How do I escape the moral nihilism trap?
After reading Ego and Its Own, I cant help but agree with him, and I dont want to.
I tried reading Dostoevsky, although I always like the cool Christian characters more I can't really say that the foils he sets up really are wrong.
>>7534166
Spooky.
>>7534166
It's not a trap. Epicureans and others have addressed this by pointing out that being a huge piece of shit (as perceived by your society) probably isn't a good plan for anyone who values his spiritual and mental self.
Moral Realism: A Defence by Russ Shafer Landau
Thoughts on the Voynich Manuscript?
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>>7534108
spoopy
>>7534103
ancient memes from a civilization of comedic geniuses
>A well written book of a boring premise is better than a poorly written book of an interesting premise.
>>7534075
Agreed. Let's go to reddit shall we?
>>7534075
Of course this is an ambiguous situation you've described. How can a well written book be boring if you have any interest in the subject matter? It seems to me that a "well written book with a boring premise" is a book that surprises you with how many interesting things there are to observe about something you had previously thought was mundane.
>>7534075
You obviously haven't read the martian.
Post your backlog broskies.
Mine:
>The Lord of the Rings (again)
>The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
>Martian Time-slip
>Junky
>The Wasp Factory
>The Illuminatus! Trilogy
>The Silmarillion
>Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
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>Mason & Dixon
>Three Books of Occult Philosophy
>Being and Time
>History of Madness
>2666
>Suttree
>Cloud Atlas
>The Magus
>Against the Day
>The Pale King
>The Beetle...
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>>7533990
I'd say go for dune first. And lord of chaos the black metal book? If so then that one next, so it will get you craving lord of the rings/silmarillion.
>>7533990
The Divine Comedy first. It'll help with some of the rest.
My main backlog shelf is
Underworld
Voices from Chernobyl
Ulysses
Against the Day
Mason & Dixon
Infinite Jest
The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra
Kafka on the Shore
Never Let Me Go
Lolita
The Patrick Melrose Novels
Look Homeward, Angel
Geek Love
Kiergkegaard's Spiritual Writings
Anna Karenina
If on a winter's night a traveler
Suite Française
Ubik
Any ideas on what...
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So I just bought mein kamph and I was wondering if it's interesting or if it's all a bunch of angry rambling? I'm reading it because it's historically siginificant, not because I believe in it.
>inb4 it's public domain
I don't want to read it online.
Bumping for interest - I've been toying with the idea for a while myself. Odds are it's just a nutter saying nutty things, but I think it's important to read 'dangerous' or 'forbidden' books, and MK kind of epitomizes that.
>>7533967
That's exactly how I feel about it, humanity can learn from mistakes if we don't study them.
>>7534004
Can't*
Am I off to a good start?
>>7533880
if you're not writing in ebonics you're doing it wrong
>>7533880
My friend, the ' in 'twas goes before the twas, not after. The ' replaces the letter "i" in the contraction's full form "it was."
>>7533884
Fuck.
Why do you write /lit/?
So I can afford to sleep the pornstars I like desu senpai
>>7533848
It's what I'm good at.
Because I read a lot
nothing personal kid
>Orwell was a fedora
Kill yourself.
First day on /lit/?
>>7533772
>nothing personnel, kid
Is homotopy type theory an inscrutable but worthy challenge in trying to understand, the process of which is rewarding and elicits a paradigm-shift in the way I think about things? Or is it an elaborate dick joke?
Also, pic related vs Simulacra and Simulation thread.
Well, it couldn't possibly be worse than current foundations.
>>7533800
Could you elaborate? Are you referring to our popularly accepted axiomatic systems a la Euclid, or something else?
>>7533914
Our current Cantorian "axiomatic" systems are absolutely nothing like the axioms of Euclid. See Norman J. Wildberger for more details: http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~norman/views2.htm
Is Cormac McCarthy worth reading?
>>7533757
worst /lit/core by far.
>>7533757
Yes, very. All the kids on here who hate it just don't get it, because, well, they're fucking kids. Also very recommendable is The Road.
>>7533901
Why?
Why do so many people say House of Leaves is shit? Yeah, I get the whole ergodic lit thing is kind of a gimmick, but really, the ending made me feel more emotional than whenKing Théoden died in The Return of the King.The story and the writing itself are both a 10/10. What gives?
Definitely not 10/10, but I definitely like it more than /lit/ claims to
>>7533759
Word
It is a very cool blending of weird fiction and Borges style puzzles. I love both of those things and so I loved the book. But, the problem comes in when tons of people read this book without being aware of either of those traditions and so they think its 100% original and it blows their fucking mind and they don't shut up about it. This causes people who ARE aware of the clear influences, and its not like he was hiding them I mean the blind writer was clearly paying Borges the necessary homage, to shit on the book because they're annoyed with all the people who think...
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How do I get into Gaddis?
>>7533733
Start with The Recognitions, and don't expect to fully understand is work on the first--or second, for that matter--read.
Read the Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
>>7533748
Since it was written in english, does the edition I purchase matter?
>look into joining a book club in my area
>they are reading pic related, Wild by Cheryl Strayed
>read description and reviews
>about an adult woman (22) who unexpectedly loses her mother to cancer and then has a breakdown
>starts doing drugs and cheats on her husband with many strangers... because of the loss of her mother?
>decides that the only way to fix herself is by going on a long and...
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It's a woman book, that's for sure. Think Eat Pray Love with edge. It was a major motion picture a year ago, that's part of the reason it's so big.
a lot of book clubs try to go for overly promoted books thinking that will keep the bad readers interested. It's not what you were looking for. Imagine someone who was trying to be a professional football player in HS, he changes his mind but goes to play with friends from the job just to get mad that they don't try as much as he does. Keep looking and don't get mad when people do their own thing.
>>7533709
I've read it, disappointed by how much of it was her flash back drug use and self made fuckery of a life, when I picked it up for a cool travel/hiking book. She can be annoying as fuck at times, I found myself despising Cheryl as a person but enjoying her adventures on the trail (Except when she cheats on her husband.)
Still not bad, not exactly /lit/ tier, I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much as I did if I wasn't into hiking.
Was he right all along?
>>7533699
>Dick
lmfao
About what. Fucking memes...
I'm just about finished with high castle. It fucking sucks. Why is this guy so highly regarded? How did they make a TV show out of this? Idgi.
Fuck GRRM and his fan-fuccbois.
>>7533687
not literature. reported
Soon
Not interested in it, really. Martin is the sort of fantasy I'd like to see less of; he's just recycling stuff from European history/mythology and adding sex scenes. Tyrion's an ok character though, you could do something with him in a different context.
Actually, what the genre needs is a three-year moratorium on anything with a knight or dragon in it.