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How do you guys decide what to read next? I've purchased around 100+ books at this point, but I've only completed six in the span of 2 months. Out of the six, four were light novels that have 15+ entries, so I never know whether to continue reading the series until completion or to start anew...
>four were light novels that have 15+ entries
you're cleary doing something wrong, m8.
Why do you buy 100 books in the first place? How many of them are lit approved?
>>8009439
Where I live we have a shelf filled with books. I've seen most of these books around the house growing up so I know them at least by name. I usually chose books by, in this order
>author
>recommendations
>title
>heard it mentioned on /lit/
Of course the size and general aspect of the book have an influence on my choice.
I like choosing books because I spend a lot time on each one.
also, this>>8009502, did you buy a wheelbarrow of books? How did you chose them in the store?
NEETch or NEETchuh?
Getajobche
Nyet-zzu-skeh
Why capitalize the one part of the pronunciation that you don't want to specifically draw attention to?
I read The Crying of Lot 49, now what?
Are his other books this sunny, funny, and charming?
>>8009340
mason and Dixon is the only pynchon worth reading.
how do u pronounce his last name?
pink-in?
py-kon?
pinch-in?
Books about school shootings/mass shootings.
>>8009339
The book entitled Columbine
My Twisted World by Elliot Rodger
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1173808-elliot-rodger-manifesto.html
>>8009339
Empire Falls
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>While art and music will be widely practised and taught, heavy or bulky equipment and buildings specifically devoted to the practice of the arts will be abolished. In the literary field, the ministry of education will grant permissions to print only fictional and non-fictional works of high quality: trashy novels will vanish. The inherited capital of public and private libraries will be carefully managed. Afternoon newspapers and pulp literature will be abolished.
Why aren't you an ecofascist yet, /lit/?
> the ministry of education will grant permissions to print only fictional and non-fictional works of high quality: trashy novels will vanis
There's no way to decide objectively what's high quality and what the population wants.
>>8009263
But I am, sort of.
>>8009270
Every work written before the printing press shall be excused from this treatment. That already cuts down on the number of books that are to be abolished.
Can you *know* more than four or five languages?
I read in Spanish with complete fluency, for instance, but I can't actually speak it.
To give an example, I could easily deliver a lecture in English, but I wouldn't be able to deliver one in Spanish.
>>8009166
It's hard I think. Some people know 5 or more, but most of the time, those languages are somewhat related and similar in some ways or they rooted from the a common language.
>>8009166
>I read in Spanish with complete fluency, for instance, but I can't actually speak it.
>To give an example, I could easily deliver a lecture in English, but I wouldn't be able to deliver one in Spanish.
Let's be somewhat objective here: you have basic Spanish. Like you may not he even getting past the lower levels on the CEFR.
So no you are not fluent or have fluency, yes everyone has better comprehension (reading and listening) than production (speaking and writing), and reading tends to be better than listening because the written word tends to be more consistent than the spoken, plus you can take your time. So no shit you can read better than you can speak.
Serious linguists and highly talented people with free time can.
What do I need to read to get into analytic philosophy and fancy kinds of logic?
Go to university
>>8009165
I am in university. My uni's philosophy department is purged of anything analytic.
For logic,
>>8008176
For analytic philosophy,
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ssmoss/moss%20404%20syllabus.pdf
do at least the readings in bold.
is it bad to like the beats?
>>8009124
Yes, nobody likes the beats apart from the beats.
the idea of it being bad to like something is a spook op
They range from okay to garbage teir pedo apologist Jew.
Really depends who you are reading.
Does anybody get early scifi writers constantly confused?
I can't tell the difference between Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clark.
I know Heinelen was a fascist and Philip K. Dick was crazy, but that's it.
Heinlen was an anti-Authoritarian, which is pretty much the opposite of a fascist. PKD had some troubled personal relationships with people, but I definitely wouldn't call him crazy.
The difference between Asimov and Bradbury would be immediately apparent if you read their works. Their writing styles aren't even similar, you can't really compare Dandelion Wine with Foundation I for example.
>>8009044
i'd be crazy too if my name was Dick
Can mindless entertainment be constructive?
>>8008997
no but mindful entertainment can be
>>8009011
What sets them apart, then?
>>8008997
Yea you can learn a lot about the foundations of story and narrative and how you can be manipulated by them
Is there a book equivalent of this?
Verses 11-32 in the 15th chapter of the book of Luke
>>8008975
I mean outside of the source material that influenced it
>>8008948
How come almost every film that ''professional film criticism'' bashes ends up being enjoyable at the very least?
Why is he so underrated?
He's mean to lots of people and the Worldly Will is too abstract to believe in
>>8008937
Hegel.
>>8008937
his haircut is weird
/lit/, I'm looking for a book that I read when I was younger, and naturally I can't remember the title, or even the cover.
All I can remember is the following:
>set in the English Civil War (I think 1645)
>there are some sort of time travellers who use bolt-action rifles in the first chapter to break a siege that had been going for months, in a few minutes (obviously).
>the main character's name was Daniel, but because of the tongue his father (who was one of the time travellers) spoke, it was either Donel or Don'el or something similar.
>it used some sort of science about "power lines" under the ground converging at certain points to allow portals to open between time periods.
I remember reading it and thinking it was a good story, and would like to be able to read it again one day. Can anyone help me?
How can you not remember the title or the author of a book you read?
>>8008911
Because I read more books than you.
>>8008906
The series is by Eric flint
What book are you currently stuck with and why?
Gulliver's Travels here. I loved it the first time I read it, but now it looks too bloody sterile and artificial. He goes on and on describing events as if he were writing some sort of practical manual and many parts of the book are too shallow - the discussio with the king in Brobdingnag, for instance, is just the type of criticism that you expect to find in some sort of newspaper or something.
I still enjoyed some of it very much, such as the description of the fight with the rats and the way that birds would simply remove food from his mouth. But, in general, I haven't enjoyed it nearly as much as I did the first time.
Also, I can only read one book at a time for some reason, so it kills me whenever I get stuck in a particular book. Anyone else has this problem?
Bump. I'm feeling sad.
>>8008875
yes i have this problem too. do you recommend reading gulliver's travel at least once?
Im 60 pg into brave new world and im feeling burdened to continue and finish
>tfw you've only just discovered that the BBC's doing another big budget load of Shakespeare
Is /lit/'s body ready?
>BBC
>big ... load
>shake speare
>>8008870
Shakespeare performed by those guys would be pretty cool tbhwy
>>8008870
LOL
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