/QTDDTOT/ - QUESTIONS THAT DON'T DESERVE THEIR OWN THREAD

[Anonymous No.16020654]

POST HERE YOUR QUESTIONS THAT DON'T DESERVE THEIR OWN THREAD:
>Books with X theme?
>What am I in for?
>What was his/her problem?
>Books like X?
>Do I need to read X to understand Y?
>other questions I can't think of right now

This is an experiment, /lit/ is complaining lately.
I think this could help the board quality overall.
Direct all questions that in your opinion don't deserve their own thread to here.
Keep this thread open if you like to help fellow anons out with their questions.
Turning this in a general avoids newfags asking those same questions over and over again.
Also other repetitive posts that don't really need their own thread can be directed here.

Feel free to discuss your thoughts about this becoming a general and maybe improve the template, and save it on our wiki so we could easily copy paste.
Also fuck jannies for removing meta threads.

[Anonymous No.16020661]

>>16020654
What was Aragorn's tax policy?

[Anonymous No.16020674]

I pledge my support for these threads and will do my best to keep them bumped and alive OP, it's a nice idea. Please mods do not delete this, it could unironically save the board over time.

Let's make these a regular thing like the What's On Your Mind threads, until it becomes board culture that low effort shit/meme questions should be posted here.

[Anonymous No.16020687]

books on how to talk to girls?

[Anonymous No.16020688]

>>16020654
Doing gods work anon

[Anonymous No.16020690]

Where to start with philosophy?
i'm mainly interested in why language is so useless

[Anonymous No.16020699]

>>16020690
You mean useless in the sense that its constrictive?
Starting with philosophy is probably best to start in what you're most interested

[Anonymous No.16020717]

>>16020690
"Philosophical Investigations" by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

[Anonymous No.16020720]

What is the best book for the pre-socratics and maybe even specifically Heraclitus?

[Anonymous No.16020723]

>>16020699
i think that language is uselss because i can not express what we or other people meant when we use the same words or belong to different contexts: example:
Braind (intended meaning) ->Word (definition) -> [Contextual Meaning] ad infinitum
Therefore all communication is worthless

[Anonymous No.16020724]

>>16020720
not sure on best but avoid barnes like the plague

[Anonymous No.16020730]

>>16020723
"Philosophical Investigations" by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

[Anonymous No.16020735]

>>16020674
yes to make these threads work we need to make it board culture, redirecting anons and keeping these threads bumped is vital.
>>16020661
What happened to all the languages in westeros?
>>16020687
Dealing with Autism
>>16020688
I hope it sticks

[Anonymous No.16020741]

>>16020730
thank you
i'll check it

[Anonymous No.16020767]

>>16020720
"The First Philosphers"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13425.The_First_Philosophers

And Heidegger's essay on Heraclitus

[Anonymous No.16020777]

Where does /lit/ hire their Sensitivity Readers to ensure their writing isn't offensive?

[Anonymous No.16020795]

What popsci books would you recommend, if any?

[Anonymous No.16020808]

>>16020777
don't need to hire someone, just ctrl+f 'nigger', ctrl+f 'faggot' ctrl+f 'fag', ctrl+f 'spic' ctrl+f 'gook' ctrl+f 'tranny' , make sure those are all zero. Also don't victim blame rape victims and be condescending to women in your text

[Anonymous No.16020835]

>>16020795
A Brief Histoy Of Time

[Anonymous No.16020845]

Books where the protagonist realises they and their target are more similiar then they first thought? The more literal the better

[Anonymous No.16020863]

>>16020845
Edgar Allan Poe's William Wilson

[Anonymous No.16020872]

>>16020654
I'm looking for any/all literature on the topic of white-male/non-white female miscegenation, in particular any that's historical. Fiction or non-fiction will suffice.

[Anonymous No.16020883]

>>16020866
why would you ever use an apple product? Just use linux. Also why are posts getting deleted?

[Anonymous No.16020896]

>>16020872
Chamberlain, The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century

http://www.juliusevola.net/excerpts/Difference_between_Higher_%26_Lower_Views_on_Racism_however_Meaningless_to_Discuss_Today.html

[Anonymous No.16020915]

Where does desire come from if it isn't a response to lack? Wouldn't you need to have desire and lack pop into existence simultaneously? If so why does Deluze gesture at desire preceding lack?

[Anonymous No.16020942]

>>16020767
Sounds based. Thanks

[Anonymous No.16020996]

>>16020654
Hey guys new Kindle owner here. What should I read first

[Anonymous No.16020999]

Why should you post specific questions to specific thread? Is lit so full of quality threads that creating a new one will flush something immensely valuable from page 10?

[Anonymous No.16021005]

>>16020999
yes

[Anonymous No.16021013]

>>16020999
you joking? 9 out of 10 threads are shit like 'i like the taste of jam, any book for me'

[Anonymous No.16021015]

>>16020999
Come back and ask your retarded question after you’ve brushed up on your English a bit

[Anonymous No.16021016]

>>16020996
Synthesis of the Objective and Subjective of course

>>16020999
yes,

[Anonymous No.16021031]

>>16021005
>>16021016
That's some incredibly convincing answers. But guess I'll still continue to answer to specific threads instead of using this ghetto.

[Anonymous No.16021044]

>>16021031
ESL

[Anonymous No.16021047]

>>16021031
I mean some questions are better in their own thread but some questions just get 3 replies max and are totally lowering the board quality

[Anonymous No.16021053]

>>16021031
It can be solved checking the catalog, there are already threads about ereaders.
Posts should be reserved to discussion of literature. It's not hard to understand

[Anonymous No.16021071]

>>16021047
>but some questions just get 3 replies max
Then it just sinks down to the bottom and does not impact quality in any way?

[Anonymous No.16021075]

>>16021071
Low IQ ESL shitposter pls go

[Anonymous No.16021076]

>>16020996
What books do you have?

[Anonymous No.16021084]

Books that make you feel happy while reading them?

[Anonymous No.16021090]

>>16021071
They do lower the quality because a thread gets bumped off and it sets a precedent that you can just make low effort posts

[Anonymous No.16021102]

>>16021071
like the other anon said it sets the precedent that /lit/ is a discord channel where you get a hit of dopamine from posting a low effort thread not really intended to be a high quality discussion

thats why you get so many fucking zoomers spouting off their baby's first try at being a philosopher

[Anonymous No.16021105]

>>16021090
Then the whole thread of low effort posts will not be any better.

[Anonymous No.16021106]

>>16020654
Any books similar to this? I know nothing (not quite, but i feel that way) and i think i wasted my entire formative years by not studying anything. I want to learn like if i was a tabula rasa, but i am also looking for structure, systematization and satisfactory formality. I started reading a dictionary from the beginning but i think i can do better.

[Anonymous No.16021137]

>>16021105
exactly
Now you get it
it's better if it's just one thread and not the entire board

[fite !!iqe5jhCPNey No.16021142]

>>16020872
seconding this.

[Anonymous No.16021143]

>>16021105
no because it's not that people are unwilling to answer questions, but some questions simply don't deserve their own thread.
We need to bring back some more gate keeping, post 2016 4chan is infected with people who thinks that every board should be like /pol/, unironically LURK MOAR

[Anonymous No.16021149]

BOOKS THAT ARE THE EQUIVALENT OF TYPING IN ALL CAPS?

[Anonymous No.16021156]

>>16021106
How To Read A Book is a good extensive guide on how to properly read and study great books

[Anonymous No.16021159]

What is sneed?

[Anonymous No.16021162]

>>16021143
>We need to bring back some more gate keeping
We actually don't. But you are free to start posting here. I'll probably continue to answer in specific threads.

[Anonymous No.16021163]

>>16021084
Don Quixote, he's crazy but you can see him as someone extremely optimistic, and it is also really funny.
>>16021106
Have you checked out "how to read a book"?
Learning to learn is the first step

[Anonymous No.16021167]

>>16021143
Agreed 100% and I am /pol/shit myself

I don't give a fuck how retarded you are as long as you don't use 4chan like twitter

>>16021162
Fine dude whatever just shut the fuck up

[Anonymous No.16021169]

thank you anon

[Anonymous No.16021185]

>>16021167
Do you think that this discussion deserves several threads?

[Anonymous No.16021201]

>>16021106
Not a book, but this course helped me a lot:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
it's free

[Anonymous No.16021208]

>>16020654
Good idea, OP.
>>16020996
Have you figured out sideloading books? If so, go to libgen and get the Delphi Classics for any authors that interest you personally, and note that they have a complete works of Plato and one of Aristotle there.
I'm also partial to having a good epub copy of the Bible; I've noticed that some of them are available though not every translation is on there.
Outside of "whatever u want lol", the Bible, and some philosophy, I'd suggest The Blind Owl, it's a good, fun read and it's not too long.

For my question:
Do any of you know of an epub or pdf of the RSV with Apocrypha? I'll even take one of the versions of the New Oxford Annotated Bible that uses the original RSV with Apocrypha.

[Anonymous No.16021249]

>>16021156
I also want to study textbooks apart from the classics

[Anonymous No.16021266]

>>16021201
I thing my problem is not how to learn, but what to learn.

[Anonymous No.16021280]

>>16021266
You got to answer that for yourself, what do you want to learn?

[Anonymous No.16021302]

>>16021208
>Have you figured out sideloading books? If so, go to libgen and get the Delphi Classics for any authors that interest you personally, and note that they have a complete works of Plato and one of Aristotle there.
>I'm also partial to having a good epub copy of the Bible; I've noticed that some of them are available though not every translation is on there.
>Outside of "whatever u want lol", the Bible, and some philosophy, I'd suggest The Blind Owl, it's a good, fun read and it's not too long.
Thank you very much friend this is a boon to my efforts
>>16021076
I’m essentially in the process of loading my entire backlog onto my Kindle

[Anonymous No.16021366]

>>16021302
Also, it's an ugly piece of bullshit software, but Calibre has personally been a godsend for managing a digital library.
Especially since I think the Kindles can't read epubs but can read mobis; Calibre can do the conversions for you. Obviously the best route is trial and error though, if your Kindle can read epubs there's no need to convert. Also, if you're technologically savvy, you can remove the DRM from your Amazon-purchased books (if you spend money on digital books) and even share them with other people once the DRM is gone and they're in a different format. That said, that's only really beneficial with books not on libgen, b-ok, or any other big book-sharing website.

[Anonymous No.16021491]

>>16021084
I know Master and Margaret made me feel very good for some reason.
More obviously Svejk, Winnetou
>>16021159
Nerdy I think?
>>16020654
Something like this was needed. So far I've used wwoym as qtddtot.
However though, maybe this is not the way for /lit/.. we could instead have separate generals, something like:
/srg/: specific recc general - for stuff like 'books with this feel', 'books to understand women', etc
/erg/: ereading general

[fite !!iqe5jhCPNey No.16021508]

>>16021491
the frick do we need an ereading general for, how much is there to discuss about it?

[Anonymous No.16021518]

>>16021508
Fuck off tripnigger.

[Anonymous No.16021522]

>>16021508
containment,

[Anonymous No.16021523]

>>16021508
Please do not use a tripcode on 4chan. It's rude.

[fite !!iqe5jhCPNey No.16021545]

>>16021522
dont you think at a certain point you can have too many containment threads? If you ask me, e-reading can be discussed well enough here in terms of what little there is to discuss.

[Anonymous No.16021564]

>>16021522
This. I use an ereader and anyone who cares enough to want to make an ereading thread needs to be contained. It's like making a thread based on which books smell the best (the answer, of course, being liturgical books. Good paper and leather)

[fite !!iqe5jhCPNey No.16021565]

>>16021523
how so?

[Anonymous No.16021577]

>>16021491
Too many generals are hard to maintain, and adding way too many way too quick is gonna cause backlash. I think we need to see how this goes. We need anons that answer the questions that are being asked here and when the thread dies it needs to be revived. I don't know, I'm the OP of this thread and am about to fall asleep. Hopefully anons who've been complaining about the board quality before pick up the torch and maintain and/or improve the concept of this general

[Anonymous No.16021588]

>>16021545
There are currently 5 threads about it instead of just one.

[Anonymous No.16021590]

>>16020654
Is it worth a read? When it comes to Russian lit, it’s pretty much all Dostoyevsky I’ve read, and not even most of the major works (pretty much Only C&P, Notes + shorter stuff like White Nights).

[Anonymous No.16021610]

>>16021588
I think that might be just a coincidence that there are this many at once, but I do think they can fall into the scope of this thread. They are simple questions that don't require their own thread

[Anonymous No.16021615]

Can I lift heavy tomes to gain muscle?

[Anonymous No.16021630]

>>16021615
Yeah but it will take longer because the density of the books is lower compared to pretty much any other things you can lift

[Anonymous No.16021657]

>>16021508
I just see a plenty of posts regarding ereading itt. This I don't know about and can't answer, a qtddtot without them would be better for me.
>>16021577
Maybe you're right. Afterall, /sci/ has functioning /sqt/-/qtddtot/ with question regarding fields ranging from physics and math to medicine, life sciences and so on.
It has /mg/ and /med/ too though. We should almost make a Don Quijote general atp :).

[Anonymous No.16021773]

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[Anonymous No.16021776]

Ok, I read The Stranger. Now what?

[Anonymous No.16021795]

>>16021776
Existentialism is a humanism

[Anonymous No.16021830]

Anyone have books to deal with depression? Im not sure why im sad it could be a number of things, maybe drug comedowns, feeling lost in life or having no meaning, maybe a combination i dont know, but i guess any books to help would be appreciated, maybe a story to relate to about existence being hard? Anything really, even self help books, ive read 12 rules but it only helped a little. Unlike most i know i refuse to wallow in sadness and strive to get better so any suggestions appreciated.

[Anonymous No.16021929]

>>16021830
If it's genuine depression then you may need therapy. Books won't really do the trick unless it's a matter of perspective, lack of motivation or just a consequence of terrible habits that could include a detriment to your phyisical health and interpersonal relations.
In any case:
-Silver linings playbook
-The bell jarr
-Man's search for meaning

[Anonymous No.16022311]

>>16020687
Read the 'Earl of Chesterfield's letters to his son' on gutenburg.org

[Anonymous No.16022385]

What are some essential sociology/philosophy/psychology works on the subects of "pursuing justice on your own", "sexual shame" and maybe anything that relates to "crime/police work"?

[Anonymous No.16022788]

Any other author like Saki? That has a similar style, I mean

[Anonymous No.16023079]

>>16022385
Any books that are like being smothered to death in her thighs?

[Anonymous No.16023128]

>>16020654
Can I get a reading list about the history of the CIA? did somebody ever make a chart for this?

[Anonymous No.16023146]

>>16023079
why do you people always talk about being smothered to death by the thighs? why can't you just be satisfied with them comfortably but firmly squeezing you for a bit?

[Anonymous No.16023148]

>>16023079
>that are like
Phenomenology of Spirit. Suffocatingly dense, and you can brag about it to people online and nobody will believe you

[Anonymous No.16023161]

>>16020717
Where does one start with Wittgenstein in general?

[Anonymous No.16023202]

Any books on colonial America? /his/ is useless

[Anonymous No.16023206]

>>16021590
It's good, and the poems in the back are good. Just take notes on character names and you'll be fine.

[Anonymous No.16023208]

>>16023128
all the good CIA histories are classified internal reports, so join the CIA and get clearance first. otherwise, start here
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/collection/family-jewels

[Anonymous No.16023219]

>>16023128
I strongly recommend "The Quest for Absolute Security" by Theoharis. Follows many intelligence agencies but a not-too-long read.

[Anonymous No.16023230]

>>16020654
>I think this could help the board quality overall.
Wrong, because all it does it surrender catalogue space to non-literature based discussions. This is so obvious I honestly don’t even think people who make these threads believe it.
/lit/ is at least a low traffic board so meme pop-culture threads never get the kind of reply volume to make them viable
However you are just enabling people who want it as a new pop-culture hangout.

At least generals make sense, not because they’re good but because it’s some idiot’s transparent attempt to style himself as a subreddit mod

>>16021590
Clive James did a good write up of it where he called it, “overrated on publication and is underrated now“. The books is a good read, I would recommend it. Especially if you’ve already read Dostoyevsky; it’s pretty light reading compared to that in the sense that a lot of people can’t really get into it because of the names which are often swapped out with altered forms that are terms of endearment.

[Anonymous No.16023234]

I need to read tons of books within the next two years.
How should I go about that if my reading tolerance is fucking awful and I haven't read since the 7th grade? I need to be able to read hard books too, I picked up Ulysses and that shit is way too difficult for me right now.

[Anonymous No.16023293]

Do you guys think novelists are getting worse? I'm not specifically talking about the top, though most people would agree on that sentiment, I'm talking about the general population of published novelists, think about all of the novelists of the 1940's we don't know about because no one remembers them, those people.

[Anonymous No.16023374]

>>16020654
Why do so many American / Britbong books insist on having a running head which only tells you the author and title of the book but not the chapter which would be the only reasonable thing to put there in the first place.

[Anonymous No.16023382]

>>16023293
I don’t think they’re getting worse but I have a strong preference for Modern Realism. So naturally novels written before the rise of Post-Modernism in the 60’s appeal to me more unless it’s genre fiction which ironically sticks closer to literary tradition.

[Anonymous No.16023392]

Did any of you leave a STEM field for something more /lit/? How did that go?

[Anonymous No.16023412]

Can anyone recommend some good books about the Pacific front in WW2?

[Anonymous No.16023574]

>>16023392
Yeah I dropped out. Doing OK considering

[Anonymous No.16023634]

Which one should I read first: Steppenwolf or Demian?

[Anonymous No.16023747]

>>16020720
Parmenides's World by Popper

[Anonymous No.16023773]

Is there any DFW flowchart?
What should I read or start with if I don't feel like reading Infinite Jest?

[Anonymous No.16023780]

>>16023412
Specifically the naval part but Pacific Crucible by Ian Toll. Also The Battle of Midway by Craig Symonds (this one is obviously only about Midway)

[Anonymous No.16023799]

>>16023634
Steppenwolf

>>16023234
Isolate yourself when you read--go to the park, the library, a cafe, whatever.

Don't read hard shit like Ulysses to start off. Read stuff like The Stranger or The Metamorphosis, which any brainlet can read and understand.

>>16021776
Did you read the Myth of Sisyphus first? If not, that. If you do, continue to The Plague.

[Anonymous No.16023815]

Where should I post an excerpt of my novel? I'm looking for some criticism but don't want to make a thread

[Anonymous No.16023883]

>>16023773
Brief Interviews or any of his essay collections really

[Anonymous No.16023897]

>>16023412
With the Old Breed
Helmet for My Pillow

[Hayden Peake No.16023927]

>>16023208
Based.

[Anonymous No.16024084]

>>16021084
Manalive by G.K Chesterton.

[Anonymous No.16024103]

I want to read The Divine Comedy, but I think I heard it makes a lot of references to roman/greek mythology/history. What books do I need to read before it to understand most of the references?

[Anonymous No.16024175]

>>16024103
Just get an annotated version and read it, besides The Iliad, The Odyssey and The Aeneid you shouldn't need much to read.

[Anonymous No.16024466]

What's on his reading list?

[Anonymous No.16024479]

>>16024466
Infinite Jest , L’Etranger, The Brothers Karamazov, Blood Meridian, Lolita, Moby Dick, Gravity’s Rainbow, Don Quixote, The Trial, Journey to the End of the Night, Ficciones, Ulysses, Crime and Punishment, Catch 22, 2666, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Catcher in the Rye, The Sound and The Fury, 1984, The Great Gatsby, Hamlet, Invisible Cities, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Slaughterhouse Five, Mason and Dixon, Notes from the Underground, Siddhartha, Anna Karenina, Dune, V, The Odyssey, The Divine Comedy, The Waves, The Master and Margarita, The Plague, War and Peace, White Noise, Stoner, Wuthering Heights, Dubliners, The Book of Disquiet, Heart of Darkness, In Search of Lost Time, A Farewell to Arms, The Crying of Lot 49, As I Lay Dying, The Metamorphosis, American Psycho, The Sun Also Rises, Leaves of Grass, A Clockwork Orange, The Grapes of Wrath, On The Road, The Temple of the Golden Pavillion, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ubik, Solaris, The Savage Detectives, The Holy Bible, Faust, Lord of the Flies, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Pale King, Light in August, Dead Souls, Hunger, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Suttree, To The Lighthouse, Malone Dies, Dandelion Wine, Valis, Absalom, Absalom, The Wasp Factory, Pale Fire, Animal Farm, East of Eden, Roadside Picnic, Hopscotch, Fight Club, Franny & Zooey, Walden, The Fall, A Tale of Two Cities, Steppenwolf, The Iliad, The Good Earth, The Old Man and The Sea, Paradise Lost, I Am a Cat, The Count of Monte Cristo, Illuminatus, The Book of the New Sun, A Confederacy of Dunces, Les Miserables, If on a Winter’s Night, a Traveler, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Madame Bovary, No Longer Human, The Recognitions, The Idiot, Siren of Titan, Watership Down, Brave New World, Kafka on the Shore, The Magic Mountain, A Hero of our Time, Fahrenheit 451, Cannery Row, The Remains of the Day, The Name of the Rose, Of Mice and Men, The Tropic of Cancer, The Aleph, The Flowers of Evil, Ada, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, A Scanner Darkly, The Canterbury Tales, Finnegans Wake, Naked Luch, Bottom’s Dream, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shady, The Death of Ivan Ilych, King Lear, The Tunnel, JR, The Man Without Qualities, Middlemarch, Under the Volcano, The Aeneid, Mrs Dalloway, Nausea, Oblomov, The Castle, The Waste Land, The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, Against Nature, Molloy, The Road, The Gulag Archipelago, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Pan, Rings of Saturn, Candide, Metamorphoses, The Faerie Queene, 60 Stories, Neuromancer, Cryptonomicon, Correction, Essays, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Sometiems a Great Notion, The Glass Bead Game, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Life and Fate, Storm of Steel, The Red & The Black, Atomized, The Leopard, Kokoro, Demons, Growth of the Soil, The Bhagavad Gita, Confessions of a Mask, The Golden Bowl, Frankenstein and The Quran

[Anonymous No.16024551]

This is a great thread, thank you OP. Let's make this a /lit/ tradition.

>>16023293
I'm surprised you're so measured in talking about it. My immediate instinct is to begin ranting and raving about how even the mid-level authors are now terrible. It's common enough to wonder "where are the geniuses? why does our era seem to have fewer of them?" of course, but where the realization that something has gone deeply wrong with our intellectual culture really hits me is when I think about the mid tier authors, all those authors in a given generation who are only remembered by enthusiasts and dedicated fans after 30+ years, but who are great in their own right.

You go back to any generation of the last 200 years and dig beneath the surface of "canonical" novels/short stories, and you'll immediately find authors who were household names at their time, prolific authors of potboilers and short stories in pulp serials etc. Who reads Anthony Trollope's "Can You Forgive Her?" or John Braine's "The Vodi" anymore for example? But the point is they're all THERE. You can go back to any decade and find the Trollopes and Braines churning out books that may not have endured as classics but are still loved by the sorts of people who have read most of the classics and want to go a little deeper.

Canonicity is always artificial and exists mostly so that new readers can find their bearings, and as soon as you explore some period as it was really experienced by contemporary readers, people who didn't know beforehand that certain books would become canonical while others would be forgotten, that's when the real rich experience of reading begins. But my point is, the modern era doesn't have that. We try too hard to mimic canonicity, we're too conscious of wanting to be canonical maybe, and somehow the result is that there is no more warp and woof of passable but sub-canonical literature anymore.

Go back to the 1970s and there are still people churning out failed experiments and partly derivative novels that are worth reading if you are in love with the decade. What do we have that's like that now? What do we have that any future generation will want to read? There's a difference between mediocrity now and mediocrity back then. Somehow the old mediocrity was still excellent in its own way, while our mediocrity is truly just hacks churning out crap at an 8th grade reading level for morons. Something's wrong with us spiritually if we can't produce Karl May? Like I understand Stifter and Hoffmann were destined for canonicity but where the fuck are the soon to be half forgotten Karl Mays of our generation? Apologies for this post I am drunk.

[Anonymous No.16024745]

>>16020654
Books in which I can about the 19th century, but not focusing on America and not written by a liberal kike pawn? I want to learn about 19th century technology, culture, attitudes, industries, how things worked in general, and how life was like in general.
I do not want to focus on politics during the 19th century. I get that it's important, but I'm not going to learn about farm life by reading about the Franco-Prussian war.

[Anonymous No.16024811]

>>16024466
He's not big into books.

[Anonymous No.16024879]

Most times I can sit/lay down and read no problem, oftentimes I find myself re-reading the same sentence twice or even three times before the concept really cements in my head. I feel like such a brainlet but if I force myself to just keep reading I'm afraid what I'm reading won't really register in my head correctly. The consequences of this are a lot of the time it takes me longer than I think it sohuld to read a book and sometimes after re-reading a portion I may begin to just daydream for a bit before I snap out of it and go back to reading. Anyone else do this?

[Anonymous No.16024905]

Tourist here. I'm tired of people telling me to read books that make me feel like shit. Give me some life-affirming, faith-restoring, feel-good books, please.

[Anonymous No.16024920]

Books on becoming a father, bonus points if it's a daughter.

[Anonymous No.16024962]

Is learning French worth it just to read Marcel Proust's?

[Anonymous No.16024969]

any recent pomo/"maximalist" novel not written by sergio de la pava? other than charlie kaufman's novel i guess

[Anonymous No.16024972]

>>16021590
If you're interested in the Russian revolution definitely worth a read. Outside of the historical context I found it uninteresting though.

[Anonymous No.16025006]

>>16024905
Mein Kampf

[Anonymous No.16025022]

>>16025006

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.16025047]

>>16025022
Basement and dubs

[Anonymous No.16025051]

>>16025022
2666

[Anonymous No.16025055]

>>16020654
You may not know this but this expirement has been attempted many times over the recent years. I support it in theory 100%, it would do wonders for the board, but it doesn't work because not ionly does it not receive sufficient bumps (mainly a result of the people this is targeted simply making their own threads anyway because this hasn't caught on) the maker of these threads hardly ever follow up. If this fails -- as I assume it might -- I will try my hand and this since I'm a do nothing neet so I have no reason to not being able to post and bump these generals constantly and I will also invade other wasteful threads to direct them to the general in hopes to create a culture that supports it. This board has been shit for too long

[Anonymous No.16025382]

>>16024551
You sound so gay

[Anonymous No.16025491]

>>16025051
Only a feel good book if you're an incel and enjoy to read hundreds of pages of descriptions how thots are being brutally raped and murdered

[Anonymous No.16025516]

What's objective subject-object.

[Anonymous No.16025520]

Is his Concept the same as for Kant? How does it lead to an Idea? What the fuck is an Idea?

[Anonymous No.16025592]

>>16024905
Someone post the chart, I don't have it

[Anonymous No.16025645]

Can someone recommend me good Argentinian writers other than Borges?

[Anonymous No.16025672]

>>16025516
Read up newfag

[Anonymous No.16025685]

>>16025645
Macedonio Fernandez
Cortazar
Sabato
Arlt
Horacio Quiroga (okay, he was Uruguayan but lived in Argentina)
Puig
Laiseca
Aira
Marechal
Bioy Casares
Pizarnik

[Anonymous No.16025721]

>>16020674
what will save the board is more active reporting of shit threads. the jannies delete them if people bothered to report them

[Anonymous No.16025723]

>>16025721
Can't they just browse the board themselves?

[Anonymous No.16025733]

>>16025723
they're probably janitors for multiple boards and don't browse /lit/ too much. i don't assume many people want to be jannies when you have to be on discord and interact with trannies

[Anonymous No.16025743]

>>16025685
>>16025645
Btw, in the spirit of Borges, the closest would be Cortazar's Bestiario, Macedonio, and Bioy's The Invention of Morel. Maybe Quiroga, language wise (I think young Borges liked Quiroga in a similar way to Lugones).
The rest is not very similar. Copies of Dostoevsky, of Truman Capote, copies of copies mostly.

[Anonymous No.16025744]

>>16025672
Get fucked, retard.

[Anonymous No.16025745]

i swear to God who's this nigger cock gobbler tripfaggot butterfly namefaggot spamming all threads here

[Anonymous No.16025762]

>>16025745
you. no one else acknowledges it than your samefagging self

[Anonymous No.16025771]

>>16025762
I'm a newfag. Been here for a week. Seriously who the fuck is that guy. How long has he been here?

[Anonymous No.16025789]

>>16025771
fuck off and kys subhuman

[Anonymous No.16025800]

>>16025789
Get raped. Not me faggot.

[Anonymous No.16025939]

Any good gay novels?

[Anonymous No.16025946]

>>16025939
Lord of the Rings

[Anonymous No.16026066]

>>16025771
She's been here a long while she's a lesbian woman (male) and a libertarian socialist. I want her to fuck me with her feminine dick in my ass.

[Anonymous No.16026097]

>>16021366
>if you're technologically savvy, you can remove the DRM from your Amazon-purchased books
I don't think anyone has broken Amazon encryption

[Anonymous No.16026124]

Holy shit, I think this thread is a godsend.
Look at the catalog it is so much better now.
>>16023230
>Wrong, because all it does it surrender catalogue space to non-literature based discussions
Wrong look at the catalog

>>16024879
Yes

>>16024962
>just
It's a lot of effort, but if you want to go for it you can but I would also read other French authors.
>>16025055
Yeah, we shall see. I do think it's helping though.
>>16024905
Bottom of pic related

[Anonymous No.16026134]

>>16026097
just import your books into calibre retard

[Anonymous No.16026137]

>>16026097
The new encryption hasn't been broken yet. But you can download the old version of the kindle app on your PC and get the books in an older format that can be easily cracked.
That's how I uploaded Belcea's work to libgen.

[Anonymous No.16026140]

>>16026137
>That's how I uploaded Belcea's work to libgen.
hero

[Anonymous No.16026306]

>>16020654
Are you gonna territorialize /lit/ into a /general/ filled garbage dump or are you participate in becoming-/lit/ by railing along lines of flight all the while honouring Stirner, DFW, Pinecone and Joyce?

[Anonymous No.16026495]

>>16026306
The latter

[Anonymous No.16026612]

How do you see Charles Bovary?

[Anonymous No.16026886]

Why do ice cream melt on the sun but not on the moon

[Font thread No.16027141]

>>16024466
Any books referenced in the Deus Ex bible (https://www.nanoaugur.net/dx/bible/).). Also checked.

[Anonymous No.16027191]

>>16026097
You can using up to Kindle 1.27 iirc, but I usually go with 1.24. You'll need the KFX-input plugin and the DeDRM plugin, both for calibre.

[Font thread No.16027657]

Books like HyperNormalisation?

[Anonymous No.16027806]

>>16024920
I should've noticed by the catalog that only incels browse this board

[Anonymous No.16027827]

>>16024920
At the risk of sounding like an ass, what do you need a book for? The specific "mechanics" of how to teach a child, good values to instill, what?

[Anonymous No.16027938]

>>16020654
Tapir story idea threads are memorable. WTDDTOT must have a similar OP image recognition. Alfred Jannie frog Isis is a good start

[Anonymous No.16028097]

What version of the bible should I read?

[Anonymous No.16028170]

God bless this thread, lit's quality has skyrocketed since it has been introduced. Usually weekend lit is 70% amerifat politics and garbage off topic bait/blogposting.
>>16027806
4chan is for misanthropes and retarded contrarians, what can you do? Just ignore incel bait threads and have a good set of filters
>>16025721
This, every time I report a blatantly off topic thread it's deleted an hour later

[Anonymous No.16028309]

What is the best edition of Mein Kampf? Unabridged, good translation etc. and where can I find it?
(physical copy)

[Anonymous No.16028318]

>>16027827
I want to experience the feeling of becoming a father from the perspective of an good author.
Does that sound so much weirder than reading LOTR or some other fantasy garbage?

[Anonymous No.16028365]

>>16028097
KJV if wanting to read the most influential translation in history
NRSV if you want the best translation

[Anonymous No.16028589]

>>16020654
What were some themes of Confederacy of Dunces?

What were some themes of Inherent Vice?

I hear they’re both funny and read the back of them for a general plot intro but want to know major themes.

My favorite writers are Borges and Proust, should I read either of the books mentioned above?

[Anonymous No.16028670]

>>16021615

[Anonymous No.16028703]

>>16020654
Books about idealism?

[Anonymous No.16028720]

>>16027806
Once you realise incels are only the product and symptom of modernity, and with modernity gone they will also be gone, it makes it much easier to completely filter them out

[Anonymous No.16028738]

>>16028309
Stalag translation

Just checked, and apparantely amazon banned it wtf, just download it from libgen

[Anonymous No.16029002]

>>16028738
Thank you.
Pain in the ass trying to find this through google.

[Anonymous No.16029119]

Okay, taboos are used in societies to help keep the populace productive.
Incest is a taboo due to marital brokerage reasons.
That's all I really got from the book. Could someone give a brief synopsis of its general content?

[Anonymous No.16029146]

>>16029119
so if I want to be cool I should quit my job and fuck my sister?

[Anonymous No.16029646]

Where should i start with russians? I have only read Crime and punishment in school.

[Anonymous No.16029937]

Is ther a faster way to type out an em or en dash than by using alt codes?

[Anonymous No.16030171]

>>16024920
>Fathering
>A daughter
I mean, just think about it logically...

[Anonymous No.16030370]

what are some resources to help me better understand the themes and stuff of the divine comedy? read it once and got a lot from it but would like to know it a bit better before a reread

[Anonymous No.16030962]

bump

[Anonymous No.16031178]

>>16029646
What are you interested in? Riasanovsky's history of Russia if you want to place the literature of the period in its history as you read

Comedy option, The Family of the Vourdalak

[Anonymous No.16031778]

Best edition/translation of war and peace? Im bedridden post acl surgery and I wanna do something other than play vidya

[Anonymous No.16031806]

>>16020654
Bump

[Anonymous No.16031985]

>>16024879
Yeah, definitely. For me this happens in more difficult books, I often have to re-read to understand sections and I take short breaks to day-dream/ponder. I think it's what's so great about the medium, the complexity of thought the writer can convey is high because the reader can read it at their own pace.

[Anonymous No.16032002]

>>16026124
Shut the fuck up you sound like such a faggot lol stop trying to start a gay subreddit

[Anonymous No.16032013]

>>16020996
Literally fucking anything. You can get literally fucking almost anything on libgen

[Anonymous No.16032019]

>>16021149
American psycho

[Anonymous No.16032031]

>>16021795
Being and nothingness

[Anonymous No.16032032]

>>16032002
Yeah, okay mate

[Anonymous No.16032047]

>>16028720
how do we return to TRAD when women rapidly occupy the positions from which we would implement it

[Anonymous No.16032094]

What books should I read before Spengler's The Decay Of The West?
I'm currently reading Well's Outline of History, though I guess that isn't enough

[Anonymous No.16032223]

>>16020795
Men Of Mathematics
>>16020915
beings have desire, and they feel it but think it is lack. It is just an internal phenomena, and your mind looks for ways to justify it. I never read him just guessing, and I don't agree with what I just typed.
>>16020999
no, most threads suck, ergo, this may prevent thread clutter, ergo, better threads. I don't agree with this general though, nor on other boards, not even the most popular boards.
>>16021249
a mind for numbers by oakley. (btw how to read a book also applies to textbooks)
>>16023234
>I picked up Ulysses and that shit is way too difficult for me right now.
kek. joyce is impossible, harder then calculus textbooks.
>>16023815
/lit/ critique general thread
>>16024811
based, kek'd
>>16024551
insightful and well written
>>16026886
ice cream and the sun are best friends. on earth, the ice cream can see sun friend but friend far away, so get sad and fall to ground. on moon, no sun friend in sight so scared and freeze up. on sun, it jumps down into the suns arm. See, ice cream is frozen on earth sometimes because they keep the sun out of sight by storing them in freezers. then they get sad if they see sun again
>>16030370
harold bloom wrote about it in Western Canon. Doren too in Joy Of Reading, and Fadiman in Lifetime Reading Plan. read those essays maybe.

[Anonymous No.16032303]

>>16020999
This

[Anonymous No.16032327]

I have started visiting the bottom of the catalog whenever I visit /lit/ and bumping a thread or two on page 10 thread that is obviously high quality and shouldn't die

If a few people did this, would it help the board by recycling the total crap to the bottom faster? You don't even need to bump a bunch, just save any obviously high quality threads from death

[Anonymous No.16032363]

>>16032327
based, I'll start doing this

[Anonymous No.16032590]

>>16021545
No, the only way we can reach our ultimate goal of becoming reddit is if the whole catalogue is full of threads for general topics. We won’t able to call them threads though we need to think of a name- like a “sub” something...

[Anonymous No.16032775]

Any good books about Ancient Egypt?

[Anonymous No.16032891]

>>16020654
Cant find Qaddafi's My Vision online. No library near me has it and paperbacks are $100 plus. Does anyone have a link?

[Anonymous No.16033047]

A few months ago there was a post discussing a chinese philosopher who had written an as-yet untranslated modern equivalent of Democracy in America by Tocqueville. Does anyone remember the guy's name or the name of his book?

[Anonymous No.16033054]

>>16033047
nevermind, i'm a moron and a three second search revealed the book to be called "America Against America" by Wang Huning

[Anonymous No.16033338]

>>16020654
i've read almost 100 pages today.
feeling pretty cool but i expected to read a few hours more before going to bed.

[Anonymous No.16033809]

Do any anons know of a good resource to better understand long sentences with multiple clauses? I often have trouble when reading something like pic-related, or Shakespeare, or Melville, or Faulkner, where I don't exactly know how each part of the sentence relates to each other part. For example, in pic related I understand each section that is separated by colons in themselves but I don't know exactly how they relate to one another. In my mind, the section that starts "for happening, ..." makes sense in itself but should be followed by a statement of what actions the narrator carries out based on the fact that he is a "fiddler and a painter". But the sentence appears to end and another sentence starts "Be it known to you,..." which makes no sense to me. Am I being too autistic with this? Like I said, I do understand the overall sense of what is being said but I don't understand the structure.

Normally I imagine the commas or colons in large sentences as nested parentheses which helps to break down the structure in many instances but doesn't always work.

[Anonymous No.16033814]

In order to keep this thread going, Anons should:
1. Bump it whenever it drops off the first page; and,
2. Post links to any QTDDTOT that they happen to run across.

[Anonymous No.16033834]

Let's start a new one because this one will be archived in a few hours.
We can bump it for now (the new one)

[Anonymous No.16033939]

>>16033814
>Post links to any QTDDTOT that they happen to run across
Spamming this all over the board is a great way to just get the thread taken down

[Anonymous No.16034546]

What are some good books about meditation?

[Anonymous No.16034567]

>>16034546
i suggest looking into non sectarian versions of transcendental meditation like acem, or herbert benson

even TM is probably harmless, it's just the technique you want to get you started