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How does /lit/ feel about fahrenheit 451?
The last quarter of it is pure poetry.
check the archive
>>7569340
Ray Bradbury's style is better suited to short stories. His novel dragged on too much.
>and almost certainly, they knew that they had witness...the birth of a nation.
>>7569112
>So thanks, kudos, and all that Jazz
>You've just read The Leaves of Grass
Fucking Americans.
>>7569112
>"Thanks for the snack, Jack. Looks like I'm headed back on the road."
we had this thread yesterday must it must have been euthanized by all the other quality threads we've been getting.
Is this book worth reading? Don't really know much about Kissinger, but I heard it's good. Have you guys read it?
>I'm guessing it's a thinly veiled blueprint for an eventual New World Order
>>7569044
Isn't it like 300 pages? Just fucking read it.
It is not thinly veiled
He basically says all major historical geopolitical powers tend to some pattern of world order and that the modern form is just a continuation of the past forms
>>7569081
It sounds interesting because he mentions "how to build a shared international order in a world of divergent historical perspectives, violent conflict, proliferating technology, and ideological extremism."
I like books about transhumanism and all this real world "chaos" and fast-paced change.
Hundred odd pages into this and its boring as fuck. Does it get any better?
>>7568856
Nothing ever gets better than fuck.
>>7568864
bravo, i am going to steal that
>>7568891
>>>/reddit/
How do we differentiate between which things are worth knowing and which are not. What books are worth reading and which are not?
I'm a perfectionist. I know that you don't just start reading history, or reading philosophy, or learning a language. You have to start at the beginning. So where is the beginning? How do I do any of these things?
the greeks
Well the first step is to learn how to think. Once you have done that, you won't need to ask us these questions. Problem solved!
I keep sitting down to read, but I find myself questioning what I'm getting out of it. I tried to read about the Napoleonic wars the other day. I couldn't keep it up. Where is the benefit in knowing the names of Napoleon's marshals or the details of his battles? Where is the benefit in knowing anything? How does it benefit me? I try to read philosophy, but it's too daunting. I can understand so little of it. Feels like trying to climb a mountain without even knowing where it is. I hate myself for having so little attention span and being so fucking retarded....
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Who is the coolest author ever to have lived?And why is it Byron?
Byron was a delusional faggot. He was a political peon.
I'd say Alan Moore.
>anarchist
>best comic writer ever
>believes in crazy occult shit
>looks like pic related
>>7569014
So lightweight Crowley with crayons?
>>7569014
do i even need to say where you need to go back to?
My News Years resolution is to write 30 minutes a day and read for an hour. Am I on my way /lit/? A-am I doing good?
have you kept up so far?
>>7568602
yea
>>7568596
You don't have to do either every day, just when you feel like it
I mean, if you like doing both you'll do them often, if not then maybe it's just not your thing, it's no big deal
>1. Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow > V. > Mason & Dixon > The Crying of Lot 49 > Bleeding Edge
>2. DeLillo
Mao II > White Noise > The Names > Ratner's Star > Underworld > Libra
>3. Roth
American Pastoral > Portnoy's Complaint
>4. McCarthy
Blood Meridian > The Road > No Country for Old Men
The Bloom 4 are Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes, and I'm not sure who number 4 is. Maybe Chaucer.
>>7568013
I dont wink dat what u tink is his top more is weally a top ofur ciz it is more of is new works you listen he is more like an older guy liker
also you know his favortie is Leopold Bloom you knnow why, its the name you know.
Just gonna rate what I read
>Roth
Nothing
>DeLillo
Americana > Point Omega
>Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow > Inherent Vice > Bleeding Edge > The Crying of Lot 49
>McCarthy
Outer Dark = Child of God > Blood Meridian > The Road
I finished this one yesterday and The ending had me tearing up, which I was not expecting. What books got to you, /lit/?
Lmao ur a fagit
fuck off you nob-headed wanker
we are fourhcan we dont cry we can take on anymovie andy books anysongs anything pictures and nywes anything we are ready and willing to read the hardst books and watch the most movies, we are really good and never cry you plwedd we are peagion, we do not formive, we do not forgit, expeenct us
It's out in about 3 months. Can't remember the name. It's almost 300 pages long, which probably nearly killed him.
Good author, though. Stuff like White Noise and Underworld are good books, and unusual. Running Dog is alright. Does /lit/ like him?
Mao II is real fine, White Noise too.
He's better as a long parable writer than as a storyteller imo.
Mao II, White Noise, The Names and Ratner's Star are excellent.
Underworld and Libra are great in parts but overall I consider them failures.
What did Proudhon mean by this?
>Jews. Write an article against this race that poisons everything by sticking its nose into everything without ever mixing with any other people. Demand its expulsion from France with the exception of those individuals married to French women. Abolish synagogues and not admit them to any employment. Finally, pursue the abolition of this religion. It’s not without cause that the Christians called them deicide. The Jew is the enemy of humankind. They must be sent back to Asia or be exterminated. By steel or by fire...
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>>7567356
He meant that Jews should be prosecuted because they immigrate to various European countries and form their own enclaves which don't contribute to society, but only feed all their productivity back into their own communities.
Are "what did he mean by this" thread bait? It always seems to me that the meaning of the quote OP is asking about is painfully obvious
Tl;Dr with jews you lose
>>7567393
Marx agrees
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
>Can't afford Shakespeare
That picture does make me want to buy him desu
>>7567252
How much do you think he charged for total access to his boipussi?
>>7567252
? i paid $8 for a complete shakespeare. every secondhand store I've been in has at least two or three of his plays for a buck each of less. probably one of the cheapest possible writers you could read.
Post your favorite red pill books. I'll start.
>red pill
Get out.
>>7567150
Try to stay on topic please. Thanks.
>>7567149
>le pill memes
kill yourself
Seriously though, read the great triad: Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx
>The Mahabharata is the longest known epic poem and has been described as "the longest poem ever written". Its longest version consists of over 100,000 shloka or over 200,000 individual verse lines (each shloka is a couplet), and long prose passages. About 1.8 million words in total, the Mahabharata is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined, or about four times the length of the Ramayana.
honestly, that's just poor writing
shloka shloka
>>7567142
Has anyone on /lit/ actually read this?
Anyone alive?
For school we have to read a book for French. Which book would be the easiest/most exciting to read. I am on a B2 level for French at the Common European Framework for Reference for Languages. My teacher recommended authors like Marc Lévy or Guillaume Musso, but I feel like their books focus too much on love and romance, which I don't really care about.
>inb4 underage
I am in my final year
Marc Lévy and Musso are pure shit. This being said, a lot of French literature concerns feelings and love.
Zazie dans le métro, Les Choses or Bel-Ami are three classics that shouldn't be that hard to read.
Do yourself a favour and read Excercices de style. Please. Anyone serious about learning french should do so.
If you are allowed to read a single play, Le Malentendu by Camus is the easiest thing I've read in French so far. Folio publishes it alongside Caligula, which is a little more difficult but a much superior piece of writing.
