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Why is this not the official /lit/ handbook yet?
I'm about halfway through it and it basically explains a lot of this board's behavior.
delete this
>>8029458
bump
Reported for ableism.
This shit is why print media is going to die
le cherrypicked egzample
I buy physical books for pennys at second hand stores.
>>8029399
Get the special hardcover edition, OP.
http://www.twistedspoon.com/othersHC.html
Anyway, things go out of print all the time. It hasn't "killed" anything yet.
Any recs that are similar to the Twilight Books?
Specifically Midnight Sun?
(Preferably that I can find in a pdf)
yes I'm a pleb
fuck it
bump #2
Midnight Sun isn't a twilight book.
What is going on here...
>>8029871
It's a Twilight Book
but it's not a part of the series
Have you guys ever read the Shakespeare biographical adaptations in the Sandman series? I think they are some of the warmest, most tender and humane fictional portraits of the poet. My favorite is Nothing Like the Sun, by Anthony Burgess, but this one is also great, and I would like to share it with you. It starts here, whit a conversation between Will and Kit Marlowe (this chapter has only a few pages devoted to Shakespeare – pic related is one of them):
http://www.omgbeaupeep.com/comics/The_Sandman/013/10/
Then we eventually see Shakespeare and his crew in the beginning of the top stage of his carrear, with A Midsummer Night Dream:
http://www.omgbeaupeep.com/comics/The_Sandman/019/
We eventually reach the end of Shakespeare’s career (and of the Sandman’s series) with the days of old Shakespeare living in Stratford and working in The Tempest:
http://www.omgbeaupeep.com/comics/The_Sandman/075/
This last chapter is extremely moving, and it shows a William Shakespeare who has grown old and wise, but with that kind of understanding of humanity and the world that makes one melancholic and silent, rather than joyful. We see a man who treats everybody well, who lets his wife criticize and treat him like a kid, who don’t respond to the offenses of the towns people, who watch his daughter make the mistakes of thousands of young people but who knows that this is the way the world works…it is very touching. It is almost as if Shakespeare was some older incarnation of Leopold Bloom.
>>8029322
funny to see Marlowe shiting on Will on the pic, lel
>>8029322
this was great. Thanks.
I'm actually interested in reading these Shakespeare parts. Is there a way to just get the Shakespeare parts?
>hot andbsunny day
>seeing all the happy young sex having people outside
>no friends
>tonnes of free time but feel guilty for not working on stuff 24/7 (unable to enjoy anything)
Who else is unable to enjoy life?
>>8029223
You and I are in control. We must not dwell on the negative There is no logic behind it. A change of perspective is easy if you make it easy. Just understand that the way you are feeling is caused by a warped perspective.
Drugs help by providing relatively temporary blindness to it all, while allowed you to focus on something positive.
I hope anyone isn't thinking either all or nothing in terms of medicine/drugs. It's okay.
>>8029223
>>seeing all the happy young sex having people outside
public sex is a crime, call police
also -------> /r9k/
What do you do when you are reading philosophy, antropology, History, etc.? How do you remember what you read after a while?
Do you underline books? Do you summarize what you are reading in a notebook?
>>8029221
Hi, I use a lot of sticky bookmarks, written with topics that interested me during the read depending of what I'm working on.
I don't take notes, I just try to absorb the experience and retain the important parts.
>>8029248
>sticky bookmarks
I started to use some months ago. They are good to mark quotes I like when I read literature, but when I'm reading philosohpy is like if I don't write down I will forget it soon.
Who is a writer that is skeptical, easy-going, reclusive, orderly, artsy, philosophical, rational, literary, and wholesome?
Plato
me
Jeb Bush senpai
i heard this is the best warcraft novel, anyone read it? does it follow WC3 story good?
Go back to the genre fiction containment thread and don't kill other threads with this shit.
this is like the least lit lit i've ever seen
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Would anyone care to red pill me on who btfo'd who here?
"Red pill" is not appropriate /lit/ colloquialism.
>>8029036
/lit/ is homogenous and doesn't actually exist
And /btfo/ is just a basic /b/ meme.
okay so quentin didn't boink caddy. but why did he tell his dad that. to protect her? protect her how? was it to get everyone to shun her? so no man would want to bone her because she diddled get brosef? why didn't the dad believe him? was it because he was a bitch?
did you like the book. I thought it was okay. I have absalom absalom and as I lay dying. any other books I should read from him?
the sound and the fury discussion / Faulkner
>>8028985
*her
>>8028985
Because: he boinked caddy, that stays between the family and it's his fault.
She boinked someone, on the other hand, and it's her fault.
Funny part is his father wouldn't have given a shit
Incest is the key element here.
John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson or Joan Stambaugh?
ima guess macquarrie
>>8028935
OMG do really people read philosphy in English? What a joke
>>8028935
I have the first, but one needs at least a novice understanding of Plato, Aristotle, and Nietzsche to understand Heidegger, and that requires knowing Greek and German..
a generic song is about love
a generic movie involves crime
what does a generic book contain?
words
Probably Bildungsroman or an adventure story. Those have both become kind of clichéd in literature.
>>8028856
If I read one more book with words I'm gonna lose it.
YOU HAD ONE JOB
Maybe it's a clever allusion to something?
>>8028882
Don't think so. Here's more by the same illustrator (named Leonardo in the Amazon web)
wew...
Okay /lit/, I'm going on a truncated summer vacation to the flyover states tomorrow. It's been a year or two since I've read a book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and want to bring another with me. Because I'm taking the train, I don't want to take up too much space with books, and I hate my e-reader. Etc. Etc. I've read Crime and Punishment and Notes from the Underground. What's your opinion /lit/? What's the best book to read from him?
What Dostoyevsky is better for a vacation out the three I have left: The Possessed, The Brothers Karamazov, or (Poor Folk/ The Double / The Eternal Husband)?
I haven't read any of them yet, and I'll be gone for a month. Potentially I'll have access to a library. If there's something much better I'll do without until then.
>Dostoymemesky thread again
Start The Brothers.
>>8028833
read The Idiot
Just finished a re-read of Drowned World by Ballard, god damn that book is a lot more racist than I remembered.
What's the cut-off point for these things at which you think "well everyone was racist then"? It was written in 1962 and refers to "negro" or "mulatto" characters in proper old school 19th c racist language, all animalistic and grunting, subordinate to the white captain, like cyclops and hippos, they all speak like "yes Mistah, whatever you say sah".
Not found any serious criticism on this, dunno if this is the place to be, I dunno how /pol/ infected /lit/ is these days.
>Not found any serious criticism on this
because it's not warranting serious criticism
the entire point of the book is how everything becomes more primitive as the landscape changes
>>8028770
Yes, I get that, I'm talking as much about his language choices, only the black characters (who never have names) are referred to in an explicitly animalistic fashion. Subservient cyclops and hippos and twisted muscular beats. Unless you think some aspect of primitive existence is that non-white people turn into beasts that doesn't mitigate it.
why do you assume racism is just a product of the times
