/lit/ - Literature

>>21814909
>I can't fucking stand you Card
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Read Plato to know how to critically think
Read Aristotle to know how to speak
Read any classic you can get your hands on, there is a reason they have been around for hundreds of years.
Watch a Shakespeare play and then read it out loud to yourself. This is the order to understand the theater.
Read Kafka to know that the world is against you, but that it can be extremely amusing.
Read Sherlock Holmes to know that every murder and mystery has been done a thousand times to death.
Read Graeber's 5000 years of debt to understand the historical nature of money.
Read Bernays Propaganda to see the origins of the new world's downfall.
Read Manufacturing Consent to know the updated version of propaganda.
Read Capital so you can be part of the .01% that actually has, be you hate it or love it.
Read your local penal code and Procedure code so you know how to not break the law.
Read your country's constitution so you know the foundations of your 'society'
Read a people's history of the US to know that the only war is the class war
Read a history book on WW2 to know that there IS other war besides the class war.
Read the Three Musketeers because it's just some swashbuckling fun.
Read Moby Dick because it's beautiful.
Read Catch 22 because it's funny.
Read the Call of Cthulhu so you can know literary horror without wasting too much of your time.
Read how to read a book so you know how to read a book
Read Make it stick so you can remember what you read.
Read every textbook you can get your hands on.
Read how-to books on any and everything.

>>20155480
>https://thebrickbible.com/therapeoflot/
holy based

>>19402088
Did you just get back from the postmodernism wikipedia page, realise you were completely wrong, and decide to change the subject? Sad!

>>18920489

>>18906487
This is the only essay I've found that addresses Infinite Jest's obvious post-liberalism. Most academics' pozzed anarchist minds are just not going to go there. Of course DFW himself was milquetoast and confused about all this, as I said. His attitude is a lot like the part where James Incandenza half-heartedly, defeatedly warns Orin about pornography, not realizing his son is already deeply immersed in it. James fails to be the father figure- the authority figure- his boys need.

>Steeply argues that Americans do not need or want a state-sponsored program, or something like this, “to paternalistically do their thinking and choosing for them” (321). “These things you find so weak and contemptible in us,” he argues, “these are just the hazards of being free” (320). But perhaps the “hazards of being free” are greater than Steeply realizes. Left alone to their devices, human beings tend to make bad decisions; this is a basic premise of the novel. “Not all compulsion comes from without,” Marathe warns; a person may be politically, or even physically free, but psychologically (maybe even spiritually) a slave to their baser instincts and desires; in such a case, a person may very well need someone or something to “paternalistically do their thinking and choosing for them."

Uh oh, no wonder art hoes hate this book, talk about daddy issues

>>18173598

>asserting marxist BS as fact

This is where we're at I guess
NGMI

>>18160649
Literally every white civilisation was in a race to conquer Africa. White people were the worst thing to ever happen to that continent.

>Pamela Sneed

>>18105596
>>18105579
At this point you are projecting. I am not a zoomer. I am a 30 year old man who reads books. I liked this book. I read this book. The fact that you need some anonymous person on an indian yoga forum to tell you the specific themes of the book in long and detailed articulation means you already are the zoomer unable to work through literally anything that takes longer than sixty seconds. If you struggle with something like IJ then it means that you have already filtered yourself out of most other 'difficult' literature. Any epic poems are off the table. Any experimental fiction? No you'll never touch it. Philosophy that goes beyond a dialogue about how smart Socrates is? Fuck that shit is boring. I don't understand why someone like you would post here with such credulous notions on what makes something good or bad or difficult or easy. You are the same posting architype that would make fun of any of the books normally suggested for beginning readers, even though it's highly likely you haven't even read them either. 1984 and slaughter house five? At this point I bet you would struggle to understand the plot of either, seeing as you have such difficulty with conceptualizing narrative or subtext.

Just go outside and read a book, anon.

>>17602403

>>17541304
>kek admitting that you need a nerf world because being personable in an interview is too hard for you

>>17484254
>The state doesn't exist so that ruling about my indecent exposure in front of children didn't count!
Yeah...uh...sure butterfly. Just remember to stay 2,000 ft. away from the kiddies okay?

>still uses irony and satire in their work

>>17364549
>In the end, they truly were the Brothers Karamazov
Magnificent

>>17354405
This is my favorite, anon. I am burgerpunk lawyer anon btw.

>>17230494
Been thinking about picking it back up again. I enjoyed what I had read so far, but I just got out of the habit of reading a few pages before bed. I guess I'll do that right now. Thanks anon.

>>16563430

>>16493903
>I don’t need humility old man, I’m a hottie with a body and a silver tongue linked to a brain sharper than glass.
The absolute state of zoomers

>>16492943
>present tense

>>16480295
>all stacies and melvins around Chad
>not accounting for Beckys and brads
Did you get your social cosmology from the dark ages?

>>16422228
>Reads like a parody.

>>15717686
>women