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does /lit/ read any indian literature? Like tagore or the ancient texts?
I read Siddhartha. does that count?
no, theres no point in reading anything that wasnt written by white high-class heterosexual men, becasue everyone else is inferior.
>>8231489
maybe?
looking for some fun entry level books to get back into reading again
I read pic related as well as the white tiger by aravind adiga. I liked both books, so any more like these?
I think Murakami and Atwood are good 'beginners' adult lit.
Try Kafka on the Shore and Oryx and Crake to start, even though they aren't what I would consider 'the best' by either author.
Don Quijote.
>>8231453
Ive already read it
Trying to download The Good Lieutenant by Whitney Terrell for a kindle. Need it in PDF, EPUB or MOBI.
Can't find it anywhere. Anyone know where I should look for this? Not sure if this should have gone in /r/.
>>8231413
http://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=121&t=1598550&hilit=whitney+terrell
here ya go anon.
>>8231413
>help anon, get no thanks
typical.
>>8231413
Is that sum tendies
How do you differentiate between modernism and postmodernism, /lit/?
>modernism
wow
>postmodernism
wew
>>8231411
this
>>8231412
thanks
Any good books written from a schizophrenic person's point of view?
VALIS
>>8231333
Forever laughing
Foucault's very early work has really really good stuff, he indulges in an existential phenomenology of (historical forms of) madness and schizophrenia. I'd recommend reading the first part of Gary Gutting's Archaeology of Scientific Reason. Just the parts on Folie et deraison, pre-Birth of the Clinic stuff, really - 50 pages, very readable, and you can use it as a guide to Foucault's actual stuff.
>we live in the age of a device that contains all of humanity's knowledge easily accessible
>the smartest people of our time are those who read archaic books instead
Greatest irony of our time?
Greatest ironing of all time is that we are damned if we do and damned if we dont
Those devices also enable a constant stream of useless information, all encouraging quickly moving your focus in an adhd manner to satisfy an insatiable maw of distraction and escapism.
Ancients didnt have this. They could sit and think for years and were fine with it, their brains weren't fried. Their thoughts were much deeper than modern man's, unless he has escaped the trap.
Children today are constantly on phones, tablets, and vidya and i fear for their future well-being.
>>8231314
>Greatest irony of our time?
Don't think so. Show me something better than The Iliad.
Also, remember: "Want to stay up to date? Read the classics."
What do you call it when you believe in a "mighty force" but not in any religion?
Agnostic
deism
there's also Kill Yourself You Piece of Shit Frogposting Faggot- ism
Hey /lit/ friendos. /Sci/entist here who, upon my first research opportunity, discovered that being a good scientist means being a good writer first and good scientist second (why the fuck doesn't anyone tell you this in school). I want to expand my vocabulary and my mental "pocket book phrases" to use in writing by reading good literature.
1. Do you recommend reading a certain author in particular to accomplish these goals or will just reading good literature in general help me?
2. Do yall recommend getting a Kindle? I fucking hate screens since I stare at them all day and I think the ink display ones would be neat.
read science articles
>>8231286
I do that for like 4 hours a day already cuh I want some pleasure reading recommendations
>>8231293
read the wiki
What are some good apps I can download on an iPhone/IPad to read books with no wifi connection /lit/?
>>8231267
Your local library,
>>8231274
kek.
Seriously though, the library is the tits.
How are there so many "manlets, will they ever learn" pictures that just happen to be there. Is this a primordial meme?
>William Faulkner could write an exhaust-pipe gag that would really make you think
Could someone link me that gag?
>>8231254
>Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big gas pipes?
>>8231254
William Cuckner is a fucking hack. HACK!
>>8231254
It's called a joke, not a specific allusion to anything he ever wr-oh wait, it's actually in Quentin's section of The Sound and the Fury, you're welcome, OP. The part with the Mexican girl.
Why aren't british people funny? All the supposedly funny british authors completely suck if you level your taste beyond zambingo-tier
>>8231170
It's a culture wide antijoke.
>>8231170
Post authors you consider funny, at least we'll be sure to have a laugh
>>8231232
Celine Kafka DFW Thurber
Would you read his book?
fuck off
No, I swore I wouldn't read any privileged white male authors this year MAYBE ever.
Sam Hyde is an ironic memer. He holds a holier-than-though attitude over everyone while living in his parents basement and making money off of youtube, while in his youtube videos he proclaims that people need to be less vain and more hard-working. He critiscizes people for being smart asses and then goes on hour long rants about how the media makes people shallow and how society doesn't have values. He offers no logic or argument, he just spews his opinion, in the same way the pseudo intellectuals he critiscizes do. If you call Sam Hyde or any of his followers out on their bullshit, they always have the irony excuse. Apparently even when Hyde is serious he is actually joking because he's so smart no one can understand him.
anyone else use satire and self-depreciation in their writing to hide the fact that they're shit?
pic unrelated
>>8231061
u r brand new
>>8231067
I am bil clinton
>>8231061
No, but I use it to pretend that I'm less of an asshole than I really am by making it look like I disagree with views that I actually hold.
>that chapter about time
fuck that was annoying
>that unaware chapter about Notes from the underground
Fuck that was cringy
What does 'the texture of time' even mean?
>>8231026
Read Le Hippo Man's Confessions.
0001
Bigger, bigger, bigger. See the hulk putting together the stones. Ha. The great green stones. See ladders and ropes reaching into the sky. See how now the sky has greyed. Imagine the little things. Imagine the smaller bits. Imagine every organized manufactorum building, building, building. Away now take these pale green stones and build me up a monolith. The hissing sneer of the giants. Stone giants. Carved and starved. Skinny. Baked in the sun, baked in the sun. Okay, and the moss and the green and the wasted blasted earth. The earth unearthed. The way stranded, yet the building of the material wonder. The wonder of the ageless, endlessly complex. The building up of the nothing from the nothing from the space which housed all the materials necessary to perform this dreadful task. Somber now. Somber now. Openings. Peel it open. See them yet dawning. They, they stretched out their hands and opened up something like religion.
Really great work. Keep it up man!
>>8231025
A slave comes to mind. See that fat priest sit there and call judgement upon the questions. Decide now what you will do and how you will do it. A preaching down the centuries, the ages, the millennia. Squeezed like a lemon, bitter and bitter and bitter. Arching up...a new colony of blasted madness. A hive with many holes...too many holes. You are the ugly bug.
>>8231111
>quads
