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Are these hardcover books from Barnes and Noble worth it?
Im thinking about getting the Hemingway one with 4 of his novels and also the one with The Iliad and The Odyssey (although Im hesitant, I don't know which translations they are)
Don't buy books from Barnes and Noble, buy them online
This thread pops up every couple weeks. Is this some stealth marketing hustle from B&N?
why don't you use a magical site called google and find out
Without religion what reason do you have to be moral? Any authors who discuss this topic?
because i'm a pussy and i feel bad when im not nice to people
sam harris
richard dawkins
Sartre
Rest in peace Sylvia.
She was kind of whiny, to be honest.
>>7722851
I hated English in school. Our teacher was so shit. Sylvia Plath and Robert Frost were the only things I enjoyed. There was a particular poem from her I liked. I can't remember the name of it because I'm drunk but there was a part about looking into a pond. I remember making a parallel with Narcissus in an essay to sound smart.
William T. Vollmann Discussion Thread
Where is a good starting point for Vollmann's work? He has a hefty and considerable amount of literature published since 1987 of large and encyclopedic-sized books and seems like an interesting writers, from what I've gathered of his interviews so far.
europe central
i haven't read anything by him but that's where i want to start
you're welcome
Probably the Atlas or the Rainbow Stories
After that you could give his historical fiction a go
what could go wrong?
>>7722845
Europe Central is an attention-whore. It used WWII as a backdrop to fairly banal issues, trying to elevate them - and, in my eyes, failing. Hate to be a memer, but the same thing in GR doesn't feel as cheap.
But it is beautifully researched, I admit.
>Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
What did Christ mean by this?
>>7722067
Fun fact, that whole part (John 7:53 - 8:11) is non-canon as it was not actually included in the earliest manuscripts.
nobody can honestly say they are without sin, so nobody can cast the first stone so you should not shit all over someone who you know has sinned and should instead focus on your own repentance
>>7722345
>guy kills someone
>d-don't judge him, we are all s-sinners!
shit logic
>randomly goes into long descriptions of nothing
>for no reason inserts an original catalog and classification system of "whales"
was he the most successful autist?
nah Hugo's hard to find unabridged because he's too autistic to be worth extra 100g of book
>>7719825
I'm listening to Hunchback of Notre Dame now and the tangents he goes off on are so rich and captivating that I am becoming motivated to incorporate such a technique on the next book I work on. It's the scope that's impressive; I don't know what you imbeciles mean by 'autistic' but these men are immortalized because of their works.
>>7719836
I mean I learnt more about a defunct Paris sanitation network from that book that I thought you could learn about a sanitation network without becoming an engineer.
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Is there a chart or a general good source for must-read non-fiction literature?
There was a thread about basic scientific knowledge some time ago on /lit/, where someone recommended this book.
Also looking for stuff like this for neuroscience, history, etc.
"The Rise of the Islamic State" by Patrick Cockburn. It's the surreal story of how our lunatic allies Turkey and Saudi Arabia gave birth to a terrorist organization more powerful than al Qaeda at the height of its power.
The Communist Manifesto.
>>7718618
You have to have a PHD in math to read that.
Newfag here, is there a standard website for cataloging books you've read?
try that one amazon bought for $150 mil a couple years ago, plebs love it, btw don't u think ur laying the amazon ads on a little hard buddy? this is a slow board, go spam twitch on those video game boards for a couple hours and come back, give it room to breath
goodreads is what most people use i think
notebook and pen works just as well tho
i use an excel file
one sheet per year. it's nice because you can sort by author, run basic analytics, and still have your record
What works of philosophy have the best prose? The worst?
>>7722036
I'd say Thus spoke Zarathustra, although I loathed it.
Derrida might have the worst
Nietzsche is fun to read. Hegel is not.
>>7722036
Either/Or is the best tbqh.
Would this board be better without teenage reddit atheists?
it would be but at least we drove out most of the shitty soft-left marxian clowns
GOD TIER
Progressive, tolerant atheists
Progressive, tolerant religious folk
Shit tier literally kill yourself
New Atheists
Religious Fundamentalists
Many new atheists were driven out of Reddit by the badphilosophy community and came here where people haven't realized how futile it is to debate edgy "cynical" teenagers
How do I do it like Derrida?
He has so many works I don't know where to start. Where does he propose alternate translations of Greek classics?
>>7718928
Do it like Derrida
>>7718970
How?
>>7718928
Start with the Greeks.
Let's have a meta thread. Talk about the status quo of our board, the function of irony and a resurfacing of obscure, experimental literature that has been passed around lately. Feel free to vent, but remain civil.
meh. /pol/ and /reddit/ are definitely more prevalent, which in turn leads to false flagging, which in turn leads to general shitposting
board quality declined compared to ~6 months ago imo.
/his/ split was fine, don't pin it on that.
i'm glad mccarthy and pynchon are finally out
>>7717607
if we can kick out wallace too that'd be great.
more people need to actually read ulysses insteadof just memeing about portrait.
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>If Socrates is both a man and not a man, then it also follows that he is neither a man nor not a man
>the man who does something well must also do it, whereas it is not necessary for the man who merely does something to do it well
Isn't this really just semantics?
>>7720557
>Isn't this really just semantics?
I'd have to see the text in the original language, and not some hack translation worth 'nada.'
I don't think you know what 'semantics' really means.
He's talking about the Law of non-contradiction and the principle of explosion in the first, and Modal Logic in the second. Basically, he was light-years a head of you in terms of intelligence and as you can see it for yourself, your pathetic "rebuttal" "Isn't this really just semantics" plus asking others for validating whether or not it really does rebut him, is laughable. So that you know, explicitly: No, it can't really be considered as an serious counterexample...
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>>7720572
>>7720599
Wow, /lit/ got even more autistic while I was away.
i haven't read for fun since 9th grade and i want to get back into it, but every suggestion i get is watered down because people assume im an idiot who cant comprehend literature because i dont read regularly
theres no way to word this with out sounding fake or pretentious but im 19 my iq is 140 and my lexile score for reading comprehension is the max score of 1700+ im not a genius but its extremely frustrating asking librarians for book suggestions and getting nothing but "Young adult fiction"
please rec me some books that you think are intelligent...
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The Stranger & The Metamorphosis should be a decent "literary" starterpack
If you want something more jumpy check out Dune
>>7719813
thanks for the suggestion i appreciate it
>>7719820
No problem dude, have fun. Do check out the sticky's recommendation stuff when you have the time, lots of good stuff in there too.
