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Hi /lit/. Could you recommend me books about witchcraft in mexico?
>>7654403
100 years of solitude
jessica a cute!
what kind art do lit like to look at when they reads?
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I usually stare at my diary desu
1. They should be reasonably modern, post-1950 or so.
2. No sci-fi or fantasy. Fuck that shit.
3. Uh...it should be good.
I honestly don't know what to read next. This happens sometimes. I often just read the next book by an author I like, but nothing comes to mind at the moment. Oh, and City On Fire, recommended to me by this board two months ago, was meh.
if you fear disappointment you should make your needs a bit more precise
>Recommend me books.
Nah. If you looked through any of the existing threads you'd have found some books that match your stipulations. Instead, you asked us to work for you. You can go fuck yourself.
Well, City on Fire clearly broke the third rule, didn't it?
I dunno. Just something that'll entertain me. A wide open field should allow people to respond more easily. I just want something fun to read.
In which order should I read Plato's work?
I already read The Apology, Crito, Laches, Eutyphro, Charmydes and Lysis, which ones should I read next?
in a stochastic order
I'm in college and some friends are starting a book club. Pic related is the first book. What, if anything, do I have to look forward to? Also recs for second book appreciated; the memier and meta-er the better, frankly. Nothing too long, though.
>>7656890
This is one of the best collections I've read from the past decade. The first story is the weakest, but the rest are much better. I recommend that you don't read the title story until last, it spoils some of the other stories (not just plot elements), and also the story Interesting Facts has moreimpact when read last. I honestly have no fucking clue why he didn't put Interesting Facts last.
>>7656890
The Gambler might be a good companion piece, possibly.
>>7656924
Care to explain why? Because tbqh famiglia, it sounds like you're basing the comparison on the cover. (Protip: no actual gambling occurs.)
So i finally dropped pic related after slogging through 500 pages of needless elucidation and overwrought speech (to which i agree with Nabokov's criticism he writes speech like a failed playwright).
I guess itll join the ranks of Verne's From Earth to the Moon and Palhunuhu's Snuff as books I've not finished.Though the age and covers are worth keeping them for anyway
So /lit/ what books have you given up on.
>>7656861
If you aren't in the mood for Dostoevsky it doesn't work.
Gave up on V. long ago. Couldn't interest me for shit. Haven't bothered with Pynchon since.
Gave up on Ulysses.
Picked it back up two years later and now it's my favourite book of all time.
Did Mercedes deserve her fate?
Not really, she thought he was dead. It's okay to move on if your loved one is dead.
I mean, she did say she'd kill herself if Fernando murdered him, but that was more like a counter-incentive, right? Also she said Dantes right again at the end.
Also, her fate wasn't all that bad, all things considered:
>happy youth
>rich nobleman's wife
>majority of life in wealth
>even after shameful death of said husband, she gets to live a comfortable life and see her son grow up.
>>7656925
set* Dantes right.
>>7656925
But she spent 10 years mourning her betrothed then married a man she did not love out of necessity. And then when Dantes returned everything was taken from her, and she commits herself to a lonely life deprived of both wealth and poverty.
Top pleb here, is pic related the best translation of Kafka? I've heard complaints of its syntax, but I also hear that's what makes it true to the original German
DUDE AND THEN HE TURNS INTO A BUG LMAO
>>7656802
Don't listen to the fools on this board. Plot and themes are always more important than prose. This is a board that actually believed Nabakov contributed anything to literature.
>>7656818
O.o
So is Crick's translation okay?
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super epic dude, no one's ever thought of that joke before
I'm not really sure what you're trying to do.
XD shut up and take my upvotes!!
Hi guys,
I'll have to do essays and I need to have a good understand about issues like marihuanna legalization, mass incarceration... Which books do you sugests?
Mummy's Chicken Tendies - Blowy Joey
>>7655734
try the /r/blazeit subreddit, some quality recommendation there for someone of your level OP
I suggest not being a fucking loser who cares about social issues
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books for schizophrenia?
>>7655655
Notes From Underground by Dostoevsky.
>>7655655
A Thousand Plateaus by Deleuze & Guattari
>>7655655
The Divided Self by R.D. Laing
Had a fun idea: in 3-5 sentences we write a distilled version of an authors general schtick. It should mimic language, milieu, and theme, though of course of bit of parody will go a way toward making this more entertaining.
I'll go first - Raymond Carver
He smoked a cigarette.
She climbed into bed.
"Can we get a new bed".
The cigarette set fire to the bed.
She couldn't sleep or free herself from her dull existence (because the bed was on fire); she worked in a bed shop.
>>7654079
And there's something terribly sad and banal about itWilliam Faulkner
He was just a good o'l yankee machinist with a little of that which his grand mother had taken to calling "that kinda' seein you do with your soul". He could of shit his britches when the psychic pedoe millipede opened a macdonalds franchise. Still, his favourite machine was deus ex machina, so he did something gay like really love somebody and the pedo vampire exploded, and he inherited the macdonalds franchise.
Stephen King
"Let us diccuss how the metaphysics of the magical arcana and debt slavery is represented in these unbreakable evil chains of darkness" stated the marine, for he was the top sniper in the Empire's armed forces.
"Nay," proclaimed the infant babe with the power. "such brash action would bring for the storm, and with it, the fury that would wipe out all of us."
"Enough!" shouted the god, his voice shattering two mountains in the distance and creating chasms from which evil beings poured forth. "You are both stupid!"
Stephen Erickson
Have you already done the leap of faith, /lit/?
I've never been in a situation where I had to. I hope that if I am, I will have the power to do it though.
>>7653780
Yes, after many years I have come to develop faith in an objective reality beyond the senses. Even though I can never experience this reality it just makes sense to believe and act as if others are not merely the dream figures I have experienced them to be, but actually, beyond sense, intelligences of their own. I have faith young /lit/erate, but it isn't without doubt.
>leap of faith
As a logical being, endowed not with impairment of thought, this is well beyond my means.
Let's get a thread about literature that would inspire young minds to strive for greatness and both to get them inspired to want to conquer the world but also get them to believe they could.
No self help shit-tier lit though.
I'll start with a biography of pic-related's life.
Let's go guys.
>>7653367
The Quraan
>>7653382
Be serious bruv.
I said no self help shit-tier lit.
Get your shit together.
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>>7653401
Do you know of any novels that deal with American expansion and the communal sense of optimism that came with exploring and taming the West? Or the slow change in mentality when they reached the Pacific Ocean and there was nothing left to explore?
das capital
>>7656552
Little house on the prairie?
>>7656552
That isn't really an accurate depiction of the American feeling at the time though.
It doesn't make sense at all.
