Holy shit, this is awful.
Tried reading Bulfinch, too, and it also sucked. Can anyone give me a good intro book to Mythology?
>>7519707
Edith Hamilton - Mythology
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
So are the meme trilogy books actually decent, or are they glorified trash?
>>7519671
>translations
>>7519671
Ulysses is a classic of english literature and one of the most important novels ever written.
Gravity's Rainbow is a masterpiece and captures the mood of the post-war era very well.
Infinite Jest is bloated and confused, but still a nice display of talent.
>>7519671
hijo de tu chingada madre, why?
Hey /lit/ I used to be big on reading but then I started to rot my mind with video games.
Now I want to get back into reading, but it's been a while and I don't have any good leads on a book to pick up.
What are some page turners? The kind of thing where I will feel the need to finish in one sitting?
Basically anything that will not be recommended by the pretentious wankers on this board.
>>7519584
Okay.
So can I get a ton of recommendations.
That way I can avoid those books. :^)
>>7519586
sticky
What will he write next?
I wonder if on Twitter he documented that mustache, from his initial decision to grow it to its final form as a shitsmear on his face, absolutely disgusting but somehow possessing more artistic merit than his literary output.
>>7519590
Which of his books did you read?
>>7519797
Do you think they fugged?
The year is 2016. I decided to finally read Infinite Jest. What should I expect? What does it make so good and relevant today?
Also, I spent 2015 reading Tolstoy and Dostoivesky. Will DFW make me want to go back to the russians or he is truly great as /lit/ says?
It's really dense. On the front cover write words you don't know, postit note the section in the back because you will reference it often.
>>7519534
>What should I expect? What does it make so good and relevant today?
What's the point of asking these questions if you've already decided you're going to read it?
>>7519534
Why don't you read it and form your own opinion?
Is his critical acclaim only because he's black?
I haven't read Seven Killings yet (I got it for Christmas) so I dunno.
I think he's pretty cool though. I did read an interview with him where he was talking about how he wanted to write a novel about vikings. He didn't like being locked into certain topics because of his ethnicity/sexual orientation and I can respect that.
>>7519283
No. Seven Killings is BOTY 2015
I haven't read Seven Killings yet and won't till sometime middle of next year but pretty much everybody whose opinion on books I care about that has enjoyed it. Even my hard as fuck to please former English prof liked it.
So I can't say with any real opinion of my own but it does seem at least somewhat deserved.
Why do Americans think that using caps lock makes anything they say sound quirky? BECAUSE YOU SHOULD TOTALLY DONATE TO MY KICKPATREON #SAYNOTOPANHANDLING XD
Is it a go to key for diminishing responsibility through detachment? A keyboard form of vocal fry?
>>7519266
Why do Americans like to make everything loud and clappy?
Because they're descendants of those who get expelled from the heart of civilisation because they were not civilised enough.
Is it really just the Americans? BECAUSE IT TOTALLY DOESN'T HAPPEN ON OTHER PEOPLE'S TWITTER ACCOUNTS
This was fucking garbage.
im a pleb for disliking this?
No, you might be middle-tier.
Two kinds of people like Murakami: plebians, and extreme patricians.
>>7519218
You didn't like his worst book?
WOWIE ZOWIE
>>7519224
It's actually his second best book after Wind-Up... Ouch. Awkward. Might want to delete your post.
>>7519194
a general lacking of diverse characters
More niche, less publicity
Jugs Kidding Wowling
I'm looking for an essay titled "Depersonalization, the experience of prosthesis, and our cosmic insignificance: The experimental phenomenology of an altered state."
Where can I find it without paying for a monthly subscription to some online shitshow?
I'm willing to pay a few dollars I suppose.
>>7519151
It's part of a journal called "Philosophical Psychology" and appears in Volume 5, Issue 3. Published in 1992.
Does anyone have access to a database of journals that this might appear in? If you're a college student, which I am not, you probably can find it through your library.
>>7519151
http://www.tandfonline.com.sci-hub.io/doi/pdf/10.1080/09515089208573060#
Might ask you to solve a puzzle, after you do so please download the PDF and enjoy for yourself.
>>7519227
>http://www.tandfonline.com.sci-hub.io/doi/pdf/10.1080/09515089208573060#
Thank you! And in the original typeface.
Good site, will bookmark.
Hey guys, i'm looking for some books on Indian
mythology and folkore.
Any good recs?
>>7519101
Have you read the main stuff like the Bhagavad Gita? Upanishads? Or the Mahabharata?
I would start with these epics and go from there.
>>7519120
i have not, any particular translation that stands out?
Also, thanks
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/index.htm
That should keep you busy for some time. haha.
so /lit/ I want to write great homo-homo stories because I want to take a hobby and I chose to write homo-homo fanfiction to pass the time.
BUT! I write like shit and I am shit yes, that's right.
how do I make girls wet their panties reading my homo-homo fics? I want to enter their minds and hear them sniff and cry and feel with my love stories.
how can I make this happen?
>>7518993
You're on 4chan, we don't accept women, gays, as non-whites here. We are so-called 'redpilled people'
Just letting you know that this won't be tolerated
>>7519014
what If I'm just a normal guy
wanting to get rich by making porn for women?
what are your guys' favorite words? do you think they have any connection to what you believe?
mine is slugbait, it feels right to say.
context
I guess it matches up with the way as the input you receive from the world as a cross section of how it is.
Synapse
Synapse was the best hacker I knew in the cult of the dead cow so once he got busted I took on his alias and everyone thought I was he. I remember getting crazy calls at 2 in the morning asking me to hit this server or that; shit was cash. This was before Frozen Synapse or anything known which used the word and I thought it was cool as hell. Now I am the director of a company called Synaptics Limited which operates out of Hong Kong helping move illegal shipments to and from Pyongyang and China.
ballast
>Also: in b4 "defenestrate" - a stupid cuck meme word that is circlejerked here for some reason
>1500s
>1600s
>1700s
>1800s
>1900s
http://strawpoll.me/6399060
1600s
who the hell is voting the 1900s over the 1600s
1600s: Hamlet, Paradise Lost
1900s: Ulysses, In Search of Lost Time, Gravity's Rainbow, Infinite Jest
Hmmm...
I was reading a book the other day and I accidentally turned two pages at once but for about two lines it still made grammatical sense so I didn't initially realise that I'd missed a page. This made me think at first of writing a book with 'trap' pages that can be effectively missed out entirely without affecting the flow of the book at all, but may offer something that makes you consider an alternate idea or viewpoint if read, there would be no indication as to whether the pages were meant to be left out or not so it would let readers interpret it more uniquely. After drafting for a bit the idea the evolved into a book where absolutely any page or number of pages can be skipped or omitted whilst still maintaining a prose that makes logical sense. In order to get something like this to work I would have to limit myself to a certain set of stock page beginnings and endings, only changing a few key words each time. This made me realise that the pages could then be read in any order that the reader desired as long as they started at the beginning finished at the end, allowing for an an exponentially greater number of permutations and therefore interpretations.
Do you think a book like this could ever conceivably be written or am I just spouting post-modern bullshit? I realise that it would be very difficult to keep any sort of narrative going if the pages could be read in a random order, and it would be very important to have something actually going on or else it would be nothing but a gimmick and pointless to read, which is not at all what I want. I still intend it to be a book that anyone remotely intelligent could read without specialist knowledge.
Lastly has anything like this ever been attempted before at any level? I'm not familiar with anything if it has but I haven't done any research and I'm by no means extensively well read as far as post-modern literature is concerned.
Pic entirely unrelated
>>7518852
There was that one book, can't remember the name, don't care to search, where you could read any chapter in any order and it would still make coherent sense.
I think it would be cool if you kept both style and substance. The post-modern has neither.
Also, if you take out the limitation of needing to fill a whole page, you could make it more coherently incoherent.
Cortazar's Hopscotch does something similar. There are ~56 chapters that compound the main plot, and about a hundred "dismissible" chapters that can be ignored completely, followed at a certain order indicated at the beginning, or in any order you want. They tend to be quite digressive tho.
I read somewhere that Invisible Monsters Remix by Palahniuk does something similar but I read the regular Invisible Monsters and am not interested in reading more of it. Also, there was mention in the Wikipedia article of Hopscotch of a book that consisted of a box filled with randomly ordered pages that could be read in whatever order. Maybe this last book fits your description further, but I don't have a precise reference.
Finnegan's Wake sucked
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