/lit/ - Literature

How do I know if a book is good before I read it but also don't get spoiled on all its plot points?

>>18666455
>Pinker

>>18559029

>>What are you reading?
nothing
>>What are you drinking?
nothing

>>15807247
>figured out how to do science
>for a bunch of hairless apes

Talking about Schopenhauer or Spinoza has made me lose friends.

>>12939047
>Only 190 posts

Absolute state of """/lit/"""

>Tfw never read fiction
I think it's time that i make a new book haul.

>>11898184
Is this londonfrogs?

>>11891046
I have similar settis but i'm neeting on the Norway

>>10235854
>paying for e-books

>>10175362
Elaborate.

>>8175678
>baby gets mad

be a normal person and drink coffee

>>6636091

Breaking this up in to two parts so I'm not jumping all over the place.

Here's something that I've been confused about. Is giving into a spook that makes you happy something you should get rid of? Let's say want to get a nosejob, because you don't like how your nose looks. You want it to look a certain way that will look more attractive to you. Therefore, you think you are getting a nosejob because you want to make it look personally appealing.

However, your notions of what an attractive nose looks like is rooted in images fed to you by society, and what you deem to be attractive is simply what society at large as instilled in you.

In this case, should you stop yourself from getting a nosejob and try to feel more secure with your nose because the nosejob is a result of spooky thinking? Or are you letting the spook of not giving into spooks hinder your happiness?