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>book is titled "the last of the mohicans"
>it's literally about the last couple members of the mohican tribe
>book is titled "the gardens of the moon"
>it's not about gardens on the moon, gardens under the moon, astronomy or gardening in any way, shape or form
Tell me, /pol, when did literature succumb to post-modern wankery and how do we fix it?
>>8006170
>book is titled "a scanner darkly"
>isn't about office scanners
>>8006318
nice new meme friendo, upboated
>Infinite Jest
>ends
What exactly is a "scanner" in A Scanner Darkly?
>>8006149
It's a play on words. You're supposed to "just get it." Or not think about it. One of those. In any case, the author is smarter than you and you're not to question the author's artistic choices!
1 CORINTHIANS 13:12
For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then shall I know, even as also I am known.
>>8006198
This. It's a play off of "through a glass/mirror darkly" but instead the glass is a sci-fi imaging device.
Solitude torments me; company oppresses me. The presence of anoher person distracts me from my thoughts; I dream their presence in a peculiarly abstracted way that none of my analytical powers can define.
Why are we object to such cruelty /lit/ and is there a way to beat it?
We should meme Pessoa instead of muh infinite joke.
>>8006137
Grow up, stop being a pretentious teenager. Helped me a lot.
>>8006187
Fuck off "mature man".
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/man-reads-book-beyoncs-performance-north-carolina/story?id=38926824
http://abc11.com/entertainment/meet-the-man-who-read-a-book-at-raleigh-beyonce-concert/1326171/
It's not that he didn't like the show, but...
"I find Beyonce a great show woman, very attractive. Her music? Eh, fine, but not my style, the Greece native said. "I listen to '50s, '60s, '70s, and a lot of Greek music.
We were dying to know just what book it was that was so interesting it took his attention away from...
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>>8006121
>Nobody says anything about everyone browsing on your phone or being obnoxious with them at social events
>OH NO SOMEONE HAS A BOOK
I find the hypocrisy unbelievable
>>8006142
I've stopped going to most larger concerts because unless I'm in the front row I'll end up watching the whole thing from the fucking phones held up in front of me.
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Hey /lit/, i know these type of threads are posted from time to time, and I'm sorry.
My question is: What are some books that will teach me how to critically read, specially works of fiction?
pic related is good
>>8006065
Start with a classical book that has a reputation for having good footnotes, and good essays wrapping the work.
Something like Signet Classics Shakespeare The majority of good advice on how to read critically are in essays but not the kind of essays written by John Ruskin or other philosophers, but the kind written by editors of collections and anthologies.
http://www.criticalreading.com/critical_reading.htm
What is the most beautiful and endearing depiction of femininity in literature?
>>8006050
From what I've read, Penelope and Sonya
Inb4 Molly's soliloquy
>>8006050
natasha in war & peace makes everyone think of audrey hepburn
this film probably intentionally ripped off the scene with natasha on the balcony with prince andrey below
We never really talk much about Russian philosophers here (inb4 dosto)
Has anyone read anything by Aleksei Losev, for instance?
Don't want to shit up your thread, but the only Russian Philosopher I know is Aszacra Zarathustra (even got him as a friend on facebook (yeah yeah facebook ree normie get out)) and he's funny as shit, check him out.
But on a serious note, rec something?
>>8005882
Shestov is boss. The Russians mostly owned existentialism actually.
Heavily /lit/-related
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakhtin
I just ordered this edition, /lit/. Did I fuck up? Is there a better edition out there (other than the $300 hardcovers) that I should get instead?
>>8005869
That version's perfect as far as we all know. You did fine.
>>8005877
Thanks. I'd heard that there were some editions with pretty severe typos so I wanted to check.
>>8005869
I have this edition and its great, don't worry yourself anon. Is most 'Vintage' stuff generally of high quality?
looking for patrician senpais to learn things from and be humiliated for being a pleb by
for context, we are a bunch of neets who like to talk about books we've not read and make conversation
https://discord.gg/0ssJKGTbo2quQlsV
>>8005831
here's a (You), on the house
>>8005831
the discord is full of faggot russians.
saved you all a click.
>>8005920
I agree.
Can somebody who knows Dickens' oeuvre well separate his novels into easy, medium, and hard categories for me?
Thanks.
Nah
>>8005820
Literally all easy.
>>8005820
His works start off easy and go into medium then hard as his career progresses. Although it's not like late Dickens is too difficult to enjoy. His plots, the subtleties and ironies, and symolism, get more complex, but they can still be enjoyed as straightforward novels.
What does it mean when you can't live with her and can't live without her?
It means it's time for you to man up.
it means it's time to talk about motherfucking books
How is the Wordsworth edition of Ulysses?
It can't be that bad,right?Since it's in english.
Do these books fall apart easily?
Even the cover looks okay.
Why would you willingly buy a Wordsworth publication of anything
>>8005987
because it's cheap?
Extremely cheap at that.
>>8005997
You really can't spend an extra 5 bucks on an edition with adequate quality?
You buy books to keep them forever, do you not?
Good books for social anxiety?
You mean books on being a self-pitying coward who made the mistake of not speaking up one time and has made the same mistake again and again since that point until the notion of communicating meaningfully with another human being seems so surreal and "awkward" that your only resort is to interpret your flaw not as some weakness on your part but as some sort of evidence that you are too cerebral to form relationships with other people and participate in discussions where you aren't the figure of attention and the point around which the discussion revolves? Get...
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>>8005731
Yes. Any reccs?
>>8005731
Your post didn't need to be that long.
Here:
>I don't understand social anxiety
Lads, the spooks ate closing in on me. If I don't like Dickens then someone is there to call me a pleb. If I haven't read Shakespeare then someone is there to call me a pleb. Similarly for all sorts of authors. If people actually read all that shit people say that people should read, they'd spend fucking years on it.
And they never mention the F word: fun. Why the fuck do I have to pretend that "PENETRATING INSIGHTS" are hidden within novels? Hey DeLillo, you senile fuck, why not you write something enjoyable to read? Hey Pynchon, am I being paranoid...
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Give me a list of your 10 favorite books.
>>8005726
A rough list
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
The amazing adventures of kavalier and clay
Lolita
The Rules of Attraction
My Twisted World
Slaughterhouse 5
LA Confidential
The Big Nowhere
American Tabloid
The Secret History
>>8005745
Wow. huh
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Is the the school of resentment winning the battle /lit/ ?
>>8005697
They've won it a long time ago, Harold.
You've said before, something like, "I can't believe the common reader will ever die," that there will always be people who will read great literature for characters, their stories, their voices, and overall aesthetic spleandor. However, looking at how the only people who read the classics treat them only as weight lifting, apparently the common reader is dying out too.
Deep Reading is a dead activity, Harold.
>>8005697
nobody won.
>>8005724
Should I read Voyage to Arcturus?
