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How do you read books? As in how do you get most out of the experience e.g. learning new words etc. As someone who hasn't read much before (and going through the lit starter kit) should I highlight the phrases/words or maybe write them out in a separate notebook?
>>8178419
Bump
My recommendation is not to use the starter kit but just buy books that you are interested don't slog through a book you don't like just cause it's classic get shit you like.
Read every book twice, make a small amount of notes the second time. Write an essay on it when done.
Is 'On the Road' an interesting and/or philosophical read? Or is it just another meme-tier novel?
>>8178399
>it's a post a meme and ask if it's a meme thread
This usage of the word meme applied to books is really frustrating. Is it worth reading? It's a classic of the 20th century, and a pretty short one too: I'd suggest you take the initiative to read the book and decide for yourself whether it's a good one or not. From my experience, even the lesser classics are worth reading just to know what the fuss is about.
It's worth reading, especially considering how short it is. You should be able to finish it in a couple hours.
I personally enjoyed reading it and found it interesting
No More Games.
No More Bombs.
No More Walking.
No More Fun.
No More Swimming.
67.
That is 17 years past 50. .
17 more than I needed or wanted.
Boring.
I am always bitchy.
No Fun – for anybody.
67.
You are getting Greedy.
Act your old age.
Relax – This won’t hurt.
>>8178083
>Football Season is Over
The Euros are still on m9
I kicked the foot ball,
Adrena Lynne, that old whore, crashing through my glutes.
Like a guitarist but with feet.
Like a sculptor with grass and time.
A conductor of rage.
Foot ball.
They call it a game,
A great performance,
I say, foot ball is life
what are the best suicide notes
I'm reading H.P.Lovecraft novels actually, and I wish read it with a good music which coordinates with the atmosphere of L.
Same case of Allan Edgar Poe.
Also, perhaps do you have reading records references?
>>690274769
Why do you read with music playing?
>>8178051
Why do you see a movie with a soundtrack? Because it can increases the feeling when you read something.
Some people can't be concentrated when music is played, but it can be great.
For example one day I read Dante's Divine Comedy with gangsta rap instrumentals, it was so great I read aloud some extracts and few of my friends liked it.
>>8178129
>Why do you see a movie with a soundtrack?
Film is art in totality, it brings together visual and auditory art. The emotional scope of film is almost boundless. It's much the follow through of Wagnerian drama.
Music is to be enjoyed as music
Literature is to be enjoyed as literature.
The only patrician way to listen to music while reading is to read the novel and its corresponding tone poem. Pausing from the book to enjoy some of the tone poem, to then...
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Guys, I study film.
I am alos intersted in philosophy and have read some philosophy books here and there as well as reading in different online ecycopledias about different authors.
I am especialy interested in deleuze and have read parts of bergsonism, movement image and a thousand plateous.
I have also read an introductory book to lacan and again, the articles about him in online ecyclopedias.
I know this is no way to truly study philosophy however I feel that a TRUE study of philosophy involves actually producing content, as in writing books or writings.
Only...
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>>8177857
This very sober explanation zizec gives of his understanding of lacan is very interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiEeON3bq8A
What I still fail to clearly understand is the virtual as expressed by zizek and deleuze.
>>8177857
If you want to make films, drop film school and go to the films.
>>8177888
Not him, but easy there Tarantino. I'm also a film school idiot, and while it is true that you really don't need a theoretical class as long as you can meticulously analyze cinematography, I think that the main advantage of film school is connection-building.
For a man that was so obsessed with aesthetics, how did he reconcile the thoughts of opposing eroticism and sexuality with his views on art?
>>8177774
I think porn was just taboo to discuss back then.
He might give the relative impression of being open about sex in his writings compared to other philosophers, but he really wasn't.He also probably fucked his dog.
>>8177774
because sexuality is an affirmation of the will to live while art is willingless comprehension. pretty straightforward desu
>>8177774
>implying Schopenhauer thought about sex
I love the guy, but even Nietzsche was more alpha than him, when it came to women.
Even Goethe made fun of how awkward he was.
I can't find any of the books I want to download on tape and the only audio book of journey to the end of night I can find is a recording of a voice synthesizer which I have been listening to for the past 30 minutes. I wish I could find sarte's nausea on tape. I surprisingly could only find thus spoke zarathustra on tape out of all of nietzsche's works. I get the feeling that a lot of the books that I want to listen to on tape were never made into audiobooks, but I'd be surprised if that were the case for nietzsche.
Did you post this just to brag about your teenage edgecore taste?
>>8177658
I only mentioned celine. Chill. And you're part of the reason I feel this way.
>>8177658
Boom
Do you unironically think DFW was the best writer of the last forty some years? Because I do. A legitimate warrior-poet among the people.
I've read Reddit comments with more substance than DFW's vapid musings.
>>8177527
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN9UPOxFhbc
>>8177527
I like DFW but his fanboys seriously overrate his significance. He is not even DeLillo-tier
What is the true inscription above the gates of hell?
Some quote:
"Abandon hope all ye who enter here"
and others quote:
"Love made me"
>>8177441
>and others quote:
>"Love made me"
no.
Pic related.
![250px-Nomemes[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/9zwtP8P.jpg "250px-Nomemes[1].jpg")
Anybody read this book?
Possibly my favourite book ever.
>>8177401
Played the first Deus Ex; don't have to read it.
I don't read, so no
Why do people tend to give this book a hard time? Is it because it didn't match their expectations?
I'm most of the way through. Amazing book but I think some people have trouble making it through the "hur lemme tell u bout dis whale body part" chapters.
>>8177376
I never understood that. The chapters arent even long.
>>8177408
the only problem i have with those chapters is that most of the information is wrong. Other than that they're pretty cool to read
Your thoughts on pic related?
seems like something fake deep and treacly that people who don't read a lot like
What does Anthony do?
>>8177196
That's a really deep and annoying attractive titleI wish I thought of it first
What are far more better for them the initiative that the experience about will become literature books as they go or The Western Philosophy from starting?
>>8177168
Can you rephrase your sentence, please?
>>8177182
Sorry not the mother language English
>>8177168
"Suppose, for example, that you read an article about how to make a chocolate mousse. You like chocolate mousse, and so you agree with the author of the article that the end in view is good. You also accept the author's proposed means for attaining the end -- his recipe. But you are a male reader who never goes into the kitchen, and so you do not make a mousse... In the case of the reader of the article about chocolate mousse, he is probably, by his inaction, expressing his view that, although mousse is admittedly delicious, someone else -- perhaps his wife -- should...
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I think a certain someone would have something to say about this...
>>8177108
I know this was written in the 40s and I appreciate the publisher is leaving the text in tact and merely adding new material but I could not help but laugh when I read this
Here's what I got today from the second-hand bookshop, lads.
It's pretty much the best one in my country; though helplessly disorganized. After almost an hour of looking, and the guy who was covering for the owner not knowing where a lot of things were, I had to settle for Amazon to get my volumes of The World of Will and Representation. Also bought the Luke translation of Faust there too, mainly because I heard Kaufman abridges part II.
Pic related is the find I'm happiest with today; a 1947 edition of Joyce's works, from the Viking Portable Library. Probably not worth much, but I liked the minimalist aesthetic with ochre cover and fancy writing.
>>8177048
Second purchase, Kaufmann's translation of Nietzsche.
I've heard good things about his German translations, so I imagine he can't do any worse than Marion Faber.
U ain't even told us what's in it yet
>>8177060
Third, Ulysses itself; which wasn't included in the first book, or not completely anyway.
