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Writers who satisfy your autism.
I'll start
>Aristotle
>>7649785
Gass' utter contempt for the whole of humanity helps me feel less hollow. Though they're both just different ways to wither, being bitter is better than being empty.
>>7649785
Any analytical philosopher
>>7649785
Pynchon
>the introduction is 100 pages long
OMG! RELATABLE!
>>7645729
The worst, was trying to read the communist manifesto printed by penguin. It was literally 120 pages of introduction then the tiny manifesto itself.
>>7645729
>the thread is meta, ironic and belongs on Reddit
Was it suicide, and why if it was? Was it because he lost faith in his own philosophy?
No more riding the frequencies.
The dude was 103 years old what do you expect
>>7650240
Wat
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze
>>7650229
Desde 1992, seus pulmões, afetados por um câncer, funcionavam com um terço da capacidade. Em 1995, só respirava com a ajuda de aparelhos. Sem poder realizar seu trabalho, Deleuze atirou-se pela janela do seu apartamento em Paris, em 4 de novembro de 1995. Seus seguidores consideraram seu suicídio coerente com sua vida e obra: "Para ele, o trabalho do homem era pensar e produzir novas formas de vida"
PT wiki, if you can understand portuguese.
Well just finished The Old Man and the Sea.
What was so special I don't get it.
You guys make books sound like orgasms but it was just a dude in a boat.
Do I just not understand literature? What was I supposed to get out of it?
>>7649931
hemmmingway was just a hack and everyone was memeing on you, tard.
>>7649938
What literature isn't a meme? Is it memes all the way down?
>>7649938
>hemmmingway was just a hack
What do you all think of this book?
Reading it right now, really enjoying it.
>>7649089
/tv/ here
the movie is better
>>7649098
I saw the movie first actually, still enjoying the book. Although I will admit I am envisioning it narrated by Johnny Depp still.
>>7649098
No it isn't
Hi /lit/. I've been avoiding feeling anything for a very long time, and am currently trying to rekindle my repressed emotions. Trying to reach any answer about life purely analytically has led me into despair, and I cried for the first time in years yesterday. Any books you would recommend for this feel? I'm mostly into philosophy, but my disinterest in fiction is probably a symptom in itself.
I've a feeling in my gut that you would get some value out of Les Miserables. But it's a pretty hefty tome; do you have a length limit?
>>7648839
Same anon here
Also, are you adverse to texts with particularly religious sentiment? I'm struggling to think of a book concerning the virtue of emotional appeal that isn't also steeped in Christianity
>Trying to reach any answer about life purely analytically has led me into despair
The Brothers Karamazov.
What should I skip in this backlog, /lit/?
>>7647618
Everything.
>>7647618
All of them. Reading is a waste of time.
>>7647618
The Martian
It started as a great novel in the first chapter, became a bit more boring in the two next chapters, and is rather dull in the part about the murders.
It's just "here's some woman, she has been vaginally and anally raped, and we just can't find any lead" all over again. Does it get better? Am I missing something?
>does it get better
yes. most people put chapter 5 as the best/2nd best chapter
>am i missing something
also yes
The point is that you become desensitized to the brutality of the crimes, just like those who investigate this shit in real life do. Roberto Bologna is a genuis, and frankly, you should go back to hop on pop if you can't figure this out.
Ciudad Juarez mate. Also Edomex in the 20teens. Mostly this:
>>7645437
First person narration is a meme.
>muh mind
>muh experience
>muh downfall into madness XD
Fuck that.
it's not what you do, it's how you do it
-aristotle
>>7650029
>not using first second and third person narration throughout a book
Stay pleb, my man.
>>7650050
They don't think it be like it is, but it do
-plato
Did i get memed hard?
>>7649846
Yeah. He's not great, was funny, plays are decent. The novel's decent. That's it.
>>7649846
>reading degenerates
bet you read women and non-whites too.
fucking moron, take the redpill
>>7649866
what if i am a woman
Is he right?
>>7649432
"made a huge mistake" is code for "it's a trap"
which is code, if I have to explicate this for you too, for "a tranny"
which means a girl with a dick
it's implying sideways that only biological males read this
like everybody is doing (the implication, not the reading)
>>7649432
Yes.
>>7649446
this isn't a bad thing
>ADA OR ARDOR
so when your talking about the book right, do you say the title straight or do you say ada or ARDOR maybe a bit like jd and turk on scrubs like it's innuendo or something, is that what nabokov was going for maybe?
I just say Ada. I think the full title is Ada or Ardor :a Family Chronicle anyway
>>7650164
oh yeah and Lucette was best girl. Fuck Ada for sneaking off with those other guys behind her brothers back. Van's openly sleeping around almost bugged me more though.
Other than the Bible and other religious texts, is there anything worthwhile written in Hebrew?
Amos Oz is great. There's also quite an extensive Yiddish canon if you're interested.
>>7648478
yiddish != hebrew, tho. they don't even belong to the same family of languages.
>>7649022
Well it's written using Hebrew characters so one could argue it's written in Hebrew
I MAJORED IN LIT
HOW THE FUCK DO I GET A JOB
I HAVE NO EXPERIENCE
I LIKE WRITING AND READING BUT I HAVE NO EXPERIENCE
Do volunteer work and build up a resume. Look into editorial work or technical writing
good luck dave man
>>7648085
>majored
Oh boy. Bit late to be asking now.
Anyway, my advice is to go and teach English somewhere.
>>7648085
just be yourself
Took from my Lit proff at Brown U.
Book - unapologetically commercial cashgrab ex. The Hunger Games
Fiction - a writing with some artistic merits but ultimately still dependent on commercial success/editorial approval to determine if more like it shall be made. ex. American Pastoral
Literature - a work with fewer commercial concerns and more artistic concerns ex. One Hundred Years of Solitude
Belles-Lettres - artistic projects made entirely for artistic concerns. ex. Ulysses
Classics - Works more than 500 years old. Because they can no longer...
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>>7647583
It sounds like the shitty demarcation that /tv/ has with film-flick-cinema
Arbitrary classifications. Why 500 years? Shakespeare isn't 500 years old, but he's surely a "classic" in the non-Classical sense.
The others are just as arbitrary. How much artistic concern is too much? What if you don't know if the book was made "for money"? One Hundred Years of Solitude surely made gobs of cash; does that means its artistic merit is relatively less than [insert any notoriously shitty 19th century vanity novel of your choice]?
Overall, unscientific, full of holes and borderline useless. Not even worth mentioning...
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dumb bait
back to /tv/ faggot
