/lit/ - Literature

>>19620286

has any book actually improved your life?

christmas is coming up soon and my siblings and i are buying each other books as usual. this year i want to break out of lit. fiction and into philosophy, especially left wing political philosophy. what are the must-haves?
whats on your list this year?

what book has actually improved your life

Is it true the Irish are Greek, and the Scots are Trojan?

took a break from reading, got cooked, went back to reading, shit's good man.

deconstruct and analyze the following phrase:
redpill me on women

what book has actually improved your life

Does the far right even have any good literature?

what book has actually improved your life?

If Ulysses were published today, would anybody read it?

Note that I now only consume coffee, alcohol, and adderall, and those sparingly. Alcohol may technically win just for convenient warmth, but certainly not peak experiences.

LSA/LSH
LSD
AL-LAD
1P-LSD
MDMA
DMT
Mescaline
Adderall
Vyvanse
Cocaine
Caffeine
Nicotine
Psilocybin mushrooms
4-ACO-DMT
4-HO-MET
Ketamine
Nitrous oxide
Alcohol
Cannabis
Kratom
Gabapentin
Xanax
Ativan
Klonopin
Ritalin
Kava Kava
St. John's Wort
Codeine
DXM
Concerta
Nutmeg
Oxycodone

I may've left things out. The only things I have any ambition at all to try now are salvia, ibogaine, and 2CB, but I don't particularly care, and I wouldn't go out of my way.

>>13957218
Baudelaire's Wine and Hashish
>>13957289
The Sun Also Rises
>>13957394
PiKHAL & TiKHAL
>>13957531
Trip by Tao Lin
>>13957561
The Soft Machine
>>13957589
Brave New World
>>13957593
True Hallucinations
>>13957629
Nova Express
>>13957980
Illuminatus!
>>13958010
Infinite Jest
>>13958042
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
>>13958429
Inherent Vice
>>13958437
Pilgrim's Progress
>>13958508
Vineland
>>13958561
Yagé Letters
>>13958866
Magic Treehouse
>>13958908
Island by Huxley
>>13958975
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
>>13959021
The Bible
>>13959751
Carlos Castenada

Got bored halfway.

A timeless classic.

what book had actually improved your life?

>>13629077

Friendly reminder to those who have children to read to them as early as possible and as frequently as possible during their development.

Early reading children are smarter and will contribute to society more than the non-readers.

Also remember that reading is one of the few last bastions of intellectual stimulation. Even reading popular fiction is better than watching garbage like America's Got Talent.

Excuse me while I parasitically attach my thread to your thread:
>>13332134
Anyway, how are you supposed to become well-read enough to enjoy a particular reading other than by reading? An incomplete first pass prepares a person for later forays.

This is the last call to board the Ulysses train. We've already started, but we're not terribly far in yet, and it remains doable to quickly catch up.

The chat has 38 members, some of whom have already read Ulysses previously and loved it enough to read it again presently and help guide others' reading.

There is a pdf of the annotated edition floating around in-chat as well.

The Telegram link is here:
https://t.me/joinchat/KR3KdBbGlw_q6hN9sFRupQ

The schedule is as follows:
Week 1: (Due 6/8:) Telemachus, Nestor, Proteus (or, Telemachiad)
Week 2: (Due 6/15:) Calypso, Lotus Eaters, Hades
Week 3: (Due 6/22:) Aeolus
Week 4: (Due 6/29:) Lesteygonians, Scylla & Charybdis
Week 5: (Due 7/6:) Wandering Rocks, Sirens
Week 6: (Due 7/13:) Cyclops
Week 7: (Due 7/20:) Nausicaa, Oxen of the Sun
Week 8: (Due 7/27:) Circe
Week 9: (Due 8/3:) Eumaeus, Ithaca
Week 10: (Due 8/10:) Penelope

Do you not feel that it is time to finally read Ulysses, anon? You've read Infinite Jest already maybe but you know in your heart of hearts that that is a triviality, a dusty hiccup of pseud jokes (to the library, and step on it!) and that you have only made your first step towards apotheotic ascension into the ranks of the /lit/erati, or /lit/heads. You've browsed this board so long already without ever reading past stately plump Buck Mulligan: how do you look at yourself in the mirror day to day knowing that you browse this board without having even really embarked on the meme trilogy? Truly I pity thee, anon, and anon, hark! you have your chance to escape piteousness.

What book has actually improved your life?

What book has actually improved your life?

What book has actually improved your life