I heard the other day that Cormac doesn't read. Kind of makes sense with his style, and I personally like his stuff. But is it possible to be an influential writer without reading? Was I fed garbage?
Also, do you know of any other influential writers who don't read anyone elses stuff?
He has read a lot. Whether or not he reads presently...
>>7512341
Every writer reads, some to a varying extent. Cormac without a doubt reads other's works but probably doesn't read as much as a critic or an academic.
>>7512341
>Cormac doesn't read
OH IT SHOWS
What are you reading? How far are you? What do you think of what you've read so far?
Currently reading pic related, about a quarter way through (~200 pages just today). Pretty awesome book, I got really sad whenFarria died. The prose is beautiful.
Read the first two chapters of A Portrait of the Artist. I like it a lot more than Dubliners. Thought I was going to suffer when I read moocow but it turns out that the prose gets more concise as Stephen ages.
>>7512306
What translation's is better, that or the Penguin one?
On topic, I just started The Sound of Waves by Mishima. Hopefully I can finish it before the 30.
Currently reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, about 60 pages in and thoroughly enjoying it. Also reading Don Quixote, about 100 pages in, and enjoying that as well. Just finished The House of the Seven Gables (after starting it probably 4 times over the last couple of years) and liked it a lot when I finally stayed with it until the end. Listening to Stephen King's It on audible right now if that counts but read it before.
What does /lit/ think of Dune? It's big as fuck and I'm wondering if it's worth the read.
>>7512304
#cringe zone
is fucking garbage hyped for faggots that think that muslims names are deep.
First half was entertaining, learning about the World and how it worked, middle was kind of boring, ending was disappointing.
>>7512304
This is my all-time favorite book. I was lucky enough to know next to nothing about it when I found it. I got the version with the black cover and small strip of sand. Before I knew it, I was reading the sequels and even some of the prequels written by his son and Kevin J Anderson.
>implying Kafka isn't irrefutably the greatest writer of all time
Sure is Reddit in here.
>>7512267
nobody was talking to you
>>7512277
Your mother might say otherwise
>>7512283
Moans don't count as talking.
There you go guys!
Tom Delillo.
Ah, thanks.
>>7512111
You're Welcome!
David Foster Delillo
Is anyone else disappointed by the dropping out of university thread? I thought lit was the board that had smart people. Good universities have lower drop out rates because the students are intelligent enough to choose to work hard.
/lit/ is a haven for burnt-out intellectuals.
Its too easy nowadays to make it big. You gotta be pretty dumb to think college is a worthy investment. Go learn math and computer science and you should be making $40/hour within a year unless you're retarded. Students who are "intelligent enough to choose to work hard" are "intelligent enough" to know this already and would rather learn something as simple as computer science and "choose to work hard" with their knowledge of CS. They don't need to go to college to be told what to study when all that info is a click away. If they go to school for something gay like literature than of course they're bound to drop out and they're probably retarded anyways. Why do you need to go to school to be told to reach Plato? Just fucking do it without spending 40,000 a year.
>I thought lit was the board that had smart people.
It, like every board, probably has some, but that doesn't stop it from having its fair share of idiots/failures too.
What does /lit/ think of Kazuo Ishiguro?
>>7509851
My wife says he's pretty boring but she's not a fan of the show burn. How about you, OP?
The Unconsoled is a great read
>>7511900
he is a candy ass gaijin.
This place seems to be all about the history of ideas and continental philosophy.
Why is there little to no analytic philosophy? Why no discussion of the articles and arguments of Bertrand Russell, Rudolf Carnap, W.V.O. Quine, R. M. Hare, Saul Kripke, Jaakko Hintikka, Simon Blackburn, Hilary Putnam, Alan Gibbard, Wlodek Rabinowicz, and many others?
What? To hard for you?
>>7511833
lmao get off /lit/ nerd
>>7511833
>Why is there little to no analytic philosophy?
cause that shit's for fags
>>7511833
Too boring to be honest. At least continentals know they're sophists and go for entertaining nonsense. Analytics pretend to be scientists and go for entertaining nonsense.
I've been reading about modal logic, and modal ontological arguments strike me as interesting, such as Alvin Plantinga's argument for the existence of God. I've noticed some atheists seem to think that the same sort of argument can be used to argue the non-existence of God, but I don't trust that they're not making a fundamental, logical mistake--particularly in the form of modal logic. Here's an example of an argument an atheist sent me:
1. If God exists, God is necessary.
2. It is possibly the case that God doesn't exist.
3. Therefore God is not necessary.
4. Therefore God doesn't exist (modus tollens, from 1)
So /lit/, what's wrong with this argument?
One of the modal axioms its based on is dubious, either S4 or S5. I don't remember.
you remember those days hangin out at the village green.......... engineer boots leather jacket and tight blue jeans
both premises are vague (and dubious under most interpretations)
Riddle me this: How do I read LotR without falling asleep?
If you don't like it, then just fucking don't
>>7511651
I dunno, drink a cup of coffee? Read sitting up? Don't be a bitch?
rectal administration of speed paste
riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings use by a Commodius Vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
rivverun pat eve and adams comes by way of a commodius vicus Howth environs... idk
He walked down the road. It was sunny. He whistled a tune.
Hey /lit. I'm pretty new to philosophy, having just read Bryan Magee's The Story of Philosophy and the Greeks.. but I'm interested in reading and understanding Nietzsche. What else do you guys think I should read before reading Nietzsche so that I actually understand him? Thanks in advance for any help.
All the Greeks, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer
>>7511519
Do you think that it's necessary to go through all the works of these guys or would only a select few works be necessary?
>>7511521
Just understand their ideas.
What am I in for /lit/?
>>7511460
>calling it dante's infero and not dante's divine comedy
you're in for a WORLD OF PAIN BOYYY
>>7511460
If you're reading in Italian, you're in for one of the top four or five literary experiences of your life.
If you're reading in translation, you're wasting your time.
In either case, I would read Aquinas' Summa Theologica either before you read Dante or immediately afterwards. The Divine Comedy has been called "the Summa in verse".
>>7511484
I dont plan on reading the other two parts right away. I like to break away mid way threw novels
>>7511489
>reading translations
Actually Sam Hyde did it in this 2-hour long talk he gave at Rutgers University: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hkov3QcCpQ
Most people who have not studied the disciplines of pure mathematics, or brain surgery, or rocket science, will usually be quite reluctant to pronounce on any aspect of these disciplines, since they are completely ignorant of them.
Despite this, most people seem to have no problem pronouncing on philosophical issues, despite being totally ignorant of the discipline.
Why is this?
>>7511409
>Despite this, most people seem to have no problem pronouncing on philosophical issues, despite being totally ignorant of the discipline.
Because Philosophy is feelz > realz
What does /lit/ think of the cover for Infinite Jest's twentieth anniversary edition?
I liked the clouds better.
I don't think this new cover really 'fits.'
But I don't absolutely hate it.
i guess it goes with the white covers of consider the lobster and the pale king
the clouds were iconic though w.t.f.
this looks like a tom robbins book
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