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Recommended non-fiction audiobooks/podcasts?
Hardcore History
I get the sort of get the feeling of this book, like more than 20 pages in [Spoiler] it's just constant love making, every single aspect of the book revolving around being arousing (and I enjoyed it, to be honest). It just sort of feels like a lulling story that is only meant to be pornography. I was sort of expecting something deeper.[/Spoiler] Can you explain without spoiling the book, simply if there's anything deep about this story at all?
This is how it ends when reading Bataille's prose works and knowing nothing about his theory.
No it isn't 'just pornography', somewhat key word would be 'transgression'. I'm sure someone will explain it further, I'm just too lazy to do so.
And, at the end there should be a note where Battaile explains why some elements of the story are like that and so on.
>>7671354
I dunno, it is very relaxing to read though. It feels like it lifts me out of the pressures of every day life, into a new state of mind.
>>7671275
This book was garbage, it read like something a horny 15 year old wrote and tried his hardest to be as /b/ as possible
TAO LIN CHARGES HIS iPHONE
a short story by Anon Anonoevsky
>1/2
Tao’s phone is dead. His coffee is going cold but not so cold it makes him frown when he sips it quite yet. He’s got ten minutes on that. His MacBook sits on a little round table in front, the table is too small and the corners of his computer hang off. On his MacBook screen is a folder. In the folder are eight documents with various one word titles, and five of them are blank .docs. The sixth contains five instances of bad poetry all separated by three line breaks with a single hyphen in the middle. Tao’s stomach growls. He squints past the vase in the center of his table to where there’s a chalkboard on the counter that prices out the daily kale variety product. Tao opens one of the blank files. He stares at it for a minute. Tao decides he still likes the title even if it doesn't mean anything yet.
“I can’t do this.” the Gmail tab at the top of Tao’s screen is flashing
‘Willia—‘
“Apparently you can make muffins with kale.” Tao says.
“We’re shit.”
There is no outlet at the wall near his table, but he can see one near a girl to his left.
“Is it weird for me to ask some random girl if I can charge my phone at the outlet under her legs? That’s weird isn’t it?” Tao says.
“Democracy is a sham.” William says. “I love the idea that this isn’t what happens when you have a Democracy”
“I’m going to ask her.”
“You know what happens when you have a free market?”
“Hang on”
“People use money to make it not a free market because free markets are bad for profit.”
“She nodded but didn’t look up.”
“I am lying on the floor.” William says.
“How’s your book?” Tao asks.
“It’s shit. We’re shit.”
“Did anyone retweet your link?” Tao asks.
>>7671041
TAO LIN CHARGES HIS iPHONE
a short story by Anon Anonoevsky
>2/2
“My mother, my ex-girlfriend, and this woman who writes a column for some nobody blog but she didn’t read it, she jut retweeted it because I retweet her links when she posts them because we’re both prostitutes.”
“How many followers does she have, is it that Shannon woman?”
“Over a thousand.”
“From the genre blog?” Tao asks.
“Oh shit” Tao says.
“Yeah that was cool.”
“Did you hear back?
“Rejected”
“She didn’t look up and didn’t see me holding the charger, and didn’t know it was under her feet”
“Form rejected.” William says.
“So I had to just sort of start moving in toward the area, slow enough to give her a chance to figure the whole situation out”
“I sat on my fire escape last night in the snow until I couldn’t feel my hands”
“And eventually she realized what was happening and flinched away from the outlet so I got there.”
“Are you serious?” William says.
“Who does that”
There’s a thing on the table next to the vase and Tao picks it up. He turns it over. He can’t write a poem about it, so it puts it back down.
“I was at a gallery last night.” William is saying. Tao orders a kale product. “It was filled with hookers who smelled like starbucks and critical acclaim.”
“What was there?” Tao says.
“Some Russian idiot wearing lipstick and a blazer with no shirt on.”
“Hah”
“You were allowed to smoke in the gallery, and he was collecting cigarette butts and hot-gluing them onto blank canvases and then hanging them on the walls.”
“Did that actually happen?” Tao says. The girl is packing up her things.
“Yeah, that actually happened.”
“Have you written it into your book yet?”
"Wouldn't that be a trite insertion?"
"Trite is old." Tao says. "Now it's honesty."
“That’s why I’m lying on the floor.” William says.
She leaves. Tao puts his hands on his laptop screen like he’s making to shut it but stops.
“I can’t even afford to buy her a drink.” He says.
“Who?”
“The charger girl.”
“I can’t do this.” William is saying again.
“We're Americans, aren't we?” Tao says.
“We’re shit.”
“We’re doing things.”
“We’re shit”
“We’re shit.”
“We’re shit.”
“We’re the now.”
“Shit”
“Shit”
“We write like shit”
“We’re shit.”
“But that’s what makes us honest.”
“You don’t think anyone will buy that?”
“Of course they will, they’re shit.”
It was alright until the end. It's facile and overdone.
>>7671041
you should have written it in his style. he wouldn't use dialogue tags after questions. i don't think he's ever used present-tense, either. too many adverbs.
cunt Kant can't count
cont. ?
why are you quoting schoppy with a stirner pic?
>>7671044
I quoted myself who is schoppy?
What is a good book to read about Japan and its cultural history? I'm really intrigued by it, especially after reading about based Mishima and skimming Wikipedia pages. I would love to learn more.
Shogun by James Clavel
>>7670849
Watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh5LY4Mz15o
Hideo Okuda reflects the society nice in Lala Pipo. Taichi Yamada gives a look into the soul and deep wishes. Akira Kudo about the youth culture. Kenzaburo Oe´s stuff for the past-war time, very interesting.
>The thought of right is originally my thought; or, it has its origin in me. But, when it has sprung from me, when the "Word" is out, then it has "become flesh," it is a fixed idea. Now I no longer get rid of the thought; however I turn, it stands before me. Thus men have not become masters again of the thought "right," which they themselves created; their creature is running away with them. This is absolute right, that which is absolved or unfastened from me. We, revering it as absolute, cannot devour it again, and it takes...
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the meme is not just a thought, it is the "proto-information" it could be so insignificant that you can't even describe it
but yes they are close enough
What is the opinion of Vonnegut around here? I don't hear much about his works, especially outside slaughterhouse 5
he is good as an introduction to post modern literature
>inb4 people use reddit as an excuse not to read him
Then fucking lurk more
>>7670797
only read Mother Night and it was meh
You do know, that you are utter trash pleb tier, if you do not have academic background in literature, right?
So let's talk academics.
What's your point of view on comparative literature?
Favourite scholars?
Favourite essays?
Is it more poetics, literature theory, poetics or cultural studies for you?
Do you think it's future of literature studies?
>>7670786
>You do know, that you are utter trash pleb tier, if you do not have academic background in literature, right?
As opposed to trash patrician tier, when you dumpster dive out of necessity due to poor choice in degree.
>>7670793
kek keep delusional.
im studying what I love
im working as a gallery curator, which helps me develop myself even broader.
keep your shitty 9-5 job and absolutely zero knowledge about any form of art. (btw sorry for my english, i'm not from these dumpsters, I mean US/UK)
>>7670786
lol i guess only plebs on this board
>Talking about Finnegans Wake all the time
>They know shit about literature
>They don't even know why is it really good
Fuck this board
hello /lit/. do any of you have any recommendations for Slavic history? i'm looking for beginner texts
Read Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin. Slavs often think of themselves as inheritors of the Byzantine empire.
I picked these up recently. Any thoughts in your opinion. Could you suggest me any books?
The Mystery of Chimney Rock (Choose Your Own Adventure #5)
Space And Beyond: Choose Your Own Adventure (4)
The Forbidden Castle (Choose Your Own Adventure, 14)
Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance Chronicles, Volume I)
Weis, Margaret
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, Book 1)
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (Heechee)
Gateway (Heechee Saga)
favorite book related scene. lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyObQH1RmLo
>>7670742
I've never heard of any of these! You fucking hipster!
How do women feel about him?
Women don't feel, anon.
/thread
im reading Whatever right now...why didn't anyone tell me this was so funny?
So I recently read a few of Arthut C. Clarke books. Childhood's end, Imperial Earth, Rendezvous with Rama.
I really like his books. They sit well with me for some reason. Not too overly complicated yet not simple and boring.
Can anyone recommend more SciFi books if you like Arthur C. Clarke?(preferably hard SciFi)
Earthlight is the only Clarke’s book I’ve read, but I liked it.
>>7670773
Thanks. Sounds like a good book. Unfortunately I can't find an audiobook(I have long commute).
Sorry if I wasn't too clear in the OP but it doesn't have to be Clarke, any writer is okay. I was looking if someone can recommend me other writers with maybe similar style and feel to Clarke's books.
>>7670710
I think that The Fifth Head of Cerberus strikes a good balance between readability and depth and it earns you patrician because it's by Gene Wolfe.
>Brave New World is dated
Finished reading this book, and it was so surreal couldn't get imersed in it.
First of all the "science" in the book doesn't make any sense and is often wrong. The author frequently mentions sciencey words along with banal things to make them seem futuristic.
Also the book propagates the ideia that premarital sex is bad. Really, the author talks about divorces in his prologue and says they are the beggining of the decline of moral. How can people take someone this nuts seriously in the current...
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Pretty poor bait desu.
>>7670707
Until you remember that is the average opinion on this book today.
That's what we call 'get memed' on /lit/
Don't read shit books son
is anyone here able to speed read?do you recommend learning it? do you really read the books or do you just flip through the text? and most importantly do you understand everything when you read really fast?
you cant, unless its ya, then you should back to rebbit. For example would you speed read Dante or Goethe?
>>7670657
well if i could understand everything just as much as i would while slow reading of course i'd read dante and goethe fast
1 yes
2 no
3 you read the important parts on every page
4 since you skip the descriptions and pointless expose you read the "point"
good only for genre fiction and some non-fiction
Can anyone recommend some good rise-and-fall type of stories? I'm not sure where to start looking. Pic somewhat related.
>>7670641
Brief History of Seven Killings is basically a Jamaican Scarface with aspects of Latin American novel structure.
One of my new fav books.
Watch Spartacus Season 1-2 but backwards. Prequel first.
>>7670691
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks anon.
