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https://www.reddit.com/r/literature/comments/48tsof/just_threw_pynchons_v_against_the_wall/
>If you ever want to try Pynchon again, might I recommend Vineland?
pynchon and v. are shit. can you not shitpost crap here?
>>7770760
sorry dad
The Conversation--Kurosawa and Garcia Marquez
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-06-23/entertainment/ca-2154_1_akira-kurosawa
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I have no problem admitting Kurosawa has more worth relative to me than Marquez.
I don't see this as controversial.
>>7769981
pretty flaccid opinion then desu
why bother making a post at all?
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why do plebs like this book so much
Its plot most likely.
Easy to understand the depth and meaning of it too.
That's why.
WWII
>>7768723
>why do plebs like this book so much
>plebs
There's your answer.
What are other good books like this one?
>>7767245
>anime on c/lit/
>>7767333
its a book, dofus.
They should make anime book covers for every literary classic.
If I was able to complete pic related without much trouble at all, should I be able to jump into Gravitys Rainbow and enjoy it and at least mostly understand it?
Basically I'm wondering how big of a leap in comprehension there is between IJ and GR before I go out and buy a copy of GR
I'd say GR is significantly more difficult. You'll be fine though.
in terms of difficulty
ij < gr < ul
have fun
You should be OK. It is definitely more difficult than IJ but you dont really need to master the entire Western Canon for it. Just dig into it, take your time, and dont be afraid to look shit up on the internet if you aren't clear about something.
I'm reading pic related now. What's you opinion about this?
Also, I'm looking for a similar book about the general development of philosophy.
Good for a introduction, but Gombrich was a bit of a reductionist who simply ignored anything Warburg had to pass on
>>7764660
>Good for a introduction
exactly. I've never had proper education in arts, so as I read further in this book, I feel my horizon broadening. As if I were blind and now I'm learning to see.
I've never had any philosophical education either, so I'm looking for a similar book on that subject.
it's a great introduction to art history, a fairly standard text
>>7764677
kenny - a new history of western philosophy
I'm here from /pol/
tell me about Julius Evola
>>7764531
He was more of a faggot than Douglas P, if that's posible
>>7764533
lol, that's quite a statement
>>7764533
t. Reddit
Americans hate him because he rightly pointed out their nation is a cultural desert.
Post what you've been meaning to read, roll for it, and read it.
1-3 The Iliad
4-6 Kokoro
7-9 Beloved
0 reroll
>>7763613
Aw shit things are gonna get Ill, thanks guys.
1-3 Don Quixote
4-6 Portrait of The Artist
7-9 Oblomov
0 reroll
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Ok, /lit, trying to get my sister, 16, to read. She now reads YA, not impressed by China Melville.
She is stiffheaded little bitch, are there lit tier biographies on Calamity Jane or similar? As she seems to have more interest in non fiction.
She is not stupid, just lazy.
tl;dr patrcian books for young women?
>inb4 "literature is genderless"
Start with the Greeks.
The Book of the New Sun
Pic indicates she likes anime? Try to get her started on authors like Mishima and Daizai?
Immanuel Kant regarded masturbation as a violation of the moral law. In The Metaphysics of Morals (1797), he made the a posteriori argument that "such an unnatural use of one's sexual attribute" strikes "everyone upon his thinking of it" as "a violation of one's duty to himself", and suggested that it was regarded as immoral even to give it its proper name (unlike the case of the similarly undutiful act of suicide). He went on, however, to acknowledge that "it is not so easy to produce a rational demonstration of the inadmissibility...
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nietzsche
Vatsyayana
>>7760595
Chinese Medicine says ejaculating is a bad thing. Masturbation is bad, unless your a pro-edger.
Since the top 100 charts are getting more and more identical, let's try something new. Favorite books that came out in 2000 or newer, and since there aren't as many it'll probably only be a top 20/30 or so.
Here's the survey:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZPkxubjdcjQwYorj24NHRsbwc49mckSTJ5vgG_IUJVg/viewform
Feel free to repost your picks in the thread and discuss them.
>>7753982
1. My Struggle
2. 2666
3. Kafka on the shore
I don't read a lot of literature from the 21st century.
Took My Struggle as one book, even though it is really six.
The Instructions
2666 is gonna win for sure
Hi all, newfig to /lit/. I frequent /mu/ among other boards, and was wondering if you had an equivalent of the chart I have provided here.
Bumping myself because I want to engage in some literature
Start with the Greeks.
Read the sticky.
Mists Edition
Recommendations:
>Fantasy
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/a/a8/1307836551252.jpg (embed)
(For the Computer illiterate) http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL
>Sci-Fi
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/a/a6/Scifilit.jpg (embed)
(For the Computer illiterate) http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc
http://imgur.com/r55ODlL
http://imgur.com/A96mTQX
>What are you reading right now?
>What is your favorite...
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PERFECT
>>7766218
>I ain't even mad
>>7766218
>>What are you reading right now?
Resurrection by Tolstoy and Ethics by Peter Kreeft. I'm honestly not sure when I'll get back to sff, probably when my Kobo arrives to finish Book of the Short Sun.
>>What is your favorite stand alone fantasy novel?
Book of the New Sun as it's one work split into 4 for publishing reasons.
Assuming that's not a valid answer Lord of Light.
>>What is your favorite...
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Last thread just got 404ed for unknown reasons.
Some anon asked about a short story, let's start from that.
Favorite Wolfe short stories? Best collections?
>>7754127
wait, they destroyed the gene wolfe thread? those fuckers. HE'S A FUCKING GENIUS, YOU FAGGOT MODS
>>7754137
Especially considering they've been a thing for what a year now? And it was the only thread up anyway.
>>7754127
Is the success of Donald Trump in the American election the ultimate proof that Aldous Huxley was right all along?
It's pretty brave to say that the new president is going to be able to create that sort of a world.
>>7772636
it doesn't say that
it does express that people would accept/do desire such a world
>>7772632
>not thinking that it's both orwellian and huxlian
