Read the sticky

>>7593459

Read it and ? Not looking for " recommended books" just want to hear some opinions about this specific one

>>7593450
I read it when i was a teenager. I liked it back then but you can't trust my teenage judgement.

You could get a library card or download a pdf if you don't want to buy shit.

it's en english you doofus

>>7593186
I know the translation is in english, but which one should I pick?

I got a Brothers Karamazov version that fucking sucked.

>>7593178
Can't tell if troll or not, but to give you the benefit of the doubt, I'll go ahead and tell you that Lolita was originally written in English by Nabokov when he was living in the United States.

Or are you meaning translation into another language?

Scream internally.

practice

scream externally

>>7586104
Judging by his corpulence, Hume probably had a comfy life.
Kierkegaard had a pretty sad life.

worst: Kierkegaard

best: Cioran

Wait until I'm dead t b h
but for best I'd say Sartre

>>7580399
>what are you currently reading?
Not a SFF novel so I refuse to answer.
>favorite speculative fiction author?
The fat man.
>favorite speculative fiction novel?
ASOIAF, The Silmarillion, The Gone-Away World, The Voice of the Fire, The Second Apocalypse

Thoughts on the Elric saga?

>>7580455
I liked the rape, gay and incest in Elric saga.

Fuck off

>>7595385
How about no and die in fire?

Are you reading a translation or something? If not it doesn't matter which edition, senpai.

Most books on mythology and religion desu.

>>7591794
the dhamma

i twisted my ankle on my birthday today

fuck demiurge

>>7595962
>implying there's a difference
>implying thought isn't an illusion

>>7595967
You have debased all knowledge

It is a defeatist perspective

It's not terribly insightful, but it's a powerful read.

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>>7595738

>>7595738

It's kind of a vague question. If you mean just "better prose" generally, there's really nothing more specific than read more to study how other authors use prose style to influence the story, and write more to naturally let yourself get accustumed to your own unique style. If you mean, how do I write more clearly and correctly, I guess you can get a book like The Elements of Style which is very helpful.

>>7595739
Will check it out

>>7595747
I'll try to be more precise. My prose is atrocious, it's very "journalistic". It doesn't have any flow to it, and I have trouble with things such as pacing, stylistic figures, etc.

Perhaps reading poetry would help?

I just read The Sound and the Fury before Christmas. It's a great book if you're willing to just enjoy the ride on your first read-through and accept that it won't all make sense until you go back an re-read certain parts.
It's like putting together a puzzle. And it's only about 200 pages.

Might as well not mess around.

i have only read As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury , i'd say I would read AILD first because it's a bit similar in structure yet more inteligible so it will be easier to get into TSatF later

As I Lay Dying -> The Sound and the Fury -> Absalom, Absalom!

Pretty good series. A little preachy towards the middle and end. Why really gets me pissed in thi series is the Richard/Kahlan relationship. Yes, we know they love each other, dont make every other sentence about it.

Otherwise, good battles, good villains, magic seems to make sense for the most part.

>>7595083
It's very very entry level fantasy.
Not actually bad, but try to read Tolkien, Glenn Cook or Gene Wolfe instead.

virilio isn't in the super radical foucaultian branch of social theory, more from marshall mcluhan "i don't know what the fuck im sayiing but it sound deep to dumb ppl" school of critical studies

>>7594240
yeah, that is why i described it as 'furthest over the edge'. What i meant I guess was most crazy/outthere/nonsensical/weird. I've read enough foucault and his ilk for awhile

>>7594270
foucault is very sensible though there really isn't anything "weird" in it...

>>7593051
Please, stop the shiteposting.

>>7595211
Bitch, have you even read a book?

>>7595215
Yes, but all these "Ready Player One, Neil Gaiman XDD" threads are obvious bait and not even funny.

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>>7592406

I know nothing about Aragon, but I can vouch for Konrad Bayer and Julien Gracq being excellent

Nerval, Lautréamont and Roussel are nice starts tbqhf

Breton is shyte, avoid him

>>7592530
>vouches for gracq
op doesn't want a mediocre author to start with

I found another instance of the idea of "fatal degeneration" in George Bull:

>I might here insist upon that admirable philosophy lecture which Adam (appointed by God Himself to that ollice) read on all the other animals. For although his theme here was a part of natural philosophy, yet his performance herein, if we look to its circum stances, cannot but be judged by every considering man to be the effect of a more than human sagacity. That, in the infinite variety of creatures, never before seen by Adam, he should be able on a sudden,...
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I tired and slightly drunk at the moment. Bumping this thread for tomorrow so I can give you a proper reply.

I love reading Braudel but deep down I agree with Charles Tilly's position on him:
"He approaches a problem by enumerating its elements, fondling its ironies, contradictions, and complexities, confronting the various theories scholars have proposed, and giving each theory its historical due. The sum of all theories, alas, is no theory."

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/50993/219.pdf?sequence=1

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>>7587411
I've always struggled with Borges essays, but I do like some of his short stories. The former are way too erudite for my tastes.