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Ok, so what is the best translation for Gogol? More specifically, for Dead Souls and his short stories. I know P&V is shit, but I have also seen Maguire do penguin classics. Is he good?
>i know p&v is shit
ya got memed on son
>>7817314
how
>>7817430
the meme is that p&v is shit, when its actually ntb
>tfw should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas
hey don't go without me I wanna get a picture
>>7817504
and I think I know which eye is which
>>7817257
Could anyone please explain this metaphor for me like I was stupid (and all signs so far do point to that conclusion)?
>ywn love books as wholly and unconditionally as michael silverblatt
girls on instagram like books. Silverblatt likes writing. fedora me all you want, you know it's true
[soft and breathy voice] I....... [20 minutes later] believe.... [11 min later] that this book is extraordinary and.... [to be continued tomorrow]
>>7817205
ok but my point is he loves such a wide range of literature so enthusiastically
i, and most of /lit/, tend to read from our little niches and little else
Legally speaking, can you write a story heavily based on the life of a still living person without their permission? It'd still be fiction, names and specific events would be changed, but if you know the actual story, there wouldn't be any doubt.
That's what most literature does famm
>>7817125
You can until/unless they sue you. Do they have enough money to sue you?
If you write a foreword saying that all characters are fictitious and anything that doesn't seem so is purely coincidental.
The same as South Park does
[english is not my first language, sorry in advance]
All my life (I'm now in my 30's) I only focused on informations about things I liked (movies, video games, music, etc), but my general knowledge is shit, like, really.
Now I'm suddenly starting to be more opened to the world, but I don't know where to start to fill the gaps I have on my world knowledge.
Consider me as an idiot, an alien that just landed on Earth a few months ago.
What non-fiction books would you recommand so that I can understand today's society and doesn't have to avoid "serious" subjects in conversations, or look like I know about them but just nod?
tl;dr : I don't have any general knowledge, please recommand some essential non-fiction books.
read the Story Of Civilization by Will Durant for a quick overview of what's been going on for the last 3500 years or so, then get more into specific shit that interests u
>>7817100
That sounds like a good idea to start bigger and then narrow it down. Thanks for the tip.
Still, now that the topic is here, if anyone has good recommandations of non-fiction anyone could read, don't hesitate.
>>7817096
You could read Sociologicial Theory - Ritzer & Stepnisky. Will really help you.
Post books you're considering reading, and then wait for someone to comment on the quality of said books from their own personal experience.
I'm a pretty new "serious" reader, but the books I'm looking into picking up are:
>Min Kamp 1-4 by Knausgaard
>Blood Meridian by McCarthy (re-read)
>Steppenwolf by Hesse
>On the Road by pic related
>Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut
Pretty basic reads overall, what are you looking into /lit/?
>>7817024
if you're trying to into Kerouac I wouldn't start with OTR t b h senpai
>In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
>Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
>The Trial by Franz Kafka
>Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
>>7817024
Only one of those I've read is On the Road. I really wanted to like it more than I did, but there were a lot of parts where was losing interest because he was just describing hitchhiking and saying random American place names as he did it.
>>7817024
>>7817070
Go for the Vonnegut. His novels are all short enough that you should be able to breeze through them in a few days, if not one sitting. A lot of folks on /lit/ shit on him, but just as many love him, and if you happen to be among the latter, the return on investment in reading one of his novels is unmatched.
Favorite Harry Potter book? I've always been amazed at how I keep coming back to this series. It gets better and better upon reread. I finish book seven and circle back to book one.
To be frank, I finished The Pale King by DFW and couldn't bring myself to touch another of his works. I finish Harry Potter? Sucked right back into Rowling's web.
Harry Potter general.
>>7816852
Each one of them have their own wonderful character.
...Prisoner of Askaban. or however it's worded
I know this is a troll thread, but since you ask it's Half-Blood Prince.
>>7816852
Not /lit/. Sage and report.
Does anyone else feel like their life is represented almost perfectly by James Halliday I wanted to cry, because I felt like it was perfect.
(you)
>>7816825
Easily the worst book I've read in the last five years.
>>7816845
alongside with the martian
Does /lit listen to music while reading? If so, what? Does music improve your reading comprehension?
>>7816806
No, I don't, It may be an autistic reason, but I don't want to the songs to add a mood, that probably doesn't fit, to the scenes I'm reading.
>>7816806
I don't often listen to music while reading, unless it's the newspaper or something. I find it distracting.
>No, sir, I’ll make sure it’s just Ron and Hermione. Good night.”
>DUN TUN TIN DUN TUN
>He turned away again, and was almost at the door when he-
>IIIIIIIIIII LOOOOVE YOU JEEESUS CHRRRRIIIIST
High concept sci-fi writers like Wells, Verne, and PKD?
I don't give a shit for world-building, or politics. I'm looking for short, snappy novels hung on single ideas whether they be speculative, philosophical, or just plain pulp.
fucking Signet Classics, they release decent covers but that shitty logo on the top triggers me so much jesus christ
Isaac Asimov
>>7816718
Really? From what I've heard Asimov always seems like the opposite of what I want to read. Aren't his books all about world-building and inter-faction politics?
Is this novel any interesting? More correctly, would it be interesting for me?
I am an avid fan of Kurt Vonnegut's novels and generally books inspired by postmodernist views with satire and black comedy in them.
Would I enjoy The Cying of Lot 49? I've heard that it's very complex and "academic".
>>7819478
just read it faggot, how the fuck could anyone know if you would enjoy it
>>7819478
>Kurt Vonnegut's
Kill self lmao @u
>>7819483
You are supposed to make comparisons between Kurt Vonnegut's novels and this one, I didn't name my interest in him for no reason. Also you can see if satire and black comedy is a variable in the novel of discussion.
check out this great interview with DFW /lit/
>>7816588
https://medium.com/@kunaljasty/a-lost-1996-interview-with-david-foster-wallace-63987d93c2c#.b6ikc2w4k
check out this one senpai
http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/a-conversation-with-david-foster-wallace-by-larry-mccaffery/
you should already know this one too
http://www.smallbytes.net/~bobkat/jesterlist.html
Rate my purchases /lit/
I bought today:
>Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash,
>Robert A Heinlein's Starship Troopers,
>Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun,
>Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress,
>Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
Pic related is me after buying all this.
>>7816488
Pretty Reddit, dude. But what do I know, I'm only reading Joyce and Ulysses right now.
>>7816569
I tried looking for Ulysses in the store and couldn't find it. I searched high and low.
>>7816569
But wait, what makes a book Reddit tier or not?
Let's write an erotic short story one word at a time.
Breathing
shitposting
with
your mom
Why is anti-intellectualism such a problem right now, and how can this cultural cancer be eradicated?
You don't have to spend five minutes in /pol/ to see how badly confirmation bias can shape people's worldviews. I saw Trump coming from miles away. Clearly people aren't satisfied with the political system as-is, after the embarrassing GOP pool of 2012, and the inevitability of a Hillary nomination. People want politicians they can relate to, that get shit done.
I don't think relatability has to go hand-in-hand with willful ignorance. Intellectuals have allowed themselves to be pigeonholed by society into an ivory tower stereotype. We need somebody from within academia to resonate with the masses the same way Trump does. Is it possible /lit/? Or are academics just too autistic for political discourse?
Well, although people can definitely have lesser inclinations to intellectual hobbies than other people, a serious repulsion to them definitely doesn't come naturally. I'm not athletic in the least, but I can appreciate the immense work athletes into their chosen sports. Like you pointed out, this doesn't seem to be the case with anything intellectual--it's seen as snobby, as a mere attempt to garner praise from other people. This is often not the case (though there are quite a few people who pretend to like those things to for that very reason.)
But honestly: not everyone has received the same level of education or guidance as you have. Perhaps you didn't even have these things--but still ended up hearing things from other people, whether in real life or online, that boosted your confidence to learn more. Perhaps you are just naturally ambitious and self-assured, and didn't need anyone to tell you that you that you're smart enough to learn.
But what I see very frequently among people who seem to hate anything "intellectual" is that they have a very deep, but hidden desire to be "smart." Maybe they had a rough time at school, making them believe they just couldn't learn. Or they were taught genuinely good authors in such a mind-numbing way that they can't even be reminded of them without reliving high-school.
Be sympathetic. Try to educate these people rather than simply jeer at them, as if you were somehow superior. Expose them to new material, gently. Let them know that they too can learn.
People need to stop buying into social ideologies. Despising intellectual endeavors because they are believed to be high-brow or too upper-crust is idiotic. Only when people start to see ideology for what it is, will this pass. But, then, once the main-stream does begin seeing ideology for what it is, god knows what that would do to society on a mass-scale.
>>7816451
Democracy made it profitable to pander to the tastes and opinions of proles.
That andfundamentalist Christianity defending itself against a world that's made it untenable intellectually
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