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Is this the new meme trilogy?
sure why not
>>7607252
gass isn't good
>>7607252
No, this is.
>>7607284
Nice bait.
I'm writing an essay on dystopian literature and the "what and why" of it. I've currently read the 3 generic classics 1984, Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World.
I have a pretty good understanding of them but i'm trying sort through the monolith of essays and BS written on then to find some good cite-able essays anyone know any? On the dystopian Genre or any of these specifically
>>7607210
http://bookzz.org/book/1237443/a1aaa0
The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Gregory Claeys (editor)
>>7607253
The further reading has more shit in it, but there are three essays there that should be fine.
>>7607257
Mark Hillegas, The Future as Nightmare: H. G. Wells and the Anti-Utopians
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1967
Chad Walsh, From Utopia to Nightmare (London: Geoffrey Bles, 1962 ).
Lyman Tower Sargent, ‘Three Faces of Utopianism Revisited’, Utopian Studies
5:1 ( 1994 )
Thomas Molnar, Utopia: The Perennial Heresy (New York: Sheed & Ward,
1967
All seem relevant as well.
What's your opinion?
First book is great. Love the mystery.
Enjoyable read
Really enjoyed the first book. I happened to be travelling through the Australian outback while reading it, so the fact that the story kind of ends there was a nice unexpected coincidence.
Haven't gotten around to reading the second and third books, and I have some reservations keeping me from doing so. Are they worth it?
Whats up with part 4
The whole thing's just Lolita minus the good parts
Why is Zoeey such a bitch? Everything he says is extremely contradictory
He raped his sister, Franny.
>>7607067
>salinger
>>>/r/books/
>>7607067
>Zoeey
hey /lit/ can you help me into philosophy? i know some surface-level eastern thought. i've read the tao te ching and the i ching. but i know nothing about the west. can you recommend me some good starting points? i assume that this question gets asked here a lot so sorry in advance
>>7606986
>philosophy
The only kids who care enough to read philosophy are those who weren't smart enough for STEM.
Start with the Greeks.
>>7606986
Get him to the Greek
We listen to Steven Erikson's high fantasy Gardens of the moon.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3BHejJ8cs4
Garbage
How would you rate my uni reading list for next year? Keep in mind the program is a full year of these books and nothing else outside of electives
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Holy Bible
The Odyssey, Homer
Bacchae, Euripides
Republic, Plato
The Aeneid, Virgil
Antigone, Sophocles
The Lais of Marie de France, Marie de
The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius
Inferno, Dante
Purgatory, Dante
Paradise, Dante
Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare
The Essays: A Selection, Michel de Montaigne
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jesus christ
forcing people to read hegel should be penalised
I don't know what you hope to gain by brushing through these books at such a fast pace. You will probably be more confused afterwards than you were before.
>>7606762
Apparently some books are given significantly more coverage than others and some aren't read entirely which would make sense.
It's more of a philosophical/anthropological course rather than a literary one
we need some well-versed Polish anon to prepare a list of essential Polish literature
afaik they began really writing stuff by the time Russians did but for some reason nobody cared to translate Polish books
they're a 38mln nation for fuck's sake, I can't believe they didn't produce any quality lit
>>7606739
Manuscript Found in Saragossa is the only thing i can think of. pretty awesome novel though. maybe even a masterpiece.
I'm American, but went to school in Poland for three years and spent a total of five years there. Even in the schools they don't really discuss writers from the country. The legacy is very weak. There are no flagship authors.
Is there any specific edition of Middlemarch I should pick up over the others?
>>7606531
If you're reading for pleasure it doesn't really matter, but if you want to take a more scholarly approach to reading it and gain a fuller understanding of the novel then I'd suggest buying a Norton Critical Edition.
>>7606531
>reading shitty whore women
into the trash
>>7606547
>George
So I've read my fair share of McCarthy's books and I feel Outer Dark or Child of God are at least as good as his more /lit/ stuff, if not better. How do you feel about them, since I don't ever see them mentioned on here?
Suttree > Blood Meridian > All the Pretty Horses > Child of God > Cities of the Plain > The Crossing > Outer Dark > The Orchard Keeper
That being said I thoroughly enjoyed every single one of McCarthy's books.
Look at this suave fuck.
>>7606490
Dat milf tho
Child of God and Outer Dark are both fucking amazing.
![The_Mote_In_God's_Eye_-_original_hardcover_edition[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/t67h0iR.jpg "The_Mote_In_God's_Eye_-_original_hardcover_edition[1].jpg")
Has anyone here actually read a decent book?
Pic related
this book was pretty gucci, ending left some to be desired. not as good as i was hoping but decent.
>>7606474
The ending felt incredibly rushed; they hadn't even made it back to New Caledonia with 10 pages to go.
/lit/ I feel kinda weird. I've always tried to live by Nietzschean consuel and anarchist maxims, but lately I've been feeling myself getting more and more spiritual. I've been reading Deleuze and Leibniz, I don't know, I think I'm starting to feel some kind of Great Spirit, something akin to God. What are some books about anarchy and spirituality, marauder gnosticism?
>>7606430
How's highschool treating you, kid?
>>7606430
Tolstoi comes to mind.
![23656630[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/OP9EqU7.jpg "23656630[1].jpg")
Sometimes this feels like Rust Cohle's essay, but I'm enjoying it anyway.
Also got "The Thing: A Phenomenology of Horror" by Dylan Trigg in the backlog.
What do /lit/ thinks about books like those, got anything similiar?
I haven't read them yet but I really really want to. If you liked that and True Detective, try the book Supernatural Detection. I'm fairly sure Peak is in it, and it's a collection of "dark" philsophical essays on the first season of True Detective written by great author like Gary Shipley. Talking about Peak, have you read his horror novel - The River Through the Trees or something like that anyway.
>>7606383
I'd mention Conspiracy Against the Human Race but chances are you've got that one covered.
I've read the exact same books, just finished Eugene Thacker's "Horror of Philosophy" series. It touches on a lot of similar themes.
Also if you're interested in reading a horror story written as a work of philosophy, try Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani
/lit/, the quest of making this chart in a proper way is inescapable.
It can be done following the accesibility criterion of, getting close to /mu/, making a pleb/patrician gradation.
I leave this duty on you, comrades
Yeah 4 real b
>>7608103
>bumping your own shit thread
fuck off
>>7608110
Don't ever fucking post on this board again unless you plan to contribute to the discussion at hand.
