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>Camus, Albert. Dislike him. Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me. Awful.
>Conrad, Joseph. A favorite between the ages of 8 and 14. Essentially a writer for very young people. Certainly inferior to Hemingway and Wells. Intolerable souvenir-shop style, romanticist clichés. Nothing I would care to have written myself. In mentality and emotion, hopelessly juvenile. Romantic in the large sense. Slightly bogus.
>Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Dislike him. A cheap...
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>>7851220
Source please.
Cornfather was right about everyone except for Faulkner
Really seems to have a type in terms of his resentment for existentialist and absurdists, I used to really like Camus, and while I can level with a person's outrage towards that movement for being too....quasi romantic, to zealously go out of your way to individually criticize writers of the movement seems a bit counter-intuitive in a broad sense... Don't get me wrong I still love Camus, I just think I got out of that all I could, thoughts? Personal experiences? Recommendations? Shoot.
I've started a journey to transform myself into a renaissance man. Going back to school for Physics in fall and have started a reading list of pic related. Any other literature that you would recommend?
Already read through most of Orwell so far
>>7851111
You could start forgiving what you read on Orwell
>>7851130
You mean "forgetting"?
>>7851130
Found the butthurt Bern victim
>benjy is the sound
>jason is the fury
So is Quentin the 'and'?
>>7850607
is that shadow raping
http://furry.booru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=sounding
>tfw going on a road trip with the family for Easter weekend
>brought along comfy Clash of Kings GoT book
What are some good /lit/ feels my dudes?
>genre fiction
JUST
>>7850567
Well it's genre is fiction, but okay.
>>7850561
>tfw saw kid in my Math class reading Clash of Kings
>tfw when I saw a pepe on his phone once out of the corner of my eye
Travel the world then read books, or read books then travel the world?
Neither; read the world then travel books.
Post your favorite books you know /lit has never read before. recommend your favorite.
>because we don't actually read
Somerset Maugham - The razors edge
Paulo Lins - City of god
Jeff Noon - Vurt
Jeffrey Eugenides - The Virgin suicides
Larry McMurty - Lonesome dove
Philip K Dick - Ubik
Read Vurt
>>7849916
I liked Of Human Bondage even more, favorite book. Did you read it?
>>7849996
no I actually just picked it up this weekend. wasn't sure what to read next. I guess I'll give it a go.
>>7849916
Ubik is great. Gonna put Vurt on my reading list.
I really just got into reading about two years ago but here are mine:
Thomas Bernhard - The Loser
William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
Flann O'Brien - The Third Policeman
David Ohle - Motorman
I'd rec Motorman because I don't think a lot of people here have read it
>lent Soseki's 'I am a Cat' to a qt just because she loves cats
how fucked am I?
Lemme guess, still unfucked.
>>7849810
/thread
I hate that book. So you did ok.
Hello on this Good Friday
There are several posters on /lit/ who claim to be Christian, so it seemed worthwhile to point out the arrival of this solemn day.
Yeah, I'll spend it reading Belloc, go to the not mass mass and see some friends while I'm back in town.
Dug up an old Roman Missal that was in the family and went trough Holy Thursday part yesterday, and I'll go through Good Friday today.
Then evening mass tommorow, and family dinner for Sunday.
im a mexican catholic so i will watch people in badly made costumes doing a representation of the crucifixion.
Whose bright idea was it to put this shitty book in the 'Start with the Greeks' guide?
>>7849295
>he fell for the greeks meme
>>7849295
Just start with The Iliad
>>7849295
What was the problem, OP?
>I don't read fiction
>>7849142
>just had a thread with a similar picture saying the opposite.
Dam it, /lit/ which is it?
I can't fathom the mindset of anyone who saves images like that. Do you just save them when you see them or go out and look for them when you have the urge to make another generic thread? Are you fishing for angry responses from people who don't read fiction?
>>7849160
it's him in the pic; he's fresh from reddit
Can we have a thread about good biographies and autobiographies, not necessarily about literary figures but those that possess integrity as texts.
I just finished A.E. Hotchner's "Hemingway in Love", about Hemingway's 100 days between his first and second wife, and it was a very beautiful read. Before that, I read Michael Herr's "Kubrick", similar vein in that it's a biography by a friend of the subject, and that proximity gave him insight that he might not have otherwise had.
Anymore like these?
[Pic unrelated]
It is so sad that /lit/ would rather discuss philosophy in a pseudo-intellectual fashion or fawn over genre fiction than actually participate in the exchange of books worth reading.
>>7848386
hemmingway*
Here's some of my favourite autobiographies, anon. Hope you're interested in filmmaking and jazz music:
Akira Kurosawa's Something Like An Autobiography: Kurosawa personally delves into his early life, how he found his way into the Japanese filmmaking industry, struggles and benefits of filmmaking, loss within the family and early silent-era filmmaking (there's actually a viewing list of silent films he viewed when he was young that he recommended: being a silent film enthusiast myself, he saw a lot of wonderful works). He writes with sensitivity, humour, charm and enthusiasm that it's hard not to like and admire Kurosawa, offering a lot of insight into his own early works (He doesn't delve into his later works, unfortunately). He was an outcast during his time in early education and struggled to make friends: he made a friend in one of his teachers and another kid who was a social outcast - his teacher taught art and it helped Kurosawa express himself more. Kurosawa and his school friend ended up working together in writing some of Kurosawa's earlier films, whichtheir old art teacher eventually saw their filmmaking efforts and cried because he was happy these two struggling kids had succeeded. The book genuinely tugged at my heartstrings at times.
Miles Davis' The Autobiography: you don't have to like jazz music to appreciate this. Davis' has a very honest and blunt way of detailing his childhood; racial tensions; drug addiction (he struggled with heroin frequently in his life to the extent where he would pawn off the clothes of his close friends and sell his trumpet for his next fix, begging for money from his friends to get his trumpet out of the pawn shop); religion and the afterlife (how Davis looks at how his best friend Gil Evans after he died is endearing); the methods in which he recorded his most iconic albums; etc. This book offers a very insightful, endearing, biting, cynical and sometimes funny perspective into an iconic artist. Strongly recommend.
Charles Mingus' Beneath The Underdog: although I don't enjoy this one as much as Davis' autobiography, Mingus writes from the perspective of his conscience rather than himself, focusing on early childhood, his mental instability, pimping lifestyle (and a love triangle he found himself in), etc. Such an iconic jazz composer rarely delves into how he actually recorded his music (this disappointed me, honestly, especially knowing how aggressive Mingus was as a person), but nonetheless, the books is enjoyable, albeit maybe gratuitous in how Mingus explores sex. It's very explicit.
Notable recommendations:
Malcolm X's Autobiography
Lowside of the Road (a biography of Tom Waits)
Goerge Orwell's The Road To Wigan Pier
If any one has any recommendations, I'm happy to accept as I'm always looking for some new autobiographies/biographies. I tend to enjoy them and I feel the worthwhile autobiographies tend to get overlooked.
Prove him wrong.
>>7848190
>Brazilian
>>7848203
>ad hominem
Beat me to it.
Paulo Coelho has no discernible talent.
>brazillian
>writer
pick one
Need some books that are filled with depravity and loss of hope. The more brutally depressing, the better
Already read "The Road"
>Already read "The Road"
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>7847378
oh. look. babby's first existential crisis.
Something Happened
Wittgenstein is not even that good. Give me some extensive proof of anything good that Wittgenstein wrote. I haven't found anything yet, he is intelligent but that isn't important at all.
outside of the memeposting, where is an appropriate place to start with Wittgenstein?
>>7846302
Just give me something that's good. I need proof that he made any sort of progress.
>>7846302
1. Ray Monk's The Duty of Genius
2. Ray Monk's How to Read Wittgenstein
3. Blue and Brown Books
4. Philosophical Investigations
I think I'm not well all days go by and I constantly think of my own death and the death of others. I want to inflict death and watch it look at me every second. When I was born it was death who stood by me my true friend your enemy.
>>7852507
I find that some of the fundamental truths of our universe (Death among others) holds little or no intrinsic value to our simultaneously utilitarian and hedonistic lives
so stop being a weirdie
>babby's first existential crisis
