>A real human being
>And a real hero
>He was, an Infinite Jest
what a shitty ending
>>7426695
>And at that moment, Joelle realised that Gately was not only a REAL human being, I'm talking prays-every-day and counts his blessings real, but also, as the events that landed him in hospital show, a REAL hero.
>Yes, sure, the movie was called Infinite Jest. But Infinite Jest sort of, in a crude way, described Hal's situation. Not to be cliche, but sometimes cliches are cliches because cliches reveal a grand truth. Also, in Hamlet they say "Infinite Jest."
All that revealed in the last chapter
What are the most worthwhile books written by presidents?
none
politicians haven't been good at writing since athens fell
Madison wrote part of the Federalist Papers
(but most of it was Hamilton's)
Kennedy supposedly had a ghost-writer for Profiles in Courage. I'm not sure about "While England Slept" whether it was his or ghost-written.
Jimmy Carter's books are adorable. He has like 18 of them now. He's a really nice man, with respectable and well established ideals.
He has books on everything from specific issues, to stories from times with his friends. Really colloquial and intelligent as a writer.
Probably not what you're hoping for - none of our presidents have been philosophers - but you either get ideology ridden attempts historical revisionism presented as "clearing the air", or you get genuine but not particularly worthwhile.
I haven't read pre-20th century presidents though.
/lit/ is the only board that has any taste. I need some smaller supplementary gifts for my girlfriend's christmas. She's an English teacher and desu she spends all of her time at home in her reading chair by the fireplace in the winter, and on her porch in the summer. She hardly uses most of her house, or any of the space I could get her something to fill. It just seems trivial to get her anything and it makes things very difficult for me. I'm building her a book shelf because she needs one since moving earlier this year, and I've gotten her a couple of books and a more practical gift(an appliance she needs).
I want one or two cute/fun/interesting/whatever things just to make it more exciting than "hey i got you stuff you need and I made you this thing except you need that too".
So.../lit/-approved christmas gifts? of any sort? please? I'm trying to avoid super cheesy stuff like a mug, but I just feel like books, a book shelf, and an appliance aren't enough.
What are you getting your partner, /lit/?
>>7426552
Infinite Jest.
>>7426552
get her a book sculpture cut out to be both of you dancing together made out of her favorite book.
And then... ... ... HE MURDERS AN OLD LADY WITH AN AXE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
MOMS
GONNA
F R E A K
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>>7426503
A B S O L U T E
M A D M A N
L M A O
T B H
F A M
S M H
"SUDDENLY ___________" - Dostoevsky
/lit/ whats something that isn't hard to read? My brain is mush after taking the LSAT today.
Anyone else take it, or have taken it? I read enough about the fucking LSAT that it should be /lit/ related.
>>7426488
Infinite Jest.
>>7426491
>Infinite Jest
>he lengthy and complex work takes place in a North American dystopia, centering on a junior tennis academy and a nearby substance-abuse recovery center
Wat.
>>7426488
read some terry pratchett or douglas adams.
Please recommend me the edgiest non-fiction you can think of.
>>7426458
The Ego and Its Own
>>7426479
Already own two copies, friend.
>>7426458
Beyond good and evil.
Is Max Stirner merely a /lit/ meme or do you guys actually subscribe to his philosophy?
being a meme doesn't preclude sincerity
>>7426426
is your pic related Max Stirner in the flesh?
>>7426426
I used to subscribe to Stirner, but I swapped over to MAD instead
Post the best books about war: fiction, nonfiction, essays, novels, memoirs, etc.
Posting stuff I was advised to read but haven't read myself yet.
Another recommendation I can't judge.
What are some books, where the main character is losing his humanity, and became a utter monstrosity.
>>7426263
American Psycho
>>7426263
my diary to be honest
>becoming a monstrosity
>losing his humanity
pick 1
ITT: Describe a normal action as cryptically as you can and we try to guess what it is
>>7426246
i coalesce into the breath of the slandered coelacanth, flowing through the ether of wet into a blistering sunrise well above the murk
Swerve, swerve:
melted gold burns the pristine
white around you,
sulfur will flow from these stains
in times to come, swerve in time,
you must swerve and stay
steady
steady once you find the sizzling,
steady on it
What is a good crime book I can get for Christmas ?
Pls respond
read the sticky retard
>>7426077
Nice dubs.
Gorky Park - Martin Cruz Smith
>>7426077
read the sticky
any books similar to snowpiercer?
communist manifesto
>>7426030
Gree, maybe The Revolution Betrayed, you know, the book the movie was based on.
Metro 2033
HELLO, IT'S ME, THE BOOKS MEME MAN. ASK ME ANY QUESTION AND I SHALL ANSWER
>>7425964
WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALITY, THE ARTIST, AND HIS SPAWN?
>>7425968
REALITY AND THE ARTIST ARE LIKE MAN AND WIFE. THE ARTIST SEEKS TO MAKE SENSE OF REALITY THROUGH HIS ART, AND REALITY CHANGES EVER SO SUBTLY WITH EACH INTERPRETATION IN ART. BY THE END, IT IS ARTISTS INTERPRETING THEIR OWN AND EACH OTHERS ART, AS ART BECOMES REALITY AND REALITY MIRRORS ART
>>7425964
How do you feel about YOUR farts?
If Nora wanted to fuck you in the arse with a strapon would you be game? What about being skullfucked?
I've just discovered zizek and I find that as autistic as he is he makes some good points. I want to read his stuff, where should I start?
>>7425825
First watch his movies, then read How to Read Lacan, then The Sublime Object of Ideology. Then just read whatever.
Don't forget to brush up on your Marx and Freud as well.
>>7425830
Will do. What do you think of him?
>>7425844
I think he's a fraud who's magnum opus - a synthesis of Lacan and Hegel, is retarded and bastardizes the thought of both thinkers. He's more of a weird mix of Hegelianism and Structuralism than he is a Marxist. Zizek's political tracts are almost entirely confused half-rants about things based entirely upon prejudice and psychoanalytical inference over any hard empirical evidence, which has its moments but tends to fall short when the inference isn't based on any, well, evidence. His actual politics are abysmal; Zizek is one of those people, you know, "radicals" who are so very "radical" because of all those people who are not as radical as Zizek says he is, when in reality, he's nothing but another Eurocommunist except with a fetish for Jacobinism.
>reads book
>hasn't read every single book written in the western world before it
>thinking you understood any of it
I just want somebody to squeeze my balls while I cum.
That's it.
>>7425776
Where are you?
Are you a grill?
