Will I 'get' Faulkner if I never had a slutty sister?
If you knew some sluts growing up you should be fine.
>>7696209
You won't really 'get' him unless you are from Mississippi or have lived there. That's just being honest.
Is Houellebecq right about post-modern art?
>>7696176
nothing matters since 68, unless it is about promoting the Human rights in the most retarded ways.
>>7696176
I don't know, what did he say?
>>7696187
Map and the Territory pretty much shows them as not especially great businessmen who got lucky with a gimmick and a solid PR team.
The main character makes a painting called "Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst Corner the Art Market."
What are you reading currently?
I'm reading the Royal Game.
And The Tragedy of Man.
> the royal game
that's a shit translation of the title
i'm reading pic related
>>7696160
My favorite book along with A clockwork orange. Zweig's novellas are all good. Have you read "Fear" (might be translated differently to English, it is about a cheating woman and her family.). That one is really good too.
Walt Whitman thread. What do you think of his poetry?
BTFO's Emily Dickinson.
I want literature that sounds just like Chief Keef's "I don't like"
>>7696036
Good request desu, i may have something to recommend to you, but i'm in a room with my family now and can't listen to that particular Chief Keef-track, to give you a really fitting recommendation. Gonna give you an answer at night
>>7696036
To kill a mockingbird
Hubert Selby Jr., The Room
Can I get some good quotes about the meaninglessness of life, love you've never had and will never have, and the chaos of the universe?
read the hour i first believed by wally lamb
and fuck yourself
kill yourself
"Someone ought to stand with a hammer at the door of every happy contented man, continually banging on it to remind him that there are unhappy people around and that however happy he may be at the time, sooner or later life will show him its claws and disaster will overtake him in the form of illness, poverty, bereavement and there will be no one to see or hear him."
- Anton Chekov, "Gooseberries"
What did /lit/ think?
Whenever I see the name Cockburn by peen twinges in sympathy
Cockburn.
Lmfao.
No fucking way that's his name.
Bahahahahahaha. I'm sorry, I can't. Honestly. Where's the camera?
What are /lit/'s thoughts on this? Is it better than his other works?
>>7695993
who cares? Orwell was a pleb who just wrote basic novels for kids to 'study' in school.
>>7696078
Homage to Catalonia is nice tho
>>7696078
Okay. Post the list of books you consider not pleb so I can read them.
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This thread is about everything audiobooks.
I usually listen to them on my phone, but now I realized I can also do it while playing certain games. Any suggestions on good audiobook players?
I specifically need the speed increase tool without screwing the audio, because one of the things I listen to is the economist and they talk waaaay too slow.
What do you think of audioboooks?
Are they as good as regular books?
Never used audiobooks.
Are they any good?
>>7696515
No.
I listen to audiobooks in the summer while I run, training for the half marathon.
I just put the mp3's on my iPod.
I have no software recommendation, but that problem seems extremely basic and solvable by any sound editor.
>Are they as good as regular books?
Well no, it's another medium.
If I read Caums, say, if that consists of a narrator saying something I can't go back to what has been said several times, let alone in the next paragraph or at the next page content, then I have no chance of grasping a good interpretation of what's been said.
It might be good for listening to Harry Potter, that's another type of reading.
Any critiques on pic related? Enjoying the audio book right now (don't kill me). Maybe one of the other boards are better for this, now?
ruined my life
this psedoscience mulatto should be shot
>>7695966
ask /sci/ about this. I know it's supposed to be a more user friendly understanding of "success", or whatever, it relies on math too much, to get that thesis across.
/lit/ is more about stories of old racoons.
>>7695974
could you talk a little more about it?
any good sites/books for learning the basics of german grammar and punctuation?
Mein Kampf
>>7695985
/thread
>>7695988
I was also going to suggest the complete works of Hegel, but OP should probably move onto them after Mein Kampf.
Cerré la puerta de mi departamento y me dirigí al ascensor. Iba a llamarlo cuando un personaje rarísimo ocupó toda mi atención. Era tan alto que yo debí haber comprendido que lo soñaba. Aumentaba su estatura un bonete cónico. Su rostro (que no vi nunca de perfil) tenía algo de tártaro o de lo que yo imagino que es tártaro y terminaba en una barba negra, que también era cónica. Los ojos me miraban burlonamente. Usaba un largo sobretodo negro y lustroso, lleno de grandes discos blancos. Casi tocaba el suelo. Acaso sospechando que soñaba, me atreví a preguntarle no sé en qué idioma por qué vestía de esa manera. Me sonrió con sorna y se desabrochó el sobretodo. Vi que debajo había un largo traje enterizo del mismo material y con los mismos discos blancos, y supe (como se saben las cosas en los sueños) que debajo había otro.
En aquel preciso momento sentí el inconfundible sabor de la pesadilla y me desperté.
1985
>>7695956
" I closed the door to my apartment and walked to the elevator. I was about to press the call button when a truly starling person arrested my attention. He was so tall that i should have understood that i was dreaming him. His stature was incresad by a cone-shaped cap. His face
(which i never saw in profile) had about it something of the tartar, or what I imagine a tartar to be, and it ended in a black beard , also cone shaped. His eyes gazed at me in a mocking manner. He was dressed in a long overcoat, black and glossy covered with large white discs. It reached nearly the floor. With a suspicion that perhaps i was dreaming, i ventured to ask him , in some languaje or other, why he was dressed in such a fashion. He gave a ironic smile and unbuttoned his overcoat. I saw that under it was a long piece suit in the same material and covered with the same white discs, and i realized ( in the way one does in dreams) that under it there would be another one.
At the exact moment i tasted the unmistakable savor of nightmare, and awoke."
>>7695956
>que yo debí
Hasta ahi llegué
>>7695978
preety cool translation
Recent purchases thread?
These were £2 each, nabbed them from a charity bookshop.
That's a nice Blood Meridian cover. I believe i have Outer Dark in a similar edition.
I got myself:
>Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard
>Dicipline and Punish by Foucault
>Nietzsche and Philosophy by Deleuze
>A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Barthes
>We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion
No pic because they're all in Italian except for the last one and you wouldn't care anyway
>tfw local Oxfam bookshop raised prices to £2.49
It often has good stuff as well, but the pricing pushes it just above that impulse instabuy level for me...
I found a practically new version of Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre for 84 cents today at a used book store. Probably going to go back tomorrow to see if I can find something else.
It's going to be a comfy weekend.
what's the literary equivalent of kino?
Kino's Journey
TOP
Octavo
Opuscule
Bible
Compendium
Codex
Lexicon
Tome
Literature
Novel
Magazine
Book
Paperback
Softcover
Reads
Speller
BOTTOM
>>7695826
The first episode is the only good one. Every episode after felt tacked on
Why does /lit/ hate Fight Club?
>>7695731
because it's pleb fodder
Oh wait, I know this one: "they're pretentious elitist cunts".
Because they're tumblr
