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What creative nonfiction books do you recommend? Pic unrelated
>>7899543
Greeks. Greek histories rule ass.
Also Plutarch's lives are fantastic, especially Caesar and Cato.
>>7899550
I should have mentioned I am interested in contemporary creative nonfiction. I have studied the Greeks, and have read a lot of that relevant literature.
>>7899550
Also op, and I agree, I do like the Greeks quite a bit
Because we live in this world, I search for short novellas. I was reading "The Old Man and the Sea" in a afternoon.
>>7899500
Look at the wiki.
The old man and the sea is a morning novel though
>>7899531
But, are short novellas?
Why is reading literature shoved down my throat by lit and the media and "educated society" as something I have to do or else I'm a stupid and bad person? It seems like a marketing gimmick to me. If I sat and read all day then I'd have no money. But society wants me to use my limited free time to read while telling me that it makes me a more valuable person.
As if "muh human condition" has to be learnt from books written by the same sections of society (the ones with access to the media-publishing-academia industrial complex. (inb4 /lit/ moves the goalposts about why they read books)
It seems like a big scam to me. lit is a bunch of delusional people who want to venerate literature and publishing companies either to gain pseudo intellectual cred or in the vain hope that they'll be published one day.
Also many novels are exercises in narcissism or self indulgence by the author. But because it's packaged and distributed by a publisher then I am supposed to care or else I'm dumb. What if I don't give a shit about Dostoevsky's spiritual or moral views? Hume already showed that none of it is based on logic (see the Münchhausen trilemma). Anyone can choose the axioms they want.
>>7899470
Here's your reply.
>>7899470
Just read non-fiction about things that help you with your career, help society, or are interesting.
Fiction is entertainment and entertainment is a waste of time.
kill you are self thanks
where do you get your books from?
ebay. just really fucking cheap shit from where ever.
>>7899353
well pic obviously related senpai
Amazon and resellers through Amazon
Recommend me some life affirming literature lads. I want to feel eager again.
>>7899079
You read Anne of Green Gables?
Stoner
Lovecraft's works, The conspiracy against the human race, The ego and his own
In What Order Should You Read The Chronicles of Narnia?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia#Reading_order
Publication.
You should always read or watch in publication order, always.
definitely publication order for narnia
Been on my back log for awhile, I'm going to start it soon. Am I in for a treat, or trash?
It's decent trash.
I trashed your mom's treat when she was on my front log last night.
The fact that you wanted to read Dune in the first place implies to me that you'll like Dune.
where to start with twain?
start with shania twain, then move into samuel clemens works.
>>7898754
How to Tell a Joke
>>7898754
Pudd'nhead Wilson is his enduring masterwork.
I love the writing style. It's not too flowery, but it's just poetic enough. What else should I read for liking this?
the sticky
>>7898706
Willa Cather - My Antonia
>>7898706
>praises prose work for being "poetic"
I'm 30 pages in, when does the kush enter the picture??
>>7898695
good post
>>7898695
It's all in the last chapter yo. Keep reading Teacher bro get's lit as fuck
Shits loud!!
Wow did you really just marathon the first 30 pages expecting to read about dope?
question for law fags on /lit/:
were there any books in particular that helped you with logic/reading comprehension before law school?
>>7898689
read law journals
gtfo
>>7898689
H. L. A. Hart - The Concept of Law
Read the advance sheets. Northeast Reporter,Southern Reporter, any of them. Plato's Meno for cross-examination. Ed Levi's book. Prosser on Torts. Corbin on Contracts. Now you're halfway there.
Anyone on /lit/ have a keen interest in Somali poetry? Seems like it's severely underrated.
>Due to the Somali people's passionate love for and facility with poetry, Somalia has also been called by, among others, the Canadian novelist and scholar Margaret Laurence, a "Nation of Poets" and a "Nation of Bards".[1]
>The 19th-century British explorer Richard Francis Burton, who visited the Somali Peninsula, similarly recounts in his book First Footsteps in East Africa how:
>The country teems with poets... every man has his recognized position in literature as accurately defined as though he had been reviewed in a century of magazines - the fine ear of this people causing them to take the greatest pleasure in harmonious sounds and poetic expressions ... Every chief in the country must have a panegyric to be sung by his clan, and the great patronize light literature by keeping a poet.[2]
>As the Somali Studies doyen Said Sheikh Samatar explains, a Somali poet is expected to play a role in supporting his clan, "to defend their rights in clan disputes, to defend their honor and prestige against the attacks of rival poets, to immortalize their fame and to act on the whole as a spokesman for them."[4] In short, a traditional poem is occasional verse composed to a specific end, with argumentative or persuasive elements, and having an historical context.
>The veteran British anthropologist and Horn of Africa specialist I. M. Lewis recounts how in the latter days of the rule of General Muhammad Siad Barre, the political opposition often relied on oral poetry, either recorded on cassette tapes or broadcast through the Somali language service of the BBC, to voice their dissent. When the British considered closing the Somali language service down for financial reasons, a delegation of prominent Somali leaders met with the British, and argued that "much as they appreciated the ambassador personally, it would be better to close the British embassy rather than terminate the BBC broadcast!"[5]
>>7898611
post some
>>7898690
>English translation of the poem titled ‘Corfield’, koofil in Somali by Sayid Muhammad Abdullah. This poem was written in 1913, after the dervishes defeated the British and their leader Richard Corfield.
You have died, Corfield, and are no longer in this world,
A merciless journey was your portion.
When, Hell-destined, you set out for the Other World,
tell them how God tried you.
Say to them: `From that day to this the Dervishes never ceased their assaults upon us.
The British were broken, the noise of battle engulfed us;
“With fervour and faith the Dervishes attacked us.’
Say: `They attacked us at mid-morning.’
Say: `Yesterday in the holy war a bullet from one of their old rifles struck me.
And the bullet struck me in the arm.’
Say: `In fury they fell upon us.’
Report how savagely their swords tore you,
Show these past generations in how many places the daggers were plunged.
Say:’ "Friend,” I called, “have compassion and spare me!”’
Say: `As I looked fearfully from side to side my heart was plucked from its sheath.’
Say: `My eyes stiffened as I watched with horror;
The mercy I implored was not granted.’
Say: `Striking with spear-butts at my mouth they silenced my soft words;
My ears, straining for deliverance, found nothing;
The risk I took, the mistake I made, cost my life.’
Say: `Like the war leaders of old, I cherished great plans for victory.’
Say: `The schemes the djinns planted in me brought my ruin.’
Say: `When pain racked me everywhere
Men lay sleepless at my shrieks.’
Say: `Great shouts acclaimed the departing of my soul.’
Say: `Beasts of prey have eaten my flesh and torn it asunder.’
Say: `The sound of swallowing the flesh and the fat comes from the hyena.’
Say: `The crows plucked out my veins and tendons.’
Say: `If stubborn denials are to be abandoned, then my clansmen were defeated.’
In the last stand of resistance there is always great slaughter.
Say: The Dervishes are like the advancing thunderbolts of a storm, rumbling and roaring
He was one of Somalia's most infamous poets. His was able to get thousands of men to join his cause in resisting the occupation of Somali territory by British/Italian colonials by his poetry alone.
I like this thing. What is their At Swim Two Birds?
I finally got around to reading Borges, and seriously, shit was SO cash. I wish I knew more about Latin and Greek classics like Borges did, because he weaves allusion and allegory to his short fiction so well. I personally loved House of Asterion, Emma Zunz, and Death and the Compass best.
Which were your favorite Borges stories?
>>7898549
The Secret Miracle. So ... weird.
The Secret Miracle. So ... weird.
Death and the Compass was a great short story where the smart guy actually dies for being smart. lol
Thoughts?
Septimus is the only good part everyone and everything else is whiny hipster tumblrina garbage
>>7898554
Oh. well that's insightful. Please tell us all more.
Woolf is a v talented writer and among like the 10 good women writers out there
Is he plebian?
>>7898485
Hell yes, now go away
The guy has written 57 novels and over 200 short stories, you got to give credit where credit is due, the guy is fucking creative.
Maybe, but I don't think he's as toxic as some other pleb writers, and I think he's done a lot of decent stuff, and has earned his place in media.
