ideas are something i can really get around. any suggestions for books or ideas to help me be more comfortable and friendly to others? i'm a social leech and don't offer anything out of fear of rejection for being myself (knowing damn well i've had friends before by being myself).

>The fact that ordinary experience is so fundamentally linked with the presupposition of substance confirms Herbert Guenther’s observation (inspired, it would seem, primarily by Heidegger and Dzogchen) that human beings have radically strayed from any sensitive appreciation for their own experience. The ongoing “mind-body” problem of philosophical and cognitive discourse is a good illustration of this experiential and existential insensitivity. The only incontrovertible fact of our predicament is experience itself. Yet many philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists consider “matter” to be the basic given of our experience and see “consciousness” as a problem to be explained in relation to matter. The extreme, almost perverse outcome of this view is the claim that consciousness is an
epiphenomenon of material processes. A phenomenologically sensitive appreciation of our predicament suggests a different conclusion: sentience is the given (though still a mysterious given) while “matter” is a cognitive construction and ontological fallacy.

>>11926673
>Duma - Count of Monte Cristo
>Herodot - Histories
>Jones - Jewish Revlutionary Spirit

>Hancock - Fingerprints of the Gods
Really comfy, slightly X-Files nostalgia mixed up with heordotian short stories and real mindblwoing Klaus Schmidt-tier titbits. 8/10 would recommend so far. Only downside, it's a softcover and the text is far to near the binding to be read without breaking the spine.

>>11734758
I only buy the books I have on my lits (currently over 300) when I can get one of them cheap or find one which I should add to the list. I don't care that I haven't read them yet, more for the post-apocalyptic times when there will be no more 4chins. I just buy 100€ worth of books (usually 15-20 books) a month and store them in my library. Worst case my kids will read them before me.

It's a nice feel to know that one owns a safe copy of the classics which no ideologue can simply cease printing.

With the way the world is today, how does one accept they don't have What It Takes? We get this dog-eat-dog, Darwinian survival of the fittest shit shoved down our throat all the time, what's so bad about eventually taking the hint? That you don't have the qualities to survive and thrive in today's fever-pitch economies? Why run the race if you have no illusions about your incapacity to run it? Books for this feel?

>>10588920
underrated

>>10491019
>ok, is = true.
>is is
>what is is what is
>is is that which exists
THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF PHILOSOPHY

>>10491033
>>10491056
now we are getting somewhere my friend!
I can now ask, how does one know that something "is" with certainty

Shout out to all the snowfags rn

For me its tea with raw honey, some candles, and these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EKqAO7J43Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBKFlckrpmU

Then I begin my reading.

>>10362350
>tfw started reading this
bored me to fucking tears after 100 pages

my favourite winter read is to snuggle under the blankets with hot chocolate and start a reread of Zettel's Traum

Dante looking on the face of god always gets me

>But my wings had not sufficed for that
>had not my mind been struck by a bolt
>of lightning that granted what I asked

>here my exalted vision lost its power
>but now my will and my desire, like wheels revolving
>with an even motion, were turning with
>the love that moves the sun and all the other stars

What is the comfiest kid lit?

Comfy edition

>>8821797

this has to be bait, and we've all fell for it.

>Captcha: STOP de Musique

Is this the place to discuss H.P. Lovecraft?

I must say I just started reading his Complete Works and I'm surprised just how much I'm liking it. Really comfy.

The savage detectives
>All those normalfags enjoying their youth while writing poetry, doing drugs and fucking like bunnies

Bolaño did it on purpose, didn't he?