What are some entry-level /lit/ books from the period between the Greeks and the 19th century? This isn't covered much in the charts.
That's because the chart is shit.
Try these:
The Saga of the Volsungs
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Golden Ass - Apuleius
But don't worry too much about difficulty, sometimes it's good to jump into a "hard" book. Even if you don't understand it all, you can always reread.
read the sticky
>>7703727
Lolita is shit don't listen to /lit/
What does /lit/ think about these books? Should I buy them all or are they shitty as fuck?
Dubliners
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses
Finnegans Wake
>or are they shitty as fuck
Why would you phrase this so awkwardly
shitty as fuck
>shitty as fuck
So the /lit/ archive isn't coming back, is it?
someone emailed warosu, said it'd be back end of feb or march iirc.
>>7703682
we've got our top men on it
what's your opinion about this book. what are the meanings
>>7703636
A neurotic woman assuming everyone is as neurotic as her, no concept of plot, and SJWs sucking her dick= anything by Virginia Woolf
Someone had blundered.
>>7703639
Poor Pleb.
Why is French so overrated? Why do so many people call it "a beautiful language"? I hate it; it just sounds like you are about to throw up every 2 seconds. Anyone else feel me?
No. Read your post again and realize how shitty it sounds compared to french.
Pauvre type.
Nah, you're a tard
>>7703569
Ignore these fucks OP, its the vilest tongue I regularly hear.
Sup /lit/, I just marathoned the first sentence of this post. Ask me anything
>pic unrelated
I just did the same thing family
>>7703516
This is some next-level ironic memeing
>>7703516
Are you jewish?
>And Simone falls asleep before her candlelit Virgin, certain that the little wooden figure is convinced of her purity, but more than ever tangled in her own doubts. And Jenny rises from the bed with a pain in her stomach, throws the leftovers of her boiled tree toads into the slop jar, and burns her illustrated copy of Macbeth in the stove. And the old boltcutter, having shouted so long across the river and drunk so much thunderbird, begins to forget that the voice calling to him is his own. And the vines and tides climb; and mildew stalks the front-room rug where Hank left wet footprints; and the river roams the fields like a glistening bird of prey.
remind me again why you guys hate him so much
>>7703500
>And Simone falls asleep before her candlelit Virgin, certain that the little wooden figure is convinced of her purity, but more than ever tangled in her own doubts. And Jenny rises from the bed with a pain in her stomach, throws the leftovers of her boiled tree toads into the slop jar, and burns her illustrated copy of Macbeth in the stove. And the old boltcutter, having shouted so long across the river and drunk so much thunderbird, begins to forget that the voice calling to him is his own. And the vines and tides climb; and mildew stalks the front-room rug where Hank left wet footprints; and the river roams the fields like a glistening bird of prey.
That's why.
>>7703500
Because he panders idiots and little girls.
>>7703500
>Google quote because it's obviously not Green
>only result is this post
John Green memeing is one thing, doing it with your own writing is beyond the pale.
>"He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.”
What did he mean by this?
>buttblasted pedophile smears actually relevant authors
>Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.
>tfw noticing your fellow readers grow up, you know what he means too well
>bibliography and suggest reading largely contains impossible to find books that are out of print
It's called a university library...
>>7703487
>>7703425
This and doesn't USA has some sort of connected 2nd hand books store site? We have one here in brazil that has jigazilions of them. I managed to find a copy of "The call of the Cosmos" By Tsiolkovisky in english printed in the URSS. It was lying arround in the amazon because god knows what.
> Bibliography contains pleb content, viewer's discretion is adviced
What's the difference between cynicism and pessimism? And why do people keep using them interchangeably?
Cynicism is looking at a situation objectively and realistically, pessimism is consciously applying negativity to a situation, whether it warrants it or not.
>>7703399
You would ask that
vs.
he's probably going to ask again.
>>7703399
The cynic tries to ignore social convention
The pessimist thinks that good things happen for the worse (pleb version : a statistically even situation "has more chance" to have the bad outcome)
>muh caste
>muh soma
>muh government makes people dumb
How the fuck do people like this shit? The whole book is a nuisance.
>>7703395
You can describe any book ever written with
>muh x
>muh y
try harder
>>7703395
>muh reductionism can turn any book into a pile of shit to make me look edgy and smart.
>>7703395
>he reads blueprints of utopias for plot
Recommend me some good books which deals with the theme of having realized that you'll never make your mark in history, but have an optimistic (or maybe stoic) view of still living life as it is nonetheless, unbothered by the mediocrity and mundanity the common life gives.
Preferably fiction. I've read Stoner, and it was great, so more in the same vein i guess.
Death of Ivan
One Hundred Years of Solitude
>>7703383
Thanks for the recommendation, will add these to my to-read list
>>7703376
book of disquiet
Hey /lit/, thought I could use some help with choosing a title of my project - right now I really don't have the mental energy to think of it because of a shit tonne of stress from other things, but I can easily just follow the sequential process to finishing it.
What do you think of this question, for 5,000 words?
"To what extent did the period of decentralization of an Ancient Greek State in particular reference to the series of events constituting the Peloponnesian War shape the identity and impact of Hellenic Culture onto the Ancient World?"
Possibly with some background knowledge of Ancient Greek history, make it easier to collect sources for, make it more in depth and suited to the word limit.
Thanks, just this one favour guys!
bump
please guys
this sounds like someone who for all means wants to sound smart. the question has no practical/philosophical value but only suggests that the one asking it knows about all the topics mentioned in the question.
tl;dr you sound like a loser whose last stand in the world is his "intelligence". get a fedora
okay thanks but as I implied, this question is pretty shit, just looking for help, any tips instead of stroking your cock as one of the many intelligent audiences out there
Here's a 10% off book depository code for whoever wants it, it expires on the 24th
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cool gonna buy the walt whitman collection with the faggy cover
>>7703311
God damn it. I just spent $180 on there.
bump for most useful thread on /lit/
Are there any contemporary ethicians doing work regarding the integration of homosexuals into mainstream society and its possible problems?
ethicist
>>7703221
Ethician is valid as well, my friend.
