ITT: Good books you aren't allowed to like on /lit/
Harry Potter
The Enders Game series.
50 Shades of Grey
How can I express complex ideas about myself if I'm not comfortable being represented by a word?
Because being uncomfortable about something is not a necessary condition for it to cause the failure of one's verbal or behavioural expression.
>>7520504
To be specific, being uncomfortable with the fixed aspects of words and ideas.
It's as though words are metallic rectangles trying to express the totality of clay that is being constantly molded. Attempting to represent the self with fixed ideas when the self is never fixed.
>>7520512
"The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternar veritates [something everlastingly true] he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world. The sculptor of language was not so modest as to believe that he was only giving things designations, he conceived rather that with words he was expressing supreme knowledge of things; language is, in fact, the first stage of the occupation with science. Here, too, it is the belief that the truth has been found out which the mightiest sources of energy have flowed. A great deal later – only now – it dawns on men that in their belief in language they have propagated a tremendous error."
Who's the greatest intellectual of the 20th century and why is it Georges Bataille?
self bump
Bataille.
because you forgot to include gilles deleuze on this list
>38 years old
>hugely successful millionaire with substantial following
I think he'll be fine.
Can anyone else get over the fact that this man is rich and famous from repackaging old narratives and cliches and platitudes into 'books' and creating nauseating 'educational' videos which are just rehashes of wiki articles with a liberal spin? We will all live and die without making one percent of the cultural impact of this fool
>>7520456
speak for yourself senpai
Meme magic
Stuck in Africa (South Africa).
People here don't read.
Public libraries redundant.
Not a big variety in bookstores.
Bookstores contain crap in general.
Second hand bookstores even crappier.
BOOKS FUCKINGLY OVER-PRICED.
Anyone here know of a place where I can buy quality (in the sense of content, not condition) books online? Should I ship in a container?
Or am I at the vanguard of cultural decay?
Yours Frustratingly
Anon
Willfully in Chicago
People here don't read.
Public libraries are redundant.
Not a big variety in bookstores.
Bookstores contain crap in general.
Second hand bookstores even crappier.
BOOKS FUCKINGLY OVER-PRICED
>>7520406
As for your questions, try e-books.
Job-offer in Perth
People here don't read.
Public libraries are redundant.
No bookstores outside CBD
Bookstores contain crap in general.
Second hand bookstores even crappier.
BOOKS FUCKINGLY OVER-PRICED
Was Shadow Over Innsmouth really about race mixing?
I think that his xenophobia definitely bled through in SOI but I do not think that it was *about* race-mixing as such.
No.
I honestly don't think Lovecraft gave a fuck about human races much.
He described ports as full of unsavory foreigners which they were at his time.
Literally everything else is unrelated.
This large scale attempt to explain all his writing as racial based is so fucking tiring. He wrote one racist poem that was unpublished. Its not an explanation for the guys life or work.
>>7520447
fuck off back to /pol/
what does /lit/ think of Fight Club?
The movie was better
>>7520326
I think it's one of those rare cases where the movie is better than the book
Suppose this is legit. If you had $35,000 right now to spend would you buy this?
>>7520223
forgot the link
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Thomas-Pynchon-SIGNED-Mason-And-Dixon-/262128102149?hash=item3d080d6b05:g:KQ0AAOxyHIlTY8Dx
no i have an epub
i dont read/collect shit
My feelings have geometric folds....
Feelings with geometric qualities.....
They can be measured by a tiny ruler...
But the ones who measure, whether nephilim or some strange forgotten god, they cannot hold the ruler...
Thus, they cannot know my feelings....
My soul, trembles as dewy tentacles sprout.....the sound like a tree snapping itself in half.....
The sprouts reach in all directions.
Screaming to be known,
Screaming to be acknowledged,
Screaming to be measured.
A mass of spinning and odd shaped geometry.....I hold an uneven number of sides, in my time we called it a heart.
The spinning mass, with it's reaching tentacles, take hold of the first ledge it comes across.
Pulling itself onto a platform that surely must contain it's true shape.
But, there is no true shape.
Only the mother waits on the platform,
a distant membrane that feeds on it's young... It convulses and erupts, spilling digestive juices, a tidal wave of acid over takes the platform....
My geometrically incorrect mass, does not witness the event. The tentacles lack strenght to raise itself onto the platform and mourn in confusion....
My feelings in geometric folds, measured by peculiar rulers unknown to children of angels, long dead gods or actual humans.
>>7520036
0/10, juvenile, redundant and overwrought.
infantile sorry
simply awful
I didn't get it.
Don't bother going any further.
>>7520014
If you don't get this, literally every single philosopher will be inaccessible to you.
You can't even start with the Greeks. I feel so sorry for you.
>tfw you feel like you have good ideas but don't have the writing ability to make them sound smart
>>7519937
>good ideas
>needing to sound smart
Get a load of this gay
>>7519943
>writes well
>needing good ideas
Get a load of this gay
>>7519943
We should work together
>tell a girl who likes me I'll send her short stories over break
>>tying my romantic success to my writing ability
Holy shit I'm a moron
>>7519864
Incentives are always good.
>>7519864
>a girl who likes me
>>>/reddit/
>>>/facebook/
Lmao get rekt normalfag
I need some advice. What is stylistically better?
>trilogy of novels following a few characters but no real over arching plot, just smaller subplots
or
>3 separate novels having similar but distinctly different characters and universes tailored to fit the respective plot of each novel
pic unrelated
not writing pleb trash is bette
>>7519813
>not even attempting to be helpful
bamp
I'm interested in the philosophy of mathematics and sciences. How would I go about learning more, and what should I read?
The "big" names are Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend, Lakatos
Kuhn is IMHO the most famous in laymen, but he vastly oversimplifies in Structure Of Scientific Revolutions
I'd read that, plus Popper's Logic Of Scientific Discovery, and For And Against method by Feyerabend/Lakatos
Popper is good. Kuhn is okay. Feyerabend is shit.
Mario Bunge is worth reading and covers them.
>>7519788
>Feyerabend is shit.
dems fighting words boyo
Ernst Mayr wrote a bit about philosophy of biology if you're into that, Lakatos wrote "Proofs and Reputations" about philosophy of mathematics
What is some good literature about Tea and tea customs?
>>7519722
Mind not lewdposting with my waifu like that?
Tea: History, Terroirs, Varieties - Gascoyne, et al
Orwell has an essay about tea. I can't be bothered to get it for you because that pic, mostly. Just Google "orwell tea".
