/lit/ - Literature

>>11040840
On the Road or anything by Marx.

Are you overweight, by chance?

>>11040840
The bible

>>11040854
No

>>11040854
Yes.

Discworld by Terry Pratchett

Never read it but everybody's always telling me to.

Moby Dick or Portrait of the Artist
>>11040876
kek

>>11040876
Pretty good.

>>11040853
>On the Road or anything by Marx.

>>11040840
The Bible

>>11040906

>>11040908
>>11040906
>>11040857
Christfags

The Holy Bible

>>11040911
what's your bible?

>>11040840
Even Nietzsche realised that the "will to power" doesn't work. The abyss can't not destroy you. It's a simple as that. There is no such thing as non-slavery. It is simply what we are. Augustine realised this centuries before, that only the man of God can truly be free.

>>11040923
How come the "will to power" doesn't work?

>>11040932
Because power corrupts, a.k.a., compromises your will. The higher you climb, the less freedom you actually have.

You probably don't understand Nietzsche at all.
Go ahead and explain him to me. I'll check tomorrow morning for a hearty chuckle. What a way to begin the day!
>>11040923
What the fuck are you talking about you fucking moron.

>>11040937
He's right yo uguys

the 120 days of sodom

>>11040840

>>11040936
You're a fucking idiot. You don't even know what the Will to Power is.
IT ISN'T POLITICAL POWER, IT'S SELF-REPLICATION. IT IS BIOLOGICAL. IT'S A CONCEPT BASED OFF OF NON-DARWINIAN EVOLUTION WHICH NIETZSCHE WAS EXTREMELY INTERESTED IN. THE THEORY IS, IS THAT STRUGGLE IS A LESSER ASPECT OF THE ACTUAL WILL TO EXPAND/REPRODUCE ONESELF IN A SUSTAINABLE WAY.
Go read Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor. It's a great book since most idiots think Nietzsche is some abstract egoist. No wonder you think Stirner is somehow at all similar.

>>11040853
mega-pleb

>>11040889
>>11040911
>>11040945
>>11040949
plebs

>>11040857
>>11040906
>>11040908
based

>>11040953
But everything is political

A bilingual edition of Anglo-Saxon poetry, maxims, and riddles.

>>11040953
>angry caps posting about neetchee
Not that anon but this instantly makes you look more adolescent than the party you're talking to.

>>11040961
That might be the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard

>>11040961
Nope, silly humanist.
>>11040984
Why would I care about how I look to some reddit cunt?

>>11040923
>>11040936
worst post ever

>>11040840
Walden

The Ego and His Own

>>11040916
my diary desu

Pessoa's Book of Disquiet

>>11040840

>>11041070
Worst evola

>>11041019
Based

None because I took Plato's warning against writing seriously

>>11040951
This for me too. This book is fantastic, I'm wondering how come it isn't more renowned..

>>11040911
no shit
what purpose does your post even serve

>>11040854
perhaps

The Bible to be honest

The Dialectic of Enlightment

>>11041124
Make sure to hold it the right way up

>>11041091
Not sure, maybe because he isn't memeable? But really, Walser's work set me on a path of simplicity and love that has changed my life for the better. If you can get your hands on it, you must check out Walks with Walser by Carl Seelig, Walser's guardian during the last decades of his life. It gives a beautiful portrait of the man and his philosophy.

>>11041139

Siege by James Mason

>>11040840
idiot
>>11040923
idiot

To follow Nietzsche is to not follow Nietzsche

>>11041174
If you follow Nietzsche, you don´t become him, but yourself!

>>11040923
>The abyss can't not destroy you. It's a simple as that. There is no such thing as non-slavery

>>11040923
>>11040936
this is hte worst thing ive ever read

i tooke the major books of the hellenic canon and bound them together with horizontale roope attatching so that their number is connected into one unit but each of them opens as weell like the bible (which means library) is a collection of bookes so my made is a collection of better ones each picked of the earliest english translations because they have more y's instead of i's

>>11041205
Post plox

>>11040936
>The higher you climb, the less freedom you actually have
If you kill your enemies, they win.

>>11041209
That's true though. Nietzsche mocked Flamengo virtues of people who become suckers trying to get political influence.
His will to power is not bound to politics

>>11040854
could you restate your query?

>>11041205
Where is this from? Kiki?

My Freud Reader or Man's Search for Meaning.

>>11040854
Occasionally

>>11040906

>Absolutely sklavenmoral

>>11040954
>unironically uses "based"

>>11041356
>le reddit

>>11040840
The Conference of the Birds

'Unqualified Reservations'

The mysterious stranger, by Mark Twain
>>11040949
The 600 precepts of Sade: like bible verses

>>11040840

>>11040840

zarathustra

>>11041750
cringe

>>11041773
uber-ancap strikes back

>>11040857
/thread

The Bible.

the Bible of Hell

>>11041846
Ew
at least have a shred of originality

>>11041862
Who cares about originality when you have Jesus?

I know what you're going to say.

You're going to say, "that isn't really technically a book".

And to that, my response is:

"I can't hear you because I'm listening to Opus 133 quite loud."

>>11041872
that's why noone likes jesusfags

>>11041902

>>11040840
For me it's probably War and Peace (if you mean the book that's played the most important role in my life)

I read it when I was very young (like 15) and it was one of the first literary books I read. The way Tolstoy views his characters was profoundly important in determining the way I see art and its inherent purpose, in ways I can't really put into words

Siddharta and Demian, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Sorrows of Young Werther all offered material that I reference like once a week talking with people

Because you're an autist: not quoting them, just at times giving opinions that I'm consciously aware of are based on stuff I read in those works

>>11041936
Oh and Notes from Underground. The whole concept of spite being a thing for the short-sighted fiddled my cicadas

Pic related.

Also, Anna Karenina.

>>11041254
idk what to tell you about Freud but Man's Search for Meaning is pretty intro-tier. I think it's great too, but it's still intro-tier. You'd probably like Nietzche if you gave him a shot.

>>11041925

>being this delusional

>>11041972
T H I S
H
I
S

>>11041972
Obviously you don't remember the crusades.

the silmarillion

>>11040923
>>11040936
Textbook resentiment

>>11041147
Walser is like a happy Kafka it’s nice

>>11041972
>>11041988
>unironically defending revenge
high school tier wisdom level

>>11041889
But anon, we're typing our responses to you. You listen to Beethoven so loud that you can no longer read?
Also, music isn't a book.

>>11042065
He was joking.

As were you.

As am I.

Not funny now is it?

The Trial by Kafka

>>11041902
That's okay because Christians love everyone.

>>11041069
I will crey with you don't worry

>>11040954
>Based
>That pic
Fuck off back to r*ddit

>>11042340
>Christians love everyone.
Yeah, love everyone except for X, Y, Z, ... ad infinitum.
that's why noone likes jesusfags

>>11040923
>only the man of God can truly be free

>>11040840
daodejing

>>11040984
he’s upset because fascists, degenerates amd nihilists hav distorted n for pernicious reasons and he was trying to free select humans

>>11041070
The self-helping book for people with erectile dysfunction, great one Anon

>>11040965
Which one?

>>11041019
Nice

>>11040923
I made myself quite comfortable here at the bottom of the abyss. There's always a way out but for now it's too crazy and fun to go just yet.

I hope everyone knows about the backstory to the book 'will to power' - his sister basically assembled it by herself.

>>11042714
I really don't know what you're talking about.

>>11041069
I FIND IT KIND OF FUNNY
I FIND IT KIND OF SAD
THE DREAMS IN WHICH IM DYING ARE THE BEST IVE EVER HAD
MAAAAD WORLD :( :(

> Bible, KJV
> Liber Null and Psychonaut
> Being and Nothingness
> The Red Book
> Fear and Trembling
> World as Will and Representation Volume I

My ideology is a work in progress along very strange lines.

The Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

>>11040854
My mom said I'm big boned, faggot. Your mom said my bone is decent sized, as well.

>>11043008
>lists a bunch of related and popular philosophical texts
>strange

>>11043167

I dunno, Christianity and hard existentialism seem difficult to reconcile. Kierkegaard is an existentialist, but in a different sense. If Being and Nothingness weren't in there then yeah, but since it is, it throws things off a bit.

>>11041124
>The Dialectic of Enlightment
((()))

Meditations

>>11040923
>slavery is freedom

>>11043222
/pol/ leave

>>11040840

His entire oeuvre.

>>11041944
That book is literally a clickbait
Readbait, perhaps

>>11043724
falling for hayek-posting

Steppenwolf

>>11043700
What's your favorite by him? Ive read Whatever and Atomised so far and loved them both. Its interesting to see how he developed from Whatever to the grander scale of Atomised.

>>11041019
>not Walden II

>>11042714
>for X, Y, Z, ... ad infinitum
?

>>11043795
Largely unreligious work, unlike Walden. Why call it Walden two, stupid fucks.

>>11043791
Platform is also great, might be my favourite.

I also liked Soumission a lot but I don't know if that depends on being a European that sees his environment become increasingly Islamic.

>>11044154
did you miss the part where islam offered people something while the secularists were bankrupt? Islam saves europe is one of the subtexts bruh.

>>11044178
Why do you think I missed that?

>>11043033
Ayyy lmao

>>11040840
The Bible

>>11043901
>Largely unreligious work
you say that as if its a bad thing

The obvious answer

TEAIO

>>11042918
>>11043877
He's talking about fags, lesbos, trannies, roasties with abortion, etc.

>>11044589
based

I like to pretend I'm Achilles while I'm boxing.

>>11044742
Mourning your boyfriend while crying in a tent?

>>11044742
Wishing you were fisting young boys instead?

>>11044772
>he is so insecure about his sexuality he can't form strong, platonic male bonds
I feel bad for you

>>11040840
The bible

>>11040853
epic

>>11044576
it is.

But more disturbingly, it seems to support the idea of determinism as if all of our lives were determined by some system of government we live in. This seems detached from reality, doesn't it?

>>11044661
Oh! We love them too. More than they love themselves, in fact.

>>11041356
>uses “unironically” instead of “sincerely”

>>11040840
The Bible, Luther translation, 1912 version

>>11041147
same with me, after reading a collection of his short stories and the assistant (only books by walser translated to my native language) i feel that i appreciate life much more. it really is about finding the joy in those "little" things

Moby Dick; or, the Bible

>>11040923
Pseuds wont understand where you come from anon. Carry the cross for them

>>11046899
Hmm

>>11040840
On the Road or anything by Marx.

>>11040923
legit retarded

>>11040840
The Bible.

>>11040853

Quote it 5 times a week almost guaranteed.

>>11041009
>Foucault
>humanist
nigger are you fucking stupid

>>11040923
Its lucky you chose a nigger to avatar your abhorrent post. Now some will assume you were being ironic.

>>11041773
>>11041786
Except an an-cap would accept this as elementary

Marcus Aurelius' Meditations

>>11040840
The Bible

Les Miserables but it'll probably be the Bible after I'm done with it

>>11041356
based

Obviously the Bible, but if we are going for something else I would say Don Quixote.

sage shitshow thread

>Christianity
the bible
>Judaism
the torah
>Islam
the Quran
>Taoism
Tao te Ching
>Hinduism
Holy Vedas/Mahabharata
>atheism
The God Delusion
>Confuciansim
Analects
>Buddhism
???
>Wicca
???
>Shinto
???
>Tengriism
???

overshoot by catton

>>11047527
Do you not know what humanism is?
Could you tell me something he wrote about other than humanity and its structures?

>>11040923
>there is no such thing as non-slavery
This is true

>only the man of God can truly be free
Even if we have similar ideas of God this is true.

Too bad /lit/ thinks nihilism and its ilk are the end all be all of philosophy.

The Book of Disquiet is basically my diary desu

>>11048255
This

>>11049857
It shouldn't be.

>>11049574
>>atheism
>The God Delusion
nobody thinks this. Atheism is defined by its nomenclature. Only ricktheists would claim there is an atheist bible and it would be about God.

Finnegans Wake

Call me by your name

No longer human

>>11040840
Zhuangzi
Tao Te Ching
Montaigne's Essays

>>11040840
the legacy of totalitarianism in a tundra

>>11049857
>>11041069
this

>>11045419
You love only your made-up image of rightfulness, which you assert exists in the other (the relative of the Christian's "love" - the modern political prude's "love" via "correctness") You don't give jack shit about the living, offending difference, about any human who differs from you and will never have anything in common with you until his death. Which is not surprising, considering the genesis of reactivity in any human multitude, esp. religious species.

>>11041944
that man sure did hate planned economies but at least he didn't hate the people trying to plan them
did hayek ever write about the inherent accumulation of wealth in his style of governance and his plan to avoid it without just taxing the wealthy at higher rates?

>>11049842
I can't believe you and I are the only ones who believe this is a good post.

What the original anon is basically warning against is Nietzschean esotericism. You do NOT want to become absorbed in Nietzschean logic, this is a fact. His reasoning can be very serpentine at times, and if you do decide to consider it, do it only as a sick fascination with where atheism leads someone who has been gifted with good reasoning capabilities.

Kierkegaard is much better for existentialism.

>>11040840
Edgy choice but it's probably the one that remains closest to my heart & the way I actually experience the world on a daily basis

Man's Search for Meaning

Because it's short it also means you can reread it ever year

>>11046613
That doesn’t sound sincere at all

>>11040923
You are correct in saying that for most the will to power is impossible. I can't tell if you made a spelling error in saying the abyss can destroy you. Slavery is absolutely a thing, and we are all in servitude to the living God.

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, haters gonna hate, shit is a modern day homeric epic for the tech age

Euclid's Elements. It was my introduction to deductive reasoning and axiomatic systems.

If I never read it I wouldn't be where I am today, so I'm quite thankful for it.

Pic kinda related

>>11043008
t.17 year-old

pic possibly related

>>11041999
The anti-Jewish raids during the Crusades were universally decried by the Papacy and other high ranking church officials. The raids were committed by peasants and nobles with little to no church involvement. I'm in no way defending the post (I very much disagree) but your response made little sense.

>>11040840
The book in your OP is my favorite book desu.

>>11052340
>t.17 year-old
I don't think so, there isn't any Nietzsche.

It changes too often but this is probably my favorite book
>>11050788
I've only read it once, so that might give it the sublime character.

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>>11048246
what did this anon get wrong? his assessment of nitch is what ive heard elsewhere

>>11044589
pleb

>>11052397
under rated post, muh niggah

>>11040840

>>11040923
This is the epitome of redpill. man has no ultimate power so his will is just as limited as he is
You can tell by how much opposition there is

>>11041356
Can someone make this except where the guy on the left is wojak?

>>11041999
*pogroms

>>11053229
see above

>>11045419
I love you, you just have to not be the things that you are for me to care. Otherwise I'll say I love you while voting down you human rights until your disease is eradicated from our society. Traditional values are just better why can't you see that. Believe what I believe and be saved.

>>11049763
humanism is...

talkin bout humans brah what else

>>11042691
>>11041356
Lmao, no one gives a shit. Fuck off.

Mine are illiad and Plato's republic, because they were my first books I ever bought together.
>>11040840
6/10
>>11040876
7/10
>>11040906
7/10
>>11040923
>>11040936
0/10 bait
>>11041069
9/10
>>11041070
2/10
>>11041124
>The Dialectic of Enlightment
8/10
>>11041167
>Siege by James Mason
6/10
>>11041205
Post please :-)
>>11041626
7/10, better than 90% of Rectionary lit. However you're better off reading anything that Molbug references (Except Carlye because he's a loon). His city state idea in patchworks is pretty interesting though. As with his other full length posts.
>>11041934
9/10 patrician, same with the other anon for Anna >>11041944 , Hayek drops you to 8/10 though
>>11042286
7/10
>>11043403
>>11048255
5/10
>>11044589
pleb if sincere
>>11044742
Extremely homosexual if you do that. but 9/10.
>>11050788
8/10
>>11051590
mah nigga/10
>>11041174
>>11041081
10/10 these but unironically

>>11041242
That's not entirely true though is it? It's not bound to, but is apart of the psych or whatever of the person becoming whatever he wills as he strives against life, or something along those lines. Doesn't he also contradict himself a lot? And not for the pleasure of dissonance, but because of new thoughts or new mistakes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MLNknyq0p4

>>11041648
>mysterious stranger by Mark Twain
Nice

>>11041648
>Mysterious stranger
A rare pick, the prose is spell binding. I still think now and then about the intro description (maybe stolen from Goethe) of the clothed hills and river.

You're a bunch of god damn phonys, this board lousy with phonys

>>11054884

>>11054884

>>11054960

not sure why i quoted a post

>>11053300
Same, I almost never re-read books, at least not all the way through. It doesn't say anything new, of course, but the voice of the author is so comforting, like an old alcoholic at a bar half-disinterestedly rattling off his somewhat, but not really, remarkable life story, without pretense, the beauty coming purely from a naturally tragic mode of feeling. The fact that he wrote it for money and always preferred his day job makes it that much better.

bible of course but i have read gilgamesh twice in as many years. great translation and ascends all the bullshit of life and gets to the meat of the matter. mans comedic battle with time and destiny.

>>11054893
Thanks Holden

>>11054884
>tfw makes Mysterious Stranger thread
>0 responses
Why live?

>>11040840

On Living & Dying Well
Bring & Time
The conduct of lifr

>>11052397
This.

>>11040945
>>11040951
is this NYRB's version?

>>11052397
>what i did to her when i found her

it's not raep, isn't it?

Unironically On the Road, but Jack Kerouac's entire Dulouz Canon is amazing. The Dharma Bums is probably my favourite.

>>11055221
What is it about on the road that speaks to people? Haven't read it in a while but all I remember was him lending money from his family to drink heavily and fuck strangers.

>>11055232
>that's not writing, that's typing
He expresses a despairing but optimistic sense of wonder that's an intoxicant to a stifled stagnant stultified boy. It's something to be outgrown, and the literally quality is non-existent.

>>11055221
This. Big Sur is 10/10 as well.

>>11055232
It's about finding yourself through being misguided and accepting that it's all a part of your life.

>>11054767
>Hayek drops you to 8/10 though

>>11040840
thus spoke zarathustra
capital
the old testament

IJ

>>11040853

This is not my Bible. This is the Bible. In a better version.