I just finished this. What do you guys think of the characters? Can we all agree brett is a piece of shit? Is jake's devotion to her his biggest (non-physical) flaw?
Why? Even assholes and cunts have people love them more often than not, at least at one point in their life. I'm not sure why that'd be a flaw.
>>7573611
But he was happiest in the book trout fishing with Bill and then being alone in San Sebastian at the end. Brett just used him as a security blanket. He had a much deeper connection with Bill or even the englishman they met fishing than her, but he's just drawn back over and over even knowing they'll never actually get married.
>>7573666
That's what love does to you though doesn't it? It isn't always a deep attraction that lies in kindness and the ability to enjoy eachothers company as he did with those you mentioned.
How is the work of Jose Saramago? I know he won the Nobel and his novels seem pretty interesting, and apparently Bloom holds him in high esteem. Is he someone I should keep in my radar?
Pic unrelated
>>7573421
I just read blindness last week and it was really good, really intense sometimes. The prose is not hard to get into unless you only read YA shit.
Quick /lit/ I'm heading to the book store to pick up a bible I need for bible course I'm taking
Id like a Catholic version and the best one
KJV
Kjv for literary value
Oxford study Bible for learning
>>7573349
For a class get the Oxford annotated RSV / NRSV
Is this worth reading/is it good?
Read it and find out.
>>7573301
it's a quick read. i liked it.
It's good
>inb4 pol neckbeards calling it fantasy
Are there any modern philosophers that will be immortalized in the annals of history?
>>7573260
Jaden Smith
What's the best 1-volume collection of the complete works of Shakespeare?
I got this and I freaking love it:
https://www.rsc.org.uk/shop/item/16100-rsc-complete-works-hb/
Although it's the biggest, least fun book to read on my library. Heavy, hardback and on Bible paper. I still buy the little Folger or Yale University Press books to read his plays. It's basically a plush piece for my shelf that I only open if I'm looking up a particular sonnet but I love it.
>>7573246
Damn that's serious
I recommend The Complete Pelican Shakespeare for its surprisingly thick paper. It's the one I have, and I like it.
“I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
Discworld Thread
Knowing that every book I read is a part of that universe I'll never be able to experience for the first time again is a bummer.
If someone is just interested in literature but doesn't care about music or film or any other art form for that matter, is that person a pleb?
I'd say yes, but I don't really believe in the pleb / patrician duality so I'll just say that he's cutting himself out of a lot of what life could offer and he's renouncing endless possibilities to create meaning.
NOT LITERATURE? NOT LIT
I think these days people have better access to the arts and anyone interested in one of the arts is generally interested in others too.
However of course people studying literature in 1940 wouldn't have seen Film as anything worth their time and probably didn't have much access/knowledge to music. Same with the other visual arts.
So no it doesn't matter, literature is literature, it's just kind of expected in the internet age.
I have a feeling you're just some /mu/ fag looking for validation that his faggy indie pop is as artistically important as classic literature though and in that case you're dead wrong.
If we live the best reality possible, how come terrible things happen to people?
It could be worse.
Deleuze's view on this part of Leibniz is that he means we live in the world where there is the largest possible amount of personal freedom / chance to produce meaning
>>7573137
>It could be worse.
comforting thought
Can we get a blog thread going? I want to find good writing on the net.
I'll start by listing a few I like
>Architecture
http://recivilization.net/contents.php
>Film
http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/
>Art, culture, society
http://john-steppling.com/
>Psychology, society
http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/
No fuck off
>>7573007
Why so angry my friend? Are you prejudiced?
>>7573000
>psychology
>psychology
>psychology
Hey guys I just checked out Anna Karenina from the library, I've never read a full novel by Tolstoy only some of his short stories. What should I expect? Will it blow my dick off?
dont think about how long it is
just read it
it's good
if you have pic related the translation isn't ideal but it's not nearly a big as deal as some people make it out to be
>>7572885
>Anna Karenina meme
HE FELL FOR IT
>>7572890
Yeah it's the only copy they had
>It's another "abrupt ending to the book and nothing was resolved" chapter
>>7572849
>needs neatly tied resolution spoonfeeding
lrn 2 interpret
>>7573304
Only in books can you get away with including a shitty ending and people are supposed to think it's brilliant.
>>7573315
>Only in books
How's the Glenn Most translation of Hesiod? Is there another translation which is more "standard" like Lattimore is with Homer?
Isn't Loeb typically more conservative with there translations though most of there translators are based as fuck. You are probably better off getting a standard translation unless you are well versed in reading and writing Homeric through Modern greek because ever other page is the original language. You will end up spending quite a lot more and waste a ton of extra space for a translation that is more dry.
>>7572935
The Glenn Most translation is actually fairly new (2006) and due to Loeb's reputation I figured it would be a fairly good choice. But Hesiod is hardly ever talked about on /lit/ so I really have nothing to go on.
>>7572822
I wouldn't buy from that press unless you can or want to read in the original Greek.
/lit/ I need book recommendations. The last book I read was Taipei and I really enjoyed it. I'm currently reading "middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides and I'm not really that crazy about it. Could someone point me towards something really good? I like David Foster Wallace, Murakami, Kafka, Franzen.
>>7572660
Is there anything in particular you're looking for other than "good"?
>>7572660
Mein kampf by based hitler
Schopenhauer's On Women
the decline of the west by Spengler
The culture of critique series by McDonald
Evola
The moral landscape by Sam Harris
>>7572670
>literally nothing of any worth whatsoever except Spengler
your whole personality is a meme isn't it
I just bought "Light in August" by Faulkner. Is this a reasonable novel to start with if I haven't read anything by him yet? Or will you yell that I must read chronologically, et cetera, et cetera?
Also, opinions on this book and Faulkner in general.
>>7572659
It's a good place to start
>>7572703
Roger that
