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Who are these people on goodreads with 1,2,3k books read? Is that even possible
1. Why do you care ?
2. Either e-stats or full of shitty/short books
Inb4 Sebastian
>>7986233
Who is sebastian?
>It's a Marathe chapter
honestly ya
I found the discussions of American lifestyle interesting but other than that b r u t a l
>>7985564
>It's a multi-page endnote chapter
Why haven't you read any Wilde yet senpai?
'everything popular is wrong'
literally the original le wrong generation man
I haven't read him because i like to read things which are good
>>7985385
I don't know why this is so funny but kudos
>>7985385
I went to see The Importance of Being Earnest recently, I thought it was pretty entertaining.
Literature on suicide?
Is suicide morally wrong? What does that mean? Does it matter? Should it matter when the individual has no input into whether they are created or not?
>>7984895
Considering ordering fentanyl. Just want to understand every aspect possible before it happens.
>Is suicide morally wrong? What does that mean? Does it matter?
It is, and it means that by committing suicide you are harming others and breaking the moral law. It does matter, perhaps not to you: but it will certainly matter to anyone who cares about you (if anyone does). Is the fact that no-one has a choice in whether they are created or not a decent reason for opting-out of morality? I don't think so.
>>7984895
I think it's morally wrong if it hurts anyone in your life. You're prioritizing your immediate desire to escape over their desire to see you live. And no matter how alone you feel, I bet there are a lot of people who'd be emotionally fucked up if you checked out.
To answer the last question in your OP: none of us choose to be here. But we can choose to find the value in life, rather than giving up on it.
anyone without a degree from a top ten school in their country pls gtfo
ITT: /lit/ posters who think they're >smart>
Is UCLA considered top ten
>>7984245
>tfw like 4 colleges in my country
>>7984245
>unironically finished school
>smart
Pick one and only one.
Christianity is literally a pleb religion for the most lowly of slaves. How on earth is Christianity any different from Islam if both encourage peasant mentality and blind submission to one's master? Clearly the West's achievements came from some other philosophy than one made for the world's greatest underachievers.
>Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.” (Luke ix, 62)
early christians regarded muslims as just another christian denomination
>Clearly the West's achievements came from some other philosophy than one made for the world's greatest underachievers.
TOP KEK. What's *clearly* the philosophy for "achievers" then?
>>7983975
I don't know but it was definitely one a winner would follow
From his Goodreads profile, written by him:
>It all began when Pat Rothfuss was born to a marvelous set of parents. Throughout his formative years they encouraged him to do his best, gave him good advice, and were no doubt appropriately dismayed when he failed to live up to his full potential.
>In high-school Pat was something of a class clown. His hobbies included reading a novel or two a day and giving relationship advice to all of his female friends despite the fact that he had never so much as kissed a girl. He also role-played and wrote terrible stories about elves. He was pretty much a geek.
...
>For the next seven years Pat studied anthropology, philosophy, eastern religions, history, alchemy, parapsychology, literature, and writing. He studied six different martial arts, practiced improv comedy, learned how to pick locks, and became a skilled lover of women. He also began writing a satirical advice column which he continues to this day: The College Survivial Guide. Through all of this he continued to work on his novel.
>Now Pat teaches half-time at his old school as an assistant-sub-lecturer. He is underpaid but generally left alone to do as he sees fit with his classes. He is advisor for the college feminists, the fencing club, and, oddly enough, a sorority. He still roll-plays occasionally, but now he does it in an extremely sophisticated, debonair way.
This is the current "king" of the Fantasy genre. Is there a more JUST genre anywhere?
>>7983848
>He still roll-plays occasionally
More like he still roll-eats occasionally
My life is worse for knowing this person exists
you're just jelly he was able to lose his virginity
ITT: we give the poster child book for each 4chan board. /out/ is pic related
bumping for potential
>>7983278
/out/ is more like Linkola than anything else, they even think cairns are too intrusive.
>paranoia
>insanity
>psychedelic drugs
>occultism
>mind control
>extreme s&m
>child murderer
>astral projection
>telepathy
>ghost communication
>conspiracy
>global conspiracy
>illuminati
>transhumanism
>spiritual transcendence
>human sacrifice
>the great serpent
>apocalypse
/x/, by the way.
I really enjoy the infograph flow charts of different collections of thought/authors. They were actually what got me to start reading outside of genre fiction, I really enjoy the sense of completion, arbitrary or not. Post your best faggots.
Other infographs besides flow charts also appreciated, as well if anyone wants to contribute OC. Dumping my collection so far.
>LF "works after resume with romans", william gaddis,
My son is just about 9, homeschooling, and loves to read. I'm looking at books to populate a shelf, for his reading enjoyment. Recommendations please?
So far I'm getting him:
Big Friendly Giant
Harry Potter 1
Navigating Early
Charlotte's Web
Puss in Boots
Picture Unrelated
The Little Prince
Alice in Wonderland
Watership Down for when he's a little older
>>7981952
James and the Giant Peach
The Belgariad
In a year or three:
The Colour of Magic
Hichhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
is he the only professor of literary criticism who hasn't completely bent over a table for the ludicrous, hateful Resentment School of the left?
>>7981843
Helen Vendler is another one who focuses on the aesthetic qualities of poetry.
>>7981852
Thanks, the Harvard Bloom, eh?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Th7MV6Odg8
Bloom in 1995. To hear what he has to say about the SJW nonsense now would be something.
>>7981852
She seems like a great critic, but she's about as old as Bloom
Travel to a far away land!
A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsey
Out of a Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
Son of Man by Robert Silverberg
Old thread >>7973352
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg (embed)
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg (embed)
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg (embed)
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg (embed)
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg (embed)
>What are you reading right now?
>Got any tourist books like those mentioned above?
>Post your favorite book cover
C. S. Lewis' Space Trilogy.
Pretty good.
I didn't like this one as much. Not as much tourism, and a large focus on orgiastic magic rituals.
>/sffg/ is now taken over by the same elitist that tried to get rid of us
>only difference is they post old as fuck books that are dry and boring
>they then shit on you for posting living/fun authors
I want main /lit/ to leave and go back to circle jerking about dfw
What's the funniest book you have ever read /lit/?
Got any reading suggestions for those of us who enjoy a chuckle?
Gravity's Rainbow
Confederacy of Dunces
Lolita
Any John green novel
Jurgen by James Branch Cabell is hilarious/depressing
Sheridan is good if you like witty backchat plays
Also, Nabokov is hilarious if you understand his work
>>7980267
Tom Sharpe - Riotous Assembly
David Lodge - Changing Places
Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim
Richard Russo - Straight Man
James Thurber - The Thurber Carnival
George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman
That's something that's been lurking in the dark.
>>7980174
read pic related
also fuck off
>>7980174
schopenhauer
the very hungry caterpillar
What's his best play?
King Lear is usually considered by modern scholarship to be his best.
Other contenders are 1H4, Tempest and Macbeth.
It's Hamlet. People will try to come up with different answers because the answer "Hamlet" is so boring, but it's Hamlet.
paws
