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God dammit I'm reading this book now and I'm really enjoying The Navidson Report but every fucking time Truant starts writing it's so unbearably try-hard and edgy that I want to skip it but I can't bring myself to skip part of the narrative. I don't want to hear about his fucking wacky paranoia anymore
>>7889649
>he doesn't understand that the book is a maze and you have to differentiate which parts of it are dead ends that contribute nothing to the plot and which are.
I suggest you go back to reading YA.
>>7889649
I agree totally, everything about Truant seemed like a disingenuous attempt to make it a "postmodern" book by including totally contrived youthfulness and vulgarity alongside all the footnotes and scholarly references
>>7889649
>A FUCKING LEAF
Sup /lit/
Recommend me some reading material/books for the very casual/beginner reader..
Something like Hunter S Thompson on Henry Rollins, i use them as examples because to me they come off as good,captivating writers yet are simple enough for the average person to stay engaged in...
Biographies would work well for fitting in to this request i suppose..
never been a big reader (though my favorite book, Les Chants of Maldoror, was definitely not a 'beginner friendly' book)
>>in b4 i get called some faggot that...
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>>7889622
*edit
*hunter s thompson OR henry rollins
>>7889622
>that pic
>Hunter S Thompson and Henry Rollins
It all adds up
>>7889634
>>pic not related
..happy now ?
With as influential as holy texts like The Bible and The Qu'ran are, how come nobody ever thought to think of writing something about the people who actually wrote these books?
>>7889544
because the people who "wrote" them were just writing things that had been chronicled by other people over generations
>>7889544
I guess it's similar to Aesop's fables - they're tales shared and passed on through generations and nobody actually really knows where they came from.
>>7889544
they do. very often.
harry bloom wrote book of j as just one of many examples
stop making stupid threads and read more faggot
Reading No Longer Human right now and wondering if it's really written in those extremely long winded sentences or if the german translation just sucks. There are entire pages, consisting of only two sentences, with countless commas and it's kinda annoying. Is it the same in english?
Judging from the few pages I've read, that's just how it's written in the original also.
I hope you never get to read saramago m8
You got tricked, you got his lesser known novel called "Longer Human".
What are some good books on the Cathars?
They seem like one of the few theistic religions that solved the problem of evil.
>>7889368
>theistic religions
As Opposed to?
Practically all pagan and animistic religions have no problem with evil, neither does Hinduism or Buddhism. Or Zoroastrianism, Manicheism, or Gnosticism. In fact I think you could say almost all religions don't have a problem with it.
>>7890020
I agree with this post. Subjective morality allows the existence of evil.
>>7889368
Augustine solved it with an irrufutable argumen so it's not a big problem really, not sure why people cling to it so much.
You can dislike the argument, but it doesn't mean it hasn't been solved.
What went wrong?
Amazon
>>7889235
Elaborate?
>>7889235
This and they tried pandering too hard to nonreaders and children who exclusively read comics/manga. It just came off as desperate.
Was Natasha Rostova a slut? I only watched the tv series but can someone justify her actions because I was so angry with her decision making.
>i only watched the tv series
try reading the book, faggot
>>7889244
Is the book worth it though? I know >muh classics, I was going to get started with it, but the plot for Natasha made me ragequit
>>7889224
is the series good? strongly considered giving it a shot a while ago
Write a story based on this image
>>7889148
as I scrolled /lit/ early in the morning sipping bland coffee from an almost invisible styrofoam cup, which I'd used the day before, and had argued about it's environmental effects on newborn babies in China with a new age tea drinking co-worker, mirroring the asstastic quality of the coffee, I stumbled on a lonely thread with an image that might have been the Last Supper at some ppint in it's digital lifespan, now run through hundreds of ones and zero's that algorithimized it into an OP's...
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Someone left The Last Supper in the washer
>>7889285
It's called "Satans Last supper" It's from 1950.
ITT: Books that can help improve your day-to-day life.
>>7889045
>>7889045
The by the
What's wrong with this book?
the almost parodistically extensive use of the phrase "stretched his/her legs"
>>7888976
There's nothing wrong with it. Except the sequels and all those horrible cash in similar YA novels that tried to emulate its success.
Why did Americans need the title to be changed to 'sorcerer's stone' from 'philosopher's stone'?
“The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.” – Albert Einstein
Discuss
Nah the most important one is deciding whether it's worth living at all.
OT though, I believe the universe to be indifferent. You might perceive some things to be friendly or hostile to you but it's largely relative unless directly expressed.
>>7888961
>>/sci/
>>7888961
This is not remotely related to literature. Please delete this thread and then yourself.
smoking habits while you read?
I smoke like a degenerate. I ruined, like, three books because of ash and cig burns.
>>7888932
Were they good books?
>>7888932
Adds character.
What are the best philosophy/novels I can read for confidence gains /lit/?
>>7888905
>reading to gain confidence
Go to the gym.
Cioran - On the Heights of Despair
>>7888905
Quit fapping it's the only thing that's ever helped me
I've read Lot 49, Inherent Vice, and V., but l feel like l'm not ready to take on Gravity's Rainbow just yet. What should l go for instead?Please don't say Mason & Dixon
>>7888857
Inherent Vice, Vineland, or V.
I read him in this order: TCoL49, Vineland, Bleeding Edge, V, Gravity's Rainbow
>>7888866
Thanks famlam. Should l re-read V. before jumping into GR? I've heard they''re connected somehow.
V. is better and more difficult than GR anyway. Pynchon's past tense usage in V and Lot 49 is more representative of his style than the present tense of GR
>—Mr Dedalus!
>Running after me. No more letters, I hope.
>—Just one moment.
>—Yes, sir, Stephen said, turning back at the gate.
>Mr Deasy halted, breathing hard and swallowing his breath.
>—I just wanted to say, he said. Ireland, they say, has the honour of being the only country which never persecuted the jews. Do you know that? No. And do you know why?
>He...
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>She looked. Quick. Miss Kenn out of earshot. Sudden bent. Two kindling faces watched her bend.
>Quavering the chords strayed from the air, found it again, lost chord, and lost and found it, faltering.
>—Go on! Do! Sonnez!
>Bending, she nipped a peak of skirt above her knee. Delayed. Taunted them still, bending, suspending, with wilful eyes.
>—Sonnez!
>Smack. She set free sudden in rebound...
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>John Eglinton, frowning, said, waxing wroth:
>—Upon my word it makes my blood boil to hear anyone compare Aristotle with Plato.
>—Which of the two, Stephen asked, would have banished me from his commonwealth?
>Unsheathe your dagger definitions. Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. Streams of tendency and eons they worship. God: noise in the street: very peripatetic. Space: what you damn well have to see. Through spaces smaller than red globules of man’s blood they creepycrawl after Blake’s buttocks into eternity of which this vegetable world is but a shadow. Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
>Womb? Weary?
>He rests. He has travelled.
It still sends chills through my spine.
