/lit/ - Literature

What books should I read if I want to develop Dark Triad traits? I've already read 48 Laws of Power and How to Win Friends and Influence People

I post here because to hell with R9K or /b/. I really always wonder about myself, mostly because I don't know myself at all. I suppose I am an amateur 'writer', but I just sort of stumbled into that. In the same way I just adhere to referring to the weird mass that is 'I' with personal pronouns. I was born well off and became educated and because I could never stay friends with anyone for more than a year my accompaniment was mostly media growing up. Even then, when I've spent my life on that, there's not an iota of assurance that I'm anything other than nominally taking on the label of an idea. I have no idea if I can express something unique or profound or even just derivative of decent. I feel all I'd ever be doing is slinging words from an list together in a way which stimulates the eyes but not anything else. That leads me to my point, I know 2 things of myself: Many moments I despise myself, and in others I love life. I don't know why I despise myself, like where it actually came from. It's there though. I know in the moments where I'm loving anything I'm not thinking about who I am, or what anything is. I'm ignorant and then I believe I can be like that forever. I thought so when I aged from a boy to a teenager, and subsequently in the following years when I tried to be meditative and at peace. Then and there I thought I'd actually conquered something. Only to go right around a bend again and hit myself. It seems like I'm changing, but all it is is oscillation. Something like that. What I was is dead, I come back and see myself again and then I climb and fall. If I'm aware of it and trying to stop myself- it happens, if I'm intentionally blank of myself it happens anyway. I don't say any of that to have a conclusion, because I myself don't. Neither do I intend to sound profound or pretentious, though I think I definitely exude the latter of those two. I have the sensation that I'm not unique at all, and I know this. In some way or the other someone has had these exact words with themself and had the exact same result. Essentially yelling into a vacuum. Now, in all reality I don't know why I wrote this. It's like that vague 'want' where I wanted to be a writer, and to write all my ideas till conclusion. So, I don't know, say what you want in reply or don't say anything at all. I don't have much more to say today myself.

>writes a juvenile book with simple black and white morality for children
>filled with plotholes
>bad guys are all cartoonishly evil and have no redeeming features
>80 years later manchildren still think he's a genius

Is he the biggest hack to ever hack? Being an adult fan of Tolkien is the easiest way to tell someone is low IQ.

This book is autistic

An R. S. Bakker thread. Discuss any of the works of Bakker, including but not limited to The Prince of Nothing and Aspect Emperor series.
Truth shines.

I like old books. They're just neat. I want to buy some more old books, but I don't have billions of dollars to buy first editions of everything. On the other hand, I don't want to buy random books from dogshit authors that I'll never read.

What are some old printings (early 1900's or before) that can be had for a reasonable price? Preferably only works that are written natively in English or French. Old translations can be dodgy.

Why didn't it take off like Harry Potter and Twilight?

This was a big letdown and a waste of time.
I'll never take advice from you guys ever again.

What do you think?

This book is enjoyable up until the wood-sanitorium part because I hate the older woman character that are being forced into narrative for whatever reason and I havent read the book ever since then.
What do you chuds think about this book?

Why are there no hater youtubers in the /lit/osphere there aren’t enough harsh critics there’s so much slop content out there to proffesionally hate.
If you want your get rich quick scheme with writing why not write out negative reviews.

>take three day break from /lit/
>immediately begin reading, researching, learning
>write a moving poem out of the blue
>radiate with novel ideas and a stronger, more vital voice

when did you realize that you were poison, /lit/?

to any of you struggling, crumbling, going dark,
flee from this place. do it now.

What am I in for?

What's the best word processor? I have decided to write a book and can't start until I have the most perfect, absolutely ideal tools at my disposal. This, of course, includes
>The optimal writing medium
Digital, with cloud-based backups. This is easily taken care of on my Mint Linux Thinkpad
>The optimal writing environment
I've been looking at a few townhouses in central Michigan, but they'll all need a lot of work to be perfect
>The optimal word processor
This is where you come in, /lit/. What is the perfect word processor for the perfect novel(which I will write)?

Most overrated book of all time.

I bet this shit hits so hard if you were born and raised in Ireland in 1920.

How did he not get canceled for writing this?

Books with werewolf protagonists? Romance slop not included.

Do you think there's a difference between a handwritten journal and a typed one?

The only female author in my collection is Mary Shelley and she might not of even written all of Frankenstein. I thought Lewis Carrol was a girl’s name turns out it’s not.

I'll start.

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if profound intellectual activity burns calories, then why is GRRM a fat fuck?

I read to escape from myself.

I don't get it.
So Ezra Pound's works are something only a genius could make, but the only reason why he isn't labeled as a genius by academia, experts and readers is because he had the wrong opinion?
That makes no sense all.

The lockdowns (2020) combined with discovering /pol/ as well as other alternative outlets and learning the truth has crippled me.

Always was an outcast but when I finished high school and went down the self-improvement road I had a plan and hope for the future. I spent 2 days in college before the lockdowns began and both men and women swarmed to me.
Weight loss, strenuous exercise, grunt jobs, martial arts, cold showers and austerity beyond normal, all self-imposed for years combined with surrogate and academic education on all practical subjects was my path to becoming what can only be referred to as Nietzsche's Overman.

But my will has been exhausted. The veil has been lifted. Reached the conclusion that I am a tax-cattle serf in prison nation where everything human and masculine is either illegal or prohibitely expensive. I can't hunt, I can't own firearms, I can't drive a motorcycle at full speed. Can't be a man. My only options are to drink, smoke, do drugs and gamble. If you keep up on global events you can see everything and everyone has gradually become gayer and more retarded and insane. Consequently I have become more alienated and ostracized.

I'm fine with being alone. Fine with nobody remembering or caring about any important conversation. I'm fine with life being cruel and unfair. I'm fine with at 24 never having had a social circle, a woman, real friendship, or any other milestone. I said it'd get better. It's fine. Life doesn't guarantee "Happiness".

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I am regretting shilling Cioran. God these fucking beasts ruin everything. Why do these dumb fucking subhumans ruin everything? Fuck! These normalfaggot pieces of shite who read his meme aphorism on instagram and then go around boasting bullshit about how they "love" reading Cioran and how he is their favorite """philosopher""" in their friends circles make me want to puke. Fucking barbaric. After reading goodreads reviews of Ciroan's books I want to blow my brains out. Whole shitagram, fagbook and jewtube is filled with coated bullshit like le heckin dark writings of le heckin darkest most buck broker philosopher of all of the heckin time.

I am so fucking angry. Fucking norman's and their bestially minds reading the words of my beloved writers. I can't stand this, it's too much. It is true that Cioran didn't kill himself but he would have surely killed himself if he knew what kind of subhumans would be reading him and how he will get famous and how roasites will be getting tattoos of his quotes and how faggots will be printing his quotes on t-shirts and hoodies to make money. I want to see this universe drown in an eternal flood.

>"I beleive in the salvation of humanity in the future of cyanide..."

All Gall is Divided

>One might wonder why we do not simply declare all individuals to be nothing more than persons, thereby sparing ourselves the repeated invocation of “man” or “woman.” And since “person” is a universal taken universally, whereas “man” (or “woman”) is strictly and specifically particular, to say “this is a person” is to define a thing by its most singular species, implying that each person differs from every other only numerically—by haecceity alone.

Shall we then assert that persons differ from one another solely in number? We might, for sure. Some people do, of course the question properly belongs to biology.They say that universals taken universally cannot serve as objects of knowledge for any subject. To know what a man or a woman is remains utterly arbitrary. Such things mark the boundary of any whole: never dissimilar, ever the same. Incapable of harboring difference, they are indifferent. And what is indifferent cannot be seized by the intellect.
It is, at the very least, arduous to define a thing while attempting to hold it simultaneously as subject and as object. This is why logic undertakes to discern the impenetrable rules that govern knowledge in general within the subject itself. About the object, nothing can be said without grave difficulty.

Consider, for instance, two individuals asked to behold a man, one of whom is his son. Logic inquires: what, in that instant, is held in common between the knowledge of these two subjects—for all subjects and for all knowledge?

I've been exposed to a wide-enough breadth and sufficient-enough depth of philosophy to know that the lessons of life and existence it provides pale in comparison to that of good literature.

Is there any point in reading philosophy? Or should you just read the literary greats?

Is this a good book to read to impress goth and alt hoes?

Any fans here? I feel like Miller is slept on a lot.

what is the best place to request feed back on a story/fanfiction (SFW) on is working on. Paid/and unpaid. I'de like to get constrcutive feedback, its harder to come by than i thought it would be.

In lieu of eridatic “niggers,” there developed a theory, half sermon, half derangement, that the moral disease of the century was not vice itself, but the corruption of the very words that named it. The age, they said, had grown linguistically gangrenous. Speech festered in the throats of men until it crawled from their mouths like spoiled wine. The pamphleteers, those pale anatomists of rhetoric, scribbled their theses in attics, binding them in soot and vinegar. They traced the degeneration of expression from the swampy utterances of the primordial tribesman to the delicate euphemisms of the telegraph clerk, whose every dot and dash concealed an unspeakable desire. And somewhere among the detritus of their labors, a boy, barefoot, blistered, and slightly phosphorescent from the city fog, began to write his own heretical volume: On the Metaphysics of Spittle and Other Semiotic Fluids.

I'm 60 pages in, when does it get good? So far it's a book about a woman being a woman. Please tell me it changes, I hate women.

Post interesting and obscure books you learned about from /lit/.

Also on a related note I came up with something called /lit/‘s law. That being that, if a book exists that is worth reading, it has almost definitely already been mentioned by someone on /lit/ at some point.

pretentious

I read ten pages and my brain starts humming. I'm Gen Z, and my attention span is almost nonexistent. If I read eleven pages today and twelve tomorrow, would that actually make it better? How long would it take to notice a difference? It hurts, bros. I'm trying to put the phone down and find peace. This week has been good, but I still can’t focus on anything. I’ve been journaling too. I even put the phone in another room when it’s reading time.

Books that make women get divorced?

Unpopular opinion maybe but in hindsight I think maybe he was less genuinely wise and the like and more just a bitter fuck who hated that maybe somebody somewhere actually believed in some kind of ideals or the like. He legitimately seemed to just violently attack basically anyone who he perceived as being both popular and who didn't conform to his grungy takes on the human condition by basically always claiming they're either stupid and vapid or that they were actively malicious without any room to consider that maybe they just didn't agree with him that everything was a shithole and had always been a shithole without any higher aspirations or beliefs.

for reading Kant?

I don't think I really care much for either Descartes nor Hume nor many of the others who fall within this. Spinoza I might be open to reading just out of curiosity. he seems pretty important I think to the kantian enterprise. who else? I've already read Plato and Aristotle. will be reading Augustine soon, and about Aquinas (I don't care very much for aristotelian style philosohy beyond what Aristotle himself wrote). I feel Kant can be into'd with nothing more than relevant secondary literature and a sharp mind.

Looking for a reason to leave the world behind.
Small mistakes, empty words, people I've let down.
Nothing ever changes, nothing turns around.

I'll start with an obvious one. Great read.

Tourist here. What are your opinions on the use of AI for literature stuff? It seems in any other place you'll get called a luddite if you don't inject AI into every aspect of your life. I'm asking here because books seem to have a higher barrier than other stuff like movies or games, and I'm guessing you're better at identifying slop and such. I'm not against new technologies, I'm just tired of the insane hype and conformism around AI.

how do i become unaware of the truths revealed by shoppy

Why do you hate Stephen King so much? He writes some mediocre books, yet /lit/ hates him for some reason.

Roark is the GOAT