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>when u realise your literature and philosophy habit is probably making you more unhappy than you have to be
Anyone else here try to stop reading?
if this is iq, you should definitely stop reading. books are only going to put bad ideas in your head and your head is already full of them m8.
It makes me much happier
Try reading different stuff
>>7960279
Any recs senpai?
I could do with a fat dose of optimism to be honest.
>It's a Hegel tries to save Christianity but ends up destroying it episode
>it's a Kant tries to put philosophy on firmer footing and ends up mind-breaking literally every subsequent philosopher with his labyrinthine ossified system of philosophy episode
>>7956909
>it's a Zizek tries to explain Hegel but ends up discussing the ideological significance of Jacques-Alain Miller telling jokes about masturbating in Macedonia while sitting on the toilet watching Rear Window episode
>it's a "revolution" episode
>In order to understand Ancient literature, you need to have a massive knowledge of ancient history and to be familiar with the context and circumstances surrounding the creation of that work
>In order to understand "modern" philosophers such as Derrida and such you first need to have a huge understanding of phenomenology, Heidegger, structuralism and post-structuralism and pretty much every single philosopher (and their ideas) that came before him, and it all boils down to "start with the Greeks"
>In order to fully grasp Ancient Greek philosophy it is advised to be familiar with the Ancient Greek history
>In order to understand Joyce, you first need to be familiar with the works of Shakespeare, Dante and Ovid (and many others)
>In order to understand Pynchon, you need to have an encyclopedic knowledge of just about any subject ever, also it is recommended to be a rocket scientist
It's like they couldn't have possibly made it any harder if they tried.
How do you manage to do it, /lit/?
You're thinking about it wrong
Read what you want, look up what you can't understand or want to understand, infer the rest.
This is how you learn. You don't need to have read literally everything that influenced or is referenced by a piece of literature.
>>7948385
>You don't need to have read literally everything that influenced or is referenced by a piece of literature
but it is more enjoyable if you do
but yeah, context doesn't matter if it's a good piece of art
Does the fact that J.K Rowling never explicitly stated the race of Hermione mean it's an acceptable interpretation for a reader to interpret Hermione as any race they feel like and nobody can suggest otherwise or say that they're wrong? What do some approaches of literary theory/criticism have to say about this? What does /lit/ have to say about this concept?
Everybody knows that Hermione is meant to be white. Everybody knows that J.K Rowling must have had a white person in mind when she was writing Hermione, and in fact probably never wrote it down because it went without saying.
I'm genuinely curious what lines of thought have probed this kind of issue because it opens up all sorts of cans of worms about what you can start claiming about characters through literature if the absence of an explicit statement to the contrary or affirmation of opposing state is all you need.
>>7957093
Just report and hide.
>>7957084
Harry Potter is not literature. Go to reddit if you want to talk about poorly-written children's stories.
Who cares what "Just Kidding" Rowling has to say or write?
Why is Kafka one of the greatest literary minds of the 20th Century?
>>7956954
because teenagers love him
Hint: It has nothing to do with teenagers
>>7956954
He probably ate his vegetables
Recommendation Charts:
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
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>>7947444
Is Urth of the New Sun worth 16 bucks? I know it serves more to answer questions left by the original story, but the reviews in amazon make me doubt a bit, even if i shouldn't trust them much.
>>7952258
First for shilling list
>>7952283
>no Anita Blake the Vampire Slayer
First one is a classic.
Later ones not so much
You can only read one book for the rest of your life which one do you choose
Inb4 bible, the bible is a multitude of books.
>>7959954
Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Either Ulysses or a collection of poetry so I can know them by heart and use that knowledge to attain pu$$y.
Reading 1984 by G. Orwell. What are you reading today?
Your mamas titties while she bouncing on my dick
>>7958834
Don't rudepost in my thread please.
>>7958826
I'm reading Burmese Days by Orwell. I also recently read Down and Out in Paris and London and Homage to Catalonia. AMA
Pleb or patrician?
Failed patrician, I haven't liked his stuff since Kafka on the Shore
Read two of his books, both were shit.
>>7957804
Stopped Norwegian Wood and Kafka on the Shore both halfway through. I rarely put down books and flat out don't finish them.
I'm gonna say pleb. Of the Japanese authors I've read, he is easily at the bottom of the list (the others being Akutagawa, Dazai, Soseki, and Ishiguro- if you count him).
What will I need to read to build foundation to understand and/or appreciate Stirner?
Stirner
>>7950689
That's it?
>>7950759
Stirner
Critique thread.
The other one's clearly dead.
>>7938772
Dialogue is unrealistic. Baby line is bad. The simulated accent is jarring. Vapid main character interior dialogue that takes too many words to show too little of character. Still better than most here, keep trying, youll get it soon it looks like.
>>7938772
>stained with such prominent grease
WTF?
Which books will help me recover from the /r9k/ mindset?
None. Even a few weeks of using that board will imprint it's horrible worldview into your mind.
You're doomed to be that same bitter virgin forever.
Literally all of them. Combine reading with travel and someday soon you may even be a passable human.
Mindfulness in Plain English - Bhante Gunaratanna
has anyone here given up on writing?
what happened?
>>7945452
I suck at grammar.
>>7945456
>Grammar
Really? THAT is your concern? That's really fixable anon.
The things that aren't fixable are talent and creativity. I imagine most people give up because they don't put in the effort to churn out something good or just aren't creative enough to write something worth reading.
Grammar doesn't sound something that you should give up over imo.
>>7945452
I've given up on life m8, pulling the plug tonight
ITT: We blurb an entire book in 10 words or less.
I'll start.
Lolita - Pedophile strikes gold and goes on cross country adventure.
Don Quixote - Man thinks he's a knight and fucks up sheep/windmills.
On the Road -- Young writer drops everything and goes traveling with artsy friends.
How do I deal with the fact that the Munchhausen trilemma exists and all philosophy is bullshit and all humanities / art / politics is narcissistic posturing?
Everything is such BS on a big pile of BS on a mountain of BS, it's all so hard to take. Everything boils down to BS or trivialitirs
>>7952340
Certain things are self evident. I think there I am. I intuitively know suffering is bad because the evidence is the phenomenological experience of it. And from such truths you build upon it.
Yes, everything is just bullshit. Bullshit on bullshit on bullshit.
And now what? This line of thinking doesn't lead anywhere, it's a dead end. And if your thoughts can't go anywhere further, they'll take a few steps back and go into a new direction. (That's what happened to me, at least, when I felt like you.)
Stop beating around the bush and accept Christ.
