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What's your favorite Faulkner book? Which of his books have you read? Which book of his are you reading?Post your dankest Faulkner memes.Ask ITT anything you might not have understood about his works.
I'm currently reading Absalom, Absalom! and it's rivaling The Sound and the Fury for my favorite.
I've read "All the light we cannot see" but it is not probably written by Faulkner
Absalami, absalami! is my favorite of his. As I Lie Dying and Sound and Furry are tied for second favorties. Light on August is my third.
I'm going to read The Unvanquished next. I wish I had a sister.
>>7828909
Yeah, Salami, Salami! is m favourite.
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>Want to study STEM
>Start browsing /lit/
>Start reading more literature
>Start looking at philosophy
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>Want to study literature and philosophy
Stop being depressed, and do that pre-law.
You can study literature and philosophy without going to college. Most books on the subject are easily available.
>>7828761
I rolled my eyes so hard that I'm now blind. Luckily, I can type from memory.
Post what you are currently reading and what you are going to be reading after you're finished.
Currently:
Euclid - Elements
Thorstein Veblen - Theory of the Leisure Class
Coming up:
Writings of Archimedes
Ludwig Von Mises - The Theory of Money and Credit
Currently reading Catcher in the Rye (I fell for the meme) and next I'll be finishing that Steve Jobs bio (damn, fell for it again)
>>7828748
Lolita
Count of Monte Cristo
Paradise Lost
next:
Ulysses
>>7828748
Currently:
Between the Acts
Next:
War and Peace
What's your favorite Gabriel Garcia Marquez book, /lit/?
I tried to read 100 Years of Solitude a few years ago and couldn't get into it, and today I gave a shot to Love in the Time of Cholera - didn't get very far.
Should I try again, maybe pick another book?
people here do not read
if you want real responses sooner, pretend you've read the book, and people will give you wikipedia-copypasted commentary.
I've read two of his novellas. A Chronicle of a death foretold and memories of my melancholy whores. Both were pretty good, I think I liked the former more. First one was a decent detective story, second one was lolita-lite.
I can see why he's popular... He can attract female readership. I have two of his novels on my shelf as well because his stuff is always available at 2nd hand stores.
El otoño del patriarca is my personal favourite.
But 100 years of solitude is a masterpiece, if you tried to read it and you didn't enjoy it maybe he's just not for you.
Tbh there's better literature in Spanish out there, don't feel like you "must" read Márquez just because of this weird anglo obsession with him.
What are your favorite history/historical books?
I've been trying to learn about 20th century European history and don't really know where to start to get a basic overview of it.
bump
I am also looking for a god book on European history, but more around the time of the holy roman empire,
I am also looking for something on 1500s Britain and on the American Civil War
Start with the Greeks.
>>7828621
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is this book any good?
>>7828606
you should read it and let the rest of us know
unless you're a self indulgent teenager there aren't any "good" mishima books, anon.
now scram.
>>7828647
But thats what /lit/ says about any book.
I've just finished devouring 'the dark forest' after reading 'the three body problem' before
really great novels and I can't recommend them highly enough. they both do have their somewhat tiring passages, but it's more than worth it.
I can't wait for the third book to finally come out!
what's some other great sci-fi of recent years you guys read?
>>7828496
I forgot to say, 'seveneves' is just as good
Why do you read so much stupid shit when infinitely better books exist?
>>7828522
>infinitely better books exist?
Could you please name a few, mister?
Critical Theory/Frankfurt School reading list?
I'm just now starting Dialectic of Enlightenment.
Any further recommendations?
>Leftist perspective
Benhabib, _Critique, Norm and Utopia. A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theory_
>Rightist but still respectably academic perspective
Gottfried, _The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millennium_
>Far-right neo-Nazi screed, and/or respectably academic depending on your perspective, interesting either way
MacDonald, _Culture of Critique_
>>7828323
I would start with Jameson, Marxism and Form. then go back and read those he covers.
I think if you make a thread on /pol/, a bot dumps a HUGE amount of information in several posts about the Frankfurt school.
Who /Niezsche/ here? Gentle reminder that this guy BTFO'd Christcuckery, inspired the religion of Thelema, was the main inspiration of Evola and also the root of all postmodern philosophy, including feminist theory.
He inspired both Anarchists like Emma Goldman and Fascists like Benito Mussolini, reactionaries like Evola and progressives like Foucalt. He was a protean figure without comparison in history.
>>7828270
Nietzsche is really great.
>tfw you will never be the Ubermensch
>>7828270
>this guy BTFO'd Christcuckery, inspired the religion of Thelema, was the main inspiration of Evola and also the root of all postmodern philosophy, including feminist theory.
>He inspired both Anarchists like Emma Goldman and Fascists like Benito Mussolini, reactionaries like Evola and progressives like Foucalt.
You realize that none of these are good things, right?
>>7828291
>inspiring Mussolini and Evola not a good thing
Both were respectable, interesting people in their own rights. Mussolini did some bad shit, but even he wasn't proud of most of it.
Evola literally did nothing wrong.
How does /lit/ feel about The Silmarillion?
Despite its convolution, rather dry writing at times, and ostensible literary faults, the story of the Noldor is clearly the best, yes?
>>7828234
Please go please go away nobody wants you here
>>7828331
/lit/ talks about Tolkien all the time
>>7828234
I personally like it very much but it objectively lacks a coherent narrative, it's like a series of "episodes" hastily put together by Christopher.
Why doesnt lit talk about him
his name is too complicated to spell
>>7828228
This desu.
not enough of a meme, also translated poetry and general lack of awareness of anything outside the european traditioin
Just downloaded a really shit .mobi of this, what am i in for?
The end of suffering.
>not meditating while listening to the audiobook
Plebs. When will they learn?
>>7828192
A whole lot of shit you'll probably misunderstand. Not trying to call you a filthy pleb or something, but the Tao Te Ching is one of those works with at least as many interpretations as experts. It relies on a whole lot of specific terminology native to Chinese philosophical thought that someone who is just diving into won't even have a conception of. Its approach is also completely different from most Western texts. Try getting a version a with at least a bunch of annotations, or just read a textbook about...
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What do you guys think of Waiting For Godot ?
I enjoyed it. I thought it was funny and depressing.
A lot like my diary desu. If only my diary was funny.
NOT beckett's most notable work read his prose REEEEEEE
>>7828121
Post-modern babble written in two afternoons. As necessary for your reading as cacti in a diet.
>read article gushing about a celebrity / cultural figure / work of art referencing both high culture and low culture
So this is just people admitting that the ascetism of avoiding brainless stuff is too much for them, right? And that all the claims of artistic worth of boring high brow stuff were just marketing gimmicks, right?
Also have you realised that "lowbrow" stuff usually serves the reader by entertaining them while high brow stuff is usually self indulgent as fuck confessional stuff? I'm srs, it seems like literally...
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Why are you still drawing lines about "high" and "low" istead of evaluating each work on its merits?
>>7828110
That's if you are lucky enough to find a story, a plot, or something to make you continue reading beyond the author's own self-satisfaction.
I read Hunger, by Knut Hamsun a couple of months ago, and there was nothing except the character's madness that made the book entertaining.
Literary fiction is the only genre where the author needn't research anything: his own self-reliance and hubris are enough to make his own sail swell, and swell those of the readers who feel smug enough reading...
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>>7828117
Merit is a spook.
Who has read Blood Meridian and also thinks Judge Holden was the Devil?
he was not the devil, same way Moby Dick wasn't god
>>7828104
Are you sure?
>>7828090
Clancy Brown will never play the judge
