what is your favourite book?
>>7637040
Mein Kampf
Art of the Deal
Schopenhauer's "On Women"
Decline of the West
>having a "favorite" "book"
sure is pleb in here
I downloaded a bunch of random ebook collections and now I want to ask which author would you personally recommend,
I'm open for everything
>picture related
Lovecraft, H.P.
Umberto Eco, he is a special case, a writer's writer, feels like he is trying to write an airport novel to end all airport novels, which he does with ease.
Huxley/Orwell can't be missed.
Erich Fromm is better understood from his video interviews same with Chomsky.
Jules Verne is interesting because he predicted a lot of things.
Houlebecq because he is pessimistic in world of positivism.
Not Stephen King, he just designs immaculate vortex plots sort of like Hitchcock with an emphasis on sacrificing character for plot.
Ender's Game holds a special place for nerds, I can't work out if it is really as good as it is, like all sci-fi it relies on 'the twist' too much, great for kids though.
Kafka didn't take on me.
Where are the philosophy books?
Jules Verne. You wanna share these collections, bro?
Wow.
As in, wow, what a disappointment.
Overall, it wasn't *too* bad, but it wasn't worth the publishers paying 2 million dollars for. The characters, plot, and prose were all reasonably good, but there were plenty of dull sections, to say nothing of not being nearly as intellectual as many long books are, and how people descibed it. The problem is kinda the length. 900 pages could've been done in 400 pages. I'm not kidding. A huge book is also meant to have a bunch of main characters, and this has maybe 5. What I'm saying is: it was length and not depth.
Overall, this book was a 4/10 or 5/10. Maybe worth reading, and a great timesink, but not really good, and certainly not 2 million dollars good.
Anyone else read it?
Anyone?
The moral of the story here is to read 2666 or Gravity's Rainbow instead.
>>7637015
Maybe those shelves wouldn't sag so much if there weren't brass fucking figurines weighing them down.
Terrific hangover. What book should I start?
>Under the Volcano
>Some manifestos by Tzara
>Canterbury Tales
>Fathers and Sons
>>7636950
3,4,1,2
>>7636950
>drinking alcohol
The Quran, you degenerate pig.
The Canterbury Tales better not be translated.
>he's an aesthetic Socratist
kill yourself
>he's not the demon-possessed, music playing Socrates dancing at the end of time
I laugh raucously at your ineffectual efforts
>>7636686
I'm Aristotelian, so all of Nietzsche's "philosophy" is moot.
>>7636686
who is?
Has anyone here ever taught literature?
Was a guest lecturer for a course on Paul Celan and Hölderlin once
Yeah, I love it. It's my job.
>>7636530
I tutored some foreign high school students in 9th grade English.
best book for ego-death?
>>7636513
Don't stop there, find the death of ego-death
As many as you can.
>>7636513
The Book: On the Taboo of Knowing Who You Are, by Alan Watts. His lecture recordings too.
>tfw not born timely/smart/focused/confident enough to study directly under notable continentals like Marleau-Ponty, Lefebvre, Adorno, Habermas, Latour, Lacan, Agamben, and so on, and write important theory.
>tfw you might try really really hard and become a technical writer or editor or journalist
why even live?
>tfw I was instead born stoic and wise and can accept the shortcomings and randomness of life with utter serenity
Damn it feels good to only need the bare necessities and my own virtue to find completion in life.
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.
>>7636210
Nobody's just born with all those traits fully formed. There are dyslexics with C-titles at Fortune 500 companies right now, so get your shit together and gun for the much less competitive world of academia if that's your dream.
>>7636210
absolutely disgusting
ITT: We judge people based off the books they read in 2016:
>White Fang
>Stoner
>Currently Reading: The Beautiful and The Damned
>Next: The Road by Jack London
>Count of Monte Cristo
>The Stranger
>Notes from the Underground
>The Plague
>The Iliad
>Storm of Steel
Currently reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I'll probably finish it tomorrow. I think I'll get to the Odyssey after this.
>>7628781
How Does Storm of Steel compare to All Quiet on the Western Front?
Read up to Ithaca at Last in The Odyssey. The rest is pointless.
The Nigger of the Narcisus
Ficciones
A Tale of Two Cities
Now reading Blood Meridian
Just finished The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour Hersh.
Is there any other book who can redpill me on JFK as much as this one?
>>7636829
>redpill me
Kill yourself
>>7636829
>redpill
Please refrain from using ephemeral pop-culture cliches. You'll be dead soon. Use your time and words carefully.
>>7636944
>tells me to use my time carefully
>shitposts on /lit/
>he's an aristotelian
> he thinks posting memes is funny
>he is
>he
scumlords itt
So, I'm just wondering, what do you guys think about the books on pic related? I want to know your opinions about them.
If you so happen to live under a rock, these were created by a Philippine National Hero named Jose Rizal, an eye doctor. He used these books to reveal the abuse and crime of the Spanish.
Bump i guess
Maybe last bump for the night.
Maybe a last bump.
>Probability Trance me this:
I've been a fan of Bakker's work for a long time and while eagerly awaiting for the Great Ordeal to be released later this year, I decided to freshen up my memory on the first trilogy; while covering some bits of backstory on the most loved and most hated characters of the series, the Dunyain, a small revelation struck me.
The Dunyain were living in a self-imposed isolation for some 2000 years in Ishual during their "conditioning experiment", separated and severed from the rest of the world entierly, until Moenghus and sometime after him Kellhus were exiled (in a way), interrupting the said isolation, right? Considering their sect had no contact with the Three Seas for all that time, a region quite remote from their secrete fortress, how come both Moenghus and Kellhus didn't instantly succumb to some illness alien to their culture, practically the moment they came into contact with the rest of humanity? Like the Aztecs and the Mayans did after Spanish arrived or Martians to humans in "War of the Worlds"? I know their program of selective breeding altered their genetics to the extent of them having difficulties breeding with baseline humanity, but that shouldn't make them automatically immune to every possible disease. At the very best they would be different from us (regular humans) as any other species from the Homo genus was. And there is no contingency for that. Especially taking into account the medieval post-apocalyptical tech level of the civilizations of Earwa. Not even the Dunyain could attain the required medical knowledge, precisely because of their isolation - no matter how intelligent they were, they simply can't invent or make remedies for the ailments they know nothing about...
Is this covered anywhere or explained? Or we are just expected to jump over this plothole and ignore it? Bear in mind that I'm not trying to break the story, I'm just curios and thinking that this is an interesting omission on Bakkers side, considering how much effort did he put into his work to make it believable and interesting.
Because it's not important
>>>763325
Anyone read this book? If so what's your opinion of it?
>>7636702
It's not written by a white, so I won't read it because it'll be inferior.
Take the redpill, sheep
>>7636708
go back to /pol/ please instead of littering this place
I want to read something new and you guys have good taste, so I was wondering what /lit/s favorites were.
Published in the last 5?
Excluding non-fic?
