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just finished. like it. wasn't incredible. credit to him for seemingly inventing the style of using complicated/fractal plot structure with absurdist irony. or did he? but by the end, the sections not re: wyatt were pretty tough to get through, and his habit of making fun of people through overheard dialogue grew tired. anyways, i did like it - should i try "junior" or is it "j.r.", or is that worse? the themes of it sound more interesting. anyone who has read the recognitions and not seen orson welles' 'f is for fake' should check it out.
hearing that he read the golden bough right before writing it makes a fuck ton of sense - what are yer opinions on it?
>>8228603
There is an interview on youtube where he goes on about the title meanings and what he is trying to do with constraints.
reading it right now, p fun read :) story went right from wyatt to this otto fella and caught me off guard. gotta keep yer wits about ya with this book
>>8228603
Today I started it (the first chapter) and It's really good so far.
How do you make yourself read books?
For some reason my mind just wants to be turned off and watch TV or a movie instead, and just sit there and not have to think about anything.
It seems like that is normal for a lot of people, but I want to change it because I really want to read some philosophy books cause I am a faggot with no self control.
However, how do I make it so that I actually WANT to read books? Like I feel like I'll never succeed unless I actually start craving it, cause like I said I have no self control. But for some reason my mind just wants to be turned off, and I don't know why... Why is it normal for humans to want to not have to think? My mind is totally cool with just becoming stagnant... how do I stop it..?
>>8228524
Monitoring for interest. I've become completely stagnant.
Resulting ins a failed interview for a UN job as I didn't even follow the latest news anymore. I haven't done anything in the past year. It's like I didn't exist at all. I didn't read nor did I even play video games. I just surfed the webs and retained no information at all.
>>8228524
By following the deep pit of despair floating in my horizon and tailing it down til I'm in the familiar, comforting aura of banality that spawns any inkling of creativity I posses. Once there, I've no other recourse but to feed the void with copious amounts of prose, like a heroin addict who will only rouse his body for the next bit of smack.
YOU PICK THE BOOK
RIGHT
YOU OPEN THE BOOK
RIGHT
YOU MOVE TO THE FIRST PAGE WITH LETTERS YOU SEE
RIGHT
YOU READ IT
RIGHT
its like teaching retarded kids shake my head ( s M H)
Can you recommend any good books on buddhism and the principles of buddhism? Or just any books about spiritual identity
For a beginner, read "What the Buddha Taught"
Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha
>>8228432
check warosu
So who exactly IS Sunday?
What is he doing it for?
>>8228390
He's God.
I have no idea.
a nightmare
He does it for free
>What is the body without organs of a book? There are several, depending on the nature of the lines considered, their particular grade or density, and the possibility of their converging on a "plane of consistency" assuring their selection. Here, as elsewhere, the units of measure are what is essential: quantify writing. There is no difference between what a book talks about and how it is made. Therefore a book also has no object. As an assemblage, a book has only itself, in connection with other assemblages and in relation to other bodies without organs.
>We will never ask what a book means, as signified or signifier; we will not look for anything to understand in it. We will ask what it functions with, in connection with what other things it does or does not transmit intensities, in which other multiplicities its own are inserted and metamorphosed, and with what bodies without organs it makes its own converge. A book exists only through the outside and on the outside.
>A book itself is a little machine; what is the relation (also measurable) of this literary machine to a war machine, love machine, revolutionary machine, etc.—and an abstract machine that sweeps them along? We have been criticized for overquoting literary authors. But when one writes, the only question is which other machine the literary machine can be plugged into, must be plugged into in order to work. Kleist and a mad war machine, Kafka and a most extraordinary bureaucratic machine . . .
Thoughts?
Sounds like they can't do conceptual readings of books without bringing in cultural critiques, as if books are only reactions.
>>8228381
Why would they?
>>8229628
Well, the point of scholarship is not simply to put words on paper but to be correct.
Has anyone here ever heard of Toiletpaper magazine? Somebody mentioned it to me in passing today, and I can't find very much about it online. Looks cool but I want to hear a review before I go around buying wordless books.
Not sure if /lit/ is quite the right place for this, but I wasn't sure where else to go. Kick me out if this doesn't fit.
http://www.toiletpapermagazine.org/
>>8228244
for a moment I thought that was from a gloryhole movie
go market your shit someplace else
>>8228244
>this fucking website
this mobile based shit is killing me...
Why do the endings to books always suck?
Pic related
>>8228132
>reading for plot
>>8228139
Endings though. I used to read the last page of the book before reading the whole thing.
I might start doing that again.
>>8228132
>always
did you read all of them
>neuromancer
Gibson couldn't write for shit. the plot has no momentum and the descriptions are suicide-worthy. He did have amazing ideas though, but that doesn't mean it's a good book.
>Plato had defined the human being as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, ‘Here is Plato’s human being.’ In consequence of which there was added to the definition, ‘having broad nails’
The best mind in philosophy
Then Plato added, "but with nails."
Neither had the answers. Diogenes was an entertaining contrarian and Plato was a loud-but-quiet guy with too-fiery-emotions.
I'm sure neither of them ever said that, though. It was probably just two random guys.
>>8227920
>Diogenes was an entertaining contrarian
yea that's my point
Diogenes is what happens when you take Socratic thought to its logical conclusion. But, more importantly, he is credited with planting the seeds for Stoicism . To me his nost admirable trait was his idea of living with minimal possessions and being the most free ,healthy, and most philosophically noble as a result of that life
Is this jackass even able to write a novel not including an edgy self-insert protagonist? This was fucking abysmal. My Twisted World might be a better social satire than this
How is Francois a self insert? For this novel hollaback had to research what it's like being a professor because we was never in academia.
>>8227874
>weinb4 /pol/ memes
>>8227859
Nah he makes you think it's himself or yourself so that you can vaguely project into it, but at some point towards the end there's a shift and i doubt anyone could think the same way as his character does.
post books where the protag: A) actively narrates the story through their point of view B) is deranged/inebriated/unreliable in some way C) contains an actually worthwhile plot
Book of the New Sun
>>8227716
lolita
janine 1982
Where can I find the General zapped and angel??
kissanime
>>8227423
libgen has it in epub
>>8227777
nice digits
>Kurt Mondaugen
Fucking why
The young Pynchon loved to show off his rudimentary understanding of German.
I had a character named Friedrich Rockweg. Not clever enough so I went with this instead.
"Moon eyes"? What about it?
Share your most contrarian literary opinions
there has been no "great writer" yet. literature is just now approaching its golden age.
>>8227277
Nice pepe, my dude
Tao Lin inspires his readers to live kinder and more deliberate lives.
Does /lit/ keep the jackets of their books? Why or why not?
>>8227217
Not when I'm reading them. After I'm done with a book I put the jackets back on.
I use them as a book mark
The first thing I do is take them off
Can you basically boil down nietzsche's philosophy to the preposition that life would be extremely painful for you unless you make yourself a big guy?
>>8227013
Yea and I appreciate the memery but good luck getting it to catch on outside of this thread, is all I can say, to you. My man.
>>8227013
Shut up
>>8227013
actually yes
