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Honest thoughts on this man's work?
>>7983763
Childhood's End was good and inspired a lot of thngs, like Evangelion.
His prose is bad.
>>7983766
His prose early on wasn't great, like a lot of pulp-era sci-fi writers, but have you read any of his late-career books? It gets better.
2001, Rama, The City and the Stars, Childhoods End, all ultra original/insightful sci fi
Can anyone recommend some Orthodox literature? Is there a chart?
dostoyevsky
Dostoevsky is the main perpetrator.
Gogol got heavily into it in his later life, but it isn't obvious in his works.
Tolstoy was a heretic.
Orthodox posters usually recommend Way of the Pilgrim, Philokalia and Desert Fathers.
>>7983780
thank you
>book was at any point featured on the new york time's best seller list
>books by Sam Harris
>trash
yeh, this thread is over.
>book has a moral
>dropping a book because it was on the most popular and cited print sales list
How did this man change the course of your life?
For the better.
Books are gateways to other worlds, worlds that expand your point of view.
Good message for people of all ages.
None. Never watched his show. The books he covers looks like pleb shit anyway.
>>7983700
Wishbone was the real patrician child's show.
what are some texts to better understand the goal of post modernism?
>>7983694
Seconded, someone plz respond
weird for the sake of weird
>>7983694
Lyotard, artard
>"It's always interesting to talk with an intelligent man"
What did he mean by this?
Just stop
>>7983654
Ask an intelligent man about it.also dat cover
why is ulysses always called the story of an everyman? more specifically, why is leopold bloom considered an everyman when he is, in every way possible, an outsider
he is an over-educated bored quasi-intellectual non-drinker jew cuckold public masturbator in catholic ireland who everybody pokes fun at behind his back.
he's the punching bag of dublin. in what way is that the 'everyman' ?
>>7983641
>over-educated bored quasi-intellectual non-drinker jew cuckold public masturbator in catholic ireland who everybody pokes fun at behind his back.
6/9 of those things describe most people
>>7983641
what qualities should an every man embody then
bloom is hardly overeducated. he is more of a wonderer and a day-dreamer. he has a foggy notion of the orient that his mind wonders too, he doesn't quite understand parallax and doesn't really care to investigate it further, he makes some hazy calculations about various business enterprises, running shops, selling alcohol, keeping bees, ponders the rites of catholicism without really knowing much about them. he is very much middle brow, and very much a...
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>>7983743
What do you mean by parallax?
Besides plot and characters what makes a book good?
>>7983630
A hardcover, bright colors, and pseudphilosophical smegma-scented little phrases carefully crafted in order to fit perfectly in jpegs of the sea, or stars, or flowers with said quote on them.
Also, incest sex scenes.
aesthetic
a mostly abstract and subjective characteristic that is the single important thing in all of art
how it makes you 'feel', association potential
>>7983630
The beauty of the prose on a sentence-by-sentence level. That's what separates literature from genre trash.
If we have to affirm all parts/aspects of life how do we affirm poo and things of this nature? Does one need a poo fetish in order to become an ubermensch?
>>7983626
Yes
just took a fat shit, now my ass feels all stretched out and relaxed
>>7983639
Are you a girl?
Is there avenue of philosophy which hasn't been solved or disproved now?
>>7983516
I have never seen a proof of a Sam Harris.
>>7983516
Holy shit his eyes are not at the same height at all. I know nobody's eyes are perfectly aligned but it's usually not noticeable.
>>7983516
All of them.
This book is making me sleepy /lit/.
I'm 1/3rd of the way through, I enjoy the insight camus goes into depth on involving the town and its inhabitants and their reactions to the plague but the fact of the matter is, the town is ugly, claustrophobic, and i don't quite care about plague in this context.
What were some things you guys enjoyed about it, so I could get through the book better with something maybe I"m missing.
>>7983487
>but the fact of the matter is, the town is ugly, claustrophobic, and i don't quite care about plague in this context.
Go read some genre schlock if you want something nice m8. Or Proust or something I guess. A big part of the plague is its dirty scurrying decrepit descriptions.
>>7983487
I enjoyed the fact that The Plague is a look into how people cope with their morality once confronted by death.
>>7983487
Later in the book the doctor and one of the other main guys (forget his name) go onto a rooftop to overlook the town and have a very nice, meaningful chat about what keeps them going. If I remember correctly it was Camus' usual 'it might be a futile losing battle, but there's importance and value in the struggle' vibes. That was my favorite part of the book.
The way they fight against death is the point of the novel, it's not about creating an atmospheric seaside town for escapism. I don't...
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Books to introduce me into Journalism/Journalistic writing?
Should I read nonfiction books of various topics such as say the OJ trial, the rise and fall of the third reich, or fear and loathing on the campaign trail?
In Cold Blood
Well, /lit/?
I remember researching this and the one on the left (Hackett) turned out to be the clear winner.
>>7983402
The Cooper edition. It's not even close.
I don't get christian existentialism. Redpill me on it please
It's a feeling, how does one explain an emotion?
Essentially unfocused anxiety from a willing blind leap of faith, some fedoras would deem it cognitive dissonance from an overly introspective sap like Kierkegaard but there's no pleasing neckbeards now is there
>>7983364
But why is Thomas Pynchon explaining Christian Existentialism to me?
What is the Spirit They've Gone Spirit They've Vanished of literature?
Franny and Zooey
>>7983324
Did you mean to say Catcher in the Rye?
"In this place
There's a wounded hand
Felt a chain
Where the links met up
Round a name
In the faceless age
Cursed and pained
And your windowpane
As the lake
From one hundred friends
Wave them home
As the childhood ends
Turn it fast
As one mild day steals
Someone's soul
Into 20 years
In spirit they've vanished
And I'll show you why
They'll make you take elderly paths by this time
If...
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