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What are you currently reading? What were you reading prior? What do you plan on reading next?
I'll start:
>Currently- In Cold Blood
>Prior- White Noise
>Next- Child of God
Reading is. Wee todd ed!!!
currently-Metamorphoses
>prior (all withing the past week or so)- the art of war, the kreutzer sonata and other short stories, the universe in a single atom, the psychedelic experience, and don't sweat the small stuff (kek all you want)
>next- probably "kitchen confidential", Gogol's overcoat, and The Stranger
>the god delusion
>the martian
>slaughterhouse-five
I am so jealous of English majors.
In another life, I would have been an English major instead of a philosophy major (I can't remember the last time I read something by Popper or Kant, or even Russell for that matter.) - a large part of my time is dedicated to reading books like Gravity's Rainbow or IJ.
I've always hated writing and loved reading. Reading novels with complex themes has always been really intuitive for me. But I just can't stand writing essays or any kind of analysis. I've always felt like essays are mostly worthless for distilling the meaning of a book. I could easily capture the meaning of a book in a few bullet points segmented under several competing thesi. The worst part about essay writing is that in school, they force you to have one overarching thesis or idea. I don't necessarily agree with that. Sometimes the interplay between certain elements of the book require a kind of multi-pronged thesis statement.
I'd rather just write a short story that responds in a similar manner to the book that I've read instead of an essay, desu.
I think it was Emerson who said that in another life that he was most naturally a reader and should have never been a writer in the presence of natural writers.
What do you think, /lit/? Am I a pleb who chose the wrong major?
>inb4 philosophy majors have to write essays too
yeah but philosophy essays are much more intuitive for me: it has to do with the clear structure of an argument vs. the subtleties in a novel.
>inb4 pleb status needs to read more books.
Come on /lit/, you've answered worse shitposts. At least this one isn't completely ironic, is it?
Oh yeah, should also mention that I plan to take (or have taken) mostly logic courses to complete my philosophy degree - maybe that has to do with the fact that I don't have to write as many essays.
>tfw Classics major so I get to read both literature and philosophy equally
why don't you like Russell, OP? I find a lot of his books really comfy and enjoyable, especially History of Western Philosophy
Does anyone know where to get a complete recording of the canterbury tales in middle english and not just the prologue?
You could listen to a recording of the canterbury tales but you may as well get one of any book at all, none of them make any noises except when it's windy and then they just rustle a bit.
Damn this book seems comfy
>tfw you will never share stories with fellow pilgrims on the road to the shrine of Thomas Beckett
>>7851956
That is stupid
what are the best books and essays that talk about the role of artists in society?
they have no role in society. don't let the leftists fool you
>>7851849
the reason liberals are smarter than conservatives is because they actually see the value in art
Doktor Faustus by Th. Mann
Woman asks another woman if there was one book they wished they read sooner and the Woman's response was 2 self help books.
https://twitter.com/MarinasDiamonds/status/712681339561107456
It must have helped her help herself.
better than all the genre fiction reading men
dude, you're mad online about a tweet by a pop singer. get a hold of yourself.
What're your comfiest reads, /lit/? pic related.
>>7851556
Guess you'll never know
>when the flashman books were first published in America people mistook them for genuine memoirs
I have all of them on my Kobo, I've been meaning to get into them properly.
Pic related is a comfy AF read
Thoughts on James Patterson?
Garbage
>>7851296
A very prolific writer ofoutlines
liberal
Read a book based on where you'll be/ what your surroundings will be
why would going on a road trip mean you read different books than you normally would. just check the top 100 list we made
Well tell us where youre going so we can recommend some apropos shit
What is a website where I can get audiobooks for free that isn't private? I thought The Audiobook Bay was one but anytime I try to download from there it tries to get me to sign up for some shit called HyperBlazing.
librevox
librixoc
libricocks
ITT: Best audio books with a good narrator.
librvox
>>7851094
wew
>>7851094
>check youtube for audiobook of short story, to listen to during work/drive/whatever
>oh wow there are actually some by this author! cool!!
>don't see librivox anywhere, phew
>click
>nerdy fucking 14 year old, half a mile away from his microphone, speaks through a hailstorm of static "nnh this is a lirrifox recor'in nnnh all lirrifox recor'ins are in da public domein"
>starts reading hilarious story by saki in his nasal fucking voice
>can't help but picture this evil nerdy nasally-voiced pleb fuck on a ship distantly at sea in the middle of a hurricane, calling out barely audible passages of books i like
>try ten more times to find a story not by someone like this
>best i find is a woman with an actual cartoonish barbara walters lisp glibly reading lovecraft
>yell at my monitor WHY?? WHY WOULD YOU READ LOVECRAFT? YOU SOUND LIKE FUCKING BARBARA WALTERS!!!
>later that night have weird fucked up dream about barbara walters and myron from Fallout 2 following me around on a boat in a black-and-white storm, constantly harassing me through a scratchy 1950s ham radio
GO FUCK YOURSELF LIBRIVOX
"This sentence is false".
Philosophers can't even solve this small thing.
Seeking knowledge is pointless.
It's better to drop the whole philosophy shtick and just read genre literature.
>>7850902
What a poor soul.
I hope your life will be better one day anon.
I can solve it.
What does /lit/ think of To Kill A Mockingbird?
Why do they make high school kids read it?
SJW shit that led to cuckolding phenomonen
to give them a good dose of white guilt. part of the indoctrination plan.
teachers only read it to their studednts as an excuse to say the word nigger
Hey /lit/, I've got a meaning-oriented question to English native speakers.
I'm trying to translate a folk song ('Jesse James'), and I stumbled upon a line, whose meaning I find hinky.
It goes: 'And he came from a solitary race.'
Is 'solitary race' an idiom, or does it just mean that he was a loner?
>>7850510
Moreover, if the line is not enough, here's the whole verse:
Now Jesse went to rest with his hand on his breast,
The devil will be upon his knee.
He was born one day in the County Clay,
And he came from a solitary race.
>>7850510
>does it just mean that he was a loner?
Yeah. Archaic use of "race", was common just to mean "solitary kind/sort"
>>7850522
Thank you!
So I read How to Read a Book by Adler. It was great. It helped me immensely with reading and understanding.
He eventually has a recommended reading list. It's long and has lots of classical works. I've tried starting with the Greeks like he suggests.
I get absolutely nothing out of the Iliad and Odyssey. What am I doing wrong?
Is a self directed liberal education worth it? I'm not enjoying the journey this far.
>helped me immensely
>can't get anything out of the Epics.
It didn't help you then. What are you trying to understand? The meaning of the universe? Quit being lazy and retarded and read some more about them.
>>7850525
Yeah, what are you trying to get out of them? They're both relatively straightforward.
>>7850525
>>7850532
He recommended I start there and progress forward. I get why I should work through western literature chronologically.
I guess I'm asking those who have read or are reading western works chronologically if they consider the effort/project worth it? What sort of benefits are there from doing it?
What are some good books on music? Pic related
>>7850327
This book isn't all about music, it's a mixture of funny autobiographical stories and essays about music theory, politics, and other stuff.
But jeesh, when you read the section about music, you get a real sense of what a monster composer he was. It really changed my whole perspective on art and music in general.
Highly recommended, I usually hate autobiographies but this one is hilarious and extremely informative. He was a genius.
What to Listen For in Music by Aaron Copland
Forgot to mention
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