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Is this the edition to read?
Also what should I read prior to it if anything.
>Also what should I read prior to it if anything.
The Bible
Hamlet
The Greeks
Dubliners
Portrait of the Artist
1. any edition is fine
2. realistically you don't have to read anything before it
>>7708660
I read somewhere that it's impossible to get all the references anyway, so it isn't imperative to read anything. Is that your reasoning?
What does /lit/ think of this glorious bastard? And also similar authors
mid tier
also narcissus > siddhartha
Oh Boy! Why only mid tier? and i think narcissus is equal to siddhartha. it just depends on how open you are for buddisthic spiritulism.
>hmm i dont know shit about literature
>but i remember they assigned me siddhartha in high school
>how can i look like i know what im talking about even though i don't?
>tfw you want to read and write but can't stop browsing 4chan
I hate this fucking place.
>>7706337
not any more than you hate yourself.
>>7706327
Just turn off the computer for 10 minutes anon. You can do it.
Help me, /lit/
How do you deal with people who are not into literature or art in general, going so far as to disregard both? In daily life you can just ignore it, but how shall one establish emotional closeness to someone who neither cares about nor understands something which has become such a great part of my personality? I want to love her, /lit/, but what am I supposed to love if she only reads stuff that is worse than genre fiction and lacks any redeeming features? Maybe I am too elitist, but it is not the lack of taste which disturbs me but rather the fact that I consider...
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>>7705575
If she disappoints you on something as general as literature, you might as well ditch her. Shit won't last man.
>>7705575
Stop trying to change people, it will only frustrate you, and it's not really your place anyways.
>>7705575
If you like her you like her. It's not like you're some kind of aesthetic genius. That art has become the greater part of one's personality is something we all would like to believe, though it's really just horseshit.
You're not elitist, just some kid.
Horrible /lit/ related gifts thread
£15 for this
>>7712644
One time I got the collection of the actual Sherlock Holmes stories. And honestly they kind of suck.
>>7712674
There are various different collections, Some are worded differently, Some have parts taken out, Some are illustrated.
Should I bother reading Pnin before reading Pale Fire? I've read some of Pnin and just want to get around to Pale Fire.
then read it. why do you need approval for your decisions. this is an 18+ board
Read whatever you want in whatever order you want. Besides, Pnin has nothing to do with Pale Fire.
Pale Fire isn't very good by the way
>>7712625
this desu ne
who told you you have to read them in any order anyway? it's not as if comprehending nabokov is really that challenging
>Invented the Atomic Bomb
>I am expected to root for this man
Bad protagonists thread?
>>7712609
It's in my opinion that if a person makes it to 100 years old, they are allowed to do whatever they want. Laws no longer apply to them.
The book was just trash. I was embarrassed that I picked it up just because the New Yorker said it was good. Now I ask /lit/ before I read anything.
>>7712722
>listening to the new yorker
you dense motherfucker
I've been wanting to write a novel that's story is based on Germany after WW1 (Hyperinflation, Hitler's uprising, ect) though I'm stumped on what the general context would be.
Help me out /lit/.
good hearted aliens want to decrease the evil in the world, so they give the humanity a baby, adolf hitler.
Hey /lit/, I need your advise.
I want to make a present for a friend, and I was thinking about a book.
The thing is, the friend of mine went through a painful break up some time ago, and he seems to be struggling to close that wound, and I wanted to give him a book that coud help him to deal with his feelings.
My friend is not really a bookworm, he doesnt read a lot, and I thought it could be a good opportunity to try to make him read more, so a light book would be better.
Also, general Reccomendation thread.
Mindfulness in Plain English
STICKY: read it
>>7712579
Kerouac's "On The Road". See him forget about that bitch and explode like fabulous yellow roman candles.
How does one establish that characters care about each other without everyone assuming it's sexual? Or is that simply not possible in this day and age?
By not being a sex-obsessed autist who assumes everything is about sex to begin with, as you evidently do.
By the person being abundant enough, then doing a favor and not expecting sex in return.
What are their characters? You might be able to make the reader predict or at least understand their actions.
>>7712164
Were you this deprived of regular human contact in your life that you can't think of how people can care for each other without it being sexual? I don't know if writing is the best hobby for you.
What are the prerequisites for this, /lit/? No meme answers please. Keep it to less than 10 books or ~5000 pages overall.
>>7711524
The obvious ones would be Iliad, Odyssey, and the Bible. Hop to it anon.
WOW ITS THIS THREAD AGIAN HAJAHAHAJAJAJA
JDICKNDDOMASKSPDL OXP P O PICK DIPLODOCUS'S NOG
none. ulysses is a book: read it
What is /lit/'s opinion on Rousseau? More specifically, The Social Contract?
Him and everybody like him are, for lack of a better word, absolutely fedorable. Cult of Reason-type idiots who believe they aren't idiots.
>>7710889
Are there any good critiques you would recommend of Rousseau?
He traces all royalty back to Adam forgetting that all plebs are categorically descended from Adam. Pretending the Book of Genesis isn't poetic horseshit, for a moment, lime most ecclesiastic doggerel it doesn't pass its own logic.
Where do I start with him?
first you unzip
GIVE
HER
I just finished Ride the Tiger, it changed my way of thinking in ways i couldnt foresee.
How do you deal with the empty materialism of the Kali Yuga?
What are books that completely changed your thought?
>inb4 /pol/ get out
fakin stormfag
I did like marx very much
plz respond?
Am I the only one that dislikes dustcovers on hardcover books?
No, I hate it.
They look good (most of the time), but if I am to read that book I remove the dustcover and dont put it back until Im finished with the book. It is horrible to read with it on
>tfw you will never get a rusty trombone, even un-enthusiastically.
