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Is there any essential nationalist literature?
Der Hessische Landbote
it's your fault you posted that picture
What nation are you talking about? Every Nation has their own essential National literature
Could a good philosophical work be composed entirely of memes?
Philosophy is transferred though memes, yet not composed of them.
The fallacy of the subjective is that it subsumes yet is also too reliant on the ontological.
>>8028186
it's already been done.
Hello /lit/, I haven't read a single Stephen King book since I'm just getting into literature.
What S.K. books would you recommend to me?
>>8027993
Skip this shitty author and read the sticky. Start with the Greeks (and The Bible).
>>8027993
I've only read Pet Sematary but that was pretty good
>>8027993
>What S.K. books would you recommend to me?
None
Why are pages used as a measure of length and not word count?
>>8027970
Because then publishers couldn't use huge letters and massive letters to inflate the size of the book and make little Timmy/disappointingly not little Stacy think that they're reading *really intelligent doorstoppers*.
"Alright class. Tonight's homework is to read to word 2,643. Oh and don't forget, be ready to review words 1,158-2,227 next Tuesday."
easier to reference
>but you could just use lines!
how would you know where the line is located?
So /lit/, do you read multiple books at once?
I try not to, but if I'm reading a huge ass tome then I'll start reading other books inbetween. I think I read like 5 books while reading Brothers Karamazov.
Yes. I will read something more comfy and something more challenging side by side and pick one depending on my mood.
>>8027963
>a confederacy of dunces at the bottom
>botns third from the bottom
can't place the rest.
>he loves Thomas Pynchon
>but he's never read Stone Junction
Tell me you're not THIS pleb /lit/?
>>8027958
>Tell me you're not THIS pleb /lit/?
Definitely not, I don't love Thomas Pynchon
>>8028049
>>8027958
I only bothered with the intro
Is there such thing as chart for philosophical aesthetics?
>>8027823
>philosophical aesthetics
Here you go mate, $183 and you're set
>>8027823
just read adorno aesthetic theory
Plotinus and Aristotle for ancient thought
Then jump into Burke and Kant which are key for understanding any posterior aesthetics.
Finish with Benjamin, Adorno and Heidegger.
Any books like this one? Other than the Requiem for a Dream book, of course.
Something really depressing.
>no responses
>[hello darkness my old friend intensifies]
>>8027814
Other Selby books, like The Room or Last Exit to Brooklyn
>>8027814
Like a similar theme?
Or just depressing books?
multiple first person narrative style books.
is it enjoyable? and is the theory better than actual application and should be left in the hands of experience authors, or can it be done well even for first time authors?
>>8027805
ah, maybe I phrased that weirdly. I mean to ask about first-person perspectives with multiple narrators.
>>8027805
The best to find out is to try it out.
I found it fun to experiment with and difficult to reasonably keep track of. Give it a go, s e n p a i.
just give it a shot and see if you think you did well, if other people think you did well
how do I read pdf on my Android Huwei Media pad?
I really like this image macro you posted haha (actually laughed out loud too!)
>>8027716
seems to be some kind of DRM-bullcrap!
>>8027716
im reading a pdf right now using my mediapad x1
If you think his plays are better than his prose works, you are literally a pleb.
>>8027709
If you use the word "literally" when you shouldn't, you are a pleb.
>>8027754
By merely voicing the preference, you are literally transported back in time to ancient Rome.
>>8027758
Oh fuck off Catullus, you're drunk again
Reminder that Kafka called G.K. Chesterton gay.
I guess you don't know what gay used to mean.
>>8027539
anon, samuel coleridge wrote about gay marriage!
I dare not doubt him, that he means
To wed you on a day,
Your lord and master for to be,
And you his lady gay.
later in that ballad, about the same gay person:
With tear-drop glittering to a smile,
The gay maid on the garden-stile
Mimics the hunter's shout.
>>8027550
Kafka was so prophetic that I choose to believe that he foresaw the sodomic implications of the word.
What are some good books that focus on the lives of Catholic saints? Works that focus on individual saints would be ideal, but something like a Bulfinch's Mythology for saints would be great too.
Chesterton's book on St. Francis is pretty good.
>>8027504
I'm interested, bump
>>8027504
also interested. Saint stories were the comic books of the middle ages (stories about superheroes, everybody knows the main ones, some people get really into it, debates about canon, etc.)
Donald Trump - The art of the deal
Barbara Pease - The Definitive Book of Body Language
John Gray - Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
Robert Cialdini - The Psychology of Influence
Ogi Ogas - A Billion Wicked Thoughts
I refuse to believe that you're trolling.
>>8027525
I know I cant find a billion wicked thoughts
You got me good OP.
In case you're serious (always a possibility) the one stop for your needs is gen.lib.rus.ec
If your book is not found there you are either using the search function incorrectly or it's pretty obscure material that you might as well buy.
Just finished this.
Thoughts on this book and its author?
you tell me, you're the one that's just read it
Ballard is probably my favorite author. his themes of the intersection of media/technology with humanity, surgical prose, and subversive spirit strongly resonate with me. Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan might be one of the greatest things i've ever read.
>>8027404
Ballard is great.
Love the Atrocity Exhibition, Drought and Hi-Rise
One could argue that sometimes his characters seem the same, but then, one could argue that many a post-modern man seems the same.
