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Hey /lit/, this may be the wrong board, but I've been thinking a lot about celebrity recently because I'm staying with my friend and his room is covered in posters of famous artists and bands.
I'm wondering if any of you have come across any books that touch on the (very) contemporary understanding of celebrity that has come into play in the past 20-30 years. By this I mean the worship and (essentially) idolatry that most people in society perpetrate through their experience of celebrities.
I'm not sure if you all will get what i mean by this--I'm...
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>>7715378
There's a lot to read on this. Andy Warhol is what you're thinking about, druggo.
>>7715378
Mao II by Don DeLillo. Really dope m8, give it a try
What's the most scariest novel /lit/ has had ever read?
>>7715348
As much as /lit/ shits on Stephen King, Pet Sematary legitimately frightened me on a fundamental level. There was one point I got to, and I just had to put the book down. I didn't end up picking it back up for about two weeks.
>>7715348
Dracula's first few pages about the ride trough the woods.
my diary
So I'm nearly done reading this & pretty impressed so far. Of all the memes I've memed off /lit, this has been one of the best. I don't write off IJ, but this does push it towards YA somewhat.
From the previous threads & even reviews I've read, it seems to me even if ppl have read it, they failed to absorb much of it. The Part About The Crimes is far from a list of 'anally & vaginally' as I'd been led to believe. Also that Dracula scene >.< ma dick.
People always overstate the monotony and repetitiveness of the Part about the Crimes, of course it does have a lot of anally and vaginally raped in it its not a list of that stuff and the backstory of the detective and the asylum manager as well as Lalo Cura being in it and partial explanations of some of the events in other parts of the book more than make up for any problems with repetition.
>>7715445
The effect seemed to be in its accumulation, you become desensitized, & then some new detail of the horror catches you off guard & you experience the same despair overload of the various detectives. The whole thing acts to create a hellish landscape where the various detective wander hopelessly lost. I found it very effective.
My one major criticism of Bolano is he isn't very good at writing in people's voices - the many long sections when someone tells their tale all end up being spoken in...
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>>7715537
It's an aesthetic choice. If you want real dialogue read tao lin
>start philosophy
>this theory is rejected by...
>this theory is rejected by...
>this theory is rejected by...
Philosophy is the worlds most pathetic and useless circlejerk.
>>7715219
Philosophy is about finding wisdom and knowledge in your life. Of course some Philosophers are going to reject other Philosophers theories on different subjects because some Philosophies fit some life styles better than others.
dumb kanyeposter
>studying anything other than STEM, law or medicine
You brought this on yourself
What was it like here when he died? Was /lit/ even around then?
i also would be interested in seeing lit forums from that time discussing this.
/lit/ was around . he wasn't as big a meme yet tho, so people didn't really lose their shit.
>>7714681
So it was literally his suicide that literally made him a literal meme?
Hey /lit/,
I need some short, depressing reads.
What are your favorite short novels/novellas that deal with death, loneliness or related subjects?
Anything under 300 pages goes.
Why short? Are you a pleb?
>>7713080
The Lime Twig's definitely a must-read.
>>7713080
The Book of Disquiet
Halfway through read The Death of Ivan Ilyich and am now at my grandmothers death bed. Should I continue and do you have any other suggestions for things to perhaps read instead?
She is dying of cancer and is Christian and is taking it very well. She is very practical about the whole thing and says that she has gotten to see her children grow up and to know her grandchildren. I am in no way religious and didn't know if I could continue reading the story as it was hard seeing her in the state that she is.
why don't you fucking read the book before you make a stupid blogpost about your grandma
I remember reading this book on a summer afternoon at the park. My uncle, who would go on to have three affairs, two illegitimate children and one heart attack, was with his wife then, my mother was hanging by the public restrooms in case of an emergency (which never emerged); and I entertained certain sexual speculations about a girl who had smiled at me on the bus the week before. How I wish I was 17 again.
>>7712489
One if the most boring books ive read.
Tolstoy is such a drag.
Want to read War and Peace, is boring lile this one?
What are the best books that argue in support of Christianity and the concept of god? I'm looking for non-fiction preferably, but will take fiction reccomendations as well
Read the Tao de Ching and find god instead.
>>7712080
Start with Plato and Aristotle. Once you've read Republic, Laws, Symposium, Menon, Phaedo, Categories, Ethics, Metaphysics move onto City of God by Augustine and selected writings of Aquinas (500 or so pages on metaphysics). With that you may want to consider Descartes Meditations and Leibniz and after that move to Kierkegaard. With him finished try Joseph Ratzinger and Edward Feser's Scholastic Metaphysics, Scholastic Essays and maybe some Alvin Platinga.
If you want to go the easy pleb route read Peter...
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>>7712086
Kierk'd.
What are the saddest books /lit/ has ever read? Give us some real depressing books. Pic related is one of the most tragic books I've ever read.Fortunately it has a happy ending.
>>7715413
Ah tragedy.
Gothos' Folly was painful. Like Shakespeare's great tragedies, only painful like having your soul ripped apart. It's hard to find though, only a few beta readers were allowed to read it.
Fresh off reading Stoner last weekend - rates pretty high up there. Possibly because it's infinitely relatable.
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
ITT: we enjoin people we hate to leave /lit/ forever
>the guy spreading /pol/ cancer
>the antinatalist guy who keeps coining his own buzzwords like "life-junkies" and trying to explain how life sucks with thermodynamics
>>7715356
>the frog faggots
>the retard who thinks Zizek has merit
>the ignorant baboon that hasn't read Sam Harris but shits on him
>>7715409
>implying you need to read Sam Harris to shit on him
Hi, this valentine's day, I went and became a beta fuck, wrote some poor poems for someone but got humiliated instead.
So I was wondering if I should keep reading XIIe century shit or move forward?
i love you anon but you know the entire french court of love was based on queen elinor never fucking you
>>7715153
I wasn't expecting that, but after reflection the alexandrin form was not respected in 1/4 of the times and the font held no real value. Shs even said it was embarrassing. But I've been reading a good Troyes novel and I enjoy it so far. I was thinking about reading the Lais after that, but I'm not so sure.
>>7715128
Anon you have to realize that women don't want to be courted with poems anymore. They want to be courted with Ayyyyyy, Emojis, Netflix, or Alcohol/Drugs. Instead of writing poems for the woman you want to ask out just ask her for her number and text her for a bit with emojis and then ask her out in person or over text(If and only if over text if she mentions a place she wants to try or a food she wants)
Hey lit,
Doing an independent study in college on Jewish-American Literature (undergraduate). I'm curious to know what you all think the best works of Jewish-American Lit are.
Here's what I and my professor have covered so far:
Deuteronomy 1-8, Ezra, and Nehemiah
Theodore Herzl - The Jewish State
Kafka - The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Judgement, (also two parables)
Abraham Cahan - The Rise of David Levinsky
Henry Roth - Call It Sleep
We're doing one work per week. Next week's work is: Isaac Bashevis Singer...
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>>7714902
>Jewish-American Literature
>Deuteronomy 1-8, Ezra, and Nehemiah
>Theodore Herzl
>Kafka
America got really large, huh?
Elie Weisel
Herzog was okay.
I'm finally breaking down and buying a kindle.
Which one should I get?
paper white obviously
>>7714429
a Kobo.
>>7714436
But the paperwhite with 3G is 190 bux :(
What do you think about John Fante?
boring misunderstood white boy shit
>>7712461
Good period pieces.
>>7712461
I don't.
Anticipation Edition
Recommendations:
>Fantasy
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>Sci-Fi
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>What are you currently reading?
>What are some of...
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>>7702339
>>What are you currently reading?
Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz, good shit
>>What are some of your expectant sff releases for 2016?
Bakker's completion of the Aspect Emperor trilogy, and Sott Lynch's new Gentleman Bastards book
>>Who is your most anticipated new author?Myself
>>What do you do when a book is building up to a glorious climax, then walks...
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>>7702339
>currently reading
Under Heaven and
>expectant releases
I'm hoping for the finale to Hobb's Fitz series, but I doubt that will be this year. Thorn of Emberlain and Oathbringer should be enough to entertain me in the fantasy space. Still have too many scifi classics to read to bother keeping up with that genre's modern output.
>most anticipated new author
If they're new, I probably don't...
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Last thread someone asked for folklore tales, Croatian Tales from Long Ago by Ivana Brlic Mazuranic. Translation is kinda shit because the author made Slavic words into English so it just sounds really strange if you know the original.
On the anon who wanted Lotr quality in sf, Book of the New Sun, Lord of Light, Lathe of Haven, Solaris, A Scanner Darkly.
