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Am I about to get memed?
Daily IJ thread I guess.
DFW's intelligence and work are really depressing
>tfw you'll never be a genius who smokes weed on a daily basis
The book is profoundly sad. It's very enjoyable too, and lots of the episodes are excellent pieces of writing unto themselves.
>>7721625
I'm 60 pages into it and, no offense, but I have yet to encounter an interesting scene. Approximately when does it get good?
Is it true that "world building" is just a crutch for bad fantasy or is an intergral part of the book?
Is it true that "good prose" is just a crutch for bad fantasy or is it an integral part of the book?
>>7725068
>what did he mean by this?
>>7725012
Yes.
Is this worth reading?
nigga u spying on me? i literally just torrented the audiobook and started playing it one second before i refreshed the page,shit seems pretty patrish so far, "story of civilization" tier epic history
>>7723344
Too long. Try the 500 p one by johnson.
Hey I'm pretty average intelligence (think somewhere between 105 and 115 IQ). Is reading literature a waste of my time? You guys seem like you're a cut above most other boards in terms of intelligenceno homo
>>7718486
No it isn't, IQ has nothing to do with it.
>>7718486
Whoever tells you that intelligence is innate is lying.
Read literature, read philosophy, learn a language! You can be as smart as the best of mankind if you apply yourself intellectually. Man does not become brilliant by nature, but by habit.
>>7718486
You don't need to be intelligent to read
Just look at /lit/
Wrote this in an hour, Talk to me /lit/erati... pls.
After drinking a liter of boxed merlot, I had smoked pack of Camel Blues and watched enough Chopped to give a lecture on how much Food Network
is too much. The light buzz achived from the cheap red wine had worn down to the point where I had started feeling sorry for myself again and
even jerking off for a solid hour to soft-core internet porn could not cut the sting. And it's only 11 o' clock, fuck.
Cool blog.
it's bad
wanna know why?
>>7727039
Do tell.
What the hell happened to young adult literature? It turned from "books for 13-17 year olds that adults could also enjoy" to "books for children". Not only is most of it bad, it's so vanilla and safe.
Most of the best writers for it died or moved on.
Now the kids who read nothing but YA are adults writing YA, so it has no real elevation or depth.
>Ender's Game
>vanilla and safe
u wot m8
>>7726597
Ender's Game fits in the former category, back when YA was good; look at good YA fiction of the 80s and 90s, they had sex, swearing, violence, they'd never be labeled YA by today's pussy standards.
Is theology dead? Most living philosophers appear to be Atheists.
Can anyone recommend some books on contemporary theology, please?
>>7724352
oh my god, Dick! what happened? no pun intended anywhere
>>7724352
Jesus of Nazareth trilogy by Joseph Ratzinger and Scholastic Metaphysics and Scholastic Essays by Edward Feser.
>>7724352
Theology is pretty much undergoing the same fate as astrology.
It's still there but intelligent people pay no mind to it.
Do you listen to music while reading? What do you listen to?
>>7721841
bossa nova,classical,field recordings Pink floyd and felt
/mu/ shit like tim hecker Is horrible especially for reading.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF_Ekf6nHj8
>>7721841
Schnabel plays Beethoven
>in b4 music major autism
>>7721881
Hey there, not OP here, just checking in to tell you you're a pleb
I like Nietzsche too much.
What are some other philosophers somewhat similar to him with other interesting ideas?
I have already read Stirner.
>>7720508
Heidegger is Nietzsche's true heir. Read him.
Stirner is quite bad and his fanboys don't read.
Aristotle is better than both.There's literally nothing in Nietzsche or Stirner that disproves Aristotelian teleology.
>>7720508
I found similarities between him and the fabricated aesthete of Either/Or.
>>7720596
Because Nietzsche is best read as aristotlean
Read some Katsafanas.
Umberto Eco just died
is Foucalt Pendulum worth reading? Seen it on some postmodern chart
>>7718162
holy fucking shit, not him, he's one of my favourite writers
>>7718162
I'm just waiting for Gene Wolfe to die
okay guys i'm worried you forgot so i'm starting the thread.
p.s. i know we agreed to ~15 pages a day but i don't like to stop reading midway through a paragraph so i stopped at p.23.
doubledactyl Malachi Mulligan is fucking flesh and bone, man. i can't believe I waited so long to read this book.
>Behind him he heard Buck Mulligan club with his heavy bathtowel the leader shoots of ferns or grasses.
>--Down, sir. How dare you, sir?
absolutely brilliant.
get in here guys
also i was thinking this would make a good schedule for the next 4 days:
24-36
37-51
55-70
70-86
because these are sensible stopping points and they average about 15 pages anyway. idk how well it'll hold up when we get going but it seems better this way. (p.s. i'm using Vintage edish)
what do you all think?
That's weird, I just got the book yesterday and I just got up to that part, didn't even know about the reading group
I'm gonna admit it, I'm struggling with it, not really sure what's going on and the French and Latin is annoying. Is there a good guide online that I can read along with?
Just read the fucking book you weirdos, there's enough to chew on mentally based on how it feels you don't need several hundred versions of a dictionary to check every word
But whatever, one of my favorite parts at the beggining is the milk math word problem where bucky gets the bill from the milkwoman
Weird Fetishes Edition
Recommendations:
>Fantasy
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/a/a8/1307836551252.jpg
(For the Computer illiterate) http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
>Sci-Fi
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/a/a6/Scifilit.jpg
(For the Computer illiterate) http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
http://imgur.com/r55ODlL
http://imgur.com/A96mTQX
>What you are you currently reading?
>Are you for...
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Can you have a space opera with a small amount of characters?
op that comic is insensitive, first it marginalizes people with unusual sexual interests, and it stereotypes dark skinned ppl as violent thugs prone to hate crimes, u need to write an apology or i'm going to put u on blast on twitter and tumblr
What are some books which explore the struggle against zenophobia?
god I hate that guy
Zenophobia? Why would somebody be afraid of that shitty philosopher and his non-paradox?
>>7723031
>being this pedantic
Who has better taste in comics, /lit/ or /co/?
I don't read comics, so /lit/ has better taste.
>>7722936
This
do adults read comics?
if I saw a grown man reading a comic book I would point and laugh tbqh
is Rowling the George Lucas of literature?
Meaning that she can do decent stuff with little ressources, but once you give her the big budget, she's a laughable cause?
>>7715768
Better than decent, but yes.
she doesn't write literature. She is just fun with imagination and you are probably lying if you say you didn't enjoy it as a kid. That isn't to say you wouldn't have had a better time with something with literary merit.
