>>24626298
Ignoring it and only reading old shit. I haven't been in a bookstore for at least 5 years. I get get my books either used or digitally. Older prints look better anyway, especially prints from the 60s to 80s.

book covers of the last years are slop without any taste, fuck all these shitty rainbow color vomit monstrosities

I'm a man in my 30s and I love romantasy books. I can't get enough of them. I think my top 3 would be Vow of Thieves, Sky in the Deep and Master of Iron. I also wrote my own romantasy novel that has gotten some positive feedback from my small reader base. I think I might submit it with a female pen name and see what happens.

>>24634978
so you're a homosexual, good to know

>>24626298
>final solution
kek

>>24635056
I am reading: Studies in the History of the Renaissance by Walter Pater.

This Inevitable Ruin -- love some litrpg slop
The Myth of Sisyphus -- short essay I thought sounded intriguing
A Gentleman in Moscow -- I wanted to read some historical fiction and this fit the bill.

>>24635056
Found Beckett’s trilogy at a thrift store, so I’m currently reading Molloy. Honestly I hate it but I’ll push through them regardless.

>>24635201
Don't bother, he is an overrated hack.

>>24635224
That seems to be the general sentiment here and so far I agree, but I’m almost done with Molloy and Malone dies is short so I may as well read that much. I’m unsure if I’ll start the Unnamable however.

i've built myself a castle of stolen cliche and encased myself with a massive glass wall. try as i do i can't break it. i throw a silver bead of will as hard as i can but it bounces off the glass with incredible speed and flies into my eye and destroys my vein and blinds me. i've blinded my eyes each ten times and have two hundred beads imbedded inside my liquid brain. it's all very confusing.

>Want to write something badly.
>Have no idea what to actually write about
What do I do? Do I just not have any creative ideas?

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>>24634994
I'm so serious. You first need to come home to yourself. The static in your mind will clear. Things will become more effortlessly obvious.

>>24634994
God for a big walk. I find every time I get creatively and intellectually stuck, I find a big walk just gets the brain moving.

>>24633856
https://pdsh.fandom.com
There are plenty of them. They are pretty underdeveloped given the time they were written, but that just means there's a lot of room to get creative

>>24634194
ghostwriter used to be so good for this kind of thing.
But it's now a mess. As always I blame KDE.

>>24634306
i can't use a GUI or I'll just watch youtube videos all day. I boot into a debian installation without a gui and write in the tty. I have some simple CLI tools like wordnet and wikipedia2text, but that's it. I have to actually reboot my machine into my normal system to access a graphic interface, so I won't get distracted by youtube or big booty latinas on xhamster.

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>>24634194
who is r.crumb?

>>24634870
Stinky degenerate hippy who pretends he isn't a hippie because he listens to jazz instead of Jefferson Airplane.

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As a programmer, use vim, specifically neovim. Just using vim will trigger the same areas of your brain that'd be triggered by executing a satisfying combo in a video-game.

In my literature class in middle school we would read only holocaust memoirs or books about slavery. Really turned me off of reading until a couple of years ago.

My teacher was South African and gave me 100% for an essay where I used the nigger word and read it out to the whole class

>>24634945
I guess in my country, we had AP English and they would discuss literature in depth.
t. AP math

>>24635026
Same. Just guilt trip shit.
>>24634945
While for the most part AP and IB classes are where everything happens inside bright minds. Not to get all allegorical but those classes are it.
The only personal experience I can attest to was learning Chaucer and Shakespeare in HS instead of lesser writers like Poe or Salinger. Orwell even.

>On rooftop cornice gargoyle look down at me with familiar expression. Same scowl as ex-wife. For heartbeat I admit little bit loneliness before thirsty overrides suka blyat. At bar I sit barstool that know ass better than home toilet seat. I give Dmitri suka blyat gold-pocket watch and he give me vodka. For short time I feel bit happy before I remember fucking shit world live in.

Get a proper E ink. The Kobo libra 2 is what I have. There's a color version now that's pretty sick apparently but also apparently not as clear for black and white text so get a used one or otherwise any other medium.

It's insanely comfortable and it lasts forever and I find it easier to just pull out and read especially at night.

>>24633964
color is shit for both comics and B&W

>>24629926
yes, kindle scribe is like my 3rd favorite thing. It's big enough for A4 PDFs, you can write on it with a stylus, longass battery life and quick pageturning. No flicker.
I fucked up my eyes early on and had kindles ever since the one with a physical keyboard, lol. They're quite good but of course the battery will degrade with time, so it's not a lifetime gadget or anything.
Don't listen to the anons who say a phone/tablet with screen protector is the same. The whole issue is whether the screen lights directly vs reflects light. It's like the difference between staring at the sun vs just looking at stuff in sunlight. The newer kindles come with backlight, for example, but turning it on will tire out your eyes anyway. I recommend getting a clip-on reading lamp for reading at night.
A must-have software is calibre (free), makes it very easy to organize your library and send/remove stuff to/from the device, reformat, change title/cover etc.

got a lobo Clara hd
>supposedly requires an account but it's easy to bypass
>easy to install koreader, syncthing and nickelmenu, I don't know how useable kobo software is
>epubs suggested but kobo does mobi, azw3, pdf, txt, html
>no flicker
>feels about the same, main differences are navigation, certain pdfs (i.e. turning it to landscape and trying to get half a page at a time on larger books or swapping between 1 and 2 columns because whoever scanned it decided to include both 1 and 2 page scans), and having multiple dictionaries and encyclopedias at my fingertips.

>>24629926
i have a kobo. its nice but you can also just read on your phone if you have a good one with moonreader. i just pirate shit from libgen and load it to my kobo, no problem. epubs work great but reading pdfs is impossible on that thing.

>>24634213
Because they don't believe in it, never felt it and don't even pretend to try as an exercise. It also allows them to roleplay as the badasses facing the harsh reality while psychiatrizing any other position.

>>24635123
You can believe in an afterlife, without it being God torturing you forever

Christians:
>Religious trauma isn't real, people claiming to have been stressed out and anxious about hell are mentally ill and lying
also Christians:
>I am the biggest boy. I believe in the scariest fairytales. I am a tough guy

>>24635174

Actually, an argument can be made that humans really can't. The negative aspects of human psychology are by far the stronger and dominant affects, which is why these spiteful and vindictive affects manifest themselves so regularly in various forms of an unpleasant afterlife. Religion in general is nothing else than a series of projections of humanity's strongest emotional feelings-the negative ones-onto a narrative worldview, always imagined out of whole cloth.

It takes someone as mean-spirited as a human being not only to assert hell, but, adding insult to injury, to insist that it is just. And they do it all the time.

>>24634343
The entire financial world is looking for an edge over their competitors to accumulate more capital. Can you name one company that uses "psi research" to gain that edge?

As a stock trader, can you outperform the S&P 500 with your "precognition"? No? So basically whenever you measure this stuff against material reality it is no better than chance or guessing? Right. Throwing yourself into woo woo doesn't make you a free thinker. It makes you a mark to be conned.

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>>24635140
I personally think this retard couldn't into SR and GR and sought consolation for this ineptitude in meritless verbiage

He would high five Okonkwo and John the Savage, say "Schmitt was right not to denazify," and do a backflip off a bridge

Asking what someone who never witnessed the post-1980s decline of humanity would think of 2025 is like asking what a bee would think if you shot a flamethrower at it, it wouldn't be able to comprehend what is happening and would simply be incinerated in an instant. It's not like a Martin Heidegger could appear in 2025 and look around and say "These 'trannies' aren't good; you should read my philosophy and consider setting the clocks back 20 years." He lived in an all white society with a real average IQ 30+ points higher, where even the stupid people comported themselves well and learned etiquette and subordinated themselves to social standards. He would be straining every neuron in his normal human trying to figure out why everyone is a fat faggot nigger with an untucked shirt and then he'd see a fentanyl zombie or a tranny and his head would simply explode, he would ontologically discombobulate and self-annihilate like matter and antimatter. It's like when Adorno saw some tits and simply died in protest, his very soul said "I don't like where this is going, so I am leaving."

>>24635140
"Nietzsche was right..."

>>24635169
>>24635140
The same shit Hank Hill would complain about in the reboot..now join or die the technological millennium

>>24635166
damn

>>24634562
if change is not real why does it appear so?

>>24632855
>Who was in the right?
Both
t. hegel

>>24632855
I'll give this board a try. Why not? Despite Parmenides' student (Zeno) creating various paradoxes to support his positions, one in particular stands out. The dichotomy paradox. If there exists infinite steps between two points, then motion would require an infinite number of steps from one side to the other and thus never actually begin. Empiricists would argue this is absurd, by the very fact that if this were true, one would never die. If you substitute both points for one's birth and death, then according to his own logic, death would never occur. Yet we all know this to be a falsehood. Perhaps it's justified that the greatest argument against permanence is physically walking away from the argument. ;)

>>24635126
>didnt read
Read the Greeks.

>>24635178
>didnt comprehend
Read the Greeks again.

>>24635204
Walter Pater's Appreciations, With an Essay on Style

>I said, thinking of books like Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, that prose literature was the characteristic art of the nineteenth century, as others, thinking of its triumphs since the youth of Bach, have assigned that place to music. Music and prose literature are, in one sense, the opposite terms of art; the art of literature presenting to the imagination, through the intelligence, a range of interests, as free and various as those which music presents to it through sense. And certainly the tendency of what has been here said is to bring literature too under those conditions, by conformity to which music takes rank as the typically perfect art. If music be the ideal of all art whatever, precisely because in music it is impossible to distinguish the form from the substance or matter, the subject from the expression, then, literature, by finding its specific excellence in the absolute correspondence of the term to its import, will be [38] but fulfilling the condition of all artistic quality in things everywhere, of all good art.

>Good art, but not necessarily great art; the distinction between great art and good art depending immediately, as regards literature at all events, not on its form, but on the matter. Thackeray's Esmond, surely, is greater art than Vanity Fair, by the greater dignity of its interests. It is on the quality of the matter it informs or controls, its compass, its variety, its alliance to great ends, or the depth of the note of revolt, or the largeness of hope in it, that the greatness of literary art depends, as The Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, Les Misérables, The English Bible, are great art. Given the conditions I have tried to explain as constituting good art;—then, if it be devoted further to the increase of men's happiness, to the redemption of the oppressed, or the enlargement of our sympathies with each other, or to such presentment of new or old truth about ourselves and our relation to the world as may ennoble and fortify us in our sojourn here, or immediately, as with Dante, to the glory of God, it will be also great art; if, over and above those qualities I summed up as mind and soul—that colour and mystic perfume, and that reasonable structure, it has something of the soul of humanity in it, and finds its logical, its architectural place, in the great structure of human life.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4037/4037-h/4037-h.htm

Oh and Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation

>In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54889e73e4b0a2c1f9891289/t/564b6702e4b022509140783b/1447782146111/Sontag-Against+Interpretation.pdf

>>24634740
What of India?

I liked Alien Clay but I doubt it's what this shit thread is looking for

>>24635116
>Indian: Rape and protect dung piles
But I know very little about India. From a prehistory book I learned that Indus valley civilization was very slow to develop large cities and become a powerhouse, despite having plenty of fertile land. They must have preferred basic trad life. They traded with their neighbors and had enough contact with other groups, yet stayed behind technologically and civilization-wise.

>>24635161
Alright, this shit thread has planned to read Tshaikovsky sometime in the not so nearest future. Will bump his priority.

>>24635188
?

As for me, I am not reading the Aenid, thank you for asking.

>>24635110
Filtered

Based OP, it's the Roman Iliad basically. Also Turnus did nothing wrong

>>24635108
Finished Name of the Rose, Portrait of the Artist, and read through Murakami's Norwegian Wood (don't judge me—I needed to decompress from the last two) this week. Next, I think I'll go through some shorter works. Finally Camus, I think. Maybe some more Kafka. Then I read some Updike.

>>24635108
I’ve always found the image of Anchises being carried on Aeneas’ back just ridiculous. Why not carry Ascanius and lead the old man?

>>24635110
Why not?
>>24635115
I really liked the Illiad and the Oddyssey so Im reading this one now
>>24635124
Nice list
>>24635159
A kid has more energy than an old man, he doesnt need to be carried

>>24635179
It’s a novel of few redeeming qualities and with shitty prose, as is to be expected of the much overrated Pynchon.

EL FILTRADO .. IT IS ALL VIBE

>>24635158
>Hannah Arendt
She was a conservative

>>24635180
Thats why you must stop reading her.
Start reading Mao instead.

And remember, anyone who calls Losurdo a tankie is a glowie.

>>24635158

Thanks for teh recs, I'll read them all

>>24635158
For yet another time, the work of critical theorists and these socio-political philosophers are useful for understanding the Western spirit, history of ideas, and adverse effects of society's power structures on both the communal and individual mind, and should be read by everyone with intellectual curiosity, political interest, and ideological concern, no matter where they are on the political spectrum.