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What is /lit/ reading over winter break? Here's my list:
>Mao II
>The sound and the fury
>Pale fire
>A Naked Singularity
>A Little Life
Thoughts?
>>7451737
Tackling Infinite meme
Was gonna read Portrait of the Artist and then Ulysses but I've decided to read 2666 instead.
>>7451737
>The Cannibal
>Mao II as well
>A whole mess of Strindberg
>The Arabian Nights
>Either/Or
Alright, this isn't done very often around here, due to all the edginess
What is a novel that will make me HAPPY? One that is encouraging about life and will make me want to get out into the world and love and do shit?
one hundred years of solitude
House of Leaves
A Christmas Carol
What does /lit/ think of pic related?
Parodies of rappers reading classics get old fast
Helpful for morons, useless for the intelligent.
The videos are dumb and not funny, they try way too hard. However, without the visual/audio component, it's hilarious. I picked up a copy to read casually in the bookstore a while back and it made me laugh out loud a couple of times
>If a place is itself surrounded by fire (falls finally to ash, into a cinder tomb), it no longer is. Cinder remains, cinder there is, which we can translate: the cinder is not, is not what is. It remains FROM what is not, in order to recall at the delicate, charred bottom of itself only nonbeing or nonpresence. Being without presence has not been and will no longer be there where there is cinder and where this other memory would speak. There, where cinder means the difference between what remains and what is, will she ever reach it, there?
Jesus...
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>>7464091
You're just not smart enough to understand him.
>>7464098
this meme again
Try applying his ideas to works of literature and you'll be surprised at what you come to see. Derrida is not meant to be taken at face value, it is only through the application of his ideas to the interpretation of literature that he becomes valuable. At least that's the way I see it, I've gained much insight into the things I read with the influence of this guy.
Which book will stop me from feeling dead inside?
None of them.
>>7463317
Only you can find meaning for yourself. ^_^
>>7463317
New Testament
What is Satan's problem?
he would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven, i guess
>>7463273
1) He had an overactive imagination as a child.
2) His father didn't give him enough attention whilst he was growing up.
3) The other kids found him too introspective and quiet and openly assumed it was because he was gay and as a result refused to be seen talking to him.
he understands the incompetence of le demiourgos and tries contacting logos.
where me get free book.
help
Bookzz
soundboard.ass-we-can.com
Construct a one-paragraph breakup letter.
>>7461155
reddit go
No, thank you.
Clocked over gyals lol
Buddhism thread
If I wanted to get my mom a book on buddhism for Christmas, what would be a good choice? I would prefer an ancient primary text but it has to be comprehensible for an uneducated menopausal possibly-milf believer of quack past life regression therapy.
>>7460827
uhhh....
>>7460827
What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula. Its slightly biased in favor of the authors particular sect/school but still does a pretty good job of concisely and clearly explaining the essentials of Buddhism while using a lot of quotes from the Pali Canon as evidence. Its also close to 100 pages with large type so its an easy read.
Also
>milf
post a pic
If the prerequisite for a novel is the subjugation of the mind and sense then why is futility such a common notion in writing? The trendind elements of this central thought in new writers is more prevalent than ever and it seems as though this will impact the writing culture in the future. How then would a devation from this copy and paste methodology work?
>>7460661
does this sub really write like this?
>>7460668
google "bruce davidson subway"
>>7460661
>subjugation of the mind and sense
this is a yogi thing or some shit, right? Don't expect to toss out jargon and for everyone to properly respond, especially when they can't even definitively find out what you're talking about from a google search. Be precise
How should the J-man have responded?
>>7460283
His silence was the point.
>>7460283
"Is."
>>7460288
what?
Thoughts on this book? Have to read this for my lit class next year.
>>7460041
>>7460041
sure i'll bite.
prose is eh bordering on cringe.
characterization really depends on the character (at least he seems to be getting better; reading mistborn and elantris hurt a bit)
worldbuilding is great.
cosmere metaplot hints woooalso it has mai waifu
>>7460041
elantris and mistborn are better because they're tighter
way of kings has all the elements of what makes brandon sanderson's stories enjoyable, but they're presented in a bloated 'muh ten billion words and multipe POV characters fantasy epic' style that reduces the impact of everything
I want to know about the soon-to-come final days of mankind. I feel like I'm going to see the end of it all within my lifetime, so if somebody has read a non-fiction book that explores the ideas of overpopulation, scarcity of resources, etc, please share. Not interested on WW3, nuclear winters, and such. Interested on the negligent abuse of power, human reluctance to change its ways, climate change, etc (more tangible, closer, actuality).
>Thinking the world is going to end in his lifetime
you know 60% of everybody who has ever lived has thought this right? If you seriously think mankind is going to become extinct within your lifetime you are living in a dream.
>>7459767
>it can never happen because everyone has thought about it (???)
>pulls out 60% statistic out of thin air
ok
How is Utopia?
So is there a /lit/ version of this?
One that also includes books from 2014/2015 well as classics and /lit/ core/starter kit books?
Also making this a chart thread post em if you got em.
The /lit/ wiki seems broken btw and none of the charts on the mediafire link work.
look in sticky
also holy fuck /tv/ is literally reddit tier taste. fucking avatar? this is literally just a list of successful hollywood movies from after 1960
>american beauty 46
>100+ above trois couleurs rouge
>above adaptation
>above network
>above psycho
i seriously hope this is a bait pic
>>7459384
It's mostly a joke
>tdkr as number 1 movie
>the kekhold as the 250 movie
Come on man
/lit/, how do you guys feel about comedy in literature, not just as a side note but as the genre itself? How many genuinely funny books are there?
Pic related
the Greeks liked it so it must be fine.
I can't say I like it very much when people are trying to be funny. It's much better when it's funny because it's absurd, in which case telling it straight usually makes it more funny.
>>7458776
So humour through an absurd analogy wouldn't get you? I agree that situational humour is generally the way to go. I think having a funny character is probably better than jokes, I guess
