Oxford vs Cambridge vs Collins dictionary.
What's your favourite?
>>7403689
They all suck T B H FAMILIA
nigga do you fucking sit around reading dictionaries
Webster, pleb
That lucid moment when you'd be capable of consecrate your life to the daily living, following your ideals and desire of adventures, and the discovery of new horizons. But then you realize that you're just another guy who's living in a multicultural global world, and all the system is designed to use you as the workforce of particular interests.
>>7403644
>and all the system is designed to use you as the workforce of particular interests.
And this design is successfully keeping you from following your ideals of adventure.
Why have you allowed this?
Stop whining.
fuck off, go back to twitter you platitudinous cunt
Ideals are for minorities.
What are your predictions for TWoW?
>>7403510
>predictions
It will never be released.
>>7403510
More genre shit
2018, posthumously
I wanna get into Pound, but how? What books must I have and in what order do I read them?
Don't read that anti-semitic trash
>>7403489
He's antisemitic?
>>7403490
no but you still shouldn't read anti-semitic trash
Is there any half-decent Pokemon literature out there? I'd be surprised if there wasn't.
No but check out my team
>>7403425
Only just started mate; trainer name is HOMER.
Got a Charmeleon (ACHILLES) Pikachu (APOLLO) and Geodude (AJAX)
Can you help me understand Pynchon, /lit/?
I fully expect to be called a pleb and maybe that's valid. I'm hoping someone will decide to not call me a pleb and help me out.
I admit, I haven't read his stuff extensively. Part of that has to do with every time I start to get into it, I kind of just think, "hmm...maybe it's just not my thing." Then I often pick up something else and abandon him again. I know he's challenging, but I've found other writers challenging, too, and I've been able to fight through it because there is definitely something that makes me want to continue. With him, I just sort of abandon him until I do the same thing again, maybe a year later.
I also ask because he's constantly brought up in discussions of greatest living writers, while I hardly ever see his prose quoted or certain passages linked or scenes as examples of his greatness. I mean, there are many famous writers I haven't gone into extensively, but I know some of their more famous scenes, passages, or examples of their prose. With Pynchon, I don't really know any.
Can anyone help out? Maybe offer some examples of his prose or point me to particular scenes or passages to better understand his supposed greatness? Maybe there are great websites or videos out there or books with solid analysis or discussion of his work you can link me?
This really isn't a meme thread or a bait post. I'm making a genuine effort to understand better.
>>7403295
I'm interested in this, too, OP. Wish I could be of assistance.
>>7403295
If it doesn't fascinate you don't read it. Go read something that fascinates you, you will grow more.
I think it is an exaggeration to say Pynchon is one of the greatest living writers, there are so many non American writers that are not usually discussed on this board that do more interesting things.
>>7403471
I shouldn't have said, "greatest living writers," I meant, "greatest American living writers."
Your first point, I disagree. I'm not a child. Just reading something that fascinates me will not make me grow more. I understand this advice said to a child, who you're trying to develop an interest in reading, but this advice should not be given to an adult. I'm not a child. Telling someone not to learn about something they don't like is horrible philosophy. SJW philosophy.
I want to try and better understand what makes him so great to the people who do think he's great. Just because I don't get "it," yet, doesn't mean I can't ever get "it," and just because I don't get "it," yet, doesn't mean I shouldn't try.
I fucking hate similes. I've never come across a simile that I couldn't imagine reading in an elementary school book report. Is there a worse literary device? No.
>>7403280
If there were no similes, encyclopedias and dictionaries would be the only books.
>>7403305
But you can write a book without similes and it would not neccessarily be an encyclopedia. Metaphors are not similes and are way more likeable, although they don't fulfil the same purpose.
>>7403661
Similes are necessary to have a coherent story. If everyone and everything was described solely as being it, instead of being similar to it, how would you know what is actually being talked about? There would be no line between metaphoric description and real description.
Recent purchases thread
Abend mit goldrand is a first edition from 1975
Schmidt is garbage. Uberhack t.b.q.h f.a.m
John E Woods is gonna have an english translation of zettel's traumt in a few years <3
that collection of Blake is based but it doesn't include any of his illustrations :(
>>7403249
Don't remember where, bu I remember reading that the translation is finished and just waiting to be published but I don't know how reliable that was
As for Blake, there are a few pages with illustrations but as you can see they're not that large or colored
Anyone who says there are no polymaths today doesn't read SMBC obviously
>>7403073
Not too awful bait, but ultimately not worthwhile.
>>7403073
>not XKCD
>>7403081I'm mostly serious.
What's like studying on a top 5 university, /lit/fags? How is the daily life? How much hours do you put into actual study?
As a student of a top university within a third world country (something like top 200 overall), I'm really curious.
Is there shit like these in your humanities department?
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEyjpBRae1I
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-i66_24eJg
>>7403025
>Implying anyone on /lit/ is actually smart
I am a student at McGill University in Montreal,Quebec. McGill is currently ranked number one in Canada and 25th in the world, It is said to be the Harvard of Canada. I have to say its pretty hard I study like all the fucking time. People here fucking love to drink and smoke weed. Also poutine is a dietary staple. I don't put in enough hours of studying
>>7403040
lol.
>Canadian
>educated
pick one.
OP said top 5. Not top 25.
Can someone explain to me why this series is considered so bad?
>>7402942
It's not inherently bad, bad. Just that the series is incredibly popular now due to the TV show so therefore that immediately means it must be shit, they are fun books but nothing special but I enjoy Martin's sci-fi more than his fantasy stuff.
The more she drank, the more she shat
>>7402942
It's overlong and the prose at times can feel like a parody of bad fantasy writing. Nevertheless, it's still an admirable enough achievement in the realm of the genre, and whether or not that makes it worth checking out is up to you.
do you enjoy smoking while you're reading?
if yes/no, and why.
yes
because i like smoking while doing anything because that's what smoking makes you do
No, it's distracting.
Nah cuz da shit I smoke so loud u can't hear wat u readin
/r/ing some good reading material to put on my android phone for when I'm going to be away from computers, libraries, bookstores, and the Internet for several weeks.
I'm not savvy about this--I guess PDFs would be best? Specific links would be great and fun, but if you merely direct me to a place that has lots of material, I'd appreciate that too.
My interests are very wide, so fiction and nonfiction would both be great.
epub is better, download Moon Reader.
Cool, thanks, I just did. Do you just use it to read your own epubs or do you use the app's libraries?
>>7402859
>/r/ing
Worst subreddit ever.
Why are you so opposed the idea of lyrics and raps being included under the umbrella of "Literature"?
>>7402827
I'm not. I don't care.
>>7402827
I would say that they fall under the umbrella of poetry, which falls under the umbrella of literature. So I'm not really opposed to it at all. What gave you the impression that I was?
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