/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20090735]

>So anon, I heard you read a lot. So what's your favourite book?

[Anonymous No.20090740]

Dragon Ball

[Anonymous No.20090743]

Uhh, yeah, but can you stop ‘smiling’ so creepily?

[Anonymous No.20091360]

>>20090735

[Anonymous No.20091363]

>>20090735
my diary, desu

[Anonymous No.20091364]

Uh, The, uh, v-Very Hungry Caterpillar, ma'am.

[Anonymous No.20091375]

>>20090735
Dhalgren by Samuel R Delaney

[Anonymous No.20091421]

>>20090735
Is this situation meant to be implausible or uncomfortable? I've had conversations about what books i like the most on dates before. The only weird part is "I heard you read a lot" that's not a natural sounding conversation phrase.
It's Moby-Dick by the way.

[Anonymous No.20091486]

>>20091421
>It's Moby-Dick by the way.
nice

[Anonymous No.20091510]

>>20090735
by mishel welbek, the elementary particles

[Anonymous No.20091514]

>>20090735
Magician by Raymond E Feist but you probably haven't heard of it being the pleb you are.

[Anonymous No.20091540]

>>20090735
Immortality by Kundera

[Anonymous No.20091549]

>>20091360
>the mad hatter as a bishounen twink
why does this feel so much more wrong than every other aspect of this image?

[Anonymous No.20091552]

>>20090735
>implying I date women who put both elbows on the table and dont use coasters
nice try OP, almost got me

[Anonymous No.20091553]

>>20090735
On the Genera of Being by Plotinus obviously

[Anonymous No.20091673]

>>20091549
tell me about your mother, anon

[Anonymous No.20091697]

Well you see it's about this guy who gets erections and rockets and there's a bit where a man eats poo...wait come back

[Anonymous No.20091704]

>>20090735
turn 360 degrees and walk away

[Anonymous No.20091709]

>>20091704
it never seizes to amaze me just how retard this sub is, if you turned 360 degrees you'd just be going in a circle dumbass

[Anonymous No.20091715]

>20091709
extremely poor bait, i replied anyway

[Anonymous No.20091727]

>>20090735
The novelization of Super Bowl LI

[Anonymous No.20091728]

Fiction - Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

NonFiction - A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

[Anonymous No.20091730]

>>20090735
This is an unbelievable fantasy. Women don't even talk to me, let alone show any interest in my thoughts and hobbies.

[Anonymous No.20091749]

>>20091709
>seizes
ceases

[Anonymous No.20091805]

>>20091673
She was very kind and supportive, especially when I was difficult and depressed as a teenager. She worked herself too hard though and the stress from that led to her death, I miss her every day but I know I can make her even more proud than she already was of me.

[Anonymous No.20091824]

>>20091805
How can you make her proud if she's dead?

[Anonymous No.20091867]

>>20090735
>get girlfriend
>suddenly start showering every day
>going to the gym
>get a raise at work
>stop drinking booze and smoking weed

Scientifically speaking why are women such positive motivators for life?

[Anonymous No.20091874]

>>20090735
The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis.

[Anonymous No.20091884]

>>20090735
I don't read at all, I just use 4chan /lit/

[Anonymous No.20091902]

>>20090735
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit :)

[Anonymous No.20091924]

>>20091867
Because you have acquired something that is both vastly impactful to your life; and incredibly easy to lose. Ergo, you are compelled to act in a manner that keeps her attracted to you.

Also
>implying you have a gf
>implying you lift
>implying you aren't a 300lbs neckbeard
ISHYGDDT

[Anonymous No.20091932]

>>20091867
Then, you stop loving her and feel even worse than before. It's not women, it's your own feelings.

[Anonymous No.20091935]

>>20090735

Lolita

[Anonymous No.20091945]

>>20091867
Because you receive proof that you are not worthless, and that helps you allow yourself to improve as a person.

[Anonymous No.20092002]

Glas by Jacques Derrida
I will now solve the captcha: 28KGN

[Anonymous No.20092010]

>>20091945
experiencing this right now

[Anonymous No.20092011]

>>20091867
You are preparing to continue your bloodline.

[Anonymous No.20092041]

>>20090735
Serious question, how do you pick this?
>book you read the most
>book that changed the way you think the most
>most recent good book
>book that you couldn't put down even though it wasn't much objectively
>that one obscure book your professor recommended that you found boring at the time but now that you're older you finally "got" it
These are all different books for me.

[Anonymous No.20092045]

>>20091421
>Moby-Dick
Can you say why?
Moby Dick filtered me hard but I just enjoyed the literary boat kino so I dont care. Pretentikus faggot I know goes "lmao you didn't get the whale was god? Maybe you should read it again," and im like "yeah whatever fruitcake, im gonna read the crows nest chapter on repeat you can't stop me,"

[Anonymous No.20092046]

>>20090740
Based

[Anonymous No.20092055]

>>20091805
That's very nice anon, you were very lucky to have a supportive mother

[Anonymous No.20092121]

>>20091935
“Waiter! Check please!”

[Anonymous No.20092218]

>>20090735
I've never been on a date before, what's it like? Is it fun? I guess it depends on the girl that your with obviously but just in general.

[Anonymous No.20092226]

>>20090735
Imagine talking to this cunt for more than 5 seconds. And for what? To put your penis in her vagina?
What a waste.

[Anonymous No.20092234]

how do i say my favourite books are literature like war and peace, AK, dostoyevsky etc. without sounding like try hard? especially war and peace since it has name recognition as a big classic even among normalfags who dont read

[Anonymous No.20092236]

>>20092218
It's a little nerve-wracking until you finally meet them. Then it's just a conversation with a person, ideally it's supposed to be relaxed and pleasant. If you already know them it can be nerve-wracking for other reasons, ie because now you're getting to know each other in a different context.

[Anonymous No.20092239]

>>20092234
Mention the author's name first. "I really like Tolstoy, particularly War and Peace"

[Anonymous No.20092242]

>>20092234
Try talking about the book instead of namedropping. Talk about why you like it, be interesting.

[Anonymous No.20092338]

>>20090735
The Lightening and the Sun by Savitri Devi

[Anonymous No.20092358]

>>20091364
wow anon thats so fucking hot please let me suck you off sloppy style

[Anonymous No.20092528]

>>20090735
I like roadside picnic :D
Stalker is also my favorite videogame series

[Anonymous No.20092649]

>>20092338
>wow cool anon whats that about?
well... it all started with this guy who hated the j

[Anonymous No.20092788]

>>20090735
Wow eat a cheese burger goddamn

[Anonymous No.20093123]

>>20092528
Its good to let them know early they'll always be the 4th most important thing in your life.

[Anonymous No.20093133]

>>20091552
>using coasters
shiggy diggy

[Anonymous No.20093150]

The Old Testament

[Anonymous No.20093176]

>>20090735
Ernst Junger's Storm of Steel

[Anonymous No.20093186]

>>20090735
Job

[Anonymous No.20093315]

>>20092045
>the whale was god
that person sounds retarded

[Anonymous No.20093326]

>>20091867
you're alright fren, you're alright.

[Anonymous No.20093343]

>>20090735
your diary desu

[Anonymous No.20093582]

>>20092121
>implying

[Anonymous No.20093589]

>>20092234
Since AK is my favorite book my answer is usually, "Well m'lady, that's a hard question to answer. I like a lot of older Russian literature, particularly Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. You know that one?"

If my future wife says no then I mention they've adapted it a few times, like that one with Kiera Knightly which opens the possibility for a future date to watch it and partake in sexual congress. If she has heard of it then I ask if she's read it which she of course hasn't and then I get her talking about herself somehow

[Anonymous No.20093601]

>>20090735
My novelization of Muppets in Space I self-published

[Anonymous No.20093607]

>>20090735
I always say Norwegian Wood (I really do like it but idk if it's my favourite) and tend to get good reactions

[Anonymous No.20093619]

>>20090735
The Idiot because I was named after it.

[Anonymous No.20093716]

>>20091704
Fucking retard

[Anonymous No.20093720]

>>20091709
>>20093716
newfags

[Anonymous No.20093725]

>>20091867
because they're the only humans formally allowed to show affection towards a man beside your own mother, while everyone shows affection to them

[Anonymous No.20093745]

>>20091867
It's because you are activating yourself to become a father, as >>20092011 said. Unfortunately, pussy will also destroy your life. In 2022 you're basically a male mantis.

[Anonymous No.20093900]

>der untergang des abellandes

[Anonymous No.20093932]

>>20092041
Then that's what you say when someone asks. It's just a way to start a conversation. You don't need to have a favourite.

[Anonymous No.20093939]

>>20090735
the very hungry caterpillar

[Anonymous No.20094009]

>>20090735
Yeah, that's cool, how about you read this *unzips dick*

[Anonymous No.20094024]

>>20092358
>sloppy style
who the fuck talks like this lmao

[Anonymous No.20094025]

>>20094009
>this is what i meant by the very hungry caterpillar

[Anonymous No.20094033]

PoS. I've had girls who I'm pretty certain were more interested in filtering ask me this very question, and nod when I tell them it will take at least half an hour to explain the main thesis, but then when I actually get into it they always run off...

Which is fine, attaining the Absolute comes first.

[Anonymous No.20094037]

>>20094033
autism

[Anonymous No.20094040]

>>20091360
Carroll would have approved of this.

[Anonymous No.20094078]

>>20091540
Got gifted the Unbearable Lightness of Being a bit back. Is it good?

[Anonymous No.20094090]

>>20094033
>read PoS
>tries to "attain the absolute"
All that autism and you didn't get it ROFL

[Anonymous No.20094191]

>>20090735
Reading doesn't even make noise. How do you hear somebody reading? Reading is for faggots.

[Anonymous No.20094249]

>>20091824
>How can you make her proud if she's dead?

[Anonymous No.20094257]

>>20090735
>Uhm well all kinds really I uh try to balance non fiction and uh ... Some would say """"highbrow"""" fiction haha with with some fun and easy going not too serious books you know. At the moment I'm reading The Nigger on the Narcissus
>The... the what?
>The Nigger on the Narcissus. It's written by Joseph Conrad and it's about social conditions and solidarity and a nigger on a ship that gets si- uhm a black man I mean haha and uhm yeah it has really beautiful prose and yeah kinda hard to summarize but I can recommend
>Uhu...sounds a bit weird I think the whole...you know.
>It's really not trust me it's a classic it's...ah well...you...you should read it. I also like Hingway.
>ok

[Anonymous No.20094287]

>>20094090
PoS is, more than most all works of philosophy, and certainly both the greater and lesser Logics, an affective work, a type of therapy. To be sure, coming into being of the Absolute is a historical process, but it's also a journey for an individual.

The most shallow readings of PoS, arguments that it is just a polemic against epistemological realism, are clearly off. We don't need to go into Antigone and the French Revolution to understand that, we are taken there because the treatment is affective and logical.

The goal in terms of the individual shows up fairly explicitly towards the end of the Preface.

This isn't a far out take, you see it in as diverse takes as Hackett (the Ladder) and Bernstein.

[Anonymous No.20094328]

>>20092045
>Can you say why?
I think it’s a mixture of things, I’m biased towards enjoying the framework of the story because i had marine biology training before med school and I’ve always loved maritime stories and the sea. But I think I’d still love it if it were set on the savannah or Eurasian steppe hunting a great white elephant or a great white horse, it’s an entertainingly written book, witty/funny and containing beautifully descriptive and evocative prose, the narrative is compelling too but it’s the way all of the elements combine under what seems to me a central conceit, the many things we can make of the universe from our many different (and limited) perspectives.
>Moby Dick filtered me hard but I just enjoyed the literary boat kino so I dont care.
That’s most of what you need really, but some of the more subtle jokes don’t really make sense if you aren’t a little familiar with western philosophy, Christian, classical, and enlightenment (“plato’s honeyed head” or the joke about sperm whales being Spinozists)
> Pretentikus faggot I know goes "lmao you didn't get the whale was god? Maybe you should read it again," and im like "yeah whatever fruitcake, im gonna read the crows nest chapter on repeat you can't stop me,"
“Whale is God” is quite reductive, i think it’s meant to be intentionally unclear and open to interpretation what the whale truly represents, because the varied interpretations of reality is an important theme in the book, I’ve heard most convincingly that the whale is representational of ontotheology or the barrier to ontotheology, ie the whale isn’t just God but rather what separates man from God and absolute, certain, divine truth, because the whale is different things to different people, there is no single understanding of what the whale is just as there is no single perfect understanding of the nature of reality because everyone experiences and observed it differently. I think that “The Whiteness of the Whale” is the most important chapter for this interpretation.
>the crows nest/mast head
That chapter is almost certainly a critique of the (at the time) very large trancendentalist movement

[Anonymous No.20094446]

>>20091363
>Retired from acting to raise family
>Mostly avoids public spotlight
Genuinely for her. Better than being a part of a Hollywood.

[Anonymous No.20094588]

The E-book version of Moby Dick I read had been vandalized by a hacker that added a bunch of super boring stuff about cutting up whale meat as a joke

[Anonymous No.20094616]

>>20091709
what if he turns 360 degrees twice?

[Anonymous No.20094636]

>>20091360
ALICE!

[Anonymous No.20094659]

>>20090735
Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, but also American Psycho. Guess which one will influence our future interactions more

[Anonymous No.20094704]

>>20091360
uooooooooooohhhhh

[Anonymous No.20094709]

>>20090735
>My favorite book, m'lady? Why, that would be Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West by Comac McCarthy of course.
> What is it about? To put it simply, it's about a group of mercenaries in the 1800's who indescrimately rape, kill and, scalp Native Americans and Mexicans. The main villan is also a pedophile who worships war as God.
>I assure you ma'am that my mental health is perfectly fine, and I am not a danger to society. This novel is very deep, and I suggest you should read it as well.

[Anonymous No.20094751]

>>20090735
Your diary desu

[Anonymous No.20094793]

>>20090735
Tampa by Alyssa Nutting. Lolita is a book about a male pedophile written by some Russian dude and its a literary MASTERPIECE. He never DIRECTLY writes about the sex. It's just a book about going on hard hikes, swinging back and forth, and wet caves.
But Alyssa wrote a fucking SMUT NOVEL. She wrote about a female pedophile and just went for it and its fucking disgusting. The russian dude at least had some class.. This girl vividly describes the taste of her 14 year old boyfriends cum, how she loves top think about him while having sex with her husband, and the whole book reads like that. cover to cover.

[Anonymous No.20094797]

>>20091867
But faggots on the internet told me that getting a girlfriend isn't a big deal and makes no difference.

[Anonymous No.20094816]

>>20090735
I don't really have a favorite book to be completly honest with you, do you have one? I am reading an interesting one lately it's a compilation of julius caesar writings little bit heavy history books but i like it. So what about you? :)

[Anonymous No.20094851]

>>20094793
Unironically, it is ok for an adult woman to fuck an underage male.

[Anonymous No.20094852]

>>20094816
Least autistic reply in the thread. Good job anon

[Anonymous No.20094859]

>>20094852
no anon
it's the most autistic one because it answered the question sincerely

[Anonymous No.20094868]

>>20094859
>>20094852
Am i autistic or not then? :'(

[Anonymous No.20094873]

>>20094868
you are. very.

[Anonymous No.20094875]

>>20094873
Oh too bad

[Anonymous No.20094879]

btw i havent read a book in years. im just browsing this board and think you're autistic based off that post alone

[Anonymous No.20094881]

>>20090735
I nonly read my own writing

[Anonymous No.20094883]

>>20090735
>Anything by Houellebecq, his view on women mirrors mine exactly

[Anonymous No.20094886]

>>20094879
Nobody reads around here anyway don't worry.

[Anonymous No.20094888]

>>20094816
is she supposed to woon at how a learned scholar reads the classics? Most autistic response..

At least say something that will make her equal parts cringe and get wet not just cringe

[Anonymous No.20094900]

>>20094888
I say the truth and almost certain she won't like it or ask about it so we can talk about her instead that's the idea.

[Anonymous No.20094959]

I say The Alchemist, bitches love The Alchemist.
>It's about finding your dreams and living your truth and trusting the universe

[Anonymous No.20095021]

>>20091360
I like her. I want to fuck her. God, make it happen.

[Anonymous No.20095062]

>>20094078
Yes, it is very good. The book of laughter and forgetting is a better first read though. Lightness gets praise because it follows 4 characters closely which plot fags need to feel like a novel is worth their time.

[Anonymous No.20095221]

>>20091824
kys

[Anonymous No.20095232]

>>20093720
newfag

[Anonymous No.20095237]

>>20091867
>needs a gf to start showering
>needs a gf to start lifting
this relationship isn't gonna last when she realizes what a failure you are in reality

[Anonymous No.20095281]

>>20094900
If you're going to go that route.. use poetry

"I like to read for school mostly, but sometimes I read for PLEASURE"
Maybe talk about the tasteful thickness of the binding.. or how hard the writing is sometimes.. say that you like books where you can just let go and let the author take you into their story without having to think too much

[Anonymous No.20095311]

>>20095281
>tasteful thickness of the binding
let's hear paul allens favorite book

[Anonymous No.20095361]

>>20095311
Paul Allen likes to tie girls up with nylon rope, gag them, and duct tape a vibrator to their thigh before going out to make coffee for breakfast.

[Anonymous No.20095368]

>>20095281
If she's too dumb to see the allusions from that she doesn't interest me. And i really want to know what she's reading it tells a lot about someone.

[Anonymous No.20095385]

>>20095368
Maybe she plays dumb to see what you do next? But Anon, if she's asking you about what YOU like to read then you have to shoot this shot..
Throw her the curve
Go with the allusions and see what comes next from her

[Anonymous No.20095394]

>>20095385
I don't like it, if i'm eating with her at a restaurant there's no way she doesn't understand that i'm at least physically interested in her. The excuse of eating is to ask questions to see if there's something more than it.

[Anonymous No.20095534]

>>20090735
There’s a list of ~20 books I hold close to my heart but Tropic Of Cancer, and The Trial are two books I think about and have reread frequently.

For these types of things best to have a couple mainstream answers ready, but dive into more obscure favorites if she is knowledgeable

[Anonymous No.20095828]

>>20091360
I'm going to Alice.

[Anonymous No.20095882]

>>20095232
>>20091749
newfag

[Anonymous No.20095903]

>>20090735
Is this the Ukrainian xart girl with the perfect pussy ?

[Anonymous No.20095939]

the sailor who fell from grace with the sea

[Anonymous No.20095955]

>>20095882
or are you the newfag?

[Anonymous No.20095975]

>>20091867
Sense of shame. You are being policed by her perception of you (sounds ominous, but there's nothing wrong with that). Plato already covered this in Symposium: the speech of Phaedrus.

[Anonymous No.20096108]

>>20092045
>I just enjoyed the literary boat kino
It apparently used to be a popular gift to give young men as an adventure story so no shame in that anon.

[Anonymous No.20096135]

>>20090735
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

[Anonymous No.20096139]

>>20090735
>Don Quixote, did you know it's the second most printed book after the Bible?
I said this the other day out with someone. I think it worked.

[Anonymous No.20096141]

>>20090735
Your diary desu

[Anonymous No.20096167]

>>20094033
I'll never get tired of these Phenomenology of Spirit memes, I kek every time

[Anonymous No.20096169]

>>20091824
based

[Anonymous No.20096345]

>>20096108
Aw heck yeah

[Anonymous No.20096371]

>>20095534
The Trial??? how the fuck do you reread The Trial. that was literally the most boring book i ever read

[Anonymous No.20096418]

>>20090735
ur acting like this is a situation that would lead to a cringey answer that would turn her off. this might be true, unless, of course, you happen to be physically attractive. the fact is, all of your hobbies look attractive to women as long as ur hot. u fish? if ur hot, it looks manly and rugged. u play pinball? if ur hot, it’s a cute hobby that makes u look playful and fun. ur into fucking D&D and magic the gathering? if ur hot, then you’ll get some points with the girls who say they like “nerdy” guys. reading is no different. if u read, and ur hot, then u seem intellectual and interesting. otherwise, u look like a beta bitch nerd who belongs in the library. women are simple, and it’s remarkable it’s taking u idiots so long to understand this. “the art hoes don’t like me even though i read so much sophisticated literature!!” u might say. have u considered the fact that ur repulsive physical appearance simply poisons any activity that u take part in? there is nothing more pathetic than a pale pimply faced fatass reading Kant, as if hoes, even the purported “artsy” hoes, are going to give a flying fuck that u know what the categorical imperative is. A hot guy reading Kant? the art hoes will cream their pants over how interesting and intellectual you are.

[Anonymous No.20096448]

>>20092239
> Oh I think I've heard of Tolstoy. I actually have a book of his I've been meaning to read. I think it's called... "The Kreutzer Sonata"... I'll read it before our next date!

[Anonymous No.20096451]

>>20096418
unironically this
I had more girls pay attention to me when I was in a relationship than when I wasn't in a relationship, even if I was by myself out in public. I groomed myself more, payed more attention to my physical appearance, did face masks/start a skincare routine, bought new clothes etc., and surprise surprise, women were paying more attention to me than ever.
Women will notice the small details, so if you work on those small details she'll think highly of you.

[Anonymous No.20096532]

>>20092055
>you were very lucky to have a supportive mother
I know, I was extra lucky that the last year of her life I happened to be staying with her after university while I applied for later courses and got work experience, I don’t feel there was anything really left unsaid, and I made the most of the time I had with her, we didn’t miss out on each other’s company even though her time was much shorter than she deserved. I know she knew how much I loved her and how much I appreciated her,

[Anonymous No.20096560]

>>20096371
I’ve always had a thing for books like Moby Dick, Hunger and The Trial where the text can be read straight or metaphorically. They become biblical at times. I also hate Kafka when I first read him

[Anonymous No.20096706]

brothers karamasov, if she asked me why i wouldn't know what to say

[Anonymous No.20096871]

My recent favorite is Piranesi, so that's my goto whenever someone asks. It's about a guy trapped in a seemingly infinite mansion with a lower floor partially sunk in the ocean, a crumbling top floor, and filled with statues all over.

[Anonymous No.20096955]

>>20096706
Same.

[Anonymous No.20096957]

>>20093176
Junger hated nazis.

[Anonymous No.20096966]

>yea well probably rupi kaur or something.

pic related, its me

[Anonymous No.20097002]

>>20091932
Wrong

[Anonymous No.20097029]

>>20090735
I don't have one. I don't read for pleasure, I read to know. Having a favorite book would be like having a favorite Euclidean axiom or a favorite kind of cancer. In fact when I read I usually feel boredom, anger, or sadness, healthy human emotions when confronted with the truth.

[Anonymous No.20097168]

>>20090735
I would tell you, but you're a woman and unfortunately women just don't understand the aesthetics of armed conflict.

[Anonymous No.20097182]

>>20090735
Don't repeat words so often you stupid whore

[Anonymous No.20097240]

>>20090735
"Ah, I always find "favorite" questions hard to answer. There's no one book that does everything for me, but some of my favorites are catch-22 and the catcher in the rye (anything with catch in it, actually)"

[Anonymous No.20097320]

>>20096167

[Anonymous No.20097400]

>>20090735
She's so hot, OP. Imagine her underdeveloped, freckled little chicken legs forced wide for the pulsating mass of coal that will ingratiate itself into her, morph and twist her innocence into bestial lust, her pale as Snow supple pussy swallowing that black steaming rod whole and clinging to it like a bitch in heat as some hulking ebony mastiff mates and deflowers her. Imagine her little face, so innocent, cursing and screaming for a harder pummelling and rutting from her tribal dominators, as their thick black mass erupts it’s primal seed into her crimson pure pale genetic womb, staining that perfect little lineage, forever marking generations of delicate white lily flowers with steaming ape spunk, imagine her sweating and screaming as those child-like hips birth a half-black child, forever staking the black man’s claim to her lineage.

[Anonymous No.20097434]

>20091715
No

[Anonymous No.20097441]

>>20094033
Attaining the Absolute starts with breeding lots of little sub-archons for the machine, as per Hegel's Philosophie der Geschichte.

[Anonymous No.20097478]

>>20092041
What you wrote here is better known as teen angst verbalised. If someone asks a simple question, it is absolutely not neccessary to prove how complex an individual you are, because I can assure you they won't really care. Just pick a fucking book, everyone is in the same boat when it comes to favourite things.

[Anonymous No.20097482]

The gods themselves - Asimov

[Anonymous No.20097602]

>>20097400
>I'm a worthless, sissy faggot
Everyone who has ever crossed paths with you knows this.

[Anonymous No.20097642]

>>20090735
Uhh well I just finished reading Ishmael, which is about a talking gorilla. You should definitely give it a crack. Just imagine what a gorilla would think of the world from his perspective :)

[Anonymous No.20097662]

The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra

[Anonymous No.20097671]

>>20092045
>Moby Dick filtered me hard but I just enjoyed the literary boat kino so I dont care.
The literary boat kino is why Moby Dick is a timeless masterpiece. All the POONDERING is there only to give boat kino some place to breathe.

People who read Moby Dick for "Captain's mates as a discussion on the abrahamic family hierarchy and conflict" or "the existential dread of Rachel's search" are the ones who got really filtered,

<90 IQ:
>"Truly Ahab represents the human defiance in the face of eternal~"
>120 IQ:
>"Man I'd love to have a fresh whale steak with Mister Stubb and the boys, how is it all so magnificently comfy?"

[Anonymous No.20097799]

So there’s this book called “100 ways to punch a bitch in the skull” that I’m really into, want me to show you some tricks I learned from it?

[Anonymous No.20097817]

>>20097671
The literary cetology was unironically my favorite part of the book.
For those you like it I can only recommend the Natural History of Buffon which is somewhat in the same vein but 200 times longer and covers hundreds of animals, with lots of illustrations.

[Anonymous No.20097849]

>>20090735
Norwegian Wood

[Anonymous No.20097869]

>>20097671
You’re meant to read it as both and enjoy both, the book is about the limit of human comprehension and how perspective varies too much for absolute truth, which is WHY being comfy is what truly matters, that’s why Ishmael and Queequeg’s friendship is so positive, it’s not interrogative

[Anonymous No.20097911]

>>20097671
>things in a book having meanin is... Le BAD!
I fucking hate postmodern sentimentalism

[Anonymous No.20097964]

>>20090735
My Idea of Fun by Will Self

[Anonymous No.20097991]

>>20095237
virgin hands

[Anonymous No.20098009]

>>20090735
Fanged noumena. I am a neo luddite primitivist by the way. Im not fred flintstone, but i can make your bed rock

[Anonymous No.20098139]

Your mother diary.

[Anonymous No.20098277]

>>20097991
cringe
if this guy actually needed to get a gf to realize he needs to start fucking showering every day, he is a failure in life. No debate. It also means that he is likely a disgusting pig in other areas of life. She will realize it quickly.

[Anonymous No.20098686]

>>20097029
>his favorite cancer isn't pancreatic

[Anonymous No.20098810]

>>20094709

[Anonymous No.20099548]

>>20094883
but they say his newest book is full of optimism cause he found love. he changed, bros. I havent read it tho, maybe the review lied. Did it?

[Anonymous No.20099760]

>>20094868
yes.

[Anonymous No.20099925]

>>20090735
my diary desu

[Anonymous No.20100260]

>>20090735
Plato's Republic

[Anonymous No.20100314]

>>20091709
I can’t tell

[Anonymous No.20100341]

>>20090735
You wouldn't even understand the title, even if I told it.

[Anonymous No.20100410]

>>20090735
De insomniis by Synesius of Cyrene is the most based and redpilled book I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.20100620]

>>20094328
good post

[Anonymous No.20101097]

>>20092002
good post

[Anonymous No.20101523]

>>20091673
She’s a cold and distant woman. I know she loves me, and I love her, but I do wish she was kinder.