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What is the best way to take notes while reading non-fiction?
I tend to sperg out and go back to my notes thinking they're either not concise enough or not detailed enough and it ends up taking me overly long to make any progress
I read via epubs. I highlight useful passages. On passages that are vague but meaningful I highlight in a different colour and add a note over it that appears when the highlight is clicked.
I don't note near as much as I highlight however. Just note whatever requires addition thought beyond the material presented.
>>8234645
What app do you use
>>8234634
I jot down general summaries in a separate notebook, while more liberally bracketing/underlining passages in the book itself. After finishing the book I'll re-read my separate summary, then flip back through the text looking at only the sections I marked. If they're relevant on the broader scale of the whole work, I make notes of them; if not I just pass by them, or save them IF they're at least curious/interesting.
How do I contend with hauling this book collection when moving out of my parent's place?
cardboard boxes senpai duh
trash bags if you must
>>8234629
just burn 'em
nothing of value will be lost
>tfw I threw all my books into the recycler bin
Freedom!
What are some novels that have as explicit and nuanced character analyses (more than 2) as Middlemarch?
One Hundred Years of Solitude is pretty similar in a lot of ways
>>8234619
Cool, I'll definitely put it in my list.
You might be interested the novels of Henry James
why the insinuation that shakespeare is the best writer of all time triggers some people?
Because they know it's false.
>>8234609
who cares?
I suppose hypothetically the insinuation that water will boil in a kettle when you put it on the stove for long enough could also trigger some people
>>8234609
Because he's a
F*CKING
WHITE
MALE
lit's opinion on
>Selected, translated, and adapted
>>8234579
well im not reading that specific copy, reading an untranslated one with glossary.
>>8234589
Chaucer is brilliant. After the Canterbury Tales read Troilus and Criseyde.
Do you think we are going to call the period of writing after the death of internet culture postmemernism?
>>8234561
fuck off
Why did you put an 'n' in there?
-ism is a suffix.
>>8234581
/thread
What are some books that no pseud would ever read? What are some books that are only read by intellectuals?
_____________________________________________my diary 2bh_____________________________________________
but in all seriousness pseudom is more about attitude than the books you read
looking for books that make you seem like a Certified Intellectual™ is the kind of behaviour a pseud would have
the only sure example would be non meme stuff aimed squarely at specialist in a field
So this aside what Vonnegut books are worth reading?
>>8234428
Cat's Cradle was far and away my favorite of his
>>8234428
New reader here. I've just started reading this. What makes it come second to his other works?
Mother Night
What version of Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus should I read? Pic related is only 300 pages long, while the Harvard Volumes are around 900 pages combined.
>>8234389
This just shows how none of you fagots actually read the fucking Greeks if you can't even answer me a single question about a book ABOUT FUCKING GREEK ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY.
Go fuck yourself you pseudo fags.
>>8234389
>>8234420
>9 minutes until maximum butthurt
Regardless of that I'll help as best I can. I read the OWC edition (your pic) and finished just a few days back. Only ~140 pages of it is actual content, with a ~30 page intro, and ~80 pages of notes.
Also I didn't realize which Harvard edition you were talking about until I google it and realized you're talking about the 2 volume Loeb set. I'm gonna quickly...
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>>8234674
>usually 1 Loeb page will be ~1.5-2 Oxford/Penguin/Modern Library pages
I fucked that up. It's the reverse: 1 regular page will be 1.5-2 Loeb pages. My bad.
Is this really fucking necessary?
the books are 50% descriptions of clothes and food and rooms and shit, if not more. get used to it if you wanna read em
He's a genuinely fucking awful prose writer. I do think the stories are pretty entertaining and he could have been a brilliant TV writer but Jesus Christ.
>>8234299
Necessary? I don't know. But colours are used to tell stories by their association with qualities. A nine year old would know as much.
And in fantasy writing this sort of thing is expected - even demanded, by readers.
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Goethe and Kant aside, the 18th century was completely worthless w/r/t literature.
>>8234220
>shitting on Swift
outplebbing a five year old, well done OP
>>8234235
Swift and Sterne were curiosities, but can't bear the weight of a century on their backs alone.
>>8234246
lol, if you were trying to not look like an idiot, you failed.
while we're at it, swedenborg was praised by both kant and goethe as better than themselves
Hey /lit/, where should I start with Christian (specifically, Catholic) theology, church order, and other topics pertaining to the Church? I remember seeing a pic on her once that broke it down into three or four topics, each with intro/middle/advanced readings.
All help is appreciated.
that world is gone forever
Paul-->Origen-->augustine-->aquinas
Find some schools with good theology programs and then look at their online course descriptions. When you find the ones that are interesting to you go to the school's library webpage and enter the class number/s and it will give you the required reading for the class.
What does /lit/ think of Milton, particularly Paradise Lost? What should I know before reading it?
I thought it was pretty boring
It's pretty amazing. You can just go into it without any prior reading since you very likely know general Bible stuff, but it would help to have read that.
My grandma had some crazy people come to her house because they had a seance and the ghost of Milton apparently told them to go there (england) and find a civil war tunnel full of documents that would prevent an upcoming civil war in america.
I havent read any of him though.
Has anyone read this? What does /lit/ think about Roger Scrutiny.
I like his history of Modern Philosophy book. I've ripped off and destroyed the last section of Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy book and improved it by gluing Scruton's book in it's place.
>>8234006
That's quite funny. I have some irrational hatred of Berty. Maybe it was because he was a cuck, but I'm not even /pol/. Probably because he had an affair with T S Elliot's wife now that I think about it.
>>8233993
Got it signed by him yesterday, haven't read it yet but I'm FUCKING hyped desu.
I actually got a little wet when I saw that it was being released.
Scruton is a fucking God.
This is a pretty good book
>>8233964
wow I started reading that today what a coincidence
>>8234013
Don't read too much into it.
>>8233964
What is this it looks extremely interesting
