/lit/ - Literature

Why does Hiro allow ads for NSFW boards on blue boards? And why does /pol/ have porn ads if porn isn't allowed there (unless it's BBC porn posted by a (((memeflag))))?

How much of what she reads does she actually retain?

I'm not the only one who thinks automobiles are a huge fucking scam, right?

Too much about them just doesn't add up. I'm not sure there's even enough petroleum on the planet to motorize every single cart and carriage. We keep being promised "better engine technology" but it keeps not materializing; I remember when better engines were "just around the corner" more than a decade ago. The biggest automobile car maker is Ford, but Ford seems to be a huge ponzi scheme propped up by hype, magical thinking, and government subsidies. Motorized cars in general are way more expensive than horse-drawn carriages. And when they run out of petrol you have to buy new petrol, and AS they run out of fuel the range of the car decreases. And motorized cars doesn't even begin to address the railway industry and the naval industry, two huge consumers of petroleum.

I've posted about this on /o/ before, obviously, but I'm just completely sour on motorized cars now. It all feels like a lot of hype and feel-good bullshit. I don't think they're going to work long-term and I feel like 50 years from now we'll look back and think about how ridiculous the hype around them was.

I'm a fucking rube and mostly read fiction if I read at all, but in school I had to take a class on Philosophy, and I'm having a hard time actually absorbing any of the information. I think this is partly because I'm an add retard, and also because I flood myself with /biz/ and /pol/ dopamine. The fact that the content is so abstract on top of it being gay school shit makes me lazy as hell and just look for videos to tell me the same shit. So what I'm wondering is how I'd get better at maintaining focus on these things. Any help would be appreciated, I don't want to be a pants-shitting moron forever

Are there no marxists here?

>>15171146
Really made me think.

Should Prometheus have given fire to man?

Which authors is it essential to have the Complete Essays/Poems/Stories/Plays/whatever for? For example
>Shakespeare
>Montaigne
>Borges
>Plato
>Hemingway
>Dickinson
>Keats

What are the greatest debut novels?

>read most of my books from the library
>only buy books that aren't at my (very good) local libraries
>take forever to deliberate over my order whenever I do buy them
>keep reading a bunch of books
>never actually buy them
Am I the ultimate patrician?

This decade is almost over, has there been any worthwhile literature? Not counting My Struggle because that started in the 2000s
Hard mode: any worthwhile literature not by already established authors
Impossible mode: clear classics of our time

What does /lit/ think of this list?
http://benjaminmcevoy.com/18-books-every-18-year-old-read-k-human-syllabus/

Can anyone recommend me poems for if I really, really like The Raven, Ozymandias and Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening?
Also can someone explain what's so good about Emily Dickinson, I feel like a brainlet but there's nothing to her as far as I can see.

Is any genre fiction actually worth reading?

>'Ready Player One sucks guys, referencing pop culture is for hacks'
>'Pynchon is a genius'

/translation/
Is Heath's Elements the best?
Fitzgerald or Fagles' Odyssey?
Is Katz' Notes from Underground better than P&V?
Ready or Katz for Crime and Punishment?
Maude or Bartlett for Anna Karenina?

>the same anon has been shit posting about BM being bad for hours now
Why does he hate the book so much?

Which authors of the last 50 years will enter the literary canon?
>Pynch
>McCarthy
>DeLillo
>Calvino
>unironically Murakami
>Perec
>BEE
>unironically DFW
>Houellebecq
>Bolano
>Ishiguro
>Moore
>Rushdie
>Knausgaard
>Gaiman
>ironically Rowling
>ironically Rupi Kaur

>>11259130
Yes, Lo raped Humbert.

Strangely similar to stoicism

>>11056508
attempting to figure out what this thread is about, please help me I have autism

>>10633615
what did bruno write about politics?

Was Nietzsche critiquing Christianity or Christians?