/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19076497]

books that filtered you?

[Anonymous No.19076513]

>>19076497
start with the greeks

[Anonymous No.19077600]

>>19076497
none

[Anonymous No.19077605]

>>19076497
Tacitus in Latin

[Anonymous No.19077634]

>>19076497
i imagine the bible would filter me unless I went really slowly and took it in bites

[Anonymous No.19077641]

>>19076497
Booger Aurthur and Cumshots in Gibraltar part 3

[Anonymous No.19077650]

>>19076497
Anal by Aleister Crowley

[Anonymous No.19077656]

>>19076497
The Green Face

[Anonymous No.19077662]

>>19076497
The second half of Sergius Bulgakov's essay on Judas filtered me, hard. I was with him until he started explaining his concept of the supratemporal creation of man and everything after that made me feel like a retard.

[Anonymous No.19078862]

>>19076497
Aristotel's Metaphysics. To be fair, I didn't read anything from him before. What should I read to better understand Metaphysics?

[Anonymous No.19079012]

>>19078862
Seconding this question, I want to read Metaphysics.

[Anonymous No.19079220]

The Silmarillion

[Anonymous No.19079232]

>>19076497
The Prince by Niggerless Maccaroni

[Anonymous No.19079491]

Plotinus was just too hard
>>19078862
>>19079012
Physics is a good gateway, but metaphysics is a very hard book and you'll have to get some help from commentaries

[Anonymous No.19079671]

The Sound and the Fury. I'll get back to it some day.

[Anonymous No.19079685]

>>19076497
Archetypes and the collective unconscious

Why does he keep going off topic ?

[Anonymous No.19079697]

>>19079685
Actually he doesn't. Eat the mushrooms before reading Jung so you'll get it.

[Anonymous No.19079700]

The view from flyover country by Sarah Kendzior. Being from a small town and going to college in city, I learnt a lot of things really fast. A good red pill for early teens trying to pursue a career.

[Anonymous No.19079718]

Steppenwolf semi-filtered me. I guess its main message was not to take life too seriously (?). Plus all the Jungian shit went over my head.

[Anonymous No.19079911]

>>19077634
Leviticus will filter you, and 1st Chronicles

[Anonymous No.19080588]

>>19076497
I used to think my English was pretty good for a non-native speaker, but this might as well be French.
Loved House of Leaves minus the junkie shizopost passages, so perhaps I've been filtered by the same author twice? Not sure about the consensus on House of Leaves.

[Anonymous No.19080607]

>>19079718
We had to read that in early high-school, maybe 8th or 9th grade and I remember having no clue what the fuck was going on except I disliked the protagonist for some reason.

[Anonymous No.19080713]

Blood Meridian got repetitive and boring after they leave the feast and I stopped reading.

[Anonymous No.19080734]

Some of Camus. Not because it was hard, but it is just so fucking depressing.

[Anonymous No.19080808]

>>19076497
None. I don't read.

[Anonymous No.19080872]

>>19076497
the denial of death by ernest becker. a mix of disagreement, boredom, and fear.

[Anonymous No.19080881]

I've never been filtered.

[Anonymous No.19080931]

>>19080872
I'm borderline suicidal but also terrified of death :^)

[Anonymous No.19081089]

>>19079700
I don't think you understood the assignment.

[Anonymous No.19081123]

>>19076497
The Waste Land, but I would never say this in public because it makes me look like a retard.

[Anonymous No.19081423]

>>19076497
Heart of Darkness. Thought my English was native-speaker level but Conrad's writing had my scratching my head.

Rereading it helped a lot though

[Anonymous No.19081438]

I filtered myself myself. I also don't really read books.

[Anonymous No.19081439]

>>19080881
Imagine lying on an anonymous image board.

[Anonymous No.19081447]

Pretty much all philosophy just sounds like convoluted gobbledygook to me.

Also Finnegan's wake.

[Anonymous No.19081450]

>>19076497
Notes from underground. The first part filtered me hard, I don't want to read schizo ramblings, I have no idea what that guy is talking about. It's too hard for me to comprehend. Maybe I should try rereading this one day.

[Anonymous No.19081463]

>>19076497
Probably par for the course, but I tried reading Heidegger Being and Time and was gigafiltered almost immediately. Idk if reading it's supposed to be a months-long journey or if I skipped prereqs, but holy dick did I lose to that book

[Anonymous No.19081469]

>>19081463
It's because most philosophers are retarded dumbasses who take simple ideas and use them in long overcomplicated words embraced in their own terminology to make it even more confusing, almost all philosophy ideas and books can be simplified to simple terms and sentences
t. PhD in philosophy

[Anonymous No.19081937]

>>19081469
Isn't there a difference between an explanation, that could be condensed and simplified, and a demonstration that ideas are correct or justified? Isn't the point of original philosophical works to do the latter? Also, sorry about the PhD

[Anonymous No.19081969]

>>19076497
ulysses

[Anonymous No.19082176]

>>19081450
Dosto was a reactionary against Western/socialist/materialist ideologies eg utilitarianism

[Anonymous No.19082189]

>>19081439
Imagine getting butthurt over a random post

[Anonymous No.19082276]

>>19081423
>Conrad
Nostromo filtered me hard. I tried getting through it three separate times, restarting each time because too much time had passed. I barely ever broke 100 pages

[Anonymous No.19082281]

Crying of Lot 49. Read the first few chapters for college, had no idea what the fuck was going on, so I restored to SparkNotes. I got an A in the class, but I've come to accept I'm a brainlet that should stick to fantasy/sci-fi.

[Anonymous No.19082604]

>>19081937
>and a demonstration that ideas are correct or justified?
Do philosophers really achieve that?

>>19081469
>t. PhD in philosophy
What is your thesis about?

[Anonymous No.19082785]

[Anonymous No.19082804]

thus spoke zarathustra

[Anonymous No.19082819]

I just posted but it didn't go through for some reason. Guess I'll write it again.
Snow Country. I consider myself decently knowledgeable on japanese lit and have read other novels by Kawabata, but this one went completely over my head. I couldn't understand what the characters were thinking at any point or grasp any symbolism or had any idea what the point of all of it was other than having pretty prose.