/lit/ - Literature

>>6677601
The Holy Bible
jk, what a silly idea, the Phenomenology of Spirit it is.

>>6677601
the fault in our stars tbh

>>6677601
Animorphs #2

>>6677601
I have them all on pdf

>>6677601

The Complete Works of Plato.
Arguably the most entertaining read in philosophy.

Good thing ebooks exist. I would save Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

>>6677683
Wittgenstein would have burned it

>>6677681
This is probably the best choice.

That or a full encyclopedia would be the most useful.

If it had to be fiction though I'd go with The Brothers Karamazov

An encyclopedia

>>6677601

>>6677685
Yeah, he pretty much went insane after he wrote it.

>>6677601
This book in the filename

Toss up between the King James Bible and Euclid's Elements.

>>6677707
>King James Bible
Worst translation.

Only reasonable answer is Ulysses

Imagine

>>6677736
It actually is. Assuming only the books get burned - but people still have all their knowledge. Any non-fiction like Encyclopedias could be rewritten by universities, plays would be memorised by actors, even novels that aren't prose heavy could be rewritten collectively.

So the only reasonable answer is a prose heavy fiction book - that's also long enough that people wouldn't have it memorised, and culturally important enough to be worth saving.

Ulysses.

>>6677707
>saving the translation, but not the original, which could have been used to restore the Bibles in each language

>>6677742

>>6677707
Are you, by any chance, 'murican?

>>6677764
The world turns into a generic, narrative based cover shooter with a pseudo-deep story

>>6677772
>Cover based
Objectively wrong no matter how shit video games are.

Second BioShock was actually good though.

>>6677772
>cover shooter
But that's wrong?

>>6677772
Exactly

>>6677779
>second bioshock was actually good though

>>6677795
Not even bait. It's the only game I know of where the moral choices go beyond 'kill the baby and get extra powers or don't kill the baby'.
It's still obviously not as good as most literature, but for a video game it's great.

I also unironically think Hotline Miami is one of the greatest artistic works of this century.

>>6677779
>>6677781
Cinematic experience faggots please go.

>>6677806
Being cinematic has nothing to do with whether or not the level design is cover based. You can see the levels are open.

Filename

>>6677805
>caring about 'moral choices'
>comparing games to literature
I hate this new generation. Video games are more akin to sports than films or literature. Games are about mastering skills and achieving the best possible results. You uncoordinated, modern retards just want movie games where you're only asked to press buttons when prompted to watch your character perform an action. Video games are dead thanks to you.

>>6677805
You should end yourself

>>6677814
>You uncoordinated, modern retards just want movie games where you're only asked to press buttons when prompted to watch your character perform an action

Did you not see the second part of my post? Hotline Miami is the greatest game ever made and it isn't any of those things.

And games are like sports if they retain the 'game' aspect. Being rid of that they can be art - even if it's just a replacement for installation art.

>>6677818
Video games aren't art. Video games are are games, like sports.

>>6677826
If they keep the game aspect then yes they're like sports. But if something resembling installation art - even like Dear Esther - was made, it could be art.

>>6677836
But it would be a shit game, like Dear Esther.

>>6677844
Shit art is still art.

>>6677845
I'm not saying it's shit art, I'm saying it would be a shit game, like other story based games (The Order 1886, The Last of Us, Bioshock, Mass Effect).

>>6677836
no

>>6677601

I'd save either, whatever is considered to be the greatest, most all encompassing book on history, a collection of philosophy from pre-socratic thought to now or a book on what music is and how to make it

I'm assuming this a government lead book burning

>>6677860
Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy.

Tundra.

>>6677601
The God Delusion

Fahrenheit 451 of course

>>6677629
>not animorphs #3
>I hated the way they all felt sorry for me. All they could see was that I was not what I used to be. All they saw was that I had no home.
>But they didn't really understand. I hadn't had a real home since my parents died. I was used to being alone.
>And I had the sky.

>>6677805
>moral choices
trash, it, goes, etc

What's the purpose of this question? Distraction?

>>6677681
Have to agree with the tripfag. That is probably the seed of philosophy

>>6677772
Just because it's not System Shock doesn't mean it's a bad game.

>>6678938
It absolutely isn't.

>>6677836
>Dear Esther
fuck me...
let's keep vidya away from 'art'

most arty games have been wank (gone home)
Video games are meant to be fun
Although it is an added bonus if they also have a good story (Metal Gear Solid)

>>6677850
>Bioshock

I don't understand why you listed one of the best and most enjoyable games ever created here.