/lit/ - Literature

>>8379753
You hit the nail right on the head. They don't read them.
If you read, let's say, Pynchon, you'll get burnt of his style after one maybe two books and woul like to switch it out to something else like Vonnegut or Bolaño.
Either they aren't reading the books which would explain the effort on making the covers so glossy and shiny, appealling to the eye or they are so void and empty that your brain doesn't even recollect ahving read anything and they can keep going without any type of moral fatigue.
If it's the second then maybe YA is the best for people who actually enjoy reading for reading's shake.

>>8379461
No.
Self Help books must borrow by force ideas of Stoicism/Epicuerism/Christianism/Oriental practicality philosophy like Confucious which are the first ideas that focused on making yourself as an individual better.
Why read a watered down eastern version of the true useful ancient knowledge?
If it doesn't drink from the ancient wisdom fountain then why read that book at all?

Self Help is literally reselling what's already been solved thousands of years ago chewed and simplified. Every generation there will be a new wave of self help books and on and on and on. The only book taht actually improved/adapted the old knowledge into modern times is How to win friends, after that one a shit ton of copycats appeared.
Don't get memed, read the classics.

>>8379647
Ah, I see you are an expert on what is indeed real and, therefore, what is not. Would you be so kind, as I'd love to enrich myself with your wisdom, as to explain to me what is "real" and what is not?

>>8379739
Ofc, as stated, you need to give it time and actually focus on it. I guess this can be applied to every author, Just don't get memed by the "OMG, so scary it's unspeakable! LEL"

>>8379645
Definetly, his poetry is very enjoyable but I don't think it's as relevant as his narrative.

>>8379228
Life is gonna give you shitty situations
You can turn them into opportunities to improve yourself.

>>8379305
There are three approaches to lovecraft that I've discovered by now.
1- Pop culture. After the CoC RPG and the nonstop references from the media you get into Lovecraft because he is really popular in the underground. You read his most famous stories, probably most of them cosmic horror ones which are difficult to completly understand af.
2- Deeper understanding of his work. You start reading his non cosmic horror and start understanding the way he transmits tension and fear to you with his prose. The music of Erich Zann, The Outsider, From Beyond are just but a bunch of examples of not really cosmic heavy horror stories where you feel the tension by his narrating.
3- True understanding of cosmic horror. After Understanding the way he drives fear into you you reread the more heavy stories like The Call of Cthulhu, Cephalaïs, The unnamed city, The dream quest to unknown Kadath and baffle yourself with how little you got of those stories at first. You see the amazing expansive world that this one man created, even bigger and more original than Tolkien's. Then you understand what true cosmic horror is. Lovecraft, as a writer, managed to pass his fear of the unknown, his understanding of what he thought wouldn't be understood. He transmits to you knowledge of unexplainable things and understandment of never thought possibilities with fear, and he does so by diminishing the role of the main character in the world, by surrounding him with things that he, and you as a reader, can't understand but have to face still.

There may be more phases to udnerstanding Lovecraft's work, but this is what I've gathered thus far. Maybe reading his letters would help getting a better grip of his work.

All in all he was a brilliant mind that strived in complete loneliness and despair and he doesn't deserve to be memed like this.

>>8375796
was she a 8/10?

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>>8375684
Ah! I see. And how do you know she hasnt read them by now? How do you know she hadnt read them by the time she posted the video. How are you so certain on others inferiority?

>>8375667
how do you know she hasnt read them?

>>8375647
Yeah because no one here has unread books in their shelves that they bought in a book shopping spree. R-right anons?

>>8373790
I was in Madrid a couple months ago. It's a weird city. Valencia is where is at senpai.

>>8372184
How can you asses that?

>>8371977
You can actually sing "Ya" over and over to the beat of this video. That's what I did anyway. Fuck I wish I was a hunk who read YA and fucked qts.

>>8373811
But Bryson thnks her bookshelve is better than yours

>>8361604
Dystopian novels are the best kind of YA literature.
Its as bad everywhere else. In Spain we don't read the classics, we mostly read YA fanfic form talentless spanish writters with painfully obvious moral statements.
The closest thing to classic spanish literature I've read there was Lazarillo and Don Juan Tenorio.

>>8363501
the worst part of it all was the beta cuckoldery everywhere.
Literally, everyone was being cucked and cucking someone, emotioanlly and sometimes physically. It was awful, specially for the youth whos first love is a filthy open relationship feminist. Its the scourge of the earth I tell you that much.

>>8363508
burned

>>8363248
Spain. It was awful

>>8363182
In my expierence I've got to say communism is soul crushing.
I've been in the movement for 2'5 years, going to demonstrations, doing street stuff with the local communist parrty. Those years have been the worst years of my life. I entered thinking people would be smart marxists, people who really felt passion about what they were doing. Not really. Most of them were angsty teens ohimsodifferent trying to get some pussy and angry independent feminists who need no man but cried everytime their crush fucked another of their independent feminist friends which in turned cried because their crush was fucking the former feminist.
I've got to admit that I believe that communism is humanity endgame but right now it's cancerous. Cultural marxism is awful for ones happines and I do not reccomedn it to anyone, stay away from politics. Don't believe the people saying that everythiung is politics and that if you don't enter into politics people will enter and opress you. Just follow your dreams and passions, and if that passion happens to be politics then great, if not, stay away from them and focus yourselve on traditional values and a simple life. You will be so much happier.

PS: You'd get a lot of pussy tho

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>>8361962
I dont' wanna be that guy but, it depends.
Paperback for when I'm going for a ride or somewhere nice and the book is bound to be damaged, hardcover for when really bug books like anthologies or something like that and when you plan on reading it at home in your comfy ass chair.

I know that's a shitty answer so I'm gonna give you a juicier one. If I could only use one type I would get paperback. I find it more practical and less stresful to read since you are not worrying about damaging the beautiful 70 bucks edition of Atlas Shrugged

>>8360958
I smoke once or twice a week at most. I like the feeling of dizzines and it also allows me to stop and just reflect on the week. Sometimes it has helped me to write but it's all estetic. As a drug is good, easy to control if you are not an empty cage.