/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10403113]

Read this book in the 10th grade, haven't found a book that resonated with me so strongly ever since. I'm looking for a book which will contain an insight I never knew I was looking for. Something that'll make things click. Something that'll serve as a spark. Something. Anything.

[Anonymous No.10403186]

[Anonymous No.10403210]

>>10403113
St. Augustine's Confessions is similar to Siddhartha.

[Anonymous No.10403223]

Read The World as Will and Representation. Steppenwolf too if you haven't already.

>>10403210
Stop corrupting inquisitive, curious minds with your christcuck bullshit

[Anonymous No.10403228]

That book is shit but atleast you read it at the right time. Lucky for you there is a lot of literature that is better and should affect you more, although that might be difficult if you're comparing it to your formative years.

[Anonymous No.10403244]

>>10403223
Clearly you have never read the Confessions.

[Anonymous No.10403254]

>>10403223
>t.never read it

Only an true idiot would judge it, before even reading it. I dare you to read it.
If you take up my challenge I guarantee your life will be changed forever.

[Anonymous No.10403400]

read Demian, it's like Siddharta but better

[Anonymous No.10403402]

>>10403223
Fucking brainlet, I'd report you if I could

[Anonymous No.10403441]

>>10403400
agreed. Although if you're past 20 it might be too late to read any Hesse at all.

[Anonymous No.10403489]

>>10403223
Stop with this. You're not better than an ancient practice that merely mirrors the way humans naturally are.

[Anonymous No.10403507]

>>10403113
just bite the fucking bullet and read this essential normie-core, you know you want to, stop thinking you are too good for it

[Anonymous No.10403810]

Steppenwolf spoke to me like no other book I've ever read. I could relate to the protagonist so well.

Hesse was a metaphysical titan

[Anonymous No.10403822]

>>10403113
Barnum effect: the author.
Glass bead game is the only good thing he wrote.

[Anonymous No.10403831]

>>10403113
the secret

[Anonymous No.10403985]

>>10403113
>There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
>Than are dreamt of in our philosophy.
>Hamlet (1.5.167-8)
You're welcome.

[Anonymous No.10403989]

>>10403113
How's the 11th grade going?

[Anonymous No.10403992]

>>10403113
>Reply

the Hour of the Star

[Anonymous No.10404110]

>>10403507
That's a really good one. Shit hit the spot

[Anonymous No.10404116]

>>10403186
/therad

[Anonymous No.10404366]

>>10404110
It's good if you've never read any philosophy before.

[Anonymous No.10404384]

>>10404366
it's just inoffensive feelgood normie-core

[Anonymous No.10405438]

>>10403113
Read the rest of his works.

[Anonymous No.10405555]

Read as much as you want there isn't any practicality to this escapist distraction anyways

[Anonymous No.10405793]

>>10403113
Read actual Buddhist philosophy maybe

[Anonymous No.10407308]

any and all new age, buddhist, alan watts, joe rogan pineal gland consciousness bullshit. see val valerian matrix books.

[Anonymous No.10407587]

>>10403113
The book of disquiet by pessoa maybe. Otherwise try some tagore if you want to stick around in Asia

[Anonymous No.10407657]

>>10403223
>Read The World as Will and Representation
This honestly isn't the kind of work you can just jump into. It requires a lot of background in philosophy. Kant and the Upanishads are what he recommends, and it takes quite awhile to get to Kant. Understanding Hindu philosophy is its own ordeal. That said I've never read the full book, so if I'm wrong please say why.

[Anonymous No.10407868]

>>10407308
nice try, except this book is just about "lol, just be yourself"

[Anonymous No.10407871]

>>10407308
alan watts was a good man who sort of understood zen and vedanta and taoism, fuck off pleb. middlebrow can be gud sometimes if you aren’t serious about it