/lit/ - Literature

>>20551756
>>20551133
>be gay
>receive anal sex
>die from AIDS
not a good look

>>20006643
I know the feeling. I'm a frequent seller on FB Marketplace. Haven't sold many books, although come to think of it I do have a copy of one of those Trump books by Bob Woodward for sale which I found for a dollar. It's hardcover too ha. If I were to read it, I would read my pirated copy, which yes I already have downloaded and in the cloud despite the fact I never plan to read it, because I'm a digital pirate who covets & hoards information.

BUMP
should've made a thread about rc waldun instead

ITT: two sides arguing with each other about how best to translate their life into bean counting.

Traditional opportunity (as opposed to social mobility) is still available to most who work hard enough to achieve it. The methods of control in the advanced democracies are as psychological/internal as they are external. Cultivate an ethic of work, self-denial, and civic-mindedness. Work a wage job that you find fulfilling while you live frugally and learn a trade as an artisan. Carpentry, masonry, landscaping, gunsmithing, ironworking, etc.

Man is a producer. It is folly to think that a life of leisure and without work will be fulfilling. While it is lamentable that there does exist a permanent class of wage laborers, it is similarly misguided to dream of realizing a utopian world where nobody needs to work

BUMP II BOOGALOO

I've just finished Haidt/Lukianoff's The Coddling of the American Mind, and I found it compelling (especially as regards the family and childhood), but fairly slim and reactionary in scope: the book acknowledges there is a problem but does not dive as deeply as I would have liked into how that problem came about. There seems to be no strong continuity: One day we decided to parent our kids differently, or decided that universities should be activist in scope, etc.

What books offer the most penetrating, convincing, and eye-opening critique (or defense) of contemporary society. It makes no difference to me whether it's in the scope of the market/technology/bureaucracy encroaching upon political/civil/social institutions or the disintegrating effect of contemporary cultural/academic zeitgeist fraying the fundamental social fabric, or anywhere in between? Even a well-argued or especially passionate defense would be great. I just can't shake the notion that there is something fundamentally wrong or catastrophic about the path the United States is on, but even Haidt and Lukianoff don't paint a strong picture of what a better alternative is (or was). For this reason the revolutionary Marxist critiques I find typically lacking: they appeal to the horror of what we are seeing today but provide no historical or alternative look at how it should be.

ight /lit/ need your help
one qt asked me about my thoughts on Martin Eden's ending
i said i'll answer right after i read it
but what she meant by that question out of nowhere?

I don't believe in a world without god, that just doesn't make sense. But believing in god? That's silly wishful thinking. I can't be the only one. What are books for this feel?

>>17081105
Books are thriving more than ever thanks to Amazon and Audible to tell you the truth. Not everyone reads Dostoyevsky or Nietzsche and instead reads personal interest however, so this board largely discounts what they read.
>this orangutan is learning to read thanks to Amazon and China

>>16531367
based

what is he reading?

>>16077274
All questions should be argumentative to anon, including anon asking the question.
If you can google your question go to /b/

ITT: share the weird legends all the kids in your school/neighborhood knew when you were young

>derelict factory in my town because the company moved to a newer facility nearby
>every kid knew there was a skeleton at the bottom of the elevator shaft in the back
i was too chicken to check

also
>it was commonly believed that a generally disliked student at my school had had his penis partially severed by his mother in an botched attempt to turn him into a girl

what is he reading?

Read whatever you want. There's seriously not that much else to it.
Find a genre or authors that you're interested in and just buy one of the popular ones in that category.

Another thing is to not worry about your pace.
Sometimes I devour half of a 800 page book in one sitting and sometimes I only read a few pages. Sometimes, I won't even
touch the book I'm in the middle of reading for months. It's not a race or a competition, just read it at your own pace.

>>15093183
what

what are some good historical books about animals or about the history of animals? e.g. aristotle and descartes.

When every word is at home,
Taking its place to support the others,
The word neither diffident nor ostentatious,
An easy commerce of the old and the new,
The common word exact without vulgarity,
The formal word precise but not pedantic,
The complete consort dancing together.
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning,
Every poem an epitaph.

Itt post you top 5 PHILOSOPHERS and r8 other anons.