Google couldn't help.
How to handle it?
Any good books on the topic?
Or any books that object to the concept or others that build on it?
Would appreciate it.
didd u try reading sartre
>>7601089
I did. Where else would I get the concept from? He defines its causes and implications but not much else.
Is anything by Salman Rushdie actually worth reading or is he just popular because of the fatwa?
I've heard Midnight's Children is really good, so it's not like you are required to read Satanic Verses to enjoy him.
Read his short story, The Prophet's Hair. It's pretty good and as far as I know a good introduction of his style
being the German kid in the 20's in Los Angeles
was difficult.
there was much anti-German feeling then,
a carry-over from World War 1.
gangs of kids chased me through the neighborhood
yelling, 'Hieneie! Hieneie! Hienie!'
they never caught me.
I was like a cat.
I knew all the paths through brush and alleys.
I scaled 6-foot back fences in a flash and was off through
backyards and around blocks
and onto garage roofs and other hiding places.
then too, they didn't really want to catch me.
they were afraid I might bayonet them
or gouge out their eyes.
this went on for about 18 months
then all of a sudden it seemed to stop.
I was more or less accepted(but never really)
which was all right with me.
those sons-of-bitches were Americans,
they and their parents had been born here.
they had names like Jones and Sullivan and
Baker.
they were pale and often fat with runny
noses and big belt buckles.
I decided never to become an American.
my hero was Baron Manfred von Richthofen
the German air ace;
he'd shot down 80 of their best
and there was nothing they could do about
that now.
their parents didn't like my parents
(I didn't either) and
I decided when I got big I'd go live in some place
like Iceland,
never open my door to anybody and live on my
luck, live with a beautiful wife and a bunch of wild
animals:
which is, more or less, what
happened
Thoughts?
Based Buk
Kindle users come hither
I am skint both of money and reading material so I am raking the kindle store for freebies. Has anyone found anything particularly good that isnt a classic found in every bookcase?
>>7600834
Look up "Library Genesis" and download Calibre
>>7600834
Bookzz.org
Btdigg
Mobilism.org
>>7600834
>so I am raking the kindle store for freebies
If you're using the kindle store for anything you're doing it wrong.
Picked these up at the local Goodwill store an hour ago. I was looking for a copy of infinite jest but came up empty. I guess people are reluctant to donate it cause it gives their shelves so much elite reader cred.
My question is which of these do I read first? Which should go straight into the trash?
Dump them all except for Melville and Homer
They were cheap enough so that I won't feel bad if I never read a few of them.
>>7600549
Is that a decent translation of Homer?
>>7600549
Actually, this is good advice OP.
Who /librarian/ here?
Do you know if there is any way to allow users to view illiad records from afar?
>>7600196
Binoculars
>>7600387
top lel
I'm a librarian's assistant, been so since October. It's okay, though it is essentially a customer service job.
We use Polaris, dunno.
I have had this book on my shelf "want to read" for awhile now. I am wondering what is the best way to tackle this book. Do I take it a page at a time? or do I read a chapter then go back and read all the footnotes or do I read the main book then go back and read the rest?
Has anybody read this and of so what was your strategy? Is it worth the time?
I too am interested in this book.
>>7600167
I bought this book a while ago, and had a pretty easy time getting through it just page by page. Within the first two chapters you figure out how the color combinations of the notes relate to each other, and it gets pretty easy to figure when events between the main characters happen. My friends and people in the S forums (they exist) have tackled it different ways. By the second or third chapter, you should be able to figure out what reading pattern works for you.
>>7600167
GROOVE STREET, HOME.
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Norwegian Woods or Kafka on the shore? Which one is the best to start with Murakami? What are the themes of each book?
>>7600049
you misspelt memes.
>>7600049
Listen, kid.
On /lit/ we don't condone of the writings of "authors" (it seems ridiculous to call him one) that freshmen in college read (the liberal and female variety, that is).
Here is what you need if you want to be a true enlightened patrician literature afficionado:
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Dostoyevski - The Brothers Karamazov
Max Stirner - The Ego and its Own
These are /lit/-approved books that make or break you as an intellectual powerhouse
>>7600056
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Is there any value in reading this?
>>7599483
yes, its fun
sounds p funny to me
society for cutting up men manifesto
KEK
>>7599483
Solanas>>>>>>>Rodger
Who /book-a-week 2016/ here?
This is retarded. The Recognitions took me three weeks.
>>7599312
Not quite but close.
Difference between nihilism and absurdism?
All but the last 3 letters.
>>7599191
I don't care about your favorite cut of fish. It doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of local snail oligarchies.
Nihilists are 16 years old and Absurdists are 13 years old.
Can /lit/ recommend any books about the nature of identity?
Non-fiction preferred but fiction is also welcome.
>>7598365
A Song of Ice and Fire. Not even joking, that is a major theme in them.
Try Pirandello
>>7598365
Between the world and me
What does /lit/ think about The Witcher saga by Andrzej Sapkowski?
>>7598317
trash
>>7598317
>Posting genre /lit/ outside the genre /lit/ general
I can feel your reddit t-shirt from here.
The Last Wish is good, but they quickly go downhill from there.
The games actually have far better writing than most of the books, at least in English.
What is the best English translation of The Human Comedy? I'm looking for a complete collection of Balzac's masterpiece.
the old public domain one on free google books is fine
>>7598120
>Balzac's masterpiece.
>>7598120
>translation
This is my favorite Shakespeare play. What's yours?
>>7597647
>inb4 edgelord
You can tell a lot about someone when they give you their favorite Shakespeare.
Is that the only your ll read op?
>>7597647
Hamlet my son.
