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Where should I start with Noam Chomsky's books on language?
>>7977169
Just read secondary sources for goodness's sake, he's entirely discredited these days anyway.
Syntactic Structures. May take some time and effort, but not it's not inaccessible and in its own way exhilarating.
If you are American or Jewish, there is literally no excuse for not reading Philip Roth.
I read the Zuckerman Bound trilogy. He's good: great dialogue, passionate prose.
>>7977154
there is no excuse for not reading Philip Roth overall
>>7977154
Roth is certainly a much better writer than /lit/ favs like Pynchon, McCarthy and Wallace, but he's still a minor writer in the grand scheme of things.
Opinions on Slaughterhouse 5? I read it not too long ago and I absolutely loved it. What do you all think?
>>7977137
reddit general?
>>7977140
Yeah man,
Daily reminder that books are subjective and we can all be friends. Just because someone reads Dairy of a Wimpy does not mean they are any less of a reader than someone who reads John Green or Harry Potter :)
First /his/, now this...is /lit/ done for?
this cuts into /tg/ crap, not /lit/.
delete this, desssss
best thread so far: >>>/qst/8443
Is "I bet they teach that because it's a nice solid rule for kids just learning English. Otherwise you'd be putting asterisks after every lesson." two complete sentences? If not, how would you write it?
i'd replace the period with a dash
>>7977061
An en dash?
"I bet they teach that because it's a nice solid rule for kids just learning English – otherwise you'd be putting asterisks after every lesson."
replace with a vertical bar, space, 2 vertical bars, space, another 2 vertical bars, another space, then a vertical bar and an underscore
Do you have any recommended books that are anti-materialist / anti-scientific rationalist WITHOUT the simply being a big sales pitch for the use of psychedelic substances?
The Dhammapada
>>7977055
The Reign of Quantity and the Sign of the TImes
Do you have any recommended books that are anti-materialist / anti-scientific rationalist WITHOUT being literal trash
We all know that Ulysses has been very influential.
But what novels influenced Ulysses? Did it have any precursors?
>>7977045
the odyssey
infinite jest
>>7977045
>But what novels influenced Ulysses?
If you're strictly interested in the *novelists* that influenced Joyce, then they include the following:
DeFoe
Stendhal
Flaubert
Tolstoy
Jacobsen
D'Annunzio
Source: http://www.saylor.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/James-Joyce-Literary-Tastes.pdf
I thought this guy was a meme but his philosophy is superb.
Stirner, if I understand correctly, takes Hegel's critique of science and applies it specifically to the concept of "human nature." He concludes that all "exogenous fixed points" by which we justify moral law are either not exogenous or they are not fixed. Stirner calls these "fixed ideas" and "spooks" throughout the book. He was basically the first to isolate and extract a critique of ideology out of Hegel's massive system.
Have I grokked meme man yet?
>>7977042
bump
Stirner transcended meme. He was the only man in history capable of being both meme and master simultaneously. A memester, if you will.
>>7977174
thanks for joining in my latest thread :3
it's just us two in here
"The apparition receded, (...)"; what did he mean by that?
His hair was a hallucination the whole time.
What is up with Hemingway's prose in For Whom The Bell Tolls?
Like, what's up with all the archaisms? It's a pain to read through, it sounds so broken and fragmented.first hemingway work too
>>7976885
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceberg_Theory
>>7976885
It's because he's trying to capture the language of the speakers. Protip: they aren't speaking English
What the fuck did I just read?
Welcome to PoMo. If you don't find lolsorandumb humour funny then you're shit out of luck.
bullshit
An elaborate comment on contemporary society.
What's /lit/'s opinion on film novelizations?
I'm reading pic related and enjoying it so far.
What's even the fucking point?
>be a child
>the first spiderman movie of the tobymaguirespidermantriology comes out
>get the novel version from barnes n noble
>read it
>didn't realize it was just a novelization of the movie
>see the movie
>it was way better than the book
>>7976855
I havent seen this book since I was 10 and bought it at a yard sale. I read it till it fell apart. The sequels lead into the darkhorse comic series
That said, movie novelizations are below Forgotten Realms fantasy and momcore for /lit/ rep
hey /lit, I hope you can help me
Im searching for books that contain storys about dominant (or older) men that are seducing women. Best case szenario is with sexual content but its not so important
For example, when I played the last of us, I wished nothing more than the two getting it on. This is such a perfect scenario: the young girl that has no choice but to stay with him to survive.
I just finished starwars darth bane and it was much like this, darth bane as the seducing villain and his younger dependent female student. But of course there was never something...
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>>7976838
Is this a covert Nabokov thread?
>>7976888
no pls god no I just bought this book and it was a huge mistake
>>7976895
pleb
Using music, pictures or videos, how would you imagine what anxiety feels like?
I'm writing an English paper for my online class and I want to give the reader a disturbing visual of what anxiety feels like.
>a disturbing visual
ISHYGDDT holy shit are you in middle school? There are a ton of superior things that you could fill your word count with. I bet your teacher told you to write in second person too.
>>7976831
>>7976843
This isn't being included for the word count. I'm gonna submit the essay separately, and include the visuals in a separate folder. Our textbooks even says we can do that. The books says
>"If you are submitting the assignment electronically (which i am) consider added music or videos that can be associated with the event"
Are there any books that talk about the capacity of 'abstraction'? I'm not quite sure what I'm even looking for, abstraction seems to be the single most critical ability that separates us from the animal kingdom. I guess I'm looking for some kind of metaphysical(?) system that explains abstraction, so I can ponder on it. I just know abstraction is a crucial human ability, but I want some deeper understanding of it as an action and its consequence on us as beings, or people in a civilization.
You're also free to write down your own pertinent thoughts you may have on the subject.
