Anyone read the critique of pure reason? I know it's supposed to be difficult, but I definitely want to tackle this soon. What should I read beforehand? And Which translation should I get? I've read elsewhere that the Guyer and Wood translation is the best, but that one is $50 on amazon.
>>7662676
Descartes and Hume first
>>7662676
I took a class that just went over this. It's pretty tough, but if you outline the argument as you go you'll be fine.
ITT: The song you listen to when you're writing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em30XL9c5NQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_lIUraNtlc
I usually listen to noise, harsh noise or a 1/32 looping sample of anything just to isolate from other sounds and focus on writing. Yeah, it's super autist.
>>7661322
>Yeah, it's super autist.
sure but it sound hella literary and primarily concerned with writing rather than listening to music
Anyone have any essays or major text recommendations on Max Weber? I kinda understand his three points of legitimacy. But I was wondering if anyone here has a more comprehensive understanding of his ideas. Other than The Protestant Ethic, I was wondering if you have any other texts worth looking at.
>>7667857
Politics as Vocation is pretty dank, even if it's self-help tier with Nietzsche vibes. It has that meme about the night of icy darkness.
Also fuck Poland.
>>7667951
Why?
>>7667951
Both Vocational Lectures are pretty great.
What did he mean by this?
Going crazy is part of life etc
>>7667650
No its not...
Not normally at least
Fuck off with this Bukowski posting you little shit.
>>7667650
There's no way someone this stupid should be posting
Why has this book not gained greater currency in the literary world?
It's received way more attention than it should have. It's barely 25k words long and still becomes boring after the second chapter. It's written by a child for children, though shelving it under "literary fiction" and adopting the ironically-ironic deadpan stance of "define 'good writing'" makes idiots with low-attention spans flock to join the cult of Alt-Lit / Tao Lin thinking his writing is some sort of rebellion against hard work and genuine talent. Kill yourself.
>>7667463
Orwell was largely dismissed while he was alive too.
1. Because it's shit.
2. Taipei overshadowed everything else he wrote after it was released.
You come home one day to find Bloom going through all your written work. What does he say about it?
Oy vey! It's literally nothing!
The man can't think.
It'd be true this time.
>>7665869
Probably that I'm too derivative and have no discernible talent.
I'd still commend him.
What's the funniest book you've ever read /lit/? Mines a toss-up between Catch 22 and A Confederacy of Dunces.
>>7661885
The Onion: Our Dumb Century. No memeing.
>>7661885
Your diary Tbh.
>>7661919
Played out joke
>In the early 1990s, Wallace became obsessed with the memoirist Mary Karr. Despite her statements that she was not interested, Wallace got her name tattooed on his body and even contemplated killing her husband, according to biographer D.T. Max. The two later had a tumultuous relationship during which, Karr reported, Wallace once threw a coffee table at her and attempted to push her out of a car.
Fucking madman
Wallace was pretty smart but he also beta as fuck
>>7655975
The system is in place because not everybody can be an alpha.
Is Romance of the Three Kingdoms the greatest book ever written?
>>7667922
No. Finnegans Wake is.
>>7667929
FInnegans Wake isn't even 800000 words long.
It's #2 though.
>>7667922
It's actually Harry Potter
I need a new fantasy series.
I have read all of Raymond E. Feist books (a few times, The Magician is my favorite book), LOTR, most of Robin Hobb and few from different genres. But I find myself craving more fantasy, preferably long series. Can anyone help me?
>>7667507
Damn, I remember reading Feist in elementary school. I'd check out Gene Wolfe if you haven't heard of them already.
>>7667520
No, I haven't heard of him. Checking out his works on goodreads, any particular series to start with?
>>7667507
Peter V. Brett's got a decent 5 book series, have a read. Also, the Imperial Trilogy isn't half-bad.
ITT: authors that are /lit/erally you
For me it's Dante; intelligent, nihilistic, and with a wicked sense of humor.
>>7665589
For me, its that one author with the huge dick and infinite amount of money with incredible aesthetics. Ya thats me. Yours is cool too though
>>7665589
Mines the one that drives a ferrari
How does /lit/ regard Nick Land and his work?
>>7665562
He's kind of fun. Read parts of fanged noumena before really reading philosophy on the source texts, but I'm fairly sure Negarestani's more my cup of tea.
>>7665572
Have you read any of Land's politico-philosophical works?
Some Vintage Land:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiaWsgtJrNI
I pray to God I don't end up like Charles Bukowski. What a sad, lonely motherfucker.
>You don't try. That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like its looks you make a pet out of it.
Loneliness is inescapable to anybody with an artistic temperament.
>>7663713
guhhhh reddit pls go
>Mr. Madison, the Industrial Revolution changed the face of the modern novel forever. Discuss, citing specific examples.
>tfw I can't name a specific example
Which books have you read that displayed/ were written in that period?
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
It's a good read.
>>7667912
Uh well thanks anon
Lord of the Rings
Has/is anyone else reading this pretty little thing? Follow up question: can anyone explain the importance of rubber in it? It's mentioned all the time, and I really can't make heads or tails of it.
No man haha, you're the only one who has read it. You're quite a smart young lad, big cock too I bet. I wish I were ad smart as you. No one else even compares.
>>7667663
I don't understand. I just wanted to why Hawkes mentions rubber on every other page.
Why to has an rubber smartie?
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