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Goodreads sharing thread, I'm Not Sebastian edition
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/8341803-connor
Will Gass-poster ever share his GR?
>>7972032
Someday, maybe. I'll probably make an account for /lit/ purposes.
>>7972053
nice, would be interested in seeing it. I've butted heads with you in quite a few threads, I hated Middle C and just finished the Tunnel last month.
I'm glad you and others have been pushing Hawkes, Gaddis, Gass, McElroy, and Vollmann on here, its been great.
I have always had reading comprehension problems. How do I improve it?
Stop being stupid.
>>7971942
don't be rude anon
>>7971877
what kind of comprehension problems? do you have any diagnosed learning disorders?
is it the broader concepts? are you struggling sentence by sentence? please describe it. help us out here
What is /lit/ opinion on Sartre? A cuck or a genius? Maybe both?
Complete cuck
His writing style is godawful. Inexcusable for someone who claims to be a philosopher.
Just copped these two babies today on Kingsday in Amsterdam for 1 euro. What can I expect from The Devil's Mode? I really liked A Clockwork Orange and I was hoping for something similar.
>>7971781
Damn, that Shakespeare looks good.
>>7971838
It's old af. It says bought on a bazaar in 1995 so it's probably way older than that. Was able to cop it for just 50 cents.
you'll probably be raped and killed by muslims before you get a chance to read it.
No love for Anne Carson?
read this for a creative writing class and didn't hate it
On backlog for three years now.
>>7971675
She is fucking great. Anxiously waiting for Float. What are your favourite works of her?
I have a strange request. I've never been able to get sci-fi in any medium. I find that the settings are usually too nonsensical, like Star Wars or too heavily explained, like Star Trek.
That being said, as a kid I loved the setting and tone of the old television series, Batman Beyond. It was dark, clean and most of the technology was unexplained but easy to accept.
I know this isn't exactly /lit/ but does anyone have any books that are similar to this?
I have no idea, but that's an excellent show. Take the bump, my friend.
>>7971597
It actually holds up pretty well today. They were really onto something with that series.
>>7971586
>kid
If TAS wasn't the batman you watched as a kid then you're still a kid.
So /lit/, let's talk about those philosophy books you read and found funny or generally enjoyable as pieces of writing regardless of the pleasure derived from its philosophical content.
Mine
>Spinoza's Ethics, especially the Appendix to Part 1 - reads like Gorgias 2: Pantheistic Bogaloo
>The Birth of Tragedy, which I've genuinely found more poetic than Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Nietzsche's metaphors were far, far better than what they became. Just think about the part about the Apollinean...
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Bump? No one gives a shit about fun in philosophy?
Nicolas Gomez Davila
He wrote almost only aphorisms.
http://don-colacho.blogspot.de/?m=1
>>7971536
>not knowing how greentext works
>books/literature shoved down our throats as the greatest and holiest of entertainment, storytelling, etc
>not allowed to enjoy movies or games or music or anything without someone claiming its not as good as books
>get into reading
>read a bunch of different classics and recommendations
>its all a bunch of cucks who couldnt get laid, hate movies or other forms of entertainment for taking their revenue, and basing the story...
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Now you know what kind of person you really are.
forgot to add
>most of it is losers grasping for people to agree with their moral standpoint or religion
>>7971402
someone who realized books fell behind all other medium a long time ago?
every other book i pick up bitches about movies or something.
and theres nothing particularly enlightening as book lovers and english teachers would like you to believe. just "hears a retelling of my shitty life and why i couldnt get laid or paid"
If someone could give me some insight, that would be great. I've been smoking marijuana for about a year, first as a method to cure chronic nausea from a disorder I will not go into, but then evolving the use into one of spirituality. For thousands of years people have been smoking this herb to cleanse the mind and obtain a sense of calmness, meditation and possibly enlightenment. I have recently been meeting with a psychic spiritual adviser, whom told myself that marijuana is "not from God" and is used purely for control and confusion. Yet, she said alcohol is...
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>>7971239
I recommend 12 cc's of college education, with training in false dichotomy and not listening to bullshits and smoking pot and thinking you're enlightened outside of a culture which has such beliefs and traditions.
I'm a daily user.
I'd recommend giving it up for a while and going out and meeting people. After a while, the way that everything seems "profound" eventually goes away and you're back where you started. There are no shortcuts in life, and drugs are not a shortcut to spiritual enlightenment. You're gonna have to slug it out like the rest of us.
>>7971239
>Do I discontinue my use?
Yes. In fact, you should stop using your lungs all together.
This shit made me depressed for days
lmao I've been depressed for years and haven't read that book
The Sun Also Rises made me feel things. A Farewell to Arms didn't make me feel anything except bewilderment towards Hemingway's dialogue and characterization.
>>7971304
man just reading the summary of the sun also rises makes me depressed
DUDE
WEED
LMAO
Is it true that this guy actually went to rehab for weed?
He went to rehab for irony
>>7973043
he went to rehab because he had no discernible talent
What's more important
The need justifies the end Or we stick to our principles and values no matter what is our goals in life because we all gonna die after all and what's the point of not sticking to our values
What do you think /lit/
Also glad to see your recommendation on books about this subject
>>7970796
ask yourself how we benefit from him deleting the thread and adding a token "books for this feel?"
I've been gone for a while and honestly it looks like /his/ cleaned this place up pretty well
>>7970791
bump for interest
Could i read Aquinas without reading entire bible?
>>7970413
Yes.
>>7970413
Yes.
>>7970413
Yes.
am i about to get memed?
I thought it was alright.
It's good if you let it slide by considering the fact that it was unedited
fantastic. one of my favorite books. bolaño is my favorite author, this was my first work by him.
I am creatively bankrupt...I can't create a story to save my life...
It always ends up being a complete rip off, or something from my life.
>>7969271
Original thoughts don't exist, you think in a language inherited from others and you think thoughts that you have learned from your culture.
Just take it easy, friend.
>>7969271
>ripoffs can't save lives
>>7969271
Don't worry about originality. Just learn to have fun writing.
