/lit/ - Literature

>>18119881
Dogs are based.

>>18119881
FUCK RACISM

>>18119881
Give me something profound and abstaract but not so abstract that i can't understand it. Under 400 pages and with short chapters. Thank you

Hello /lit/, my stupid question is this: Does anyone know a good introduction to formal logic? I might just go with, "A Concise Introduction to Logic", byPatrick J. Hurley & Lori Watson

>>18119907
Coward

>>18119909
If you haven't read Childhood's End by Arthur Clarke, you should check it out. Just keep in mind, the characters are decidedly plain, in order to focus on the rest of the plot.

>>18119881
So /lit/ I finally made the PC I was talking about.

This baby can run over 7 pdf’s at over 250 fps on high settings, full anti aliasing.

in the current climate, I am happy to have found a RTX1060 3gb for 200 dollars.

>>18120316
Thought the clothes on the left was someone leaning into the photo cheekily, kek

>>18120323
yah, clothing be like that sometimes.

INB4 n*ggertoro bro that always call the op a "/sci/n*gger" :3

>>18120356
non aspiciam tu habero pros minusque interfaciam dicit?

>>18119905
Fpbp

I want to build my own bookshelf, nothing fancy desu. Does anybody knows a book for that?

>>18120415
shelves for dumbies

Good books about the Punic wars? I feel like that was Rome’s peak

>>18120696
Titus Livy has some good books about it “History of Rome” books 11-20. it was written before 9 BC too

>>18120696
polybius, hard to get into, but very nice if you get the flow

>>18120718
>>18120778
Thanks I’ll look into these

Do I need to have read other philosophy books before I read Montaigne? I’m only starting to read the Greeks and haven’t even touched Plato yet. If so, would a history of philosophy book suffice?

>>18123128

no it's better without prior books

also read in random order

>>18119920
https://boards.fireden.net/sci/thread/11929176/#11929187

>>18123160
Good to know. Thanks

is Bataille good?

I have been contemplating getting into philosophy for a while now, but the fear of ending up blindly using other people's answers to philosophical questions instead of coming up with my own has kept me from it. When it comes to such fields, the prospect of lacking original thought scares me more than that of relative ignorance.
Do you use any specific methods to avoid that?
Of course, I expect what I read to have an influence on me, I just don't want to risk turning into a parrot.

Why does the notion of just coming up with an idea for a story feel so overwhelmingly hopeless?

>>18119881
>...writing advice?
I could use something similar. I made a video, off a script, where I tried to strike a middle ground between not taking myself too seriously but not being edgy either. The process was way more fun than I thought, and id like to do more. So to not suck, I'd appreciate feedback from you guys.

https://youtu.be/oM-CXrMjFr4

what books do the whole apathetic hero who doesn't want to be the hero then becomes the hero best?

>>18124868
My diary desu

>>18119905
fpbp
>>18119907
Yeah, but still cringe.
>>18119909
Dubliners or the stranger
>>18119920
Just dive into aristotle bro.
>>18120316
Yeah but can your monitor go vertical?
>>18120415
When it comes to wood working, there are books on it, but the best source for a specific project like that would be to look up youtube videos. Framing, screwing gluing, types of cuts, types of wood, etc. are online or in books, but I don't have a name for a particular one. Sorry anon. I just scrounge for the right tools and look at pictures of things I want it to be similar to and then sketch it on a legal pad.
>>18124575
The way to get around it is to integrate the knowledge you learn with the knowledge you have. Don't just take a given work at face value. Think about it. Ponder it. Compare it to other things you have read or thought. Make strange and new connections. We live on the shoulders of giants who, themselves, lived on the shoulders of giants.
>>18124690
Perceived value judgement of others. A story is supposed to be heard or read by an audience. You believe you have nothing to tell your audience, so even thinking about the idea of thinking of coming up with something feels hopeless. It's almost a self worth issue at that point. Who do you make your art for, anon? What drives you to create?
>>18124868
Kiaphas Kain books do a great job of it if you like 40k.

>>18119881
Still at it, Mr. /sci/nigger?

>>18119905
Please turn my dog into a meme

>>18124989
Hi

>>18125102
I shall use your dog at every opportunity from now on.

>>18119881
>...writing advice?
Yes please. Good places to go for this?

Is 'An American Rhetoric' still a good book?

>>18125241
Thank you friend

Was Oration on the Dignity of Man ever released in a hardcover format? Even if it's in a collected works set, but preferably it's own book.

>>18125252
The writing general thread. Tell them the anime fag sent you.

>>18126264
I've posted there multiple times, it's inconsistent (not a big issue), and I'm scared of getting all of my advice from a single source. I'm looking for more.

>>18119951
Swill

>>18124810
lmao shut the fuck up nigger

>>18119881
Is there something like but even better of a Dark Fantasy book like the Elric of Melniboné ones, can you recommend me? Sagas are cool, but a one off is even better.
Also, is "Sophie's World" the best of it's kind, as in, a kind of "quick rundown" on philosophy? I already read a lot for work to
>start with the greeks
I just want to have fun reading and get the gist of it.

>>18119907
Nigger

>>18127032
The Worm Oroborous and the Helghast trilogy

>>18127058
>the Helghast trilogy
.. those Sony's Killzone games? Did you mean The Gormenghast Trilogy?

>>18125258
Bump.

>>18124575
go into radical epistemology and separate what you know 100% by yourself and the rest of it, ie rumors.

>>18119907
this board knows nothing about racism

bump

>>18119881
So I have a few questions:
1. Best books on Medieval history (I already have Feudal Society by Marc Bloch)
2. Where to go with Jünger after Storm of Steel

>>18128984
>1. Best books on Medieval history
Depends what you want considering it’s such a broad period. Durant wrote a great overview of the period. Cambridge Medieval History is amazing too. Here are some more authors on medieval Western Europe and the Crusades:
Georges Duby
RW Southern
J. Ambrose Raftis / Edwin Brezette DeWindt etc.
Henri Pirenne
Jean de Wavrin
Gregory of Tours
William of Tyre
Jean de Joinville
Thomas Walsingham
Robert S Lopez
Charles Oman
Hans Eberhard Mayer
Steven Runciman
Also:
Ira M Lapidus
Marshall GS Hodgson
Aziz Ataya
Warren Treadgold

/lit/ thoughts on Soseki?
Good or Bad and is he a good place to start with Japanese literature.?

>>18129193
i read one years ago and enjoyed it. (i googled the title, it's called Sanshiro)

>>18129193
I read Soseki's Kokoro recently and I liked it. It's honestly a light read. Before him I read Kawabata which was nice too. I think both are a good place to start.

Horror novels with monsters, I love a good creature feature especially the idea of a creature evolved specifically to prey on humans that takes people unawares

>>18129079
Incredible! I thank you very much!

What do you guys think of the presuppositional/coherentism strand of apologetics? Also is the transcendental argument for God effective?

>>18129216
>>18129322
Thanks

I'm ESL. I find McCarthy really hard to read. Especially since he uses obscure words and I have to use a dictionary like 15 times in a page.
Is any book of his a bit easier to read? I tried reading The Road but I still had to use a dictionary frequently.

>>18124973
>>18127630
Thank you

How do I read more? I spend weeks on one book.

>>18119881
Okay I figured out I'll use this thread instead of shitting the board with a unique thread. I'm starting with the Greeks and I don't get why philosophers like Aristotle are using the word "God" in a singular instead of in the plural since they were polytheists. Is it a mistranslation? I know that some philosophers like Xenophanes defended monotheism and Socrates seems to be on a side of monotheism and against polytheism in the Eutyphro dialogue but still I think it matters what were their actual religious views were.

>>18130163
>read something easy and fun
>read at least a whole hour
>read instead of doing something else

the more you read the more you'll be reading

Who is better posed for success? Say both have good work ethics and are at similar skill levels
>9-5 wagie, writes consistently at night and on weekends and has access to food, bed, bathroom, etc
> starving artist type on a mcdonald's diet that has more free time to write but has to deal with being poor

>>18131130
In the long run the first is going to produce more. The lasting effects of a poor diet are slow and sinister. But the second will probably have something far more profound to say. The first will have an easier time networking too. The second will probably have a bigger network of poorer people. I’ve seen this happen in the local music scene. The poor people have bigger audiences and better songs but the well off guys have fans that actually buy shit and the connections for gigs at better venues.

So I’m looking to get an ereader for my birthday and was wondering which one /lit/ recommends. I’m looking for one that’ll let me read PDFs as well as ebooks. Basically I want to stop paying shit for books, so which ereader lets me live the pirate life better?

Who are the best living fantasy novelists?

>>18119907
How do you wish to fuck racism?

>>18119881
How do you set a writing mood?

I'm trying to get back into writing with some short stories and my focus is spotty.

>>18131130
The first. Consistency is key. Otherwise, it’s up to fate and talent, which I think you’re confusing the second for. Hardship can forge good writers but it’s a matter of circumstance.

>>18131130
Also, a McDonald’s diet will make you fat and there are no good fat novelists. Opt for rice instead.

>>18131843
Not that anon, but speaking of McDonalds:
http://www.undergroundbooks.org/the-kitchen-poet/ronald-mcdonald-rei-koz

>>18131130
I’m about to try the latter so I’ll be sure to let you know

>>18132037
godspeed anon. work hard and persist through the struggle