/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20956480]

Favorite anime: Neon Genesis Evangelion
Favorite cartoon: Bojack Horseman
Favorite album: In Rainbows
Favorite movie: Blade Runner 2049
Favorite video game: Dishonored 1

What book should I read based on that?

[Anonymous No.20956541]

suicide for dummies

[Anonymous No.20956544]

>>20956480

[Anonymous No.20956551]

>>20956480
>>20956544
Image didn't attach for some reason.

[Anonymous No.20956606]

Mortal Engines, Percy Jackson, maybe Harry Potter. Any YA property popular in the 00s should suit your normiecore taste

[Anonymous No.20956618]

>>20956480
That's a Ready Player One reader

[Anonymous No.20956633]

>>20956480
Hegel. If you've watched Evangelion you will already understand most of the concepts so it might be a waste of time. Just skim Phenomenology of Spirit and see if you find anything interesting

[Anonymous No.20956636]

>>20956480
White Nights

[Anonymous No.20956875]

Gravity's Rainbow

[Anonymous No.20957501]

>>20956480
Happy Prince and other Tales by Oscar Wilde

[Anonymous No.20957504]

>>20956480
>>20956633
Evangelion is genuinely a very Guenonian anime when you consider it from a /trad/ standpoint. Anyone who is or has been a weeb and who's also read Reign of Quantity will get me.

[Anonymous No.20957505]

Confessions of a Mask

[Anonymous No.20957552]

>>20956480

The fact that all your "favorite" products were all produced within the same few decades is an indication that your cultural awareness is severely stunted. You need to be aware of your ignorance and you need to consciously open your mind to the fact that for thousands of years people from many different cultural backgrounds have also grappled with the mysteries of experience and have created works of art to express their thoughts and feelings.

Watching cartoons, playing games and consuming mass-market media are perfectly fine as long as you balance these activities out with actual culture and literature. I suggest that you read some Russian literature, such as Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky or a few of Tolstoy's more well-known short stories. These are genuine works of art that are also accessible to wide audiences and ignorant people like yourself. From there, hopefully you will acquire some notion of serious literature. If you don't want you waste your life, it's important to take an interest in things from outside your immediate cultural context.

Or just remain a midwit and read No Longer Human and Blood Meridian and post about them on /lit/ next week.

[Anonymous No.20958156]

>>20957504
>Evangelion is genuinely a very Guenonian anime
Well yeah they're both satanic and intimately tied with Freemasonry.

[Anonymous No.20958165]

>>20957552
Proper advice. It'd be wise to take it, OP.
Might I add that OP ought to gain exposure to classical music from the various periods and do the same with visual art and architecture. It's not even hard.

[Anonymous No.20958410]

>>20956480
You should stop watching cartoons (except for anime) and playing video games. Also start with the Greeks, specifically Iliad & Odyssey.

[Anonymous No.20958838]

>>20957552
You're not that smart

[Anonymous No.20959028]

>>20957552
>heh, like cartoons? try reading a REAL work of art like this little known book "crime and punishment" by dostoevsky. OR, you could just remain ignorant like the sheep you are. the choice is yours.......

[Anonymous No.20959808]

>>20956875
Don't read this.

[Anonymous No.20959918]

>>20959028
Actually Dostojevskij is the right answer OP
>>20956480

[Anonymous No.20960059]

>>20959808
why? It's basically the same as Evangelion

[Anonymous No.20961470]

>>20958165
Midwit here
What else do I need to be well rounded

[Anonymous No.20961483]

>>20961470
Become more skilled at math, and take at least a cursory glance at the history of philosophy and religion. That way you at least will know the names, which is a start.

[Anonymous No.20961504]

>>20961483
Ah fuck I can do the history part but I’m actually retarded when it comes to math. What’s a replacement for it

[Anonymous No.20961519]

>>20956480
2049 is a crap bladerunner movie and the ending makes no sense

[Anonymous No.20961522]

>>20957552
>The fact that all your "favorite" products
I don’t know why this triggered me

They’re not products, I like them, they make me happy when I listen to them, read or watch etc.

[Anonymous No.20961540]

>>20961504
Just watch Khan Academy bro literal sub 80 IQ Indians use it to pass calc, there's no way you're dumber than them.

[Anonymous No.20961562]

>>20961504
you're probably not that bad, you only really need to know everything up to calculus and that's just based off the Real Number axioms...

Anyone can memorize the addition and multiplication tables

[Anonymous No.20961575]

>>20961562
I never got past high school algebra, I’m actually an idiot.
>>20961540
Is there a specific course like online classes or should I just do everything in their math section?

[Anonymous No.20961601]

>>20961575
>Real Number axioms
again, if you know the 10 or so basic axioms you have everything you need to prove everything up to calculus. Just read Lang Basic Math

[Anonymous No.20961606]

>>20956480
I can only yet again complain at the complete lack of coomer bait further into this thread.
I cannot, I can-not stomach Anon's midwit posts if I don't see a hot or fetish bait (hentai in this case) every five or so replies.
You guys don't get how this works.
A coomer bait thread is like reading the playboy, which is like reading a GQ from a few decades ago but with lewd and nude photos. Ideally you'd have an economics and politics magazine with themed models, but people never got that far. Society consumes mostly E rated stuff and that's okay. That is why R rated movies, not even to do with porn but just adult themes and violence, generally flop.
I'm just saying, this isn't society, we don't need to appeal to the reddit crowd. If you think this is degrading go to lgbt to something like that. I dunno.
I will follow this with a fitting picture.

[Anonymous No.20961628]

>>20961606
here

[Anonymous No.20961631]

>>20961601
I don’t but thanks Math bro

[Anonymous No.20961635]

Sure, Anon. [Book] is pretty good, but I consider [other Book] for [the following reason] a better example of [theme] to which [OP's] questions was directed. Not only does [other book] apply more to [quotation of OP] but it is also open to other themes which stand [in relation] to the former. A closed book, a novel by itself, is no matter the stylistic or thematic excellence, the wholeness of the work yet inferior to a book which is not closed. A closed book will have the reader replicate the feelings or only suit a historical interest, while a more open book, which might be less so a perfect novel like [book] is, shines in its own right being relevant not as a time capsule, a tale or literary history, a sort of parody of the historical situation, but as a still living and accessible memory of what generally a good book can be or is throughout time, beyond historical moments. There is real human agency in the latter while the former will only ever be of its time. That doesn't mean either is necessarily better, but if you asked me to name a good book or my favorite book and all I read were such books or you restricted me to naming only classics through our previous conversation and your interest in something traditional and ideological before reading "a good book" just generally, I would have to name a dozen or so books depending on the decade or theme. The person asking would then force himself to read this [good book] and maybe grow tired of it because it is culturally or historically inaccessible to him, and would be extension think it not only a bad book, but books of that period or the classics in general to be bad or boring or no longer "relevant", whatever that means.

[Anonymous No.20961653]

>>20961631
Axioms are by definition intuitive truths, all you need to do is memorize them.

[Anonymous No.20961658]

>>20957504
you need to go back, fag.
everything since hegel is either stemming from or in opposition to hegel.
whenever you see a tardy analytic philosopher writing a tirade against some invisible enemy, that enemy is hegel or whatever that anglo believes hegel thought.

[Anonymous No.20961660]

>>20956480
Read Neuromancer

[Anonymous No.20961755]

>>20961660
No

[Anonymous No.20961779]

>>20961658
>hegelians actually believe this
lol
lmao even

[Anonymous No.20961799]

>>20956480
Favorite anime: Full Metal Panic
Favorite cartoon: Archer
Favorite album: Boston by By Boston
Favorite movie: Smokey & the Bandit
Favorite video game: Victoria 2

[Anonymous No.20961814]

>>20961799
Also these aren't really my full on favorites, idk what those are. Here are some other favorites of mine.

Favorite anime: Bunny Girl Senpai
Favorite cartoon: Avatar the Last Airbender
Favorite album: Don't Look Back by By Boston
Favorite movie: Goon
Favorite video game: Pokemon Ruby

[Anonymous No.20961833]

>>20961799
>Archer
Not Frisky Dingo?

[Anonymous No.20961883]

>>20961833
Never watched it. Is it better?

[Anonymous No.20962899]

>>20957552
Excellent post at risk of sounding like a redditor. You give OP what he needs to hear but still engage in his request anyway. More anons should post like you, no homo.

[Anonymous No.20963108]

>>20956480
You should get better taste.

[Anonymous No.20963110]

>>20956480
That's a dude

[Anonymous No.20963113]

>>20963110
No it isn’t, I can tell

[Anonymous No.20963145]

>>20963113
Quit talking to yourself faggot.

[Anonymous No.20963149]

>>20956480
Favorite anime: I'm not a manchild lmao
Favorite cartoon: See answer A
Favorite album: Buyer's Market
Favorite movie: Gayniggers From Outer Space
Favorite video game: Cuckold Simulator

What book should I read based on that?

[Anonymous No.20963154]

>>20963149
>Favorite movie: Gayniggers From Outer Space
Oh shit, based.

[Anonymous No.20963523]

>>20963145
But I’m not

[Anonymous No.20963649]

Favourite Anime: Anime is for retards
Favourite Cartoon: Tom and Jerry
Favorite Album: Spotify Opera Playlist
Favourite Movie: Ratatouille
Favourite Vidya: Video games are for losers The Secret of Monkey Island

[Anonymous No.20964041]

Favourite Anime: Violet Evergarden
Favourite Cartoon: all trash
Favourite Album: Rod Wave - Ghetto Gospel
Favourite Movie: Shawshank Redemption
Favourite Vidya: witcher3

[Anonymous No.20964222]

Idk what the generic middle class white western book is, but that.

[Anonymous No.20965019]

Favorite anime: Berserk (only one I really watched)
Favorite cartoon: I don't know, maybe Shrek?
Favorite album: Dark All Day by Gunship
Favorite movie: Kingdom of Heaven
Favorite video game: Dark Souls 3

Post recs

[Anonymous No.20965025]

>>20956480
>Favorite anime: Neon Genesis Evangelion
based
>Favorite cartoon: Bojack Horseman
based
>Favorite album: In Rainbows
based
>Favorite movie: Blade Runner 2049
idk
>Favorite video game: Dishonored 1
idk

i'd say, for you, either some nietzsche, or gravity's rainbow, or the brothers karamazov

[Anonymous No.20965030]

ok my turn

favourite anime: paranoia agent
favourite cartoon: bojack horseman
favourite album: oh shit wait i forgot thta i don't really have favourites uhhh

[Anonymous No.20965049]

Favourite anime: FMAB
Favourite cartoon: idk? Courage the cowardly dog???
Favourite album: Rust in Peace
Favourite movie: uhh.. Inception?
Favourite video game: POP: Warrior within

[Anonymous No.20965068]

>>20956541
fpbp

[Anonymous No.20965081]

Favourite anime: Great Teacher Onizuka
Favourite cartoon: Spongebob Squarepants
Favourite album: Nonnegative -- Coldrain
Favourite movie: Ratatouille
Favourite video game: Sekiro Shadows Die Twice

based or cuck 4chan, you decide

[Anonymous No.20965169]

>>20965025
>>Favorite cartoon: Bojack Horseman
>based
You have awful taste. Bojack isn't funny. It isn't deep. It's absolute trash and you betray yourself by admitting to liking it.

[Anonymous No.20965174]

>>20956480
Favorite anime: FMAB; NGE...
Favorite cartoon: Futurama
Favorite album: Siames - Home
Favorite movie: Terminator 2
Favorite video game: Final Fantasy 9

Recommendations?

[Anonymous No.20965192]

>>20956480
Catcher in the Rye

[Anonymous No.20965736]

>>20956541
fpbp

[Anonymous No.20965751]

>>20965169
unironically filtered

[Anonymous No.20965764]

>>20961606
>I need this thread to resemble playboy in order to read it
Based beyond belief

[Anonymous No.20965778]

>>20956480
The beast that shouted love at the heart of the world.

[Anonymous No.20965783]

Favorite anime: FLCL, NGE, LotGH
Favorite cartoon: King of the Hill, or Avatar (that shit was kino as a kid)
Favorite album: not really a music guy, but Love Songs and Lamenations or 下田逸郎
Favorite movie: Ran, or Wild Strawberries
Favorite video game: NieR Replicant, or Anno 1404
Favorite play: Julius Caesar
Favorite opera: Rienzi

[Anonymous No.20965787]

>>20956541
fpbp

[Anonymous No.20965803]

>>20965081
>GTO
based

[Anonymous No.20966171]

>>20956541
fpbp

[Anonymous No.20966193]

>>20965751

[Anonymous No.20966738]

>>20956480
I only entered this thread because I cannot resist pictures of that cute russian cosplayer. Beyond a certain point of attractiveness, mere images of pretty girls become more addictive than any exogenous chemical. That is all.

[Anonymous No.20967451]

>>20957552
When you suggest Dostoytard as real literature you just makes your entire comment sound like a joke

[Anonymous No.20967951]

Favorite anime: FLCL
Favorite cartoon: Courage the Cowardly Dog
Favorite album: Barrett by Syd Barrett
Favorite movie: American Graffiti
Favorite video game: Ib

I'm actually already reading Ulysses and I'm liking how comfy and unpretentious it is, which surprises me given that everyone kept saying it was pretentious and complicated. Anyway what book should I read based on that information.