/lit/ - Literature

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>>8930058
Unless they're part of the /lit/erati, don't talk like you're on /lit/.

>>8929682
Just read Das Kapital; you'll get more out of it.

>>8926126
I don't know if you're serious or not, but regardless please don't send it. You'll only regret it later and want to kill yourself. Just talk to her and tell her how you feel in person. Believe me, I learned the hard way.

>>8928603
The Last Days of Socrates is a good book to read. I would seriously consider it in your condition. In it, Socrates basically rationalizes and learns to accept death, something that you could really use.

Here's a lazy copy-paste of some socialist literature I recommended if anyone is interested.

The Communist Manifesto if you need a short and sweet version of the inherent inequalities of capitalism and the overall objectives and goals of socialism (it's only ~50 pages so you might as well).

Das Kapital if you're hardcore like that and really want to go in depth with Marxism (very long).

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair if you can stomach it, and you're up for a critique of laissez-faire capitalism that will make you want to vomit.

Animal Farm by George Orwell if you want a critique of State-Capitalism (Stalinism), socialism's own boogieman. A decent allegory of the events leading up to Stalin's Soviet Union.

1984 by George Orwell is a good book on cult of personality and totalitarianism, if you're into that sort of thing.

And now, for a few honorable mentions:

The State and Revolution (Vladimir Lenin)
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Engels)
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Engels)
The German Ideology (Marx)
The Condition of the Working Class in England (Engels)
Homage to Catalonia (Orwell)
What Is to Be Done? (Lenin)
Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Marx)

These are just a few of the books you should read if you want to have a better conception of Marxism.

Really, you can't go wrong with anything by Marx, Lenin, Engels, Orwell, or even Hegel for that matter. Just keep in mind that this list is non-exhaustive, and that there is much more on socialism and Marxism than what I just posted.

I really appreciate everyone taking time out of their day to critique the works of others.

Thank you. :)

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>>8921108
The Last Days of Socrates is a good one. I would seriously consider it in your condition. In it, Socrates basically rationalizes and learns to accept death, something that you could really use.

>>8923523
Exodus. Total underdog story.
*god-mode activated*

>>8923988
I don't know why I keep using a fountain pen to write stuff, and I have no clue why I always come back to it. What is going on? It's certainly not as convenient to write with as the ballpoint, nor is it erasable like a pencil. I guess I may never know why I always come back to the fountain pen.

>>8923843
Genesis has a lot of dry spells. I'm talking x descended from y and z and stuff like that, although the story is genuinely poetic and makes for a semi-interesting read.

Exodus was not quite how I imagined it to be, and it's more brutal. Defiantly not The Prince of Egypt if you ever watched that movie, but the movie helped to cheer me up after the unexpected chaos of the golden lamb incident.

Exodus also has a long list of ancient Hebrew laws, building plans, and decor descriptions for the tabernacle and ark of the covenant that you can skip too.

While there are some dry spells, I take rest in the fact that multiple people wrote the Bible, so some parts will defiantly have better stories or be better written than others.

I recommend starting when you have lots of patience and go from there.

>>8923798
The biblical book.

>>8923720
Start with the Gospel; reading from the OT first is headache inducing for a newcomer, believe me. It will be natural when it happens, and it probably won't come from trying.

What brings you to want to become a Christian, dear Anon?

>>8923691
Exodus, that's about it. It's pretty early to be finishing books; it's only been three days!

>>8921713
Because Ayn Rand is a shit author no matter how much you agree with her philosophy.

>>8919465
By far the greatest word in existence.

Yeah, so I actually have a question. I was reading Exodus on chapter 32 when I ran into verses 25-30. Could someone put it into a better context for me? So far it just looks like people running around killing each other.

>>8922369
Because it's so damn depressing all the time.

>>8920842
Here's one of my favorite.

>>8922811
Running, writing, talking, games, the usual.

>>8923198
Not intending to sound rude, but this.

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