How to write like in Dark Souls?
>>7360132
Cormac McCarthy
Learn some of another language.
Try to read books in that language.
When you don't understand parts of it just make it up in your head.
Congratulations, you made it!
Are you asking how to write like you're in an abandoned, dying world that was clearly once greater than you could imagine?
What book should I read?
You know that everyone here is going to tell you Pynchon and then suggest that you trash the rest of those.. things.
>>7376118
I didn't actually. I got all these book recommendations here.
Probably Poe, since he influenced both Ligotti and Lovecraft.
So, /lit/, how does one go about the serious study of mythology? I've read Homer, Ovid, some of Virgil and a good portion of the narrative books of the Bible (Gen, Ex, Joshua-Solomon, Mathew-Acts (KJV)) and now I want to look into how these narratives shape later narratives. Some chapters of Auerbach were interesting in this respect, but they're not quite it. I downloaded Levi-Strauss' Structural study of myth. I'm considering Campbell's Hero with a thousand faces, Eliade's Myth of the eternal return and some essays by Jung about archetypes.
Am I on the right path? Any introductory books you know, /lit/? Insights?
Read this
The Bible isn't myth, pal.
I ordered some books off this site ThriftBooks, they were super cheap and was actually a great deal. Couple dollars.They had options for, what seemed like, multiple prints available, so I handpicked the print that had the best cover art.
I've always been drawn to cover art, something about it can make or break the way I feel about starting a book, or carrying it around with me, just...something about it. I don't know. I like cover art. Ironically, I don't like dust jackets. I take them off and like the plainness left behind.
So I chose the best print I saw for a book I was really looking to read, pic related. There's a ton of other covers for this book, but this one stood out to me and really appealed to me, so I ordered it and got the "Blade Runner" book with the Blade Runner cover, which is really turning me off from the whole book now. In very small text you can see "do androids dream of electric sheep? now filmed as..." "BLADE RUNNER, A MAJOR FILM STARRING HARRISON FORD" with a bunch of actors pictures all over the cover.
Like, I know I'm being nitpicky, but god damn it really makes me not want to read the book just because of this god damn cover. Does anybody else actually care about the cover of the book they choose to read?
Here's another example. I love Requiem for a Dream, the movie, and would love to start reading the book. I just looked it up on eBay, and all I see are film adaptation covers, like pic related.
I'd never buy one of those obviously, and knowing that they even exist makes me sigh and all, sure
but is it really worth making a thread about
>>7375616
(Sorry for all the posting, I'm just trying to post multiple images to give a good description)
Honestly, I like the movie so much that the cover is a pretty minor thing for me. I'll still probably pick it up. But I really wanted a previous print, like pic related, just so it feels more...original.
But, of course, it's $250.
What the fuck, man. I'm hoping there are other prints for this book that aren't super rare, I'll look into it later, but this is mainly just a rant so I can see who actually feels the same way about all of this.
What are some good buddist books?
>>7375563
The Tipitaka is bretty gud.
Here's a beginner selection:
Mindfulness in Plain English
In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology from the Pali Canon
The Dhammapada
>>7375563
===IMPORTANT BOOKS===
>insisting on the setting the samatha first, this book recast the use of the mindfulness through the three angas
[swift introduction to the various sources PLUS good introduction to ''mindfulness'']
A History of Mindfulness Bhikkhu Sujato.pdf
http://santifm.org/santipada/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/A_History_of_Mindfulness_Bhikkhu_Sujato.pdf
>the direct path to nirvana via the famous satipatthana sutta exposed by a theravadan
Anãlayo satipatthana direct path analayo free-distribution-copy2.pdf
https://ahandfulofleaves.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/satipatthana_direct-path_analayo_free-distribution-copy2.pdf
>This site is dedicated to the teachings of Venerable Ayya Khema (1923-1997), a Theravada Buddhist nun ordained in Sri Lanka . Her teachings (which were prolific) describe simple and effective meditation methods for development of calm and insight, for expanding feelings of loving-kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity towards others, and for overcoming obstacles to practice. She also gives detailed and lucid instructions for the meditative absorptions (jhanas) which provide access to higher states of consciousness, the way the Buddha himself practiced.
http://ayyakhematalks.org/
>an approach focused more on vipassana
In This Very Life, The Liberation Teachings of the Buddha, Sayādaw U Pandita (1992), (Serialised with the Sayādaw’s Express Permission)
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pesala/Pandita/index.htm
>are the jhanas required for strem-entry ?
The Jhānas and the Lay Disciple According to the Pāli Suttas, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi
http://www.budsas.org/ebud/ebdha267.htm
>a book to become a yogi in vipassana
Pa Auk Sayadaw Knowing and Seeing 4th Ed 2010.pdf
http://www.dhammatalks.net/Books13/Pa-Auk-Sayadaw_Knowing-and-Seeing-4th-Ed-2010.pdf
>This Burmese method puts forth the quality that is SATI [translated as mindfulness generally]: alertness/attention to whatever we perceive, plus a constant effort to recognize the five aggregates, learnt from the dhamma and remembering it, into every phenomenon. There are other qualities to have, such as effort [in walking or standing up], tranquillity, faith in the dhamma, wisdom [little insight, not the one of the five aggregates, but wisdom on being able to make headways], but the Burmese bet that the more SATI we have, the closer we are to nibanna. SATI does not need to be done a little, to be compensated by another quality if done too much, contrary to, for instance, samadhi [=concentration, generally gotten after samatha-tranquility of the mind and body] which needs to be balanced with effort. We can never ever do enough sati.
a general pdf more about overview on buddhism through this technique
http://www.paaukforestmonastery.org/books/teaching_training.pdf
Hey /lit/, what kind of "cozy" novels would you recommend for the winter season? Books that suck you in and make you forget about the real world; preferably classic. Cheers.
Anyone?
It's sort of seen as a kids' book but The Wind in the Willows is about as cozy as it gets. Wonderful writing.
Just finished reading "A Kestrel for a Knave" by Barry Hines.
Deeply moved, even a little bit teary towards the end.
Mostly the themes of escaping a dreary, grim working class existence were what resonated with me.
Can /lit/ recommend a book with similar themes?
what a retarded picture
>>7375557
your post is equally retarded and shows a staggering lack of any kind of historical imagination
Hello, Guy. I'm Canadian. What are some good books about Canada?
>>7375480
The ones you find when you type "good Canadian books" on google and click on the first result.
The one about the woman who has sex with the bear. It won one of your national book awards after it came out.
richard ford - canada
Does teaching literature, either at an elementary, secondary, or postsecondary level, benefit society in any way? I feel like it would if students didn't Sparknote shit all the time.
If I weren't assigned to read in school, I probably wouldn't be reading much now. If you actually do it, it helps improve comprehension and reading speed from practice. I also did discover some enjoyable literature from it.
The biggest setback is that teachers are afraid to assign something difficult because it might increase the cheating, which goes on anyways. I was one of the only people in school to finish The Sun Also Rises, but I loved it.
Who cares if it benefits society. If that's all that you care about in mandatory schooling then you end up getting what's happening in Australia which is dropping humanities classes for computer programming.
>>7375465
Does teaching science, either at an elementary, secondary, or postsecondary level, benefit society in any way? I feel like it would if students didn't forget everything right after the test.
this was such garbage.
why do people even bother translating the Inferno in the first place.
I'm embarrassed to have payed almost $10 for this.
>>7375198
cover is dope though
>>7375198
I fell for the meme too. I don't know whether the work is the problem or the translation.
>>7375203
yeah I don't know italian so I'm burning to find out if Dante actually set out to write a light-hearted yet totally serious stroll through hell... with fart jokes.
>Without music, life would be a mistake.
What exactly did he mean by this?
He meant that without music, life would be a mistake.
>>7375123
drop the bass
This is what middle school English teachers have wrought.
Is this the best novel with a teenage protagonist? If not what's better?
>>7374937
Really anything. I'd even say harry potter just because there's less whining.
>>7375078
>owwwyyyy, my scar hurts :(
>wahhhh mommy and daddy died :( boohoo
>uuughh i'm just cho chang's rebound :(
>why wont ginny notice me anymore :(
>wahhh my teachers dont like me :(
>wahhhh me godfather died :((( WAHHH
>and so on
>>7374937
First love is desu sempai
If your country doesn't have a national epic poem it's pretty much a non-country.
Pic related, it's The Lusiadas.
As armas e os barões assinalados,
Que da ocidental praia Lusitana,
Por mares nunca de antes navegados,
Passaram ainda além da Taprobana,
Em perigos e guerras esforçados,
Mais do que prometia a força humana,
E entre gente remota edificaram
Novo Reino, que tanto sublimaram;
Actually taken as a whole the national epic of England is probably Shakespeare's Henriad (Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2 and Henry V).
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,
Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels,
Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire
Crouch for employment. But pardon, and gentles all,
The flat unraised spirits that have dared
On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
So great an object: can this cockpit hold
The vasty fields of France? or may we cram
Within this wooden O the very casques
That did affright the air at Agincourt?
>>7374925
Our epics are Beowulf, The Faerie Queene, and Paradise Lost
>>7375250
English is an objectively based language tbhfam. It would be painful to live in a country like Finland which has never produced a worthwhile piece of literature in history.
What do you think of Naked Lunch /lit/? I've heard very mixed reviews of it. I for one find it incredible.
>>7374885
It's gay.
>>7374900
I mean, you're not wrong...
How about a thread about Bataille ?
>>7374606
Mediocre thinker.
DUDE OF MONTREAL LMAO
>>7374606
That would be nice. Finished the essays in Evil and Literature and am now reading his book on eroticism.
Great thinker. I need to read his Summa Atheologica.
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