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Lit I need help deciding a new book. Amazon is taking forever with my book order and I've got some time to kill! Which should I pick?
>fiction vs nonfiction
>English vs translated work
>philosophy vs literature
>hardcover vs paperback
oh shits, thats my bad. the books are
Ulysses - Joyce
Les Mis - Hugo
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Don Quixote - Cervantes
Either/Or - Kierkegaard
History of the Arab Peoples - Hourani
Being and Nothingness - Sartre
read the history of the arab people so you can better know your soon to be masters unless your a woman in which case don't read you won't need to instead try to be a mother to some upstanding muslim boy so you can at least live in wealth
>>7992473
Well that sounds a little racist, but I will take your advice. Thanks.
Why doesn't /lit/ celebrate Easter? I thought this was a Christian board?
>>7992404
>Why doesn't /lit/ celebrate Easter
fukken orthodox easter my man? just because we like "the greeks" doesn't mean we like the greeks.
>I thought this was a Christian board
try 2014
the romans dont feel like theyve made their "point" yet.
theyll be back. the catholic clergy is currently humiliating their followers.
>>7992404
I'm celebrating the resurrection of Jon Snow for Orthodox Easter. It happened a day late, but whatever.
Just finished my re-read of Lolita after finishing it for the first time last week and it was brilliant. Nabokuv's prose are amazing and the book is the closest to perfect that I've read. What should I read next by him?
>>7992391
Pale Fire?
Just pick a random one, and read it.
>>7992391
woah - um those kind of pictures aren't allowed here
>>7992391
lewd. this thread will be deleted
I can't enjoy this. Am I just too much of a pleb? I got maybe 60 pages in and I just can't slog through it anymore. I snorted in appreciation once, but otherwise I don't find it funny. I can see why people consider it funny, though. It reminds me of Catch-22, which I also hated.
Any tips?
nobody actually has ever read that. people just pretend that they've read it.
>>7992252
I've read it. it was funny and incredibly depressing at the same time.
>>7992246
>giving up after 60 pages
Honestly, yes, you probably are a pleb. If you were a true patrician like me you would read every single word to the bitter end, periodically snorting in derision not at the humor but at the poor literary craftsmanship.
It's not even a challenging book; Absalom, Absalom! is about 200 pages depending on which version you purchase, and it's unbelievably more difficult and complex (and rewarding).
Since there is no official, dedicated 'philosophy' board, this is as good a place as any to ask.
Was civilization a mistake?
Consciousness was a mistake. Everything else follows from that.
>>7992241
this lad is right and a true detective to boot
>>>/his/
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Name the best World History and justify that choice.
I have concluded it is not pic related because it is avoids economic/idealogical/social factors too much. It is basically a history of ruling classes and achievements.
There is no chance of asking /his/ because they are an outpost of /pol/.
Do you read Žižek in his voice?
Absolutely, you see, I do this all the time. One of the best experiences you can have, and here I am not lying, is to read Gravity's Rainbow in this way. You know, that early 70's American Pinecone book.
Its not that I read "Žižek" in his voice but the contrary that my entire consciousness is narrated by him.
My God, I read everything in his voice, to be quite, eh, honest you see. This is done strictly in an ironic manner, though. Here I paraphrase Lacan: By using another person's voice, one gains precisely that freedom necessary to speak with ones own. It is the mask that lets us be ourselves, I claim.
I found this reading of Finnegan's Wake on youtube and in the second chapter he sings and plays the ballad
I thought it was pretty funny, just to hear his pronunciations of all the abstract words (surprisingly accurate too)
https://youtu.be/uF47v_9olEs?t=31m51s
>>7992145
>Finnegan's
>not the ballad of finnegan's wake
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HWT6XD014I
Fedora spotted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RfYU9pCYHo
>the phone call between Orin and Hal
christ on a jetski
>>7992140
They have multiple conversations over the phone. Please don't post about books here unless you've actually read them.
>>7992183
I'm currently reading IJ and the conversation about Hal's therapy hit me in the gut
fuck you
>>7992183
the one where he is clipping his toenails you dink
reading is so fucking boring
I just come here to learn about authors or books I know the average Murakami/Vonnegut girl won't read so I can name them and impress her.
Tbs (to be sincere)
>>7992139
>James Ferraro fan is an illiterate
Can't really say I'm surprised. Now please return to your containment board, pseud.
For you.
Will the madman save cience fiction and fantasy?
Nah. The stuff they like is even worse than the stuff that usually wins the Hugos, which is already terrible.
>>7992104
Nerd Culture is Cancer. Burn it all down
He seems like an alright guy, but no.
Scifi media and publishing have been thoroughly coopted by your average leftists.
Does there exist a Roman version of this? What is Romecore?
>>7992056
I think this is what you're talking about.
>>7992083
I was hoping there was one put together as well as the Greek one.
>>7992089
God damn man, it's got pictures and arrows, what more could you be looking for?
interested in nonfiction books/essays on culture and technology of the internet/social media age
any suggestions?
I like Mark Dery, he's probably not what you have in mind precisely, but he's still someone who writes derivative of what you're looking for.
My father, then twenty-two years of age, tapped my mother’s shoulder as she sat among her sisters along the edge of the dancefloor at a local disco, and asked her if she would like to dance on what he would soon learn was the night of her eighteenth birthday. A daughter, a son, and a miscarriage later, I was born on theredactedin a hospital atop a small hill overlooking pastureland where cows bowed their heads to graze. For almost six years I would be the youngest member of a family upon whose love I could depend and in whose company I could express the giddy excitement...
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>>7992023
You might want to lengthen Part 1 a little bit.
>>7992023
holy shit lads he's actually doing it
>>7992023
BRING ON PART II BABY, HOLY MOLY.
WHEN DOES THE MALAISE SET IN???
Really wanting to get the Enders game novels on audio book and cannot afford to subscribe to certain sites and cannot afford to spend upwards of $25 for it, anywhere i can get them for free?
>>7991972
they aren't worth it, senpai. just read something else
The Library, you Millennial halfwit.
Agreed that enders game is not worth it. Have you tried torrent sites? That's where I get mine, then I just put them on my phone and use smart audiobook player
