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best books on aliens?
or should I be asking /x/?
non-fiction or literary fiction is fine, no scifi junk tho, thanks.
>inb4 nonbelievers greentext part of my OP in an attempt to ridicule
Solaris maybe? It's the source material for one of the best films ever created, but it's also sci-fi so idk. I don't know what you mean by a fiction novel on aliens that isn't science fiction.
Galactic Pot Healer
War of the Worlds
Barsoom
Off the top of my head..
>>7794690
Thanks for the suggestions. I've read and enjoyed all of those but Barsoom but I guess I wasn't specific enough...
I'm looking for, I guess, realist fiction about aliens or the possibility of aliens, if not good non-fiction. I am interested in the possibility of aliens in our world, ya dig?
>>7794636
Hyperion cantos by Dan Simmons
A lifetime isn't enough to learn even the most rudimentary things about life, our world and its history. I need at least a millennium.
>>7794534
/lit/ - literature
>>7794534
You must be pretty fecking stupid then.
Evening, friendos. Lately I've been toying with the idea of scouring the net and retrieving every DFW non-fiction essay of note, editing the typeface to make it slightly more presentable, compile each one into individual pdf files, and then making a mediafire file for the collected folder and distribute it on /lit/. I think this is very doable, the only problem is I have no idea where to obtain a cohesive list of everything DFW ever wrote/published. The below links seems like a good place to start but I'm unsure as to which direction to go proceed in after that. Any help would be appreciated.
http://tetw.org/David_Foster_Wallace
http://www.openculture.com/2012/02/23_free_essays_stories_by_david_foster_wallace_available_on_the_web.html
On another note, DFW's non-fiction is a million times better than anything else he wrote, why don't you guys talk about it more?
the roger federer essay is a masterpiece
>>7794463
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Youre spitting on dfws grave if you do this
What are some books that take place over a very short time frame, along the lines of catcher in the rye, I find them super comfy.
Ulysses.
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
>>7794457
This wins. Can't think of a novel that takes place in any shorter time frame than one escalator ride.
I certainly think so
Truly the episode it was inspired from has been haunting me for years, and I think about its images at least once a month.
>>7794414
night of the living dummy 3
no, tb'h this is
Give me a good true crime book.
Crime and Punishment
In Cold Blood
the original
Ferdinand von Schirach wrote some that have become a bit reknown
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Any good books on how to educate yourself in a subject? or how to develop yourself as a reader?
Start with the Greeks
I think you have to follow text from left to right with your eyeballs and understand what you´re reading, I might be mistaken though
>give me a book that teaches me how to read books
Daily reminder to leave this board as quickly as possible, before your priorities shift to trying to fit in by shouting buzzwords and insults instead of actually enjoying literature.
Thanks
t. 2009 poster
>>7794375
I really hope I never get to the point where I stop thinking about what I'm reading, stop examining the complexities of it, and stop forming my original thoughts on it and "just read, man", relegating word and thought to just another shiny consumable to feel and then discard.
nah that's just something you do initially. Most boards you stop caring and memeing a few months in.
So like.... he won right?
>Stephen King
>on a literature board
no, >>>/trash/
>mfw that one kid rips his own throat out with his bare hands while screaming to the heavens
>>7794366
yes he won, but he didint know that, thats why he continues to walk.
the ending was OK, but the novel itself really terrible...
I heard this is a god-tier book for understanding people. Can anyone on /lit/ verify?
It's the only " text book" I kept from six years in Psychology.
Definitely the definitive social psych book, to the point that everyone in the field is terrified to even try and compete. You will not find another good book that covers the broad range of social psychology issues.
Whether that is right or not is questionable, but if you want to get into social psych, you will find that every other relevant text is building off of Aronson, not competing with him. Generations of social psychologists have been educated based on his writing.
>>7794303
ah finally an answer, thank you.
>>7794303
will this book redpill me?
If your fellow anon wrote an instructional guide named How to Get Over Yourself what topics would you expect it to cover?
A shot in the dark here, but maybe How to Get Over Oneself.
>>7794243
10 seconds after my post submitted I knew I was going to get this reply
This thread up to my post is a great read.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with how problematization works, here is what it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problematization
First of all, I will not outright say problmetization is useless in of itself, rather I will say it is a bad thing insofar as what it is intended to do. The method was developed by Foucault as a *replacement* for polemic, and that right there is an issue, because problematization does not fulfill the function of polemic, and in this capacity it is seriously flawed on two counts.
1. It does not actually argue against the *truth*...
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Please go away and don't come back
>>7794140
This is problematic
>>7794150
What did I do wrong?
>I'm a bit of a literature buff. Vonnegut, Green, Pratchett? The list could go on!
>>7794065
could it, OP? could it?
>>7794066
+ GRRM, Rowling, Tolkien.
So I rarely see this guy discussed here, actually i dont think i ever have. Im a big Faulkner fan and i was reading somewhere that Faulkner was asked to rank his contemporaries and he put Thomas Wolfe as number 1.
anyone here read him? how would you describe him? whats his best/worst works?
hes shit
Where do I start with Nietzsche?
>>7794030
the greeks
>>7794037
Already read the Greeks. Now I'm about to start Nietzsche
>>7795098
Chronological
