ITT: we post pictures and recommendations for liturature based on the pictures.
>>25206668This one?
>>25206758Nah, cover was far more detailed and artistically involved. I wanna say the guy makes a thread about it around Halloween time every fall. Might have had a black cat on the front if I recall correctly.
>>25205757Confederacy of Dunces
>le maro bing bing WAHOO!! *holds up spork* XDD MUH LOIFE IS LOIKE A VIDYA GAM!!! XP
I need to find audiobooks that I can stream on websites like internet archive or just using apple podcasts. I will not create an account anywhere and I will not pay for anything. For example I just listened to all the harry potter books on internet archive. I enjoyed the fan reading of the webnovel "worm". And I need more shit like this. Don't bother talking shit to me or doing the usual elitist crap you faggots do with hating on audiobooks. I don't care this is what makes me happy. Also inb4 "just torrent" nobody fucking seeds audiobooks even fairly popular ones.
>>25206290>I need access to audiobooks but I also refuse to register an account on a private tracker because I am too stupid and lazyYour problem is irresolvable if you won't budge. Go to >>>/g/ptg if you reconsider being retarded and want to learn how to torrent properly
>>25206290Do you keep the info of audiobooks? I tend to forget most of it
>>25206497yeah for the most part. I also consider slightly lower retention to be kind of a positive thing. Because if I enjoyed one I can listen to it again and pick up on what I missed the first time
>>25206290>inb4 "just torrent" nobody fucking seeds audiobooksGod damn I hope nobody tells this loser.
i cant understand why anyone would ever use audible. you pay a high monthly fee and then you only get 1 book per month? lol what the fuck
If you had to describe 4chan with a literary work, what would it be? I can start with: "Notes from Underground, by Dostoevsky."
>>25206236Take a look at the rivals of the gods; hear how ClaudiusSuffered. When his wife, Messalina, knew he was asleep,She would go about with no more than a maid for escort.The Empress dared, at night, to wear the hood of a whore,And she preferred a mat to her bed in the Palatine Palace.Dressed in that way, with a blonde wig hiding her naturalHair, she’d enter a brothel that stank of old soiled sheets,And make an empty cubicle, her own; then sell herself,Her nipples gilded, naked, taking She-Wolf for a name,Displaying the belly you came from, noble Britannicus,She’d flatter her clients on entry, and take their money.Then lie there obligingly, delighting in every stroke.Later on, when the pimp dismissed his girls, she’d leaveReluctantly, waiting to quit her cubicle there, till the lastComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25205386When, long ago, the gods created EarthIn Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;Yet were they too remote from humankind.To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,Th' Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.A beast they wrought, in semi-human plan,Filled it with vice, and called the thing 4chan
>>25206242my fav is satire 15, which can be summarized as FUCKING BROWNS
>>25205386ay wala
>>25206278>rhyming plan with plan
>Notes from Underground
>>25207001You need to not go into classic literature expecting it to fit into frameworks of memes you got from the internet. Notes is a treatise on spite and freedom, and an illustration of a failed romantic. It's not Drive because it was made 150 years before Drive. You shouldn't imagine the narrator as Ryan Gosling or the doomer wojak, but as a weird creature that lives in a hole underground and mutters to itself.
>>25207001That’s the second part of the book
KC Green hates this edit, but god damn if it isn't spot on.
>>25207078good job, 4chin.
>>25207011noted. I've gotten a lot of spite so far. I'll keep reading
>What is /phil/ Philosophy General?A general for readers, students, and armchair thinkers interested in philosophy, whether it be Western, Eastern, analytic, continental, ancient, contemporary. We discuss primary texts, secondary literature, online lectures, podcasts.>Why read philosophy?Politics, science, psychology, etc. all began with or were inspired by someone who thought philosophically. Basically, if you are interested in just about anything, philosophy will help you better understand that subject. Because it is at the foundation of every conceptual institution made or discovered by humans, it is in the underbelly of human experience, and so it is worth taking seriously.>Why study philosophy formally?Surprisingly versatile and undervalued. Phil majors consistently score among the highest on the LSAT, GRE, and GMAT. Strong pipeline into law, policy, ethics consulting, AI alignment, and academia.Previous thread >>25172552
>>25206535try this
>>25206402I know this dimwit. Transcendental philosophy is the propadeutic to non-dogmatic metaphysics. And Hegel epitomizes, again, the critical spirit by going beyond Kant and not presupposing like Kant does the faculty of reason so as to examine it prior to any attempt to do metaphysics proper. Critical is opposed to dogmatic in the sense that it doesn't assume the capacity to do metaphysics but first establishes that capacity. But Hegel is more critical because, like I said in my last post which you in no way addressed because you are a midwit, he does not even presuppose reason as a given fact that must be examined to see if it is capable of metaphysics—he presupposes nothing other than pure being and lets logic itself develop from that rather than take it for granted. He is the most Kantian of Kantians because he more meta than Kant: he doesn't just ask how is metaphysics possible, i.e, 'how are synthetic a priori judgments possible?' but instead asks 'what is the objective validity of any of our concepts at all?' and dialectically derives them all into a complete system that builds up logic from scratch and sublates the kantian transcendental philosophy as a stage in the dialectical development of the mind.
>>25206240Where is Sepher Yetzirah and Zohar?
>>25207032>dimwitrespectful even if literally insulting, affirms one's superiority while showing compassion for the other's state of intellectual inferiority>midwitworst insult ever conceived. posits the opponent as a lower being, merely a fragment of the biomass trying to disguise themselves as a thinking individual, a sheep in wolf's clothing. takes one by surprise. provokes a visceral reaction
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Can you niggers help me figure out what some of these mean:[Ch IV]hasping>and the polished shoes of the horses kept hasping up...shirring>they rode with the slamming and jarring of the wagon half shirring the meat from their bones...[Ch V]sleared>where the rocks trembled and sleared into the sun...Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25203848Those were words men used to use before women ruined everything.
>>25203848>>bed of thunderstones clustered on that heath...I thought he was describing a patch of earth that had been struck by lightning and the sand and clay had been baked hard into fractured rock.
>>25206141thunderstones as fulgurite
>>25205968In the 1980s? You're onto something>>25206141I'm running with this. Thanks, this is great.
>>25206985I did some research and I think I'm wrong about that. They would've been in northern Arizona during that passage, and I think he was referring to picrel, a type of volcanic geode common enough to the area. Apparently they're sometimes called "thunder eggs".I think I initially read "heath" as "hearth", and had the description of lightning storms in the night fresh in my mind, and assumed it was the result of a lightning strike.
One of the most evil books ever written. We need to ban neuroscience.
>>25203266So, which of these books is the better one?
>>25194876why is the hardcover $1 cheaper than the paperback? Is the hardcover binding glued?
>>25204707It's more expensive in canada at least
>>25194963How is this bad though?Philosopher literally over-analyze simple concepts and write books about it, there's a lot of juice in that type of stuff.Even if that was true, he came to the same conclusions as descartes from a perspective that's compatible with current science, and that cant be bad.Sometimes the perspective you choose can be more or less useful long term
>>25195119So, as I understand, from interoceptive inference is what constitutes emotions. Meaning that there is an emotion assigned towards bodily states? or doesnt it bodily state have an emotion that you could condition yourself to assign to them?Because I've been able to decide quite a few emotional reactions toward certain situation, just to make my life easier. But I wonder if I really decided or it was always set in stone.
Thank fucking christ for VK.
good for you anon, good for you.i have to say my main use of it was watching porn that would constantly get taken down elsewhere due to the studios being aggressive with their copyright, but now there's barely any left even there. everything sucks now, nothing is sacred. if only we could go back to like 2016 internet. ideally much earlier, like 2008, but 2016 was good enough.
Good books to learn how to write and think like an educated person? Is this any good?
Ordered this. What am i in for?
>>25205680 The greatest work of fiction from the last century. At least if you fancy hardboiled stuff. Can't miss with James "Mad Dog" Ellroy.
>>25205680Hard boiled crime kino marred by yet another homosexual psychopath serial killer with a traumatic childhood plotline
>>25205708>"Mad Dog" Ellroy.>n 1962, Ellroy began to attend Fairfax High School, a predominantly Jewish high school. While in high school, he began to engage in a variety of outrageous acts, many anti-Semitic in nature. He joined the American Nazi Party, purchased Nazi paraphernalia, sang the Horst-Wessel-Lied at school, mailed Nazi pamphlets to girls he liked, openly criticized John F. Kennedy, and ironically advocated for the reinstatement of slavery. His "Crazy Man Act", as Ellroy describes it, was a plea for attention and got him beaten up and eventually expelled from Fairfax High School in 11th grade, after ranting about Nazism in his English class. this guy was a real jerk
>>25207028I know. He's great.
What books scare hoes exactly?
>>25206667foucault doesn't trust the heckin science
>>25195645I hate to agree with women but she's right
>>25206771No she is not. Catcher is about a grieving teenager on the verge of a mental break down and her criticism is he is a white male
>>25195630>>25195854bookstores want adults to believe these books are revolutionary because they were banned from a school library at some point
>>25197442You're being generous with the faculties of the average redditor, to be fair. I once made an account to shitpost on a podcast sub I liked, and stepping outside of the "acceptable" chud zone subs was just unpleasant. It's shocking how sincerely delusional and detached from reality some of those faggots really are.I got dogpiled once for saying nobody wants to go home with the girl who comes as a used menstrual pad for haloween and I got so many white knight crumb-of-pussy groveling freaks hitting up my comment that I just deleted my account. It was a harsh reminder I don't care about using forums unless I can call someone a stupid cunt or tell them to kill themselves.
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Would anyone like to steal my idea? Or would I have to write this myself?
>>25206635>>25206538>>25206433I used Gemini and it was pretty brutal with its feedback, so I can see already it is better than GPT. However, is it just me or does Gemini become retarded a few prompts in? By the fifth chapter I shared it seemed to be referencing stuff from my first chapter as if it had happened and giving me weird answers to very specific questions that seemed like non-sequiturs.
i wonder if I can write comedy
Finished writing something for the first time. I know it's pretty shit and needs to be edited heavily to be even readable. Still would appreciate if you guys told me if I should submit it to a small literary journal or just give up on it,
>long as fuck names for characters, places, concepts etc (had to write them down to memorize them)>weird non-flowing sentences>lots of poetry-ish sounding sentencesIt seems like the author literally translated ancient chinese slang into modern day english, its just difficult for me to read. Anybody else experience this?
Reverend Insanity speaks to me on so many levels. It is a title which invites us to stop and ponder: is there such a reverend, named insanity? Is there such a thing as a reverent insanity? Or is Mr. Reverend Insanity a normal, unassuming man, considered insane by the world for his love of the Gospel of Christ? There are but a few of many contemplative avenues in regards to Reverend Insanity
>>25194386Chinese has a certian "tone" you need to read it it, just get used to it over time and change your mindset into that of the chinese equivalent of a european medieval person should help. RI is a truly unparalelled piece of chinese fiction.Chinese stories are usually more realistic, absolutely 0 of that pathetic goody goody japanese shit you're likely used to.
>>25206075>chinese storiesIm so chinese I just call them stories.
I read chinese raws by running them through chrome's browser mtl function. The trick isn't to raise your literacy rate enough to understand the chinese, but to lower it enough to understand the chinese. MTL chinese prose and english prose now read as mostly similar to me - no, actually, chinese prose is more comfortable. English prose is usually bloated with too many unnecessary descriptions, it's hard to stomach now. Brevity is the soul of wit, kings could only exist when the masses were illiterate! Illiteracy is king!!! Illiteracy is king!!!
>>25206947>kings could only exist when the masses were illiterate! Illiteracy is king!Based and peasant-pilled
>>252034237 is cormac mccarthy sutree 27 terry prachett36 narnia cs lewis53 treasure island stevenson ben gunn or whatever hes called chavvy
>>25203948>27 terry prachett>36 narnia cs lewisCorrect, although already found. Witches Abroad & The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe respectively.>7 is cormac mccarthy sutree>53 treasure island stevenson ben gunn or whatever hes called chavvyAlso correct and you're the first. Harrogate helps with Suttree although the style is pretty distinctive too. And I guess cheese-o-philia is what everyone remembers about Ben Gunn.
>>25203452>44)Grendal>>25203458>51)This reads like Hemingway but couldn't say what
>>25205079 >44)>GrendalGrendel, yes. John Gardener.>51)>This reads like HemingwayIt does . . .>but couldn't say whatMaybe someone else will recognize it.
>>25203423>2Gulliver's Travels>3A Confederacy of Dunces>23The Holy Gospel According to Matthew (or Luke, or Mark)>28...The Magic Mountain?>36The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe>43Gone with the Wind>59The Love Song of J Alfred PrufrockComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
What else can be added to this chart?Unfortunately, lots of insane writing goes unpublished, but there is some out there
Kafka was definitely a bit touched/unhinged
>>25206855Well, don’t stop now, anon.
>>25206545Looked around the internet for more and found this, seems unhinged
>>25206545Oh I've got all sorts of unreadable garbage that would put these books to shame.
>>25206923Oh yeah? Let's see 'em.
