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What novels are the pillars of Modernism?
I've already read all books by pic related and also your diary desu...
>>8251895
Robert Musil
Hermann Broch
Proust
John Dos Passos
Faulkner
Sherwood Anderson
Djuna Barnes
Fernando Pessoa
Paul Valéry
John Gould Fletcher
Jorge Guillen
Federico Garcia Lorca
Ruben Dario
>>8251970
Also Woolf
Knut Hamsun - Hunger
Kafka - The Trial
Woolf - To the Lighthouse
Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms
Joyce - Ulysses
Proust - In Search of Lost Time
TS Eliot - The Waste Land
'' The celibate's apology by a misogynist''
http://casafernandopessoa.cm-lisboa.pt/bdigital/2-10
What you think? Did he have a good taste for books? :D
>>8251839
Looks interesting. Thanks OP.
>>8251843
You're welcome. The anonymous writer seems to have been a very cultured man.
>>8251839
It's basically what Schopenhauer said, but with Arthur was a better writer.
How do you feel about the true crime genre?
>>8251814
There are some gems, but they are few and far between.
Bugliosi has several really decent ones.
>>8251814
Loved the genre when I was younger but there's a fair amount of shit. There's a reason Zodiac is praised so highly and I feel that out of all of the true crime books I read, I got an eerie feeling with how good Graysmith detailed San Francisco and the general atmosphere at the time.
One of my other favorites is The Night Stalker by Philip Carlo. I blasted through that entire book in a week or two - probably the fastest I've ever read 600+ pages in my life.
Is pic related any good? I know...
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>>8252427
I think it's pretty good. The concurrent plot about the World's Fair architect really elevates it. It takes a wider view to try and paint and picture of the time and the place rather than just focusing on the grisly details of the crime. Doesn't feel voyeuristic like some novels in the genre.
What does /lit/ think of pic related? And Paulo Coelho in general?
>>8251787
Delete this shitpost immediately.
>>8251787
The absolute worst book I have ever read from beginning to end.
>>8251787
My wife likes it, almost as much as the True Blood novels, Janet Evanovich and Twilight. Not exactly a glowing endorsement
I'm really intrested in dystopian novels like BNW (pic related) because I like how they can satirize today's modern society. Gimme the best of the best
>>8251776
Darkness at Noon
The Gulag Archipelago
On the Marble Cliffs
>>8251776
They aren't satirizing today's society, retard.
They're a warning of what will happen with society in the future if we maintain the current, low amount of individual and civilizational self-consciousness
>>8251796
>tfw no soma and no pussy
Can somebody give me an explanation for all these memers?
All show a spongebob in a picture seemingly related to each caption
>>8251770
I don´t think it' correct to reduct all of the works and ideas of great thinkers into simple and banal Spongebob pictures.
>>8251770
Leibniz made some calculus and shit
Kant wrote stuff that was hard to understand
Schelling because Naturphilosophie (look that shit up) and then watch that Spongebob Episode
Hegel is pretty memey desu
Schopenhauer because 'muh pessimism'
Marx because they all are living equally
Stirner should be obvious
Nietzsche because ubermensch
Frege was a maths guy
Weber because something about studying society or some shit
Freud 'the inner...
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What the fuck was this guy's problem?
He had to pay the rent and found a comfortable niche to do so.
>>8251764
He did nothing wrong
I wish I was him
What did /lit/ think?
>>8251755
Thanks for rec OP.
Modern non-fiction thread? I've read this actually is a great, somewhat sympathetic and unbiased biography of al-Zarqawi
>>8251762
I didn't recommend it, I simply asked what people thought.
But yes I would recommend it now that you ask.
Another recommendation.
Drones are the fucking best mang
Just wait til one power or another sells drone technology to all the insurgent groups and we can just have the drones fight each other
Which philosophical school of thought should I parrot to appear intelligent and educated while I am, in fact, neither?
>>8251682
stirnerism
Critical Theory
>Buy Tyson's Critical Theory today
>Get the Foucault Reader
>Reas Anti-Oedipus
>Get the Derrida Reader
>Read only Ta Nehisi Coates, Proust, and bell hooks
Memes all the down, kid. Memes all the way down.
>>8251682
just call everyone a cuck
>Sit in an empty coffee shop to read
>out of nowhere normies sit next to me for some reason and start kissing and talking
>forgot my headphones
Fuck
>headphones
>using music to cover world noise
>not using plugs regularly when you go out
>not using white noise to cover world noise
you deserve what you get
>>8251592
lel youre a fag
>>8251580
>read tranquilly in my car
>normie comes and ask me why am i alone and why am i doing nothing
>it's a social faux pas nowadays to read on your own in your car
>>8251613
>implying I'm already not listening to a hairdryer connected to a guitar and a distortion which I for some reason call music
I'm gonna have some free time this weekend and I was thinking about reading some book after some time I haven't read nothing.
I was thinking about for what kind of book I'm in mood right now and figured out that I'd read something that'd be like bizarro Kerouac. Not fantasy though. Maybe something like a mash up of Kerouac and McCarthy. A story about traveler that wanders around america stumbling on weird places, fucked up people getting himself into bad situations...
Does a book like that exists or am I gonna have to write it myself?
>>8251554
Suttree
>>8251561
this
to
be
honest
>>8251561
I love McCarthy but I had troubles finishing Blood Meridian and this is even longer. How hard is it to get through?
You know that Cormac McCarthy is an idiot loser and his prose is shit, when he talks about punctuation as "weird little marks that blot the page up". But a "weird little mark" can change, not only the tone and feel of a passage, but even the FUCKING MEANING of it (if the tone and feel were not already meaning, which they are). Pretentious pseudo-intellectual loser. And that's why all his books suck ass.
>>8251503
>Pretentious pseudo-intellectual loser.
he declares as the bitterly rants alongside his chosen pepe for today's topic.
>>8251513
>and the size of women's labia to discuss
>>8251513
>It culminates all the aesthetic potential that Western fiction can have.
Good line.
Anyone can guide me to where to get free (as in free license, not pirated) books i can download to ipad? Pic not related
Anything in public domain
Project Gutenberg has thousands of free books, but most of them are free because they're old enough that the copyright has expired.
I'm attracted to none of those ladies.
>>8251465
>asking the same question again after you got answers last week
get the fuck out you apple normie scum
Do you believe in a spiritual realm, /lit/?
>>8251428
What does your question have to do with literature?
Fuck off
>>8251433
Take it easy pal
Pic related is Balzac's short story Seraphita which deals heavily with spirituality. No one here actually reads so it was a bit optimistic to expect the connection
>>8251428
>Do you believe in a spiritual realm, /lit/?
i was forced into neoplatonism by math. so in a sense yes.
What shelf do you file it under?
>>8251389
The ghost writers shelf.
>>8251389
900s, Biographies, Frank.
i dont work here you fuck
