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Ok these are the first books I've bought in years. Basically I haven't read anything since school related assignments years back, and I stare at my computer screen too much and I'm getting bored.
Did I get memed or is this good? They seemed like something I'd enjoy.
>>8289646
You picked alright. Nothing tooo hard, but you'll have to adjust to Notes from the Underground being set in mid 1800s Russia and muh roubles and all that.
Pick up some Kafka too
>>8289659
Yeah I didn't wanna start with some fuckhuge books with themes and subjects that will definitely go over my head. Starting with something "light" and I'll see how it goes.
I've heard the titles Metamorphosis and The Trial from Kafka, but those words are about all I know about him.
Notes from Underground is the only one I have read in that list but it is one of my favorite novels, you picked right and at the right time too, it's never too late to stop being a bitch and start reading.
>>8289659
underground is completely relevant today though.
>>8289690
try The Stranger, No longer Human, and Siddartha all pretty short but still heavy in terms of content and quality.
Why is biopunk so potent yet unexplroed?
Post Ill bills
Hasn't had its seminal work yet
>>8289581
Is Bill Kill?
Fresh off the presses
>>8289441
Are there pictures like that in the movie adaptation?
>>8289447
I don't know as I postponed seeing it until I read the book (I'm not american so no high school Gatsby reading) But google said it were stills so my bet would be yes.
I did see some trailers tho and it did seem like they went all the way with the mise-en-scène - pic related
>>8289468
Looks different from what I remember.
Fuck this book. This is one of the worst fucking books I have ever read. I just got to page 100 out of 160 pages and it's taken me weeks. My fucking head hurts reading this drudging nonsense. Seriously, it makes me fucking angry and I want to burn it, my head hurts. I'm right after the part where he hides the painting in a room and then goes about his life, and it's just going on in all this detail about really irrelevant shit and I try just speed reading it, reading it out loud and scanning my eyes over the pages so I get what's going on and don't need to try that hard, except it's not fucking working and now I just feel tired and wish I could fight someone. I just want to fucking fight someone right now, that's how much this book pisses me off, it's so fucking boring. Except you know what? I have been forcing myself to read it because I just want to finish 10 books so I can complete the goodreads challenge that I set for myself at the beginning of the year, it's not fucking working though. God fucking damn it I hate this book so much, I wish there was something I could read that's actually enjoyable to read, I hate this book so fucking much and I hate Dorian Grey, he's a vapid gullible little piece of shit.
>>8289200
Pick another one then, you dumb fuck
>>8289208
I'm waiting for my copy of gravity's rainbow to arrive in the mail.
>>8289215
Kill yourself
"I summarized The Stranger a long time ago, with a remark I admit was highly paradoxical: 'In our society any man who does not weep at his mother's funeral runs the risk of being sentenced to death.' I only meant that the hero of my book is condemned because he does not play the game."
What the fuck is this shit, he was condemned to death because he killed a man in cold blood was no remorse.
>>8289104
He killed a nonwhite, hence it wasn't morally wrong
I dont really understand why people like or analize that shit book that much
>>8289104
>What the fuck is this shit, he was condemned to death because he killed a man in cold blood was no remorse.
He was a white that killed in Arab in Algeria during the occupation. No jury would ever convict him. It would be like an America white killing a black in a town where lynch mobs happen. Nothing would happen even if they knew what happened.
Define art
>>8289097
This board is for literature
fuck off
Expression of creativity
Skill in action.
What's the best translation/ version of the Arabian Nights in English?
There doesn't seem to be any definitive edition even in Arabic and many of the orally transmitted tales from India don't seem to have any written source at all, and since I don't speak or ever intend to learn French I can't read the translation by Galland, who might have invented many of the tales and added Aladdin (who he might very well have invented himself too), Sindbad and Alibaba to the Arabian Nights although they were never considered part of that set of stories in the middle East.
There seems to be a good German translation by a guy named /Lit/mann that I might be able to read, but I'm not sure which of the English one's is best.
Some appear to filter out a lot of sex and violence while another one apparently plays up the sex aspect to a ludicrous extent.
I heard there's another translation from 2008, but I know nothing about that one.
Should I go with the Grub Street version?
>>8289015
My Islamic Studies professor recommended Haddaway by Norton
>>8289023
For ants.
>>8289023
>>8289028
Thanks anon, I heard some good things about Haddaway, but I didn't know how to spell the name so I left him out of my post and couldn't find him on Google
Give me recs please. Not faulkner.
Carson McCullers
Flannery O'Connor.
Tennessee Williams
Recommend me some art essays.
I love pic releated.
Umberto Eco - On Beauty.
More of a book, than an essay.
Ok, i should've been more specific: i'm looking for essays about modern and postmodern art.
Fundamentals of Musical Composition by Arnold Schoenberg
Need to write some toughts about this picture for a contest.
I came up with this bulshit for now:
The heavy thunder on the shoulders
thrown by a dark and variable sky
The pallid pyre that guides my escape
setting defeated on the mountain
And then I wanted to end it with something metaphoric about picking up the sun's ashes at the end of the road.
Cringy?
>>8288820
You can't write or think
>>8288820
this is undoubtedly the worst shit I've ever read
Good luck anon, I hate prompts like that.
Books you've read that after have made you think "NO MAN SHOULD KNOW THIS"
For me friedrich nietzsche - beyond good and evil
>>8288807
get out
>>8288807
Mein Kampf
Schopenhauer's 'On Women'
Evola's Ride the Tiger
Spengler's Decline of the West
McDonald's Culture of Critique Series
really makes u think
>>8288807
the little guide booklet from a box of tampons
why is this book so praised ? 150 pages in it and it's just a guy complaining. Sure he got a great style and sensibility, but I feel like reading a teenager blog
Should I drop it ? Does it get better ?
>>8288791
Because it has a cool cover photo of a man who just barely escapes being hit in the head with a football
>>8288791
The book was originally written as a bunch of fragments and was published after Pessoa's death. Who knows what the final product should be like? Keeping that in mind, you shouldn't read it like a novel. It's a book for dipping into every now and then, like a book of poetry.
>>8288791
>why is this book so praised ?
>Sure he got a great style and sensibility
...
Écrivez vos textes. Anon les critique.
>>8288606
Le petit chat se disposait dans le sommet. Il s'agissait d'un chat doré, mais qui est tombée dans un pot de peinture blanc, maintenant grisâtre par la saleté de la maison.
J'ai juste écrit quelque chose pour le poste je ne veux pas qu'il meure.
Hélas, quand j'écris en français, j'ai une tendance à perdre l'écrit.
>>8288606
Je cherche dans le vagine,
Je vois Jésus Mahomet,
Je marchais dans le vagine,
et j'entends les applaudiments.
La nuit est jeune dans le vagine,
et je suis perdu,
bien que je ne peux pas retrouver mon chemine,
et que le soleil est déjà mi un.
je sens que j'ai enfin sussidi
je suis retourner à l'utrus
je l'ai essayé. dégoûtant. mais étant donné sa présence perpétuelle j'ai appris à l'inclure, sans toujours l’intégrer de mon plein gré. mais un jour, sans le moindre soupçon, je l'ai eu avec son compagnon habituel, ce que j'avais évité jusqu’à ce moment la -j'en ignore la raison-, et la chose est devenue totalement claire, l’évidence même s'est présentée d'un coup et j'ai enfin compris ce phénomène qui m’était si étranger, qui me semblait si bizarre et qui me portait à exclure de l’humanité ceux qui en faisaient son quotidien... et quelques jours après, ce sont mes propres habitudes qui ont pris un air nouveau.
I can't wait to show you all the books I ordered anon.
>>8288579
>tfw always want to participate in the stack/bookshelf threads but too /lit/ to own a camera
>>8288599
A good camera does sound like a nice investment. The lens on my samsung galaxy s5 doesn't even focus anymore.
>>8288599
are you too /lit/ to own a phone?
Are there any gay stories that are actually good? It's annoying that every book ever has to be straight, or else it's just "doing it for attention". You're fucking living for attention, you piece of shit. Sorry I digress, I'm looking for good gay literature.
>Sorry, I digress.
>>8288328
Johnno by David Malouf
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
Twilight is pretty gay
