/lit/ - Literature

The idiot

>>14572835
Crime and Punishment

The Selfish Gene.

>>14572835
https://www.readthesequences.com/

>>14573296
>>14573258

These

>>14573298
gtfo yudtard.

>>14572835
In no particular order:

GOTH, Calling You & Kids, and Black Fairy Tale
Existentialism is a Humanism
The Satanic Scriptures
The American Heritage Dictionary, [College?] 4th Ed.
Catechism of the Revolutionary
Tao Te Ching (Lau & Wu) & Chuang Tzu (Martin Palmer) & The Book of Tea
The Biggest Secret
The Omega File
The Collected Greentexts of /x/
Hitler's War
Frankenstein
The Astrology Bible & Parker's Astrology
Paul Varley's Japanese Culture
Discovering Your Personality Type: The Essential Introduction to the Enneagram
Tom Sawyer
Catcher in the Rye
Perks of Being A Wallflower
Goosebumps, assorted
Honoring The Code
The Nihilistic Egoist
Anthem
Animal Liberation and Social Revolution
UNIX Haters
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software

I'm remembering these as I go, but I'll be sure to addend the list as it comes to me, while the thread's still up.

>>14573403

>Listing every book you've ever read

So profound

>>14573531
I knew you'd accuse me of so, but I've read plenty of trash I don't even care to remember, let alone has changed my thinking in anyway.

Maybe certain people just read a lot more than you think, and get a lot more out of what they read than you do?

>>14573531
And I'm curious too: how much of what I listed have you yourself read?

>>14573572

Like 5 of them.
Your taste is like a fashion accessory, it's all bleak, edgy and muh existential crisis, except for Tom Sawyer. The fact that you have shit about satanism and the Nihilistic Egoist in there but no a single work by Nietzsche tells me you only have a surface level understanding of the subject. The fact that you only have Ayn Rand's shortest story and neither of her two influential novels tells me you are a pseud.
I hope you are 17 and still have room for improvement and not a bitter 35 year old.

>>14573659
>Your taste is like a fashion accessory
Ah so you think I'm posturing. Amusing.
Why wouldn't I just copy what the teenagers on /lit/ have been told to suck off if I was trying to look cool?
The truth is I have my own taste and understanding of the world that stands apart, as well as journey of development to this point I'm at now that perhaps cannot be replicated, and certainly was an accumulation of serendipitous circumstances.
>it's all bleak, edgy and muh existential crisis
Sure. But this is also everything I can recall that was integral to my development from age 8 or 12 up to now, and not even ordered by when I read them, nor marked as how their influence increased or waned over time.
And what is your issue with such a perspective even if I claimed it as my own?
Do you have an issue with nihilism? With existentialism?
>except for Tom Sawyer
You could even put Tom Sawyer in a cynical light.
>The fact that you have shit about satanism
I have to wonder whether you know the first thing about LaVeyan Satanism.
>the Nihilistic Egoist
Have you read that one? You'd surprise me. I'd recommend it any rate---it's a good summary of and substitute for The Ego and Its Own, which I'd still recommend reading selections of.
>but no a single work by Nietzsche
Nietzsche says nothing ultimately that resonates with my way of thinking or applies to my life, at least not in a way that isn't done more efficaciously and relevantly I can get from other works, and to top it off he's absolutely insufferable to read. I mean it when I say I cannot stand his self-indulgent style of writing.
>you only have a surface level understanding of the subject
Says the person bringing up fucking Nietzsche!
>The fact that you only have Ayn Rand's shortest story and neither of her two influential novels tells me you are a pseud
I haven't read Atlas Shrugged nor The Fountainhead and I don't care to. I picked up Anthem by chance and what was written there resonated with me. I've looked at a few opinions and summaries of what I'd get from the novels and decided it wasn't worth my time.
I take high offense to being accused of being a pseud. You want to test me or something?
>I hope you are 17 and still have room for improvement and not a bitter 35 year old.
I'm neither of those ages.
But you seem to be the bitter one with your opinions in this post.
>waaahhh you can only be a nihilist / individualist if you're a teenager why won't you come to god / community
give me a break, lol

>>14572835

>>14573776
not him but you sound pretentious.

>>14572835
Moby Dick
Being and Time
Civilisation and Its Dicontents

>>14573828
I absolutely would to Redditors. I'm a die-hard elitist and they don't like that one bit.

>>14572835
Siddhartha, obvs. Powerful imagery, resonant message. Do LSD first though.

>>14573845
dude I could diagnose you with autism based off your posts alone you come off as super pretentious and insecure

The Foundation for Exploration

>>14572835
I read brave new world as a teen and it helped me sort out the feeling of social inferiority I had developed growing up as a beta. I really took to the idea of class discrimination, it felt only right that you should be with whom you are if you want satisfaction. I remember finishing the book and thinking to myself that there was no higher calling in life then submitting yourself to being the tiniest cog in a machine of great things.

>>14573921
>autism
Schizoid Personality Disorder
>super pretentious
Again, you are almost certainly a zoomer, female, or plain old Redditor.
>insecure
The furthest from it, actually.
On the contrary, your taking such offense to me seems to be rooted in your own insecurity.

>>14572835
lotr

Stoner

>>14573944
Yeah it’s kind of embarrassing but same. Also reading Beyond Good and Evil in my formative years I sincerely believe has done more good for me than harm, I freely admit part of it is cope, but another part is certainly the confirmation in my kind mind that there are those who are “in the know” and those that aren’t

>>14573963
>taking such offence

again autism, I don't know where you got that impression I'm just telling you that's the way you come off with your posts

>>14574075
I get the impression because you bothered to post for the sole reason of telling me off.
You should probably go back to r3ddit where you won't have to read such things. You'll be around like minds.

>changed your entire perspective on life

undergrad maths and physics books

hands down.

literature generally only serves to articulate in manner endowed with the authors time and talent to define a point you know already, original insights or perspectives don't really exist in them.

Suttree.

>>14573298
My nigga.
I can't believe I actually used to read classical philosophy and think it was anything other than wishful thinking.

>>14573776

>Missing the point this hard

I'm saying you're an obvious pseud because you only read derivative works that only represent one side of an argument. I'm not saying there's something inherently wrong with existentialism or nihilism, I'm saying that if you're only influenced by this and denounce everything else as stupid (die-hard elitist lmfao) you have no actual frame of reference.

>>14574109
*yawn*

>>14574292
>you only read derivative works
Nietzsche is a derivative author himself.
>one side of an argument
Again, this is a list of what's impacted me, not everything I've ever read. I've seen the other side and you have to be a smoothbrain brainlet (which you certainly are, it's clear now) to buy into it.
>I'm saying that if you're only influenced by this and denounce everything else as stupid you have no actual frame of reference.
This just sounds like cope from me trashing your favored authors. Get better taste my dude--or rather, taste period.

>>14574346
>>14574292
Ladies stop fighting your both beautiful

>>14574355
>your

>>14574383
No ones more beautiful than you, fucking autist

@14573403
Subhuman brainlet hylic posturing pseud detected.

>>14574658
Go back to r3ddit kid.

>>14573845
>I'm a die-hard elitist
Actual certified hard-core elitist here. We print out posts like you're's and regularly enjoy making fun of you're pseud kind whenever we congregate.

>>14573531
You are an angry little roach, I'd pick on you. Unlikable with two lines.

>>14574684
They were attacked for contributing to the discussion, and you're like this? Your face should be an ashtray.

>>14572835
Lost Illusions by Balzac.
>you're not special
>you will never be successful through your creative endeavours
>you might have fooled some hicks in your small town, but you won't fool them in the big city
>making money is more important than principals, usually

>>14574780
Nice. Thanks for dissuading me from reading this book and anything by him in general. Saved me some time I could use reading Dostoevsky and the likes.

>>14573288
Based

>>14574879
Your loss anon, it's really a good read.

>>14572835
Measure for Measure
Emma
The Betrothed
The Sea, The Sea

>>14572835

>>14572835
A lot of them dude. The Good Earth, A Little Life, Dostoevsky in general. Also The Complete Works of Dr Prof Sigmund Scholomo Freud.

>>14575014
No reason not to read it right now and report back in a few hours, funny and fast paced book that BTFOs Leibniz's absurd notions

>>14573298

i just got done reading this essay on his site

>https://www.readthesequences.com/An-Alien-God

very arrogant and shitty blog post, despite his intelligence. he mocks the intelligence of people that study actual metaphysics and theology the entire time, and then basically did nothing but outline dependent origination in a mathematical form

>>14575653
>he mocks the intelligence of people that study actual metaphysics and theology the entire time
>the intelligence of people that study actual metaphysics and theology
>the intelligence

imagine getting filtered by a jewish blogposter

>>14573776
don't type like this you sound like a faggot

Wittgenstein's PI did for me what any psychotherapist would claim to do.

>>14574780
What else do you recommend from him?

>>14572835

https://estudantedavedanta.net/Eight-Upanisads-Vol-1.pdf