/lit/ - Literature

>>11462828
It's my diary.
We fucked.

A book on how to make chocolate. I guess we're in for some good times.

>>11462828
>Achtung-Panzer! by Heinz Guderian
hmmm

Descartes Discourses on Method.

>>11462828
>The Idiot

fuck we're all gonna be stupid

>it's a dictionary
w-woah

>>11462828
Knut Hamsuns Hunger
Iunno man I guess its fitting

Antifragile.
We shall build a new and better world from the shards of our own hubris.

>>11462828
The Magic Mountain, comfy but we won't accomplish shit.

Alternate reality where Franco (Fascism Lite dictator of Spain) resurrects.

I doubt they would get most of it without the requisite background info, but at least they would get some education in politics.

>>11462828
US narrative history vol.1 Davidson

AMERICA!

>Under the Volcano
Hmm

>>11462828
The two closest physical books I have are my pocket us constitution and my pocket bhagavad gita, both sitting on my CRT TV that lives in my bedroom for retrogaming before bed

We're in fine shape

>tfw when The general Theory of Employment, interest, and money becomes new bible

The complete stories of Flannery O'Connor.

Could as well be the bible.

>>11462828
The Oxford Wordsworth and pictured are equidistant.

>>11462828
"Rose Gardens of Australia" by Susan Irvine (thank you to my mother).
Umm I guess we can have nice gardens and a good artistic tradition... I guess... probably pretty epicurean, not that I've read it

>Mein Kampf

i think we're safe

>>11462828
The Foundation for Exploration
People read it and become not stupid anymore.

>our lady of the flowers
government by mutant cabaret? masturbation mandatory. trannies everyfuckingwhere, full drag funerals of their regular suicides.

A Short History of Decay and The Doors of Perception are pretty equally close to me. Either would make sense for post-apocalypse.

"The Peloponnesian War"

>The Grand Design

Considering this is a post-apocalyptic civilization, this might not be so bad.

>>11462828
Yeat's collected poems. It'll be as comfy as possible. Many men will have oneitis but will create beautiful stuff to compensate, many women will think themselves fairy goddesses. And there will be war with large sea demons on a daily basis.

>>11462950
This would be horribly dumb, boring and pretentious.

>>11462947

Plato, Hegel, and Marx are the new Satan.

>>11462828
what did I mean by this

I guess we're going to be a bunch of fucking hippies

>>11462828
Roshalde. I'm not sure, hopefully we all strive for wholesome polite happiness?

>>11462828
This is kind of cheating but I'd like to add Gnostic Gospels to The Bible and then release it all as one total book. I'd tell everyone that there was a civilization that existed called Rome 300 years before The Happening and I found the Sacred Jewdi Texts.

I also like The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, we could all worship a benevolent Lion God called Aslan who died so that he may be reborn and come back and fix all the bad shit that happened.

An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo's Commuter Train Network. I think we'll manage to make the world to operate beyond capacity which is what the world needed right now. (but maybe more weaboo too since the book touches quite a lot of jap culture)

>The Complete Works of Aristotle

Civilization will endure

>>11462828
"Composing for the jazz orchestra"

"There won't be any more concerts for about a million years" -- H. G. Wells, 'The war of the worlds'.

>>11462828
this ought to be fun

>>11463045
I hate this cover, it reminds me of those zoom in memes

>>11463024
looks like we will skip the building of shitty buildings and go straight to the transcendent

>>11463050
it's surely better than those boring, plain, title and black background ones

>>11463050
lol

>>11463045
I love this cover, it reminds me of those zoom in memes

>>11462828
We all end up killing ourselves.

>>11462828
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder for Dummies

>>11462828
>the gay science
wow good for them!

>Twelve Rules for Life

Finally, the restart humanity needed.

>>11462828
Everyone starts digging towards the Underdark, cause I've got the Homeland trilogy in softcover right fuckin' here.

the divine comedy
oh boy

>>11462828
Snoopy is the new Jesus

>>11462828
Liberty or Equality: the challenge of our times by Erik Von Ritter Kuehnelt-Leddihn.

We will do pretty well.

Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban, the world looks exactly like it does right now.

>Finnegan's Wake

First, we shall accept our latent psi abilities, and then we shall hone them and usher in the age presaged by PKD in UBIK!!! This should be interesting. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Sisyfus by Camus.
...

it's the bible.

nice

>this thread
actually reddit

>>11462828

.....I'm ok with this.

>>11462828
MFW when its fucking Gravity's Rainbow

>>11462828
Unironically, it is Infinite Jest.

A large part of society, including me, commit suicide. Some seekers go in search of the fantastic entertainment, so they can prevent more from committing suicide.
Eventually, some of the Seekers realize they will never find it, so they go off to make their own. These are called the Finders.
After the Finders start lulling the Seekers down false trails, and they perform cruel acts on the Seekers. They take their women as breeding partners, and with the children, they ritually slaughter.

Eventually, the Finders realize that torture is the way to make insatiable entertainment, and they market it to the remaining masses.

Then everyone dies, because fuck Infinite Jest.

Hmmmmm

>>11463612
>i'm okay with reddit

Haven't read it yet, but I can assume that Buddhist ideals with classic warrior ethos become the norm. Going to be quite exciting.

>>11462828
I don't own any books.

>>11462828
It's unironically 12 Rules For Life, by Dr. Jordan B. Peterson.

>>11462828
The social contract...

Fucking French, I don't want revolutions or republics.

>>11462828
>tfw it's my own novel about the end of the world

>>11463045
I thought this cover was a joke

>>11462828
Looks like I got lucky.

>>11464166
This sounds really good. Thanks for the recommendation Anon.

It's a collection of Lichtenberg's writings.
It's gonna be absolutely ebin.

Zorba the Greek... Honestly couldn't be much better.

>The Silmarillion
Awesome. I want to live in that world now.

>>11463233

>>11462828
German-English dictionary. Fuck me

>>11462828
It's a manual for my motherboard

I really don't see how this could possibly become a bible

Arrian's Anabasis and Indica

Eh could be worse

>>11462828
>Atlas Shrugged
The future is bleak.

>>11462828
Sociology - Anthony Giddens


... what
what it could be

>>11463045
I have no strong feelings whatsoever about this cover, it reminds me of nothing.

>>11462828
it's the new testament, standalone.
I guess we don't need to know context like 'how the universe was made' or anything... let's just skip to the adventures of Jesus.

>>11463971
Unironically based

>>11463602
based and redpilled

>>11462843
desu

>>11463602
Same desu

Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs.
We are fucked basically.

>

>>11462828
waiting for the inevitable holy war about positioning curly brackets

>>11462828
>Technological Slavery
Kinda redundant at that point.

>One More Year

they're so fucked, lmao

>>11462828
>The Dictator's Handbook
lol

>book of the new sun
We'll be fine

>>11462828
The world has just ended; following the front leading to this, a universities psychology department was miraculously left relatively unscathed, the only standing building to be seen for miles, in what use to be a densely populated metropolitan town.
In the aforementioned university, a group of psychology students huddle together asking how to proceed. These students eventually decide that everyone should be thoroughly interviewed before being allowed into their humble department.
This lead to all newcomers being seen as psychotic or at the very least neurotic individuals, leaving them barred from entry.
Eventually, the campus found itself surrounded by rotting corpses, making for a most vulgar smell defiling the halls.
As resources started to dwindle however, even the students in here have began to lose all resolve in face of the cataclysm.

Eventually, the campus splintered into different factions; consisting of cannibals, a more mild group of ruffians who would only occasionally kill -- preferring theft without altercation if possible, and oddly enough a small sect of ethicists -- who seemed to be the most feeble of the three, as they refused to pillage other groups for their scarce aliments, which the other two groups immediately jumped to.

As the days drew forth, groups of students who'd left to find other survivors beyond the town's rubble were nigh heard from again, all hope to those who had stayed had dwindle beyond the slightest of hope. In the end, the cannibals were the last faction to remain; the screams of students would eventually fade in the year to come; until finally only silence remained. A vile, and piercing silence.

-- Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology.

>>11462828
Summa by st Aquinas

It's going to be a glorious age

Cont :: Forgive me for the horrid grammar and prose.

Foucault’s Pendulum

>Thus Spoke Zarathustra

we’re good

>>11462953
Fuck off Sean

>>11462828
Mises' Human Action
The new world will be way better than the old one

>>11462828
Good riddance to nihilism, I guess. Tough luck seeking redemption in the Gospels without the actual Gospels, tho.

>>11462828
>Aristophanes' Frogs
future looks bright

>>11466586
kekkekek

>>11462828
Madame Bovary

I am only starting to read it. Is mankind fucked?

>>11462828
>St. Augustine's Confessions
Everything will be fine.

>>11462828
It's a calculus textbook.

>>11462828
>The Forever War
Not a terrible choice. Orgies everyday and anti war.

Nothing much I guess.

A biography on Robert E Lee.

It wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual.

Industrial Society and Its Future

>>11462828
Plutarch's "how to make use of your enemies" and "how to tell a flatterer from a friend".

Pretty OK, the book is annoted so they might pick up some history of antiquity.

>don quixote
Pretty good rules for governing but we're doomed in every other regard

>>11466586
BRE-ke-ke-ke

>>11462843
>We fucked.
Fellas, is it gay to fuck your own diary? I mean you're basically sticking your dick into the innermost recesses of your psyche.

>>11462828
Brave New World. We all rebel against utilitarian Darwinism and are either killed off by a roving band of marauders or kill ourselves after it becomes apparent that we won't be left alone.

>>11462828
>Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Nice

Whoooosh

>>11462828
I only have ebooks with me right now, and I presently have Iliad open. Seems like a pretty manly apocalypse.

The Sandman, ETA Hoffmann

>The Master of Go
Lotta tea, lotta sufering, lotta go.
Hella respect.

Hidden Collective Factors In Speculative Trading

welcome to quant land, may i take your soul

>>11467506
gay af

We just start over from Roman times

Lord of The Flies

Pretty appropriate desu

Goethe's Faust

Haven't read it yet so I don't really know.

>>11467843
why did you foot post in your pajamas wtf

>>11467869
Should I have foot posted without pajamas?

edgar allen poe's short stpries and tales
gilles deleuze's book on nietzsche

>>11462828
All electrical work is now done to aviation standard.

>>11462828
>tfw my diary and Crime and Punishment stacked.
So we gonna ritually kill old women while speaking schizo.

Hmmmmm

>Thucydides: the Peloponnesian War
This should be good. Basically a society of International Relations majors

>>11462900
Ya te vi Alvaro Ojeda.

The man in black (radsuit) fled across the (nuclear) desert and the (blast-scarred) gunslinger followed.

>>11462861
Made me laugh out loud

Not even joking

>>11462828
>My engineering notebook
Maybe they'll think that there are a bunch of deep allegories about life hidden in the discussion of resistors capacitors inductors and transistors. There will probably be a bunch of numerology sects trying to decode the meaning behind the RF matching circuits.

A book about identifying plants, trees and bushes.
Well, it tells you what is edible and what is not, so I guess it can have uses.

>>11462828
I feel like this is the thread where almost everyone posts their own answer expecting a lot of (you)s because they have something interesting and funny but is too lazy to look at the other posts. As such, I’m not posting the nearest book to me out of principle its the Tao te Ching, sounds pretty chill tbqh

>>11470702
Most people are skipping the
>What Happens?
and just writing
>Hmmm
>LMAO
>We're good

They do not eat each other.

>Anti-Oedipus

Yep, we're fucked

>>11462828
>The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
What will happen?

>>11462828
>sitting in my kitchen

I have a big stack of cookbooks right next to me.

Their culture will be built around great cuisine; Bobby Flay will be their God and Gordon Ramsay their Satan.

>>11464867
kek.

I have "The Norton Introduction to Literature". I mean, it's got a bunch of selected short stories and shit so I guess people will draw life lessons from them.

>Iliad

Pretty sweet ngl

Its the kjv bible
fuck

>>11467605
>pls be my robo gf
>amen

>>11462828
>Calculus, 8;th edition
&
>University physics with modern physics, 13;th edition
Maths and science have a quick resurgence as professors and doctors conquer the wastelands with their soundly built battle-busses

>>11471066
>got some of Plato's earlier dialogues
Good god everyone's going to be insufferable.

>>11469326

>>11462900
Is it like a budget version of "Er ist wieder da"?

>>11462828
Funny you say this, the closest book to me IS the bible.

>Tractatus

I have no idea, we might all just give up on learning anything but I'm open to other ideas

>>11462828

Not a bad choice.

>>11462828
It's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained.
i can't even imagine how this would turn out

>>11462828
>Bohr's biography
I'd live in that world, desu

>Descriptive geometry & Aramaic Language Textbook
ready as fuck

>Frank Herbert's Dune
This might work

>>11472117
Fuck yeah, WE become the weird aliens that speak Jesus

>>11472031
You're people are going to starve, anon.

>>11472161

We're the ones living on farms buddy.

>>11462828
>Jordan Peterson's 12 rules for life
Humans basically become christian lobsters

>>11462828
Don Quixote
I'm not smart enough to know what effects it would have

>>11464175
oh god the future as one giant self-help seminar...thats true anyway

>>11462828

One hundred years of solitude?
Oh boy... The new era of men is going to be very fucked up...

>>11472630
Because people will be too occupied trying to decipher who is who to rebuild the world ?

>>11462828
So the jews win in the end

Clive Cussler's Atlantis Found. It's mom's desk. I have never read the book.

>>11462828
A book of Lovecraft. Cool, I guess.

toyota hilux owners manual
surprisingly fitting...

>>11462828
WOOPS. Who gots da lube?

>>11462828
>Divine Comedy

Not that different

ironically

the pynchmeister's classic

>>11462828
Nonfiction book on WW1
Welp

>>11464199
Good read

>>11463612
ok elon

>both neon genesis evangelion and Atlanta nights are near enough to me
Humanity is doomed in the most incoherent way possible

>>11462828
Ulysses. Awww no. No I say no! They're just going to repeat the same shit!

>>11471076
Oof

>>11462828
>The Elements of Style by Willaim Strunk and E.B. White
a roaming gang of Mad Max esque grammar nazis then?

>>11462828
People would build the same dystopian shithole we live in today.

I guess we're going to wing it!

this should be good

so, nothing changes?

I hope to god we still have the ingredients.

Prayers to St. Rocco

we'll be hunting some alligators in the sewers

Anthony Trollope's "The Way We Live Now."

Assuming they don't realise it was written as satire, we're mega fucked

>>11466586
top kek my stygian fellow

>>11462828
the prince

>>11462828
>the Quran
FUCK

>complete fiction of Lovecraft
The new religion would be quite interesting

>>11467506
Gotta remember the golden gay-man's rule: it's only gay if the balls touch.

>>11463045
i am the cover

Fucked.

>>11463023
how is that btw?

>>11462828
>Malazan Book of the Fallen
Humanity spend millennia trying to figure out how to access Warrens?

>>11462867
bruh

> Moravagine
whoah boy

>>11464175
Embarrassing!

>>11462828
I'm using "Cambridge Latin Course Volume One" as a mousepad right now, anon. We're screwed.

>>11462828
>Guiness Book of World Records
everyone strives to be the best, which is good? except they might have strange ideas about which records they should be aiming at

>>11477569
also
>last book I read
I was making my way through this young adult fantasy thing from the 70s, very purple and cliche, would probably result in new-agey thing mixed with D&D stuff being the accepted faith and philosophy

>>11462828
Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Neat

>>11462828
aspects of the masculine by carl jung

gravity's rainbow. funny because it's horribly antiquated as far as having only situational relevance to a bygone age.

Clockwork Orange.

TIME TO GET STRONG IN THE POST APOCOLYPTIC WORLD

>>11462828
Blood Meridian. Sounds like a fun time.

>Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Ricki Tarr the Apostle of Badassery

Walden

...We might be okay.

Zizek, The Puppet and the Dwarf
I am unsure what to make of his.