What's your favorite book of jokes?
What are some of the worst /lit/ red flags?
>>23817863I actually just admire her from afar and stalk her social media, I’m too much of a coward to just make a move like that…
>>23812603Yes, you're economically illiterate. I didn't need more evidence of this but there it is. I would make a pile of recommendations but you're part of an intellectual cult and actively despise people smarter than you are.Systems that use fiat currency will never be capitalism and until you understand why you'll continue to serve the very "capitalists" you claim to hate.>>23814330>Straw manI'm not mad at you at all for any reason. You are a misguided child raised by a public education system that clearly never equipped you with the tools to rationally asses the world you live in.
>>23817908kek she doesn't even know you exist and you're fantasizing about her being a virgin after slutting it up at Oktoberfest.
>>23809309The biggest red flags of all time will always be female author and female protagonist.
>>23817989>Yes, you're economically illiterate.And it would seem that you are just plain illiterate. I made it very clear in my previous post that I do not entirely agree with (classical) Marxist economics but still find some value in his ideas.All that I asked of you was to keep an open mind and avoid this odd resentment you have over people you disagree with. > I didn't need more evidence of this but there it is.You disagree with me saying that classical Maxist economics are "admittedly" flawed and outdated?> I would make a pile of recommendations but you're part of an intellectual cult and actively despise people smarter than you are.I am not entirely sure where you are getting this...I am not Marxist if that is what you are getting at.>Systems that use fiat currency will never be capitalism and until you understand why you'll continue to serve the very "capitalists" you claim to hate.Show me where in my post I made an argument to the contrary.
post your shelf, no theme
What should one do with spare books? I'm running out of space and don't want to just throw them away
>>23818768Pirate an epub copy for archival purposes, sell them, and acquire more books.
>>23816223Nice. Which is your favorite?
>>23819111The Hundred Years War series by Jonathan Sumption, I also really enjoyed the two volume biography on Henry III, super long but I binge read it because I liked it so much.
thought I'd organise it by colour for my frens on /lit/
what does /lit/ think of this book? I'm divided, although there is some valuable advice, I don't like how the kid doesn't counterargue with stronger examples, plus the philosopher saying that trauma doesn't exist just because you can overcome it is so retarded it's like saying hunger doesn't exist because you can eat.
>>23817137My pain must be acknowledged.
My problem is I can't find a fucking job.
>>23819366Alice Cooper has some advice for you in his song "Lost In America".I can't get a girl cuz I ain't got a carI can't get a car cuz I ain't got a jobI can't get a job cuz I ain't got a carSo I'm looking for a girl with a job and a carAll kidding aside, what are you qualified to do?
>>23817068>books to help humans figure out themselves is badGo back, troon.
>>23815703Good book I like how it points out that people who say they have trauma are in fact retards
Thinking of converting to Ismaili Islam, it seems like the most high IQ kind of Islam around today.
Recently I was playing pic related and I was struck by some of the kino lovecraftian scriptwriting, especially in the lines of The Narrator. Here are some I enjoyed:>At last, in the salt-soaked crags beneath the lowest foundations we unearthed that damnable portal of antediluvian evil. Our every step unsettled the ancient earth but we were in a realm of death and madness! In the end, I alone fled laughing and wailing through those blackened arcades of antiquity.>You will arrive along the old road. It winds with a troubling, serpent-like suggestion through the corrupted countryside. Leading only, I fear, to ever more tenebrous places. There is a sickness in the ancient pitted cobbles of the old road and on its writhing path you will face viciousness, violence, and perhaps other damnably transcendent terrors. So steel yourself and remember: there can be no bravery without madness.>Leave nothing unchecked, there is much to be found in forgotten places.>Welcome home, such as it is. This squalid hamlet, these corrupted lands, they are yours now, and you are bound to them.>The cobwebs have been dusted, the pews set straight. The Abbey calls to the faithful...>Women and men; soldiers and outlaws; fools and corpses. All will find their way to us now that the road is clear.And this is just from the first half an hour or so.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I like book-games (not movie-games). I've replayed Telltale's TWD and TWAU more than almost anyone in the world.
>100 stress>Baldwin's Resolve is Tested>Stalwart>Many fall in the face of chaos. But not this one, not today.My favorite quote, it just sparkles a kindle of fire a single and timid light of hope in the darkness of despair
>>23817939Though I do not disagree with your stance, your use of Baki as an example of literary fiction is hilarious
>>23819414>nooooo a masculine piece of media without epic nihilistic Reddit quips!!!! Not literature!!
>>23815333in english, please
I have been obsessed with these long-winded entries in reference volumes written and edited by gentlemen-scholars, all of whom probably memorized Ovid and Cicero in their youth. Reading these entries is my favorite waste of time and I have cost my company tens of thousands of dollars in lost productivity by reading these on the clock.>The ‘Rambler’ had probably a more lasting success than any other imitation of the ‘Spectator,’ though its rare modern readers will generally consider it as a proof of the amazing appetite of Johnson's public for solid sermonising. Omitting its clumsy attempts at occasional levity, it may be granted that in its ponderous sentences lie buried a great mass of strong sense and an impressive and characteristic view of life. From this time Johnson became accepted as an imposing moralist. >en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Johnson,_Samuel_(1709-1784)?useskin=monobook>3. Elegies. These are lost with the exception of some fragments, but there are imitations of them by the Roman poets, the most celebrated of which is the "De Coma Berenices" of Catullus. If we may believe the Roman critics, Callimachus was the greatest among the elegiac poets (Quintil. x. 1. § 58), and Ovid, Propertius, and Catullus took Callimachus for their model in this species of poetry. We have mention of several more poetical productions, but all of them have perished except a few fragments, and however much we may lament their loss on account of the information we might have derived from them, we have very little reason to regret their loss as specimens of poetry. Among them we may mention, 1. The Αἴτια, an epic poem in four books on the causes of the various mythical stories, religious ceremonies, and other customs. The work is often referred to, and was paraphrased by Marianus; but the paraphrase is lost, and of the original we have only a few fragments. 2. An epic poem entitled Ἑκάλη, which was the name of an old woman who had received Theseus hospitably when he went out to fight against the Marathonian bull. This work was likewise paraphrased by Marianus, and we still possess some fragments of the original. The works entitled Γαλάτεια and Γλαῦκος were in all probability likewise epic poems. It appears that there was scarcely any kind of poetry in which Callimachus did not try his strength, for he is said to have written comedies, tragedies, iambic, and choliambic poems. Respecting his poem Ibis see Apollonius Rhodius.>en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Biography_and_Mythology/Callimachus_2.?useskin=monobook
>>23816410>[Johnson] read a great deal in a desultory fashion, and said afterwards (Boswell, Letters, p. 34) that he knew as much at eighteen as he did at fifty-two.me
>>23816434>People who leant Johnson books complained that he spilled food on tea on it, visitors to his house were shocked by how he used books as coasters, doorstops and to prop up wobbling furniture. Even his way of reading, pulling the books open, cracking their spines and peering in (his eyesight never being great) was detrimental to them. Boswell reports that he once visited Johnson who was ‘dusting’ his books by vigorously banging them together. People did not like him borrowing their books, Garrick upset Johnson greatly by refusing to lend him his folio Shakespeares.
>>23816410How do you feel about Burton's Anatomy? It seems like a pioneer of this genre in some ways.
>>23816410The Classical Journal edited by A J Valpy 1810-1829 40 vols.?The Pamphleteer edited by A J Valpy The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer 1731-1735The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle editor Sylvanus Urban, Gent. 1736-1833The European Magazine, and London Review vols. 1-86Available on line at Internet Archives. Happy reading.
Is it true that as weininger says great men only loved prostitutes? What are some examples and contra example
>exposed the scam of Zen BuddhismZen pseuds have been crying about it ever since. If you need any more proof of the value of the book, there's a huge /r/zen thread about it full of butthurt Redditor soi baldies. >b-b-but what does some Westoid know about Zen?Cope. Westoid translator of Japanese author who exposed his native Zen schools in 1916.>b-b-but if you're talking about answers to koans, you're missing the point of koansCope. The answers are based on actual school material. The schools expected certain responses.I highly recommend this book to anyone who's long suspected that Zen Buddhism is nothing more than a bunch of pseuds and weebs trying to sound enigmatic.
>>23815823>non-gradual enlightenment/trainingsee this is what happens when you don't follow the buddha's teachings and vinayayou can't just skip shit and act like you've achieved the goal
>>23815823I never read this before but this is great. This book's almost good enough to make me stop being an anti-semite. 1916, huh? Were there any earlier works in English that dealt with zen in similar depth? Idk the history very well, before this the earliest zen book I probably could have named was Zen Flesh, Zen Bones. I mostly just sit around and read translations of Dogen for my zen practice.>>23819241Maybe if you're on reddit. Reddit's a peculiarly ill suited place to talk about Zen. Which I think speaks to Zen's benefits (zenefits™).
>>23815823>seething this muchyou sound like you need to practice some zen lol.
>>23819317https://terebess.hu/zen/sound-one-hand.pdf
>>23815823>Doesn't understand koan>It must be meaningless!The western mind is so tiresome
Does listening to an audiobook count as "reading" the book?
>>23818901Have you not ever listened to a podcast? It's basically just a big podcast.
Books are just a cope from before we had recordings. It went Oral Tradition -> Books -> Oral againHumans are made to listen, not to read, Socrates was right (yes I know he was talking about being able to have a conversation instead of just listening)
>>23819061Pretty based desu. Though reading is also good enough. Really reading is for those intelligent enough to do so. Audiobooks are a true revolution for the idiotic masses that can't comprehend a story without it literally being told to them. However, they're still good to listen to.
>>23818356I have yet to see any scientific evidence that the comprehension of audiobook listeners is lower. In my personal experience, I usually prefer them and find that I retain more, probably simply because the strain on my ears is lower than the strain on my eyes.If I need to read extremely closely though, I will pull out a physical book.
>>23818356You read with your eyes, not your ears.
So uh do I contain unique multitudes, or are people all pretty much predictable and same-y?
depends
Best books on Indian history?
>>23817717>>23817767Haha great reference, do it again
>>23817255That's Britain's fault
>>23818165Source?
Read John Keay to start with. Whatever you do don’t read Indian historians, the level of retarded cope they’re on is akin to that of Indians in the dating sphere
>>23817226The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru
Stop using adverbs.
>>23818095I wish wishely you had taught taughtely my high school English classes.
OP here. You guys are UNIRONICALLY making me ANGRILY seethe with these replies.
>>23818315>hereThat's an adverb too
>>23817613>OP said homosexually
>>23817613Don't get cunty.
Hello people! I'm looking for the grimmest of grimdark, the kind of stuff that leaves the 40k universe quaking in its boots, the kind of stuff that would make Bakker recoil in horror. Let me know what I haven't read out there.
>>23818058nope, hadn't even heard of him till anon recommended it to me last week.
>>23818354I enjoyed it
>>23818661it's alright, him being a literal cuck takes away from the work imo
You could try Throne of Bones by McNaughton. Also seconding Wagner’s Kane starting with the Night Winds collection. Wouldn’t say it’s the derpiest of derps or anything, it’s just some fine dark fantasy kino. ToB is actually kind of fucked though I’m not sure anything really trumps Aspect Emperor…
>>23819318>Throne of Bones by McNaughtonInteresting
What modern fantasy novels would Tolkien have liked?
>>23819210no it's not you stupid faggot. Book 4, Chapter 4: Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
>>23819221Whatever, he still would've called your weeb trash dogshit and considered it below contempt.
>>23819210Can't tell if trolling or genuinely fucking retarded.
>>23814207Try starting the thread off with what you think modern fantasy novels tolkien would have liked to get the conversation going. This thread is low effort and extractive.
>>23819325>low effort and extractiveWelcome to the internet.
