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yay or nay?
Are the novels worth checking out?
nay
nay
It's 'yea', for the love of Allah
Just finished Kafka on the Shore. Which Murakami book do I read next? I read Wind Up Bird Chronicle a few years ago and remember being thoroughly underwhelmed. But this was beautiful and rich. Should I give WUBC another try, or move on to some other work?
kafka and hardboiled wonderland are my favorites
so i would reccomend hardboiled wonderland
or maybe one of the more realism or love story based books like norweigan wood. my favorite style of his is the kind of fantasy style he used in kafka.
1q84 is also very good
i read the wind up bird once and remember liking it but its hard to dredge up much of what i got from it whereas with kafka the story is so colourful and amusing that i can remember a lot more of that book. i tried rereading wind up and couldnt get very far. the great and bad thing about...
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>>8222687
>1q84 is also very good
Shit taste
>>8223321
What made IQ84 bad?
/lit/ is particularly shit right now. Is it the Americans or the Euros?
obviously the Americans. I for one am Canadian. we're pretty cool eh.
As an American it probably is the Americans.
>>8222003
this board is just lacking quality topics and discussions, all I see is the same bullshit
Is lyric poetry at all worth reading in translation?
no you're only allowed to read literature in its purest form and only once.
>>8221822
It can be.
>>8221822
French to English isn't that huge a leap, so it can be with a competent enough translator who specializes in poetry. Baudelaire himself translated Poe into French so I don't think he'd necessarily disapprove of being translated into English.
Please help /lit/. I think my sister has gotten interested in analytic philosophy. How do stop her from going down the wrong path?
>>8221751
Tell her that analytic philosophers are merely LARP'ing as mathematicians/physicists, because they are too stupid for the latter two subjects.
Get her to start with Frege and then be really sneaky and slip some Cohen and Natorp in there. Then tie her up and punch her in the tits over and over again until she understands what intentionality means and starts saying "always already" when describing epistemological stances or semantic content. When you think she's ready, show her some Quine. If she starts making pained faces and asking for something a little less discursively naive, let her go. If not, you're gonna have to start breaking fingers.
>>8221751
B her TFO with your superior continental strain, obviously.
Her works are utter shit in prose and content.
Furthermore, she included in her serious the spell "Avada Kedavra", which is the killing curse (for non-readers) and cannot be stopped with any known shielding spell. HOWEVER it can be countered by an equally powerful caster using a similar offensive spell. And yet, she is an anti-gun liberal cunt in real life, somehow doesn't see the parallel to actual guns. Are there any other authors this out of touch with the themes of their own novels?
>>8221746
Series, not serious. Wtf?
>>8221746
>And yet, she is an anti-gun liberal cunt in real life, somehow doesn't see the parallel to actual guns. Are there any other authors this out of touch with the themes of their own novels?
It's a fictional story, fampai
also
>implying objective value
>>8221746
It remains a mystery to me, anon. I truly detest this woman and any of her fans who think that HP is legitimate fantasy.
I'm looking for a protagonist who is actually alienated from humanity and not just a disturbed human like in pic related.
make it about an AI that was put into a human body and dropped into a city with nothing.
Steppenwolf?
>>8221499
Old Axolotl by Dukaj (polish sci-fi writer)
How do you internalize philosophy or very prose-heavy writing, and then apply it to life?
I feel as if i am only recognizing what i am reading on the surface and am not absorbing the ideas presented to me in word fully, and so am wasting my time reading.
I've only begun reading outside of non-fiction recently, and have been set on finishing "The Ego and It's Own". Is this too heavy to start with?
My mind feels clouded and confused when reading.
>>8221326
Read it, then think about it, until it becomes essentially organic. Schopenhauer put it well, but I can't find the aphorism right now.
Basically, until you make a thought (or piece of knowledge) your own, it is essentially a prosthetic limb.
I've been very guilty of 'reading without thinking'. I recently read Beyond Good & Evil, and would be hard-pressed to tell you anything I remember.
My sincere advice is to read Plato.
If I'm feeling crazy I'll take notes on what I'm reading. Helps a little
What are some books about finding happiness in solitude? I need a way to accept loneliness.
(I don't browse r9k nor do I hate women)
>>8221225
Take the redpill.
Women are simply inferior, your better off without them
>>8221233
there isnt any reasoning behind womens inferiority
as bitter as i am (and trust me, im pretty fucking bitter) it is not the fault of a gender for my loneliness and it is immature and vindictive to think otherwise
bamp
