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I'm depressed.
What should I read?
>>8114577
May I suggest something light-hearted like A Confederacy of Dunces?
>>8114577
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
Your Bible.
Post your backlog, others recommend what you read next
>>8113610
Petersburg or Faust
>>8113610
bout 3/4 of my 25 shelves
>>8113629
Have read zero of them but I've been looking to check out skylark for ages so go for that
Longtime no Goodreads thread- Post your accounts and find new friends.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2408134-sebastian
le reads 5 books a day faggot
>>8113529
>le reads 5 books a day faggot
sorry for not being dyslexic
>tfw defriending Sebastian because of German novella spam on my feed
Improved my Goodreads experience, would recommend. You can still watch his race towards the boundaries of introversion on others feeds.
Vol. 1.2 - The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles
>Previous Thread
>>8074665
>Upcoming dates
23/05/16 - "Three Theban Plays" by Sophocles
01/06/16 - Voting day
02/06/16 - Results and rollover period
06/06/16 - "Three Theban Plays" finished
>How do I bookclub?
Find the book at the top of this post, read it, and discuss. Bookclubs are a place for expanding and sharing your knowledge. Use this opportunity to ask questions, and discuss the things you liked and did not like about the story.
>Archives
http://pastebin.com/HTu8Nf5d
>Questions and points from the previous thread
If we look at the three Theban plays as a trilogy, how do you think it compares that of Aeschylus - Oresteia ?
Did Sophocles purposely end each of his plays with destiny prevailing over free will because he would have been lynched by the audience otherwise?
Did the Greek chorus stand still while they sang or did they dance and sing?
When it comes to Oedipus at Colonus, I just don't see the appeal, if someone can shed some light on what they liked about that play I'd appreciate it.
here are the current recs for the next poll.
Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
Cyberiad - Stanisaw Lem
Amores - Ovid
Fates and Furies - Lauren Groff
The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon
So we're finally doing it eh? Sounds good
>>8098543
It's been going on for a week now. I wonder how many people actually read the plays.
I have 30 unread/unfinished books in my backlog
I have 2 books already in my amazon basket.
I buy and buy more books each month and don't read/finish them.
I think I have either a bookaholic or a collector
What am I asking is should I click buy or not?
>>8128192
unless you are a homeowner with a personal library, use the public library or pirate
>not having a kindle
>not pirating your books on libgen
Some people are that dumb.
My 10 Favorite Books: James Franco
...
He's an edgy pseud
>>8127635
he's the definition of an edgy pseud.
>>8127639
he's the epitome of the definition of an edgy pseud
If a slave tries to commit suicide and fails, how should he be punished or treated?
he should undergo mental treatment to relieve him of his suffering. Then when he has been cleared of all psychological dysfunction he should be beaten to within an inch of his life
Needless to say, the reason for punishment is because such slave has threatened that which isn't his anymore, his life, and thus is akin to having tried to kill someone's cattle
>>8127351
Wouldn't the beating revert the psychological treatment?
Post and share you all-time favorite poems.
John Clare: I Am
I am—yet what I am none cares or knows;
My friends forsake me like a memory lost:
I am the self-consumer of my woes—
They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
Like shadows in love’s frenzied stifled throes
And yet I am, and live—like vapours tossed
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,
Into the living sea of waking dreams,
Where there is neither sense of life or joys,
But the vast shipwreck of my life’s esteems;
Even the dearest that I loved the best
Are strange—nay, rather, stranger than the rest.
I long for scenes where man hath never trod
A place where woman never smiled or wept
There to abide with my Creator, God,
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie
The grass below—above the vaulted sky.
A tragic poem made all the more tragic by the circumstance in which it was written In a Victorian madhouse.
The Sleeper - Poem by Edgar Allan Poe
At midnight, in the month of June,
I stand beneath the mystic moon.
An opiate vapor, dewy, dim,
Exhales from out her golden rim,
And, softly dripping, drop by drop,
Upon the quiet mountain top,
Steals drowsily and musically
Into the universal valley.
The rosemary nods upon the grave;
The lily lolls upon the wave;
Wrapping the fog about its breast,
The ruin molders into rest;
Looking like Lethe, see! the lake
A conscious slumber seems to take,
And would not, for the world, awake.
All Beauty sleeps!- and lo! where lies
Irene, with her Destinies!
O, lady bright! can it be right-
This window open to the night?
The wanton airs, from the tree-top,
Laughingly through the lattice drop-
The bodiless airs, a wizard rout,
Flit through thy chamber in and out,
And wave the curtain canopy
So fitfully- so fearfully-
Above the closed and fringed lid
'Neath which thy slumb'ring soul lies hid,
That, o'er the floor and down the wall,
Like ghosts the shadows rise and fall!
Oh, lady dear, hast thou no fear?
Why and what art thou dreaming here?
Sure thou art come O'er far-off seas,
A wonder to these garden trees!
Strange is thy pallor! strange thy dress,
Strange, above all, thy length of tress,
And this all solemn silentness!
The lady sleeps! Oh, may her sleep,
Which is enduring, so be deep!
Heaven have her in its sacred keep!
This chamber changed for one more holy,
This bed for one more melancholy,
I pray to God that she may lie
For ever with unopened eye,
While the pale sheeted ghosts go by!
My love, she sleeps! Oh, may her sleep
As it is lasting, so be deep!
Soft may the worms about her creep!
Far in the forest, dim and old,
For her may some tall vault unfold-
Some vault that oft has flung its black
And winged panels fluttering back,
Triumphant, o'er the crested palls,
Of her grand family funerals-
Some sepulchre, remote, alone,
Against whose portal she hath thrown,
In childhood, many an idle stone-
Some tomb from out whose sounding door
She ne'er shall force an echo more,
Thrilling to think, poor child of sin!
It was the dead who groaned within.
Edgar Allan Poe
I hate being love sick.
Sick of love, yet wallowing in the sickness.
It’s just another girl.
Nothing different here.
She's with someone
They’re always with someone.
Or something.
Or someplace.
It’s so hard to focus when you’re struck
Even still when it’s been so long
Even still when what you want isn’t what’s available
Even still, I have to go on.
This note is private
No one can see this
No one should see this
A man is a man who acts
Who does what's needed
Who does right by others first
This note?
This note is selfish
This note is reassurance
This note… This note must not go on
>thinks Shakespeare is only important because of his mastery of the language
>thinks shakespeare is still important
>>8127226
>thinks there was no room for sui generis after Shakespeare
>>8127235
>thinks one can participate in greatness by attacking it
>philosophy is dead
>philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics
>scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge
Prove him wrong.
>>8127031
Prove him right first, then we'll talk.
>Scientism and the never-ending quest to pit philosophy and science against one another
>>8127077
upvoted my man, i cringed when i read those first few words of his book without anything to confirm it
What is the best translation of this book.??
>>8127010
When it comes to Dostoevsky always Pevear and Volokhonsky
>>8127021
Stop trolling, dumbshit.
I've been researching Dostoevsky translations recently, and I've discovered a lesser known translation by Kyril Zinovieff and Jenny Hughes that I think is the best I've found. Check it out on Amazon.
Before I found their translation I was going to go with either David Magarshack or Michael R. Katz.
>that moment you realise the author has created a character as a self-insert
Stopped reading High-Rise once I realised Anthony Royal was clearly an edgy Ballard self-insert, completely ruined it for me
What other novels does this happen in?
I dropped Anna Karenina after realizing Levin was a Tolstoy insert
>>8126990
You'll be disappointed to find that every main character in Ballard's books are Ballard himself.
>>8127043
It's fine in Empire of the Sun, given that it's basically a fictionalised autobiography of his childhood. Just not so much in his fantasy novels.
Went to see some of the Empire sites when I lived in Shanghai. His house was gutted, is now a fancy restaurant. Pain to find.
The camp is now Shanghai Middle School, also a pain in the ass to get to from what I remember, though the metro lines might accommodate that area more by now. A lot of the buildings he describes are still there, but sadly the block he lived in was torn down a few years back.
Pretty cool following the little tour of shanghai he gives during the passage where he's cycling. You need to know the colonial Street names, but it's straightforward enough. He also describes the scene on the Bund with pretty precise detail, if you read that chapter while sitting on the Bund you can see exactly where he's talking about because he locates incidents by the buildings.
What books you would recommend a Satanist read?
No christshit and nothing too /x/-tier or luciferian either please.
>>8126857
>satanist asking non satanists for satanist book recommendations
I smell an edgy teen
That one Lavey book, Nihilism, Nietzsche, all while listening to Evanescence
>>8126857
The one about Crowley being a secret agent.
When and how did you grow out of nihilism?
I fade in and back out of it myself. Once it's come to you it's there to stay and is assuaged only by busy periods of life when there's no time and it's useless to contemplate such things.
>>8126790
I still haven't
please help me. everything seems cold and dead
>>8126790
When I realized the term Nihilism is an entirely empty designation that only people with poor philosophic literacy take seriously
Wtf am I reading?
Or rather, should I read it?
Yes read it, but be aware it's fantasy YA shit
