/lit/ - Literature

>>18757271
How about you start? fucking nigger.

>>18757279
sure. no longer human. taught me to take life less seriously and solidified my belief that you shouldn't give a fuck about what anyone else thinks of you.

My favorite book is:
>War and Peace
because it doesn't seem like the best book you've ever read until after you have finished it, it is not about the journey, but the destination. So many huge things happening, and such a tapestry of characters. I read it only once, but it sticks with me after 10 years since I've read it.

It has melancholy, romance, tradition, and everything I am and struggle with.

I learned nothing, however.

>>18757271
De beneficiis, Seneca
Lesson: see OP pic

>>18757309
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAA ok

>>18757775
what about you? ah you won't say it. you're too cool to submit to judgement B)

Le Stranger
Sometimes i should make fight my depersonalisation and sometimes to be in charge of the situation.

>>18757836
Kek. I failed it as you can see by my post.

>>18757271
Spring Snow is my favorite book. I don’t think I really learned a lesson or anything like that from it, though I guess it did strengthen my appreciation for beauty in nature, culture, etc. Maybe if I found it when I was younger it would have taught me not to be such an emotional self centered faggot in my teens but unfortunately I was 23 or 24 when I read it.

>>18757271
The metamorphosis
Don't feel guilt over the chaos of life, you're not perfect

>>18757775
the silent hot-headed joodger
>AHH I MUST JOOODGE
>tries to remain invisible in public
>looks down so as to not disturb others
>ugh, 2/10 wouldn't bang
>nothing noteworthy
>superiority complex; imposter syndrome

i dare you go say nigger in public fucking coward

>>18757271
Diotima in the Symposium, that life is eros and yearning.

The Bible and the lessons of it are unspeakable, chiefly a glimpse of the nature of God, our sin, the life, death and resurrection of the Christ and the eternal living life we shall have with he.

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>>18757271
Wtf is this Satanic looking bullshit?

>>18759625
Histrionic Personality Disorder

>>18759625
Satanic, duh

>>18757271
Lolita
My worldview is laughable form a different point of view

>>18759625
The fact that everyone in the photos is White should tell you it was produced before 2015.

Starship Troopers
It taught me that spanking kids is the basis of all civilisation

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>>18758342
Is that Caroline Polachek on the right in the first pic and in red in the second pic?

>>18757271
>>18758342
gib sauce NAO

>>18760934
Sorry they got cancelled for doing blackface and their families were damnatio memoriaed.

>>18757271
Paradise Lost
God is a cunt and must earn my worship.

>>18760948
you suck

>>18760928
Yes it is

found the source. could swear a woman wrote this empty ass captions, but apparently it was a guy. meh.

>>18758354
based

>>18757271
Crime and Punishment
I’m a loser and should seek rehabilitation with Christ before i let things out of my hand.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

History actually matters in a deep and serious way, and Europe really had an all-consuming Dark Ages

>>18757475
Are you a girl? Only girls like Tolstoy and war and peace in particular.

>>18757271
Infinite Jest.
I don't understand complicated stuff.

>>18757836
hm, i really enjoyed the stranger but i dont think i learned anything from it. i just really liked the vibe of it

>>18757271
Jules Verne - Journey to the Center of the Earth
the earth is hollow

>>18757309
>taught me to take life less seriously and solidified my belief that you shouldn't give a fuck about what anyone else thinks of you.
You've solidifed the mindset of a rebellious teenager, very cool.

>>18759625
>random artsy photoshoot with some naked thot in it so it's automatically 10/10
>wTf iS tHiS sAtAnIc LoOkInG sHiT?!
really anon

>>18757271
leaves of grass. taught me to let go, chill out, enjoy my life more, very simple stuff but powerful. its also my first poetry book, i never appreciated poetry til now.

I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if each and all be aware I sit content.

The Fuck-Up by Arthur Nersesian
Tremendous novel I discovered in high school that helped me understand how to look upon and process life's setbacks and outright getting screwed by circumstance, that surviving my own sins would be a fiery crucible which will never relent, and that the natural order of life is having one's world irreparably altered for the crimes of others, yet not permitting yourself to be completely destroyed by it all. It taught me that abject consequences unquestionably lie in wait for even the smallest misbehavior and that the utmost importance need be paid to living in a manner where you don't bring those punishments on yourself more than they will befall you already.

I don’t have a favorite book and I don’t understand how anyone who reads a lot could have a single favorite book

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>>18760997

Do the Clintons know you’re posting pics from their parties?

RIP in peace if they find out, anon

>>18760733
The older woman is an undeniably a Jew.

>>18762634
She could be italian

>>18761207
no. I just have an average sized dick.

>>18762190
Anyone that reads for pleasure will have a favorite book. Anyone that chows down on books from some premade internet "list of based books" will never have a favorite book, nor really enjoy a book. He will constantly find the negatives in anything he reads and will spend more time caught up in the performative aspects of the hobby than actual introspection.
I'm glad I spent time reading, and decided to come here after that. It would definitely have ruined it otherwise.
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>>18761848
Are all such cases.
>>18757271
War and Peace. I'm still thinking about it, and it's been years now. It's funny because as I was reading it I really thought it was kinda average, and unnecessarily long. And I can still barely rationalize why I enjoyed it so much, or why I connected with that group of people. But what it taught me, is that humans really are connected through shared experiences. Everyone who's living life will experience loss, experience joy and love. Love won't necessarily be some grandeur, over the top expression with insanely overwhelming feelings 24/7, but devotion, loyalty by someone most likely not perfect for you. That sense of duty towards your significant other is how you outlast couples only brought together by lowly emotions like lust and start a healthy family.
Similar to Tolstoy's view on how organized Church isn't really that loyal to Jesus and his teachings, but is mostly a self-serving entity.

>>18757271
Don Quixote taught me to dream and I don't need anything else.

>>18762669
Doesn’t matter. She could black or East Asian, these people see jews in their sleep

>>18758130
Anons, this is me. How do I stop judging other people and myself, so I can finally live a fulfilling and peaceful life (at least in that regard)?

>>18763024
She clearly is not black or east asian tho

>>18763032
I think it's the other way around. I think you need to be content with life to not joodge everything, like that guy said.

>>18763032
Stop yourself from doing it. Whenever you notice a judgment forming in your mind, tell that part of your mind to fuck off. You could also deliberately form judgments you know to be wrong.

>>18761034
This is pretty much my answer too. Relating to raskolnikov made me realize a lot about myself.

faust
don quixote
lolita
l'etranger

Dhalgren. Helped me understand that my, and everyone's, sexual attraction matrix is different. As a straight guy that isn't turned on by big tits, but is by thin wrists, isn't attracted to blondes, but is riled up by interesting teeth... and so on and so on, it was very freeing.

>>18757271
>moby dick
>revenge bad

I only read the raped version by the retarded Wilhem Strüber, who cut like 2/3 of the book

>>18758354
cringe

Crime & Punishment confirmed what I already knew, there can only exists subjective morality, and that it's a huge problem from mankind

Catch-22
>Almost everyone who's "on your side" is totally willing to use you for their own ends. The ones that aren't look crazy more often than not
>The most vocally confident people are often dead wrong
>Our institutions are ephemeral when compared to frogs, so we shouldn't be so hung up about them
Wish I had read this book sooner. Would have helped me a lot.

>>18757271
Book: My diary, desu
Lesson: I'm a schizo

>>18757271
Since War and Peace was already mentioned, The Bros K really hammered home some ideas of communality that I keep to this day. A shit ton of media (esp nowadays) talks about the importance of the individual — it's all good, TBK does it, too, but the latter compounds it with concepts of the communal in a way that both critiques and upholds either holon in their relationship with one another.

>>18757475
>it is not about the journey, but the destination
The fuck, how'? I'd argue that it's all about the 'journey', cause among other views, everything in the book points towards a philosophy that man is forever changing, and that a concept of a 'final product' can never be wholly relied upon or substantiated in full.
>that one chapter where he shits on historians for attributing everything to Napoleon and the other where he uses algebra to talk about soldiers

>>18762984
>loyalty by someone most likely not perfect for you
>sonya_sadcunt.txt

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>>18762209
>SOURCE OF OP'S PICS
Pics are from photographer Tom Hines for The Lake and Stars: Ritualize lingerie campaign.
No link because his official site doesn't support SSL but you can easily find it if you look.

>>18758342
how can i get into this scene?

>>18763132
so you found out you're a little twisted faggot, huh?
cool
>not loving milktrucks
ok cool, more for me kek

now seriously, cool opinion m8 thx

this thread makes me feel like an idiot
whenever i finish a book i'm like, "haha. book good"
i like to think i retain some deeper (presently inaccessible) insights but when i think back on everything i've read it's just a very crude sketch of the book

Madly Singing in the Mountains: an Appreciation and Anthology of Arthur Waley

Seeing the work he was able to produce gave me the motivation to continue my studies of foreign languages. I am enamoured with the man

>>18763024
She's a New York lawyer and part-time grey model named Jenny Hirschowitz. Don't doubt the faculty of mind to discern in-group from out-group from fleeting appearances, evolutionary success has selected for it.

Persuasion and Rhetoric. Long story short, I’m pretty apathetic after reading it but it completely obliterated all of the anxiety and emotional fluctuations I had before reading.

>>18757271
nothing

>>18764902
Thank you based anon

>>18761848
rebellious teenagers have it right

>>18757271
The Tartar Steppe - Buzzati
I just got so pissed at the main character that I resolved to never act like him, although the chances are I will inevitably become like him.

Gravity's Rainbow taught me calculus

>>18757271
Catcher in the Rye, while not my favorite book, taught me that while the world is a dark and sad place, if you approach it that way, then thats all you're ever going to get.

>>18766084
Literally the best textbook on PDEs I've ever read.

>>18757309
That's the correct starting point, but you shouldn't ignore your conscious, don't lump that in with "anyone else" or the mistakes will be fatal

>>18763032
You cannot stop judging people, it's natural. The key is to not let it solely be in control of your actions.
If you see someone you judge to be a prick, but he hasn't confirmed it by action yet, talk to him to confirm it. Of course you can't let if blind you, someone running at you with a knife is not worth testing.

Brave new world is my favourite book. Its my favourite because of a certain scene which playercin my mindcreally noce but that scene didn't teach me anything, it just left a nice impression on me.

I guess the biggest lesson in the book, is that you may be happier giving control of your life to someone else, but you won't really be human anymore if you do so.

>>18765192
>i like to think i retain some deeper (presently inaccessible) insights
You probably do, but you need to unlock them and solidify them. Just try thinking about it before starting a new book. Ask yourself questions like
>what is the message?
>what was I being told?
It won't be a quick process but make sure you give yourself time to think it over

Fry the Brain.
If someone is trying to kill me, I should be far away, and with a few buildings between us.

>also JFK was shot by 5 snipers and Oswald was just a fall guy

>>18762057
yes!

>>18765192
You should try to write notes after each chapter

>>18757271
Book of disquiet, leaning Portugues to read it in original. Set me free from love.

Island in the Sea of Time. Didn’t teach me any lessons, I just enjoy a good story.

>>18757271
This book made me realise how much of an autist and led to me getting laid

>>18768645
how much of an autist I was

The world is a fine place and worth fighting for

>>18757271
The Wealth of Nations taught me the fundamentals of how the modern world works. I don't remember reading a book as informative as this one.

>>18768709
Read a better and more modern book on economics/game theory, at least post marginal-revolution.

>>18768778
>reading the marxist/austrian trash that is modern economics
The classics are the only books a non-jewish person should read on economics.

>>18757309
you are an absolute retard lmfao

>>18757271
>inb4 midwit wantrepeneur faggot

Life aspect: seek and create valuable things that no one else is seeking or creating. Read things that no one else is reading, to write things no one else is writing, and see things that no one else sees.
Business aspect: avoid any sort of competition at all costs because competition competes the profits away: all happy companies are different because escaped competition by doing something valuably unique; all unhappy companies are alike because they're too busy competing against each other. Begin with a small valuable market that no one else notices, and dominate that market—own monopoly over it so you may have the profits to further your own fascinating ideas that no one else is ithinking (because, by definition, no one is working towards it).
Social aspect: only work with fellow conspirators. Seek secrets that no one else is uncovering.
Political aspect: politics is to be avoided because the crowd, and certainly politicians, don't want what's best for you—and instead does what's best for its own status quo, which is to own you and have you own nothing.

Thiel will unironically be studied in the future the way pseuds study the Greeks now.

>>18761207
>imblying