/lit/ - Literature

I just want everybody out there to find what they're looking for
We all belong somewhere
We can all make it

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you are also my frends anons!

Describe the last book you read with a wojak meme

>>12143625

>They are not people so much as they are insentient and fleshy nodes of social information. Look at their faces and you will see they've got that "Innsmouth look," a sort of hollow and perfectly groomed, over-socialized self-satisfaction characteristic to sociopaths and Nancy Pelosi. Sometimes I feel the urge to pop their heads like pimples and see all the likes and "good boy" pats on the bottom come pouring out like pus.

Yes.

>>12023615

Voted and glad to participate to this. /lit/ top 100 is not the best nor the most systematic chart online but I got to /lit/ thanks to it some year ago. I read a lot of the things you were suggesting and, honestly, I had a lot of fun.
Even though I do not agree with the positions of certain books, I think that the list itself mostly recommends good stuff and is a fairly good "cloud" of titles to read in general - at least it was so for me. There are a lot of books I would have never known or that I would not have been encouraged to read if it wasn't for those kind of charts and the systematic memeing (and sometimes bullying) of certain titles.
So I hope you will take it sort of seriously and give your best: these charts are probably one of the most useful things this board can produce and though it is true that they are inferior to, let's say, a good university syllabus, it is still higher quality than most of the shit you'll find on popular websites.
A heart-felt thank you to all of you who will participate in this trying to truly get the books you think are best on the top. You are doing good.

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Yeah guys I know like being edgy and all, but most of these are just beginner mistakes. They become the sign you are talentless only if you keep making them despite your effort to improve. The only way to truly discover if you can't do something is to try and fail repeatedly. That's when you have no talent.

Now, let us focus instead on why so many people on this board have this need for talent to be easily discernible. Don't get me wrong: in some cases it is, but those are limit cases. Those are geniuses and incredibly stupid people. Since most of us are only average, discerning talent is much more difficult. And yet you focus on this question so much. Why?
Well, because it would give you an excuse. If you could discern immediately whether you were good at something or not, you wouldn't have to make efforts. If you are talented, you would do it, if not, you wouldn't. Well, that's not how life works. You need to take the risk doing something you are not talented in and fail. No, you cannot know in advance, with sufficient accuracy, whether you will be good or not at something, you need to try. So stop being so afraid of engaging with life, anon, and try do stuff.
The worst thing that can happen is that you become miserable. But you already are, so there is really nothing to lose.

>>11252831
Congrats, anon. Feels good man

>>11244772

Death.

>>11220099

I do! I would have never given a second chance to Gravity's Rainbow or stopped being scared by Ulysses if people in here didn't bully me into reading them by calling me a pseud for everything I posted.

Also, thanks to the fact that nobody takes anything seriously here, I feel I have learned to read books just for fun. I mean, there is no way I can express my opinion on a book here and not be insulted. Now I talk about things if I feel that I like them and I have something to say. I'll be insulted anyway, but it's fine, there's always two or three anons who genuinely want to share their opinions with you.

Overall, this is a nice board.

>>11104821

You sorry fool. The fact that mankind is little compared to the vastness of the universe means nothing. Rather, ask yourself whether the existence of mind and mental experience through human beings adds something to the universe or not. Would something be visible without eyes, without brain, without mind to process its visibility? Does it make sense to call the sun warm, or bright, or to definite it in any way outside of its relation to a given mind? Because if it does not, mind's decoding of the universe through our feeble bodies is adding a great deal to cosmos. In fact, you could say it makes the cosmos what it is, for it actualizes its possibility of being manifest - but something can only be manifest to some observer, and this is what life and mental experience is doing.
What will you do with your mental experience? Would you waste another hour of your time shitposting on 4chan about things you do not understand? Would you spend it watching videos of a man who barely scratches the doors of the beautiful realm of the truth? Or will you leave and never return, aiming for horizons unexplored, for the untouched, chaotic territories where there is no where and the cosmos waits to become cosmos, waits for mind to set its gaze upon it and breath being into it?

>>11088403
Kissinger win.

>>11056867

I do not have time to get angry at this.

>>10956909

fpbp

>>10751018

>Ernst Junger - On Marble Cliffs
>Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time
>Roberto Bolano - Savage Detectives

These are books that I didn't only like because they were beautiful, but because they somehow touched me on a personal level. Junger because it made me thought I could write differently. Proust because it made me think about how mind, memory, imagination and the perception of beauty work - and how they are the only important things. Bolano to develop a general feeling of detachment from the vicissitudes of life, and for making me think that my very possibly nomadic life won't necessarily be an ugly one - though it may be unhappy

i cant answer any of these besides the second

>>10694878

What is the perfect book in your eyes? And why do you like it?

Recommendations based other anons 10/10s are welcome too.

>that part in master & margarita where he finally masters margarita mixing

>>10061362
which edition of A portratraitoftheartistasayoungman should i get (with foot-notes)