/lit/ - Literature

I'm looking specifically for anything regarding etymology/roots. Book recommendations or online resources, the more in-depth the better. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Currently reading The Two Towers, and I must say I'm really glad I'm finally getting into this. This is my favorite excerpt so far:
>Thus Gandalf softly sang, and then suddenly he changed. Casting his tattered cloak aside, he stood up and leaned no longer on his staff; and he spoke in a clear cold voice.
>‘The wise speak only of what they know, Gríma son of Gálmód. A witless worm have you become. Therefore be silent, and keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a serving-man till the lightning falls.’
>He raised his staff. There was a roll of thunder. The sun-light was blotted out from the eastern windows; the whole hall became suddenly dark as night. The fire faded to sullen embers. Only Gandalf could be seen, standing white and tall before the blackened hearth.
>In the gloom they heard the hiss of Wormtongue’s voice: ‘Did I not counsel you, lord, to forbid his staff? That fool, Háma, has betrayed us!’ There was a flash as if lightning had cloven the roof. Then all was silent. Wormtongue sprawled on his face.
>‘Now Théoden son of Thengel, will you hearken to me?’
Call it edgy teens writing, I thought that was cool as fuck

>>23286202
Racism won't make you likeable, anon—save to unsavories on the margins.

>>23260448
I beg to differ, I always read during my breaks at work.

>>23129772
>the prophet Tiresias had lived both as a man and a woman
>Zues and Hera go to him
>they've had a disagreement about who experiences more pleasure from sex, men or women
>they both promise that no matter how he answers, they won't get mad
>Tiresias says "If all the pleasures of sex were divided into ten parts, nine would go to women, and men would be left with just one."
>Hera gets pissed and strikes him blind
The story goes that Hera didn't strike him blind because she disagreed, she did it because she was pissed that he would let out women's biggest secret like that.

I remembered enjoying GoF because of its deeper focus on what were previously background characters in the other books (particularly the patil twins and diggory). Common trope for series, I know, but it began to feel like everyone knows each other in Gryffindor (and some in the other houses) now, and it gives the Hogwarts atmosphere a nice, homely feel despite the darker undertones and house rivalry. I really enjoyed the entire common room celebrating Harry's name being drawn out of the goblet, for instance.
Which is the point, I guess. Hogwarts being more like home to Harry than Privet Drive and all.
I still haven't read OotP.

Just started reading the OT, i really enjoyed the binding of isaac
Thanks for convincing me to read this bros

>>23095294
Books were literally movies being described to you, because movies hadn't been invented yet.

>>23086741
Stop buying books until you read the ones you already have, retard. I buy books 3 at a time, finish them, and then buy 3 more books. It's called "restraint".

>>23079884
There are too many books worth reading.

>farther
>further
why are these both ok? any other examples of this?

>>23030434
I read during the week, weekends are for shitposting and vidya.

>>23023494
>Both disciplines have terrible replication rates, so why bother with them?
Because, should our understanding of them advance to a certain point, both the human mind and society as a whole could become wholly scientifically quantifiable.

>>23008456
>realistically you can probably only read about 50 books in your whole life
nigger what

>>23008050
Always has been. It can be useful in some ways, but the bias is as rampant as it is repugnant. I'm a big fan of the "Early Life" section, though.

What book(s) by jung will help me to accept my shadow? I'm hitting a wall. I feel like a character from persona 4 who's stuck in the shadow world unironically.

>There was once a man named Peratinus who, as he cried, told his son and neighbors the following
>Alas, woe is me! I have a wretched tree in my garden under which my first wife hanged herself, and then my second, and finally my third. Because of this, great is my pain.
>Then, someone named Arrius said
>I'm surprised by the misfortune you have suffered on account of that tree. I beg of you, give me three sprouts from that tree so that I may share them among our neighbors, so that their wives may also hang themselves from that tree.

from Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum. Since /lit/ is smart, what's the moral of the story?

HELLO

i kind of want to write a book based on my life but i dont think anyone will wanna read it bc im only 21

>>17297358
graçias

>>16455861
Happy birthday, fren

>>15971552
Journey to the end of the night

i may literally be the only person on /lit/ that reads books

>>15809807
he never died; his soul lives on in his books