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itt times you found a movie superior to the book, or just differences you enjoyed or hated.
Jurassic Park. I read the book over six hours yesterday. Grant likes kids in the book, which makes sense given their love of dinosaurs, but I enjoy seeing him try to escape them and then learn to love the kids in the film. Malcolm was a bit of a joke in the film, but in the book he frequently goes on wild rants that are given far too much space, which makes me suspect the authors sympathy. In the book, Hammond too is a much more boring character, essentially boiling down to a greedy,...
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>>8173561
the book is a million times better than the movie you stupid fuck. malcolm and Hammond both die. epic.
>>8173575
Personally I thought Wu's death was better in the book. Malcolm and Hammond's death were both feckless, and I think almost too forced. Malcolm's death as the final rebuke, and Hammond's as the victim of his own hubris. Wu died to his own creation, which could fall into the same category, but it was done much more brutally and, despite it being built up to, I was surprised when it happened.
>>8173575
Malcom didn't die in the book you insufferable mong. Fucking kill yourself.
I just saw this picture
Give me your 147 IQ memes /lit/
>>8172882
please, go back to your original board
You saw this picture in the /g/ thread i posted it in, didn't you?
>>8172933
>LITERAL cum dumpster does thing lit hates, posting pics of look at me I read
>lit for some reason actually pays attention
>/lit/ thinks they can understand cryptic 19th century Nietzsche in original German
>/lit/ is actually too dumb to appreciate icycalm written in 21st century surfer vidya gama English (not even his first language)
DONT BE FOOLED
I wasn't fooled. Everyone on /lit/ is a pseude and poseur and they always have been.
Who else are /notfooled/ here?
>>8170002
Anything named icycalm reminds me that I need to buy a massager. Also this isn't literature related, please leave.
>>8170035
>Who else are /notfooled/ here?
I am. Anyone who isn't a memekid is.
The translation posting is just that - a meme.
None of these kids speak Ancient Greek. They haven't read the Greeks in the original. They just like to shitpost about it because it riles anon a bit.
I'm looking to learn German and am currently using Duolingo to get the basics of the language. I'm wondering where I can take studies after that, does there exist English editions of German classics like Faust with English translation?
>>8166827
If English is your native language and you live in the U.S. or the U.K., I imagine most any higher institute of learning would offer German courses. I can't say how advanced they would be, but I'm sure they would be a lot more useful than the teach-yourself approach.
If I'm not mistaken, even some of my local community colleges offer some language studies.
>>8166827
Native American who moved to Germany as a kid. And got an A in German finishing school. (My "fuck you" to my trials and tribulations as a kid.)
If you are serious about learning the language, you will have to move to Germany/Austria for at least a year, assuming you know the basics. Pretty much all Germans know English. (At least the ones worth talking to.) Don't let them use it. Tell them you want to learn the language. Ask them to correct you. They want to but are just too polite to. Or they...
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>>8166921
German is a stupid kind of languages which nobody uses anymore. I'd recommend OP to learn Spanish instead.
Post em.
Also, please shit on mine.
>>8165320
Fucking embarrassing. Both the 'look at my stuff guis xD'-threads and your actual selection of books.
You belong on /r9k/
Who the fuck actually likes Stephen King? Everything else on your bookshelf is meme shit.
>>8165320
Can't bash it too much other than the potato quality picture (really like your Harry Crews selections). Personally, I'm not a huge fan of Stephen King, but I think it's perfectly fine if you enjoy him.
Also, Faulkner should have a nose.
Is there any room in the modern publication market for the novella? The genre itself (a kind of nebulous, vague, subjective classification) is designed for marathon readings but is frequently criticized as thin, minor, insubstantial or just not worth the time.
What are your favourite novellas? How do they measure up to the rest of the author's work (if it varies at all)? What are your experiences with the form (either in reading or in writing)?
>>8177816
There's a certain elegance, maybe mystique, to the form. It has the virtues of a short story, it isn't as spread-out as a novel. I'm not dismissing the novel (or even the doorstopper: there are enough examples of diamonds buried under pages of description in Dickens and Dostoevsky to last), but I admire writers who can condense their work into a wedge of papers and still blow your mind.
>>8177816
I hope so. I love novellas, it's a shame that the profundity or artistic merit of a literary work is often measured in proportion with its page-count. You would think that literature was above trite dick-measuring contests.
Anyhow,
The Metamorphosis
The Old Man and the Sea
Siddhartha
Heart of Darkness
Dubliners(?)
A Single Man
Catcher in the Rye
Notes from Underground
Gatsby
The Stranger (?)
I hope the next "literary movement" is the rise of novellas. I think...
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>the dead
>novella
jesus christ these fucking plebs
I'm planning on reading the Odyssey and Illiad, is it a good or bad idea to read them in the Samuel Butler translation or do I absolutely have to read it in poetic form?
~le daily homer translation thread~
You don't have to read it in poetic form, but you should. Go for Fitzgerald, Fagles, or Lattimore.
>>8177747
What are the benefits to reading it in poetic from over prose?
>Who's there
>I am
You really think Davis Fisher Walrus was creative or intelligent enough to do this intentionally?
>>8177458
I don't get it
Do what
Nice thread
>>8177466
first words of hamlet and first words of IJ
Do you guys think it's cheating to listen to books on tape? I find that there's a night and day difference for me between listening to books on tape and reading something. I feel like I have to train myself to get to the level feeling like I'm just listening to someone talk when I'm reading it on a page.
I'm about to listen to the history of western philosophy by Bertrand Russel on a couple hours long car ride, ask me anything. I also have prepared The Journal of Albion Moonlight, and The Republic by Plato.
>cheating
I listen to about 20ish hours of audiobooks/lectures/podcasts a week at work. I find the experience to be a bit different but not necessarily worse. Over time you develop the concentration for your mind not to wander as you listen to them but since you can never rearead, check refernces, leave time to think about it, I tend to listen to either books that aren't too complicated or books I doubt are going to be very great but I want to experience them to make sure.
>>8177811
I'm the opposite. I listen to talk shows all the time, and I even play them in the background when I am doing other low maintenance things and I still feel satisfied with how much I've absorbed. I think I just have a very keen ear. On the other hand, when I try to read a book, I find myself becoming enormously distracted, it's almost a fucking joke. I can barely read a single paragraph, it doesn't feel like the ease and nature of listening to an audiobook. Worse yet, I can read articles online and...
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What is /lit/'s most and least favorite book(s) and why?
Pic related, hated Fahrenheit 451
>inb4 GR + IJ
>no explanations
Lol ok senpai
>>8177323
favourite is Moby Dick, i know its a book most high schoolers read but i really like Ahab's nonstop goal to get revenge. Plus it inspired parts of MGS;V which is my favourite game so that always helps
Least favourite is sense and sensibility, because its a completely uninteresting story, with needlessly long sentences used to cover up the fact that the writing is shit
>>8177323
>Says he hates a generally liked popular book
>Doesn't say why
wew, who let the hipsters in.
Who has the best English translations of this guy?
Kaufmann
/thread
>>8177254
>not reading in Nietzsche in French
which philosopher is the simplest to understand?
Jacques Derrida
Fuck off back to /tv/.
Do you base all your tastes, your entire life off things people on 4chan tell you to? Are you that much of a moron?
Honestly not a bad question. It gets kind of boring and is impossible to figure them all out, and who has the time between labour and chores? Might as well get a great handle on one that doesn't lead down a rabbit hole of variations and updates.
What are some great short works of literature that I can read in a few days?
>>8177201
Everything by Hawkes.
>>8177201
Why does that image stir a boiling rage in my heart?
Shakespeare. Any play really.
Does Mao wrote anything worthwhile?
I'm not a communist,but seeing another perspective would be interesting.
Or should I start with Lenin if I want to see communism in action?
>>8177036
Lenins words were actually his own
Maos red book heavily borrows from previous authors
>>8177036
Start with Marx -> Lenin -> Mao
You should definitely read Mao as well if you want to go on to Maoism-Third-Worldism, which is basically the only somewhat relevant non-meme form of Marxism in today's world.
t. ex-MLM
>>8177614
This.
Also don't forget Engels along with Marx.
Fiction around the topic of addiction? Drugs, alcohol, sex. Whatever.
Infinite Jerkoff
>>8177013
IJ is essentially the addicts bible. Nothing will make you want to be sober more.
High functioning alcoholism
