Where does /int/ download their textbooks now that bookfi and libgen are ded?
I take pictures of each page in the bookstore.
>>7680983
bookzz.org has a few of mine, but friends or older students are always best for the obscure ones
>>7680994
thankyou friend
Which fucking translation should I get for the Gallic War and The Civil War. Was considering pic related.
No translation you fucking dilettante
inb4 corn
What's /lit/'s view on Ovid?
Very rapey
trash on par with todays stephanie meyers
>>7681241
Probably the wrongest statement ever made on this board.
Hello, I'm a graphic design student (yeah, tear me to shreds). I'm looking specifically into Gestalt theory. I'm not looking to fathom too far, but rather to get a good (unoutdated) book to know it...
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BAMP bitte please por favor :(
>>7680964
Gestalt for Beginners by Sinay or someshit like that. It's like a dummy series if that's what you want. I haven't read it myself just flipped thru it at a party somewhere in Havana.
are these "what should i expect" threads a new meme?
You should expect Canterbury Tales.
>>7680917
Stopped at one of the books where a guy takes a little girl into hiding and they keep talking about how they're going to fuck when shes of age in a later book.
Just stop at book one.
And for Dune, stop after book four.
Dear /lit/zens,
After I bought into the very difunded postmodern meme, I managed to acquire a few books that would get me the gist of this so-called "artistic" movement, being them two Pynchon works: The Crying of Lot 49 and the almighty Gravity's Rainbow. So, after reading and enjoying TCoL49, I wondered that I may be threading too fast into the higher grounds of absurdity; someway, somehow I feel like I am not ready for a story as dense as GR or The Recognitions or The Tunnel or Infinite Jest or even Focault's Pendulum, albeit understanding TCoL49 fairly well. I'm quite intrigued as I write this original post.
So, my precious fellow men, what should I consider as my "step back" into postmodernism? Shall I get
>The New York Trilogy
or
>Slaughterhouse Five
or
>Invisible Cities?
read all three of those, while reading the canon.
reading pomo without a good grounding in the classics is a rookie mistake
>>7680882
I didn't write it down but, yes, I do have a solid grounding in the classics: from Homer to Guimarães Rosa I have covered a great deal of works.
The question is I'm brazilian and, besides the complexity of the plot or the massive number of names to keep track of, I find it sometimes difficult to keep the reading act fluid as, even with a dictionary by my side, there is a ton of words I've never seen before and the syntax is upside down, forcing me to reread sentences quite often. That's why I've enjoyed TCoL49: it's dirty short and, after reading GR's first thirty pages, pretty straightforward and, dare I say, "simple". I'm, now, after a lighter but still postmodernist read, something between challenging and not so overwhelming. Something like the books I've posted and, trust me, I'd love to buy them all but my monthly bux are shortned by other purchases and I must chose only one. That's my issue.
Thanks for your reply nonetheless, Anon.
I get where you're coming from, but the best advice I can give you is just not to see "Postmodernism" as a single entity to tackle.
Invisible Cities could not be a less similar book to Gravity's Rainbow or The Recognitions. "Postmodernism" means very little outside of an academic viewpoint.
Read what you'd like, and don't lead broad terms like Modernism and Postmodernism guide you. Some movements, many of the early European modernist movements, many that were consciously 'movements' are more closely related.
But "Postmodernism" is mostly a term retroactively applied to works. I don't think I've ever read a (good) author saying they set out to write something "Postmodern". People like DeLillo who are so often labeled "Postmodern" claim it doesn't even mean anything. In my view, "Postmodernism" seems to surface in all sorts of cultural thought and literature today. In many ways 'Family Guy' is a distillation of Postmodernism, but you're not going to watch that to prepare for reading John Barth. The whole thing is just silly at this point.
Whether or not to read Gravity's Rainbow is a separate issue. It's a tough book, but not because of how "pomo" it is. Because it is a dense historical satire with cryptic use of symbolism and lofty questions. But if you want to prepare for it, you'd be better off reading up on political and philosophical views of War and the military industrial complex - reading Paul Auster's metafictional detective stories will be every bit as useless to reading Gravity's Rainbow as watching 10 seasons of South Park because it's "pomo".
Literature lovers and professors are just going to think you're an asshole if you keep dropping that 'p' word too - so learn to quit it sooner rather than later.
Happy reading !
Literature:
>never know if what you're writing is good or shit
>the horror of watching your opinion on your very own work vacillate between two extremes depending on your mood day in and day out
>putting your heart and soul into something only to have some hipster call it pretentious because it isn't more minimalist swill and tries to say something about life
>toiling in obscurity for years for the privilege of having your blood, sweat, and tears turn yellow in a borders dustbin
Music:
>know immediately if your shits hot or not because your ears are infallible critics
>immediate feedback from peers, it's only a 3 minute song after all and most times they only have to wait for the hook
>3 minutes of a dope hook, some snaps, a killer synth here and there and boom, your listeners have already achieved greater emotional heights than in the same amount of time spent reading
>social, gets you laid
>capture emotion and experience directly instead of sitting on the same paragraph for a month and wondering why it still doesn't pop
>no faggot hipster around to whinge about "thematic cohesion" or "hitting your reader over the head with the message" like every MFA drone that ever was
I love literature mane, but tell me why I should bother writing again?
>>7680858
>>never know if what you're writing is good or shit
Everyone who reads it will.
>>7680858
>it's only a 3 minute song
Only if you listen to genre music.
>>7680858
>working this hard for a milquetoast bait
lol
How do I overcome my shameful egotistical neuroses when it comes to reading?
For example, reading some philosophy and I imagine a wiser, more articulate version of myself dictating it. Or reading a moving poem and thinking of my friends and acquaintances reading it as if I was the poet who wrote it.
Don't bother trying, I'm not sure if it's possible without insane willpower.
It's easier to feign it by blocking yourself off from other people. Nobody can tell you you're a self absorbed prick asshole if nobody is around you, and you can more easily ignore your own glaring personality problems.
Electroconvulsive therapy + heavy doses of LSD and a lobotomy if possible
>>7680843
It's not shameful nor egotistical. It's merely a natural projection of yourself onto the work. It's unavoidable as long as you associate yourself with your own thoughts, as most people do. Does it make sense that a different voice would dictate philosophy to you?
Even when someone else is speaking, it's your interpretation of what they say, you can't receive their message purely. In the end you're receiving the message through yourself, even though it came from another source. This is along with your perception of where that person stands in comparison to you (seeing them as wiser, for example).
Does anybody here have trouble concentrating on reading?
All to often I get to the end of a paragraph or page and realised I have merely skimmed over, but not taken in or understood a single word. My wanders too much to other topics and I need to reread things constantly.
How does /lit/ clear their minds/thoughts before picking up a book?
Get to a quiet place, pace around, get some water. Then read slowly and let every word flow, dont try to "analyze" it as you read.
>>7680851
This. Be happy with your one book a month ratio.
>>7680835
I usually just lay on bed, grab the book and start reading.
I don't try to clear my mind or something.
Sorry for bad english tho, not my native language.
Let's talk about the philosophy of history, and more specifically, the role of narration and narrativization in ameliorating the historian's problem of translating "knowing" into "telling".
>>7680820
tfw megill is a sharper mind than pleb whitey
>wake up at 5 AM
>work until 4 PM
>get home
>try to read
>too tired to focus, end up shitposting and fucking around on the internet instead
>only read on the weekends
How do I fix this?
>>7680818
Become and aristocrat and acquire a lot of free time to do the things you love, like reading.
I'm not kidding. As long as you're a wage salve you wont have the time nor the energy to focus to read.
>>7680818
caffeine
>>7680818
Take an hour nap, you idiot
Does anyone have a link for The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery by Wendy Moore?
I Need it for my anatomy dissection course and there is no way i am paying my blood-sucking university any more money!
>>7680804
>The Knife Man:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:90ed158096bd147debee21b5855e4c6e6a299cfc&dn=The%20Knife%20Man%20%282382%29
Medschool anon?
>>7680819
Could you give me a quick guide how to use this to download with utorrent?
And no, i applied this year, but my undergrad department had a dissection course so i am very lucky to get into that one.
>>7680819
nvm i figured it out so please seed.
Could you tell me where you found it? i spent almost 3 weeks trying to find it.
I don't get it.
Was Visceral Realism supposed to be a passionate but ultimately empty movement, or was there supposed to be some kind of genius to works of Ceasera and Ulises and Belano?
And Sion too. I don't get it.
>>7680794
The joke is that they're all aimless pretentious assholes and them praising Sion is just another example of that.
>>7680794
Wow you're retarded.
What's going on in this thread?
What are some good psychological thriller themed books where 2 or more characters are constantly trying to outwit each other?
>>7680753
Sherlock Holmes.
>>7680753
Crime and Punishment desu
Misery- Stephen King
>wash hands to keep books from getting dirty
>saturated fingertips warp pages
>Read in the shallow end of the pool
>know the dangers but so cool and nice, and im tall enough that I can kneel on the bottom whilst doing this
>Sometimes on concrete sometimes just crabwalking around
>Never drop any of my books
>first library book I do this with, it just slips through my fingers
>glance at the bottom of a page, spoiling myself in advance
>sneeze
>little droplets land in the book
