So how is that book coming along?
Fuck off Richie, you're Sparky a shit.
Any good books that deal with anhedonia?
try masturbating
Besides my diary desu?
All I can think of is Bolkonskiy in W&P.
Houellebecq- Whatever
What is your preferred medium to write with?
What do you like to write about?
>>7604230
A keyboard
I like writing about Japanese NEETs that are life failures and stay inside all day. I actually have a 62 page document about a NEET named Sachihiro. I'm pretty shit at writing though.
>>7604230
The majority of my writing is done on the computer, but I take notes when revising with pen and paper.
I enjoy writing about lots of different things, but lately it has mostly been fiction loosely based in real life experiences during high school in the late 90's and early 2000's.
>>7604230
Pen and paper, composition book for drafts and a journal with higher quality of paper for personal entries. I use a small laptop when it comes to typing up work and editing.
Are there any philosophers or literature that you can recomend me that deal and talk about the Will? About the decomposition of the Will and how even though one might feel a certain way, might think a certain manner, you end up contradicting your own Will in its execution? Procrastination for example, one might want do do something in an idealogical sense, even spiritually, but he does not follow through practically. The dissonance between the trifecta of how one Thinks, Feels and Acts.
Immanuel Kant, in great depth.
Begin with the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals.
Edgar Allen Poe's writing about perversity.
The Imp of the Perverse is one of them, although it figures into other stories and his novel.
Does anyone know of a good online companion to Ficciones? I have read it once before but I find Borges hard to grapple with at times and would be interested in seeing annotations and outside opinions on each story as I read along. Book recommendations are okay too, my College library carries a lot of criticism so there's a chance I'll have access to what's recommended
Thanks
Don't think there is one. Passing familiarity with Hume, Berkeley, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and scholasticism would cover most of the philosophy angle.
>>7604085
oh, th-thanks, I g-guess I'll be fine then
An Argentine author, Piglia, gave some lectures on argie TV and it is online (Borges por Piglia, iirc) if you know Spanish give it a look.
What is hard to grasp on Ficciones? Tlön... Might be the most complex, but a lot of the stories do not require reading a lot of philosophers like some anon said.
hey I'm teaching a class on war narratives this semester any recommendations as far as books go? what i've got so far is like this
vietnam war narratives:
The Things They Carried - Tim O' Brien
Meditations in Green - Stephen Wright
Cold war narratives:
Don Delillo - Underworld
Richard Condon - the Manchurian Candidate
War Journalism:
Michael Herr - Dispatches
Martha Gellhorn - The Face of War
War of the Minds/Psychological Warfare:
Philip K. Dick - Time out of Joint
Hector Tobar - Tattooed Soldier
anything i should add or change?
>>7603872
any reasoon you are leaving out WW2? a lot of the best literature ever created was from ww2
>>7603886
I have room for one more book and i don't know any world war 2 books. a decent rec would help
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What are some good megalomaniac books?
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>>7603978
Too many choices. Pick one for me, please.
>>7603675
obv. BIOMEGA anon
What do you guys call this 90's "discontentedness"?
To me it's such an unusual stage in cultural thought. Some obsession with zen, with centering the self. It's like they're all in the opioid after-math of Cobain's death.
I like to look at this through literature. Fight Club is a quintessential piece of 90's angst. It's a staple among young American men who feel some great urge to rebel and be full of themselves but just can't do it. You know what I mean. The characterized disdain for corporate environments, the references to Asian philosophy concepts done in jest, humor, even with ire.
What the fuck was up with 90's literature? Why is it so....angsty?
The dawn of the cell phone, the desktop computer, the modern life, all of these things seem unnatural and evil. Symbols of corporate overlords and slave collars in new plastic cases. Could such an attitude even survive in the 2016 climate?
Why is this era in lit and philosophy completely overlooked?
Should I take my thread to /his/?
>>7603664
You should read Fight Club instead of pretending you did because you saw the film. Angst? What? Can you back that up?
>>7603664
>Should I take my thread to /his/?
You should take it to reddit.
>>7603664
>Why is this era in lit and philosophy completely overlooked?
90's literature is overlooked here on lit you say?
hello lads
can anyone recommend me a play -- or a novel -- similar to Tom Stoppards Arcadia? absolutely astonishing play and i need more
Probably anything else by Stoppard.
>>7603620
I only opened this thread to have a quick look at your image and now I am leaving
Anybody gotten around to reading this yet? I'm considering starting it after I finish my current novel. Haven't heard any of /lit/'s opinions on it, probably because it's 1000 pages long and nobody wants to put in that kind of time for something that could be shit. Dude had a big ass advance for a debut novel, I assume bc he already had a big following for whatever the fuck blogging bullshit he did. other than that I know nothing about him...
>>7602660
It's shite. Bad copy of the U.S.A. Trilogy by Dos Passos. Really not worth your time. Could have been edited much more/
>>7602660
i watched the chinsese movie :^)
I happened to see it in a bookstore and picked it up and leafed like 15 pages of stylistically formatted tables of contents and title and subtitle pages and a print of a photograph to read the first sentence or two and he used "seemed" twice so I put it back in disgust.
Is this worth finishing? I'm about halfway through and it's dull as fuck.
>>7601267
I liked it, second best Camus imo.
Camus was amazing.
nah it's pretty shit
unless you're 18 you probably won't like it
What are the best nonfiction books you've read that have 'opened your eyes,' so to speak, and changed the way you think about things?
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Ficciones
>>7601220
>look at me m i funnee
Hey /lit/ what books are you reading right now?
How far are you into them?
Impression so far?
>pic related
The Fabric Of The Cosmos:
> a third of the way in
Good book for what it is; covers interesting and complex theories of physics in a way that's understandable to most people
The History of Totalitarianism In the Tundra:
>a little less than half way through
It's complete shit but at the same time a masterpiece of post modern literature. I only read it in short burst at a time before I have to put it down. I usually read it Sunday mornings and when I'm hungover to read something serious.
>calls tundra "history" instead of "legacy"
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>7600488
I had a long day sir. Give me a break. Also excuse the rest of the errors in my sentence structure.
>>7600477
>Tundra
Cool, mate. I'm currently reading Hypersphere. It's quite entertaining, there's a lot of things going on, but really there isn't.
Also
>Bleeding Edge
My first Pynchon, probably should have read his others works first, but whatever. I really like the setting, partially because I think NYC is a good environment for books, movies, etc. In this book, there definitely is a lot going on. I can read a chapter and sit for minutes on end thinking about what it means.
>What did he mean by this?
Where would be the best place to start with Lorca?
you dont.
Is that the French adaptation of Free Willy?
>>7600478
I came here to post this.
What does /lit/ think of writing while on/getting inspiration from drugs? Weed honestly maintains if not elevates my writing capabilities and LSD has made me write some insane shit which seems to make perfect sense at the time.
Famous poets have reportedly written masterpieces while on opiates etc so what do you guys think on the matter? I'll be interested to hear the responses.
Inb4 pic related btw
>>7599990
For me, they're all degenerates. You can't write if you're not of sound mind (see the inferior literature of blacks, women, liberals [drug-abusers], and gays).
im pretty sure opiates chemically limit creativity or something but in my experience writing on coke (and to an extent pharmaceutical stimulants) is really something, shit just pours out and you can edit/quality control later if you want. booze also helps the words come but they always seem pretty stupid afterwards
>>7599990
No. Drugs make your work sound like utter nonsense and those using them should be thrown in prison for polluting the streets with their presence.
