Just got Gravity's Rainbow, what can I expect from it? What should I do in preparation for it?
have you read any other Pynchon?
Your trash day schedule
>>7630664
What?
Why haven't you read Menxenus, Plato's best dialogue yet?
should someone read Pericles speech before going to the dialogue?
>>7630621
It helps, yeah, to set the context. But it's not really necessary.
How do you break out of the kiddie genre: fiction
What's the best non-fiction, non-autism book?
>>7630395
>anime
kill yourself
>he fell for the non fiction meme
kekeke
>>7630395
You don't need to pretend fiction is a kiddie genre to justify your interest in nonfic, OP. We don't care about what you think that much. If you want to read it, read it.
To answer your question: I've enjoyed Mary Roach's books, especially Spook.
Dear /lit/izens: I recently finished "The Ode Less Traveled" and am looking for a follow-up text on prosody. You know, whatever's one or two notches up from this.
>>7630276
Bump for interest. Do you have an epub or similar of the book?
notes on prosody, nabokov
There's a list of suggested reading at the back. Check it out.
Do you find the way of the aloof to be logical? Are NEETs genius or delusional? Is it dependent on the person's individual ways of learning, or is there an absolute answer?
>>7630254
>Do you find the way of the aloof to be logical?
No.
>Are NEETs genius or delusional?
Pathetic is what they are.
>>7630259
What if there was someone with an extremely fucked up past, so the torment of what happened lead to them not having the courage to do what they want, ergo becoming NEET?
Is that pathetic or is that taking into account the externalities and innate randomness of life which may attack you?
>>7630270
then you're still fucking pathetic
How does this make you feel?
bad books make great movies, and great books tend to make mediocre movies.
I bet it'll be good.
Underageb&.
>>7630249
At least it won't be as fake and whorish as "Pixels," right?
Are there any Christians/religious people here who limit what they read to stuff that's "wholesome"?
I'm basically a Mormon, and I'm struggling to justify—if it indeed can or should be justified—my reading of Henry Miller and others like him. However, I'm not sure that to lead a genuinely spiritual life, one has to remain insulated within what's "pure," "chaste," "wholesome," etc., as that's kind of a false religiosity which doesn't come from within. But, of course, the LDS Church teaches that its members should avidly avoid certain unwholesome things. I don't know. What does /lit/ think about this?
Stupid Mormon
>>7630155
That's helpful.
I for one do not lock myself out of reading religious writers' works if there is some redeeming value to them, but I'm not sure that'll be of any help to you.
>board full of new readers struggling with their first steps
>the book doesn't get attention
>people don't read it
Well, read it now /lit/. This is a great book by a great writer.
great book, the mix of straight up fiction and non-fiction is a little jarring though.
Im second poster to a good thread, "what in the hell of a fuck is happening?"
>>7630019
I have a first edition, its one of my treasured items. I read it first in like 8th grade, and from that point on my nights were more restless.
What should I expect, /lit/? I've only read Rimbaud's and Keats' poetry. Is this on the same level, or not?
>>7629889
>reading with expectations
don't let anybody fool you by saying the four quartets are "philosophical". there may be a philosophy guiding them, but they are poetry first. If you try to understand them it will be a very boring exercise and perhaps fruitless. Let the 'philosophy' flow softly underneath, and busy yourself instead with the poetry, the images, etc.
he is not as good as Keats, but still worth reading.
>>7629889
Same level hmm... it basically took the path that Rimbaud and others forged into new directions. That being said, I'm not a fan of T.S. Eliot after he found god. I like the resignation of post-WW1 generation that he put into words...
Is there somewhere good to find a list of common ways to say longer stuff in English? (an "adage" or something?)
Like for example, "those who are ignorant about a subject are often the loudest about it" -- any shorter way to say this other than simply rewording it?
Hope you understand what I mean, thank you!
>>7629877
Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt
i dunno, i would guess ebonics might be useful,
"real niggas don't talk shit cuz they already know"
That!
>>7629877
May not be what you're looking for but that's called the Dunning-Kruger effect
Need advice to know if there is any Italian living novelist that is truly worth the read beside Eco.
well, there is maybe Wu-Ming, but they're commies.
Claudio Magris is seen as a viable Nobel candidate.
Gillo Dorfles
Antonio Moresco
Stefano Benni
Where to start with Hegel? I've read passages for various classes, and applied some of what I learned to a critique of Blood Meridian, but I've yet to read a full text of his. I want to read Zizek, so i need some Hegel first.
>>7629775
Descartes (optional) - Hume - Kant - Hegel
>>7629775
You can do the long route, from Greek through Descartes to Schelling, Goethe and finally Hegel.
Or you can go with his lecture series, which are his easier and more digestable works. Lectures on Philosophy of History especially. And history of Philosophy.
fichte
I'm looking for a book,
not an actual book I have read and can't find; but a book I haven't ever seem that if exists I would love to read.
I'm looking for a price of Fantastical Fiction, hopefully and adventure novel, most important is that I want it to be sent in a different world, not a parallel universe or on a newly discovered planet. A world that is vastly different from ours but the characters pay no mind to it due to our world existing at all, maybe the main character notices the whimsy.
>>7629515
>price
>and
>sent
Strange cities and unexplainable breaks in the laws of nature. Buildings on the backs of animals or whole city's for that matter
>>7629519
I'm not following.
>modern literature
>from a culture that doesn't have irony or sarcasm
>>7629284
Which culture are you talking about bruh? In my experience some Murricans can do irony. There seem to be others though who can only use extremely heavy-handed sarcasm, and seem to get confused by anything more subtle. Maybe it's a regional thing.
Why's irony or sarcasm a prerequisite for literature? What about literary/artistic movements like New Sincerity, are they just pointless? Why?
How do you read philosophy?
Do you read it aloud?
Do you take notes?
Both?
philosophy was a wrong turn, if u read it u made a mistake
>>7629208
I'm a philosophy minor.
I'm reading Descartes and he is not particularly difficult, but I have a hard time not being bogged down by my disagreements with him.
>>7629212
this is how u can tell philosophy was a bad idea, ppl have been working on it for 2500 years but u still just start from day one and pick and choose the parts u like as if it's just a big opinion buffet...sure we all pick and choose the parts of art history that suite our taste or not, but art never claims to be working on some grand project...what happens when there is 10,000 years of recorded history and no one can possibly still start with the greeks and read through everything up to the year 8000AD or whatever in one lifetime? can we finally admit philosophy is dumb? nietzsche already blew philosophy out of the water 150 years ago but fuckwits didn't get the memo or try and trick u by categorizing nietzsche as a philosopher instead of as a classical philologist...the whole shit is just retarded.
