/lit/ - Literature

>>6831180
Bought this about an hour ago.

>>6831264
That's some prime literary lifestylecore.

I'm very impatient to read this one.

Just bought this, trying to get into reading some more modern philosophy

>penguin classics

Yikes

>>6831329
>ayn rand
>philosophy

conspiracy against the human bait.png

>>6831346
>dismissing a philosophical idea because muh platos

>>6831418
Which philosophical idea? Objective reality exists and within it capitalism is cool as fuck?

She has no interesting philosophical ideas.

>>6831445
I'm interested in the argument against the currently prevailing altruism and her views on the role of art, but who would you recommend?

>>6831329
go to reddit

I'm currently reading "Byzantium: The Early Years", about half way through and have waiting the second "Byzantium: The Apogee."

Both by John Julius Norwich and so far really fantastic read.

>>6831487

> currently prevailing altruism

Check out the essay Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature by Rothbard.

>>6831487
Sade. Stirner, Nietzsche.

>>6831492
lmao

>>6831329
Guys, guys, guys, come on.

>>6831180
Been wanting to get more into poetry for a while, and I like what I've read of his, so I just got this yesterday. Mainly focusing on the Songs of Innocence and Experience for now.

>>6831180
Pic related just came in the mail today. My last 3 read were a portrait of the artist as a young man, the pale king, and stoner. Which should i start next?

I bought an autobiography of Nicki Minaj.

van Fraassen - The Scientific Image
Kaplansky - Set Theory and Meteic Spaces
Putnam - Mind, Language, and Reality

>>6831341
2/10

>>6831910
I bet she's insightful.

>>6831937
"make me way smarter like you was a magician."

— The Queen

>>6831937
She's actually surprisingly intelligent
Not intelligent, but surprising intelligent

>>6831180
Had my eye on this for a while

>>6831937
i have a folder

>>6831970

Bought this cos I wrote it myself and wanted to be the first!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B011OKXUJM

So far I'm very pleased with the Odyssey and Inherent Vice

>>6831976

One of my favourite authors right now tbh

>>6831937
I'm always surprised by how hot she is.

Not a purchase, but my little brother just loaned me The Once and Future King

>>6831293
Finished Invisible Cities a couple days ago. Already on my second read. Calvino is fantastic.

>>6831996
>i will never read dubliners and portrait for the first time again

>>6831264
I'm looking forward to reading this

>>6831999

>>6831996
Is Fitzgerald's Odyssey good? I recently became a Classics minor, and feel like I should probably get around to reading the Odyssey.

>>6832030

>>6831536
Honestly, you can't get the full Blake experience with just his poetry.

http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/indexworks.htm

Go wild

>>6832020

I read a few pages in the middle of portrait, it looks great

>>6832034

I did a brief google search before I bought it and found that most people recommended his translation. What I've read of it is very good.

Anyone still got the /lit/ nicki minaj poetry collection?

>>6832036

>>6832052

>>6832073

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>>6832127

i wanted nice copies of these.

last eBook i got

Infinite Jest should be shipped in the next day or two

>>6832130

>>6831293
Started it yesterday anon. It's everything I expected and more.

>>6832034
Classics minor, ayyy me too

>>6832159
Can you stop please?

>>6832147
Hot. Tell me more.

>>6832254
>>6832159
Keep going anon, she's hot as fuck

>>6832260
see
>>6810913

>>6832267
no, she's not

>>6832270
low test detected

>>6831180
I got the audiobook, its 130 hours.

>>6832288
and melanin

>>6832288
attraction towards average to less than average face and talent combined with a disgustingly huge and overdone ass and tits detected
>tl;dr you're a faggot

>>6832267
Irrelevant. Take her to a hot board.
I mean if you're discussing something and you want to post her pic, I see nothing wrong with it. But this is just a pic dump.

Not as a bad a thing as the Christposters, frogposter and pedophiles

>>6832314
>average to less than average face
No.

>and talent
>>>reddit

>>6831180
Thoughts on this book?

>>6832323
>average to less than average face
yes

>and talent
calling what she does average is being too generous
>>>end yourself

>>6831512
You don't say? I've read the abridged version myself.

>>6832319
there is nothing inherently wrong with frog posters

>>6832319
Shut the fuck up you retarded hypocrite, you used to spam in art threads you piece of shit

i'm dumping more for anon

>>6832358

>>6832364

>>6832370

>>6832374

>>6832319
No normal person ever thinks that deeply about it. You are and will always be a female. Years ago, I assume, you were a girl, now you are a woman. If you drop this nonsense you may even become a lady. Why is feminism called feminism and not womanism? Females picked the name for that movement. This mindset just undermines that great strides that females have made through out the last 100+ years. These type of statements really work against female equality. Great job. Make female equality a joke. Keep up the great work :-) me and my female friend are honestly cracking up at this and she 100% agrees with me. Females like you just want to complain for the sack of complaining and are too lazy or dumb to actually do anything to achieve equality for all. Great job making such a joke out of this.

>>6832376

>>6832381
chocolate goddess

>>6832385
if youre not attracted you're probably gay

>>6832389

>>6831512
>Byzantium: The Early Centuries
Ftfy.
Two thirds through that series myself.

>>6832356
I mean the posts that are only there to bitch about things, whether smug, raged, or depressed. Really sick of that frog.

>>6832358
I have a folder of her too. And I like a pretty woman post, but dumping your collection is just being a nuisance. Get a grip.

>>6832394

>>6832389
or, you know, have standards over whom you fantasize

>>6832389
her face is like 5/10

body is 10/10

personality is 3/10

>>6832402
>body is 10/10

lol, i guess so, if you like fake t&a

>>6832395
>durr off topic bullshit is only okay if i deem it appropriate and it's only appropriate when i do it and when im getting attention waah waah wahh
fuck off retard

>>6832380
>No normal person ever thinks that deeply about it
Is this a copy/pasta?
Looks like it.

>>6832401
you're just in denial of your homosexuality
you can admit it now anon it's 2015 You're allowed to be gay

>>6832413
2spooky

>>6831445

capitalism is far from perfect, but we've yet to devise a superior system

>>6832413
How dare you make such comments .This is very much retarded and sick act.I don't know whats your background and wont care to but I seriously doubt your upbringing and surrounding and don't think its anything better than any roadside slum dweller or may be worst. This is very serious personal comments and for me you are the worst idiotic ratarded soul I have ever come across. I don't know your social stature but cant think of anything more than a stray dog and its time for you to be caged like the municipal corporation catch hold of stray dogs. I dare you share your contact details if you have guts to, I would anyways will get that legally and by all means but its an open challenge.Well, I know Street dogs can't be tamed by intellectual talks and will go on barking unless treated the way they should be treated.I could use more abusive language here which I very much feel I should have been because cases like you need to be dealt that way rather than these comments but again, one last time, I would ask you to remove this comment with immediate effect and I seriously mean it or deal with me in person if you have guts to..I will show you ,your family and whoever around you what is meant by real bashing and banging

>>6832402
9/10 face
6/10 body

ass is just too much

>>6832417
this is a good thread tbh

>>6832421
or a worse system

>>6832428
>he can't hand booty
low test pencil dick

>>6832435
mfw reading a good book

>>6832358
You're rude and crass

>>6832428
how do you find that face of hers attractive?
>too much ass
oh I see, you must be a homosexual.

>>6832433

we've devised quite a few of those, socialism being the most prominent

>>6832435
She's had a ton of implants to distort the body God gifted her with in order to commodity into a breathing toy.

>>6832441
you're even worse than she is you autistic faggot, I have literally never seen you post something intelligent or on topic, it's all theological shitposting and it's never related to books. durr lemme whiteknight for my Michael Jackson lookalike waifu cause i'm an internet virgin crusader

eat a dick homo

>>6832442
>doesn't like disgustingly monstrous fake asses
>must be gay
okay, buddy

>>6832421
A system where workers own their own means of production isn't too much to ask.

>>6832442
>doesn't know the difference between a nice ass and a silicone-filled disaster

>>6832442
>how do you find that face of hers attractive?

She looks kind of weirdly cute while at the same time coming across like a dirty slut, good combo imo, see>>6832364


>too much ass
>oh I see, you must be a homosexual.

Come on it's ridiculous.

>>6832450
plot twist: god isn't real and you use him as a crutch to hold up your feeble psyche because without it the crippling weight of reality would destroy you and end in suicide. you're a weak person and also a homosexual for not loving this booty

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>>6832426
I read this in Tyrone's voice.

>>6832452
you still didn't say what the appeal is in that melted plastic clown mask of a face.

>>6832461

>>6832451
Can we get that in webm, please?

>>6832469
Jesus was a jew and sucked roman cocks for a living

>>6832467
that wasn't me but i don't find her hideous

i'm the anon that said she was at best average. see >>6832314

>>6832457
>I only like le natural m'ladies
>I like you just the way you are babe, don't get breast implants for me!

>>6832455

has never worked, will never work. just a proxy for a small group of government officials to wrest control away from the capitalists

>>6832472
I have a webm of it but it's too big to post outside of /gif/ because of size limits

>>6832142
Those are fantastic. Who's the publisher?

>>6832473
Jesus was a Jew who died for me and you

>>6832475
>implying tit/ass jobs have to be monstruoso to be hot
>projecting own fedora unto others

you're trying way too hard anon

>>6832469
Just for the record, the weight of reality isn't crippling at all. It's not what drives a person to suicide. It is quite enlightening actually.

>>6832479
I didn't say a system where the state owned all the means of production, I just said a system where every worker owns his own means of production, or some jointly own means of production where multiple people are required to operate (a ship, for instance).

>>6832488
The weight of reality is capitalism, unfortunately.

>>6832487
I'm saying if you don't like big t&a you're either gay or low test as fuck.

>>6832480
Post and link it, mang.

>>6832484
>Mel_Gibson_Crazy_eyes.jpg

>>6832489

and how do you get there?

by having government take the means of production away from the current owners and turn it over to the workers.

except that never happens, because government just keeps control for itself while the workers starve in an inferior socialist economy

>>6832489
>every person owns their own means of production
And what stops them from witholding their produce from neets with no skills and nothing to offer in exchange? Good luck getting your boots when the only thing you can offer to the bootmaker is a shitpost about a nonexistant god

>>6832494
>low test

A meme to justify wanting to fuck your mother

>>6832493
That is a system of spook supported, yes, but I mean the nature of the universe. That reality.

>>6832502
>projecting
anon, dr freud would like to ask you about your mother...

>>6832496
The Passion of the Christ was a legit movie, though. Even it was super edgy. But Christianity is super edgy despite its sincerity anyway. I mean, we celebrate a guy's torture and death, and we celebrate that by eating his flesh and drinking his blood. That's pretty edgy. So a proper film adaption of the Passion kinda had to be as well.

>>6832498
Having the workers take the means of production away from the current owners and turn it over to the workers

>>6832502
>meme
whatever helps you sleep at night, it's 2015 anon there is nothing wrong with admitting you're gay.

>>6832494
i (as well as other non-undersexed (possibly virgin) people) prefer nice tits and nice asses over disgustingly huge flapping tits and asses so big they look like the skulls of two bald midgets trying to escape from her pants

>>6832499
See the Catechism of the Catholic Church on that

>In his use of things man should regard the external goods he legitimately owns not merely as exclusive to himself but common to others also, in the sense that they can benefit others as well as himself.

>Goods of production - material or immaterial - such as land, factories, practical or artistic skills, oblige their possessors to employ them in ways that will benefit the greatest number.

>Political authority has the right and duty to regulate the legitimate exercise of the right to ownership for the sake of the common good.

>The seventh commandment forbids theft, that is, usurping another's property against the reasonable will of the owner. There is no theft if consent can be presumed or if refusal is contrary to reason and the universal destination of goods.

>Even if it does not contradict the provisions of civil law, any form of unjustly taking and keeping the property of others is against the seventh commandment: thus, deliberate retention of goods lent or of objects lost; business fraud; paying unjust wages; forcing up prices by taking advantage of the ignorance or hardship of another.

>The following are also morally illicit: speculation in which one contrives to manipulate the price of goods artificially in order to gain an advantage to the detriment of others; corruption in which one influences the judgment of those who must make decisions according to law; appropriation and use for private purposes of the common goods of an enterprise

>>6832511
How do workers take means of production from current owners without power to do so? Strike? Kek then companies import some mexicans and chinks and you're all out of a job

>>6832511

because that worked so well in the Homestead Strike

>>6832522
And what about atheist workers who don't give a shit about your fascist religion and don't base their means of survival on pure ideology and spooks?

The fuck is going on in here!

>>6832528

>>6832511
It's sick and primitive, but to ID Jesus as a Jew would upset Gibson's antisemitism, is all I was saying

>>6832531
Whole lotta nothing.

>>6832531
shitposters shitposting against shitposters

>typical /lit/

>>6832505
Was not awre you even believed in noumena, butterfly

>>6832531
Tits booty and retarded marxists anon

>>6832539

>>6832546
God bless big titties

>>6832539

>retarded marxists

there's a different kind?

>>6832552
look at this qtp2t

>>6832524
>>6832526
Well, they have the power, they just don't have the solidarity to wield said power.

>>6832535
Well I guess that depends on how you define "Jew". If by "Jew", you mean a member of a religion explicitly denying Christ is the Messiah , then Christ obviously wasn't Jewish. But for back then, he was.

>2020-5
>not being attracted to fertility goddesses

>>6832553
Good point

>>6832557
> they have the power they just can't use it
Inability to use power is the same thing as not having power, they both factor out to zero
fuck outta here

>>6832567
Whoops wrong booty folder

>>6832516
post your 10/10

here is mine

>>6832559
>2015
>not liking girls who look like boys pretending to be girls

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>>6832576
That's called being a homosexual, you faggot

>>6832574

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>>6832567
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentiality_and_actuality

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>>6832592
Im not reading your gay wiki link because I get my information from books like a person that's not handicapped. The actuality is workers have no power to do shit and your idea of communism will never work and is doomed to fail from the start. Sorry to tell you but both of your ideologies are bullshit hahaha

>>6832613
mfw marxists

>>6832613
>get your information from books
>has read neither Aristotle nor Aquians

>Joanna Newsom/Regina Spektor fantasy flashbacks ensue

i purchased these from half price books about an hour ago. it was possibly my most exciting moment of this week haha

>>6832692
oops

>>6832692
>>6832708
this is like getting a girl to do anal with her then commencing to shit all over your dick
as in
oh shit nigger what are you doing

>>6831180
>Finnegans Wake by JJ
Already had a copy, but found this gorgeous 50-year old paperback edition for five bucks and thought aw sheit why not... Plus for some reason it suddenly hit me right in the feels when I started browsing through it, despite having read most of it before
>Some little book on ornithology of which I forget the name
>Mao II by Don DeLillo
Can recommend. DeLillo can write real nice.
>Bleeding Edge by Tommy Pinecone
Halfway through, fucking rad so far, tho I gotta admit I can only guess at what Pynchon is trying to tell us exactly
>Oedipus Rex
Haven't read yet, eager t
o get into dem greeks
>Crying of Lot 49 by Pinecone
Was rad
>Point Omega by DeLillo
Was also rad

Pretty sure I'm forgetting some shit, but alas.

>>6832715
the second picture was oriented correctly in my phone image viewer. i don't know why this tragedy happened ):

>>6832715
That's really clever anon, how did you think of that.

>>6832732
it's all in the game

>>6832042
Thanks. I originally find him via some art history studies. The guy was pretty amazing.

>>6832576
best taste

>>6832637
also best taste

>>6832730
it was rotated in metadata, probably

>>6831180
< ecce

>>6832708
>>6832715
>>6832779
oh well. for those of you who dont want to turn your monitor or save the picture or crane your neck the books are:

>The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories - Don DeLillo
>The Eternal Husband and Other Stories - Fyodor Dostoevsky
>The Essays: A Selection - Michel de Montaigne
>The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
>Early Poems - Edna St. Vincent Millay
>A Game of Hide and Seek - Elizabeth Taylor
>Oblivion: Stories - David Foster Wallace

>>6832849
>DeLillo
>Oblivion
Mah niggah. Read any of it yet?
If not, do yourself a favor and read the first story in Oblivion last. Trust me. It's a bitch to get through and may dissuade you from reading a book that is filled with otherwise fantastic stories.

>>6831329
I kek'd.

>>6832881
nope, i havent begun reading as i picked the books up only a few hours ago. oblivion is first on my list since hes the only writer of the bunch i havent read. thanks for the advice!

i want to begin now but i have work early tomorrow. feels like christmas eve as a child

>>6832481
folio society.

>>6831180
>Life and Fate
>Candide
>The Trial

>>6833188
Those look great, huge money though.

>>6833258
the trial's out of print, so it's a used copy. easy to snag at ~£12 now. the new edition probably looks nicer but this will do.

picked up a sealed copy of the stranger/outsider off ebay for £20 tho. got a bit lucky with that one.

they'll last forever so i don't mind investing a bit.

Fear and Trembling (Penguin Classics) Kierkegaard, Soren
Nostromo (Everyman's Library) Conrad, Joseph
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes Hamilton, Edith
(The Border Trilogy) McCarthy, Cormac
Pnin (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics Nabokov, Vladimir
The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue (Penguin Classics) Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
The Aeneid (Vintage Classics) Virgil
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories Robert B. Strassler
Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' Wolfe, Gene
Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics) Ovid
Invitation to a Beheading Nabokov, Vladimir
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics) Anonymus

and finally the one I'm going to be most hyped about
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream Colonna, Francesco

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>>6831264
penguin classics has a good quality? I mean in binds, paper, etc

>>6833161
can you give us some insight on this , anon ?

>>6833559
Didnt read it yet

I really hope it makes good points because democracy a shit

>>6832319
W-whats wrong with pedophiles :(?

>>6833511
well memed

>>6833576
You should read Anthony Ludovici on the subject.

>>6833646
Which writings?

>>6833622
Which meme made you scream?

Just finished this.

>>6833742
do you recommend it ?

>>6833742
hmmm

>>6833749
I do. I found the third chapter impenetrable, so I got nothing out of it but his discussion on China/Haiti/Congo, Europe;US, Proletarians or Rentiers?, and what is real in illusions amongst others was absolutely brilliant. His criticisms of the naive left are hilarious and painful too.

>>6833511
>butthole
faaaaart

>>6833921
>>>/mlp/?

>>6833921
MODS

whoops forgot this last gif

>tfw I bought Wordsworth Classics Les Miserables because I had no money

>>6832028
it's great. funny but feely.

>>6831293
it's amazing, read it earlier this year