/lit/ - Literature

>18
>m
>a hero of our time by mikhail lermontov
>studies in pessimism by arthur schopenhauer
>polotsvian dances by alexander borodin

*rate your character

>>>/soc/

>>13717477
fuck you cia nigger

>>13717477
25
M
So far... Frankstein maybe. Dubliners was pretty good.
The trouble with being born
Probably BVW 846. "Without Bach, God would be a complete second-rate figure." - Cioran.

Inb4 Cioran larper or some shit. I'm being as honest as I know how.

>>13717502
What do you have to hide?

>19
>m
>House of Leaves
>don't read pure philosophy, favorite philosophical fiction is Demian
>either Mahler's 2nd, Schnittke's 1st Concerto Grosso, or BWV 534
>>13717558
>BWV
oh cool another Bach fan
>846
you're not actually a Bach fan, sorry

>>13717477
>99
>fluid transexual python
>hegels phenomenology of spirit
>tchaikovskys waltz of the flowers

>>13717477
18
M
Notes From Underground
The Stranger
Chopin Fantaise Impromptu

>19
>m
>Moby-Dick
>Daodejing
>https://youtu.be/bO91hRlHcVU (for the music and some reasons beyond the music itself)

>19
>M
>Brothers Karamazov
>Confessions and Curses
>Arvo Part - Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten

>>13717477
>19
>m
>Snow Country
>haven't read any
>Legend of Zelda breath of the wild Theme (ochestra version)

>21
>M
>Notes from underground
>The world as will and representation
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfnbdZR2KOo

>>13717477
>23
>male
>Anabasis by Xenophon or ISOLT by Proust
>Reason, Truth and History by Putnam
>Outside World by Sunbeam

>23
>M
>The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
>Varieties of Religious Experience
>Prelude No. 15 in D-flat major, Op. 28
>>13717480
Too young for Schopenhauer.
>>13717558
Why Frankenstein?
>>13717573
Why House of Leaves? Been thinking of appropriating my sister's copy next time I see her; she doesn't read.
>>13717642
Sad!
>>13717965
Make sure not to have only read Moby-Dick out of Melville's oeuvre. You've probably already read Bartleby the Scrivener, but Billy Bud, Pierre, any one of his early schlock novels, and a smattering of his poetry are also all must-reads for a fuller view of Melville.
>>13718148
Why?
>>13719404
>no philosophy
>video game music
>>13719434
You should get into metal.

>>13717477
>age
22
>gender
guy
>literature
life is a dream by calderon or perhaps pushkin evgeni onegin
>philosophy
dunno, i dont really read philosophy
>music
hard to tell, i like baroque music, medieval/renaissance music, different european folk music

>>13719474
Oh I should add Kafka's Complete Stories

>age
19
>biological sex
Female
>favourite book of literature
Harry Potter
>favourite book of philosophy
It's mysoginistic and patriarchal I don't like it
>favourite piece of music
Slap That Fat Booty by Nicki Manaj

>>13717477
18
M
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Prince (not that I believe it, but for the memes)
Mozart’s Requiem

>>13719509
i almost unironically made a post how that song is mysoginistic and patriarchal

age: too old for this shit
sex: regular, with my 2D waifu
literature: The Light Of Tsukimi Manor
philosophy: Pensées (pascal)
music: soundcloud trap, 90s breakcore nostalgia

>>13717477
>age
21
>sex
penis gang
>literature
warren peace
>philosophy
macintyre's after virtue
>music
classical would be poeme d'extase by scriabin.
modern would be hex enduction hour by the fall.

>>13717480
you should get into german idealism if you really want a new perspective on lebensphilosophie like schopanhauer, nietszche and kierkegaard. very underrated thinkers.

id rec "german idealism" by frederich beiser

>>13717558
dubliners is based. i hated frankenstein tho. pessimism is fine but i just dont get what reason there is to be enthusiastic about it. like even if its central theses are true what reason is there to believe them. the greeks were at root pessimists but they built such an impressive edifice around that pessimism that they overturned it.

>>13717642
if you like camus's sparse style you should try some of the japanese fiction that gets memed here like mishima and kawabata

>>13717965
based moby dick

>>13718148
based brothers karamazov.

not sure what to think of arvo part.

>>13719404
posting about video game music on this board is a brave act of nietzschean value-creation which i commend you for, but you should read philosophy

>>13719434
Schopenhauer and pessimism are weirdly popular itt. why is that?

>>13719474
the first genuine patrician in this thread

if you like big modernist bricks i'd recommend thomas mann.

also whats the enchilada on hilary putnam. i've read about his twin earth hypothetical and wasnt all that impressed, but i'd like to know more

>>13719489
another poster with a real personality.

>>13719491
you should read philosophy man. other than that, good open answer on the music question. that's kind of how i feel as well but i felt pressured to give a specific answer for some reason.

>>13719509
i think... im not sure but i think this one might be fake

>>13719575
tolstoy is great. i'd rec his war novellas if you havent read them. if you like machiavelli you should try rousseau.

>>13717477
>19
>F
>The decline of the West:Oswald Spengler
>Ride of the Valkyrie

>>13719842
Oh and for literature, it would be return if the king

>>13719842
>>F
Lol stop larping as a femoid anon we know you have a penis

>22
>Male
>The Count of Monte-Cristo
>muh
>muh

>>13717477
>18
>f
>tie between the Iliad and the Odyssey
>senecas letters from a stoic
>scriabins etude op. 8 no. 12

>>13719509
>>13719842
>>13719947
here’s your (You)

>>13719712
>you should read philosophy man
i dunno, it seems like obscurantism to me and i like aesthetic flowing read

>>13717477
22
Male
On The Road
Myth of Sisyphus
Maybe Colours by Donovan but there is so money other choices.

take this shit to /soc/

>>13717477
>age
22, I'll be 23 in a month
>biological sex
Male
>favourite book of literature
Crime and Punishment
>favourite book of philosophy
La Société du Spectacle
>favourite piece of music
Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July

>18
>m
>either the tatami galaxy (cringe I know) or crime and punishment
>the gay science (cringe I know)
>lady fantasy by camel
Not in the position to give recomendations.

30
Fem
Growth of the Soil
Can life prevail?
Black metal

>>13720249
Why do you immediately qualify your choices by calling them cringe? Don't let the elitist faggots on this website dictate what you enjoy.

>>13720258
Hot. Wanna cuddle up with me in my cabin for the winter sometime?

>>13719489
>Why House of Leaves?
I admit, it is entry-level pomo fiction. it is one of the most stylistically accessible works in the genre second only to shorter books like TCOL49 and Cloud Atlas, and its (seeming) reliance on genre sensibilities helps keep readers from feeling lost. additionally, it's most obvious use of pomo is its physicality, which isn't challenging in the slightest to simply read through; in fact, much of it actively helps paint a better picture in the mind of the reader. if you wanted to introduce someone to pomo, this is the book to choose
me personally, it was the first one I read, and I quickly moved on to Calvino, Pynchon, Wallace, Borges, McCarthy, Gaddis, Schmidt, Pavic, et cetera, but then after all of that I returned to HoL to see if it still held up. it did, and I quickly realized it's not just entry-level, but also exit-level
HoL is the ultimate expression of everything postmodern. it is the logical conclusion of the style, going as far as it can in every possible direction without being literally unreadable like Finnegans Wake and MZD's follow-up Only Revolutions, or not even being a book anymore like Composition 1 and Tree of Codes. the unreliability is brought to the point where one can't even tell which character (of five candidates, no less) is meant to have written the book in the first place; the physicality is so meticulously planned that people still find hidden messages and alternative readings 19 years later; the Pale Fire esque footnotes are so fleshed out that they not only overshadow the main text, they absorb it entirely
I could go on, but I'd rather keep this relatively brief. it's essentially the most reddit book of all time, yet it hides some of the most decipherably complex writing ever seen in the genre under its friendly, quirky surface. I'm not surprised that your non-reader sister got her hands on it, but please don't get hung up on it. nothing gets more postmodern than this

>>13720739
>nothing gets more postmodern than this
Not even Zettels Traum?

>>13717477
>20
>male
>Dune or Dorian Gray
>Revolt Against the Modern World
>Beethoven's 9th symphony

>>13720821
>I quickly moved on to Calvino, Pynchon, Wallace, Borges, McCarthy, Gaddis, Schmidt, Pavic, et cetera
>Schmidt
apparently not
real answer, it tends more towards incomprehensibility for me than HoL

>>13717477
20
M
Neuromancer
Platos dialogues
Lizsts Liebestraum

>21
>M
>The Silmarillion
>The Enchridion
>Too varied, perhaps Jack Stauber's Dead Weight right now

>>13720987
>Liebastraum
which one? also if you say 3 then you forfeit your right to be alive

>>13721020
It actually is the third one, because I kinda have personal attachment to that one. Please dont murder me bro

20
M
A hero of our time
Meditations
Argus by Ween

>age
19
>sex
M
>book
Still Ulysses
>philosophy
Buhhhh maybe Symposium if you would consider that a "book," but this feels even more arbitrary than choosing a favorite piece of literature.
>poem, because why not
Prometheus Unbound by Shelley. Or Yeats' "Byzantium" for something shorter
>music
Chopin Ballade no. 1 (I've played it)

>>13719947
Gibe Discord, sweaty

>>13721503
>I've played it
the most based poster in the thread so far

>>13719947

Stop describing your dream girlfriend, we all know you have a dick and jizz whenever someone brings up the ancient greeks.

>21
>vagina-studded
>Unbearable Lightness Of Being by Kundera
>Timaeus by Plato (Haven't read a lot of phi)
>Swan Lake by Tchaikowsky

>>13721526
I'm more base than based, believe me

>>13717477
18
male
ulysses
tractatus logico philosophicus
I like it when you sleep for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it

>>13721648
does you're mom know your gay

>>13721653
no I keep him hidden pretty well

>>13721658
Least witty reply imaginable. You just forfeit your right to post on this board

>>13721666
ok

>age
19
>sex
m
>favorite book of literature
War & Peace
>favorite book of philosophy
Republic
>favorite piece of music
Enjoying Debussy's Mazurka at the moment

>>13721686
>Mazurka
Reflets Dans L'eau is better

>>13721653
>does you're mom
no, he is not mom

>>13721714
I'll check it out, thanks for the recommendation.

>>13721686
bruh we r the same exceptim 21 loll whsat schhoool u go 2???

>>13721731
I am mom.

Kiss my penis.

>>13717477
>19
>Male
>Crime and Punishment
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>If you mean classical, Mozart's Don Giovanni. If you don't, Ozzy Osbourne's Diary of a Madman
>>13717502
I don't get it. Did OP shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane?
>>13717558
>I was born in the wrong century lmao
>>13717573
>Schnittke
mah nigga
>>13717642
Underage
>>13717965
At least you're not being pretentious
>>13719434
Jesus, dude. Get a therapist
>>13719489
I like you
>>13719575
Newfag
>>13719842
Wrong board
>>13720214
Male art hoe
>>13720224
Another person sans pretense
>>13720249
We're kinda similar
>>13720258
The album?
>>13720845
Me at 15
>>13721018
>The Silmarillion
based
>>13721648
You don't leave your room much, do you?

>all these retards responding to OP's data mining thread

>>13721979
>replying to a data mining thread with a post that neither provides OP with data nor facilitates discussion with the other posters

>>13721996
>wanting OP to have even more data to sell

>age
25
>biological sex
M
>favourite book of literature
The Stranger
>favourite book of philosophy
Pragmatism and The Meaning of Truth
>favourite piece of music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNvSWhiJNF0

>>13722008
>being unnecessarily rude

>18
>M
>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
>Fear and Trembling
>Ooh La La by The Faces

All these kiddies

What's it like being a /lit/ zoomer lmao, I rarely meet people in their teens who actually read

t. 25 yo

>>13722047
>complains about children
>is still under the age of 30

>29
>m
>Nostromo by Joe Conrad
>n/a
>Messiah by Handel

>>13722047
It fucking sucks

>>13722047
it's pretty isolating. in my experience, about 60% of zoomers do not read in their spare time, and about 35% read exclusively YA. the remaining 5% actually put an effort into reading outside of class, and even then it's a toss-up whether they read the classics or they just read semi-obscure sci-fi/fantasy

>20
>m
>Steppenwolf
>Ride the Tiger
>The Glowing Man by Swans

>>13717477
20
M
The Bell Jar
Nause by Sartre or Critique of Pure Reason by Kant
Album is The Glow pt.2. Music is "Is this the hurt you're drowning in"

>>13722226
I feel like if I knew you irl I'd adopt you as my little brother figure. You sound like a bit of a misanthrope and I'd reccommend you try the Zofingia lectures by Carl Jung. He gave these talks at his university society in the late nineteenth century. I think you'll find a sense of kinship with him.

>>13717477
21
M
Hyperion
Fear and Trembling
Eroica

>>13722226
read Demian if you haven't already
>>13722368
wholesome

>>13717558
>>13717965
>>13719489
>>13719712
>>13720224
>>13720258
>>13721686
>>13721973
>>13722012
Based
>>13717480
>>13717492
>>13717502
>>13717573
>>13717638
>>13717642
>>13718148
>>13719404
>>13719434
>>13719474
>>13719491
>>13719509
>>13719575
>>13719601
>>13719842
>>13719903
>>13719947
>>13720214
>>13720249
>>13720845
>>13720987
>>13721018
>>13721465
>>13721503
>>13721630
>>13721648
>>13722029
>>13722090
>>13722226
>>13722352
>>13722416
Waste

24
m
Nick Perumov's Diamond and Treesword
Gorgias
First track of Magico Catastrophe by Shibayan

>>13721503
anna banana#1060
>>13721576
hoes mad (:

>19
>American Psycho
>Madness & Civilization
>Tcherepnin's 10 Bagatelles

>>13722352
I liked the Bell Jar too anon! The way Plath describes her own body towards the end is so utterly revolting. Years later I still feel the same visceral horror that I first developed when reading it.
While i haven't read Sartre, I see a pattern of revulsion in your choices. I also like the album you cited, which seems off theme.
What is so interesting to you about Nausee?

>>13717477
22
Male
Something Happened by Joseph Heller
Dream, Death, and the Self by JJ Valberg
solitude in e minor

>>13722705
To think that there is even a small chance that cute girls post on /lit/ makes me want to kill myself immediately because I know that I will never have a lit gf or even come into contact with one and if I did they would never want to be friends with me let alone love me

>>13722755
ah you can add me on my discord also if you wanted to. i posted it above

>>13717477
>18
>male
>Crime and Punishment
>Pensées or Nihilism by Fr. Seraphim Rose
>New Slang by the Shins

>>13717642
Get off the internet more
>>13719509
lol
>>13719601
fellow Pensées man
>>13720249
Crime and Punishment and the Gay Science? Hm...

>>13722755
All sorts of people post on here, including girls both of the cute and ugly kind. I imagine some never admit their sex though, so I wouldn't really worry about the ones who post selfies and the such.

>>13722755
>To think that there is even a small chance that cute girls post on /lit/ makes me want to kill myself immediately because I know that I will never have a lit gf or even come into contact with one and if I did they would never want to be friends with me let alone love me
dude, what the fuck? why are you people so obsessed with romance?

>>13720249
>Most cringe is a waste. Experiencing somebody else's shame, or as you, anticipating other's second hand shame observing you is ill. Shame just needs to be understood to a point where if it's seen it becomes harmless.

>>13722791
>you people
>:(

>>13717477
>27
>XX Female
>No Longer Human
>Stirner, he's all you need
>I only listen to anime OP/ED/BGM

Age:
>21.

Sex:
>Male (male).

favorite piece of literature:
>Beren and Lúthien

favorite philosophy:
>The World as Will and Representation

favorite music:
>King Crimson - Peace

>>13722822
I mean "you people" to mean "anyone who feels romantic attraction and centers their lives around pursuing it". my experience in life so far seems to indicate I'm aromantic, and even if I do eventually fall in love, I doubt I'll ever consider it something that I need at all times. I have no idea how allos seem to be dysfunctional on their own

Incredible. The majority of people here is not even 20 years old.

This is who is judging you, /lit/. These people probably started reading a couple of years ago under the influence of this butanese dough-kneading noise echo-chamber building online discussion website.

>>13722909
now would you imagine how ASMR-worthy wouldn't a dough-kneading echo chamber be?

>>13722909
At least zoomers speak English, you dumb ESL. I bet you don't even read books.

21
Male
Infinite jest
Republic
Kanye west

>>13717477
30
M
Crime & Punishment
Being & Time
This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)

>>13717477
you first faggot

>>13722047
>that 25 year old boomer who still posts on /lit/

>>13720716
lol

>>13723377
nice attention span, faggot

>>13723600
i gave you aids faggot

>>13721979
>he doesn’t fake his opinions so his digitial footprint is near untraceable

20
M
Journey to the end of the night, Celine
Weininger's Sex and Character
Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake

>innumerable twinks post on this board
I want to lick all of you

>>13717477
27
Futanari
Moby Dick (Melville)
Monadology (Leibniz)
Passion according to st Matthew (Bach)

18
male
atlas shrugged
blade runner 2049
killing in the name - rage against the machine

>>13719474
That's an interesting and unusual choice for favorite philosophy. What's so great about this book?

>21
>Male
>Dumas - Count of Monte Cristo
>Evola - Metaphysics of War
>Emperor - a Fine Day to Die (Bathory cover)

>>13717477
21
M
Moby-Dick
Plato Complete Works
Schoenberg - Gurrelieder

29
M
Augustine's Confessions
Apology of Socrates. Does that count?
Rhapsody in blue

>>13717477
- 19
- Male
- Labyrinths by Borges
- I don't read many primary texts, I've read a fair amount of secondary. I like the ideas of the Pyrrho and Epicurus. In terms of actual primary, something shit like The Prince or Art of War, though those barely count as phil. I used to read Marx and Benjamin but I grew out of that shit and now hate it. In terms of general non-fiction my favorite text is probably The Evolution of Desire by David Buss
- Not sure, but for simplicity's sake I'll say Je Te Veux by Satie performed by Jessye Norman

>>13717477
>age
26
>biological sex
Male
>favourite book of literature
the bros k
>favourite book of philosophy
the critique of pure reason or maybe dialogues between hylas and philonous by berkeley
>favourite piece of music
ave maria

>>13717477
24
Male
The Brothers Karamazov
The World as Will and Representation
Parsifal, end of Act I

Uncultured swine here
18
m
I dont't know, but it's probably dune
I tried to get into the whole philosophy thing but "start with the greeks" got pretty boring after Plato's sextillionth dialogue
NIghtfall, by Blind Guardian

>17
>m
>Narziß und Goldmund (Hermann Hesse)
>Also sprach Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche)
>Egmont, Op. 84 (Ludwig van Beethoven)

>21
>m
>The Man Without Qualities
>Being and Time
>Red House Painters - Rollercoaster
>>13724407
Read Thomas Mann. Hesse can be good but he was a light-weight compared to other German authors.

>19
>f
>confessions of a mask by yukio mishima
>on contradiction
>https://youtu.be/yM6WA01HDQ4

>>13724407
UH OH

>>13724452
L O N D O N
O
N
D
O
N

post feet pls

>>13722705
idk what kinds of sickos have already added you from this thread but I'm the guy who originally asked for your Discord so you should accept my request at least

19
Male
Pale Fire by Nabokov
Michel De Montaigne's complete essays
Vingt regards sur l'enfant jésus by messiaen

23
Male
My book.
My book.
Bongo.

>>13717477
>biological sex
Yes, please.

>18
>male
>hamlet
>epictetus' handbook
>some girls are bigger than others by the smiths

>>13717477
>age 21
>M
>Wizard's first rule
>Stoicism, absurdism
>Black Sabbath - The Wizard(I'm not gonna larp about classical music so fuck you)

>17
>f
>Siddhartha by Hesse and Wisdom of the Sands by Exupery
>Nietzsche (but that's the only one I've read so far. Just started reading philosophy)
>Windmill by Hako Yamasaki

>>13724809
she's not accepting any lol
you guys should not take bait from people posting coy selfies probably screenshotted off of snapchat from a classmate.

>>13726517
>14
>f
>Lolita
>On Women
>Polonaise in A major, Op. 40, No. 1
my kik is Iphigenia ;)

>>13726517
She accepted me :^)

>>13727075
Oh hey dude me too!

>>13726517
She accepted me :^)

>>13726517
She accepted me :^)

>>13726306
>>13726928
>all these newfags

a

>>13717477
>25
>m
>Blood Meridian
>Orpheus and the Roots of Platonism by Algis Uzdavinys
>Earth A. D. by the Misfits

>>13717477
>20
>male
>The Foundation by Isaac Asimov
>The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debour
>El Tren Huracan by La Raiz

I hate using guns to get girls, shouldn't a girl just like me?. I am totally likelly for some love.