/lit/ - Literature

>>22383981
I am a book sniffer

I dont much care for "hard reads" or philosophy or anything like that. What I really like are racist, victorian era adventure/children's books.

I liked 120days of sodom actually a good book, de sade is un ironicly a comic book villain

The Diving Comedy was just ok but reading the text along with explanatory notes felt more like a chore than anything else.

>>22383981
I don't consider Don Quixote to be Literature.

>>22383981
I started another thread without checking the catalog
>>22382462

I read a poem my gf wrote and I thought it was the worst Rupi Kaur tier garbage but I i told her I loved it (~‾▿‾)~

>>22383981
Honestly, the key to understanding the Genius of Shakespeare and the plays themselves is to act in them.

>>22384279
What? Why?

i think roleplaying is ultimately better than solo authorship

i hate novels

I heavily dislike Stranger (Camus).

>>22383981
I tried to become redpilled reading hard core right wing lit but when I arrived at them I was already well read and found nothing but error after error, became so disappointed at the intellectual level of the red that become an sort of nihilist "anything-that-is-not-conservatism".

>>22383981
I sometimes enjoy trying to analyze and pick apart meaning in more difficult classics but a lot of it goes over my head. Ultimately I'd rather read something like The Maltese Falcon and it makes me feel dumb yet self-righteous where I suspect most readers exclusively classics and difficult/artsy books are pretensious and just want to feel smart.

I also don't know if it's just cope for getting filtered easily but the idea of reading something like "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", or any Künstlerroman strikes me as profoundly, irredeemably gay.

Borges is a second-rate sci-fi author who owes his esteemed reputation to his excessive flattery of anglos and jews.
Gene Wolfe is overrated for his vocabulary and his literary tricks but his stories themselves aren't that deep

>>22384931

Specific examples so that we can better understand your wrongheaded worldview? Why were you even curious in the first place?

>>22384588
Based. They truly are low-brow slop. Even the "greats" like Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are pseud midwit trash.

>>22385188
What's good then? HUH?

>>22385126
he hasnt read anything you idiot, he's an ideologue pushing his agenda. stop being so gullible

>>22385207
Poetry (specifically the decadents and aesthetes)
Mythology and folklore
Children's books
Nature writing
Esoteric and metaphysical philosophy
Anarcho primitivism
Science and math

Once you have the realization that all novels at a core level are fundamentally just variations on "Dude we live in a society," you start to realize how bullshit they are and look for new intellectual stimulation.

>>22385233
Not sure if I agree or not but I respect that you actually delivered

>>22383981
I can't think, only read.

>>22383981
I submitted a chapter from my dissertation to a good journal and it's getting published. The thing is I never read most of the sources I site. I take maybe 1 random paragraph in the middle of the book or chapter and write down a few words out of context. Both reviewers noted my extensive bibliography and knowledge in the field as the strongest element of the article. Bonus: the article is about 3 canonical novels, one of which I also didn't read, just gesture towards from shmoop notes because my director asked me if I had considered including it...

I’ve been telling myself I will finally jump into Plato and Aristotle but then end up reading something else. Philosophy scares me.

>>22386236
Unironically just watch Youtube videos. There's no point in reading the opinions of someone unless you already know whether or not they resonate with you. I recommend watching the History of Philosophy series with Arthur Holmes. He's a bit of a Christfag and makes his bias obvious, but he covers all the greatest hits from the history of philosophy.
I also recommend reading Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy. At least the first part on ancient Greek philosophy, which is still the best overview on the subject ever. He kind of got bored with the book and started phoning it in with the medievals (he even admitted that he found writing about Christian philosophy as an atheist to be a struggle), but that first part is great.

>>22383981
When I first was getting back into reading I used to look at what Bill Gate read on his book blog and then get and read those books. I had no idea what books to read at the time.

>>22385379
>The thing is I never read most of the sources I site
Welcome to the real world anon, everybody do it

>>22384279
true. it's jewish hatred for everything that is courageous from start to finish

>>22383981
>Writer/Director of a great film > most of the inane naval gazing passed for 'novels' since WW2

We have to get back to theater, in general. Augmented reality devices and VR must be integrated.

i refuse to read anything published after 1995

>>22385277
didn't expect to see tae on /lit/ today
what is her favorite novel

>>22386236
I've tried reading some of the Greeks but I get bored after a few pages. They just talk about where people are from and who their ancestors are without getting into any ideas so I put the book down.

I pretended to enjoy War and Peace to impress a bpd women who was already in a relationship.

>>22387176
*woman
I am a phoneposting retard please rape my face

>>22384270
>The Diving Comedy

>>22385379
so, business as usual? If it's a peer reviewed paper, now you know that that means nothing.

I don't like most classics.