/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15200578]

Top 5 favorite books you've read. Go.

[Anonymous No.15200589]

>>15200578
typically i prefer lighter roasts, and breasts

[Anonymous No.15200591]

>>15200578
God how can such simple curves cause me so much agony

[Anonymous No.15200596]

>>15200578
Anna Karenina
Lolita
King Lear
Blood Meridian
Absalom, Absalom

[Anonymous No.15200598]

[Anonymous No.15200602]

>>15200578
In no particular order:
In no particular order:
>Motivation and Personality - Maslow
>Psychology and Epistemology - Piaget
>On Becoming a Person - Rogers
>A Way of Being - Rogers
>The Tipping Point - Gladwell

Hopefully this thread won't derail like last time

[Anonymous No.15200626]

>>15200578
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
The Discourses of Epictetus - Epictetus/Arrian
Protagoras - Plato
Life of Prominent Romans - Plutarch
Gorgias - Plato

>>15200591
Control your base desires, anon

[Anonymous No.15200655]

>>15200578
Suttree
The Decline Of The West
Cities Of The Plain
Kampf Um Berlin
Der Mensch und die Technik

Cormac McCarthy is the only good thing to come out of America.

[Anonymous No.15200669]

Bataille - The Accursed Share
Guyotat - Eden Eden Eden
Baudelaire - The Flowers of Evil
Bernhard - The Loser
Beckett - How It Is

[Anonymous No.15200670]

Gargantua and Pantagruel
Mein Kampf
The Bible
The Fault in Our Stars
We (Zamyatin)
>pic unrelated

[Anonymous No.15200684]

>15200670
go away (you) farmer

[Anonymous No.15200730]

hehe I'm gonna coom to this OP

[Anonymous No.15200771]

>>15200578
Check out the mammaries on that one.

[Anonymous No.15200793]

>>15200578
How is the best way to report your post?

[Anonymous No.15200861]

>>15200578
World as Will and Representation
Journey to the End of the Night
The Trial
Gorgias
Storm of Steel

[Anonymous No.15200869]

>>15200578
Photo is cropped so you can't see her huge fucking belly. Get your BBW wannabe gf out of here she's dirtying up the literature

[Anonymous No.15200879]

>>15200578
Sex (the book)

[Anonymous No.15200881]

>>15200869
She is gorgeous. You just want to knock her down so you can delude yourself that you would of had a chance

[Anonymous No.15200884]

>>15200578
I havent read 5 books

[Anonymous No.15200891]

no coffee isnt good for you.

[Anonymous No.15200937]

>>15200578
Iliad
Hamlet
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Collected Poetry and Prose of Celan
Attention: Land of Dispatches

recs? Finishing Fitzgerald’s Aeneid right now, got Lombardo and Wilson’s Iliad and Odyssey on the way, as well as Flaubert’s Three Tales.

[Anonymous No.15200951]

>>15200937
The Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost

[Anonymous No.15200953]

My top 5
> coffee: blessing or curse?
> on coffee
> coffee
> Coffee: a history
> is coffee good for you?

[Anonymous No.15200954]

>>15200670
Obvious b8

[Anonymous No.15200962]

>>15200596
Based. There’s a nice post-historicist play between Blood Meridian and Absalom. I’ve only done research on the latter but would love to bridge the two.

>>15200602
Psych major?

>>15200626
What Plutarch edition would you rec?

>>15200669
Based. Pretty sure we’ve talked about the Beckett before. Good to see Bataille on your list.

>>15200670
Based top three.

[Anonymous No.15200973]

>>15200953
What about "Essays on Coffee by Jean Jacques Titois"?

[Anonymous No.15200984]

>>15200951
Thanks anon, I started Mandelbaum’s Commedia but haven’t made it into the Purgatorio (wish it was a single volum). I'll move that up the list. Kinda want to do a massive English Lit refresher from Chaucer to the Metaphysical Poets before I try Milton again. My last attempt was stunted.

[Anonymous No.15200985]

>>15200881
Anyone who looks like your mom is gorgeous to you

[Anonymous No.15200996]

>>15200881
No I just don't like fat girls. I'm able to restrict my calories so I expect the same of females

[Anonymous No.15200997]

>>15200578
Obvious trap. Look at that fucked up jaw. Look at the hands. How could anyone fall for this?

[Anonymous No.15201117]

10/10 looks

[Anonymous No.15201123]

>>15200578
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Goodnight Moon
Moo Baa La La La
The Little Owl
Peek-a Who?

[Anonymous No.15201146]

>>15200962
>Psych major?
Yeah, I don't really know what I want to specialize in yet, but humanism, dialectal interactionism between individuals and their environment, and epistemological development are really fascinating subjects.

[Anonymous No.15201149]

>>15201123
>no Peepo!

[Anonymous No.15201162]

She had to put the smaller bikini back for those saggy yams

[Anonymous No.15201171]

>>15201146
Gl with no employment

Psychology, the new poli sci major for morons with depression

[Anonymous No.15201174]

>>15200602
Hey, thanks for introducing me to Piaget

[Anonymous No.15201183]

>>15200578
The Idiot
The Fall
The Trial
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Sun Also Rises

[Anonymous No.15201256]

The Crossing
Gravity's Rainbow
Train Dreams
Anna Karenina
The Savage Detectives

[Anonymous No.15201317]

>>15201171
Depends on what you intend to do with it, how you network, and how far you're willing to go in academia. If you take the major because you think it will be easy and don't actually apply yourself when studying then maybe the end result will be unfulfilling, but those who actually engage with the material should do fine.

>Psychology, the new poli sci major for morons with depression
Obviously, there's always a few people who use it as a really expensive four year session of psychotherapy, but hopefully a majority of students pursue the degree to apply what they've learned in the real world, not just to try to heal their teenage confusion/depression.

>>15201174
>Hey, thanks for introducing me to Piaget
Were you that one anon that I compiled/recommended psych material for in this thread: >>/lit/thread/S14569466
If so, you're welcome, happy I could help.

[Anonymous No.15201385]

>>15200578
Paradise Lost
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Pale Fire
Ulysses
The Odyssey

[Anonymous No.15201427]

>>15201317

[Anonymous No.15201436]

>>15201317
Never met a single psychology major that didn't see a therapist on a regular basis

[Anonymous No.15201438]

The Decameron
Candide
The Count of Monte Cristo
Lord Jim
Catch-22

[Anonymous No.15201468]

>>15201146
OG responding anon (not the hot take asshole who replied first). Got any general recs for someone who use to like psych in high school, kind of fell out of it in college (im sure being a phil. major didnt help), and is interested in getting back into it? Ive read a nice chunk of the classic.

[Anonymous No.15201471]

Genesis
Faust, Goethe
Foundation, Asimov
Behave, Sapolsky
Historia General de Chile, Barros Arana

[Anonymous No.15201480]

>>15201438
Based. Do you have a recommended into Conrad? Ive read Heart of Darkness.

[Anonymous No.15201490]

>>15200598

[Anonymous No.15201518]

>>15201480
Lord Jim is the sequel and a must read if you liked HoD.

[Anonymous No.15201548]

>>15200578
Portrait of An Artist as a Young Man by Joyce
Ada or Ador: A Family Chronicle by Nabakov
Journey to the End of the Night by Celine
Cathay by Pound
The World ss Will and Representation by Schopenhauer

[Anonymous No.15201556]

>>15201183
I'm going to write a book for you called "The The"

Ulysses
Pale Fire
The Man without Qualities
To the Lighthouse
Crime and Punishment

[Anonymous No.15201595]

>>15200670
why aren't people replying to this more?

[Anonymous No.15201642]

>>15201595
People dont read dude

[Anonymous No.15201670]

>>15201595
It's low quality bait and your probably the one who posted it, disappointed you didn't get enough (You)s, drawing attention to it again was your next strategy.

[Anonymous No.15201683]

>>15201670
Not everyone thinks in the same brainrot loop as you, simp

[Anonymous No.15201695]

>>15200578
the stand
a history of the circle
anabasis of alexander
voyage of the beagle
rumblefish

[Anonymous No.15201704]

>>15200578
Hunger
The Idiot
Stoner
Fathers and Sons
The Birds

tried to get 5 different authors since Dosto or Hamsun would have dominated otherwise

[Anonymous No.15201711]

>>15201683
>brainrot loop
>using the word simp unironically
Ask me how I can tell that you're easily influenced by your environment and can't string together a sentence without resorting to "word of the month" buzzwords.

[Anonymous No.15201716]

>>15201683
>>15201670
He was right though. I thought it was obvious that I was responding to myself. I just wanted to know why my bait got so few replies this time.

[Anonymous No.15201734]

>>15201711
Okay Mr.
>bait
>(You)
>cynical exposition about samefagging sounding like a borderline schizo
We’re both part of the problem. You can “go kill yourself” though, luckily.

[Anonymous No.15201746]

>>15201716
Distinguish “bait” and “every other thread aimed at generating discussion” for me and I’ll distinguish why I don’t care. The author is dead anon. We’ve inherited the text.

[Anonymous No.15201767]

>>15201746
This was a roastie thread, I remembered that I haven't posted the puzzle in a while so I thought why not post it in this bait thread to derail it into something more interesting?
Also if you're at all curious, it's actually not B. I would not waste my time just to lie like that (there would be no point in it).

[Anonymous No.15201780]

>>15201695
reading The Stand right now... sooooo comfy

[Anonymous No.15201806]

El Filibusterismo
Florante at Laura
The Illiad
Perdido Street Station
Tigana

[Anonymous No.15201822]

War and Peace
The Man Without Qualities
The Idiot
Hopscotch
Book of Disquiet

[Anonymous No.15201874]

>>15201704
>The Birds
by who?

[Anonymous No.15201909]

The Bannatyne Manuscript
The Wallace
The Brus
The Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland
The Poems of Robert Henrysone

[Anonymous No.15201967]

>>15200869
>he hasn't taken the chubbpill
Pathetic.

[Anonymous No.15202064]

>>15200793
Low quality.

[Anonymous No.15202133]

>>15201468
>Got any general recs for someone who use to like psych in high school, kind of fell out of it in college
I made a list a while back that I linked in this post: >>15201317
It's near the end and starts with pic related, hopefully you'll find it somewhat useful. My own trajectory through the literature has been weird and I've unintentionally strayed away from what I'd describe as general psych so I don't really know what people usually read to get a broad view of the field.
>I've read a nice chunk of the classic
What have you read? What are you interested in exploring?

>>15201436
>Never met a single psychology major that didn't see a therapist on a regular basis
I'll match your anecdotal evidence with my own and say that most people I know have pursued it for a variety of reasons, including either overcoming/attempting to understand personal issues they face. I'd be reluctant to accept that a majority of psych majors are broken people who've established this cynical feedback loop in which they are training to become the very thing they are interfacing with on a regular basis.
It is true that prior life experience may serve as the impetus for specializing in a particular discipline. For example, the individual whose family is devastated by a drug overdose causing them to become an addictions counselor so no other family has to experience such tragedy again.

>>15201471
>Behave, Sapolsky
Great pick

[Anonymous No.15202160]

Denial of Death
Culture of narcissism
Don quixote
East of Eden
Maupassant short storied

[Anonymous No.15202187]

Stoner
American Psycho
A Confederacy of Dunces

I have read more, but I often quit books since the ones recommended here suck so much.

[Anonymous No.15202214]

>>15200598
Basically this. Fuck OP

[Anonymous No.15202380]

>>15200578
Frankenstein
Space Odyssey
Childhood's End
Solaris
either Poe's Complete Works or the Claus and Lucas Trilogy

[Anonymous No.15202421]

>>15200962
>Pretty sure we’ve talked about the Beckett before.
lmao is it that obvious? After years of posting about it people are finally starting to pay attention. I'm pretty sure I'm the reason it made it onto the doomercore chart, don't think anyone had actually talked about it on here before me (not bragging).

[Anonymous No.15202445]

>>15202380
>Childhood's End
great book.

[Anonymous No.15202576]

>>15200578
Qohelet/Ecclesiastes
The denial of death
Poems by Archilocus

My list is finished. The rest is entertainment. These books are the base man needs to understand his condition, everything comes after.

[Anonymous No.15202762]

better quality

[Anonymous No.15202865]

>>15202762
Fuck you

[Anonymous No.15202891]

>>15201822
The absolute unit

[Anonymous No.15202911]

>>15200578
Dubliners
Story of the Eye
The Stranger
Capital Vol. 1
A Chronicle of a Death Foretold

[Anonymous No.15202933]

Anna Karenina
In Search of Lost Time
Paradise Lost
Metamorphoses
To the Lighthouse

[Anonymous No.15202942]

Joseph and His Brothers
Buddenbrooks
Don Quixote
Paradise Loft
Ovid's Metamorphoses

[Anonymous No.15202967]

>>15200578
Cringe jezebelposter, everyone must remember to sage
Moby Dick
Ethica
The Count of Monte Cristo
Phaedo (though not really a book on it's own so I'd also include the other dialogues chronically Socrates's trial and death)
The Master and Margarita
>>15201123
>no mousehole cat

[Anonymous No.15202990]

Brothers Karamazov by Dostoievski
Crime and Punishment by Dostoievski
Confabulario by Arreola
Ficciones by Borges
El Hacedor by Borges

/Lit/inamerican fag here.

[Anonymous No.15203004]

>>15202990
>/Lit/inamerican fag here.
Who cares?

[Anonymous No.15203056]

>>15200578
Moby Dick
Pride and Prejudice
Absalom Absalom
Dead Man's Float
Fear and Trembling

[Anonymous No.15203071]

Michael Herr - Dispatches
Don Delillo - Libra
Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums
Thomas Pynchon - Mason and Dixon
James Joyce - Dubliners

[Anonymous No.15203075]

Golden Pavilion - Mishima
One Hundred Years of Solitude - García Márquez
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway
The Trial - Kafka
I am a Cat - Soseki

[Anonymous No.15203088]

Being and Tme
The Critique of Pure Reason
The Trial
The Metamorphosis
Candide

[Anonymous No.15203107]

>>15200578
The Golden Ass
The Chuang Tzu
Candide
Cannery Row
The Castle

[Anonymous No.15203147]

>>15202933
What's your top 3 volumes of In Search of Lost Time?

>>15202942
What are your favorite stories from Metamorphoses?

>>15203107
What are your favorite episodes from Cannery Row?

[Anonymous No.15203161]

>>15203147
There's more than one volume?

[Anonymous No.15203176]

>>15203161
Anon, I...

[Anonymous No.15203230]

>>15203147
1. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
2. The Guermantes Way
3. Swann's Way

Volumes 2 & 3 are definitely above the rest.

[Anonymous No.15203257]

>>15203230
I'm going through ISOLT, I've read the first and second volume and I'm loving it so far (even if some parts are really dense, not to mention that I wish there were more character interactions as opposed to narrator's essay-like thoughts and observations), sad to see that 2 & 3 are above the rest.
I heard that for the third volume you need to know about the Dreyfus affair, is the wikipedia page going to suffice?

[Anonymous No.15203292]

>>15200578
I'm pretty sure I've seen her nudes.

[Anonymous No.15203301]

>>15200669
How long did it take you to get into How It Is, I tried breaking into it, though it never really clicked.

[Anonymous No.15203311]

>>15203147
I don't have the book with me, but I love the frog catching scene, doc coming home to his destroyed home, and the bit about the beetles praying with their butts in the air. I've always wondered about Doc finding the girl dead in the tidepool. What was that chapter really about?

[Anonymous No.15203321]

>>15203056
I have to write a paper on Fear and Trembling, what would you want to write it about?

[Anonymous No.15203333]

Industrial Society and Its Future
Mein Kampf
Revolt Against The Modern World
Decline of the West
Demons

[Anonymous No.15203338]

>>15203257
The latter volumes are still good, comparable to the first volume. If you don't know about the Dreyfus affair you will be slightly lost in a few interactions, similar to the chapters with the Slavic question in Anna Karenina, but it won't ruin the experience. Just reading a summary/wiki of the affair is enough.

[Anonymous No.15203396]

The First Circle, Stoner, Complete Short Stories of Hemingway, La Cite Antique, Canticle for Leibowitz

[Anonymous No.15203446]

Shogun
brothers karamazov
LOTR
Inside the Third Reich
The Iliad

I need to read more fiction since a lot of what I read I'd consider informative but not so enjoyable I consider it a favourite.

[Anonymous No.15203523]

>>15200578

War and Peace
Anna Karenina
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Memoirs of Hadrian
Lolita

[Anonymous No.15203635]

>>15203301
I took a specialist course on Samuel Beckett at university and read his entire body of work, so by the time I tackled How It Is, I had already read most of his works, exempting his poetry and a few plays. I think what really unlocked it for me however was my tutor, he didn't explicitly nudge me in a direction as such but rather opened my eyes to what literature (or Beckett's texts in particular) could be capable of. I spent a lot of time reading it, re-reading it, falling asleep while reading it and then waking up and carrying on, making insane notes and diagrams as I went along, pacing about my house reciting passages of it to myself, etc..

Because I was committed to writing my essay on that text and that text alone, "sealing" myself into it its claustrophobic space, my interest in it took hold of me like a kind of mania. The essay was 4000 words max but before I started editing I think I had written 12000 in word. I don't think I've ever really been the same person since, desu. Shit changes you, man.

[Anonymous No.15203726]

>>15203321
I was a history major, not a philosophy major, so what I found interesting was the relation of Kierkegaard's suspension of the ethical or absolute relationship to God and various national responses to that. I'm sure something could be said about Hegel's belief in ethics and the state if you wanted a philosophical approach but that's way out of my wheelhouse.

[Anonymous No.15203779]

Thats a man btw

[Anonymous No.15203787]

>>15200670
I solved the stupid puzzle

My first guess what that it would be the center of the top face, but it isn't. It's the halfway point between the center of the top face and the point B.

[Anonymous No.15203826]

>>15200578
i like those breasts

[Anonymous No.15204059]

>>15203826
she's got flawless skin too...
god fuck why am I so desperate

[Anonymous No.15204166]

>>15204059
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSirenMika/

Looks like there’s a subreddit dedicated to her

[Anonymous No.15204242]

Cien Años de Soledad
Anna Karenina
The Name of the Rose
La Ciudad y los Perros
Cuentos de la Selva

[Anonymous No.15204319]

Never let me go
The Tartar Steppe
1984
fight club
brothers karamazov

[Anonymous No.15204339]

>>15203292
share them if true

[Anonymous No.15204366]

>>15204166
>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSirenMika/
her breasts look like they might feel soft

[Anonymous No.15204394]

>>15200655
>Cormac McCarthy is the only thing I read

[Anonymous No.15204403]

Song of Achilles
House of Leaves
Revelation Space
The Road
The Master and His Emissary

[Anonymous No.15204584]

>>15204403
>that list
jesus anon the road is not even top 5 mccarthy(7-9)

[Anonymous No.15204613]

>>15201780
Ending is shit, you'll end up disappointed.

[Anonymous No.15204632]

>>15200578
Watership Down
City of God (Saint Augustine)
Lost in Japan
Wealth of Nations Books IV-V
Sérotonin

[Anonymous No.15204649]

>>15200578
Lolita
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Little, Big
Durling's translation of Dante
The first half of Winter's Tale

[Anonymous No.15204650]

Inferno
Solaris
Do androids...
Augustus
Ficciones or Aleph

[Anonymous No.15204654]

>>15204403
Did you like Circe, anon?

[Anonymous No.15204672]

Fuck op's pick looks like a girl who liked me and I didn't know so never asked out but when asked out she was going out with some guy fffuuuuuu I want a busty gf- gonna hide this thread now

[Anonymous No.15204753]

>>15204649
>Winter’s Tale
Shakespeare or Halperin?

[Anonymous No.15204813]

Men are so disgusting. Commenting without purpose. Commenting for absolutely no reason except maybe to display their own vile behavior.

[Anonymous No.15205213]

>>15204753
Helprin

[Anonymous No.15205226]

>>15200598
and it works every time - it's so hard being an ape.

[Anonymous No.15205556]

bump