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I'm on page 76 and its just okay. Does it get any better?
Fuck off.
>>7464305
That's not very kind.
Depends. Will your analysis of the text get any better?
>not reading the best book of the century
Trump was handsome back in the day.
>>7463860
If this is truly the case, the 21st century has been doing pitifully thus far.
>>7463860
Oh and this was published in 1987. :/
>When you realize that Harry Potter is an allegory for racism
>>7463794
>when you realise Harry Potter is an allegory for post war social democracy
>>7463794
>When you realize Harry Potter is intelligent, nihilistic, with a wicked sense of humour.
>When you all are reading Harry Potter
Anyone else into Umberto Eco?
I find stuff like The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum to be a much better example of postmodernism than something like Gravity's Rainbow, but that might just be me.
I picked up The Name of the Rose thinking it would be something like Mann or Hesse. What makes it postmodern? does it have some kind of zany time travel?
no, and i don't like how plebs try to pretend he's any better than other pleb shit like dan brown.
>>7463779
Meta concepts, mostly. The key to understanding the entire historical mystery in the novel revolves around Aristotle's second book of Poetics, on comedy, which has been lost to time.
How many of you are here for credit, a research project, or as an activism project?
>>7463762shh....
>>7463762
Oh shit, you caught me, I'm the shill.
Good job, faggot.
i'm just here to shitpost.
i do it for free.
i didn't have a hot pocket today but i had one yesterday.
>Psychogeography is an approach to geography that emphasizes playfulness and "drifting" around urban environments. It has links to the Situationist International. Psychogeography was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord as "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals."[1] Another definition is "a whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities... just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape."[2]
>In psychogeography, a dérive (French: [/de.ʁiv/], "drift") is an unplanned journey through a landscape, usually urban, on which the subtle aesthetic contours of the surrounding architecture and geography subconsciously direct the travellers, with the ultimate goal of encountering an entirely new and authentic experience. Situationist theorist Guy Debord defines the dérive as "a mode of experimental behavior linked to the conditions of urban society: a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances."
>Dérives are necessary, according to situationist theory, because of the increasingly predictable and monotonous experience of everyday life in advanced capitalism.[2] The dérive grants a rare instance of pure chance, an opportunity for an utterly new and authentic experience of the different atmospheres and feelings generated by the urban landscape.[2]
do any of you go for dérives? what are your experiences with them?
tl;dr: do you guys ever take walks
>>7463464
well do you?
>>7463454
>increasingly predictable and monotonous experience of everyday life in advanced capitalism
As opposed to?
the book is called life
>>7463291
Stop this meme right there
>>7463243
She's so cute I want to stuff my fingers and thumb into her cooze and o-ring and carry her around like a bowling ball.
What is the most complex and well developed character you have ever read?
Don Quijote in some ways
>>7461758
maybe you relate to his autism but quixote is a flat character, which is why he's supposed to be funny
Gonna be an absolute faggot here and say either Will Graham or Hannibal Lecter
Why haven't you read Yang Zhu (aka Yung Chu) aka The Spookbuster of the East?
>Life is full of suffering, and its chief purpose is pleasure. There is no god and no after-life; men are the helpless puppets of the blind natural forces that made them, and that gave them their unchosen ancestry and their inalienable character. The wise man will accept this fate without complaint, but will not be fooled by all the nonsense of Confucius and Mozi about inherent virtue, universal love, and a good name: morality is a deception practised upon the simple...
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>>7461554
Because afaik no works written by him (or even his followers) actually survive.
Must admit, though, assuming Mencius isn't just making shit up the 'would not pluck a hair to save the world' thing is stone cold.
>>7461554
be narcissistic without being egotistic
>One hundred years is the limit of a long life. Not one in a thousand ever attains it. Suppose there is one such person. Infancy and feeble old age take almost half of his time. Rest during sleep at night and what is wasted during the waking hours in the daytime take almost half of that. Pain and sickness, sorrow and suffering, death (of relatives) and worry and fear take almost half of the rest. In the ten and some years that is left, I reckon, there is not one moment in which we can be happy, at ease without worry. This being the case, what is life for?...
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Hello my well read anons, how can one become more intelligent /lit/?
>>7459697
meditate
>>7459697
Grow up in a creatively supportive environment.
smoke weed
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/3wpikx/best_books_youve_read_during_2015/
This is /r/books laughable list of favorite books read during 2015.
So, what laughable list of favorite books has /lit/ read in 2015?
I'll start.
2666
Underworld
That's all I've read.
>reads meme shit
>calls others laughable
laughable
>I agree on Kafka on the Shore, definitely a book I am going to need to read one or two more times to get. Still a great a book though.
I've never been on this site and don't think I plan on ever going on it again
>>7459270
>willingly comes into a thread he doesn't want to be part of
>ad hominem
laughable
How's your novel coming along?
Are you happy with your results so far?
How long did it take you until now?
How long do you need to go on?
>>7459122
There's nothing wrong with white-out.
>>7459184
If you ain't white, you ain't right.
>>7459122
It's challenging. First draft has potential, but it isn't done yet.
Hey guise, I´m going read the greeks, going for the oxford plato and aristotle complete works, pic related is the plato book.
I was wondering since I am rather new if you think I should read any other books first, perhaps the first philosophers: pre socratic book or something else.
Also if you have any thoughts on the versions of the book or translators they are welcomed.
If you're planning on going through Plato then I'd definitely advise you to read the Pre-Socratics. He uses and refers to their ideas quite a bit.
If you're new to philosophy in general then I'd recommend The Story of Philosophy - Bryan Maggee.
Read the Iliad and Odyssey as well, they're not philosophical treatises, but they're referenced often. Try Fitzgerald or Lattimore.
I'm doing the same thing, following the /lit/ flowchart: >>7451366
From what I've gathered you really should start at the top, with some basic mythology and then the Iliad and Odyssey, followed by The First Philosophers - it helps out a tonne in understanding Platon and Aristotle.
>>7451429
Read the Tragedies as well, especially for Aristotle's Poetics
ITT: Books that make you feel almost every emotion.
What was your favorite part, OP? Mine was whenHarrogate poisoned the bats.
>>7451116
Damn, there are so many. I loved that I could never guess what the hell was going to happen next. That part was great though. All the Harrogate parts made me laugh out loud. Mine is probably whenSuttree just packs up and lives out in the wild after the event with the mussels family
>>7451140
That part shit me to be honest. What fucked me up was the part where Harrogate was going to prison and catching flashes of himself in the windows of the bus.
So, I got bored and started writing. I know it is probably shit to all you writing fanatics, but just want some honest feedback on what I've got so far. It's written in a diary, journal sort of context if anyone gets confused so it's like the person is talking to the reader. Thanks heaps for the help.
There go another handful of these white capsules, right down my swollen oesophagus and soon into my bloodstream. I could feel the effect of the pills growing weary with each swallow, my body slowly immunising itself to its strength. The only thing I had to...
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cont.
It all started on October 31st, Halloween, All Hallows Eve, Lucifer’s birthday, whatever you want to call it. This eventful day that should be celebrated with mysterious witchcraft and candy was instead the day where my life changed for the worst. However, in that space of time it felt as though I was going to live the life that I had always envisioned myself in. Damn, I was so wrong. Anyways, I’ll get on with it. I remember clearly the small children with white, painted faces filling the walkways, running from door to door, their bags continuously enlarging with...
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Very good anon, story needs more structure, and you need to more describe the internal and external landscape of the protagonist. Solid 7/10.
man you are one pussy-whipped faggot
