What does /lit/ think of Kierkegaard?
Particularly Either/Or? I found him recently, and holy shit, something about him really appeals to me.
He was like the first existentialist right??
Should I start with Fear and Trembling or Either/Or?
>>7443745
Either/or.
>the cover is a photo of the author
>author's name is bigger than book's title
>the edition ordered isn't the one you recieved
>book is bound in skin but not written in blood
Like writing greentexts
Take away the meme arrows
Now you're a poet
No meme arrows here
The banter flows like the sea
And now my feet hurt
Shitpost forever
Eternal river of dreck
Can I ever leave?
Human feathered flyers
The appletrees blossoming
The large sized riddle
What's your favorite book with less than 250 pages?
>>7442673
Almost all of my favorite books are less than 250 pages.
In Watermelon Sugar, maybe.
Caligula.
Variations in size and font and typesetting means 250 is pretty broad. If you want to ask what's your favorite short book just ask that or say like 100-150 pages...
Recommend books with Alternative stories/What if
Bonus points if recent history
>>7442396
If you want anything that is anywhere close to plausible then don't go with that one.
I think what you are looking for is «speculative fiction».
>>7442396
ward moore - bring the jubilee (the south won the civil war)
otto basil - wenn das der führer wüsste (the nazis won ww2)
these 2 are my favourites
So I'm doing a Secret Santa with other teachers at the school I work at. I got a foreign language teacher, and one of the things he's interested in is French novels. I checked the wiki but it's all classical stuff. Anyone have any more contemporary recommendations? I did some investigations on my own and found pic related as an interesting sounding option, but wanted some more opinions. Thanks for any suggestions.
>>7442011
I loved it as a kid (the ant parts at least) but it's pop trash, to be honest. And the three books get progressively worse and increasingly uninspired.
>a foreign language teacher, and one of the things he's interested in is French novels
You haven't specified the language (eg does he read French)
Im from Belgium and Werber is pleb, you might want to try some Wajid Mouawad, its ttheater but it's awesome
Dump this trash and get him a nice copy of “Toilers of the Sea” or “Wind, Sand and Stars”. Why would you buy a worthless modern fiction when you can rely on widely known, appreciated and highly esteemed work? Give him a fine hardover of “Against the Grain”, he will get the reference if he read Michel Houellebecq.
Is it written in flawless English? I wonder how he, being a non-native speaker, managed to achieve such a level of proficiency.
>>7441606
Genius and love.
Possibly towards little girls.
He began learning English from his governess as a young child.
>>7441606
He started with the Greeks.
Hey /lit/, what do you think is the most stupendous human creation? There are plenty of masterful individual works out there, be they texts or music or even inventions like the steam engine or nuclear weapons, but what single creation or idea do you think best represents human excellence?
>>7441279
https://bad-dragon.com/products
Neutral Milk HotelOn Avery Island
>>7441279
Beethoven's 9th symphony.
You've just spent most of the day in a library and then coffee shop, spending over £20 on coffees while reading and writing. Nobody talked to you. You go home. You see this girl reading on her kindle. Do you talk to her? Bear in mind that everyone around you can hear you.
>>7439729
>that pic
>>7439729
lol no
>£20
what in the world?
>>7439729
You couldn't stop me from talking to that girl.
>h-hey are you an a-archeologist?
What are/is the essential introductory but extensive Buddhist writings?
I am interested in learning and need to recommend a christmas gift for someone to buy me so if there is a hardback, beautiful, big book covering it from introduction all the way through that would be ideal
My diary t b h
Got the perfect book for ya mate:
In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses for from the Pali Canon
>>7437231
nice, thanks
Should I read the Quran? Is it translated into the infidel's English?
>>7436519
>Should I read the Quran?
There's no practical or intellectual reason to read it. Only do it if you are curious I guess.
>>7436519
Seyyed Hossein Nasr's The Study Qur'an is the best. If not the Cambridge Companion. If simple translation, then Arberry, Qara'i, or Pickthall.
>mfw we all have to read the quran now because people are blowing shit up
>mfw if scientologists were blowing shit up we'd have to read hubbard's sci-fi novels
This is the greatest novel I have read. Replacing gravity's rainbow for me.
Why haven't you read it yet?
>>7435309
cuz i read recognitions first. gaddis really is a damn genius.
>>7435316
>gaddis really is a damn genius.
This. Anyone who says otherwise is an idiot or a supreme contrarian. I'm uncertain if an author with such depth and foresight will ever live again.
>>7435326
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Czd7GwNy4
you ever watch this?
What are some books that give an encompassing an in depth study into film theory and its history?
bump, is sculpting in time any good?
mark cousins' the story of film (also adapted to documentary) provides a good though very biased overview of film history. a good comparison is russell's history of western philosohpy
the early parts are great and it gives you a real understanding of the different stages of film's development until around the 1960's when cousins basically just starts talking about his favorite directors
movements as big as the new wave/new hollywood are glossed over and then you get a big section on 80's bollywood junk nobody has ever cared about but cousins
overall a worthwhile read, just take everything with a grain of salt and use it as a springboard for further studies instead of an authority
>>7430357
only if you've an interest in tarkovsky's films specifically
his theories really don't apply to much else
BUYP
A thread for anyone's poetry. Critique and discussion are welcome.
The Flavor Of Your Name
I spoke to you in whispers,
Gentle words against your ear.
It was clear you were still sleeping
I knew in your dreams you'd hear.
I ran a finger through the space
Beneath your chin, your satin neck
I am a wreck, reciting memories
I'm soaking in regret
I remember slipping notes into your purse,
Before the dawn.
And breathing in your subtle scent
So deeply, fully I was drawn.
My hands fit firmly to your waist
As if designed to be connected
I've collected and rejected every second.
I've deflected blame,
I feel ashamed of wasted chances
Just about the same
As I remember second glances and the flavor of your name.
The Gardener
I chose a rose of distant root
With petals pale and fair as snow
I did not look upon her shoot
whereon her thorns acute did grow
The rose I chose by sweetest scent
With emerald leaves at budding base
Did cause a blush to flush my face,
I bent to pluck, and I lament
I placed my rose within a vase;
A prison made of painted glass,
I watched her wilt as days did pass
As time ran out and I gave chase
Why do women rub their little clits while reading romance novels yet men aren't interested at all in that genre...
>Women make up 84 percent of romance book buyers, and men make up 16 percent. https://www.rwa.org/p/cm/ld/fid=582
Is it cultural conditioning and the patriarchy creating this gender difference or is it something biological?
>>7428317
biological
I cannot be assed to explain this in detail since the explanation would be so long but you can be assured that I am correct
polite sage since I'm not adding much to the thread
Here's how it was explained to me by a female friend who actually does read romance novels: she said a lot of women care far more about the feelings of attachment and longing that goes with it than they do the actual physical benis in bagina. I think this bears out because a lot of women don't seem to care if their men cheat, so long as side-stuff is just sex and nothing more.
Men, weirdly, don't seem to care if their women are longing for or have attachment to other guys, so long as it doesn't get physical. It's odd.
>>7428317
Romance novels are to females what pornography is to males.
![Lolita_1955[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/TAvF31l.jpg "Lolita 1955[1]")
