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Why the FUCK didn't you warn me that years of reading would've left me completely unable to relate to anyone in any environment. They talk about nothing other than drinking the previous night or drinking in the upcoming nights and the women also talk about game of thrones.
>>8127949
You sound like a pretentious asshole, and that's your own fault.
There were warnings, you didn't listen
You can easily find other people to talk to
So will other authors follow Knausgaard's steps into the autofiction genre? Is this what comes after postmodernism?
>muh cleaning
It's New Sincerity, aka Post-Postmodernism, the future of literature.
I finally finished Gravity's Rainbow!!!
It took me half a year, but I finally reached the finish line. Did anyone else take this long reading this behemoth? What is everyone's thoughts on the ending? Should it have explained more, or is the lack of explanation all the more realistic? I'm curious to hear from both those who loved and hated it. Also, what do I read next: more Pynchon, or Infinite Jest?
i'm about 220 pages in after 2 weeks of reading it and the more i read the less i understand anything. maybe i should've started with V. or CLo49.
>>8127871
It took me a month or two. Read Ulysses next if you haven't already, that's what I did.
>>8127888
V is Very understandable.
New comfy thread?
Starting off with anything Alice Munro. Comfiest author I've read in a good while.
>its a middle age mom finds lit episode
>>8127793
t. someone who has never read Munro.
Stay pleb, faggot.
Lolita was also comfy 2bh pham.
Hey atheists, how does it feel to know deep down in your heart that Aquinas left you no choice but to accept God or continue denying him out of sheer pride and stubbornness? He literally proved that there's a God in the Summa Theologica. If you haven't read that work in its entirety, then you shouldn't even bother having an opinion on religion and need to contact the nearest priest immediately before it's too late.
>shifting one's quantifiers to prove God
Sleight of hand, that's all.
Saged and reported.
>>8127776
>refusing to listen to reason because you hate God
Somebody here is into book design? Why is this so underrated nowadays...?
>inb4 no vertical justification
>>8127760
NORMALLY, TYPESETTING DESIGN IS RATED ACCORDINGLY, AS THE NECESSARY ASPECT THAT IT IS, NOT MORE, NOT LESS; YOU ARE JUST FETISHIZING IT.
>>8127839
>YOU ARE JUST FETISHIZING IT.
test
>19 minute video on Day of the Locust
>Spends first five minutes pouring wine and talking about noir movies
>Spends five minutes summarizing the plot
>Never even mentions Homer Simpson, arguably the most important character in the book
>Spends five or six minutes reading excerpts
>The only thing even close to legitimate criticism was "the narrative is clunky in places"
Better Than Food is really starting to fall off in terms of quality. Any good BookTubers out there besides BookChemist?
Her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfgrbfZYoTQ
Does /lit/ discuss BookTubers anymore?
If you're not francophone you can get out of here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Ax2LMbeVg
For a place that supposedly worships Harold Bloom you guys don't really follow his ways at all.
He loves Shaksespeare. You guys think he's mediocore.
He loves Dickens. You guys think he's shit.
He loves Austen and Dickinson. You guys think they're shit and hate all female writers.
He thinks Pynchon, DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, and Philip Roth are the greatest living American writers. You guys treat them as memes.
He thinks reading should he about strengthening the self and encountering wisdom and aesthetic beauty. I have no idea what you guys are reading for.
>>8127649
>challenging the hive-mind
It's almost like we can recognize his intelligence and love of literature but respect the fact he has different opinions.
correct
Has anything good come out this year?
No but you haven't read everything good that came out of 1852. Or 1927.
>>8127540
how would we know? it needs to age first.
>>8127540
Think judging book by cover is bad? 90% of these I wouldn't even give a second glance to based on the title alone. Get on my level
Why haven't you read the Manga remake of Ulysses yet?
http://www.amazon.com/Ulysses-Manga-Classic-Readers-James/dp/1935548190/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
Flipped through it at a bookstore once. Just seemed like a straightfoward adaptation of the plot in an anime book style.
How is this? Is it a complete manga or just the book with some pictures?
>>8127439
im still reading the alice one, desu
Why does /lit/ disregard books or works written in the 21st century?
Most of the stuff being discussed on here is mainly stuff written in the 1900s, why waste your time on stuff that isn't based on the current zeitgeist?
>Inb4 literature decadence
There simply isn't much fiction being written right now that's worthwhile.
Because it's not as good/enjoyable
>why waste your time on stuff that isn't based on the current zeitgeist?
Well who knows? Maybe because the zeitgeist doesn't necessarily create good literature? Nah, probably not.
I need some novels that look at mysticism, Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism etc.
I've been enjoying some Persian mystical poetry (Rumi, Conference of the Birds, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam) and various mystical texts (Corpus Hermeticum, Enneads, Secret Teachings of All Ages), but I want to read some good fiction on the subject. Any suggestions?
>>8127001
The ending of that movie was so fucking obnoxious.
>>8127008
>SOOM BACK, CAMÉRRA
Enjoyed it enough to let it slide though
>>8127001
Go to /x/ and check out Frater K's library on /omg/
Largest free collection of mystical and occult material available on the net by a longshot, as far as we know, and compiled entirely by a knowledgeable /x/phile
Which book'll make my life good instead of terrible?
Self help can help you out if you are in a really deep place, philosophy will fuck you up even more
King James Bible
It will be good, not honest.
I need this too, OP. My take is some religious writings like this
>>8126984
Almost nothing else can penetrate into our angst ridden souls. Spirituality is the path
Not sure if this is the best board for this, since it's more personal advice, but what the hell. If it gets deleted, then it gets deleted.
I asked by gf if she has a fetish which she's never told anyone else about, and she said she sometimes fantasizes about being intellectually humiliated and made to feel stupid by a man, and that she never told anyone that before.
I'd like to do this for her, but right now neither of us expects to happen, because she has a PhD in mathematics, speaks Greek, Latin and German, is learning French, and is very well read in literature in philosophy (including having read the complete works of Hegel, Marx and Freud).
So, basically what I'm asking is, is there any sort of literature or philosophy I can read that she wouldn't know about, and could use to make her feel like an idiot for not knowing about?
>woman with phd, speaks dead languages, reads philosophy
>has a fetish for feeling dumb
How Pynchonesque
That's hot as fuck.
Very Wallacesque, with a hint of Kafkatian
She has read Foucalt's Pendulum, Molloy, Livro do Desassossego, The Dismemberment of Orpheus, Mythologies, Ficciones, Simulations and Simulacra, The Lotus Sutra, and The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
You've read 1984, Ender's Game, Lolita, The Catcher in The Rye, The Brothers Karamazov and the entire 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series.
>implying ive read 1984, Ender's Game, Lolita, The Catcher in The Rye, The Brothers Karamazov and the entire 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series.
>not translating europoor titles in an attempt to sound deep
>she has read
you mean she took pics holding them up then tweeted them
reminder that this "woman" literally licks toilets for money
