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>book has more than 500 pages
>post has more than 50% bullshit
> book has less than a thousand pages
>>7837618
whom art thou quoteth?
Find a flaw
Was the Psycho MoMa exhibit part necessary? It was great to read, but not sure why in Point Omega
>>not pychon
Not a flaw but a question (which also contains a spoiler, so stop reading here if you don't know the novel yet):
Is the girl who, at the end of the book, talks to the man who watches the Psycho exhibit Elster's daughter? If so, is the last scene supposed to imply that the man (who turns out to be a psycho with mother issues just as Norman Bates) murdered her?
I've seen on /lit/ that pic related is a "controversial work" because the author takes liberties with the texts and makes assumptions / makes statements that the wider Buddhist community may not agree with. How true is that claim?
I picked up this book because I wanted a more in depth and detailed look at Buddhism, if the above claim is true, what books should I be buying if I want an authentic look into this religion?
>>7836580
I'm also curious about this question. Read this a couple months ago and mostly enjoyed it. I know it's the textbook for the intro to buddhism class at ucla, but don't know much other than that.
There are many schools of Buddhism. In the Buddha's Word is an anthology of discourses from the Pali Canon written by a Theravada monk. If you are interested in Theravada and the Pali Canon then I see no problem. Expecting a work like this not to be controversial is problematic given the wide variety of philosophies within the umbrela of "Buddhism". Would you expect to find a single book that every branch of Christianity agrees with? Most churches have their own official translations of the Bible and their own key philosophical works. Same with Buddhism.
>>7837287
Then I guess I'm looking for more suggestions of trustworthy books to read that expand on what little I know of the religion in totality, in any direction.
What is the best English translation of Don Quixote?
Grossman
Enjoy.
>>7830541
Thanks m8.
Not fucking Grossman. Jesus Christ.
Fairy tale Edition
Recommendation Charts:
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
>What are you reading right now?
>What is your favorite fairy tale or re-telling of such?
>What is...
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>>7826606
>>What are you reading right now?
Titus Groan, about 80% finished.
>>What is your favorite fairy tale or re-telling of such?Croatian Tales of Long Ago
>>What is the most comfy book you've read?
The Man Who was Thursday as well as the folk tales of Gogolj
>>What is the most arousing scene you've read in SFF?
Redhead sex in simulator in Hyperion when I was 14.
I work long hours standing doing pretty easy shit so I listen to audio books.
Now that I have explained why I use them do you guys think that "The Once and Future King" Is a good listen? They have all the books in one on audible.
>>7826606
Hey /lit/, How do I find my way into Lacan?
by becoming a postmodern ghoul whose capabilities for critical and original thought have athropied, and after having lost all preference for lucidly expressed ideas
>>7825969
Hi,
It's a good idea to know Freud well before actually reading him. But is that your question, or do you want to know a kind of reading order of his work?
>>7825997
Hey. Actually both. What is good to know before reading him and how I should approach his own works. Thanks.
I think this is the correct board for this, does anyone know of a place in NYC where I can see Midsummer's night dream preformed, and get really drunk and yell at the cast without getting kicked out?
I want the true experience like Shakespeare intended it
>>7842997
I forgot if "Shakespeare in the park" was still a thing but that's probably as close as you'll get. Even then, you'd probably be asked to leave.
>>7843032
It is, but they have actual famous people there doing the acting.
In Midsummer's the cast even heckles the play within the play. It's annoying when just because something is old we have to respect it so much we take the fun out of it
Can we,go together on a date?
Which edition of Finnegans Wake should I get?
and why has it not been published by Everyman's Library???
bump, you fucking plebants
Oxford World's Classics
Now fuck off.
delete this you faggot
Just a quick inquiry here /lit/, how many of you are bilingual? What do you speak? How did you learn? I've decided to start learning how to read, write and speak Polish since it is where my family is from. Can anyone on here attest to its difficulty?
http://claritaslux.com/blog/the-hardest-language-to-learn/
I'm bilingual in French and English because Québécois, I've spoken both since I was born. My spoken and written French are not great these days due to lack of practice but I can still read more or less anything in French.
Can't attest to Polish, but I'm learning Russian which has some similarities I'm told. After the initial struggle of memorizing how the different grammatical endings work and learning the prepositions and such the language became relatively easy to pick up on, due to those same formal rules. You almost always know what type...
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Don't learn a language for sentimentality's sake.
Unless you're going to live in Poland some day, learn a language you could use almost every day.
oh shit I just realised
is the Metamorphosis about becoming a NEET?
>>7842155
yes OP, a hundred year old novel is about a lifestyle that was shat out by modern society
That directly contradicts the text. Gregor gets up every morning at 5 am to provide for his entire family—total opposite of a NEET.
The common interpretation is that his transformation into an insect is a metaphorical mirroring of industrial society's transformation of him into a flywheel in a vast, impersonal machine...
this is why it's one of my least favorite of his stories.. too pat
>>7842192
yeah he wakes up every morning to provide for his family and then one morning simply stops. his family are unsympathetic and disgusted with him.
/s p e c u l a t i v e r e a l i s m g e n e r a l/
How do you guys feel about the hippest philosophy to grace the web since Reign The Conquerer, (aside from Time Cube, Icycalm, and REI), i. e., Speculative Realism? Truly it seems Foucault was right -- this will be a Deleuzean century...
Personally, I've read Deleuze in the past and found him intriguing in his philosophical works but somewhat unintelligible in Capitalism & Schizophrenia. Nevertheless, as a schizophrenic, I have felt drawn to his works and they have resonated deeply within me. Definitely...
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>>7841903
>REI
You mean that tripfag autist who types in all caps?
>>7841903
Have you heard about a Journal called: "Collapse"? It is meant to be bretty good at collecting Speculative Realism and OOO related essays and works.
Your pretty late to the Deluze game anyway; Zizek is busy rubbing his dirty Slav balls over undialectical heretics and Pomo nihilists.
He did a very good essay on OOO
>http://mariborchan.si/text/articles/slavoj-zizek/objects-objects-everywhere/
this is thé most autistic thread I've seen in a while
What of her books should I read first? I'd like to at least understand her philosophy, even if I don't agree with it. Also, general Ayn Rand thread.
objectivism=follow your self-interests.
flaws: following your self-interests without regard to the others around you turns you into a complete and utter sociopath, paving way for corporate systems of control (where power ia amassed and control by the few, making it oligarchical). it also creates a competitive system where everyone is beating the shit out of each other to get to the top, completely disregarding a cooperative system where people work together to accomplish goals and aims.
these are but a few glaring issues with her philosophy.
she was an evil evil woman.
>>7841700
fountainhead first
Any Herman Hesse fans here? This one's my favorite of his but i also enjoyed Demian, and Gertrude.
>>7841568
I've read Beneath the Wheel and Rosshalde, both when I was in my late teens. I don't remember either in too much detail as far as plot or anything goes, but I remember both reading experiences as enlightening/calming/uplifting/rich/etc. I wish I'd read more of him around that age and I wish I had the drive to read more of him now. I hope to go back to his stuff someday.
>>7841608
>enlightening/calming/uplifting/rich/etc.
Same. you should definitely check out Narcissus and Goldmund then. Some kind of meditation on the meaning of the "virtuous life", not that i usually care about that sort of thing unironically but for some reason it resonated quite a bit.
yay someone who actually read the good hesse stuff instead of shitposting based on siddhartha
read the glass bead game senpai it's gucci
>Chapter 11/Fasuto Apologia
The fuck did I just read?
>>7841344
The eleventh chapter of a shitty book.
it's obviously a misspelling of "fausto," and pynchon was writing a defense (or "apology") of the character of "faust"
I hated the way Fausto's section was written but the imagery of the chapter was fun. Dude symbolism lmao. BTW V. is just desire and all of Pynchon is just determinism illustrated. Fite me IRL
Im sure you've come across a book that just wasn't what you expected. Do you guys just power through it and finish or just stop reading?
Pic related.
I feel you on that one. I ended up powering though Neuromancer just to get it out of my mind.
>>7841187
Neuromancer wasn't what I expected, but I didn't power read it, nor drop it. I just read it bit by bit over the course of a week, taking notes of interesting techie culture that Gibson collated so poetically.
>>7841187
nick land loves neuromancer. the dude cites it in almost all his work.
