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Newfag to /lit/ here. Redpill me on David Foster Wallace.
OP I hope you die soon no offense tho
NO DISCERNIBLE
If you have already finished more than a hundred books, don't read infinite jest.
Greatest Opening Lines in Poetry?
I'll start.
>I've seen rivers
OP killed himself
>>7824511
Feel better, bro.
>>7824507
My favorite:
>Let us go then, you and I,
Suburban, latte-sipping, STEM major here.
I have resigned myself to the fact that I will never know the feeling of suiting up to go to war for my people and my country.
My life is a waste. Help me read some of the greatest books on war ever written.
Clausewitz.
The whole thing.
>>7824496
Veteran here. You really don't want to. The people who have done it and enjoy it aren't people you want to be around. It's a terrible, sad and hard experience. One that I'm glad I'll never do again.
The Things they Carried
Generation Kill for a modern look on soldiers.
>>7824501
OP here. Thank you for your service. I just got done with watching Generation Kill. Made me really introspect about some things.
Is it good or just long?
I had to read several parts of it for a Modernism course I once took. It's good, but it gets tedious, especially when the professor wants to constantly reiterate the importance of every single sentence in the work and how it relates to the entity that is European Modernism.
>>7824477
>>7824489
Forgot to add: I wouldn't read it unless you absolutely found some strong interest in it and what it entails.
No memes, is this worth reading?
>No memes
>>7824250
>no memes
You seem to be lost
>less miserable
>they end up more miserable at the end
hugo you hack
Are there any good writers within the past century who worked blue-collar jobs - particularly in the trades?
David Foster Wallace
>>7824067
he was a professor
>>7824063
Stephen King
I didn't really know where else to put this. Any traditional Christians around to lend a bit of information?
I was born Lutheran, Raised Catholic, became an avowed atheist, then kind of became agnostic, and I dont know why but as I get older I keep thinking back about all those years in Sunday school, church, etc
I do know however Catholicism is not for me in any way. Penance, Purgatory, and the Pope being the only one who is truly able to talk to god... it all flies in the face of everything Christian.
Southern Baptist seems like it would fit well...
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>Protestantism
>>7823714
The difference between Catholics and Protestants is that Protestants have actually read the Bible.
>>7823722
I can actually tell you this is true. In 15 years of CCD and Church the only time I ever read the bible was in the very first few years. In Catholicism the actual bible is really downplayed in favor of the Priest's sermon and teachers guidance. From the age of maybe 13 to 19 when I became an atheist I didnt touch a bible despite going to church twice a week and volunteering at 2 different summer camps
Is it possible to read a book a day?
Is it even worth it?
>>7822145
Possible - obviously (see: most novels under 200 pages). Worth it? Probably not. I'd give myself 2-3 days to actually read and comprehend the text, maybe more. For longer books it's out of the question imho.
You dont need to read whole book bro :) no one does that :) you just open a book, read a wise sentence amd ta dam you got iт;)?
Without speed reading, probably if you have the time.
With speed reading, certainly, but I don't count it as true reading, which demands time for contemplation.
Do you know any good novels that take place in prehistoric times, or are about humans living under similar conditions?
I'm looking for some decent fiction ref for my novel.
>>7821850
Auel's series was bretti gud.Also pretty hot
>>7821879
>auel
>muh psychic neandertals
>>7821850
William Golding had one which he considered his best work, I forget the name.
Dear anon, please, help little Russian girl.
I am doing research on anti-utopias of the 20th century, so I need your answers!
Are you familiar with the works in this genre?
(sorry for mistakes)
>>7821700
You mean dystopias?
1984, Brave New World, We(by Zamyatin),Fahrenheit 451, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,Infinite Jest
cyka bydlo
>>7821710
Yes! I didn't know that the genre is called dystopias in English. Thank you!
Need good Yakuza or Ninja genre fiction
no samurai shit
Oddly Ghost in the Shell [manga/anime] mentions the Yakuza in a fairly interesting and yet boring light; albeit set in the nearish future.
>no samurai shit
gay
>>7820700
Can we add samurai fiction to this list? Of course we can.
Unfortunately, I got nothing on all 3. But you've whetted my appetite, so I'll bump yo' thread.
I need a good book to learn about the Mexican revolution.
Is pic related any good?
>>7820185
short of, i can recommend you some but how is your spanish?
>>7820342
not op. But would very much appreciate recommendations in spanish
>>7820342
It's not very good
No one has ever once proven a normative statement to be true. In the thousands of years that we've been studying physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, logic, etc. we've come up with many uncontroversially true statements that have led us to new problems and, thus, new true statements.
We've been studying ethics and aesthetics and have never come across a true statement.
Objective normativity is just as mystical (if not more) than god, and yet some of you dumbasses still believe in it.
we've come across truer statements
>>7826176
>Objective normativity is just as mystical (if not more) than god
Yeah, it's called ideological power discourse. And it's all oppressive bullshit.
>No one has ever once proven a normative statement to be true.
Premise #1. Earth is not flat.
Conclusion: Therefore, Earth is not flat or OP should stop being a flaming homosexual.
Let "Earth is not flat." be P, and "OP should stop being a flaming homosexual." be Q. Then we have:
P
.:. P v Q
Proof of P v Q: Suppose ~(P v Q). Then, ~P and ~Q. But we have P and ~P. Contradiction. Thus we have proved P v Q. In other words, we have proved a normative statement which, as it happens, is true.
Now stop posting.
I heard this book was very difficult, but when I saw it in the library today I read the first couple pages and it was delightful. The prose literally delighted me. Should I check it out next time I go?
yes, it's great
>>7823762
hell yeah man. mann is a master. and the best part is after you finish that mammoth he has three other door-stopper masterpieces in Dr Faustus, Buddenbrooks, and Joseph & His Brothers.
>>7823762
Yes: it is one of the greatest masterpieces in all of history. William Gass, author of another one of the greatest masterpieces in all of history--The Tunnel--even put ranked 25 in his "Fifty Literary Pillars."
Hi /lit/.
I'm learning French. Please recommend me easy french literature. I have already read:
- Le petit prince (Exupéry)
- L'étranger (Camooo)
- C'est egal (Kristof)
- Short stories by Maupassant
Thank you in advance.
Vol de nuit (Exupéry)
Moderato Cantabile (Duras)
L'amant (Duras)
Short stories by Yourcenar are alright
>>7823103
Thanks !
>I'm learning French
eugh, enjoy slumming around the slum of Paris posing as an existentialist bohemian.. You're about 90-100 years too late. Spend this time learning Greek and Latin.
No hard feelings
>inb4 "I want to live in France"
>pleb
