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What should I have read before starting The Cantos?
>>8039874
A lot of shit.
Selected Works - Ezra Pounds
The Waste Land - TS Eliot
The Sweeney Poems - TS Eliot
The Four Quartets - TS Eliot
Ulysses - James Joyce
Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
Selected Poems - Hilda Doolittle
Selected Poems - W. B. Yeats
Selected Poems - Li Po
Song of Myself - Walt Whitman
The Quran
The Iliad - Homer
The Odyssey - Homer
The Aeneid - Virgil
Metamorphoses - Ovid
Beowulf - Anonymous
Journey to the West - Wu Cheng'en
1001 Nights - Anonymous
The Epic of Gilgamesh - Anonymous
Old Testament
New Testament
The...
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I sometimes I wish I could have been a historical, literary matchmaker.
Had Pound met Evola, he probably would have become something timeless.
As it is, history remembers him as some sort of (rightfully) pseudo-remorseful fascist; and The Cantos are a load of incoherent shit.
any books that will make me not want to die anymore?
The Brothers Karamazov
there's no way out
someone will post the holy bible in thirty seconds
I don't understand the philosophy of this story at all /lit/. What must I read to make sense of it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Book_(Jung)
>>8039572
Borges is trash. Literally middlebrow trying to be highbrow -- the Franzen of his time.
>>8039590
Thanks for giving an argument for your shit opinion friendo
How old were you when you started becoming /lit/ and actually read books?
>tfw didn't start at a young age because my immigrant parents didn't read to me
Bumop
started actually reading at 15, YA novels mostly cause i was an angsty little shit
>>8039596
Hm, okay. So it's not too late for me to actually start reading? The last book I read was Lolita, but I played video games for most of my life and I totally regret it.
I'm 18
What is the literary equivalent of Eric Andre?
Beating myself to death with Looking For Alaska.
>>8039391
who the fuck is that some illiterate douche who's good at playing sportsball? then again with that jew fro he might be in a leftwing numetal outfit that raps abut the glory of illegal immigrants or something
>>8039391
William S. Burroughs
The completely forgettable man sat in the back of his van, avoiding the light, his fingers lightly clutched around the neck of a very small girl. Luckily for the girl, she wasn’t real.
She was a slightly used knock-off Raggedy Ann doll, bought for a nickel three months ago from a thrift store one state over. Grinning at the heavy set cashier, he explained it was for his niece. The middle aged woman, smiling shyly up at him, mumbled something about how sweet and thoughtful he was. As he left the store, he remembered thinking what her expression would have been if she actually knew the doll’s intended purpose.
Sitting now in the deepest part of his heavily modified passenger van, he allowed himself to imagine the look of horror and disgust he would have earned from the woman if he had told her the truth. His mind wandered and the front of his blue jeans noticeably expanded as his penis began to harden at the thought of being able to show the world what he really was. Of being able to finally remove his mask and reveal not only his true nature, but all of humanity’s. That dark, inner violence which shaped and ruined empires. Which gave voice to happy, singing prey and shadows to hide the stalking predators. That real and radiant world neglected by the weak, frantically desperate to ignore the truth and replace it with their own lesser versions of reality.
>>8039147
Fire produces light and loins produce life.
this shitty post you made is a waste of your time and mine
this poster is also repulsive in three distinct ways, the way that upsets me more being the fact that it is not even for the book, but instead for the awful Kubrick movie. If this was the actual poster for the movie, it would have beem the most sexual element of the entire entity by far. It perhaps better reflects the contents of the book, but of course imagery that hints at something sexually explicit reflects a failure to understand the novel
anyways kill yourself
>>8039174
Good post
Looking to start reading at an adulty level. I have only read Captain Underpants books. Where is good a place to start ?
Start with the Greeks
The Greeks. Now get out.
>>8039074
>>8039076
Greeks don't interest me. Macedonians on the other hand..
How do you guys make your epubs?
I've tried a few different openoffice plugins and standalone programs but I still can't crack full-page illustrations, title pages and other niceties. Is there a word processor out there that exports to epub properly?
I know I can read plaintext .txt instead. I just want those extra niceties to show
>>8038990
no wordprocessor i know of, but there's a bunch of epub converter software that's free.
I usually just get the book published in print and then download the ebook copy they give me
I think epubs can be produced by latex. It's called pandoc. I haven't used it, but that's what Google days. Also, libreoffice has writer2xml
Let us know how that works, op >>8038990
Is there any novel that helps you accept the inevitable fact that you're going to die some day?
Goddamn l wish l had born 500 years later so that biological inmortality had already been researched
>>8038672
The thing about age extension is that once we can add, say, 50 years to your life, there's a pretty good chance the science will have advanced enough in that 50 years to give you another 50.
And so on.
The first man to live to be a thousand has probably already been born.
Emil Cioran's books.
>>8038672
>I need somebody else to help me how to think
What are you, a liberal? Think for yourself, you fucking pleb.
I'm interested in getting into poetry. What is:
>best poetry for beginners to get into poetry
>what are your favorite poets and their pieces
Incidentally I've taken a particular interest in Rudyard Kipling, Lord Byron and most importantly Percy Shelly. What are the works I should look into for these 3?
>>8038652
>Best poetry for beginners
I usually recommend John Donne, but Whitman also has some nice poems with O captain my Captain, and When Lilac Last in my dooryad bloomed.
>My favourites
I like the Kerouac
>>8038652
>getting into poetry
Shakespeare's sonnets got me into poetry. Before that I only read poetry for English class and not because I wanted to.
>favourite poets
Still Shakespeare's sonnets. First love = best love.
Currently reading Don Juan for the first time and loving it. You mentioned an interest in Byron, so you should definitely read it.
>>8038652
John Donne, Charles Bukowski, Adonis, Paul Eluard, Pablo Neruda, Alexandr Blok
What does /lit/ think of the picks?
Anyone experienced with this?
Good literature made by Chileans and hopefully based in Chile. Non-Fictional preferred.
>>8038604
>chilean
>literature
>>8038610
t. Argentine
>>8038604
Wish I could actually recommend some prose writer, but I've yet to delve into Chilean literature.
Violeta Parra was a wonderful lyricist and musician however, if you feel like reading some poetry.
Me volví para Santiago
sin comprender el dolor
con que pintan la noticia
cuando el pobre dice no
abajo la noche oscura
oro, sangre y carbón,
y arriba quemando el sol.
I am currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in philosophy and am disappointed to find an almost anal obsession with analytic philosophy among all my professors. Is it like this everywhere in the anglosphere? I appreciate science but logic, in my opinion, is more of a linguistic concern than a philosophical one. I would like to do historically, politically driven works based on the continental philosophers. Or perhaps I would like to do translation and interpretation of forgotten ancient philosophers. Should I switch my major?
>studying philosophy unironically
>>8038567
why would you pursue a degree in philosophy?
better off just getting a psych degree
>>8038567
>Should I switch my major?
No, you should kill yourself.
Hi guys! I have a girl friend whom I've coerced to read classics. She's already read To Kill a Mockingbird, Atala, Rene, Go Set a Watchman, and Bridge of San Luis Rey from my suggestions, but she's only really liked Mockingbird and Go Set. I think she only likes fiction that isn't difficult to digest, but is also entertaining. Can you suggest books for me to suggest to her?
Thank you.
>I had to convince [x] to read great books.
>[x] has only read childlike shit for SJWs.
>[x] wants only easy things because [x] is mentally retarded.
>[x] is a girl.
Why waste your time teaching a dog to walk on its hind legs? Even if you get it to feign reading real books, it'll just pose for Instagram selfies.
Teach it to cook and suck your dick and be happy with what you have. Women don't have souls.
East of Eden. Lots of scenery and one of the main characters is a psychopathic female.
>>8038584
who hurt you
>Who's there?
>I am
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Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace, is the worst science fiction novel ever written. The truth is it might be the worst novel ever written, or at least published, but given the fact that Wallace has stiff competition from the burgeoning spawn of PC Elitist writers, not to mention his own PoMo kith, such as Rick Moody, Dave Eggers, and that ilk, I think I’ll stick with just calling it the worst sci fi has ever produced. Granted, I am not one who has read all the depth of sci fi offerings, but I’ve read enough to know that this so far undershoots the rest that by mere...
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>>8038560
The novel clocks in at 981 pages, with over a hundred pages of notes that serve no purpose, reference nothing in the book, which is footnoted, and are filled with nonsense and faux information, with a small dab of the real tossed in. This is the T.S. Eliot Effect. At least, now I know where Dave Eggers ripped off his garbage that ends his wretched A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius. By that rationale, one might say Eggers novel-cum-autobiography is worse than Wallace’s tome, until one gets to the fact that...
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>>8038561
Oh, do you care what this piece of shit was about? So did I, for the first two or three pages, until I saw the author didn’t give a damn. Of course, his ennui in storytelling, character development, and plain old grammar, is nothing new when considering Wallace’s career in letters, wrought of smoke, mirrors, and the occasional tongue dance on a glans. As for plot? Forget it. Having just read and reviewed Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho before reading this it’s worth comparing the two books’ merits. Neither...
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Who is the best female author?
Mary Shelley imo
Nightmare mode: No muh stream of virginia woolf
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>>8038547
Gertrude Stein
More like Very Smelley, because her writing stinks
>>8038547
Belle Randall
