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Doesn't her story confirm that women love domineering, aggressive and virile men?
>>8262764
>Women tend to be attracted to masculinity, more at 11
>>8262766
>implying Healthcliff's brutish, emotional nature is 'masculine'
>>8262769
>implying it's feminine
re-reading moby dick. ishmael just got to the place in nantucket with the dank ass chowder. made me mad hungry so i ordered ramen. what other books have good food descriptions/make you hungry?
>>8262727
Game of Thrones has very detailed descriptions of every single banquet.
>>8262727
Joyce.
>>8262727
Dream of the Red Mansions
Help me, my prose is pretentious as fuck. It's just how it comes out. Is this something I should fix? It seriously comes out like some 19th century dickbag.
Just think more consciously about the tone you want to take. Everyone has that "phase" where they write in the way they think actual writing sounds, just practice.
don't write stuff and you'll be okay
>>8262664
Write down the "truth" in the clearest way possible , like you're talking to a third grader.
If you still think your shit is interesting after that, then start playing around.
>why yes, I believe that those interested the humanities should be forced to study the hard sciences! No more uneducated writers and philosophers, and furthermore they must engage in manual labour! Thus we will produce truly well-rounded men of wisdom and knowledge.
Is my fedora ironic? We will never know.
>>8262630
I believe everybody wishing to study at the tertiary level should be forced to take a year in math, logic and philosophy. The essential problem with humanities these days is the lack of rigour, which comes from a lack of understanding of anything having to do with proper reasoning or epistemology etc.
I believe that waiters should tip customers who make less than them
>>8262630
Looking for a book where the entire book is like one long digression into really weird thoughts, of wherever the author's mind seems to lead.
Totalitarianism in a Tundra
>>8262628
I really enjoyed my time with this book.
Portnoy's Complaint
anyone have recommendations for books by scientists?
pic related
>>8264026
This. Changed my life.
>>8264029
sam harris is chomsky's bitch
Which one of these are the darkest or most abstract?
>>8262525
Didn't you just make this thread last month?
The same answer I gave the last anon with this exact question: The Passive Vampire and Edition 69 for abstract. Dogra Magra, The Blind Owl and Dark Spring are darkest.
Is there any way to find out when a /lit/ suggestion chart was first made?
>>8262525
Kangaroo Notebook is pretty dark but also straight forward, nice imagery of the scenes in hell that really stand out. Valerie and her Week of Wonders is also pretty good but the movie is more popular. Invitation to a Beheading is pretty abstract, I recommend that.
After rereading Oedipus the King it finally dawned on me that there might not be free will. I'm so psyched to continue working my way up the canon. I can't wait to get to Dosto and re-read C&P. It went over my head on the first read, and I thought Ralashnikov was testing law.
>>8262434
>Ralashnikov
kek
have fun reading anon
Now read the Anti-Oedipus to understand how psychology actually works.
Many of the Greek stories had this element. For example, it was prophesied to Priam that his son Paris would cause the destruction of Troy. He was abandoned as a child like Oedipus, but later returned to Troy and... I guess you know the rest. It was a common idea in Greece, a part of their mentality. It's not really the focal point of the play.
Looking for more books like Kafka, Camus, Ryu Mirakami, Ian Banks. Someone recommended me a couple books in another thread, the devil in the white city, the immoralist, and ritual. celine. I have those on my reading list, but I am looking for a longer reading list, I want to have a larger selection of possible books that I can get into. It seems really difficult to find books I actually like, which is ironic because you'd think that not having read many books, I'd actually be open to a lot of possibilities of something good. It just doesn't feel that way, I guess.
I...
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Nice bait
>>8262504
man, don't do that please. I don't want a shit fest.
lurk more dude. And read widely.
Anyone read biographies?
Pic related, best biography of all time.
what will this teach me
I'm a big fan of biographies, especially when they're more about what the person stood for instead of the minutiae of life
Some favs:
- The Invention of Nature (Alexander von Humboldt and how his image of a connected nature was a major shift in how mankind saw nature)
- Endgame (Bobby Fisher, chess)
- The Price of Altruism (George Price, altruism/evo biology)
- The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (Erdos, mathematics)
- The Duty of Genius (Wittgenstein and his philosophy)
- A Life Inside The Center (Oppenheimer, atomic bomb project, communist scare)
I've...
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>>8262431
Reading Caro's bio of Lyndon Johnson. It's good, but for fuck sake it's long.
You're approached by this dangerous looking man on the street and he asks you:
>Hey holmes, Plata O PoMo?
How do you respond?
I lick his bandana and run
ooo le epin bandalabamba nachos la geyo faggoto hehehe ;)
>>8262375
As Zombie Harold Bloom I stick my rusted santoku into his chest and twist it once for every sin against literature he ever committed.
Anyone knows if this science fiction novel is any good?
I heard fucking Gordon Freeman (yes the actor) that when he was given the script for RAMA (which never was made, at least yet) he thought it was the best space science novel he have ever read. Also the book was made into a game in the 90's by a software called company called Sierra. So it should be popular I suppose.
>>8262370
Its amazing. But you should be really into scifi, because its heavy and slow
>>8262377
You mean is being into heavy scifi a prerequisite to enjoy it?
I'm biased because I love anything that deals with first contact of aliens, but I think Rama is the finest work of science fiction ever made. I'm sceptical about a movie though, given how terribly inept directors can be when adapting science fiction classics to the big screen (*cough* Lynch).
>7. Consider when, on a voyage, your ship is anchored; if you go on shore to get water you may along the way amuse yourself with picking up a shellish, or an onion. However, your thoughts and continual attention ought to be bent towards the ship, waiting for the captain to call on board; you must then immediately leave all these things, otherwise you will be thrown into the ship, bound neck and feet like a sheep. So it is with life. If, instead of an onion or a shellfish, you are given a wife or child, that is fine. But if the captain calls, you must run...
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He meant this
life is like breath. If you let go of breath it comes back to you, if you hold onto your breath you lose it. The only way to live is to let go of life and accept your death.
>>8262344
Thank you.
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What am I in for?
Besides the cover spoiling the plot.
Good prose, boring as hell nonfiction chapters, and a slog of a middle section.
Beginning and ending are both A+ literature, though.
>>8262286
Just fucking read it, for christ's sake. We get these threads about Moby Dick and Ulysses fucking daily. Reading is about as simple a task as there fucking is. One fucking word after another. Children not only could do it, but routinely do. So you're in for a series of words, ideally read sequentially, but if you're like this faggot >>8262291 you'll probably skip half the good parts because they're "boring slog."
Curse this damned...
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a lot of unnecessary details about whale biology
Just read this. What did you guys think?
I understand the point he's trying to make about the nature of man and his destruction, but it's very black and white image he paints.
As in, the neanderthals are loving, non-malicious, non-killing scavengers and the humans are destructive, chaotic creatures who perform weird rituals and sacrifice to their gods.
I suppose he had to exaggerate to make his point but still its a bit OTT.
I also likes the neanderthal POV, even though a few paragraphs he goes a bit too far and they make no sense at all,...
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I get the feeling either no one has read this or no one can be arsed to discuss a 50 year old book lol
>>8262276
>>8262303
Well thanks OP for the heads up on this book. I'm actually pretty interested in reading this now. Never read any Golding and the only thing I knew of his was Lord of the Flies.
Recently watched Quest for Fire which is about neanderthals and cro magnon. Kind of dated but interesting.
>>8262698
Yeah I would recommend it. At some points the narrative is really hard to follow but i'd suggest trudging through it, its worth it.
Never heard of that till now, worth watching?
