Any good books set in a soft-collapse type world? Stuff about economic or institutional decline in something like America, but not full zombie apocalypse dystopia?Sort of like Mad Max 1 or The Rover?
>>24975770The Sheep Look Up
>>24975770You mean like The Road by Cormac McCarthy?
>>24975770Day of the Triffads is kind of a soft decline.
why would you want a book when you can just look outside? seriously
Thread on traditional Spanish, or other, romances
Más arribita de Burgos hay una pequeña aldeadonde vive un comerciante, que vende paños y sedas.Tiene una mujer bonita, -valía más que fuera fea-tiene un hijo de cinco años, la cosa más parlotera.Todo lo que pasa en casa, a su padre se lo cuenta;su padre, por más quererlo, en las rodillas le sienta.Ven aquí tú, hijo querido, ven aquí, mi dulce prenda,quiero que todo me digas; en esta casa, ¿quién entra?Padre de mi corazón, el alférez de esta aldeaque llega todos los días y con mi madre conversa.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I believe the homosexual poet adapted this one
I don't get the hype. It seems to just be a book about some autist going around and scoring various shades of poontang. What the hell is going on in this book?
>>24977041I also thought it was boring and pointless. You are not alone.
>>24977041I'm glad this book filters retards. There's an alternative reality where this shit gets a netflix series and I blow my brains out
>>24977041Severian is a unreliable narrator which means he's lying all the time. You can pretty much make up your own story or listen to a podcast to tell you what really happened.
>>24977041I didn't get it either but the prose is nice and there's enough adventure to keep me interested
The first book you’re reading in 2026
I thought I was going to have the same thing with Gravity's Rainbow but managed to read almost 200 pages today, so I'm pretty sure I'll get it done.
Sentimental education, Flaubert
>>24975142Whatever's 1st on lit's top 100
>>24975142I'm reading something else at the moment but I made a thread on labor history trying to pick one of the three I posted. Would like if some people actually said something.
>>24977045I've been drinking too much and when I drink I can't concentrate on anything. Don't like leaving a book unfinished for the New Year but I won't be drinking in the New Year so it's not the end of the world.
His later works (especially North) are peak ww2 literature.
/lit/ hates the Exile trilogy because it's not sympathetic to Nazis and portrays them in a bad light
Céline>Proust
>>24974492Not very comparable outside of them being frogs
>>24974650Both write memoirs dressed up as fiction.
>>24973200I will now buy your book.
WHY IS EVERY FUCKING MODERN AUTHOR NOW A WOMAN? WHERE DID THE MEN GO?
>>24976037Care to elaborate?
>>24976174No.
>>24973673it doesn't pay well
>>24968349most men are philistines, this board isn't indicative of what most men are doing in their freetime.
>>24976074>James Patterson"white older male writers aren't getting hired for writing gigs in film or publishing right now... that's just another form of racism." - james pattersonhe apologized after the woke mob threatened to cancel him.
Book charts that I cannot find anywhere but know only /LIT/nerds have them saved somewhere. Post pics of some esoteric charts so that I can save them, pic related.>Inb4 check sticky wikiThe ones I have seen are not on there.
>>24974461You can add to the mega, which is included on the wiki, you didn't see it, by using: https://mega.nz/megadrop/mcId0tMu0xMas it says in the mega
>>24974065>https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/E3BGRT7KI don't know what you have already seen. Maybe you will find some stuff here. Not mine though.
>>24974863Nah shit somehow didn't see it was already posted. Sorry.
>>24974872It's alright lol. thx
>>24974065>start with Eutyphro Automatically discarded. Colleges make you start with Eutyphro because they are desperate to make you an atheist. The correct starting point is Apology, since it lays down the thought of Socrates.
Crowley did 9/11, look it up.
>>24975099The guy getting punished doesn't exist, he's a product of your mind, a spook. Only the guy who wants to rape statues exists.
Crowley seems ultimately right.Like if Thelema is cope, like all occultism, religion, and philosophy, in a lot of ways it's clearly the best/most practical cope we have. But practically applying Thelema is going to be a comedic mess for the forseeable future.
>>24973379i learnt last week that MI5/6 are intentionally turning people into radical islamists and bringing radical islamists into the UK in order to export them as weapons in the middle east
>>24971735you don't need to know how to read to acquire the knowledge that he claimed to have. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MPHyR92MQic
Renaissance edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24914151>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>24975436thx, fixed it for next thread
>>24976065So you can’t defend your sad conjecture and you’re giving up. Understood.
>>24976231No I just think what I said is obvious and I’m not going to work to convince the butthurt
>>24957155You have to read a lot of secondary literature too. Same is true of the Bible or any other major religious text. I suggest starting with a textbook or article series or something, otherwise its sort of a performative exercise. You are reading for esotericism rather than actual cultural knowledge and understanding.
>>24976065>>24976306That anon's right, you didn't make any case, you just asserted your opinion and said, "but this other book I read was clear to me," which does nothing to establish the professoriate trying to impress each other. You present it as a "for example" and make a total non-sequitor leap. Maybe actually finish your logic books and start working through some rhetoric books.
Whenever I read literature pre-1960s I kind of amused at how normalized it is for characters to seek out prostitutes. I was just reading lolita and Humbert has many moments with french streetwalkers in the beginning.It's almost like they were a normal facet of men's lives back before internet porn and feminism. It's almost like the concept of casual sex with a normal woman was unimaginable Were brothels really that common back then?
>>24976938Not jerking off to porn and always having seed ready to sew because you only cum in pussy. Lots of rape.
>>24974349Zoomer retard
>>24974520one of the old professions, lol
>>24976932Where lol. I've lived there in the past there was no such thing
>>24976915It doesn't matter what women want in the long run unless they want to kill off the human race.
Philosophy certified high T
>>24976294Why is male-male romance listed but female-female isn't?Guess I'll write some cozy yuri fantasy for male reprobates and enby bluehairs
>>24977120I so hope you're right.
>>24976421>why am I, a woman, loves to readto pretend to be smarter than you are, judging from this grasp of grammar
>>24977122The graph was probably made by a woman
>>24977113>>24977120the last person i met who was seriously into philosophy was a literal leftist cuck obsessed with worshipping niggers
How many books did you read this year?
>>24976870I mean I guess I could read all of Metamorphoses?
>>24976530Yes. You’ll either love it or hate it. It’s not for someone looking for The Exorcist pt. 2. The cases become increasingly hard to believe, and concerned with theology / christology. There’s only one “occultist gets possessed” case. The rest of them concern dogma. The conclusion is either “this whole thing is horseshit” or “Only because of God’s Mercy there are not billions of possessed people right now.”
>>24975923I've been reading for +5 years and it's only recently that I've finished my 100th book wtf am I doing wrong?
Around 27 which is down but thats because I was reading a bunch of novellas last year
>>24977127About two books a month for pleasure is not bad at all. You could of course learn techniques of speedreading, set aside more time for books, add audiobooks for commute or walks, buy shorter or more captivating books, join a bookclub, or set 52 as a yearly challenge.
What's so scary about recognizing your own insignificance in the grand scheme of things?
>>24974915>WeStop right there. You're wrong already.
>>24974899Actually you're all insignificant but I'm not
>>24974899It's not that scary. Realising that there's no guarantee that you're insignificant is scarier.
No one over 14 is getting scared by Lovecraft's story's anyway
>>24974969Atheism is a good way to doom your genes to nonexistence
I read three whole books this year.
>>24977110Does manga, comics, and children's stories count?;
>>24977110better than most
>>24977110Now kindly leave. We have STANDARDS here! Four books minimum or you aren't welcome.
>>24977110nice. I didn't count mine
>biblical analogy
