Rate the last book you read.
8/10
Blood Meridian
9.5/10
the ambiguity of the ending tore me up inside
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
7/10
Psychoanalytic horseshit, but interesting
Cloud Altas
8/10Everything was top tier except Lusia RayFuck her.
Why do you guys hate this book so much? Just read it and it's a masterpiece.
It's a meme to hate it
It is also a meme book, so there's that
We should sit back and wait for a justification of that statement I would imagine.
Diaries/journals/accounts of people (preferably women) having spent time in complete solitude.
Any recommendations?
mine tbqh
>preferably women
Why?
>>7355934
>women
>spent time in complete solitude
Impossible.
So what does lit think about her? Especially about The rage and the pride?
Cosa ne pensate di Oriana Fallaci e in particolare de La rabbia e l'orgoglio?
>orgoglio
Ehhh I recognize that word. Who /FaerieQueene/ here?
Cara oriana fallaci
La presente missiva del ns. complessino per testimoniare quanto ti apprezziamo e ti stimiamo grandemente, simpatica giocherellona [brutta nazista di merda, devi morire]
Perche' nonostante il fatto che tu abbia un solo neurone come i calamari, sei autrice di grandi opere della letteratura contempornea quali 'lettera ad un bambino mai nato'
[ma era meglio se non nascevi te, ti venisse la pellagra]
E nonostante la demenza senile sei riuscita a scrivere capolavori quali 'oriana fallaci intervista se stessa' [testa di cazzo. chi ti credi di essere]
Ed e' quindi con grande affetto che ti diciamo [che e alla gente come te che gli deve venire lo tsunami]
Ehi ma qui non si riesce mai ad esprimersi bene, noi esprimiamo solidarieta' al cancro che ti divora il cervello. ieri dopo aver letto il tuo libro, in preda all'ira ho sperato che ti venisse la lebbra
Ieri ero ubriaco ma oggi confermo
>>7357260
Vafanculo?
Did i spell it right?
>I am a product of the internet: an epileptic Flat Stanley strung out on technicolor heroin"
What did he mean by this?
>>7355717
Why do I get the feeling DFW didn't actually say this?
Maybe the fact that he was born in 1962 and there are no results when that sentence is googled.
>I am a product of the internet
Read: a meme
>an epileptic Flat Stanley
Popular American children book character, flat and bland work of pop culture
>strung out on technicolor heroin
Dude drugs LMAO
>>7355735
>>strung out on technicolor heroin
>Dude drugs LMAO
That one is obviously television. He wrote a 100 page essay in Consider the Lobster saying how great television was and how any criticizing it was a moron.
Hello, /lit/.
I've been trying unsuccessfully to find a free download for "The Iliad" translated by Rodney Merrill. Would you help me?
Thanks.
>>7355535
http:// bookzz. org /s/?q=rodney+merrill&t=0
There you go.
>>7355570
That's "The Odyssey".
What groundwork is necessary to be read before I can properly understand this book? I've tried to get into it a couple of times but it's like wading through mud; incredibly dense and hard to comprehend clearly. My translation is pic related -- maybe there is an easier translation to grasp?
>>7355379
Don't bother. Start with Philosophy of History.
As far as PoS goes, you need to have a basic understanding of almost every philosophical concept in the book up untill the 19th century. I recomment to start with Boehme.
gotta read kant m8
i had a passing understanding of kant so i tried hegel and got a less and than passing understanding of him
studying kant closer now i'm already starting to understand hegel better without even reading him again yet
kant is not nearly as interesting, at least on the surface, but you've gotta do the work
the first two critique at the very least, family
D R O P P E D
BIG
What is a great book to read if you are a francophile /lit/?
infinite jest
>>7355259
L'Etranger
Make sure to read it in French. A lot of the subtle nuances of language are lost in the translation. Although I have to give the translation props for using Maman over mother or mama.
red and the black
>tfw you realize that truth lies in mathematics
>tfw you realize math is necessary for any person interested interested in philosophy
Who else knows this feel?
>>7355253
>the truth lies in a man-made system to explain natural phenomena
-_-
>>7355253
>truth lies in mathematics
not all of it
>>7355254
You are thinking of physics. Math is for the most part analytical not empirical.
why is cool to hate on Kerouac in /lit/?
>muh shitty prose
Plenty of people, including myself, loved it. He was going for a specific style (trying to emulate jazz music) and it worked
>muh entry level lit for teenagers
So what? The Stranger is entry level phil, doesn't mean isn't a good book
>muh idealized bum/leech lifestyle
You like, completely missed the obvious overtones of self-awareness that they all had about their situation. And Kerouac/ wasn't simply bumming off everyone the whole time. And even if he was, so fucking what? why do I see this pathetic "reason" to hate him here all the time?
>>7355038
Enjoy your argument with this made up guy OP
I like him personally, mostly because he's one of the masters of comfy when he wants to.
>>7355038
kerouac isn't /lit/ sry
his writing is diary tier and yet its interesting, ok wow
comparing it to the stranger? ok the phil of camus is limp but his writing is great esp when translated into eng :')
idealized lifestyle? sounds like it was genuinely fun t b h f a m
he just wrote a bunch abt what he did and it was new at the time, now it isnt, it wont be recreated just give up, the beat gen's time pass'd, praise burroughs
Does anyone have any recommendations on books about Colonialism?
I'm not interested in some Marxist fathead blithering gibberish about the inherent cisheteronormativism of imperial capitalism or some foppish cunt reminiscing about the good ol' days of when getting waited on by brown people was normal, I am specifically interested in what the colonial governments actually did. How they went about governing the natives, how they extracted resources, how they managed trade, and so on.
East Asia or India specifically, but honestly I'm interested in anywhere and everywhere.
Pic related, an accurate representation of the Russo-Japanese War.
http://www.amazon.com/Indochina-Ambiguous-Colonization-Pierre-Brocheux/dp/0520269748/
>>7354942
>wanna read about oppression but dont wanna actually read about oppression.
Colonialism is based on the explotation of black and brown bodies if you are not prepared to deal with its repercusions then fuck off.
>>7354956
i think he's saying he wants an actual historical account of events, not a 500 page long polemic about how colonialism is bad
So I started reading Les Miserables and in the first sentence I see someone described as the Bishop of D-----. Is this a common occurrence among books of that era? The last time I saw this was in The Count of Monte Cristo and it was incredibly annoying.
Has anyone come across this before? How do you reconcile this in your head while reading?
>>7354890
I saw it in Three Musketeers as well. I don't get why this is done. I would just call him "Bishop D" in my head.
>>7354898
Apparently the Countess G-- in Monte Cristo was a real person
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa,_Contessa_Guiccioli
>>7354890
Holy shit that opening sounds tedious, how do people slog through books like Les Mis? do they just kind of read the words without thinking too much about it so they can post a photo of themselves on instagram reading it with a cup of tea?
so /lit/ is a bunch of pretentious narcissistic fuckboys who like to feel superior to everyone else because they browse /lit/ and have that one philosophy book on there shelf from way back when, who ironically believe anything beyond there box of set opinions is ''pleb shit'' ''not worth my time and highly acquired taste''
Did I hit all the points? That's a rhetorical question
ya same
>>7354800
yep. im just here to shitpost tho
I would answer, if this thread was not just pleb shit and not worth my time and highly acquired taste.
How do you write schizophrenic characters and how to incorporate their problem telling reality from fiction into a novel in an interesting way to the reader?
>>7354760
just write about your life
sounds like that's what you're doing anyway
>>7354760
your appropriation of neuro-diverse identities is problematic.
>>7354760
Read personal accounts of what it's like living with schizophrenia. Symptoms, medications, etc and paint a broad picture of an individual with said affliction through the knowledge you've acquired.
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