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>when you realise all the pretentious displays of respect for religion and anything are acts of egoism and all the bullshit everyone speaks can be easily dismissed and it tears lit and all the other pseuds apart
>>8226885
>when op is the king of the pseuds
>>8226885
>when I realize you are a dumb politician poster and probably don't have a single aesthetic image of a sunset saved
>>8226898
>saving images of a sunset
>not experiencing the beautiful futility of life yourself on the moment
Seems like my entire generation somewhat revolved around this series.
I have seen the movies but I don't know if reading the books is worth it.
I've heard people say that JK Rowling isn't a very good writer. A lot of criticism on how she does dialogue:
"..." said Snape angrily
"..." said Ron Bravely.
So can you honestly recommend this series? Is it actually a fun and engaging read or are people just overreacting because it was their first somewhat deep experience with a book?
They're bad. Not worth reading for anyone at any age.
Why is dialogue such a chore to write well? Every time you include an indication of who is speaking, it makes the writing look uglier, unless you use all kinds of tricks to paint over it.
>>8226844
They have good characters and the books were very planned out with meticulous foreshadowing. If you are a fan of the movies, there are a lot of scenes the books have that the movies don't. Including some foreshadowed things that were left out of early movies because they seemed unimportant at the time, even though they later became major plot points.
Her prose is nothing special but it's nothing terrible either, she is a better writer than most modern YA authors.
It depends on what books you...
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is it true that /lit/ hates down Dan Brown novels?
why?
>>8226759
because this is a literature board and this is not literature.
>>8226766
why not?
I enjoyed him in middle school and appreciate his role in my development as a reader, but I don't plan to revisit his works anytime soon.
I want to learn more about Vedanta.
Which books do you recommend?
The Vedantas (aka the Upanishads)
I mean, shit, its in the name dude
>>8226846
Would I really get something out of those without being knowledgeable about the context?
A Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta by René Guénon.
Then
The Vedanta and Western Tradition by Ananda Coomaraswamy
>search catalogue
>no stacks thread
post stacks, chat up like-minded anons
What a snoozepile
Why would you ever want to read that shite?
what is a stack and why does it deserve its own thread separate from the other two materialism generals we have in bookshelf and recent buys threads
Is it a meme
whats the best translation
the book is literally hundreds of memes some dead guy came up with
get the george long translation
It's an okay introduction into Stoic thought (Heraclitus is better since Heraclitus is the root of Stoicism, down to his recommendation for a 'dry soul') but not the end all be all of Stoicism.
>>8226470
>the book is literally hundreds of memes some dead guy came up with
so it's a masterpiece?
Anyone else feel bad for him? He got to be in the Simpsons, but it was the shit era Simpsons
>>8226453
>Anyone else feel bad for him? He got to be an acclaimed literature writer, but it was the shit era literature
>>8226453
I'm still unsure whether he voiced the 'gravity's rainbow cookbook' or the 'reclusive author' scene. Or was it both?
> A decade later, he consented to appear on The Simpsons—mainly, he said, because his son was a fan. Showrunner Al Jean remembers a casual, mustachioed figure, son and wife in tow. They discussed private schools and kitchen renovations. Pynchon politely declined a photo-op: “I don’t usually take pictures.” He appeared twice during the show’s run, wearing a paper bag. The first time he didn’t alter a word, but for his second cameo he threw in a bonus pun: “The Frying of Latke 49.”
Why /lit/ never talks about good books like pic related?
While I was reading it and for about a week afterwards, I could make better decisions under pressure because it was influencing my inner monologue. It was such a fun read too. Has Weir done anything lately?
>>8226355
The book is reasonably interesting purely for the idea of how a person might survive on mars like that, but the actual quality of the writing is extremely low. It's just awkward and full of cliches, and literally every character in the books is identical. Snarky, sarcastic nerd. Literally every character is Leonard from The Big Bang Theory.
>>8226355
because this isn't reddit
Are these basically two sides of the same coin?
Ligotti:
>Society would have you think you're a person but you're really just like everything else and it's a big horrible nothing.
Watts:
>Society would have you think you're a person but you're really just like everything else and it's a big wonderful everything.
Is Ligotti as good as Cioran?
>>8226339
I haven't read his fiction which supposedly has good prose but I didn't really like his writing style in this. He has a nice way of putting things at times but the style in general feels a bit stunted and tiresome and it can feel like a chore to read, whereas Cioran is a joy to read even if you don't really care for his gloomy message.
>>8226339
Not even close.
Poetry is ltierally the lowest form of 'art' there is poets are crap-out authors who couldn't finish more than a chapter. I want to be proven wrong but I work in a bookstore and every time I think "Well maybe not -all- poetry is garbage." I'll pick up a book, read a bit from it and have my optimism unsurprisingly drained away. It contributes neither value nor entertainment to mankind. Please prove me wrong.
people r different r tard
>>8226080
bro u might as well try to convince me Shakespeare sucked i mean come on what kind of blatant stupidity
people get angry with things that go over their heads. just be quiet until you can enjoy poetry. (one day you will; read up on meter and such, and try to write some poetry of your own).
>>8226080
If you're following rules, doesn't it make it harder than writing prose?
Why do libraries sensor the internet when I can go pick up a book there that has a young retarded boy getting fucked in the ass?
Because nobody wants to watch your retard porn over your shoulder in public. Go find somewhere else to jerk it.
>>8225978
I think you missed my point.....why limit the internet when you can find anything in a book? Is it a matter of images?
Because that is basically admitting that images are more powerful than words.
>>8226003
>i wasn't trolled into reading physical books
>i'd totally be reading about retarded young boys getting fucked in the ass not watching live action 240p of the same thing if the internet worked
it's a library, dude, they want you to better yourself
This is not Romanian shitposting
This is a short story that I just wrote and it's supposed to be a light comedy
Now english is not my native language,and i've only writen it in English (originally) so I can post it here on 4chins
latin and bulgarian were google translated,so if you want, do help with proper grammar.
This is my first writing attempt and so on
hope you enjoy
Act I
The date at wich our story takes place is a bit uncertain, but I like to place it somewhere before the first millenia AD,let's say around the year 800.
We open the curtains an are faced with an idyllic pastoral setting,lush green meadows dotted with specks of red and yellow crawling towards the horizont in every direction,encircled by an endless blue.
A mighty yellow Sun Lords over all creation from high above,indiferent to the struggles of mere men and unyielding in warmth.White cotton-like forms fill the vastness of the sky and flocks of unrecognizable...
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>>8225728
He waited,there rising above the vast greenness resembling a mighty white tree.When the spot came close enough,Gelu finally recognized it.It was a dark horse with a man clad in black riding atop it."Who could that be?" Gelu thought
"No one from the village has a horse as dark as that,nor dresses in such strange clothes"
He waited patiently, albeit a bit nervously for the rider to come nearer.His features began to come into view.He had a long black braided beard,with two little silvery crosses...
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>>8225742
The dark man stared at Gelu,as if expecting something more,or something else,then straightening his back continued "et vade in vicum qui indicavit".Well I can do that,he thought,I'm heading there anyway"."bene" he repeated.The rider squinted his eyes and said nothing.They stared at each other for a while,silently,analyzing each other.Then the rider broke the silence again "Quare linguam Latinam scis?"
Gelu smiled.So it was good that he learned it,well his whole village did,but...
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Do you often feel inauthentic about your interest in literature?
>>8225605
All the time. I'm really insecure about myself in general.
>tfw you read fewer than 3 hours per day
>you read fewer than 6 books a month
>you read fewer than 100 books a year
if any of this applies to you, you don't read enough, and you probably don't actually enjoy literature.
Or you have a job because your parents no longer support your freeloading ways
>Schopenhauer has quite a crude mind... where real depth starts, his comes to an end.
Homo unius libri
Wiggy is a lightweight intellect compared to Schopenhauer. All that pseudo-mathematical claptrap and logomancy doesn't amount to much next to Schopenhauer's doctoral dissertation, to say nothing of his other works.
>>8225577
Wait, didn't Wittgenstein reread Schopenhauer's Fourfold Root of Sufficient Reason several times? I thought that Wittgenstein liked Schopenhauer?
>>8225610
Yes and then he met Bertrand Russell and went full retard
Where the hell do I go to talk about Theater on 4chan? It lies somewhere between /lit/, /tv/, /mu/, and even a little of /tg/ (considering the notion of playing roles).
On /lit/ if its about the text or the genre. On /tv/ if its about a recorded performance presented in television or film form. On /mu/ if its about the score. On /tg/ if it has elves..
theater is for narcissists
