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Does anybody else hate university here?
>>8008001
>humanities students make fun of you for being an art pleb
>STEM students make fun of you for not being nerdy enough
Does anyone else hate offtopic shit threads?
The communists did one thing right: purging the intelligentsia.
just finished the sound and the fury. before that I read mason and Dixon. I have a problem. Faulkners prose was so shit Compared to M&D, I felt let down the entire time. what are some other books with amazing prose. I feel like pynchon ruined reading for me with that one book. what read?
>>8007966
>reading Faulkner for the prose
There's your problem
>pynchon
>good prose
>>>reddit is that way senpai
>>8007972
I'm uneducated. I apologize.
It's very difficult to find youtube channels for the books we all like to read and even then hard to find a good reviewer.
Post your favorites or your own.
I'll start by posting one of my favorites who is pretty well known, Better than Food: Book Reviews. He tries to praise books he likes and convince others to read them.
https://www.youtube.com/user/booksbetterthanfood
All others are shit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmYrdMKC-d4
>>8007960
if he weren't so pretty i'd call his videos pleb shit
Hello, /lit/.
I want a pdf of the On Overgrown Paths, by Knut Hamsun. I looked everywhere, but can't find it.
Also, Knut general thread.
Fuckin' plebs.
lmao I have hunger but haven't read it yet
did I get memed?
Can't help you there, but Growth of the Soil is god-tier. Has anyone here read Mysteries by Hamsun? Gonna pick that one up soon.
Why is modern pynchon not a meme here?
we only meme good literature
>>8007724
What have you read by him?
>>8007724
Yeah, like John Green and Sam Harris.
Anyone else want to share their experiences with this beauty of a book? Ill give you my story
Yeah, I actually read the whole thing because I had to. I was entering a prestigious PhD program and focusing on Pynchon because I loved TCoL49, V, and M&D. To my shame, though, I'd never read Rainbow. I'd never even tried, as hard as that was to admit. It was this huge blind spot and area of vulnerability for me. Whenever it'd come up with my colleagues I'd just smile and nod, smile and nod, hoping they wouldn't ask me anything specific about it. "The musicality of it," somebody would say, and I'd say, "Oh God, yes, it's like Bach." Finally, though, I had to dive into it, and let me tell you it was tough going. Fowler's guide helped a lot. Reading it out loud helped. I listened to other people read it, read online commentaries. Eventually it started to make some sort of sense. It was like I was learning to read for the first time again, and in a way this was enjoyable. I got better at reading the book. Soon I was reading entire paragraphs without trouble, getting the puns, laughing at the dick jokes. I could sort of follow the story, it was like a blurry picture resolving into clarity, or like I was drunk and I was sobering up, I could actually understand it. As I became more and more adept at reading GR, I began putting myself to the test, initiating conversations with my colleagues about it, but specific passages this time, specific parts of the book. You can probably guess what happened. After a number of these conversations it became blindingly obvious that I understood the book a lot better than they did, they who I thought were the experts. It eventually became sort of embarrassing for them and I stopped trying to talk about it. And at the end of the day I would pack my things, catch the bus home, and settle into my apartment to read the GR. It had surpassed all of Pynchon's other works in my estimation. M&D, the book months earlier I would've named as my favorite of all time, the best book ever written, was now #2 to Rainbow. So majestic, so ambitious, so wide-ranging, erudite, glorious, incredible was it that I couldn't believe that it was the work of one man. Best of all, the heart of it isn't complicated at all. What did I get from GR, what are its lessons? First of all, be yourself. Second of all, put one foot in front of the other. And lastly, just do it for crying out loud, time's a wastin'!
hah! anyone else!?
>>8007720
I cant' even read the book's title because of the low contrast.
>>8007720
i really like that cover
Alright, /lit/.
I'm tired of this feeling of apathy towards everything. Disconnectedness with feelings and people. A "meh" is the response my soul gives to sentimentality. Females no longer interest me, and I want to change that.
I want a classic romance novel that will make me feel very connected to the female in the story. I want to understand the beauty of a female.
>Preferably written by a man.
you should be happy to be free from the curse of women tbqh
>>8007685
The bible
1. stop jerking off
2. fistfight your dad
Whats your favorite chapter?
I like the first one with Bloom, feels comfy as shit.
Yeah, I actually read the whole thing because I had to. I was entering a prestigious PhD program and focusing on Joyce because I loved Dubliners, Portrait, and Ulysses. To my shame, though, I'd never read the Wake. I'd never even tried, as hard as that was to admit. It was this huge blind spot and area of vulnerability for me. Whenever it'd come up with my colleagues I'd just smile and nod, smile and nod, hoping they wouldn't ask me anything specific about it. "The musicality of it," somebody would say, and I'd say, "Oh God, yes, it's like Beethoven." Finally, though, I had to dive into it, and let me tell you it was tough going. Joseph Campbell's guide helped a lot. Reading it out loud helped. I listened to other people read it, read online commentaries. Eventually it started to make some sort of sense. It was like I was learning to read for the first time again, and in a way this was enjoyable. I got better at reading the book. Soon I was reading entire paragraphs without trouble, getting the puns, laughing at the jokes. I could sort of follow the story, it was like a blurry picture resolving into clarity, or like I was drunk and I was sobering up, I could actually understand it. As I became more and more adept at reading the Wake, I began putting myself to the test, initiating conversations with my colleagues about it, but specific passages this time, specific parts of the book. You can probably guess what happened. After a number of these conversations it became blindingly obvious that I understood the book a lot better than they did, they who I thought were the experts. It eventually became sort of embarrassing for them and I stopped trying to talk about it. And at the end of the day I would pack my things, catch the bus home, and settle into my apartment to read the Wake. It had surpassed all of Joyce's other works in my estimation. Ulysses, the book months earlier I would've named as my favorite of all time, the best book ever written, was now #2 to the Wake. So majestic, so ambitious, so wide-ranging, erudite, glorious, incredible was it that I couldn't believe that it was the work of one man. Best of all, the heart of it isn't complicated at all. What did I get from the Wake, what are its lessons? First of all, be yourself. Second of all, put one foot in front of the other. And lastly, just do it for crying out loud, time's a wastin'!
>>8007677
beat me to it
>>8007677
10/10
What is your favorite film adaptation of a piece of literature?
>>8007634
You posted it.
>>8007672
That's good to hear. I was expecting the first post to shit on me.
>>8007634
The Lion King.
None of the books I have are interesting. Should go out tonight? Someone convince me to read this.
>Catch-22
>Not interesting
?
You should go out! ... to the nearest used book store and buy something cheap that actually interests you.
>>8007516
Why did you get these books if you don't find them interesting?
Recommend some good political books
>>8007327
>On conservative values
Evola
>On women
Schopenhauer's 'On Women'
>on degeneracy and corruption
Mein Kampf
>on Jews
The Culture of Critique Series
>on the current political climate
Decline of the West
>on egalitarianism
The Bell Curve
>on social justice
Nietzsche on SJWs
>>8007360
>mfw I told someone I agreed with some of whay Schopenhauer said in On Women
>they read it, or some of it, and hate me now
/lit/ please help, there's this series of kids books I used to read but I don't remember the name of them at all. I didn't finish reading them but the seriese probably finished by now. What the fufck were they called?
>there's a floating rock of wizards in between the edge of the world and a forest
>sky pirates
>one of the books is just a kid trying to escape from the forest, and in one part he ends up a gladiator in a bird market or some shit
pls respond
/join showderp
>>8007262
idk dude
Will something noteworthy happen in this or is it the same DUDE EDGY THINGS DESCRIBED WITHOUT EMOTIONAL INVOLVEMENT LMAO chapters until the end?
Put the book down and get something else. You're wasting your time, BEE should only be encountered by listening to audiobook if necessary, and thats only if youre doing something that prevents physical reading.
>>8007198
the snuff movie and the gangrape of the 12 year old gril shake him up a little bit
but mostly yeah
edgy unemotional decadent coke whores
>>8007213
>BEE should only be encountered by listening to audiobook
Why?
Would you guys wear?
Zizek thread.
Just read pic related, what should I read next?
The Monstrosity of Christ
>>8007152
You can read him in any order, really. "Sublime Object of Ideology" is his magnum opus, but if you aren't ready for its density or lack the proper background knowledge then "Violence" or "First as Tragedy, then as Farce" are also common starting points, but you can really read whatever you find most interesting. Or work on your background knowledge so you can read Sublime Object!
>>8007162
The Parallax View is his magnum opus.
![UlyssesCover[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/xEurssr.jpg "UlyssesCover[1]")
