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>started reading The Crying of Lot 49 this week
>tfw Pynchon's writing makes me feel inadequate, both as a reader and a writer
>tfw 99% of its depth goes over my head
How do you guys deal with this (assuming you do)?
>>7418929
I started with the Greeks, so everything has become clear.
>>7418929
Use supplementary materials or take extra time to decipher confusing sections. Don't expect to understand all of it without any effort: Pynchon is much, much smarter than you, and figuring out what he means is part of the fun.
>>7418942
>Pynchon is much, much smarter than you
This may be the case, but it's unfair to suggest a fluid comparison between acquisition (in the case of the reader) and Pynchon's presumably long-premeditated thought that he eventually puts down to print.
This is usually the case for any dense literature, it takes time to ingest such things. The writer doesn't just fluently surge through the process, so the reader probably won't either.
Describe your ideal reading environment -- seating, ambience, etc.
pic related, sublime hammock lifestyle
>>7418914
How do you not fall asleep reading in a hammock?
>>7418914
Outdoors, regardless of the weather.
couch.
not mine preferably.
or the metro.
So for the last year or so i have been wanting to read more for many reasons like expanding my vocabulary and writing skillswhich i need really badly, haveing more knowledge and in general feeling smarter and more confident.
Anyway i recently saw a movie called The End of the Tour which is about a interview with David Foster Wallace just after his ground breaking novel ''Infinite jest'', and it kinda pushed me into wanting to read a really good novel.
So anyway!
Can anyone give me advice out of experience? Is this a good book or is it...
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It can be divisive but if you stick with it you'll probably love it. If you've ever dealt with addiction, depression, ennui, shit like that, it will really resonate with you
It's an excellent book, but it can be quite difficult. If you're an unskilled reader, I'd recommend starting with something a lot shorter and less complex.
>>7418879
>depression
That is what's attracted me to begin with.
How the fuck did this nigga even come up with all that shit? I couldn't write one page of one of his plays in a year. It's just so fucking dense and complicated. Was he on crack the whole time or what? Shit's mad crazy.
Be not a niggard with thine mind
Loose the cup and sip the wine
>>7418799
Marlowe
>mfw the beginning of The Merchant of Venice
This is the worse piece of shit I've ever had the displeasure of reading!
>>7418791
This is the best piece of shit I've ever had the pleasure of reading!
>>7418800
Intro is good too.
>>7418800
So are you a high school senior or a college freshman?
Where is Hell first mentioned in The Bible? Where are the most important passages describing it?
hell was invented by dante
>mfw christians confuse their fiction fiction with their regular fiction
>mfw christians fear their fictional crime will entail fictional fictional punishment
I'll be damned if the Christian Canon ain't a good read tho
>>7418756
she looks exactly like my sisterdo you have any more of her
It's not mentioned by name, but both John the Baptist and Jesus talk about Hell. Since Jesus is God, you should treat him as an authority on the various realms of the afterlife.
Post your poetry.
I called grandma
I called godfather gene
I got drunk and high whilst talking to high and drunk godfather
I realized I truly knew what love felt like
I called you because I love you too!
Ugly people
Doing ugly things
For ugly reasons
Sick for-the-adults hallmark card broski.
>>7418753
Haiku are stupid
I can never finish them
I want to get a qt girl a present for Christmas who's super into DFW and getting into New Sincerity. I'm pretty sure she has every DFW book, so my plan of getting her a book by DFW is out.
I'm thinking instead of getting her a book apart of the New Sincerity movement. She said that once she wanted to write a great New Sincerity novel from a female perspective, so maybe I was thinking of getting her "selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda express employee" by Megan Boyle. But I feel like there are better New Sincerity books by female...
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>>7418747
The author you're looking for is Zadie Smith.
>>7418748
Yeah White Teeth is kinda quintessential
>>7418748
/thread
What did /sci/ think of this book? I just finished reading it today.
I thought it was really nice of the author to make the characters robots, so that you can focus on the science stuff instead.
>>7418659
This is /lit/, friend. :)
/sci/ is probably full of autist redditors so I bet they'd love it
>>7418662
I believe that's OP's way of insulting the book...
Should I read it, /lit/? Is it good?
Who's Toni Morrison?
Who's Ta-Nehisi Coates?
Sounds boring from what I've heard
Where do I begin if I want to understand poetry?
And please, don't post any shit poetry. I want the best of the best.
>>7418471
This is all you need: http://www.bartleby.com/146/
Start with Aristotle's Poetics
>>7418471
Is it just me, or does he look like a younger version of the crazy doctor from Fringe?
y/n?
S
the first part about the the greeks is mostly ok. afterwards it gets worse and worse. better try windelbands history of philosophy.
N
Anyone read the Bhagavad Gita?
based krishna
what's good entry level hindu shit?
>>7418416
Yes.
Wagner says that he confessed to him about weeping to a monk. Wagner was a Romanticist, and Nietzsche was a classical philhellene, so it's possible he was trying to slander him for artistic purposes. But at the same time, Christianity is a reoccurring subject in Nietzsche's work, and we're all probably familiar with the infamous chapter in "Antichrist".
One account of this is mentioned in one of Nietzsche's biographies. If I recall correctly, so the story goes, there was a kindly Orthodox monk (I believe perhaps an archimandrite , or somewhere...
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Yes.
>>7418319
Read Ecce Homo.
Anyone else having a hard time keeping up their reading schedule during uni/work?
Ever since the semester started I didn't get to even touch a cover.
Same here. Itd be very different if i was an english major or something but ive spent this entire semester trying to get through the count of monte cristo and am just now passing the 600 page mark. After finals next week ill be able to finish it easily though
How much literature have you read? about how many books, excluding the ones you wouldn't brag about to all your cultured friends?
>>7418295
3-4 months to read a book, do you even remember the beginning?
