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Who won, /lit/?
>>8013957
Not the advancement of the field of philosophy, that's for sure
who
>>8013971
oh shit mic drop fuckers
Who else here has read this? The prose I found lacking, though it's dryness indeed "fit" the numbing repetition the author wants to hammer into your skull. The violence and sadism at points also felt like a bit too much. Pleasantly surprised, but thoroughly depressed, 7/10
I like the part about the penis, don't tell my mom thoughXD
id buy any book with harrison ford on the cover
>>8014668
>>harrison ford
oh brother
Hey /lit/
I'm looking to get a book for the daughter of a close friend of mine. She's 7, and she's very much into zoology and nature in general.
What are some good books for kids that cover this area? Preferably non-fiction.
>>8013894
The International Wildlife Encyclopedia
And Pippi Longstockings.
>zoology
man just say animals wtf shes 7
The Fifty Shades books are rather good, but her literary capabilities may be slightly too advanced for those books.
What's the most depressing and/or disturbing novel you've ever read?
M Y D I A R Y T B H
Anna Karenina probably.
Just the realization that life is really that shitty. Even Levin and Kitty who are the "Happy" couple, are not passionately in love. They just don't hate each other and are content enough not to always bicker and argue.
the castle
it's just too much
How can anyone look at the Munchhausen trilemma (or think independently) and think that any aspect of philosophy is non trivial? You literally can't. Everything Marx said was unfalsifiable garbage. The same with Nietzsche and so on.
When you see philosophers actually talk about real world topics it's clear that philosophy has given them literally zero additional tools for reasoning compared to a regular person. It's laughable.
It may sound like I'm being dismissive and elitist, and I am, but modern philosophical institutions such as universities...
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>>8013852
This is why universal literacy was a mistake.
kill yourself
>>8014175
BOY
HE BOUT TO DO IT
>>8013702
>paperbacks
>>8013710
frog me dad
Does anyone else automatically feel like their writing is bad whenever bits of modernish pop-culture get mixed in?
I'm writing a story where a main character is a mactard and no matter how good or bad my writing is, when I reference the brand (or a generic knock-off of it) it just feels shitty even though the presence of apple products has symbolic importance
>>8013683
What symbolic importance could it possibly have? Original sin?
>>8013683
Sorry about the Pomo :-(
To consider: don't reference the brand. Imagine that someone's reading it 100 years later and don't know anything about apples GUI. Don't reference a brand name or anything, show us what it is and why it's bad
>>8013683
reference it in an ironic and self-aware way.
Finished the book /lit/.
What the heck happened in the Year of Glad?
I've read theories online thatit was a delayed reaction to the fungus Hal ate as a kid, and others that say he watched the antidote-film, which reversed his ability to communicate (like light through an optical lens, ha ha) and so he went from being a literary genius to a unintelligible neanderthal (from an observer's p.o.v.)
>>8013614
yeah but he wasn't really able to feel before.
I always go back to that one flashback where he is trying to talk to himself but himself cant understand what he's saying
>>8013624
what's the significance of that?
has anyone on /lit/ read this?
What's your favorite audiobook of all time?
Knifepoint Horror
Story of Civilization by Will Durant (but only the old school cassette version read by Alexander Adams not the new remake with different readers for each book and too slick production)
>>8013601
Keith Richards' autobiography narrated by Johnny Depp
it's indescribably awesome
what does /lit/ think about this?
>it's one of the best books ever written
>it's good, but overrated
>it's not great, but an interesting evolution in the sense that it was one if the first books to really attempt to appeal to young adults, but it's not that good
>it's bad, it beats you over the head with symbolism and the unreliability of the narrator
>it's terrible, I hate Holden
>>8013590
/thread
Pretty good, but some people just praise it too much
where do I start with Jung?
Plot - Design (Shadow)
Theme - Plataea or "booth" (Unconscious Selves)
Character - Locus or "point" (Conscious Ego)
???
>get a gun
>shoot yourself
>>8013551
OMG UFOS AMIRITE
there ya go
Start with the Greeks?
I thought 4cc shit was banned on /lit/.
What do you guys think of the last match vs /his/? Gonna make it a rivalry?
>>8013603
This isn't a cup thread, it's a Greek literature thread
What the hell happened to that magazine lit used to have, with works of anons and stuff?
Why did you stop?
What non-fiction have you enjoyed recently? I'm most of the way through pic related, and it's pretty good.
I've also recently read Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 and The Half Has Never Been Told (both books that I think every American should read, although I take issue with the way the latter is written).
What else should I be reading?
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The War for Late Night by Billy Carter
The Bible by God
I'm about 800 pages into The Decline and Fall of the Roman Meme.
Eh, bretty gud.
Can only remember like 1/10th of what has happened so far. Whenever I get to a church chapter my autism sense tingles delightfully.
>>8013513
>The Bible
>by God
Well this wasn't very good.
Some beautiful poetry, but fragmentary and incoherent. Like what does the Gretchen story even have to do with Faust's wager? And Faust himself is a rather inconsistent character...
I don't think I'm going to bother with Part 2. .
Gretchen gives Faust love. Faust wants infinite knowledge, and Mephistopheles gives him the knowledge of the human heart, since he already knew everything intellectually.
>>8013436
>Some beautiful poetry, but fragmentary and incoherent
lol
I wish you dweebs would stop calling things 'incoherent', my backlog is big enough.
>>8013458
It literally is incoherent though. Goethe wrote the thing over a 30 year period in different phases.
I read in the introduction that he didn't even want to return to the thing until Schiller persuaded him to.
I enjoy writing but I'm not as big of a reader as most of the serious users. I probably read less than 20 books a year. Is reading a requisit for writing or is it just that famous writers tend to read a lot? Is it causation or just correlation?
I know DFW had a huge library, but a lot of his reading was clear crap and he knew it so I can't see it as training as much as entertaining. Hemmmingway also was an avid reader but it was tied to getting to know the authors he liked, he had a secondary interest to his habit. I know there are no studies about this since...
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>Is reading a requisit for writing?
It's usually a requisit for writing well. You learn how to write properly by reading and analyzing what you read.
A writer is influenced by what he reads, but it doesn't go like "read good stuff->get used to good stuff->write good stuff". You learn how to set up scenes, how to use words and grammar... by reading and analyzing, even if it is bad stuff or not great works from the Canon.
>>8013258
I do take time and enjoy editing, I can recognize clear improvements whenever I revisit a text so I assume that at some level my taste is improving (or maybe changing). I've also read a good amount of theory books, from Aristotle to Pierce, and I enjoy more an abstract understanding of how things work than deconstructing every single novel or short story I get. Although that last part may be just sloth...
>>8013308
You're fine I guess. Although I'm not talking about metodically analyzing stories. I'm talking about recognizing patterns, dynamicas and all of that, dunno, I just do it unconsciously by now.
However, as long as you read as a habit, enjoy it and understand what you read, you're fine. Just to know, what books did you read in 2015?
