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So I just finished reading this book for the second time over. I thought it was pretty good, with certain faults and stuff. Any of you guys read it?
>>7982770
No, I never read it. Why don't you tell us a little bit about what you thought were the faulty parts, OP?
>>7982773
It's worth the read man, his prose is a great match for the tone and plot, that epitome of magical realism that reads like a dream.
It follows the story of the Buendia family in Colombi over the course of seven generations, and their history parallels a lot of Colombian history and in many ways reflects pan latinamerican history as well.
There's not much wrong with it from my view, but sometimes he mixes up love and lust, especially in one last part near the end. There's really so much happening in the book though that it's hard to pinpoint every critique.
Overall a great book and certainly one of the twentieth century's best, I do believe it deserves most of the praise it gets. Check it out anon.
>>7982770
Did you read it on the original language?
Why is this one of /lit/'s favorites?
It's short, give it a read and find out for yourself.
Because Dosto is the man and it's really good and short.
I'm reading it now just finished chapter one
essay due soon, still in need of subject matter, please help
>>7982750
A foucaultian analysis of Macbeth.
Just did it, it's not that hard and it's interesting.
>>7982750
the cuckization of american male youth: revisited
>>7982750
Any more information? Class it's for at least?
Am I a gay scientist if I do not think abstractly and am really good at the third stage of Hegel’s dialectical process?
>>7982744
you're a gay scientist if you are a scientist and also have sex with men
>>7982746
lmao
good post my friend
>>7982746
no, he's a gay scientist if he's a scientist and is also happy :)
So what's 'Fat' all about then?
>>7982729
you
>>7982735
Aw, now come on desu
She wants to be pregnant because her life is still born ?
Where to start with Lovecraft? Are his books worth reading at all? Looking for stuff to read while high, from what I've heard Lovecraft seems fitting.
>>7982719
Call of Cthulu is his most famous story. In the Walls of Eryx is my personal favorite. Also good are Horror in the Museum and the Music of Erich Zann. Actually everything is good desu senpai.
>>7982719
Yes. Read Colour out of Space. You'll have a blast.
The Call Of Cthulu
The Whisperer In Darkness
Dagon
The Outsider
At The Mountains Of Madness
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Color Out Of Space
The Rats In The Wall
Dreams In The Witch House
Please share some great writings from critics of technology.
The more forceful, the better.
Pic related.
Here you go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymtnUDAOEWc
>>7982619
just read Pinecone's essay <<Is it OK to be a Luddite?>>
https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddite.html
>>7982660
>https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddite.html
Goddammit Pynch, you use too many commas. And you didn't answer the damn question.
I have a chart but confused on which books to starts first, or help with the dive into it.
the thumbnail is too small for me to know exactly what this is, but from the filename i think itll be useful for you lol.
>>7982561
Just pick one that looks interesting. In its existence literature has covered so
many ideas, wroting styles, ideologies, etc.
Some people love the oldest stuff, very quick paced usually
Some like the 1700-1800 neoclassical slow, hoity toity
Some like the "what le fuck" of the surrealists and stream of consciousness
You just gotta jump in and see what tickles your fancy
Sorry if it's off topic, but I couldn't find shit in the wiki.
Some based anon introduced me to library genesis, but I need new sources.
I'm looking for some specific books for preparing psychometric tests. The 'For dummies' one and another one.
I recall the wiki had some page on where to get books (through IRC?) but I couldn't find shit now.
Thanks in advance.
Nick Land FTW!
abebooks.com
>>7982597
That won't do.
It’s in the sticky… http://www.ak3d.net/help.htm
Ok, i am a massive sucker for paranormal romance novels. Anyone have some/a series they would recommend?
my top favourite series are;
1-Lords of the underworld by Gena Showalter
2-Psy/Changeling Series by Nalini Singh
3-Guild Hunter Series also by Nalini Singh
4-Chigargoland Vampire's by Chloe Neill
5- Undead series by MaryJanice Davidson
and 6- Shifters Unbound series by Jennifer Ashley. Not necessarily in that order but definitely them :)
Extra points for ones i haven't got/read :D
my
>>7982559
My? My what?
Opinions on pic related? Also, I cannot find his Imaginary Lives but I desperately want to read it.
I'm about to finish. Short stories (spanning no more than 3-4 pages), with some dramatic outcome and a quiet progress. Lots of children, prostitutes, bandits, and also stories from the greco-roman/medieval age.
If you can read French
https://archive.org/details/viesimaginaires00schwuoft
If you can't read French, they have a translation of Mimes
https://archive.org/details/mimeswithprologv00schw
ITT we post the Best psychology books
This thread will be nice until the stemlords flock in telling you how worthless you are, then it will just devolve into a "debate" about who is more of a faggot.
>>7982504
All I want is psychology recs :^)
>>7982504
Are you pre-emptively crying about the STEM boogeyman?
Jesus you liblords are huge fucking saddos
Women are better at every form and genre.
Best novelist- George Eliot
Best stream of consciousness writer- Woolf
Best poet- Elizabeth bishop
Best short story writer- Munro
Best thrillers- highsmith
Best playwright- Shakespeare who was of course a fat black lesbian ghost spoon
Also shout out to Emily Dickinson, best recluse writer
Prove me wrong.
>protip: you can't
>>7982445
how about this? fuck you.
>>7982445
Women ruin everything
Just look at Star Wars, Mad Max and True Detective.
James Joyce.
what is the most important quality of a writer?
What make a good writer?
What make a bad writer?
pic totally related.
Truthfulness, accuracy of metaphor... There's a lot that goes into it. There's not really one good answer. If you are interested in the question Borges has some Harvard lectures called "This Craft of Verse" and Tolstoy, a book called "What Is Art". Everybody has their pet aesthetic theory, but try not to get caught up in these.
Go read Homer, Whitman, Virgil, Crane, Dante, The Bible, and any religious text which has existed/persisted. All of these share in genuineness and truth in expression. I don't think that the traits of a good author are wholly discernable, and you should read some more to understand why if you haven't already. Best answer I can give you bb :- ).
This is such a hard question...Depends what sort of writer you want to be though. Do you want to be James Joyce or do you want to write the next 50 shades of grey?
They require different approaches to writing. There are many techniques and word plays and word usage and techniques specific to the particular experience of reading a book.
When you want to create something truly unique you have to start thinking about art and what makes something a work of art and of course the relations between kitsch, art and mass media...
Today because of the massive amounts of available media and creative works even if you create something complex and unique it might go unnoticed.
You have ot give an immediate reason for others to spend time thinking about your work.
One might say that you have to include within your work kitsch on purpose to grab audiance and also make it in a way that would attract interpretations.
Through kitsch which is sort of a language on its own you navigate and force people to become invested in your work.
When we talk of cinema many of the most appreciated films(although i dont agree with such assesments) are works that are appreciated because of the massive amount of interpretative scholership. Take hitchcock, some of his movies, like vertigo are considered so amazing simply because of the wave of his movies that hit france all at once allowing them to suddenly be noticed and interpreted all at once.
>>7982510
I don't aim to be a 50 shades of grey writer, for I write light-philosophical adventure story. Also, I don't aim to become some one to be remembered for eternity. I aim to be a good, industry-standard adventure story writer whose stories are easy to read, epic, and contain a decent amount of moral.
Explain shitty meme Engels cartoon.
Also why aren't you spiritual libertarians yet?
A bunch of clever guys with some free time regularly met in a bar to talk about their favorite author (thus: Young (Left-)Hegelians), banter and invite impressible chicks to live the /lit/ life.
Contrary to their idol (who was concerned with self, competition/enslavement, among other things) they didn't view the current sociology-political situation as finished and desirable, and thus they competed against each other about how to destroy, using coherent arguments. It was kind of illegal to do so, so they focused on critiquing religion, though. Texts on how the bible stories are made up or even how Jesus himself was a made up person resulted.
They eventually got kicked out for running out of money and continued on the street, where they ironically begged people for money to buy more alc.
Oh, and there was a smug face with a large forehead who regularly dropped by and socialize with this intellectual circle, and in the end he wrote a book making fun of their views. He was playing their game though, of being more radical -than the others.
He wrote about self and competion, and so did Marx later (all of that applied to social classes as "individuals"). He then attacked Stirner for his ideas, naturally. But Stirner was forgotten in the end, and Marx and other guys weren't.
>>7982417
I'm really more concerned about stirnerposting than what a bunch of degenerate leftists did 100 years ago.
>>7982426
More like 170 years ago.
So what's your question? Have you read the book?
So second try:
>Explain shitty meme Engels cartoon.
It's a meme because it argues why a lot of things important in peoples lives are shitty memes.
Great tool. And it's then applied to existentialist questions. And it's a philosophy book that's funny, which is rare.
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