/lit/ - Literature

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

>>20043721
Herodotus desu

>>20043721
Oresteia or Phaedrus, or [Plato's] Parmenides. Maybe Jung's Mysterium Coniunctionis.

Also some twentieth century poems by Rilke, George, Celan and such like. Especially Duino Elegies.

>>20043721
Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets

>>20043721
Probably Jung's Liber Novus. I had three year phase where I was obsessed with that book, because it's quite mysterical it even exists

>>20043721
My diary, im an incredibly interesting person.

>>20043791
rilke is so beautiful

I think the book I've read with highest proportion of 'thought provokingness' to effort of reading was pic related. It's a normal autobiography written in a very straightforward manner, but there is a lot of stuff buried in it that provides shocking questions and ideas about life.

>>20043721
The Way of a Pilgrim

>>20043721
East and West

>>20044092
same

>>20043752
is that you bill? the brain doesn't do anything, it's just for show

Nikolai Hartmann - Ethik

>>20043721
I'm heavily autistic and find these field guides based as fuck.

>>20045050
Based foraging aspie

At least you’ll know what’s safe to eat when the food supply chains start collapsing

>>20043767
Really? Please elaborate

>>20043752
Also please elaborate further as well

>>20045165
no, just read it

>>20045173
No.

>>20044429
Based

>>20043752
>Jaynes evidently was a very smart, extremely well read psychologist, and developed his theory largely based upon his readings of ancient classics such as the Illiad and the Odyssey. He detected in these works an absence of a modern conception of subjective self-awareness. Where you or I might subjectively puzzle over a dilemma, or introspect upon a feeling, these works attribute this type of contemplation and decision making to the gods.
really m8

>>20044310

Rad. Checking into it

>>20046129
Good. It's a very simple read, even if you somehow hate it you'll blaze right through. It's great though, I burst out laughing at several parts.

>>20045050
Those are the normie field guides, if you want autism try Mushrooms Demystified.

>>20043721
Unironically, Fanged Noumena

>>20046174
No one cares about your book, Nick.

>>20043721
The Red and the Black.
>pic related, the copy I read at least 10 times

>>20043721
my diary desu

But in all honesty, The Shallows by Nicholas Carr is fucking godtier and hardly ever talked about. Shit done changed my life

Dune

Say it's dumb but Tokyo Vice did it for me. It's one of the fastest books I've read because every chapter was something more wild and grotesque.

It's basically just this reporter dude that covered beat cops and shit in Tokyo. This got him access to all kinds of weird and wild stuff from Yakuza activity and prostitution to biker gangs and stuff. I'm sure some of it was exaggerated at times, but it's a really neat (dark) snapshot of his time there.

Interesting. Was just doing a search and apparently, they're doing a show adaptation of it here soon. Might be neat.

>>20045050
May I introduce you to my man Paul Stamets?

>>20047189
I'm struggling with it...

the genealogy of morals

>>20043721
Energy and the English industrial revolution, E. A. Wrigley

>>20043767
Just arrived at book seven. Things are about to catch fire!

>>20043721
Unironically the Bible.

If we're not counting holy texts than either Moby-Dick or Swann's Way

>>20044310
elaborate please.

>>20044310
Wanted to read this for a long time but can never find it at a reasonable price

>>20044061
Captain Pedo and the confused kids

>>20046080
when you're an "extremely well read psychologist" but forget to read nietzsche's accounts of ancient vs modern subjectivities

>>20048625
It's just a 19 year old kid facing some pretty profound experiences in war with open eyes. Three Sips of Gin (also about the Rhodesian Bush War, different author who was an officer rather than enlisted) is also very good in its own way but it 'insists on itself' more and you can tell that it censored various unsavory details due to the author having a lot of pride. Fire Force has way more 'filth' (drugs, run ins with military justice, locker room gross outs, pants shitting in the field, etc.) and the author doesn't remotely try to hide the fact that he is a mass murderer, and maintains a very disillusioned style but ultimately leaves it up to you to decide the meaning of it all.

They each have a point that involves a sort of 'religious experience' in combat and Three Sips of Gin is almost tasteless in its glorified presentation of it, whereas Fire Force reduces it to about two sentences and declines to make any judgements about the reasons for it.
>>20048722
It's like $10 on kindle

>>20048779
>kindle

>>20048819
>bro I just love the smell of a fresh hardcover, sometimes I have such a wonderful experience sitting there breathing it in and feeling the weight of it as I hold its spine that I forget to actually read it!

>>20043721
The master and his emissary

Unironically this book, finally made me understand in a very clear way why the rich keep getting rich, what is an asset, the importance of the cash flow, and how to build an asset, it has been the foundation of my financial break trhough.

>>20048834
seethe

>>20048878
dilate

>>20048875
You're a retard. The rich don't get richer because they know these cutesy 'secrets' (that are rejected by many other experts, by the way), they get richer because that's how investing works. You have money, you invest it, you get more money back, repeat. If this is new information to you, you have the mind of a 7 year-old.

Generally speaking, rich people don't even manage their own money. They pay someone else to take care of it and usually it's just in a standard mutual fund which anyone with a few thousand dollars can invest in.

>>20044310
HIS NAME IS CHRIS COCKS

>>20049014
Classic stupid take, the key is to break the relationship between the time you work and the money you get, so I build a cashflow positive asset and I have repeated the formula, is clear you have room temperature IQ, that is why did not understand anything, off yourself, please.

>>20048779
>They each have a point that involves a sort of 'religious experience' in combat and Three Sips of Gin is almost tasteless in its glorified presentation of it, whereas Fire Force reduces it to about two sentences and declines to make any judgements about the reasons for it.
I have a buddy who used to hang out with gangsters but ended up going the music scene route himself.
He said he knew a few guys who dealt drugs and carried guns, and he said every one that killed someone in some kind of turf beef or whatever ended up seeing the guy they shot in dreams and getting visited by demons in their dreams and stuff.
One of his best friends was one of these gun guys and he ended up setting himself on fire, and now has really serious burns on his body going all the way up his neck.

>>20049077
>the key is to get some extra money and then invest it
everyone knows that, you drooling retard

>>20049088
That's not what I mean by religious experience, I'm talking about close-calls with death. Even in Three Sips it's not schizo cringe like that.

>>20049108
hahahahahaha once again your stupidity blinds you... the key is NOT to make more money (most people just get another job) the key is to break the relationship between the time you work with the money you earn.... you only have 24 hours a day..... please, please, please KYS... or even better work as a slave, have a miserable live and get angry....

>>20049120
low quality bait, it needs to be drier in order to pass

>>20049112
>That's not what I mean by religious experience, I'm talking about close-calls with death. Even in Three Sips it's not schizo cringe like that.
I'm sorry my post was so much better and more meaningful than yours anon, I'll try to reel it in next time.

>>20049128
/x/ stuff is not meaningful, it's just overglorified genre fiction

God you guys are boring

>>20049128
>>20049153
ok, don't forget to keep breathing once you open the CO2 pipe....

>>20049153
I agree

>>20049153
>>20049199
> Enters into a thread about the most interesting book you have ever read.
>Complains about how boring the thread is./
> Does not post about the most interesting book he has ever read to make the thread interesting.

Fags.

>>20049279
>Complains about how boring the thread is./
I'm complaining about how boring your taste is. Nice reddit spacing btw

>>20043752
I'm pretty sure this whole theory was debunked, though it certainly is interesting

J. Storrs Hall's Where Is My Flying Car? It is a self-published polymath (history/science/engineering/literary analysis/economics) exploration of what future the early 20th century promised us, why didn't get it and how we can still have it. It is a difficult, fascinating, sad and optimistic book.

>>20049279
I actually did post mine and got replies, does not change the fact that this is a shit-tier thread.

>>20043721
This book, by far. Probably the one university course that will actually shatter whatever normie worldviews you had before. I still read it and reference it as much as I can

>>20049373
Actually, a publisher picked it up.

>>20048153
How come?

>>20049373
I like it as well, many accidental NRx takes in it

>>20049400
Tell me more about it.

>>20049651
No

>>20049717
I command you.

>>20049648
It's about as NRx as Zero to One.

>>20043721
At the Mountains of Madness

>>20044310
looks pretty neat thanks anon

>>20049648
>>20050164
Any good NRx recommendations?

>>20051127
Just read Unqualified Reservations and Xenosystems (through the Internet Archive).

>>20043721
Also sprach Zarathustra

>>20051127
What he >>20052128 said, also check out Bloody Shovel on bioleninism. If you want to consoome more content, check out the Distributist, and check out CovfefeAnon's twitter and people he retweets.

>>20051127
>>20052776
Most of the so called "neoreaction" on Twitter is just Catholics praying for theocracy, nothing "neo" about it. Moldbug is enough.