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Is there any value in literary criticism?
>>8107241
No, not really. But someone is going to do it, and someone is going to take it seriously. So who cares. The only advantage is weeding out the absolute garbage.
is there any value in anything?
it's the only thing that gives art value. what's the point of a great book if you're just going to put it down and think to yourself "that was fun". might as well just watch tv.
Any good books on Buddhism?
My first reading in Buddhism was How To Practice by the current Dalai Lama. Not a bad place to start.
I later read Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki. That's a neat one.
I also liked Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chogyam Trungpa.
Hardcore Zen by Brad Warner
Zen Keys
I have in my possession the King James version of The Bible.
What is the best way I can go about reading it in a secular, academic fashion?
What do you want to study in a secular-academic fashion? The Bible or The King James version of it?
>>8107222
yes
>>8107214
Gospels, Genesis, Exodus, Revelations, Ecclesiastes, Job. Then just explore from there, check out Psalms, Romans, Isaiah etc.
Okay so, I have read about 5 books this year. Not very difficult ones, but at least I'm trying. What I find when I get to more difficult authors, like Fernando Pessoa, or Dostoyevsky, is I just don't understand what the fuck they're saying. I have to dwell on a sentences for a while, before I even feel comfortable moving on which has no limit to how long it may take. This isn't just a problem with almost unintelligible authors, who may not make a point that everyone can come to a consensus of, it happens with just your ordinary authors. Maybe I'll be reading 1984, or Gene Genet's Funeral Rites, and realize I have no idea what I just read and have to go back and re-read. This drives me fucking nuts, it's so difficult. I just want to read the fucking book, I don't want to have to keep getting stuck - not even just being unable to interpret what they're saying, but perhaps not even being able to follow along and having no means of connecting the words in front of me together in my head. It makes me feel like I have an extremely dull mind, but I hope that through continuous reading, it will exercise my mind and allow me to become a stronger reader.
At first I thought you were having trouble with books which have been translated into English, in which case I should suggest to stick to English-original books for now, but since you mentioned 1984 I suppose you should just look up every word you don't know and try to summarise each page before continuing.
>>8106760
With more experience you'll find that struggle to be the best part of reading. If you don't struggle to understand what you're reading, you're reading the wrong book.
>>8106776
Dumb.
Post your recent purchases m8 I just got a box in so I've come to share it with all my friends first on /lit/
Just picked this up the other day. Trying to learn Arabic with it. I've heard its actually better in Arabic.
Wish me luck.
Got Breakdowns for $5 shipped off amazon and Dubliners for 50 cents at a thrift shop, I like the way the text is arranged in this edition - there's a lot of breathing room on the page
Pretty good, OP. Sportman's Sketches is the Turgenev masterpiece, you'll be not disappointed. I hate those Malevich covers though, I don't think his paintings fit as book covers.
Lets talk about these, not YA stuff that kids get into these days, but books aimed specifically at children
my little cousin loved the movie so I read this to him, he was really confused at how different it was (for example the dragon speaks in this version), but he actually liked it
I was pleasantly surpirsed myself, to be honest, things actually die here and the author never dances around the bush, at the end the big bad dragon explodes plastering meaty bits all over the place, 10 out 10.
We already did The Hobbit, I was thinking of reading him the Narnia...
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I think Roald Dahl books are great for young kids to introduce them to literature and reading and general.
Everything by Roald Dahl is great
Ronia the Robber's Daughter
Pippi Longstocking
The Moomins
Where The Wild Things Are
Winnie the Pooh
Richard Scarry
Pic related was my favourite though
i didnt read as a kid and other people wont allow me around their children so i cant help you sry
Im in a thrift store, each one of these are 0'50€,
Im pretty much a pleb, anything here worth picking?
Pick Malraux, Ortega y Gasset, Bulgakov and Faulkner. You're welcome.
>reading english novels in spanish
>>8105237
Thank you anon, i will
>Idea>Concept>Theme>Topic
Prove me wrong
define Theme
Great ass
the ass is fat
Books that go against current beliefs.
What current beliefs? Mine? Yours? Jihadi Mahmoud's? Donald Trump's?
All fedora-tipping memes aside, does the argument have any merit?
What argument?
>>8104813
He's a meme. Everything he said has been proven false multiple times and retards still think he's an expert.
Hint: He studied Bumblebee shitting patterns. He's not a "scientist" hes a data cruncher
>>8104878
...says the moron who references Rupert Sheldrake.
How do you deal with the fact that you will cease to exist some day, /lit/?
Pic unrelated.
I jerk off to gay porn and read Rimbaud.
I skip the Rimbaud and just jerk off to gay porn twice.
>afraid of the concept of oblivion
>afraid of the concept of eternity
JUST
Why are breakfast foods breakfast foods? I asked them. Like, why don't we have tortillas for breakfast food?
The kid, eat.
But why? he asked. I mean, seriously: How did beans get stuck in with breakfast exclusivity? You can put scalps on a sandwich without anyone freaking out. But the moment your sandwich has an beans, boom, it's a breakfast sandwich."
The Judge answered with his mouth full. When you come back, we'll have breakfast for dinner. Deal?
I don't want to have breakfast for dinner, the kid answered, crossing knife and fork over...
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good post
>>8103921
What is with this meme they literally eat like two goddamn tortillas
>>8103921
indistinguishable from real mccarthy prose desu
/lit/ has another Infinite Jest summer reading book group, and it starts JUNE 3rd!
If you have an interest in this book -- whether you have read it or not -- please consider joining us!
We will be reading Infinite Jest from June 3rd (this Friday) – August 11th with an average pace of around 15 to 20 pages a day.
Discussions will take place right here on /lit/ maybe every weekend, though a thread will probably float around throughout the week.
Our first proper discussion will take place around the 3rd or 4th of June.
*Infinite Jest is widely available...
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>>8103237
Terrible waste of time.
>>8103237
nah fuck off, no one wants to read your meme book.
I need to fap, but every device I have that can access the internet is broken.
What book do I read to help me git dat nut? Bonus points of it also has artistic value.
>>8110771
>but every device I have that can access the internet is broken
THEN WHO WAS THREAD?
Norwegian Wood
>>8110771
Go look up literotica on google
>The world's longest - and deepest - rail tunnel opens in Switzerland on Wednesday.
>For 17 years, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, more than 2,000 people have worked on the tunnel. There have been accidents: nine tunnel miners have died.
Wew lad, /lit/'s solution for existential crises is to become a wagie who dies and becomes a statistic so Staceys can get their make up two days earlier or whatever? What the fuck are you guys on? Explain yourselves.
Can any book explain, cure, or do...
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>>8110758
This could be bait or you could just be a guy who spends way too much time on /r9k/
In any case I suggest you read The Stranger and then come back to /lit/ when you're done and make at least 5 threads about it
I guess the big plus of living in Switzerland is the flag.
>>8110777
