just finished thiswhat should i think of it
I recently read it as wellThought it was okTo be honest i have read this and the red and the black, and the French blackpilling just gets to me. Like somehow these books are negative for your soul, even these heroic actions of Julien Baseder just leave you feeling empty.Compared to say Dostoyevsky, st. Augustine, Junger are more positive for the soul, even though not all flowers and roses. I will try the French drink again with Flaubert’s sentimental education, wonder what I am walking into.
>>24976060I dropped it shortly after he gets to NYC.I came in expecting to read an entertaining narrative sprinkled with some pessimist philosophy but it was in fact boring af.
>>24977238This, it's pointless, tepid, and long-winded. In this regard it's perfect as a French work but the French are also compelled to periodically designate their own Best Novel Ever because they can't accept having been left in the dust by Russia and the Anglosphere centuries ago
It's a bad book that's famous only due to having influenced other notable but bad books (Catch-22 and Henry Miller's piles of shit, to name a few)
>>24976718didn't ask, loser
He was a great poet and god I am so fucking tired of pretending otherwise
>>24977479Isnt he a prof from harry potter?
>>24977479why were you pretending in the first place?
How TF is he worse than Dr. Seuss?
Why do so many writers whine about capitalism? What's wrong with having a Big Mac at McDonald's?
>>24977422No, healthy burgers would be free and easily picked up in the local kitchens or your own if you want to make them. If not for state-capitalism.
>>24977318>What's wrong with having a Big Mac at McDonald's?
This book is only popular because it's 90 pages.
Crazy how capitalism defenders boil down to " i haz cheese burger". Sad!. Were the defenders of monarch-feudalism that retarded?
>>24977318the problems isn't eating at mcdonalds, but having to work there.
Is it worth reading the books as an adult?I never read it, only saw the movies up to Prisoner of Azkaban. I find JK Rowling based.
>>24977229The only one I remain fond of as an adult is the first one
>>24977354me too
>>249772706 > 3 = 4 > 5 > 7 >1 > 2
I read Narnia to my kids recently and they were surprisingly good, if spare. The Hobbit too. My oldest actually sat through the Aeneid too, although it was maybe a bit too violent.
>>24977229>I find JK Rowling based.She's not. The entire underlying theme of Harry Potter is that racemixing is good, and the purebloods who want their offspring to look like them are evil. She forces as many africans into the story as possible, even having Harry's love interest (Ginny) make out with a nog in public, in front of her classmates and family members. There's a reason that these books have had such culture dominance over the last couple decades, and it's not because they're well written. JK Rowling has also personally donated millions and millions of dollars to the UK labor party, supporting the invasion of migrants into Europe, while she sits in her castle in Scotland.
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.
>>24977247Lol you literally got pissy at >>24976065when the other anon shrugged and said "seems more like it's different teaching philosophies." Maybe your subjective fuzzy feelz aren't well thought out and so not worth sharing?
>>24977219Yeah I'm aware of interlinears. I'm asking about Hyplern. Most of their texts I have not found at all as free books. They also have interlinears for other languages, some of which there are no interlinears for from anyone else. But it's one guy making them so he can't be translating himself, but must be using google translate or something. I think $6 is too much for one ebook.
>>24977254I do what I want>>24977255You’re being obtuse. It’s silly.
>>24977362Any money is too much for one ebook imho. Especially in Latin/Greek.
>>24977362This can be done manually with Eulexis and Collatinus
Is literature hostile to women?
>>24977348If literature truly was hostile to women and there was a patriarchy stacked against them, then they wouldn't have been able to completely flip it around in under 20 years in the way that they have.
>>24977199Reading distorts a woman's uterus which as we know stops her breathing correctly.
>>24977199>She wrote it, but look what she wrote aboutWhat? Isn't that fair game? How else should we judge a writer? Should everyone be congratulated for writing something? What is this nonsense?>>24977325Right? Self-pity has really been elevated to an art form.
>>24977284>Is this a how-to guide? If not, do they exist?Malleus maleficarum (1487)
>>24977199Assholes are hostile to womenAngry forever alones
The dregs of society pool together like the dirty puddles they tromp. Dublin is their city. Dubh Linn. Black Pool. The name evokes images of heroin rolling on foil. The Spire watches high over O’Connell Street, a lantern above the oily slick roads, taxis and buses rolling through them, like a needle penetrating the veiny patchwork streets. Those streets are haunted with blood; blood of revolutions, of stabbing victims, blood infected with HIV and malice and the blood of childbirth. And the dregs are this city’s lifeblood. Like pools of black blood drying on the streets below the Spire.
>>24977336Country bumpkin detected
>>24977378I'm from Dublin. I understand it.
>you should kill your enemies and not be hated by your peopleWOW!
>>24977087You are an idiot. Read his other book.
>>24977098No.
If Machiavelli was alive today, liberals and progressives would want to kill him for writing a book dedicated to Trump. Think about that.
>>24977087History's first redditor
Was thinking of reading some labor history. Which one of these should I pick and why?
>>24976488Volume 1 of the penguin classics translation of Das Kapital covers the working conditions of post-industrial revolution English poorfags quite extensively.
>>24976571It just seems like they'd know what they're talking about
Still no answers...
>>24976488None. They're American. Also they're dealing with idealised individual subjects. Start with Thompson's Time work discipline and industrial capitalism
>>24976571>lefty red tranny started wif MARXThe human urge to throw off the chains of people who claim to be your master goes back thousands of years, cuck. The modern age of revolution has roots that far back, but can be seen as starting with the new world colonies defying their European aristocracies. You from America? Or are you a little British toad who wants to grovel at Charles feet?
Talk about poems/poets you like, post your own work, and critique others.
>>24955317This is a shit poem but it stuck with me, therefore I guess it's not shit. Bear chases bison.
some will wed for gold and treasurebut true love is the greatest pleasureand in true love you will findone that is graced with a noble mind
...as though these fleeting lives of ours were only fractured reflectionsof some eternal momentexpressing itself in a thousand colorsrefracted in the mirage of time's wide sandslike light through a stained glass windowfalling on colorblind eyes...
Recommend me some goodnature poets like Archibald Lampman, please.
Sunday soldiers don’t go down unless you shoot them -A dogma is a dogma, unless it’s not.Nonetheless, I genuinely don’t know.Nothing here and nothing thereCan be friends
books you read because reddit told you to
>>24975360I stopped reading this book when she drugged the dude and fucked his brother at the end of Part 1. Cuck fiction is disgusting.
>>24976540PICKED UP
>>24976546if you're genuinely looking for NTR, it's really not that great.
>>24975360I thought it was okay, no interest in reading Grapes of Wrath on account of it however
I read this because of Quinn and Reddit. Loved it. Fucking great series, I should have read it a long time ago. The only comment I have is that Asimov comes up with some weird, silly names for his characters. It's like he's trying real hard to invent futuristic names but they come out kinda retarded. Askone, Ponyets, Wienis, Hari, Sermak, Dorwin, Lundin Crast for goddamn sakes! I guess it's better than naming everyone John or Jennifer.
I read three whole books this year.
>>24977110better than most
>>24977110Now kindly leave. We have STANDARDS here! Four books minimum or you aren't welcome.
>>24977110nice. I didn't count mine
it's not about quantity, it's about how much you enjoyed them
It's about quantity.
So Holden was a tard wrangler?
>>24976858Holden was raped by a duck named Phoebe
Why did the teacher touch his hair?
If you're referring to him being a "catcher in the rye" it means he wishes he was capable of preserving the innocence and happiness within children since he himself is miserable as he's becoming an adult
>>24976858He is one of those things
>>24976858He used his deceased brother's baseball glove to catch some rye. "So It finally happened, huh? I became a catcher...a catcher in the rye" truly hits when Holden says at in the end of the book
The real taboo question nobody wants to touch isn't abortion or suicide but birth itself, because all the other moral dramas start the moment someone is dragged into existence without consent, into a life that is terminal from day one, structurally hostile, filled with pain, discouragement, and moral compromise, and only made bearable through coping mechanisms, illusions, art, religion, distractions, and self-deception. We pretend life is some intrinsic good, that procreation is generous, that motherhood is sacred, and that suicide is the ultimate sin, but flip the picture upside down and it's obvious that life is a slow deterioration embedded with death, that having kids is a way to dump this burden onto someone else to give meaning to your own anxiety, and that morality itself is sabotaged by scarcity, competition, and decay, forcing everyone to become callous just to survive. If being born is already a harm and a manipulation, then continuing to live at any cost isn't automatically noble, and deciding to leave when dignity, autonomy, or ethical agency collapses is a perfectly intelligible response to a rigged condition, especially since most people only endure life by numbing themselves with habits, neuroses, meds, entertainment, and lies until death does the job for them anyway. The "enigma" isn't suicide but why anyone keeps going under extreme misery, and the answer is usually folly, instinct, fear, or illusion, not reason. Suicide doesn't destroy some sacred order, it's already written into being itself as a constant possibility, and the only sane position isn't demanding everyone die now or forbidding it forever, but refusing procreation, living minimally, resisting harm where possible, and staying willing to die if moral or personal dignity demands it, because there is no unconditional duty to stay alive, only a stubborn cultural panic about admitting that life doesn't love us back, even though we desperately love it and wish it could have lasted forever.
>>24977287it is about weltschmerz, I tried to give my protagonist that as motivation turned out it does not work out online....
>>24970208antinatalism is probably a mental disorderhttps://www.brighteon.com/a74e320d-5d76-4311-9169-4b6a0c8e4936
>>24977291This can easily be solved by having sex.
>>24977191>Life begins without your “consent” because YOU don't exist before your life begins.Correct. So, what's your point? That the consent is magically violable because no one can affirm it?>To someone who is already life-denying (likely clinically depressed), these are easy conclusions that don’t say much about those subjects (art and religion) which themselves contradict their foregone nihilism.OP may or may not be depressed (although either way, you like many in this thread are using it as an ad hominem as if it weakens his argument). Either way, it amuses me when life-affirmers call life-deniers "nihilists." What exactly about calling art and religion a coping mechanism to bear the pain of life, seems nihilistic to you? to me, it appears as though OP imbues an immense amount of meaning unto art and religion, just of the life-denying kind, which instead of recognizing that this hurts your feelings, you decide to just use yet another crypto-ad hominem.>Did you just discover that all life eventually ends?It also frequently amuses me when people just write off their eventual destruction through death like its what they're gonna have for dinner tonight, or what the weather will be tomorrow. Have you considered that actually you are the one harbouring nihilist ideologies?>If you look at human survival as the a competition between animals to steal resources, then this would be reasonable. Which it undeniably was, is, and will be.>But the history of civilization seems to point to something greater.Topkek.mobi>You aren’t wrong that some people live like this. Not some people; everyone lives like this, the exceptions being akin to a rounding error>Suicide however is cowardice when in the face of adversity. Sometimes. Yet sometimes, like a captain refusing to go down with his ship, its the exact opposite case. You should be more careful making value judgementsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24977335>So, what's your point?That his statement is nonsense derived from the deluded conception that somehow one’s own consent and being born are related. You were born, blaming your parents for having you being a definition of your own life that you lead is pathetic. Believe it or not, you live after being born. You choose to continue living everyday. Whether or not you retroactively and magically believe your consent was violated does not take away from that fact. You are blaming someone else for your own problem.>OP may or may not be depressed Trust me, the depressed mind is capable of spiraling into madness and distrust of clear and rational thinking and has a lot to do with this conversation.>it amuses me…Easy, because art and religion at their core give solid answers to life and living, you just choose to discard them because of your demented self-righteous worldview. >hurts your feelingsNo, and I doubt he has faithfully checked the other side.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
literature that helps you come to terms with the life you lived ( and regretted )I am in extreme distress because I grew very old and dont have a wife and family that I always wanted. Need some books to help me cope with the missed opportunities in my life
>>24971815Amen.Until you are dead there is ample opportunity to make the world a better place, even if only minutely but in reality for a man to feel joy is not much, its only to be appreciated by others and that only takes not being selfish
>>24977281Playing video games IS for manchildren. You would have to genuinely lack any imagination to think that there are not more interesting things to do with your time than playing video games
>>24977399Anon, if your what your doing isn't working then you can always do something else
The Ambassadors by Henry James.It's about a middle aged guy who had artistic and personal dreams as a young man, but nothing worked out, he's widowed, and now he's sinking into a mediocre and loveless arrangement with a wealthy woman. But then, he goes to Paris to speak to her wayward son and he starts to renew his long-dead spark of life and it's a confusing journey that ultimately pisses everyone else off and doesn't clarify things for him, but he felt alive again and that's life.
>>24977399don't swear at me, you're not special, you really think every other person in the western world can afford a house?
