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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RCFLobfqcw
That was a lot of bullshit
Could you ever be romantically involved with a woman that read plebshit like pic related.
I'm currently romantically involved with a woman who reads plebshit and patricianshit so I guess yes.
>>8241295
Why does she read the trashier books? Is it for a quick light read?
>>8241276
>tfw slowly influencing my gf to read more patrician books
Do contemporary writers still write short stories? Was the popularity of short stories tied to literary journals and magazines?
Well, if you read magazines, you would know that they do, all the time.
>I’ve only ever read one Stephen King book. That’s the one set in the hotel—The Shining—with the boy who has the second-sight. And the thing that struck me instantly, about 80 pages in, is I realized that the hotel is alive, that it contains the psychic memory of all the people who’ve died there, committed suicide there, done something destructive there, that the building is sort of seething with dark and negative energy, that it will take some of the characters over and destroy them, and that it will be the result, and probably it will blow up at the end. I suddenly realized “I’ve got to page 80,” because actually it’s 460 before you actually get to that moment. And it came to my mind that King is extending a short story out across 500 pages because his editor has told him “You’ve got to have a novel length, not a short story,”
from Jonathan Bowden's lecture on H.P. Lovecraft.
Is it okay to say i "read" a book when I really only listened to the audiobook?
i have about 20 hours a week of work where i can listen to anything I want, but i also want to cheat and be literate
have you done this?
>>8241085
No because you didn't "read" it. You listened to it, so you tell people that you listened to the audiobook. Of course you can do whatever you want, you can read the sparknotes of meme books and tell people you read those too.
no its not okay. dissociate yourself from people who would care about you saying you listened to an audiobook, and dissociate yourself from this compulsion to paint a face that isnt really you
>>8241093
I agree with this
I would disagree with the emphasis, to kvetch about sitting or lying down and staring a stack of paper to listening to someone talk, of reading of paper books over all other mediums beyond the significance of the personal preference to the reader.
What is the best book (or resource) on learning how to interpret your dreams?
I'm thinking of going full Jungian on this but, if there is an easier way, I'd be happy to know about it.
Full Jungian, no other way.
source: full jungian
>>8241042
What books should I read then?
>>8241058
'Man and His Symbols'
The 'Portable Jung' anthology is pretty good also.
>He's not a monist
More like mongist
>>8240989
>hey I learned a new word, time to whip out my dick and swing it around
go the fuck to bed I don't care where you are or what time it is
More like moronist
Tell me about Burkean conservatism
>>8240924
>I'm the buttblasted anon from the other thread, and now i think I'm going to get one up on the lefties by testing their knowledge of a conservative political philosopher who i just learned about in that thread.
He's basically the same as American Paleoconservatives in ideology.
>tell me about every work other than his shit on the sublime
lol. Just read everything by him that doesn't have Sublime in the title.
Everyone looking for reading recommendations went to >>>/wsr/ and the rest of us who are actually readers discuss literature on this board
Yeah but first can you tell me where to start with Nietzsche? Also his name is pronounced Knee-sh right?
>>8240878
books for this feel?
>>8240878
Then this board would go empty cuz no one actually reads books they just look for recommendations.
What writers do you regret inviting to your literary conversations?
OP
>>8240860
I'm regretting inviting (you)
>>8240925
I came with no invitation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLCEUpIg8rE
Am I abbout to make a mistake?
A very big one
>>8240797
awful version of Ulysses
you can find better Grapes of Wrath for dirt cheap
Never read making comics but understanding comics was a highlight of my childhood, great book
Yo whats up, new to /lit/, relatively new to reading and would like suggestions/ways to find new books
currently reading in search of lost time, bury my heart at wounded knee and dubliners. Got a long to read list including the recognitions, maldoror, the cherry orchard, and a coney island of the mind. Any help would be great, thanks!
>>8240791
amazon rec's are great
also Norton anthologies are all you need to know all the authors the average English degree holder knows
>>8240791
Fictions (Borges), Faust (Goethe), The Trial (Kafka), Invention of Morel (Casares), Solaris (Lem), Too Loud a Solitude (Hrabal), If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (Calvino), The Hearing Trumpet (Carrington), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Dick), Jesus' Son (Johnson), The Autobiography of Red (Carson), Hamlet (Shakespeare), Paradise Lost (Milton), Mysteries (Hamsun) are all excellent.
Lmao translation?
If you read translations you might as well just die, or not read at all.
Only idiots read translations.
If you don't know how to read every single language you are an idiot.
I don't understand your intentions here.
They are so well-veiled I cannot tell if you want to engender serious discussion or not.
I want to learn French so bad for this reason, i just dunno if the motivation to become fluent will be there since i dont have any other reason to learn it. But oh the glory of Rimbaud in his native tongue! How magnificent it must be!
>>8240690
That depends. Do you read translations? Are you an idiot?
Could you recommend any novels that evoke a Boards of Canada atmosphere? Thanks
A diary is not a novel, by the way.
What the fuck does that even mean? Atmospheres do not transfer between mediums. Be specific about what you're looking for. Or better yet, just take your plebery to /mu/.
my diary desu
Edgy? Check. Dystopian? Check. Needlessly Derivative? Check. Mary Sue beta protagonist out to save the world from evil corporations with his encyclopedic wrong generation knowledge of the 1980s? Checkaroo.
>>8240678
Also, how could I forget:The protagonist becomes God and gets the girl at the end.
>>8240678
You're just jelly because you were born in the 90's and don't have a personal connection to the 80's. Sucks for you.
>>8240693
It's the 90s crowd who's buying that shit tho'.
I like Geoffrey Hill, Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane. Any other poets I'm likely to get into based off that?
>>8240604
Hill just died, sadly
>>8240811
Yeah, that's what prompted me to read his material again.
>>8240811
Wow.. and to think we didn't even get a FUCKING sticky
