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What are some books that have a lot of actual science in them like Pynchons stuff?
Science textbooks
Or mathematics, should you feel so inclined.
Hey, does anyone here have the image depicting four different texts representing Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Protestantism, and Atheism, making light of the latter?
Also, general /lit/ meme, chart, and humour thread I guess.
>>7778269
>listing 4 things
>latter
Get out.
>>7778269
Why do you want that chart OP? It's pretty stupid.
So how bad is this edition, exactly? I bought it a while ago unaware that there are errors in it, but I don't want to drop $20 for another one. How much will I miss out on if I read this one?
>>7778264
So long as you can still fap to the scat scene, you're good.
it's a /lit/ meme ,few copies have that one error don't worry
1) It used to have 1 sentence cut short (a relatively unimportant sentence)
2) It no longer has any errors at all (as verified by me)
3) BUT it looks ugly as fuck and cost more
If you somehow got an old copy of that edition you might have the error, but it won't impact your reading at all. It's in the middle of such a disorienting section you'll probably not even notice anything is wrong.
Out of the three great Hexametrical verse, how would you rank them Anon? Mine
1.Odyssey
2.Aeneid
3.Iliad
Post em and also general Homer/classics thread
Go home Anon, you're drunk.
>>7778167
I am reading the Iliad right now and I think it's good myth-history and imagery.
Or at least the Fagles translation is good to read.
I tried to read the Loeb Classical Library edition but the English verse is antique.
Fagles is more direct, effectively "American" prose.
But that Loeb edition is useful since it's English translation on one side and ancient Greek on the other side.
Fagles translation is published by Penguin Classics and there's an informative introduction to the...
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I've also got this visual history book by C.M. Bowra.
It was published by Time Life Books and it's affordable.
There's a ton of classical texts and Greek history books at my local university.
I've been there five or six times and I check the catalog: nobody seems to read the Greeks anymore.
That's good for me I guess but sometimes I feel untimely.
But not as much as Nietz did in the 1870s.
I haven't reached Silenus-mode yet.
Whats the best writing software?
>>7777853
paper XD
Wordpad.
Its bare-bones design is ideal for letting your ideas flow.
>>7777892
Ah that what I was thinking
Thanks
Is this a meme or a good translation?
I don't know if it's the best but when I took a 300 level Plato course with Tim Maudlin it's the edition he assigned.
It's a very literal translation.
I thought this was a compilation of many different translations.
What makes a book funny?
Anybody got some black / gallows humour recommendations?
Pratchet hits the mark so well imo.
pinecone
White Noise
Under the NetInfinite Jest
As I Lay Dying
>>7777360
saki
I'm having a lot of trouble writing battle scenes. Does anyone have any tips to share? The period is late-antiquity early-dark ages.
>>7777267
>The period is late-antiquity early-dark ages.
Of course it is.
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Keep it short, brief, and concise. Nothing is worse than going on and on about the banal actions each character undertakes in a battle (e.g., X swung the sword while Y dodged. X then threw a falcon-punch toward Y's face, etc, etc.)
I've a plan for turning /lit/ into a healthier board.
With this noble proposal in my mind here is the topic of this thread is:
1. Close /lit/.
2. Read al least 30 pages of THAT book you should be reading.
3.Open /lit/
4. Post here the title of the book, what chapter/s have you read, and your thoughts.
5. Comment other posts
no
it is by memes alone i set my mind in motion
but anon I'm reading infinite jest
the master and margarita
op my back hurts
but it is a funny story indeed le russian
The Call of Cthulhu was great and I want to get into his longer stuff.
What should I read next?
Shadow over innsmouth or dagon, perhaps? Stay away from at the mountains of madness.
You wrote longer, NOT other. I see that now. In that case disregard my advice, except from staving away from atmom, its fucking pulp shit.
Just got diagnosed with arthritis in both hands /lit/ how do I write now?
I took up a new years resolution to write 10k words every day and followed through since last year. But the years worth of typing has fucked my hands up. I'm finished with the first draft to one of my books and close to finishing with another.
>10k
>>7776955
I know it isn't much but doing it everyday is something man.
>>7776966
10k words a day is an immense amount.
But why am I responding? Shoo troll, go back to torment some cave, or bridge.
How good is this? Will it be of any use to a modern reader?
it has some good guidelines on how to not be a dick to everybody u meet, so yes
>>7776911
A cuck philosophy for cucks. What you need is The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner. That and Niccolò Machiavelli.
I read it in 7th grade and it cured me of my autism.
Has anyone on here actually read Mein Kampf?
I thought it was rambling at times but truly a powerful work. I think that there is true artistic merit to a lot of "Nazi" literature that we in the west overlook.
>read Mein Kampf in public
>people keep looking at you funny and calling you names
One old lady straight up asked me, "How could you read something like that?" but I was caught off guard and didn't know what to say, so I just went back to reading. Is there a good answer to that question?
>>7776597
You can't hide from reality. It's better to try understanding it than to hide from it.
>>7776597
just say "know your enemy"
or
"if you want to prevent it from happening again, you have to know how it happened the first time"
It's Orange Fedora Day at your local bookstore.
What do you buy?
>>7776442
What's Orange Fedora Day?
>>7776445
That's the question. So what do you buy?
>>7776474
I don't know. They closed all the book stores close to me. I live a mile from Detroit and the adult illiteracy rate there is around 50%.
What does /lit/ think of this story? Purple prose shit or bold pedophiliac homosexual masterpiece?
I've just finished reading it and didn't like it one bit.
>>7776331
speaking of pedophiles, i remember an obsession with butterflies in his Dr. Faustus, and interestingly enough, Nabokov was also a lepidopterist who called his catches "nymphs".
I wonder if there's a connection there.
>>7776334
Mein Gott, /lit/ ist voller amerikanischer Idioten.
Everything Mann wrote was gold - maybe the English translation isn't good, but I don't think that could be a drastic change.
It's an amazingly structured story of a downfall, full of references to Greek structure, style, and mythology. Death and decadence are everywhere. That Mann can cram so much into so little space is testament to his genius.
>>7776353
>full of references to Greek structure, style, and mythology
It was mainly this that bugged the hell out of me. It seemed completely out of place and over the top. He would describe everything by making an analogy to some Greek god, goddess or demigod. Mann describes everything 'classically', but in my opinion it only came across as an exaggeration.
