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post a writer
identify the spooks they're haunted by
>writer
/lit/
>spooks
ideology
Jesus
>>7558660
end of the world is coming soon
So I've gotten Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman a while back at the suggestion of someone, and I'm on chapter 4 right now (image related) And its really getting difficult to stay in into it, The book is supposed to be about how thinking processes work an the types they are separated into, but even this early into it there is so much just wild swinging around.
When a book tells you to read two words, then goes onto a paragraph explaining your reaction and thought process and manages to get every single thing wrong, its really hard to believe there's...
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I speedread your post in under 4 seconds.Yes I saged
>>7558595
>I speedread your post in under 4 seconds.
No you didn't.
OP, when will people realize behavioral economics is a crock of shit? he brought something new to the table but its straight up psych bullshit, no real econ insight. he should have devoted his efforts on providing a more rigorous treatment of economics as a branch of applied math, imho.
Which Odyssey translation do I read?
Fitzgerald's
Fitzgerald
fagles
What Bible translation do you guys prefer? I like the King James Version, but I just started reading the Orthodox New Testament (they're still working on the OT--this is not the same version as the Orthodox Study Bible, which is a tweaked NKJV, this is a totally new translation), and I gotta say, I really, really like it. The commentary and translation are both top tier.
If you Google, "Eastern Orthodox New Testament pdf", it will be the first link, you can take a look for yourselves.
I don't know. I've read just KJV and now reading NIV. Will read ESV and NRSV next.
>not reading the Bible everyday for the rest of your life
>not reading all major translations
>>7558186
A lot of the translations are awful. NIV and NRSV included
>>7558192
What's bad about them exactly?
Which position does /lit/ read in?
>walking around in backyard master race
>he reads in natural light
say goodbye eyes
sitting or lying in bed
I pace back and forth while reading.
Some women I find aesthetically pleasing and yet I don't feel any sexual attraction towards them despite being straight. A completely non-erotic appreciation of form.
What characters from literature can I relate to in this regard? Maybe even an example from non-fiction.
Mishima
You're probably a closet fag just like he was
D.H. Lawrence
You're probably a closet fascist just like he was
Stirner
You're probably a closet spook just like he was
I like how it feels to read Kafka. I don't find complex plots or themes engaging (bit slow and not well read), I just enjoy the mood a book sets for me.
Asking for some recommendations of other authors that put a strong emphasis on mood. Ty, ty.
>>7558155
Vonnegut
Kafka
>>7558162
>Vonnegut
i mean good authors, not one hit wonders
What are the best books set in the ancient world, /lit/?
>>7557583
The iliad
The Death of Virgil
The ones written during the ancient world.
I use #bookz for my ebook needs, but I am looking for other sites and locations for those times Bookz doesn't have it.
>>7557322
http://bookzz.org/
>>7557322
I normally just google the book plus epub or whatever format you need. How's using a tablet to read by the way? Starting to get sick of books, always need to find good lighting, need to find a nice posture to read in etc. Considering getting a 6 inch kindle.
>>7557322
How do I access bookz?
What does /lit/ think of Isaac Asimov?
Cool dude. Like his stuff.
>>7556769
Ya, but I totally called the ending twist like at least two books in advance though.
>>7556724
R E D D I T
![despair_3[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Angl60c.jpg "despair_3[1].jpg")
How do you reconcile the fact of dasein
I drink and come up with memes to post on 4chan
by being a nazi
How much of this do you agree with, /lit/?
>Let's take, for example, an average reader, a cool-headed, mature, educated man leading a more or less healthy life. A man who buys books and literary magazines. So there you have him. This man can read things that are written for when you're calm, but he can also read any other kind of book with a critical eye, dispassionately, without absurd or regrettable complicity. That's how I see it. I hope I'm not offending anyone. Now let's take the desperate reader, who is presumably the audience for the literature of desperation. What do we see? First: the reader is an adolescent or an immature adult, insecure, all nerves. He's the kind of fucking idiot (pardon my language) who committed suicide after reading Werther. Second: he's a limited reader. Why limited? That's easy: because he can only read the literature of desperation, or books for the desperate, which amounts to the same thing, the kind of person or freak who's unable to read all the way through In Search of Lost Time, for example, or The Magic Mountain (a paradigm of calm, serene, complete literature, in my humble opinion), or for that matter, Les Misérables or War and Peace. Am I making myself clear? Good. So I talked to them, told them, warned them, alerted them to the dangers they were facing. It was like talking to a wall. Furthermore: desperate readers are like the California gold mines. Sooner or later they're exhausted! Why? It's obvious! One can't live one's whole life in desperation. In the end the body rebels, the pain becomes unbearable, lucidity gushes out in great cold spurts. The desperate reader (and especially the desperate poetry reader, who is insufferable, believe me) ends up by turning away from books. Inevitably he ends up becoming just plain desperate. Or he's cured!
The most well read person I've met reads everything from high brow literature, comic books, fantasy, manga, etc. Even watches anime and a shitton of movies. It's absurd.
>>7556382
You can compartmentalise your desperation with your periods of flourishing outside of books. I'm not sure why people project their love of consistency of mood on others. In my mind the comfort reader is in a trap designed to blunt his discerning abilities.
I have never met someone who only reads "literature of desperation." In fact, what does that even mean? Literature that is different from Proust or Tolstoy or Hugo? Shorter, more adhd? Apologies, I don't know the source of this quote.
>go on job interviews (non-/lit/ jobs)
>sometimes get asked about favorite hobby
>say reading
>ask me what my favorite book is
>don't really have a single favorite book
>generally say Notes from Underground
Is this unwise, since the book is about a huge misanthropic asshole?
First of all - congratulations on your wonderful picrelated choices, nowocioto.
What do the interviewers generally say after such a remark, considering the fact that they probably have not even heard of Notes from the Underground?
No, just make sure that when the interview goes to shake your hand you shouldercheck him into his office door, to demonstrate that you aren't a pussy-ass faggot like the protagonist. Bosses like outgoing employees.
>>7556341
Some say they've read it, others just remark that they haven't heard of it.
What the shit was Sloane's problem? Did I skip something essential, or why was he so depressed about the actual end of the war? Does this get explained later on (I'm only on page 90).
Sorry for another Stoner thread, I couldn't find the one that was posted a few days ago.
Oh yeah, let this 404 within the hour but fucking bookshelf threads can exist for WEEKS on here.
Seriously fuck this board.
>>7556225
Stoner is one of the most discussed books on this site, friend. Just wait two days (maybe even less) and another one will pop up. No biggie.
The thread was nowhere close to 404ing you sperg
Hey /lit/, so I want to get Infinite Jest, and I can't decide whether to get the paperback or the hardcover.
The paperback will be $26.50, and the hardcover will be $23.80. Although the hardcover is both cheaper, and will be of better quality, because it's a hardcover, I like the paperback's cover more.
Which one would you suggest to purchase? If you have the hardcover, would you recommend it? And if you've got the paperback, would you say the quality is good for a paperback?
>not getting both
David is disappointed in you senpai.
>>7555969
let's all come together and not respond to this
>>7555969
but the paperback is only $12 on amazon.
