Which books permanently undermined or transformed your world-view and do you like the change they made?
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Mein Kampf.
>>7433891
The Brothers Karamazov along with The Bible. And yes, i like it.
I should say which books most strongly made changes to you, almost all good books change your views a little
I want some extremely batshit esoteric philosophy. Something almost /x/ tier but not quite. What's the craziest philosophy still worth reading?
>>7433833
Hegel?
>>7433836
Already read him. He's taken too seriously by academia to be 'batshit' but yea it's pretty cray-zee.
>>7433833
Time Cube.
WHO PAID YOU TO GRAB THE ENTERTAINMENT?
LOTTA LOYALTY FOR A HIRED SON!
>>7433831
get this hot bitch outta here
>>7433831
“These sentiments from a person who allows them to place him in the field as an enormous girl with tits at the cock-eyed angle, now discoursing on tragic love.”
*tosses Marathe across the train tracks*
HE DIDN'T FLY SO GOOD
What does /lit/ think about the recent booktuber trend?
Post it
acceptable if they are cute
>>7433730
>ecelebs
Get out
>reading a philosophical book
>the introduction/notes by translator are harder to read and comprehend than the actual text of the book
Why do people do this?
Please respond, i'm curious, is this a thing? are publishers just trying to be pretentious to fit in words that need a dictionary every 3 or 4 words?
What book
>>7433746
some stoic books
>I, for one,
>>7433721
Not /lit/ saged
>deigned to
>>7433721
More like I for two you fat fuck. As in I eat for two cause I'm so fucking fat it literally looks like someone inflated a balloon behind my face.
Give me the devastatingly obvious reason why Not Bill Murray could not have been Junot Diaz.
He seems more intelligent.
Because i wish I was dead
>>7433596
NBM more intelligent than the Pulitzer winner and MIT professor?
My girlfriend is getting investors together to try to open up a small bookstore, but she's going to try for a different angle, it's going to be small and carry mainly great works of philosophy and literature in Norton editions and things like that, and she's going to have coffee and t-shirts and posters and busts and stuff.
Basically, her idea is to cater to hipsters, I think. Just wondering if you think it's going to be successful, because I haven't told her otherwise yet.
>>7433528
>coffee
This is the only part of the draw that will really pull business. Just like gyms, the food she sells will be incredibly important, like it or not. She needs to really learn about good coffees (african, geisha, etc) and be able to put out really decent pastries and sandwiches. Also important is excellent wifi, USB plugs etc, comfy couches, ambience. Pure bookstores (unless you are at a beach community and own the property) have real problems without a service aspect.
>>7433528
I'd happily shop there if they had any kind of loyalty rewards program or other discounts.
That's really the biggest draw for bookstores for me, to make them competitive with online sources. Most bookstores are able to order anything you want anyway.
>captcha is coffee
>>7433528
So it has all of the viability of an independent bookshop in the era of Amaz*n, but with less appeal to mass tastes. I want to believe this can work desu. It depends on where it is located (i.e., a metropolitan area with a well-educated critical mass).
why didn't anyone tell me this was so comfy??? i'm like two hundred pages in. already excited for Odyssey and Aeneid.
Is Lattimore best for Odyssey too, or just for Iliad? I read somewhere that Fagles is best Odyssey and Fitzgerald is best Aeneid -- how accurate is this?
first and foremost though, this shit is cooooozy. Achilleus is being a dick to the Achaians right now and i'm just wondering when the trojan horse comes in (dont tell me tho)
pic related, translation i'm reading
>>7433526
>wondering when the trojan horse comes init doesn't
Lattimore is great, his Oresteia is the one I read it and I recommend too.
Try this translation of the Odyssey
http://www.press.umich.edu/17212/odyssey/?s=look_inside
It's in dactylic hexameter
ok I'm readin this and I think its OK. but i see everyone here thinks Murakami is a fucking hack.
so I have to ask: who does what Murakami is attempting to do better?
bump
help me not be a pleb /lit/
Most people here are talking about/hating the rest of his body of work, which is more surreal.
This is a pretty cut and dry coming of age manic pixie romance, and I kinda liked it, but it's not like most of his other stuff.
>>7433454
>who does what Murakami is attempting to do better
I'm sorry, what?
Post 1 out of 5 reviews of your favorite books. Pic related is a review of TBK.
>>7433452
117 pages in 6 months, lol
>>7433501
>I quit after 50 pages
>I would rather eat 4 hashish brownies
0_o
Trying to re-learn Spanish. I took a few years in college nearly a decade ago, so I guess I'm just a little past beginner.
Any good books or stories to read in Spanish that aren't too hard? People have suggested I just read translated Harry Potter and stuff but that seems boring.
Platero y yo
Pedro y el capitan
Borges is not that hard to read
One of my favourites short stories in spanish: http://www.materialdelectura.unam.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&limitstart=3
All memes and shitty lists aside... What 5 fictional novels do you think are the best ever written? Post your top 5.
>>7433165
Moby-Dick, War and Peace, Hamlet, 1001 Nights, Ulysses
>>7433165
Count of Monte Cristo, Brothers Karamazov, Petersburg, Ulysses, and though i havent finished it, The Recognitions.
>>7433175
kinda wish i would have read moby dick right about now
anyone out here got a literary agent? how'd you find them? what was the query process like?
agents are really big on following each other on twitter
I would also like to know.
>>7433788
I think everybody wants to know
>sending out queries
>all no's if I get a reply at all
>keep trying
shit sucks
Hey /lit/
My debut novel is coming out in March next year. However the publisher (the biggest in my country) have made it pretty clear that I will be "marketed" as a "hot young thing" (that is the translated term) and have turned down my initial request that my work be published pseudonymously.
What advice do you guys have about this?
I wish to publish my works anonymously is possible, and pseudonymously otherwise. Am I selling it out by accepting to their terms?
>>7433042
m or f?
>>7433046
Male. My book is to be called The Melancholy of the Defective Pixel or La melancolie du pixel mort in my native language.
Can't offer you any advice but that title sounds cool.
