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ITT: Books featuring relatable main characters
>>7957724
The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson
lolita is a dumb child so i can see how it'd be relateable to retards like you.
Dodo in Middlemarch comes to mind.
Let's have a thread where we all get recommend books to read. If you have one of the books, read it immediately.
Just post 'Recommend me books' to get replies.
Notes from the Underground
Don Quixote
>>7957505
Recommend me shit to read. Preferably something that isn't 9000 pages worth of word salads.
I read Notes from the Underground earlier this month. I'm open to more books of the same sort.
>>7957485
The Tunnel by William Gass
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Ulysses by James Joyce
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Double or Nothing by Raymond Federman
Darconville's Cat by Alexander Theroux
The Public Burning by Robert Coover
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
I have more, if you want them.
How can real life be this gripping holy shit
>>7957211
It isn't, he is making it up and wrapping up in prose and sophistry to make it have an appearance of being interesting.
>retelling of a story
>real life
THE FISH WAS T-H-I-S BIG
Reading Book 5 now. It owns.
For non-anglo anons, how is Shakespeare regarded in your country? Do you read him in school?
>>7956812
The big guy who inspired everyone. Even bigger than Goethe.
>>7956812
Yes, we do read him, but not a lot. Like three plays and one or two sonnets if I recall correctly. I believe it was Macbeth, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet, not sure which sonnets were read back in school.
General attitude ... hmmm ... mostly everyone heard of him, but I think only about 10% read some of his works, and of those 10% about 80% probably only read R&J.
tl;dr: Read in school, still generally unknown but for Romeo and Juliet.
>>7956812
It was an optional author in my highschool. But lot of students chose Poe or Wilde instead. I read most of the tragedies in junior high - in spanish, then pick it up again in college (in english this time) and since then I've read and re-read Hamlet and The Tempest many, many times.
Is French worth learning for literature, poetry and maybe some music? I probably won't use it other way than for reading or listening, since I'm not sure if France would be worth visiting.
you have to consider the opportunity cost in your scenario.
how would you spend your free time if you weren't learning french?
>>7956687
Yes it is worth it. French lit is the only literature that can stand up to English literature imo.
Also they have some really cool music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo7e0UkT4XA
Do you make notes or underline words in your books?
No, because I have enough distance between my knowledge now and my knowledge a few years ago to know how much of a difference a few years of knowledge can make, and I thank God every single day that my books aren't filled with a retarded 16 year old's pointless ruminations and tryhard attempts to look like he noticed all the THEMES in the book.
>>7955858
What if it is a book where it is useful to point out arguments or ideas that you will have easier time finding out later and comparing them?
If I'm reading it for school, yes.
What books have the most epic, sweeping plotlines /lit/? Something to put me in a state of awe please.
>>7955560
Iliad, duh.
>>7955575
Cant really go wrong with that one
Dune is also a good choice
>>7955560
could you give us an example of a book you're looking for? "epic, sweeping plotlines" that puts you in a state of awe seems very open.
Which of Stephen King's books would you say come the closest to being considered literature?
None of them.
/thread
Now go on back to /r/books kiddo.
The stand probably.
>posting a picture of stephen king
>not posting a picture of stephen king in which he's wearing his autism goggles
Why aren't you Objectivist yet, /lit/?
Because I'm not 14 anymore.
>>7955425
because it's not literature
>>7955439
Are you implying that the question is not suitably for this board?
As an English speaker, how difficult is it to learn Latin? Mfw they taught Latin in British schools until the mid 20th century.
>>7954600
>it's a "Britain person pretends they have an emotional connection with Ancient Rome" thread
The "muh heritage" of the United Kingdom
>>7954615
>The "muh heritage" of the United Kingdom
More like the "We Wuz Kngz" of the anglo-saxon barbarian
>>7954600
It's a lot of work. That's the thing about languages: they're all a shitload of work, and you have to spend years doing small (and not terribly difficult) things every day to get hold of them.
I did three years of Latin in high school/college. The nice thing is that you really just focus on learning to read it, as opposed to dialogue in it. The difficult thing is that it's highly inflected (nouns are declined for grammatical position, the verb conjugation is complicated, and there's...
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Thoughts?
>>7954337
Never heard of it
>>7954337
I think you should read something else.
Insipid piece, diatribe that keeps on going for too long, David masking his rather mediocre writing skills with throwing knowledge in, lacking any cohesion and generally blowing smoke in all directions. Deeply insincere work.
>The learning of many things does not teach understanding; otherwise, it would have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras, and again Xenophanes and Hecataeus.
Wahh!! who's baby is that?
Baby shoes, Discarded.
Baby shoes on the floor, But nobody owns a baby..
That baby has another thing coming!
Give me your honest opinion on this book.
I read this book.
Let me start off by saying that I've been posting on this board for quite a while, and a lot of the standard /lit/ snobbery has rubbed off on me. When information about this book began to spread, I shared everybody's understandable disdain. From where I was sitting it seemed to me like an embarrassing book designed to pander to nerds' nostalgia. As somebody whose reading time is mostly spent rereading my favorites by Joyce, Gaddis, and McElroy, I didn't think there was any chance that this book would be anything but pain for me to...
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>>7953745
Honestly? Never read it.
I haven't read it, although I've read excerpts. The excerpts were quite bad, though it is easy to cherry pick shit and impress /lit/ with how superior you are. I'm not likely to read it because I'm not into video game culture anymore, though.
Has an author ever significantly changed your views?
>>7979109
Bart Ehrman, William James and Tolstoy all really undermined my belief in orthodox (small o) christianity
>>7979109
Zizek
Dostoevsky and Homer.
Please recommend me quietist philosophers.
Start with the Quakers
Diogenes, Wittgentein, Austin, Rorty.
>>7972425
slavoj zizek
