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I just finished The Odyssey and Taras Bulba. What should I read now: V by Pynchon (my second Pinecone after Lot 49 which was pretty enjoyable) or Tristram Shandy?
make your own decisions you dumb faggot
>>7737934
I agree
start with the greeks
Admit it, it's better than Ulysses.
Incredible that it took until 75 years after his death for Joyce's true masterpiece to be discovered.
I'm sort of breaking out of beginner spanish right now. I'm about a year in. I can hold a simple conversation, but I'm self-teaching and there are definitely gaps in my knowledge.
For those of you who are bilingual:
Any advice on fairly recent(so I don't have to worry about archaic words and expressions) spanish novels that won't be impossible?
I of course want to have to look things up. I want to be challenged. I don't want a kids book or anything. But I also need something reasonable, so keep in mind that I'm a recently started...
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la muerte de artemio cruz
platero y yo
las batallas en el desierto
pedro y el capitan
Try anything by Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, or Cortázar
Lorca's plays are pretty accessible.
I'm looking to better understans fringw political beliefs. What's the best 'get off my lawn' book?
>>7737769
Genesis.
Crippled America
The world we see is smaller than the world that is, and the world that is smaller than the world that could be.
Our only vessel into this potential are books.
Yet books are even smaller world unto the World
>>7737755
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Ey lit, i have never seen discussed this writer in this board. Have you read anything by him? I got recently a collection of his stories, but i'm not going to read it yet.
Yeah I read some of his shorts, King in the golden mask is nicely done
>>7737813
In general, what do you think about him? Is he underrated?
>>7737833
Why not read him and find out? Why care so much for /lit/'s opinion?
How do I become a better writer? I am not referring to writing better stories, or novels, or questions that can be answered simply with " Write more". Instead, I am a writer of non-fiction in academia, and I want to be able to better use things like commas, or dashes. For instance, I know that I use commas far too much; I learned English as a second language, and I was taught to put commas when I naturally took a breath. I know now that approaching commas that way is mostly wrong.
Does /lit/ have any advice?
inb4 writemore.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=comma+usage
>>7737690
Read all your work out loud. If the commas break the flow of the writing, rewrite.
Re-draft your work frequently, or look at it with "fresh" eyes.
Have other people read your work and ask them which parts worked and why. Which parts didn't and why.
>>7737725
How do you know when the comma is breaking the flow of the writing? Should I breathe when I place a comma?
How can we purge psykers from science fiction? Why is superstition allowed to go on unchallenged?
it makes reading more interesting. not everything has to be 100% realistic because thats unreasonable
>>7737583
Just read hard sci-fi then or move on to the adult genres of literature you fucking manchild.
"psykers" are suppose to be the counter to techno-anything
The idea is not the mix of genre but the balance of power so that a techno-universe is not without the spiritual or else it would be a nightmare of human-void or some such
Why is this book so praised? The philosophical content is so simple it hurts. Very tacky book. It reminds me of the cheesy motivational quotes displayed on a photo of the Eiffel Tower with an instagram filter.
it's for gay people who haven't come out to their parents yet.
2deep4u
I think Paulo Coehlo or Marcus Aurelius is more your level.
Why doesn't /lit/ ever discuss Atticus Lish's novel "Preparations for the Next Life"?
Anybody here read it?
>"surprise" "indie" hit
>by the son of über-editor Gordon Lish
uh-uh
waiting for official 4chan approval before falling for shadowmarketing, desu
>>7737771
jesus christ. i mean i understand your cynicism but you could also like, you know, try a few pages for yourself and decide that way right? honestly just read the first page and tell me that isn't good...
anyway...
i bought this book last year, read 100 pages of it, really enjoyed it, and then fucking LOST IT...looked for it for two days EVERYWHERE. so someone fucking stole it goddamnit...
but yeah. i like lish's style. pretty perfect mix of minimalism/maximalism. he manages to make...
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>>7738245
>http://gen.lib.rus.ec/foreignfiction/?s=atticus+lish
I just remember being repelled by the summary and not reading it.
Is it possible to be a good writer and not also a good drinker?
shit movie. not enough latent homosexuality
If this was still 1946 maybe
fucking obviously
I want to talk about something, but I don't know what it's called, and I'm sure there's a name for it, so just be patient with me.
So to help you understand what I'm talking about, I want you to consider two things.
Thing ONE
It's been a while since I read The History of Sexuality, but two things really stuck with me (vaguely).
First: the relationship between knowledge and pleasure.
Second: incitement to discourse
Thing TWO
Media titled in this style: 12 Common Misconceptions about the Pinky Finger
I hope...
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Listicle
>>7737364
The only reason rape is illegal is because women know they are completely worthless to society and by making rape illegal they make sure they can use their cunts to get leverage over men or to simply monetize them.
If rape was legal then women would actually have to work in order to get ahead in society,plus there would be a lot less crime since there would be no Elliot Rodgers.
Rape is a social construct,it's how most animals breed but only humans decided that it's wrong.
How should I spend this month's Audible credit, /lit/? Which author's prose sounds the nicest when read aloud?
read the sticky
Look upon your past selves from two years past and ask whether things have really changed
fewer /his/ posts is always a plus in my book.
>>7737297
>in my book
Anyone can make the threads they want to see
Hegel vs Schopenhauer
> Hegel, said Schopenhauer, was ‘a commonplace, inane, loathsome, repulsive and ignorant charlatan, who with unparalleled effrontery compiled a system of crazy nonsense that was trumpeted abroad as immortal wisdom by his mercenary followers...’
Now that the dust has settled, who is the better philosopher?
Obviously the pessimist.
Schopenhauer actually read Kant, unlike Hegel. He could also actually write.
>>7737142
Please stop posting these comics.
>>7737142
hegel is a rationalist who think, contrary to the moderns, that the best way to be free is not to gain power and knowledge on nature, but on society.
two centuries later, we end up with the feminists....
hegel never understood life, to the point of rejecting stoicism, empiricism and buddhism.
