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Are, the birth of a tragedy and The Gay Science good starting points for Nietzsche?
>>7567139
The Greeks are a good starting point for Nietzsche. After that Schopenhauer at the very least. Did you that yet?
>>7567155
>Did you that yet?
no, but i will. I just found a cheap compilation of nietzsche's works , its not like i wanted to read him specifically.
Thank you for the advice.
If you want to get into philosophy, you have to be an organized thinker. Everything in its correct category; everything in its right place. So the place you should start with Friedrich Nietzsche is the garbage, actually, because that's where he belongs.
>churning out essays by night
>living in a third-world shithole
>failing an English class (you fucking read that right, English, as in "Hello how are you" "I'm fine thank you" shit, not Literature) because the teacher is up my ass and can't do anything about it
>parents wonder I suck so hard
If only they know that I've got a bunch of books on Amazon for sale. Fuck. This just makes me so fucking insecure.
You've written books, OP?
>writing a book
>doing essays on Medium
>livestreaming on Twitch in English for 5 hours straight every day for a whole summer
>all the relatives ask how good my English is all the fucking time 'cause I go to English school
I also got a C in my proficiency test and failed it the first time I sat for it. I must've come across some really uptight speaking examinators cause all of my teachers praise the shit out of my English and most...
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Post famous citation.
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So I want to read The New Yorker but don't live in the USA. Nor do I possess a CC.
Who was a reliable source at hand that delivers current and recent issues of The New Yorker in commonly used digital formats?
>>7567099
It's usually on public torrent trackers along with all the other major mags.
>>7567099
I love that cover.
>DFW
top kek
Why would you think this post is worth making
Sage
>>7567053
sage uugh
Saw a thread about that, but it is gone. Would like to discuss the topic further
Tartt's 'Secret History' included a very nice New-Englang-University feeling. As I am a sucker for atmospheric books in general (that's why I like Kafka), can you recommend similar books? Maybe something that's a tad closer to real literature than TSR.
Someone suggested Malamud, can you recommend?
>>7567036
I remember some Bret Easton Ellis book (rules of attraction i think) having that same vibe, but from the people who werent as smart or narrowly focussed as the secret history crowd.. thats what got me interested in the secret history.
also, if you like kaka check out hermann ungar and his book the class
Bret Easton Ellis is noted, Hermann Ungar seems to lack university feeling
Are other Tartt books worth reading?
>>7567036
white noise
>civilization advanced to the point where we can store 10k+ books on a nail-sized devices
>people still hoard physical copies of books on an off chance it will look impressive to someone
What else could I put on shelves? My room would look empty and depressing without books.
The last girl I brought home was legit impressed by my collection. Too bad she's an undateable slut.
>>7567052
picture of friends and gf
>Haven't been on /lit/ for years
>Read a lot, etc but found the board pretentious
>Usually browse /his/, /vr/, /news/, /x/ etc
>Decided to take a look after every other board is turning to shit
>Oh cool, /lit/'s making a book
>Contribute to Pictures of DFW
>My work is featured in the final copy
>Only learn about...
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>>7566929
>DFW thumbnail
top kek
People are frequently derisive of the DFW thumbnail. Indeed, it's become somewhat a badge of honour to lampoon and deride its deployment as "shitposting", as somehow not worthy of a "patrician™". What this backlash really amounts to is the classic fear of transgression felt on the part of the cultural elite whenever a new art form emerges - as was the case with film, television, and comics. The sneering that the DFW thumbnail betokens is part of its rite of passage as an emergent aesthetic.
The truth is that the DWF thumbnail remains the only...
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>>7567035
dfwposting has always been the greatest thing about /lit/
Is this version of the Bible any good compared to other versions /lit/?
new oxford annotated best bible
Tyndale Bible
>the 54 scholars who produced the King James Bible drew significantly from Tyndale, as well as from translations that descended from his. One estimate suggests the New Testament in the King James Version is 83% Tyndale's and the Old Testament 76%. With his translation of the Bible the first to be printed in English, and a model for subsequent English translations.
When people use 'literally' to mean 'figuratively' they actually mean: "as if it were a concretization of an archetype from fictional literature; a hyperreal exemplification of the conceptual template"
>yfw
>>7566706
>following dictionary definitions
>not going full hamlet
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Can we talk about Muriel Barbery?
Qu'est-ce que les litizens francaises pensent de Muriel Barbery?
Would you recommend her?
>Be German
>Want to get into French again
>la vie des elfes - sounds interesting
plz help frenchies ;_;
>>>/a/nother website
english on all boards except /b/
>>7567316
You're new here and read the rules? Wow, consider me amazed. A pointer: Don't waste your time, head back to reddit immediately. /lit/ has always been a place of polyglots - you clearly don't belong here. Merci pour le bump anyways, you monolingual pleb.
Which of HP Lovecraft's stories should I start with?
Get the complete collection
Not Barnes and Noble though, that shit is filled with fucking GLITTER
>
yikes
>>7566643
Our research shows that customers like shiny things. The original cover for Lewis Carroll's work was a mirror on the front.
Working on my book. Help motivate me.
>>7566604
If you need motivation, stop it. Do something different or write another story. Come back later and just do it.
>>7566604
Money keep a nigga motivated.
You can do it. Tell me about your book, Anon.
what ungodliness is this
I've grown to like it when the pages are like that
Your rug is very similair to my rug
>>7566570
it's an ugly rug
ITT we post books which damaged Western Art
The whole ayyyy get high and write stuff and then edit your scribbles once sober and publish it instead of genuinely crafting well thought out pieces of writing still plagues us today
>still wishing the problem had been the chinese
you either haven't read the book or are a particularly dumb white supremacist fighting a very lost battle over hong kong
Are there any similar quality books than pic related?
Nope. You've discovered the best one. The only way for you to go from here is down.
That's maybe my favorite SF novel. I also like Le Guin, Philip K. Dick, and Kim Stanley Robinson as far as SF authors.
Book of the New Sun has a lot of fans on here but I didn't like it nearly as much as 5th Head. Interesting and worth reading, though.
>>7566505
Sure, why not. Here's a list:
1) All the Sounds of Fear by Harlan Ellison
2) Deathworld 2 by Harry Harrison
3) The Machine in Shaft Ten by M John Harrison
4) The Heaven Makers, by Frank Herbert
5) The Best of Fritz Leiber
6) After Apollo by Barry Malzberg
7) The Caltraps of Time by David I Masson
8) The View From the Stars, by Walter Miller
9) A Hole in Space by Larry Niven
10) West of the Sun by Edgar Pangborn
11) Away and Beyond by A.E.Van Vogt
12) Equator by Brian Aldiss
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