Which do you prefer?
> Heidegger without Locke before him.
>>7514280
Hahahahahahahja
The person who made this is retarded
What the hell mess am I looking at right now?
Is morally wrong to eat meat?
Yes. It's a habit that causes unnecessary suffering to concious beings.
I think so. Doesn't mean I'm gonna stop though.
No.
Read Kant.
Then read Singer and laugh at him.
What is /lit/'s opinion of tvtropes.org?
if i may speak for /lit/
it's fantastic, very clever
Your post made my eye twitch. I think that answers the question.
the plebbiest trash ever plebbed
Have you tried reading on park benches?
They're cold and there's bird shit on them.
>reading in public, hoping some girl will confront you and fall in love with you
>tfw i will never lick her feet
>>7514108
If it's not wet it's not shit anymore, just a texture.
"I'm going to bed"
>I'm going to bed down
>I'm going to my bed
Which is correct? Is bed a verb or a noun?
hey nice
>>7514030
I assumed this was a shitpost but whoah
It's a noun. It seems like it could be a verb in this sentence but you'll find there's no other context where that works.
e.g.
>I'm going to speak
>I'm about to speak
>I am speaking
>I will speak
vs
>I'm going to bed
>I'm about to bed
>I am bedding
>I will bed
How many books did you finish this year /lit/?
Not so many for me, only four.
70 m80
>>7513984
What's that dude even meant to represent?
I'm at 93, but it's misleading. I've read quite a few plays this year, for one. I'd wager to say something like 60 novels.
What was the best book that came out this year? Do any of you guys have a "boty" list or something along those lines?
>>7513930
/lit/ doesn't fall for the artificial demand meme.
We are not sheeple chasing after the BEST NEW NOVEL(TY).
sorry, /mu/, you guys have shit taste and keep pitchfork alive
Soumissionor so I've heardI'll get around to it eventually, I promise
My diary, tbqh
>Objectivism—a view that makes a religious fetish of selfishness and disposes of altruism and compassion as character flaws. If nothing else, this approach to ethics was a triumph of marketing, as Objectivism is basically autism rebranded. And Rand's attempt to make literature out of this awful philosophy produced some commensurately terrible writing.
>autism rebranded
Based Harris
>>7513771
is that ben stiller
>>7513786
no its the guy who cucked chumsky
>>7513771
Lol, like Sam Harris ever said anything interesting.
It's the best time of year, getting to order books with gift cards. Anyway, I'm in a dry spell of new things to get into. I was hoping you might be able to help me.
Some of my favorite authors are Gogol, Melville, Beckett, Krasznahorkai, Kafka, Walser, Bernhard, Schulz, Gombrowicz
I'm looking for recommendations of individual books not authors generally, so if there's something you think I might like, please let me know!
What really moves me are elaborate, flowing, effortless sentences, which I think Melville and Krasznahorkai do well, and a sense of humor that Gogol does well along with them, somewhat embittered. My interest in Bernhard is involved here, but a prefer slightly less bitterness.
I'm also into fantastic stories eg. Kafka, Anna Kavan's Ice, Pedro Paramo, and much of Can Xue (though some of it is beyond me).
And lastly, my interest in language is reflected in Beckett's tendency toward minimalism. I love the word games, the cataloging of references, the bare and baseness of it.
If something comes to mind, thank you.
>>7513749
Antal Szerb if you want more Hungarian stuff, Andrei Bely if you want obscure but good Russian. For Szerb I say start with Journey by Moonlight
Have you read Gaddis, Gass, or McElroy?
Also, check out Vollmann's Seven Dreams Series. Fits your description pretty well.
>>7513764
Gyula Krudy is great as well.
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How many pages is it optimal to read per day?
If I read to little I can probably get off a lot more.
Somewhere along the way though, my mind starts loosening up and the next day, in retrospect, I realize I've not absorbed so much of the latter pages.
I can probably find out my limit through painful observation but until then:
What's the average amount of pages per day that are solid on a university schedule (say I have 6 hours of disposable time a day).
Pic unrelated
I hate when people post unrelated pictures of hot girls on this board. This is /lit/, not /b/. Have an ounce of class and sophistication, please.
For me i go 45 minutes then have a 15-minute break, and back again. This is for non-fiction schoolwork, and i will usually be done for the day after 3-4 hours.
With fiction i can pretty much read indefinitely. I don't really think much of the time or number of pages, but on average i think i will read like one or two blocks of an hour and a half a day
>>7513660
>asking for class and sophistication on an anime site designed for pre teens
Maybe you should go back to Reddit...
After 5 years of struggling and bleeding, trashed false starts and generally hating everything coming out of my pen, I finally feel like I've hit upon something.
I started writing a story and now I feel this strange elation whenever I'm writing it, I'm actually looking forward to my writing sessions which has never happened before. I feel like I'm doing something important now, instead of exercise or self-indulgence.
I'm constantly getting new ideas to add, I'm constantly hitting true sentences instead of "that has to do". It just flows. I think I can hit 400 pages without a single "fluff" sentence, to the point that I can make a detailed explanation for the purpose of every single sentence.
It's like I've finally discovered that elusive personal "voice".
>mfw getting published before 25 doesn't look so impossible and hopeless after all
Good for you m8. What kind of story are you writing though?
Nice, feel free to keep us posted here if you want to. I'm happy for you bud.
Thx for giving me hope OP. Writing always makes me anxious because I hate everything I write, its good to see there's light at the end of the tunnel.
Some people say it's the perfect fusion between classical and contemporary literature, and that it's one of the most dense books every written.
Some people say it's way too fucking long and has no plot and that Ishmael needs to shut up about whaling for once.
Thoughts?
>>7513471
dense isn't the right word OP. try rich with symbolism?
Anyway, yeah for me it's definitely a classic. whether it's up to your caliber of taste is up to you. Calling it a piece of shit seems like you aren't appreciating anything it's done.
>>7513471
It's seemingly mundane points serve to illuminate the epic caliber of the novel.
The book is amazingly written, to say that "it's way too fucking long," is an injustice.
If you can appreciate the rich, mythological quality of Melville's prose, that is.
it's underrated if anything
people acknowledge that it's 'great', but it doesn't get enough credit for how fucking fun it is, and people act like the cetology chapters are dry encyclopedic boring filler rather than hilarious imaginative brilliance that's a goddamn pleasure to read
Hey /lit/, what is the best edition of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley aside from pic related?
>>7513456
I honestly don't enjoy Huxley.
>>7513500
Cool beans.
>>7513456
this one
What are some official cuck-core literature, /lit/?
Pic related literally begins with a king returning home to seeing his wife fucking a black slave. He proceeds to cuck his entire nation.
Obligatory Ulysses
Basically any book heralded as a "feminist classic". Women just love adultery.
The Canterbury Tales
4chan is terribly sad and banal
I mean, when was the last time you were surprised by something here? Even this post heaps on the trash.
I was pty shocked and confused when I saw the Papa Pynchon/Don DeLillo face mashup tbqh.
What's the pic meant to diagnose because I have all of those.
>>7513405
No you just think you do
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