How to read without getting distracted by phone
>>247846134chan.
>>24784343Read on your phone, then you won't be tempted to pick up your phone because it will already be in your hand.
>>24784343>put phone in plastic baggie>swallow plastic baggy phone>wait to poop plastic baggy phone before you can use your phone againShrimple as that.
Many phones have a "relax mode" which locks you out of the phone for a certain amount of time.
>>24784343>Read a chapter>Browse Tiktok and 4chan for an hour>Read another chapter
*shits all over your Christianity*
>>24780235The Davinci Code is unironically a masterclass in writing an engaging. Dan Brown structures every chapter in such a way that there's several mini-cliff hangers within a chapter (which are swiftly resolved) before the chapter itself also ends on a cliffhanger, Hardy Boys style. He's no prose stylist, but this particular aspect of his work is genuinely worth studying if you're looking to write something engaging.
>>24782894an engaging book*
>>24782894I agree. Even though it's prosaically a B-tier or C-tier literature, the level of engagement he's able to repeat in every chapter for the whole book is masterclass. He should stop writing his langdonslop and write a book about writing.
>>24780235IMHO the only reason it's famous is because it's controversial. Specifically, what's presented in media as the right "cool kids" type of rebellion, and that's against christianity. That's why the publisher saw commercial potential in it and made big ad campaign for it. Remember that the jew will never miss a chance for shitting on jesus christ and making it part of the culture.
>>24782894>>24782929he actually did a masterclass interviewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpGaCYbGJHI
What were /lit/'s favorite books as young boy?
>>24779108Nice, this was one of my favorite books in 8th grade, as well as the WWE Legends and I had some issues of Professional Wrestling Illustrated
>>24783806Oh shit Shiloh, such a sad book.
>>24783950I vividly remember Say Cheese and Die>>24784004Picrel series was my intro to classic lit
>>24778863Percy Jackson
>>24784791>Great Illustrated Classics My nigga I read a ton of those, those were great. The Time Machine and Journey To The Center Of The Earth were my favorites
Which e-reader do you have /lit/? Are you happy with it? Is it complicated to get books to it?I am thinking about the Kobo Libra but it seems like getting books onto it is an extremely convoluted process that involves Calibre, KOreader, some plugins, and I don't even know what. And then I looked into Calibre and the first thing I see about it is that it doesn't let you put books in your own folders and it copies your entire library according to its folder scheme. Is there a better library program and a better reader or a better overall experience that isn't like installing Linux? At this point from what I've read I think I should just continue buying actual paper books because this all just sounds like an extreme annoyance. Or maybe I just need to install a good reader program on Windows. What's a good Windows program to read books in like ComicRack for comics?
Kobo software experience is the biggest pile of shit I've ever had to deal with. Constant crashing just navigating the device like normal, the battery randomly draining (I'm assuming an issue with the 1st party sleepcover), and random DRM issues cropping up where every book, regardless of format, is just flagged as requiring some kind of authentication. Easily fixed by resetting the device, but crops up a lot. You have to deal with looking at Amazons storefront on a Kindle, but it's still easy enough to pirate books on one, and the software experience probably just works better. I'd go with a used kindle desu
>>24783795The main issue with the later oasis models is that it's not reasonable to replace the battery (you have to cut the back off carefully with an angle grinder without destroying anything), and now they're coming up on 6-8 years of use, most of the batteries are pretty dead.>>24784570Refresh speed is good, but everything else is still pretty slow. If you're the kind of retard who changes font size 20 times a book maybe you're better off with the newer models.>>24784930Maybe you just got a dud. Haven't used Kobo, because I think it's retarded to pay more than 50 bucks for an e-reader, but the people who have them generally seem to like them.
>>24778719The Dying Earth
>>24777830Why would I by a device that imitates a paper book instead reading a paper book?
>>24785068cause it's small and light and you can read at night
Do e-readers remove the SOVL from books? Does the ease of access ruin the mystique of treasure hunting for books and finding obscure titles?
>>24774705>They might have a point even though they can’t articulate itYeah dude, I should totally rather ignore all the tangible arguments in favor of e-books people with brains make, than the few materially obsessed tards who can barely articulate an English sentence.
>>24783918Yes but you're only realistically reading a few books at a time and if none of those can hold your attention even slightly maybe you shouldn't be reading at that moment.
>>24767052I don't use an e-reader specifically, but I do use my phone. I'd prefer a tablet, but I make do with this phone. Does this remove the "S0VL" or the 'mystique'? For me, it's almost the complete opposite. Having access to any assortment of weird epubs online feels more liberating because I can try all the weird stuff I'd struggle to track down copies of, or have to pay a lot on shipping for otherwise. I don't have to worry about damaging my books. I don't have to worry about my poor vision being any issue, as I can resize and change the fonts to fit my needs.Mind you, I'm not reading top-100 shit, but actively scouring filters for novels in foreign tongues that I'm into. On that note, tap-to-dictionary functionality is a godsend for improving my literacy. I've picked up cool-looking books in the past, but the texts would often be too hard to read unassisted, and the text sometimes too small for my impaired vision, that I just gave up early on. I feel free to tackle even hard reads now because I can know I am not alone without the tools do so, and that capability makes the treasure hunt real to me.
>>24774714Maybe this definition is overly centered on /g/ habituĂ©s saying nice things about anodyne Windows Vista screenshots with period-appropriate wallpaper, but…It seems like everyone’s working definition of “soulful” is - not sterile (so, not the Windows 8 Metro look)- not offensive (no ads, no ugly alegrĂa art)- Just Works (as opposed to being buggy or otherwise brittle)- obviously made by people who gave a shit
Is there anything on the market that isn't android that reads pdfs well?
why did this rendering of Judge Holden by some DeviantArt artist become so popular?
>>24782803Because people didn't read the book and all they know is Judge Holden is supposed to be LE EVIL, which he is, of course, but through the book people keep treating him as if he came off as very likable and trustworthy.
>>24782803Because deviantart and blood meridian share the same fanbase.
>>24782803Judge Holden is such a good character, but sadly very few people understand him. A couple years ago I wrote an effort post on reddit explaining why he represents cowardice, but obviously the redditors didn't get it.https://www.reddit.com/r/cormacmccarthy/comments/15camvj/judge_holdem_represents_not_war_or_evil_but_human/
>>24784391Honestly I'm with you anon. To me Judge Holden just seems like one of those hobos you meet sometimes who are surprisingly eloquent. Also before I read the book I saw the things existing without my consent quote and thought it was intimidating but within the context of the story it just seems like a cope.
>>24782803It's funny how the best depiction of him is AI
An informative pic for /lit/Plato advocated for more centralized system and unitary ideals; Aristotle advocated for political pluralism and a partnership of clans (which is the basis for a partnership of states in decentralized models).
Aristotle ranks a Monarchy with an economical estate, and ranks a system of freemen and equals with a constitutional / political government. So that Monarchy is proper for economical estates and not political rule.The only Monarchy I think Aristotle really allows for is the monarchy of the mixed regime -- or if this Monarchy is the most pre-eminent in virtue, but Aristotle discounts that idea and says it isn't possible.Aristotle:>The rule of a household is a monarchy, for every house is under one head: >whereas constitutional rule is a government of freemen and equals.The attitude Aristotle has towards Monarchy is exactly what De Jouvenel is saying in a Monarchical vs Senatorial government.De Jouvenel / Monarchical vs Senatorial>According to which of these two hypotheses is adopted, the conclusion is reached that the "natural" government is either the monarchical or the senatorial. But from the time that Locke utterly smashed up Filmer's fragile structure, the earliest political authority was considere to be the senate composed of fathers of families, using the word "families" in the widest sense.>Society must, therefore, have presented two degrees of authority, which were quite different in kind. On the one hand is the head of the family, exercising the most imperious sway over all who were within the family circle. >On the other are the heads of families in council, taking decisions in concert, tied to each other only by consent, submitting only to what has been determined in common, and assembling their retainers, who have outside themselves, neither law nor master, to execute their will.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24784978For Aristotle, the City mustn't be monarchical or like one corporate body under one head.That is made clear by this quote: >>24784971>For the people becomes a monarch, and is many in one; When the city becomes a monarch -- Aristotle is clear that's a bad thing, because Aristotle wants his city to be not a monarchy (because Aristotle thinks a monarchy is proper to an economical estate) and not a political state (which needs be plural and many fathers in council) -- again, like the Orthodox, who don't recognize the jurisdiction of the Pope over them as bishops, that is exactly Aristotle's attitude towards Monarchy.
I don't think Aristotle is very pro-Monarchy.If it is, it's the rare occasion that a monarch is like a god among men, but even then Aristotle writes this:>>Now, if some men excelled others in the same degree in which gods and heroes are supposed to excel mankind in general (having in the first place a great advantage even in their bodies, and secondly in their minds), so that the superiority of the governors was undisputed and patent to their subjects, it would clearly be better that once for an the one class should rule and the other serve. But since this is unattainable, and kings have no marked superiority over their subjects, such as Scylax affirms to be found among the Indians, it is obviously necessary on many grounds that all the citizens alike should take their turn of governing and being governedSee, Aristotle says he thinks Kings should take their turn in being governed -- Aristotle, if he leaves any room for Monarchy, his monarchy I think is more like Malaysia where the High King is rotational or, again, like the HOly Roman EMpire.That he says Monarchy is proper for an economical estate means he considers the regime to be not proper for political rule, and if it does that makes the city more like an economical estate than a proper political state -- which can only be compensated for if the Monarch in question has such pre-eminent virtue...But considering that, Aristotle uses the food argument against the rule of a wise man or philosopher king, discrediting that idea even more.
So Aristotle says that a State cannot be an individual: UNLIKE Plato, who says his ideal State is an individual man / State Corporate rule....That should be definitive proof enough to show for its own sake -- but the anons here keep dismissing this comparison and contrast between Aristotle and Plato because they don't take Plato's Republic for a book of political science....Plato Republic:>And the city whose state is most like that of an individual man.>“The same,” he said, “and, to return to your question, the best governed state most nearly resembles such an organism.”>But we further agreed that this unity is the greatest blessing for a state, and we compared a well governed state to the human body in its relation to the pleasure and pain of its parts.”The anons say this is irrelevant to understanding modern politics: I say, to the contrary, it is relevant and this is the idea underlying more unitary conceptions of politics versus Aristotle (who does indeed count cities to be associations of a partnership of clans) whereas Plato considers a state ideally to be like one individual man. That Aristotle says the State is to be a plurality rather than a unity should be enough, but it isn't because anons don't want to take Plato at face value: neither the examples where Aristotle says political science & economical differ, but Plato denies that in Statesmen; neither that Aristotle in Politics denies the idea of a State Corporate rule as One Person (like a household under one head).
OP is saying that Plato's idea of a politics like one individual is the basis for one-party states today -- that operate like a household under one head (remember: Plato in Statesmen says that political / economical don't differ)...But multi-party states (whether this be Aristocracies or Multi-Party Democracies -- represent his ideal of a state as freemen and equals and a partnership of clans, which he says is proper for political states, and for monarchies improper to rule such political states because they are more proper for economic units -- this Plato doesn't concede to and says there is no difference).
Do you think your life will be more pleasant with anyone but me? Think about it!—Ah! certainly not!—Only with me can you be free. And since I swear to you that I will be kind from now on, that I deplore all my share of wrongs, that my mind is at last clear, that I truly love you—if you refuse to return, or to let me come to you, you are committing a crime, and you will repent of it for many years to come, through the loss of all freedom and torments perhaps even more dreadful than any you have known. After that, think back to what you were before you met me. As for me, I am not going back to my mother’s; I am going to Paris, and I will try to leave by Monday evening. You will have forced me to sell all your clothes—I can do no otherwise. They are not yet sold: they will only be taken away on Monday morning. If you wish to write to me in Paris, address your letters to L. Forain, 289 rue Saint-Jacques, for A. Rimbaud. He will know my address. Certainly, if your wife returns, I will not compromise you by writing to you—I will never write again. The only true word is this: come back. I want to be with you; I love you. If you listen to this, you will show courage and a sincere spirit. Otherwise, I pity you. But I love you, I embrace you, and we shall see each other again.
>>24784351>k
>>24784351Tfw a twink will never write me a letter like this
I bought the Pléiade edition of Rimbaud but only 200 pages or so are dedicated to his writings the rest is just his letters, I was expecting him to have written more Which are the best letters to read?
>>24784351And I explained in detail my arithmetical reasons for not sending him any money. He responded with 1) impertinence laced with obscure blackmail announcements, 2) apothecary accounts showing me that it was a good deal for me to "lend" him the sum in question. — Not to mention a missive written in the gibberish of a drunkard, in which I thought I could make out that he was attaching to his future letters the condition that I would have to "pay up" or else, Fuck it. [...] After all, this philomath hasn't done me much good. 18 months of, as you know, my little fortune badly chipped away, my marriage destroyed, my advice rejected, and the most crass rudeness to finish! Many thanks!
>In his memory, Verlaine placed their first quarrel during the Commune. In her memoirs, Mathilde corrects: the first violent act against her took place eight days before she gave birth, on October 23, 1871. Verlaine related to her that to gain access to literature, Rimbaud was forced to steal books from bookstores, then put them back or later, in fear of being caught, resell them once read. Mathilde commented: "That proves that your friend is not very tactful." Verlaine then grabbed Mathilde by both arms and threw her out of the bed where she had just lain. Who was in the wrong here?
Books on how to stop being a narcissist?
Just read some Hesse and stop posting those shitty things from 15 fucking years ago
>>24784511The New Testament, njkv
>>24784511you can't stop being a narcissist, but the fact that you think you're a narcissist and want to change is proof you're not a narcissist.you're probably just gay or somethihg
>>24784511Dostoevsky
Any good brother and sister adventures?
>>24782282>Love my sister.Kino
>>24784068>trannycase>AI slopGo back
>>24782282>Love my sister.
the sound and the fury desu
>>24784270Problem?
Is atheism more about not wanting to believe in God than about actual evidence?
>>24785033I don't really care since you can't back up your retarded opinion with facts and you can only seem to throw name calling tantrums because you worship a demon that said you should remain childlike forever.
>>24785041>you can only seem to throw name calling tantrums That's literally what you're doing over and over again>you worship a demon that said you should remain childlike foreverAgain, you have zero basic clue on what the Christian faith is and are either doing a really bad bait or should actually try to inform yourself if you wish to seek truth
@24785038@24785041botted replies, do not engage.
>>24785045>That's literally what you're doing over and over againNo, u.>you have zero basic clue on what the Christian faith is It is the denial of death because some demon became half man and brought some other man back to life, then came back to life himself and floated into the sky, then rained down fire on his friends so that they could train the first generation of a line of costumed mages who can turn water into half-demon blood for the rest of time.
>>24785046Concession Status— Accepted.
>that embarrassing and cringe era from 2018- 2021 where I was OBSESSED with this guy and basically treated his political views as the word of God>>Now I look back at it and see how much of a dildo this guy is. He wants NATO expansion into Russia and China and holds many other garbage opinions like that which are essentially just mainstream SocDem or neocon but worded with nasty hand grotesque language I can’t believe we used to love this guy on /lit/ back in 2019. That is an embarrassing era to remember..
>>24782719The issue was spam moreso than content. If we just had a single guenon or peterson thread each or maybe two it would be fine. But the shitposters insisted on filling the entire catalog. Not to mention the guenonposters in particular had bad habits of copy pasting walls of texts and being unable to understand any possible criticisms even good faith curiosity without asserting that the interlocuter was hylic and misguided.
>>24780947I for one was never on his bandwagon
Zizek's description of the right-wing populism of the future from around 2011 (?) or so was really prescient:https://youtu.be/ZLFtJGnRehU>>24782700All facts
>>24780947He's basically Hasan but for people with >100 IQ. I never bought what he was selling but I've seen enough of his stuff to get the appeal.
>>24784813To me when I was 20 the novelty of someone erudite making a sentence with both Immanueal Kant’s name and the word Incel in it was mind boggling like he must have some hidden insights I had to listen to but now in retrospect after reading some of those guys he mentions I find his analysis of everything really shallow and lame. Like that was cool when I was 20 or so but not now
Unemployement: The book
>>24784026Whenever talking about Hegel, you may notice that people will criticize any attempt to summarize his philosophy, but this is a critical essence of his philosophy as a whole to begin with. His philosophy is of a spirit that is continuously engaged in growth and development. There is no fixed essence or absolute truth in the old sense of the term. The Absolute Spirit is always growing, developing, and being reshaped just as a lifeform reshapes itself in its process of growth. Criticism of everything at all stages and of all claims is necessary to complete the whole of the effort undertaken by him. It is only natural that a spirit of criticism of and among Hegelians would flow from such a philosophy.
>HEY GUYS HERES MY OPINION ABOUT A BOOK THAT I NEVER READ>NO IM NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE CONTENTS OF THE BOOK AT ALL IM JUST GONNA SHIT OUT STALE BAIT INSTEAD LOLOLOLPeople like you should never have been taught to read.
i am unemployed and just began readings sections of philosophy of spirit
>google phenomenology of spirit pdf >read the first paragraph of A. Consciousness No wonder Schopenhauer hated this guy.
>>24784047Jesus this really is just mystifying guru crap. It's like Heidegger but with no essence.
I stopped reading in my late teens. Every year I promise I'll get back to it, but I never have the energy or the motivation. I've lost the war of willpower.
Faggot
>>24784890I did too. Drugs, sex, and socialising got in the way; alongside starting University, which meant that when I had to read it was for coursework and not for the joy of expanding my knowledge or pleasure. This year though I have developed a re-found love for reading. I was a voracious reader from the age of 4, and my Mum always indulged my reading and would always buy me a book if I asked for it. I read throughout my childhood and teens and it was only in late teens that I slowed down, I probably only read 3-5 books a year from 17-24. But now at 24, nearly 25 I'm on about 25~ books a year. My goal is to reach at least 40 a year.
>>24784940So basically your life is perfect. What are you doing here?
>I normied too. Norms, normie, and normalising got in the way; alongside norming Normiversity, which meant that when I had to normie it was for normiework and not for the joy of norming my normage or normiesure. This year though I have normied a re-found norm for norming. I was a voracious normie from the age of 4, and my Mum always normied my norming and would always norm me a book if I normied for it. I normied throughout my childhood and teens and it was only in late teens that I normied down, I probably only normie 3-5 norms a year from 17-24. But now at twenty-norm, nearly normie-five I'm on about 25~ norms a year. My goal is to normie at least normie a year.
>>24784890find you a muse lil nigga
how do you respond without sounding mad ?? OR are you not mad at all ??
For me, it's Sarah J Maas.
>>24784605SEXO!!
>>24782357These are all smut, yeah?--Her and adjacent authors. Can I get a confirmation on that? That would inform me of the mental state of somebody I know. . . who has a library worth of this stuff. Thankss.
>>24782357How rockin are her tiddies? Is she doinkable? She's a 4/10 maxI don't read YA as a rule, though I don't care if it exists >>24784605Deffo drinkable, she's like an 8/20
>>24784938She doesn't write YA. She writes bottom of the barrel, lowest common denominator slop for wine aunts going on flights. Her prose is awkward terrible, her plots are full of contrivances and "and then" plotting, and her themes are of questionable morality. She often will frame abuse and weird sexual related things as positive and as natural. Overall her writing and stories are abysmal and I don't understand why anyone would ever read her books. Surely if someone is literate enough to read her prose (it's very dumbed down by the way with very basic vocab) they would be able to appreciate something, anything marginally better? Like why isn't she the last thing people reach for? It's baffling.
