What books can't you stop thinking about?For me these are: The Metamorphosis, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, and Moby-Dick.I do also think about "Napoleon: A Life" quite often, but that's more as a "reference point." Not sure how to word it, but many works make me think of Napoleon, or make me think about them in relation to aspects of Napoleon (greatness, heroism, tragedy etc) and sometimes, like in Moby-Dick, he's also directly referenced.
i think about the corrections a lot more than i expected.
>>25437951I think about Aurelien as much as I think about my first love
>>25437951Faust, Moby-Dick, Pierre; or, the Ambiguities and Gravity's Rainbow
>>25437967>AurelienNever heard of this one and seems somewhat obscure? Tell us more.
>>25437985It's about a WWI veteran trying to fit back into society who falls in love with an elusive countryside girl, about the duality between idealization and reality when it comes to love, and how that intoxication only grows with distance. If you've ever fallen madly in love with someone or experienced limerence or whatever they call it then I'm sure you'd be able to relate.
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>>25437951Reverend Insanity
>>25437951Second Apocalypse
>>25438007I am the kind of person this appeals to so will have to add it to the TBR.
>>25438128LMAO, FUCKING LOSER
>>25438191Did he filter you?
>>25437951The Gunslinger? I read it when I was like 12 and it was the coolest thing ever. I still remember basic plot, I've read all of the others. I think I noticed technique for the first time - the book was badass enough to wonder why it was badass. Killing the hooker violates trad hero expectations. It has great lines - "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed," "The holsters were oiled too deeply for even this Philistine sun to crack."
>>25437951Snood
Green Eggs & Ham. Nigga be eating green eggs!
The Thief of Always by Clive Barker. Read it as a kid and for some reason its stayed with me.
>>25437951I wouldn't pick a specific work but Jung in general is something I think about all the time.
The first alice in wonderland book.favorite book everreally felt like i was inside a 7 year old girl
>>25440826>really felt like i was inside a 7 year old girlSir, you might want to reword that.
>>25437967Does an english translation even exist? Because I can't find one.
>>25437951The bible
>>25440961Yes by Eithne Wilkins. You'll find it on Anna's Archive in pdf format or on secondhand websites if you prefer physical
>>25440961Ask AI.
>>25438544thanks for confirming, I thought I was hallucinating a snood on /lit/>>25437951good question but they usually come to me when the situation calls for itotherwise probably the Bible
Bernhards The Loser.
Where's THE obligatory picture that's in every snood thread?My OCD is killing me here.
What the hell is a snood
>>25437951Reverend Insanity.
>>25437951for me it’s the end of angel by e taylor.
>>25442606The prettiest girl alive.
>>25442606>What the hell is a snoodIt is a neck gaiter, but that's not important right now.
>>25439708You're posting a picture of a Lacanian Anime and you're referencing Jung? What fucking shit drug are you on? PCP? Are you on PCP again son? Don't make me force feed you Ketamine and Zizek lectures (not the shitty ones for Americans, the serious ones about film theory, ideology, and tankies).
>>25443869whats a gaiter ._.
I read a book called Talking To Blue in around 2002 when I was about 12 years old and I loved it. It was about a serial killer that was killing all the friends and people this guy knew and would always leave behind something blue and he kept turning up to the crime scenes not long after it had happened.
>>25442412I was lazy yesterday
>>25437951hmmI really loved herodotus' histories because of all of the fun anecdotes he intersperses throughout, like the one about king sethos and his army of mice. I think a lot about the secret history too, mainly because henry is hot as fuck
This zoomette retard has a worse hairline than me and I'm a 35 year old man. What the FUCK is going on with zoomers?
An author that has really stuck with me is Richard Brautigan. I find something new in his works every time I re-read them. In particular, "The Tokyo-Montana Express" holds up.
>>25445323>Richard Brautiganman, I heard about him on the Hermitix podcast (which evolved from being a marxist podcast to a blackpill one lol), was kind of shocked>He died of a self-inflicted .44 Magnum gunshot wound to the head.seems like he took his own medicineanyway, what i wanted to say is: sorry u read him, i guess
Doors of Stone by Patrick Rothfuss.Because the bastard wants to drag this series out for eternity so he can continue to make money, which prevents me from growing up.
>>25443974A cache-col.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>>25438544I want to slaughter that woman in minecraft
>>25438040Stories of Ren Zu were incredible
FYI anyone who picks something from the western canon is a tryhard
>>25437951Finnegans Wake. I read it every year.
>>25437951The plains by MurnaneI hate to use zoomer lingo but that book actually altered my neuro chemistry, it made me realize that small things contain enormous complexity inside them, that you can lead a life of silence, pay attention to the little things, live some kind of antilife where nothing has to be actually said or done, it can simply exist in your mind, and enjoy the endless potential of your imagination.
In just a few brief sentences, Borges conveys the complexity of time and human nature. Some stories unfold from premises that seem abstract or surreal at first, only to come together in the final paragraph. *Ficciones* is the only book I read once or twice every year, and each time I discover something I hadn't noticed before.
I think i'll never forget Mémoires de la Duchesse d'Orléans It's too truthpilled.
Extremely cliché, but Stoner
Ulysses, or anything by Joyce
>>25437951Infinite Jest, there are just so many great little stories within the larger narrative. Today I was thinking about when Oron and his friend got high and accidentally road hauled his mom's dog through the streets of downtown Boston..
>The Temple of the Golden PavilionReading David Vernon's writeup about it in pic-related. It's worth checking out if you like Mishima.
>>25437951The one I sat on covered in superglue. Now I can't shit.
>>25437951>Roberts goes through fifty-three of Napoleon's sixty battlefields, and he additionally evaluates a gigantic new French edition of Napoleon's letters, aiming to create a complete re-evaluation of the man.one must appreciate the dedication to write 40000+ fake letters in order to justify the "Napoleon" meme
>>25448367You are the worst poster on /tv/.
>>25448370I wish
>>25448378You cracked a willow when you did then because you are.
>>25448388i don't even post on /tv/ schizo
>>25448209I might check it out. However, as a general rule, I don't read lit to get a 'correct' understanding of it. Rather, I read to have an interpretation that gives *me* meaning.For me, that book is more of a cautionary tale about the "fantasy mindset" being so occupied with living in a kind of fantasy reality, either because you're too wired to not think about it all the time, or because you're too consumed by caring about things nobody but you cares about or worries about. And Mishima himself obviously fell victim to this with his LARP suicide, he couldn't escape it, unlike the character in the book. At first I thought, "well, that kind of refutes the whole book," but does it? Obviously only someone struggling with this would write about it.
>>25448367You are doubtless in English pay. Kindly fuck off. Vive l'empereur.
>>25437951Moby Dick, Dubliners, and the Odyssey (god I wish I could find a home that is half as worth remembering as Ithaca, or someone half as faithful as Telemachus and Penelope). Reading through the Bible rn and that is also shaping up to make a lasting impression on me.
>>25448539>half as faithful as TelemachusI mean... It's literally his son?
>>25447758I just read that for the first time a couple of days ago. I wasn’t sure whether to cry out of sadness or joy or what
>>25437951Brave New World really unsettled me. The idea of conditioning people from birth so they're effectively unable to climb the social ladder feels disturbingly plausible, and it's hard not to draw parallels with real life.It makes me wonder, are jews, in their own ways, encouraging passivity by promoting low-quality entertainment and unhealthy consumption, making people less likely to question or challenge the status quo? Is race mixing part of their eugenics programme to create the perfect Epsilon?
>>25448573Telemachus literally has no father for the entire duration of his childhood, who left for a senseless war and leaving his household robbed in broad daylight for years by his mother's 108 suitors, all the while he's left to be bullied and pushed around by both the suitors and the maids. Be honest, he has every reason to resent Odysseus. It's a minor miracle that he holds on for as long as he does until Athena finally decides to help him.
>>25448483he was an English agent who successfully destroyed the Holy Roman Empire and everything good about continental Europehe was as empereur as luther was christian
>>25448713Why are you people so proudly retarded? I can't even tell if it's a larp of a real belief you hold at this point.
>>25448732what do you mean by "you people"?
>>25448753People who don't read. Where do you even get this from?
>>25449537>you people, you just don't understand!
>>25437951in praise of folly by erasmusHegel’s Phenomenology of spiritKybalionProverbsSpiritual writings by Kierkegaard Notes from undergroundBook of the courtier by castiglione
>>25450170this nigga vibrates
>>25450144This is you yes. Now go on and provide us with the source for the claim. It's not just coming from inside your schizo head is it?
>>25450691no, it's you :)I don't need to provide anything, the facts speak for themselves
>>25437951Jenna won (Snood)
>>25448649>The idea of conditioning people from birth so they're effectively unable to climb the social ladder feels disturbingly plausiblethis movie depicted how that already occurs, especially this scene
I think of Clockwork Orange and Blood Meridian so often. I enjoy reading them. I think I have read Clockwork Orange for the third time.
>>25452639>irl rock-paper-scrissorshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpcAUdgCChc
>>25437951All Quiet on the Western Frontspecifically the opening where they're communally eating and shitting simultaneously
>>25442606Dunno but that's what they call Minecraft movie girl, she's in the Addams Family show from Netflix I think that's where the term "snood" comes from.
>>25437951Maybe snood can be my wife?Anyways, The Sun Also Rises and Great Expectations from high school, the Stranger and Nicomachean Ethics from college, and Journey to the End of the Night after.
>>25440976>on secondhand websites if you prefer physicali'm a physicalGAWD and was gonna check it out but all the copies are either in french or $200 and old as dirtthey should get this shit reprinted it sounds good
Probably Atlas shrugged but not for the reason you would probably think.The contrast between the clarity of intent and the poor quality of the actual story telling left me with a deep idea that I couldn't shake. A voice in the back of my head that eventually became a scream I couldn't ignore. Always repeating the one line."I can write better than this."And from that thought I took up the craft and art of writing. Each time I have my doubts, that I come up with a idea that I am not confident I can pull off yet, that I am disappointed by a bland line or a flat side character during a first draft; I pick a scene from Atlas Shrugged and remind myself that even at my worst I can still mix my lofty ideas into decent storytelling better than that book. With that reminder I keep working at it in subsequent drafts until it's decent.
>>25439047For me it's Cabal and the movie Nightbreed.Spoke to something shadowy in my soul.
StonerThe Tartar SteppeThe Melancholy of ResistanceThe Laughing Man (short story by Salinger)Two Gallants (short story by Joyce)
>>25457466>The Tartar Steppelol good one, i remember reading it in high school and every time i took the stairs i remembered the dude in the book saying that he'll be old when he no longer takes the stairs by twosi'm not old, but instead i'm fat, and if i take the stairs by twos it will kill my knees lolneed to get unfat, dunno if there is any book for that
>>25456174>Maybe snood can be my wife?Nope. I won't be sharing my wife.
>>25456174>Maybe snood can be my wife?
>>25458825would
>>25458408I can't think of any book unless you want to read some kind of self help book like Atomic Habbits or similar. Losing weight is pretty simple but also difficult. It really does just come down to eating less. The hard part is putting up with being hungry for multiple hours a day.
