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I've recently purchased this book which is based around civil war in around the 1700-1800 and discusses Marxism, bourgeois societies and what not. Was just wondering if any readers have tips on thoroughly understanding this book and what I should research prior to venturing onto learning about Thomas Hobbes philosophy.
Read some historical background and the political forces that were active at his area in his times.
Some introduction history book for early modern would be also helpful to find themes
>>7644144
Also see what some intruductory course plans availble online offer as secondry reading
Leviathan discusses Marxism?
Read this if you want an intro to Hobbes tho: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hobbes/
Create a poem that rhymes. Amaze me. Talk about depression and being undervalued.
>>7643646
Fuck off.
>>7643648
Fuck off. Beautiful. I love it. The title packs a punch. If you're not shy please share your words.
>>7643646
Everything which passes
before my eyes
Is skewered and cries
by a sickly bespectacled surmise
That places all the world in an unmade bed
of preserving fluid, and instead
of denouement
There is only
words
that go unsaid
What is Plato's best dialogue?
Apology
Republic, hands down.
The rest don't say nearly as much about as much.
>>7643420
The Republic seems like the easy pick.
Personally liked Lysis, Phaedo, Euthypro and Meno
What are some good books about pirates?
>>7643216
treasure island
Two Years Before the Mast
nigger of the narcisuss.
only the first is pirates but the other two give you a feel for living on a sailing ship
>>7643230
I didn't think Treasure Island was really anything special
>>7643230
I'll check them out
I'm also really interested in books where a ship gets caught in a storm/tempest in the pirate like era
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>reading Deleuze and Guattari's Capitalism and Schizophrenia
>can't take it seriously because I know I'm smarter than the guys who wrote it
>end up putting the book down to go browse /lit/
Anybody else ever have this problem? It might be unique because I only read literature written by people I assume are more intelligent than me.
Naturally this leaves me with a smaller selection of available books to read than some of you might have
I don't presume to know the intelligences of the--
Oh this is bait. Nice image faggot.
someone's really butthurt freud doesn't explain their incest fetish
>>7643155
>I only read literature written by people I assume are more intelligent than me.
You have read House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, haven't you?
Those who are very familiar with Jane Austen's works and her life, what do you think she would have to say about this book?
Fuck
Fuck is all she would have to say?
>>7642360
JUST
Is this worth reading? or is just momcore?
I borrowed one from the office, there were sticky pages.
It is worth reading. It is also only momcore because of the obscenity trial. Check out Sons and Lovers and Women in Love or the Rainbow as well, and his stories.
>>7642327
I enjoyed it
Some of the sex bits were weird. Mellor's wife and her beak tearing at him for example.
I felt bad for the poor cucked husband even if he was a bit of a shit.
I know /lit/ usually looks down on Fantasy books but how do you feel about this series?
It's probably the best fantasy series by a long way in my opinion. If you haven't read it I suggest you do, the character is very similar to the average /lit/ poster in the first few chapters.
stumbled across this trilogy in a thrift store, bought it on a whim, then moved and somehow lost vol 1 (still have 2 and 3) before i started it. i've seen complete sets since then, but don't want to just snag the first and leave the other two to rot. would love to know if it's worth pursuing more aggressively.
There's a whole thread called the slum for retards like you. I'm sure you can find it.
>>7643275
nope, sorry. too retarded. staying here.
but thanks for the bump. :)
>tfw even rejected from /lit/'s fucking shit-tier lit mag
there is no hope
I thought Ideology shut down? Are they still operating? They haven't even put out Issue One yet.
Anyway, cheer up, OP. I got rejected by them too (I think), and within a month a magazine wanted to publish one of my stories, and in ANOTHER month I got a website to publish one, too. Just keep at it.
>>7642103
post the piece?
>>7642103
If you want to get published somewhere online just as an ego boost go on medium. Some of the publications there will literally take just about anything.
Don't hear him mentioned here very often, but what do you guys thinks of Don Delillo? i think he's fantastic, but his work is very divisive
There are threads about him all the time.
I think he's a great writer who has unfortunately never produced a great work.
Underworld and Libra are really good in parts though. His portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald is fantastic, makes me wish Libra weren't a conspiracy book but a straight character study, because he gets the whole 'Travis Bickle' type down perfectly.
the names is by far his best
"So do you consider yourself a reader?"
"Oh yes, I love to read!"
"What's your favorite book?"
"Oh I don't really know. I only read about 3 books a year. I really enjoyed The Hunger Games when I read it though."
What's the most appropriate response to this?
Im seriously afraid for this generation /lit/.
>>7641945
>le patrician face XD
>>7641945
>What's the most appropriate response to this?
Answer to what?
>>7641949
How do you respond
Someone can tell me some philosophy and psychology essential books?
crime and punishment
the brothers karamazov
>>7641671
Freud.
Being and Time.
Being and Nothingness.
Phenomenology of Spirit.
Phenomenology of Perception.
Ecrits.
Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Genealogy of Morals.
Tons more, read those first.
The greeks. Not joking.
Where can I dl this? For free ofc...
pls
>>7640287
Your mom might have a copy lying around
op you still there?
/LIT/ BTFO
"...give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch"
Here's some context. Also, OP is a flageolet.
>>7637434
Post the paragraph before that, which includes "quit your books- no more hankering: this is not your gift."
Quit trying to illuminati the truth bro
>>7637443
I don't have it. Maybe you should post it?
>started writing jokes when I was 12
>they were all meant to be groany-worthy pun jokes and would just come to me
>added to them throughout highschool
>had dreams of writing a joke book
>jokes slowed down to pretty much a halt in university
>write shitty poetry instead
>came across the notes one day and finally transferred them to soft copy, add up to about...
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Everyone knows jokes are spontaneous, not written down. That's a pleb way of being funny. Stand-up is shit.
Something you wrote as an early adolescent was bad? Wow that means you'll never amount to anything in life, you might as well kill yourself.
Idiot.
all i'm getting from this is that you've improved enough to see the failures of your past work
in which case well done anon!
