shame about the failed coup, but his books were pretty decent yeah?
He succeeded at everything he set out to.
You pleb.
>>8050111
He did, but his apprentices spilled their spaghetti pretty hard.
Wtf did I just read lol
are you trolling? the title is literaly on the book cover...
>>8049932
Going by the cover, some artistic rendition of a man climbing a hill
mind flow of a syphilitic man
I want to effectively reach and love new pieces of art. I'm not asking you for your favourite works, but please post:
>books you like
>films you like
>albums you like
>a painting you like
Try to avoid posting works/masterpieces everyone already knows, and don't try to be pretentious. Let's make this useful for everyone.
Mine:
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>>8049928
>Book of the Dead, Ecclesiastes, Dhammapada
>Enter the Void, Inland Empire, Moonrise Kingdom
>Pilot Talk 2, When She Closed Her Eyes, Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill, Airport Music, Somnium
>Sex and Character, Mulamadhyamakakarika, Hadji Murat
>Night and the City, Fallen Idol, Roman Holiday, Rosemary's Baby
>All Summer Long, ABC, Endtroducing
>>8049928
Major League I and II great films.
Paintings are for waiting rooms.
will i get smarter if i keep reading zizek? why doesn't he have any solutions to the problems he presents?
>>8049843
>will i get smarter if i keep reading zizek
no
>>8049843
>will i get smarter if i keep reading zizek?
If you don't even understand how fucking stupid that question is, no.
What is the best early catholic literature?
What is the best "dark ages" literature
What should I read in the gap between the romans and epic poetry of the midieval period?
Thanks ladfams
>>8049811
St. Augustine is pretty good. His Confessions are a must read, from there read the City of God. Also, look up: St. Teresa of Avila (I think I spelled her name wrong but it should give you hits on google), St. Thomas Aquinas (if you like the philosophy side of things) and Dante Alighieri.
Tank ye m8
Gday
>>8049811
>What is the best early catholic literature?
Chanson de Roland
Muslim smashing goodness.
>What is the best "dark ages" literature
The thousands and thousands of pages of saga and edda in the Icelandic corpus
Where do you guys buy your books? I need a good cheap website but I'd also like to make it a discussion if you don't get them online
>>8049668
Depends on your country. I'm in Denmark and buy mine from a site called saxo, the membership is ~$10 a month and lowers the price on practically all books, obviously varying in amount, gives free shipping, and a coupon code or free ebook every once in a while.
The physical bookstore in my town is pretty shit, at least it was the last time I went which was ages ago. Just a ton of translated to Danish books and literally who whatever books.
libgen.io , convert with Calibre, read in Kindle 4.
If I can't find something there, I scour the net for some half-assed scan. Only after that I resort to buying a real book.
I price-check every bookstore with an online shop in my area and get the cheapest one, either delivered to my home or for me to pick up.
Best advice I can give you is to use google for each book individually.
Local bookshop that is part of a chain.
Sometimes I order stuff by phone and drive there to pick it up.
Bookdepository for english stuff,
I like Kanji. I wish if kanji was international letter in East Asia ;(
The letters 'Щ' and "Ж", tbqh.
>>8049639
Any letter from the latin alphabet is superior!
It produced the greatest literature the world has ever seen and will ever see.
/thread
>>8049712
I lived in Europe and studied European languages. But it was hard that pronounciation of alphabet was very different between other language.
what the fuck is Wyatts problem
Same as dfws, he was a sincere in a world of insincere
lol I forgot no one reads here. I should have asked a question about infinite jest if I wanted a response.
>>8051087
Intelligent people—the people you seem to want to reach—don't respond to threads like this ("what the fuck is his/her problem!??? m i rite!!!").
If you want to be taken seriously, delete the thread and try again. You get back what you give, and you're giving stupid, stupid shit. (Post stupid threads, get stupid responses.)
Any good (non-fiction) books on guerilla warfare?
>>8049301
Che actually wrote a manual that is freely distributed.
https://decryptedmatrix.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Che-Guevara-Guerrilla-Warfare.pdf
Also consider using oxford bibliography for books on the shining path, viet cong etc. A Savage War of Peace by Alistair Horne is good in that respect, as is its connected movie The Battle of Algiers
>>8049326
Che wrote quite a few books, actually. I'd also recommend "Reminisces of the Cuba revolutionary war" since obviously a lot of it directly pertains to the guerilla aspect of the fighting.
>>8049431
>Reminisces of the Cuba revolutionary war
This looks pretty good. I really enjoy books about south american war, they have a different aspect that is hard to define, and almost always devolve into a guerrilla, even with Bolivar leading a continental army at the head of the conflict there are always these packs of backwoods cowboys.
OP I also recommend Os Sertoes by da Cunha if you want an account of a zealot guerrilla army under siege
Been reading Junger's Der Waldgang (Passage in the Forest), and it's incredibly interesting. He's building a very fascinating narrative of freedom, especially of its birth in utter useleessness. Wasn't expecting to like his essays as much. Any recs on his other stuff, or generally short-ish essays on politics?
I'd add Didion's Miami (even if it's more of a reportage) and Baudrillard's Origin of Terrorism (or something like that), maybe Mass and Power by Elias Canetti but I haven't read it all.
>>8049299
Haven't read too much Ernst besides storm of steel. I know he has other essays like "on pain," which is part of the new translations like the one you just read.
Check on amazon and goodreads for reviews.
>>8049299
Check out Ernst's brother Friedrich's "The Failure of Technology"
http://www.ernst-juenger.org/2012/11/fg-jungers-failure-of-technology-as.html
Countercurrents has two of the short writings o their site, "Sicilian Letter to the Man on the Moon" which is beautiful, as well as "The Retreat into the Forest"
On the Marble Cliffs is his classic novella, about the totalitarianism of the Nazis and Communism.
i was sixteen
we drove around in your car
you were doing coke
and i said i never got a taste for it
i let something else kill my friends and my body
>>8049033
pretty good op
i think it need another line or 2 before the last
it's a bit off the cliff after the 4th line
>>8049045
You're an idiot.
?????
>tfw I can't write anything I want to because I need to learn more about christian theology and philosophy first
>>8049023
Christianity is irrelevant to a contemporary existence
>>8049042
But it's aesthetic
You should write as long as you're ignorant. The more you learn, the more your work will seem dull and devoid of talent. At least, now, you have sincerity on your side.
/lit/ masturbates to Harold Bloom on a regular basis. But who is the Roger Ebert of literary criticism?
Ebert was a film critic who loved Ingmar Bergman and also defended Star Wars as a significant work of film.
Roger Ebert was basic.
john green the type of nigga who read ulysses AND twilight
>>8048684
Star Wars is a significant piece of film you pseudo
How do you guys go about creating dialogue and conversations in your written pieces? Do you have any exercises, techniques or methods you use for this?
I'm just wondering because I was in a workshop today, and we had a fun little exercise where we partnered up with someone to do a call-and-response way of dialogue to create a little scene. I was with a Solomon Islander who can't speak/write grammatically correct English very well, but he writes interesting pieces. Together we made this little humorous dialogue:
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>>8048638
I don't have to write dialogue because I am not a self-important idiot who thinks people want to hear what he thinks.
>>8048638
basically just use the voices in your head + know the fundamentals of dialogue
if you don't have one for a character tweak the character until you do
>>8048647
Isn't that the other way round though? Internalizing everything and having it lectured to the reader?
are people good?
what books have made you like your fellow human beings more?
Some people are good, some people are bad, most are inbetween
>>8048604
>some people are good
>some people are bad
this is heretical in the extreme
people are made up entirely of the good; but much of that good is perverted to bad. nobody is wholly bad, for then they would be nothing; and nobody was ever perfectly good, except Christ.
What we call bad people, or good people, these are just gradations of good; a "bad man" is in many ways good, a "good man" is in many ways bad.
>>8048619
People are people. Some people are inclined to do things that other people consider 'bad', and vice versa. When it comes to 'good' or 'bad', this is as far as it goes. People can't be 'made up of' good or bad, because all good or bad consist of is the opinions of onlookers. There is no 'goodness' like there is 'redness' or 'largeness'. The sad truth is that 'good' and 'bad' are human constructs, and that whether someone is...
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