http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-rise-of-phone-reading-1439398395
Do any of you read on your phone?
Is it enjoyable?
>>7321326
I don't even own a phone but I can imagine how painful it would be to read on such a tiny thing when an actual physical book would be the better choice.
>>7321326
I do.
When bringing a book is an inconvenience yet I known will have to wait for nondescript periods of time
iBooks app is pretty decent, scrolling text mode with a dim screen works wonders.
I have and it sucked, but I have a cheap phone with a tiny screen. Should be fine on a decent sized screen.
ITT: books women could never understand.
Are you retarded?
>tfw watching cute asmr girl who said lolita was her favorite since she was 14
wew lads
you wish
I picked up these four books recently, since I'm uncultured and trust places like 4chan to help me out with that kind of thing. Should I read these in order of publication date, or a different order? Bear in mind that I'm a fairly slow reader, so any one of them will be an undertaking.
I just finished Infinite Jest, and picked up Gravity's Rainbow. I too am living the meme
Have you read a lot before this? If you haven't read a lot of "literature," these are probably not the best places to start.
Infinite Jest is probably the easiest to understand of the 3. Ideally you read them in order of publication.
I've not read House of Leaves so no comment there.
I certainly wouldn't read Ulysses first.
Are you going to meet your reading goals this year /lit/?
>tfw been "reading" Underworld since May
>9 books behind schedule
step your game up senpai
>>7321205
2666 and Les Mis were similar experiences for me
>tfw you cant read 200 pages of Mexican Murders in 3 sittings
What are some good writing exercises /lit/?
I have an itch to write, but I feel overwhelmed whenever I try to start.
>>7321187
Don't do it then
"Paint" your way to school/job/what ever
>>7321187
Write in the same document everyday for a week/month
Forced coherence and content is irrelevant
>>7321187
What have you been doing so far?
Accurate?
Who's that fat fuck in chaotic evil?
>>7321171
>good and evil exist
Lol
ITT: Times you've cried over literature.
>“Oh! you are too good,” said Matilda. “But weep not for me, my mother! I am going where sorrow never dwells.”
;_;
>I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers
>Could not, with all their quantity of love,
>Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?
>'Swounds, show me what thou'lt do:
>Woo't weep? woo't fight? woo't fast? woo't tear >thyself?
>Woo't drink up eisel? eat a crocodile?
>I'll do't. Dost thou come here to whine?
>To outface me with leaping in her grave?
>Be buried quick with her, and so will I:
>And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw
>Millions of acres on us, till our ground,
>Singeing his pate against the burning zone,
>Make Ossa like a wart! Nay, an thou'lt mouth,
>I'll rant as well as thou.
>>7321122
My nigga. We're reading Hamlet in college and I choke up every time I read that or see it in a production.
"I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth."
How long does it take you to read a 300-page book?
I am a non-native speaker of English and would like to know what reading speed I should aim for to be able to enjoy literature in English.
Don't aim for reading speed, especially if you're an English learner.
Speedreading is a myth.
Aim to look up every word you don't know and to actually finish books while comprehending them. Read one book at a time.
>>7321101
This is the only answer. Speed will come as you read more. You will enjoy a book no matter what speed you're reading it at.
Who do you think is the ultimate /lit/ songwriter?
>>7321026
It can't be anyone but Leonard Cohen, he actually is a poet with moderate acclaim
It's Pouya.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6haE-gmZOc
Heart of Darkness thread?
Heart of Darkness thread.
My dark is heartness senapi
>>7321024
what are conrads best works?
I still can't believe English wasn't Conrad's first language.
>Maugham
>Wallace
>Roth
>Diaz
All great writers of prose. It's bad how many bad writers of prose we have. Look at King or Murakami. Fucking disgraceful.
>Wallace
>Diaz
Nice b8
>>7320920
Soren Kierkegaard in Danish is better than sex.
>>7320925
Why are they bait? Wallace is considered to have some of the best prose ever, and Diaz is considered good. Do you even read?
Which one? I've read high castle and ubik
>>7320864
The new print run hasn't gotten to it
Clerk: hey which dick book you
Him: just fuck me up with his whole oeuvre
What are your favorite short stories from Borges? I haven't read them all yet but I really enjoyed these:
The Circular Ruins
The Writing of the God
The Book of Sand
The Garden of Forking Paths
>>7320843
Borges is a hack.
>>7320843
ditto for Ruins an Forking Paths
The Secret Miracle
Pierre menard
>>7320843
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Pierre Menard
Garden of Forking Paths
House of Asterion
Three Versions of Judas
Borges and I
The South
Among others.
ITT: Paradoxes
Post your favorite paradoxes, I'll start:
The Stability Paradox
1. The more stable something is, the less energy is needed to destabilize it
2. An infinite amount of stability would require precisely zero energy to destabilize
Conclusion: stability is inherently unstable
neat.
I like the one about Achilles and the tortoise. you can add 1/2+1/4+1/8+1/16+1/32 ad infinitum and never reach the number 1
>>7320788
It does equal one though.
That picture isn't a paradox. Pinocchio's nose grows if he's telling a lie, but his statement that "My nose will grow now!" is speculation and has yet to be confirmed, i.e. it's reliant upon the effects of that statement as to whether or not he's telling a lie; prior to that, he doesn't know if it's a lie or truth.
ITT: we recommend each other books based off of things we like other than books, movies, or tv shows #2
>Art pop (Stereolab, Doopees, etc.)
>Bosch
>Banter
>Card games
>Noise shows (not crazy about albums, but I love going to sets, a very cathartic, hypnotic feeling)
>Dance
>Studying philosophic and artistic movements
>Snow, and how it decorates landscapes
>Pho
>Sushi
>Character studies
>>7320754
Murakami
>>7320754
The Broken Lands
>>7320754
Spring Snow if you haven't read it yet
>Krautrock
>Overcast weather
>Programming
>Snowboarding
>Homemade soup
>Running
>Walking
>Electronic music
>Thrift shopping
>Sushi
>Drumming
>Bossa Nova
>Winter
