/lit/ - Literature

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First for recommending some books by indigenous authors!
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Looking for good historical fiction, particularly around the Roman republic era, or 19th century America

Good concept
Have a bump

Not the fag OP from this thread >>19058877 but what are some actually good books about prehistoric people from the paleolithic period leading into the agricultural revolution?

I love this book so much. Don't be a faggot and read it.

>>19060174
It's about a rather specific aspect of the time but I liked The Mind in the Cave

>>19060194
Give me one sentence pitch

I've been looking for poetry. Books about poetry, books filled with poetry. Just poetry in general

>>19060239
That's vague. Period? Place? Theme?

I just wanted to say that i read American Psycho today, probably one of the worst books i have ever touched. It is so badly written and the pointless descriptions that Patricks goes through for stereos, TVs, albums are just so fucking obnoxious, for the first time i was skipping whole pages. Plus his taste in music was absolute Garbage. Imagine thinking that Duke was Genesis best album. But anyway, it was good fun trash talking niggers but that tendency to always point the lack of identiny in post-modern societies. Jesus fucking Christ, we get it.

Anyway now I want to ask for book recs. I am interested in Logic, more specific in its flaws, weaknesses and all the wrong ways we apply it to the world.
Then i would also like some recs about epistemology. I am so fucking tired of listening to people claiming a bunch of bullshit followed up with "yeah but science says so". How can it be good for pregnant women to drink a glass of wine each day? How can they think that removing half their brain and planting it into an empty body would create another version of themself. So instead of bashing their skulls just to point out that they will turn into vegetables, i need books that explain where science has gone wrong. In short books that will explain how science has turnt out to be a new religion.

books for this feel?

>>19060294
I would be really surprised if anyone gives you any recommendations at all since you come off like an asshole and just want books that confirm your own biases.

>>19060471
I confirm my own biases because i am based.

>>19060497
Sure the only book worth reading is Your Diary Desu, then

>>19060506
Are you going to give me a recc or you are just busting my balls faggot?

>>19059032
Required reading for all christcucks.

>>19060294
>that Patricks goes through for stereos, TVs, albums are just so fucking obnoxious, for the first time i was skipping whole pages.
It is meant to be obnoxious. The dude is a psycho. He literally gets barely controllable rage because his colleague business card is cooler than his.
>Plus his taste in music was absolute Garbage
Again, that's precisely the point. Remember the part when he says that "It's hip to be square" is about "the joys of conformism"? He's a conformist on everything (on the outside) but he's not even human in the inside.

>How can it be good for pregnant women to drink a glass of wine each day?
Who THE FUCK says that?

>>19060194
I saw the movie. I cried a lot.

>>19060239
100 selected poems - e.e. cummings
a thousasnd mornings - oliver mary
holy the firm - annie dillard

>>19060537
Yes yes i get it. Yet i don't want to read whole pages of it in the beginning of every chapter, it was a well established theme already.

>who says that
Doesn't matter who says that, what matters is how many are believing him after the claim ''i read it in a scientific survey''.

>>19060294
On a side note, a friend of mine used to play drums in punk bands, now he owns 2-3 restaurants in Paris and unironically likes It's Hip to be Square

>>19059032
What's the best book by Pynchon to start with?

>>19060562
>Doesn't matter who says that
If nobody said that, it does matter because it would mean you are strawmanning

Recommend me a book that if you saw someone reading it on public transportation you would assume that they are interesting

>>19060625
Joe said it you fucker, have you heard of him? He is really mousy. Usually once per month he shows up at our weekly gatherings and sprouts shit like that.

Well here is the article he probably read https://nypost.com/2017/09/11/light-drinking-during-pregnancy-does-not-harm-baby-study/

Are you satisfied now cunt? I maybe exaggerated a bit by daily but who cares. I want to know what gives credibillity to shitheads like these,
>explain how science has turnt out to be a new religion.
>explain how science has turnt out to be a new religion.
This is what i want to examine. Now stop being retarded and go have lunch.

>>19060655
Nowdays almost anything would do.

>>19060239
Same sort of question, but I'm looking for anthologies of many European poets in their native language besides English.
Something preferably pre-20th century. French, German, Latin, Greek, Italian, etc.
I'm not looking for a the best of one singular poet, rather an introduction to the history of poetry in a particular language. More primary than criticism but I wouldn't mind some criticism either.

>>19060706
There exists Oxford Books of (Language) Verse in French, German, and Italian for sure, probably Greek and Latin as well. Good place to start.

>>19060294
I'm glad you didn't get any recs. Fuck off and never come back here. Just use your head instead of needing a book to tell you exactly what to say. You are the exact same as the people you cry about and no one likes any of you.

>>19061372
You will never, ever be able to realise how far your retardation spreads.
>Just use ur head dude
Are you telling me that in order to build a house i need to know zero maths, zero physics and not even what static means?
>Just use ur head bro
JEsus you are retarded to non-describable extents.
>You are the exact same
Yeah don't tell me you fucking snowflake, i know i am but so do you. Oh wait you are so special there is no way you are biased towards anything, all your thoughts are of your own making. Wow man, you really think for the sake of thinking, you don't care about anything. Wow so cool, can you sign on my dick the moment your mother lets it get out of her mouth?
>No one likes you
Seethe more fucking vegan.

I liked The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, though I wish it went deeper into the emotion. I liked Mick's pov the most. Are there any more books dealing with loneliness?

>>19062953
>Are there any more books dealing with loneliness?
Not sure if that's what you're asking, but a couple years ago I read
Solitude: A Return to the Self - Anthony Storr

The point of the books is that loneliness is not negative in itself, it could be even be a necessity for some people.

>>19060294
>Anyway now I want to ask for book recs. I am interested in Logic, more specific in its flaws, weaknesses and all the wrong ways we apply it to the world.
>Then i would also like some recs about epistemology. I am so fucking tired of listening to people claiming a bunch of bullshit followed up with "yeah but science says so". How can it be good for pregnant women to drink a glass of wine each day? How can they think that removing half their brain and planting it into an empty body would create another version of themself. So instead of bashing their skulls just to point out that they will turn into vegetables, i need books that explain where science has gone wrong. In short books that will explain how science has turnt out to be a new religion.

>>19063337
Not him, but you're not providing anything useful

>>19063315
Personally I've been lonely for long enough that loneliness is entirely negative. Switching it to a positive seems like mental gymnastics. However, I'll give that book a try, thanks.

>>19060746
these are great just ripped them from archive dot org, you a real homie. They did indeed have Greek and Latin. Separate books for both medieval and and classical Latin.

>>19063478
Of course it's not that it's ALWAYS positive. The book argues that while society tells you that YOU HAVE TO form a family, YOU HAVE TO socialize, etc, maybe some people have a reduced need for it, and they can achieve some kind of joy/happiness/calm/serenity/whatever by staying with themselves instead. It's not like you have to trust everything he says, he just gives another perspective.

Not book recommendations per se, but are there any programs/apps I can use to sync my library between devices like my lapop and my phone?

I got the Amazon Kindle app but it doesn't have support for epub, and I think it'd be pretty annoying to convert all my ebooks just so they're supported.
Synced progress would be good too, but not essential. Calibre was mentioned but I see a lot of poor reviews for the Android app.

>>19060239
https://archive.org/details/collectedpoemsof00stev

last poet i was seriously considering reading

>>19060239
read a poetry book by bukowski and frost
working through the oeuvre of poe and dickinson
the american poets are pretty based so far, would recc

read gormenghast
I want something that's fun to read but is also interesting prose wise

“The Spectre of War” by Jonathan Haslam. It came out May 2021 and describes the role international communism had in starting WWII. Very well written and scholarly book.

>>19066305
if you like that sort of descriptive writing, get this

>>19059044
I'm not clicking your chink spy shit, but suggest some good eskimo lit.

What should I read next:
>The Tartar Steppe
>Warlock
>Dracula
>The Aleph and Other Stories
>The Prince
>Propaganda (Ellul)
>An Expedition to the Ranquel Indians

I want something fun to read for work breaks when I'm exhausted. Because I have only 30 minutes I do not want any philosophy or serious literature, I need something easy for escapism with simple prose like for retarded children.

>>19068376