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ITT: Post your favorite book, philosopher, album, and movie.
I'll start.
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Nietzsche
>Depression Cherry (Beach House)
>Boogie Nights
>>8192239
>Essays and Aphorisms
>Schopenhauer
>Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (I listen to mostly classical stuff, so no albums - but this compensates as it's longer than 99% of albums anyway)
>Goodfellas
>>8192239
depression cherry is great
>Moby-Dick
>Heidegger
>Daydream Nation, Sonic Youth
>Mulholland Dr.
>>8192239
>Là-bas
>Maimonides
>Blonde on Blonde
>Dealer
Gimme a list of the most cynical, mean, pessimistic, hopeless writers you can think of. I want to read something that will shred every last bit of light within me.
>>8191977
Emil Cioran if you like pessimistic philosophy.
Try this and a bunch of stuff by Ian Banks (not Ian M. Banks).
>>8191977
Seneca
Schopenhauer
Lovecraft
Poe
No, not in the sense that it made me a paedophile. That's neither the point, nor the case (except that I kept imagining quite vividly what Lolita might look like – I've settled for the mental image of a tween-aged Brooke Shields eventually... as did everyone...)
No, actually I'm talking about the fact that this book left me in a state of utter emotional disarray – that semi-psychotic state of mind you usually only feel after binging on psychoactives.
I somehow just kept springing every trap that Nabokov set up for the reader (except that I didn't...
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>>8190830
the stranger
[/spoiler]my diary desu[/spoiler]
>>8190885
Good call, actually.
Dayum. Too many Lolita threads.
And this ain't even a Lolita thread.
Show me your comfiest reading place
This is at my university. Used to do all of my readings for a class here.
humboldt park, chicago
>>8185949
I've always preferred old books, mostly from the 19th century. The only book i've read and liked that was written in the last 30 years is Metro 2033, though I didn't read many modern books.
I need to modernize myself. Recommend some new novels to someone who loves old russian literature.
>>8203843
There's this book that's supposed to be a great beach read called Infinite Jest, forget the authors name, David Poster, or something of the sort.
It's a little obscure, but I feel like alot of the most interesting stories are.
what kind of russian literature? the romantic or the realist?
as in pushkin, lermontov, zhukovsky or is it more tolstoi, dostoievsky, chekhov?
>>8203883
Both. My favorites: Dostoievsky, Gogol, Pushkin, Turgenev, Tolstoy.
If you needed to describe poetically your native language, how would you do it? If you wanted to express your love for your native idiom, how would you say it?
Also, do you guys know any poems or inspired passages of writers speaking about their own native language?
I was thinking, for example, how one would describe Italian or Latin in a poetic and metaphorical way.
>>8203838
these quotes by camille paglia on the subject of the english language come to mind:
“What fascinated me about English was what I later recognized as its hybrid etymology: blunt Anglo-Saxon concreteness, sleek Norman French urbanity, and polysyllabic Greco-Roman abstraction. The clash of these elements, as competitive as Italian dialects, is invigorating, richly entertaining, and often funny, as it is to Shakespeare, who gets tremendous effects out of their interplay. The dazzling multiplicity of sounds and...
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>>8203838
I wrote this about Brazilian Portuguese some days ago:
Portuguese, a joyful and fleet-footed
Idiom, where the words are dancing girls,
Clapping their hands and entwining their bodies
In a sunny morning, under skies of wheat:
A language bounces like the conversation of birds
>>8204085
>A language bounces
A language that bounces
How do I better focus my attention while reading? I enjoy the books I've read, but I have such a difficult time sitting down and finishing a book. I feel like I've been ruined by the internet. Reading requires that I shut myself off from everything else. I'm usually very good at this when watching films, but I struggle to do so with books. It's so much harder to focus my attention. Any pointers to becoming a better reader?
there is no way
Get dumdum pills (xr amphetamines) to help your dumdum brain
Nice cat.
Other than mild autism, I have a problem, /lit/. I love reading but every time I get a few pages into a book, I start getting super sleepy and just pass out. What the fuck do I do my fellow negros?
>>8203716
drink coffee while reading.
or take an adderall
>>8203716
why don't you just keep reading once you wake up lmao
Just keep trying. Start with things you find more interesting. I had this issue when I was in high school and the first part of college, but it's gotten considerably better since i graduated and started reading exclusively things that I *want* to read, rather than feel obligated to read.
What is book equivalent of swimming?
Fight Club
the swimmer
the waves
the sea john banville
What went right?
>>8203461
He had good influences - Lafferty, Wolfe, Alan Moore, etc.
He had some works, like Sandman and American Gods, that at the time felt like something unique and wholly different from other fantasy or graphic novels of the time. The world of Sandman was a pretty interesting one, I'll give him that. Unfortunately he's exhausted all of his great ideas and now writes really dull shit.
the money. the money went right.
What are some good secondhand bookshops in Melbourne?
Sybers Bookshop obviously to start with, Chapel St opposite Windsor Station.
Schlegel's shoulder.
>Melbourne
kill yourself
Hey /lit/, I've been considering going to law school after I graduate in December but I'm having second thoughts, so I'll work for a couple years in the meantime. I wouldnt mind making some money in finance. FOREX sounds appealing but I don't know much about it. Any reading that you could recommend? I'm only aware of the Soros reflexivity book and I need to look somewhat knowledgeable for interviews if I go ahead with this.
I was looking through wall street oasis and they all seem to be more concerned about what types of ties or watches will impress...
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>>8203334
>Oh yeah, I have a question about business, I'll go ask it on a literature board.
OP, there are book adaptations of minecraft lets plays, that doesn't mean they should be discussed here.
/biz/ is filled with teenage entrepreneurs. People discuss economics on this board all the time.
>>8203352
>after I graduate in December
>I wouldnt mind making some money in finance.
You're a teenage entrepreneur.
Something /lit/-related is grinding my gears, so I'll went here.
I'm attending a short story workshop in Slovakia. It's all nice and cool with an exception of a task we have gottten today. We're supposed to continue an already started story(which is fine) about a Slovak visiting Turkey(still fine), buying a stolen iPad there (still ok), unlocking it (oh gosh. ok-ish. Let's say he has some top-tier hacker as a freind) and figuring out a woman on the tablet background is also a Slovak woman with a scarf around her head and an Arab next to her.
I mean - WHAT ARE THE FUCKING CHANCES? Buying an iPad? Fine. Hacking it? Ok, maybe? It belongs to the same small, irrelevant as fuck language group as main character?! What the actual fuck?
How lame is this plot, /lit/?
Also I bet everyone is writing she is saving Kurds/joining ISIS. I fucking bet.
>>8203321
ummmm.....
get some real problems
>>8203321
>I'll went here.
Didn't understand a single word.
>>8203321
jus be absurd dude
Is it as hard as they say, /lit/?
I think it's a bit dumb for so many people to sing Kant's praises in regards to Western Philosophy, yet never to have read his work or studied his philosophy.
I plan to do just that.
>>8203254
I think Schopenhauer said that so long as you haven't read Kant, you are confined to intellectual infancy.
So you should probably give it a shot.
Is there any necessary prior reading for Kant?
>>8203254
>Is it as hard as they say, /lit/?
No, Kant just couldn't write for shit.
You'll probably have to labour over paragraphs, and even whole pages at a time, to find the kernel of whatever he was trying to say within.
Nor is this a minor undertaking. You don't just say, "I'll spend a week on Kant and his philosophy." Realistically you need weeks/months and, as any serious student of philosophy knows, philosophy is a lifelong pursuit.
I'm looking for a novel or novella which is like lifting intellectual weights. I don't want to waste my time reading just so I can get some shallow story. I want to be intellectually ripped as fuck.
Then don't read novels, read a text book.
>>8203157
FW, pussy.
>>8203157
read the most difficult book in a language you don't know, without any aid aside from a small tourist translation phrasebook.
