/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6439490]

Has a book ever blown your mind? The type of book that you finish and sit and think, "holy shit". The type of book that changes your perception.
>pic unrelated

[Anonymous No.6439511]

Every Nietzsche book. Every single one I read

[Anonymous No.6439516]

>>6439490
probably like 25-50% of all the books I've ever read?

[Anonymous No.6439541]

There are a series of books called trilogies (4 books BTW). Trilogy of Knowledge is written by a romanian philosopher , Lucian Blaga.

The thing is he managed to explain how cultures gained their identities and used linguistics to exemplify. Kinda like Wittgenstein.

It basically introduced me to philosophy.

It was porn that introduced me to 4chan.

[Anonymous No.6439542]

>>6439516
>>6439511
pleb detected

[Anonymous No.6439545]

When I read Where the Red Fern Grows as a kid, it made me love my dogs exponentially more.

>you will never wander the Ozarks with your best fuzzy friends
>you will never outwit coons and triumph over danger on a regular occurence
>you will never enter the biggest coon hunt in the Ozarks and fuck up those little shits with your birdshot before sending in your dogs to murder the fuck out of it

Almost feels bad

[Anonymous No.6439586]

>>6439490
A handful of Don DeLillo books, Blood Meridian, Foucault's Madness and Civilization

[Anonymous No.6439593]

Yes.

I don't want to talk about it.

[Anonymous No.6439595]

>>6439490

OK. Historically the stuff that’s sort of rung my cherries: Socrates’ funeral oration, the poetry of John Donne, the poetry of Richard Crashaw, every once in a while Shakespeare, although not all that often, Keats’ shorter stuff, Schopenhauer, Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy and Discourse on Method, Kant’s Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic, although the translations are all terrible, William James’ Varieties of Religious Experience, Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Hemingway—particularly the ital stuff in In Our Time, where you just go oomph!, Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, A.S. Byatt, Cynthia Ozick—the stories, especially one called “Levitations,” about 25 percent of the time Pynchon. Donald Barthelme, especially a story called “The Balloon,” which is the first story I ever read that made me want to be a writer, Tobias Wolff, Raymond Carver’s best stuff — the really famous stuff. Steinbeck when he’s not beating his drum, 35 percent of Stephen Crane, Moby-Dick, The Great Gatsby.
And, my God, there’s poetry. Probably Phillip Larkin more than anyone else, Louise Glück, Auden.

[Anonymous No.6439596]

Walden.

[Anonymous No.6439599]

>>6439511
That's sad.

[Anonymous No.6439611]

>>6439596
Although I think he should have taken his own advice and cut all of the unnecessary nonsense from the book the first and last chapters are among the best things I've ever read.

No, Henry, I don't want to read about your beans and string and rocks.

I have to say, the line "Superfluous income can only lead to superfluities" was like a slap across the face. I have a lot of disposable income and buy shit for the sake of buying it a lot of the time but after finishing it I sold lots of my stuff and tried to cut it back to the bare minimum. I feel so much better for it.

[Anonymous No.6439619]

>>6439596
Guys seriously, Walden a Shit. 'you don't need nuffin to have a life of meaning' is not profound, and Thoreau is the most self-important writer in the western canon

[Anonymous No.6439620]

>>6439490
>immigrate to us as teenager, become citizen
>don't fit in. finish high school.
>decide to join military in mid-2000s so i can volunteer for point man as suicide strategy (or as a way of getting shocked out of this state)
>get signed up (w/o knowing by mom to community college.
>mom is wiz with finances and paperwork
>find out I'd get hella free money going to school
>decide to do that for a couple of years then go to original plan
>fail every class first year
>second year take intro to phil
>read tsz for class
>read bge, gs, gm, ti, eh on my own
>life changes
>declare phil major
>all As
>transfer to uni...all As
>decide to go to grad school after bachelor's in philosophy because realize there's no big philosophy factory i can go to after college
>a year or two from phd

[Anonymous No.6439717]

>>6439619
It doesn't have to be profound, just meaningful to the reader. As the movie Ratatouille explained, everyone can cook, as in, a chef can come frome any place. So are ideas and reasoning. They can come from the least expected place, in this case, a book.

[Anonymous No.6439750]

>>6439619

Have you even read Walden?

[Anonymous No.6439751]

>>6439717
wowee.
>Twilight was profound to me you can't say it wasn't what's good to me is good to me its a great work of art

[Anonymous No.6439756]

>>6439490
"Thus spoke Zaratustra" and "The Sublime Object of Ideology" by Zizek, not even kidding. Also, some shit from Burroughs.

[Anonymous No.6439767]

>>6439750
Yes. Throughout 300 odd pages Thoreau ruminates on how he wakes up early to contemplate the world while Joe Schmo in the town works feverishly night and day to make ends meet which Thoreau deems to be superfluous. He talks about building his shitty home for a couple bucks in the woods and having visitors there every now and then. He goes into detail about his crop sowing efforts for the bulk of the book, and then at the end discusses how everything is cyclical and transient and other featherbrained illuminations. It doesn't belong in the canon whatsoever, imo

[Anonymous No.6439771]

>>6439756
Zizek didn't write Thus Spoke Zarathustra you stupid pleb

[Anonymous No.6439777]

>>6439771
>>6439771
Sorry, I meant "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Nietzsche and the other one by Zizek.

[Anonymous No.6439783]

>>6439490
The Stranger really got me. Made me feel an emotion that I didn't know I had.

[Anonymous No.6439787]

>>6439767

I think you misunderstood that book-- a lot.

[Anonymous No.6439791]

>>6439751
Sounds butthurtish from you, but basically yes. It doesn't make Twilight a good book objectively. Objectiveness is just colective agreement.

[Anonymous No.6439822]

>>6439787
What is your interpretation of its importance, and how did I 'misunderstand' the book? It is a pretty easy read. We might have different opinions on Thoreau's worth as a writer, but that in no way represents a misunderstanding, which implies an absolution of interpretation

[Anonymous No.6439830]

>>6439822

I'm retired from arguing on 4chan, sorry. Doctor's orders. Blood pressure, you see.

[Anonymous No.6439840]

>>6439830
You should go live near a pond in the woods, you know, for blood pressure.

[Anonymous No.6439844]

>>6439840

Thank you for the advice. I think it would be nice. I've been reading Walden outside lately, enjoying the Spring weather. It's been good.

You have a nice day.

[Anonymous No.6439863]

>>6439791
stfu you moron - kill yourself with fire

>hurr durr use me i use wrong word incorecctly with authority but my dad fucked me
retard

[Anonymous No.6440119]

>>6439490

Critique of Pure Reason.

You don't have to accept it as true, but Kant's aim is to revolutionize the way you think about your mind and its relation to both the external world and to your everyday sense of inner self.

[Anonymous No.6440169]

>>6439490
Gravity's Rainbow.
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
The Theatetus

Also Notes from Underground but that was a long time ago in high school. Still think it's great novel though.

[Anonymous No.6440189]

Invisible Cities

There were a few particular poems which after reading I actually had to put the book down and just think.

[Anonymous No.6440247]

Lanark by Alasdair Gray. The book kind of cannibalizes itself towards the end. Like he outs himself as a plagiarist and shows the quotes in the margins. Weird shit

[Anonymous No.6440321]

>>6439516
Gullible much?

[Anonymous No.6440326]

The Art of Facefucking by Nacho Vidal

[Anonymous No.6440343]

The first book I read for fun, anthem by ayn rand. I literally went to the book store to find the smallest book possible.

Now I'm a libertarian

[Anonymous No.6440357]

>>6440119
I found CoPR to be somewhat basic. Yeah, the categories are a complex element, but in the end is he really saying anything other than "the mind shapes the world?" And hasn't this been fairly well-absorbed today.

[Anonymous No.6440363]

Tools for Conviviality, and Deschooling Society, both by Ivan Illich

[Anonymous No.6440459]

I was very fond of much of Wittgensteins Tractatus.
I read that before most of my mathematical logic stuff (I'm a PhD in physics theory, I should also be able to answer your formal logic question, if you have some.)

[Anonymous No.6440463]

>>6439490
Deleuze and Guttari's A thousand Plateaus

>mfw I have transcended dialectical thinking and begun to think outwardly, from the middle, in all and every possible direction and intersection

[Anonymous No.6440497]

The hunger games.

Like, the games is real life because teens are oppressed by the government and dictators rule the western world i can't believe people don't realise this that often wtf wake up sheeple

[Anonymous No.6440551]

>>6440459
Okay, I'm unclear about "conditional proofs" in logic.

1. I have a proposition, A. I don't know whether A is true or false.

2. Another proposition, B, has been demonstrated or proved to be true. The proof of B is independent of A.

3. Let's say I construct another proof for B, one which depends on A being true.

Does this prove A to be true? Is this an example of conditional proof?

[Anonymous No.6440555]

This fucker broke his shit off inside me.

I have never recovered my euphoria.

[Anonymous No.6440560]

>>6440463
Does this require a lot of background reading? Some have told me it does and others have said just to dive right in and have fun.

[Anonymous No.6440585]

[Anonymous No.6440598]

>>6440560
you should understand somewhat the metaphysics and macro-narrative of post-modernism first (which at first seem counter-intuitive in light of its claims of failing macro-narratives and the breakdown of metaphysics) especially in relation to modernism.

[Anonymous No.6440662]

>>6439863
I'm sorry to hear that your father abused you sexually. I won't kill myself with fire, but thanks for the tip.

[Anonymous No.6440669]

>>6440585
This fucker is a socialist.

[Anonymous No.6440702]

Metaphors We Live By

[Anonymous No.6440730]

>>6440585
In HS I took a course entitled "Philosophy and Literature", in which we read Friedman and watched The Matrix.

[Anonymous No.6440741]

>>6440669
what

[Anonymous No.6440746]

>>6439490
I would let that girl blow on my dick if you know what i mean.

[Anonymous No.6440831]

>>6439490
Yeah.
Glad I didn't read it too young though, I think it would have destroyed me.

[Anonymous No.6440850]

Céline's Journey to the End of Night

Felt like absolute shit for over a week, not kidding.

[Anonymous No.6440864]

>>6439490
Lot 49

[Anonymous No.6440866]

>>6440831
>>6440850
I felt like total shit for like three months after reading that book, god fucking damn.

[Anonymous No.6440879]

>>6440866
There is a certain resilience that comes from reading Celine though, in my opinion.
A desire to escape material, intellectual and emotional misery at all cost through effort. Celine himself became an extremely hard worker, he wrote thousands and thousands of pages in the process of making novels with only a few hundred.

[Anonymous No.6440886]

>>6440866
Try out >>6439593
I failed three classes because of it.

[Anonymous No.6440930]

>>6439593
>>6440886
Damn, sounds good. Gonna start reading it today, and sharing with my fellow anons:

>kristof-agota--the-notebook-the-proof-the-third-lie-three-novels.epub
>a.pomf.se/knkxha.epub

[Anonymous No.6440933]

>>6440357

Basic? Only if you distill it to a totally bare summary, and leave out all the richness and overwhelming intricacy. The thesis that "the human mind shapes the world" might seem commonplace today, but A) this is due in large part to Kant's influence, and B) I don't think it's held today to nearly the depth Kant argues for it; you get plenty of people who accept that the experience of colors is due to the way our retinal cells process light rather the colors inhering in objects - you'll get fewer people who accept that eyes are only appearances rather than things in themselves because space and time don't exist independently of human minds.

[Anonymous No.6440945]

>>6440930
It hits hard. Surprised it isn't talked about more here because it's not only the best war novel that isn't preachy or even about war itself, it's also the best book I've ever read written by a woman and possibly one of the best books ever. It hit so hard I went a bit numb to it all about halfway through the first book and it set the mood for the rest.

[Anonymous No.6440953]

Jean Valjean is too good of a person. You can't read his story without looking a little differently on how you treat people or the decisions you make in life.

[Anonymous No.6440990]

>>6440945
>>6440945
woah, mama! Sounds like fun.

[Anonymous No.6441021]

>>6439717
>As the movie Ratatouille explained
>everyone can cook
I mean, except for that skinny protagonist who had to outsource all of his muscle control to vermin.

[Anonymous No.6441055]

>>6440953
>You can't read his story without looking a little differently on how you treat people or the decisions you make in life.

>interact with no one
>subside on ~20 dollars a month

Checkmate Jean

[Anonymous No.6441099]

>>6440945
IMHO first book was much more enjoyable than the second and the third - the first one felt the most like a dark "weird" fairy tale. Hard to describe, it gave off such a strange and unique vibe.

[Anonymous No.6441116]

>>6441055

Yes, but do you have a qt adopted daughter who you're also sexually attracted to but don't act out on those impulses because they're immoral and whom you show nothing but selfless fatherly love to?

[Anonymous No.6441121]

>>6439595
Can't be arsed to check, but is this DFW copy pasta?

[Anonymous No.6441131]

>>6439511
How's school going?

[Anonymous No.6441133]

>>6441099
I thought the second had some of the best moments in a more fever dream sense. They felt more real and powerful. I liked the feel of the first, but the second and third is where the oppressive weight really bears down. The third is just pure postmodernism and gave me a bit of a mindfuck. It's hard to compare because they are so different in style and purpose.

[Anonymous No.6441142]

>>6441116
No, I'm Woody Allen, I go for that sweet adopted pussy

[Anonymous No.6441151]

>>6441121
no, it's literally quoted DFW

[Anonymous No.6441158]

>>6441151
>>6441121
that is, yes. yes it is.

copy-pasta has different connotations that made me respond incorrectly. possibly.

[Anonymous No.6441216]

>>6440930
I have a question because I am pleb. I try to open these links with notepad or wordpad but not work, help? Also sorry but I don't speak english well, reading english is ok for me

[Anonymous No.6441268]

>>6441216
Download Calibre.

[Anonymous No.6441277]

>>6441268
thank you

[Anonymous No.6441278]

>>6441142
This is what I don't understand, she is so fucking ugly! I mean the only way that makes sense is if she has some sort of asian mind control over woody. If he really wants to fuck his daughter just adopt some hot 17 year old asian girl, why this fucking goblin.

[Anonymous No.6441290]

>>6441216
>>6441216
Tranquilo, fiera, yo te ayudo.

>kristof-agota--the-notebook-the-proof-the-third-lie-three-novels.epub
>a.pomf.se/knkxha.epub

The first line is just a description of what the link is. The second line is the link, just take out the ">" and copy that into your browser, and it will download a file, in this case, an epub.

You will need calibre, like >>6441268 said. With Calibre you can open and read the file, convert it to a mobi for your kindle or whatever, or you can just put the epub on your nook or whatever.

je suis ici pour t'aider

[Anonymous No.6441300]

>>6439783
What emotion is that, friend? It's sitting on my shelf, but I haven't read it yet

[Anonymous No.6441306]

>>6441278
You're asking why a neurotic pervert from a race of neurotic perverts would do what he does. Maybe they have really stimulating conversations, or she's really dumb and appeals to his teacher fetish without ever getting to the point where she can show him up like every other woman in his movies.

[Anonymous No.6441320]

>>6439599
>>6439542
>>6441131
>i read zarathustra's prologue once lol so edgy no substance dfw is better

[Anonymous No.6441324]

>>6439490
The Dialectical Biologist. It makes you think about natural and human history in a completely fresh light. The authors are dedicated Marxists so /lit/ should love it.

[Anonymous No.6441365]

Philosophy in the tragic age of the greeks - neechi
Street of Crocodiles - Bruno Schulz
L'Abbe C - Georges Bataille
Archive Fever - Jacques Derrida
Ulysses - J.J.
Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon

[Anonymous No.6441370]

>>6441021
I explained what they meant with that, even the movie explains it. Did you not watch it?

[Anonymous No.6441380]

>>6441300
Probably the emotion you feel when reading a book that's been sitting on your shelf for years.

[Anonymous No.6441386]

>>6439620
i feel like this is the most genuine reason for finishing a phil major or just attempting one.

care to give a good book for CC guy whos debating his major?( im being sincere )

[Anonymous No.6441389]

>>6439490
Not really a book, but the Zeno and Parmenides section from Penguin's collection of early Greek Philosophy kind of blew my mind when I read it a few years ago. I never even thought to be so skeptical of observed experience, and how maybe what he observe could be false. The proof against movement with the arrow was particularly interesting.

[Anonymous No.6441476]

There was a book by a Slovenian author Dusan Rutar called The Matrix Forever that I tried to read when I was fifteen or so. It's an analysis of The Matrix trilogy using concepts and ideas from philosophers such as Plato, Deleuze, Guattari, Derrida and so forth. I didn't understand much of it back then, but I was very fascinated and it got me interested into philosophy.

Then there was this other (also Slovenian) author, Marcel Stefancic, jr. who writes a lot about films and tries to analyse them from an ideological point of view, which is not surprising, considering that Zizek was his mentor. There were two books written by him about The New Hollywood era, which I have read about five times by now.

There's a quote by Zizek about these books, I'll see if I can find it.

[Anonymous No.6442100]

>>6441365
>Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon
This for me. I used to read sci-fi/occational fantasy shit pretty much exclusively. I saw Gravity's Rainbow name dropped in American Gods, googled it and read some description that said it was science fiction.
The next day I bought a copy off the shelf at Borders and started reading, knowing nothing about it except that it was somehow about rockets.
I stayed up up all night and fell asleep reading it until I got a phone call from my father the next morning, telling me to turn on the television and see the WTC coming down.

[Anonymous No.6442190]

>>6442100
Jesus Christ dude
The book was that good

[Anonymous No.6442250]

[Anonymous No.6442338]

>>6439545
Dude my brother just got us a coondog last week. Wtf are you on about this > you will never shit
Go get a goddamn coondog and a gun and do it you shut in

[Anonymous No.6442451]

Иyшeyк Better than going to a Rave

[Anonymous No.6444177]

>>6439490
Who is this semen demon?

[Anonymous No.6444182]

>>6439490
Who is this penis shaft landing craft?

[Anonymous No.6444216]

>>6440831
What would be the best translation for this?

[Anonymous No.6444228]

>>6439863
hahahahahahaha mad

[Anonymous No.6444995]

>>6441365
>Street of Crocodiles - Bruno Schulz
this book absolutely took me by surprise

[Anonymous No.6445068]

>>6440702
Elaborate please. It's om my shelf for some reason.

[Anonymous No.6445113]

A lot, but just these last months:
Beyond nature and culture -philippe Descola
How forests think - Eduardo Kohn

Mind bending books imo

[Anonymous No.6445276]

Pessoa's "The Anarchist Banker"
It's a cool little book, takes you one afternoon.

It's a total logical mess, keeps you on the edge all the time trying to find the flaw. Once you find it it's very rewarding and definitely interesting. It was wonderfully translated to Spanish (my mother language), it perhaps gets sloppy in English. Not a mindfuck per se, but it got very close to it for younger me.

[Anonymous No.6445502]

>>6445276
Bump, I want to see if anyone read it.
How long do threads last here? I'm not very often in this board.

[Anonymous No.6445547]

>>6440189
Man, that's my favourite book. It's just so beautiful

[Anonymous No.6445910]

>>6441476
>reading slovenian commies

top kek

[Anonymous No.6446191]

>>6441389
>The proof against movement with the arrow was particularly interesting.

No. That "proof" is only compelling if you don't know about sums of infinite series.

1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + ... = 1

>b-but it never actually equals 1, it just gets infinitely close...
No. It equals 1.

[Anonymous No.6446222]

>>6445276
I enjoyed The Book of Disquiet, very intimate read. I'll have to check this out. Thanks, anon.

[Anonymous No.6446271]

>>6446191
That's being a bit unfair, I think you can easily excuse away the Greeks by the limited understanding of infinity in a formal context.

But yeah, an infinite, converging, series is a completely valid representation of an integer. The points about observation are still valid.

[Anonymous No.6447632]

>>6445276
Read it and enjoyed it, but I can't really remember the logical flaw though, except that I didn't agree with his idea of liberty. Care to kindle my recollection?

[Anonymous No.6447684]

The Judgment - Kafka

A few of his stories you feel like you're looking at everything above everything, and your frame keeps getting larger.


>>6439593
Huh I started reading that but dropped it.

[Anonymous No.6447849]

>>6440169
>Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
this is a great book but how did it blow your mind?

[Anonymous No.6447980]

I didn't go "holy shit", but ibn Tufeyl's Hay bin Yakzan gave me two ideas that I didn't had before and they are still in effect

[Anonymous No.6448298]

>>6439490
Who is this spunk monk?

[Anonymous No.6448730]

>>6447980
lol arab

[Anonymous No.6448737]

Sociobiology is a pill I wish I could unswallow.

[Anonymous No.6448741]

>>6447980
You read it in Arabic or in translation?

[Anonymous No.6448743]

The Elementary Partcles by Houellebecq

Literally I challenge you to read that book and not think that almost all other literature is effete wankery

[Anonymous No.6448850]

>>6447632
The main logical flaw of the banker was that even though his point of view remained the same and he could be important to the transition, he is and never will be the one who pushes aforementioned transition to anarchy, making his whole viewpoints irrelevant

At least that's how I interpreted the flaw. His idea of liberty can be something to talk about, but it didn't matter to me in the context. I interpreted the text as an enclosed political viewpoint with logical pillars that sustain it.

I hope I made myself clear, I'm not a native speaker and that's probably the reason I don't frequent this board so much.

[Anonymous No.6448932]

>>6448850
That's clear, no worries, and I agree too. But I must say that I didn't find that to be so much a logical flaw as a moral one. He acted as an anarchist (within the boundaries of his interpretation) regardless of whether society did or not.

[Anonymous No.6448976]

>>6448932
I see, I never thought about it in that way. What I saw is that in order to make his moral stands matter, he had to make an inductive reasoning and trace it back to justify him being a fucking banker.
The flaw Pessoa's pointing indirectly at is that no matter how you think, if you are not being a proponent of your ideology, you might as well do whatever you want whiting your social system.
Thanks for the insight, now I think I'm going to read it again, read it a couple of years ago, so I wouldn't hurt.

What we all agree is that Pessoa is subtle in the best kind of way, his prose works like clockwork.

[Anonymous No.6449015]

>>6439490
Emile Zola's Germinal

It's an absolutely beautiful story, but utterly tragic. When I finished it it had me teary-eyed for days.

[Anonymous No.6449091]

Brave New World finally made me realize what a disgusting waste of time it is to sit around consuming easy-to-digest digital entertainment and to focus on selfish escapism.

This would be a useful lesson to most people. Unfortunately, I think I would have been better off not reading BNW. I went on to read Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman and The Shallows by Nicholas Carr. It's starting to kill my desire to be creative and draw anything, let alone start on a graphic novel, because I can't stop worrying that anything I create will just be another drop in an ocean of pointless distractions.

[Anonymous No.6449234]

>>6447849
It gave a me a better understanding of his philosophy, and I've loved Tolstoy since I was a young boy so it was a sort of "mind blowing" sensation to see this great man reflecting over Tolstoy's philosophy as well. Wittgenstein had a lot of personal struggles that I could relate to, though not as severe. There was no single line or chapter that was like "wooow" but the book as whole made me think a lot about a lot of things.

[Anonymous No.6449282]

>>6441021
10/10

[Anonymous No.6449388]

>>6449091
>Brave New World finally made me realize what a disgusting waste of time it is to sit around consuming easy-to-digest digital entertainment and to focus on selfish escapism.

You're on 4chan, though.

[Anonymous No.6449486]

>>6449388
Yes, I know. I'm still addicted to 4chan, even though I know it is as pointless as it is harmful to my attention span, and so to my ability to read longer texts.

I've moved away from the content belonging to /v/, /co/, and the last step would be to escape 4chan altogether.

I frequently plan to do this and then I remember that my social life has collapsed and that my only contacts online are people who browse play video games and/or browse /v/ and /co/. I don't have any full-time work to keep me away from 4chan, and I can't discuss any of this with anyone.

[Anonymous No.6449511]

>>6440669
2/10

[Anonymous No.6449629]

>>6449091

distractions from what, cockstain?

don't have a good answer, do you? fucking moron, I hope you faggot, impotent father shoots you in your sleep

[Anonymous No.6449678]

>>6439620
that's a really cool story tho

[Anonymous No.6449731]

>>6449629
Distraction from doing something sophisticated, engaging or even educational? Like, say, reading fucking literature?

I'm not even being original. My post is just "oh god why am I here bickering X topic on 4chan instead of reading Y" in a slightly different form. If you took the two seconds out of your life to google the book titles mentioned in my post it might start to dawn on you that the distractions posed by modern media are not just eating away your time but actually damaging your ability to focus to the point that you can hardly skim across a wikipedia article anymore without losing your train of thought. As concluded not just by media critics but also by neuroscientists. It is happening to you, every time you read a short little post on 4chan. And you don't have a solution. And you don't intend to close your browser and read something important in a long text because you don't know how to absorb that information anymore. And you will go right back to the catalog and look for the next SJW vs anti-SJW thread so you can argue over the flavor of your entertainment and the extent of your comfort zone, in the ultimate bikeshedding pissing contest, maggot-like deltas fighting over a little black box of soma, because you don't even know what's important anymore and what you should be arguing about. When you realize just how much time you've wasted it will be too late. Run away, son. Go outside.

[Anonymous No.6449742]

John Gardner's Grendel. Even though the monster has a sympathetic backstory doesn't make him right.

[Anonymous No.6449749]

>>6449731
>Run away, son. Go outside.

And do what?

Serious question

[Anonymous No.6449750]

>>6439490
House of Leaves.
Haters can come hate.

[Anonymous No.6449761]

>>6440886
>I failed three classes because of it.
I thought I was the only one.

[Anonymous No.6449839]

>>6449486
You're fucking stupid.

[Anonymous No.6450062]

>>6445910
>not reading authors of all persuasions and beliefs to get a balanced worldview

I'm lmaoing at your life.

[Anonymous No.6450077]

Crime and punishment. The best reading for anyone who believes they are inherently above other people.

[Anonymous No.6450153]

>>6449839
Probably we're stupid because of 4chan.

Think about it.