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I just bought this, what are /lit/ thoughts about it, and about Knut Hamsun.
Literally who
>>7716625
Hunger was great, but I haven't read anything else.
>>7716630
Literally kill urselfjk dont do it pls
I'm looking for more books that have a sort of ethereal, other worldly sort of avant garde weirdness about them, without completely falling apart and becoming incomprehensible. I am a big fan of psychological sort of horror mystery suspenseful type stuff. I don't want short stories, I want something I can really sink my teeth into. I'm not sure what this book would look like yet, but I am eager to read something else. Thanks. Also, if someone would tell me a good place to start with h.p. lovecraft I would appreciate it, he has way to many published books.
I'm looking for something deeply philosophical too, which really makes you look at what it means to be human.
>>7716606
Pedro Paramo by Rulfo. Exactly what you are asking for.
>>7716606
>HP Lovecraft
At the Mountains of Madness and The Call of Cthulhu
Tell me about ideology
Why does he wear the mask?
>>7716126
*sniff*
*rubs nose*
What does he mean by this? He does it more than anything else, every time he speaks. This must be the true core of his philosophy, the truth underlying his ideology. How can we decipher this to truly access the greatness his mind has to offer?
Ideology is a mask that we aren't even aware we're wearing.
"They do not know it, but they are doing it." - Karl Marx
>>7716148
Marx glugged ideology 24/7, and he loved it. He is a fedora. Don't make me post my tattered copies of Das Kapital and my stack of books from Haymarket Books dot org by posting "Oh, you probably don't even understand it!!"
This felt like a sequel, or "companion piece" to The Names...American intelligence agencies, American interference in the middle east, film and filmmakers playing a big role, murder, violence first conceived abstractly that then horrifyingly becomes real. And the style is very similar, too...they both have a really hypnotic rhythm going.
So...what's the point of Point Omega? It came out 30 years later, but I don't think it adds much to what The Names did. Strip out the technology and references to Iraq and it could've been written in the 80s....
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I think Point Omega is about the desire to abstract war and plays a lot with an examination of time as a parallel, like the abstracted violence of 24 hour psycho and the long timeless days of the desert. which is not what I got from the names.
i loved both books though, so even if there's a little retreading of ground, I'm glad point omega was written
>>7715568
Delillo can describe cinema so damn well.
>>7717488
yes this. he should be an avant garde filmmaker in his final days.
What are your 10 fav books? Judge others and give recs.
Absalom, Absalom! - Faulkner
Complete Stories - Chekhov
Yes - Bernhard
Demons - Dostoyevsky
Ficciones - Borges
Wise Blood - O'Connor
Dead Souls - Gogol
Los siete locos/Los lanzallamas - Arlt
Lot 49 - Pynchon
Dubliners - Joyce
The Fault in Our Stars
The Shining
Inherent Jest
Lolita
Norwegian Wood
Infinite Vice
Nos étoiles contraires
The Longest Ride
Ulysses
City of Bones
>>7715511
Is this a good introduction to trascendental meditation? If not, which one is?
>>7715034
I have that book but I haven't read it. I'll let you know when I do.
>transcendental meditation
Sorry to say that it's just a money making scam designed to profiteer from centuries old knowledge. You'd be better off looking into either vipassana or samatha meditation. Although these have a foundation in sectarian Buddhism, the message most practitioners give (in the west at least) is surprisingly secular, and benefits from not being a system that requires you to pay for some esoteric 'knowledge'.
Start with a daily mindfulness practice. Of you can handle that, you can move on to advanced transcendental shit.
>Spanish speaker, english is my second language
>Bought Filth by Irvine Welsh (my first Welsh book btw)
>I knew that he uses scottish slang, but I thought it wasn't a big deal, rather I was (am) interested in learning about it
>Started reading the first pages
>Well, shit
Any advice /lit/? Be gentle pls.
(Maybe I should give up and buy the Anagrama translation, even though is more expensive).
I highly doubt youll be able to find a good translation of Scottish phonetic dialogue and slang, OP, and if you do it'll probably miss out on a lot of the bantz
>>7714770
filth was my first welsh too, the first 50 pages or so took me ages to read as i was slowly getting used to the slang, but once you've come across the same slang a couple times it's easily remembered, and a lot of it's repeated throughout so there isn't a great deal to get used to.
keep on going OP, the scottish slang is what makes his writing humorous and the payoff is well worth it. (the book is also fantastic)
>>7714770
I'll bet Welsh is no Parson Evans.
there are exactly 0 (zero) books over 1k pages that are worth reading
>>7717059
>"Hey pal, want to see yourself proven wrong?"
if you're going to frog post at least be funny
>Reading books on pages
>Not having transcendental thought-forms transcribed directly into you consciousness
Which pilgrim's tale was the best?
>>7714597
Priest's Tale. That and the Scholar's Tale were the only really good ones. That means half the book was sht and wasted potential.
The cyborg love story
>>7714832
It had the workings of two good stories, but it felt like a weird blending of genres.
Podrán aducir cualquier argumento en contra de América Latina. Tratarnos de indios, de subnormales, etc. Sin embargo, nosotros tenemos a Borges; a Cortázar; a Bolaño; a Rulfo; a Lezama Lima; a Carpentier; a Lautreamont; a Piglia; a Aira. Y no paramos. Saludos, putos gringos :D
Saludos
PD saludos
>>7717344
cuál es el propósito de tu pinche threadsillo?
I am writing a story about a counter-culture messenger who has some special gifts which allow him to have a great impact on the world. This short story is only one timeline and incarnation of the character.
Three books will chronicle the building of his gift and the polishing of his skills. The fourth will be about him becoming aware of his gift, and getting his gift to take flight (maybe too close to the sun?)
I can't post the entire thing so I'll link to it through pastebin. Sorry if that's against some rule or another but I've only lurked here or...
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you didn't include a pastebin link
How do you find these for reading and writing (with optional keyboard)? Should I just buy a new laptop instead?
I write on my tablet a lot, works just as well as a PC and is way more comfy.
If I you have to choose between a laptop and a tablet though, I'd go for the laptop, since it's just more versitile.
As for reading, just get a second-hand Kindle Paperwhite, the old ones are fairly cheap on eBay and I really love mine.
>>7716879
Just buy a thinkpad X220 f a m
More like this?
u fukn cunts
>>7716240
Not the response that you want, but I really enjoyed Adam Rapp's theatre work, and was considering getting this.
Does he actually have good prose?
>>7717201
I enjoyed it very much, his prose is top notch.
Writers who died a horrible death.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenő_Rejtő
Edgar Allan Poe
>>7715411
>Mah 6 Gorrillion.
His work was shit.
Pablo Neruda was very likely assassinated by the Pinoche regime.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/05/201252172550321452.html
How do moral and existential debates still exist when nihilism is a thing? A logical consequence of nihilism is to simply do whatever brings you the most pleasure and satisfaction, since it's the most "efficient" way of living (minimize suffering, maximize enjoyment). Why do we still attempt to debate ethics and morals when it's obvious that one's best course of action is doing what brings them satisfaction (which actually encompasses morals, since moral values are there to provide validation like everything else)?
I know fuck all about actual...
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god fuck you
Nihilism is the rejection of goals as irrelevant human construct
You are thinking solipsism, look it up you massive flaming fucking moron
>>7715351
The inherent problem with nihilism is, taken to it's logical conclusion, that nothing exists beyond your perception of it, meaning that the people you love, the things you do, the poems you write, none of it exists, and all existence is pointless.
So yes, do you what you want. It won't fill the emptiness that was created when your innocence was torn away from you.
>>7715362
But they're not mutually exclusive
