/lit/ - Literature

>>12902412
Delete

process and reality

start with the greeks

If thy hand offend thee, cut it off. For it is better to go to Heaven without a hand than to go headlong into the depths of hell with all your body.

>>12902412

Read up on Greek mythology. Then read the Iliad.

thanks for the recs guys. Till I catch up on this Greek shit I'm out

>recovery and growth
/lit/, I've had just about enough of this self-help meme. Seems like every fucker that comes on here thinks books are a magic way to Be Your Best Self And Stop Masturbating Into Socks All Day or some shit.

Can we have an anti self-improvement kit? Off the top of my head I'm thinking Laozi and Zhuangzi, Foucault for challenging the whole project of the self, maybe Stirner (haven't read him, but by reputation/memes he seems to fit).

Yes, I'm aware of the irony of trying to get people to better themselves by stopping trying to better themselves.

>>12902490
the goal of self improvement is a contribution to the greater . books are difficult for me to read and there's a reason it's difficult. I want to nip this shit in the bud. Therapy, literature and meditation is my to do list atm, couldnt give a fuck about memes anymore

>>12902412
Dont fall for any of the memes here. If you want to read you first have to start to read. Anything. Literally, read anything and you want and you will start to recover. If you like music read some biographies of artists.

>>12902490
Nicomachean Ethics definitely.

>>12902412
Kek

>>12902602
any music biography recs? Big fan of alot of it so idc who it's about

>>12902412
The Fountainhead, it'll reinforce the attitude that you're better than everybody else and that the mainstream media is composed of overpaid shills using propaganda to sow controversy, from there go with Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, then Nietzsche, once you realize you're a human being capable of anything you'll be all set

>>12902412
>wash your penis by jordan peterson
>jonathan livingston seagull
>the alchemist
>the kyballion
>How Proust Can Change Your Life
>the book of pook

>>12902490
>le edgy deconstruction of all concepts.
kind of a teenage cringe post don't you think?

>>12902412
Infinite Jest by /ourguy/ Dave Wallace

Thanos?