/lit/ - Literature

my diary desu

>>20683020
Phenomenology of spirit

Your question in the title and your command in the comment are not at all the same thing.

>>20683020
LotR

>>20683020
Softer books can’t compete

>>20683020
Serge Lang's Basic Mathematics

When i graduated from high school my parents offered to buy me a holiday abroad. I declined and asked for a copy of "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho instead. Somehow it all makes sense: Years of rough studies and training behind me, I was now ready to embrace the real thing. When I got the book I spent several days avoiding the enormousness of it all. At some point I did start reading it and still remember the feeling I got: The world would never be the same again, the naive childhood days of pre-alchemist era were over.
When I read the opening chapter I recognized that I'm entering the deep end of human psyche. Even the tiniest, most trivial elements seem to be filled with some alien quality. It's impossible to get a grip of it all but somehow feelings of both some foreign horror or unease and ecstatic bliss seem to co-exist peacefully. The words still manage to sink in like the most heartbreaking and life-pulsating piece of prose ever written.

Finnegan's Jest.

The Making of Recognitions.

Gravity’s Lunch.

>>20683200
I think that Science of Logic would be the actual answer to this.

>>20683020
filtered the fuck out of me
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarel

>>20683020
The Bible, but that was because I was a child and didn’t want to read it.

>>20683020
book of disquiet
i read it in portuguese though its probably really easy to read translated

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any foreign language book

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The hardcover editions I have.

>>20686672
Not really difficult if you know the language.

>>20683020
50 shades of grey, you have to binge drink wine for 20+ years to be addled enough to enjoy it and understand how anyone can fethisize bdsm so wrong and hit all the wrong notes

>>20690212
>hit all the wrong notes
in one of the movies the main heroine took it in the ass
if the books persuade women to get sodomized that's one good note minimum

Book of the new sun is the hardest book I have read. It doesn't take years to prepare or anything I just haven't read anything harder.

Was at the university library, and browsing books as usual. Saw a book about poetry. Modern poetry I think; analyses of it. Cool. I enjoyed Robert Frost and the critical essays about him. Went downstairs to check it out, and back up to the third floor. Opened it up, and entered hell. Not a single fucking word in any of the analyses did I recognize. Not a single fucking meaning could I make out. Only things familiar were the prepositions and articles. Everything was fucking obscure, and arcane. Only words I seemed to know were phallus, and dyonisis or however you spell his faggot name. I was an ape and too embarassed to return the book that same day, so I waited a week. I got filtered hard.

Anything in the LGBTQ+ and Social sciences section at Barnes and Noble

>>20683020
Gapped Boundary Phases of Topological Insulators via Weak Coupling by Edward Witten

>>20683020
Chinese edition of Gravity’s Rainbow as an anglophone

>>20683020
derived algebraic geometry by lurie

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The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric sister Miriam Joseph