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What is a good quality audiobook?
I immensely enjoyed George Guidall's audiobooks of Kafka's major works, though I wouldn't reccomend audiobooking Kafka for a first time reader of him.
George Guidall has a great voice though.
I was really hoping that the girl in the pic was holding her erect penis in the photo
>>7806553
listen to the alan partridge audiobook, one of the better ones.
and i will never understand dudes who like muscle chicks. shit taste 2bhonest.
How do you make yourself read a difficult book?
I keep meaning to read economics papers or arduous philosophy tomes but I rarely manage to get through them. Usually I lose focus rapidly and I go back to reading shitty fantasy.
Is there any way besides willpower, or a way to increase willpower and concentration?
Here's a tip: stop being an idiot.
>>7806574
Well sorry for trying to better myself. Any real advice? Please?
>>7806594
take breaks and don't stop
you have to force yourself through them
>Beatrice pls respond
Which one is Beatrice? The one in red? I never noticed before that she seems to be looking right at him.
>Who's this creeper staring at me
>>7806444
no the one in yellow is Beatrice
why did beatrice reject him?
in any case dante is now a literary household name and beatrice is a literally who that amounted to nothing and probably became a generic housewife
remember that the next time you fawn over some interchangeable cooz like a beta
I'm starting with the Greeks and have finally decided to buy the following:
Homer
The Iliad translated by Robert Fitzegerald
The Odessey translated by Robert Fitzegerald
Aeschylus
The Oresteia translated by George Thomas
Herodotus
The Histories translated by George Rawlinson
Plato
The Republic by translated AD Lindsay
Plato
Symposium and Phaedrus translated by Tom Griffith
Sophocles
The Theban Plays translated by David Grene
Am I on the right track?
Get Strassler's edition of Herodotus.
Don't start with The Republic.
Get his complete works, or get these ones at least:
Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Meno, Symposium, Republic, Timaeus
>>7806365
What's wrong with George Rawlinson?
dearest /lit/, I've been lurking here and reading for a few months now, and perhaps my biggest frustration so far is that I feel I don't have the tools to form advanced criticisms or analysis of what I read. I feel like the significance of some works are maybe being lost on me.
Now, I know many of you study literature for a living, so I was wanting to ask you all -- how do I learn more about the theory surrounding literature? I want to get to the point where I can read and understand academic criticism/analysis of literature as well as form my own. Are there any books or articles that can get me started? Thanks.
>>7806287
bump
OP
Check out YouTube for open Yale courses. There's a good intro lit 101 primer course worth watching.
Also research book options for some good lit criticism. I have none to offer but Mortimer Alders how to read a book which was my first exposure to the field. It's slightly outdated but still a good starting point.
For poetry I really enjoyed Haas 20th century pleasures. Good luck.
>>7806361
Thanks, friend. I'll check out that book. It's pretty overwhelming trying to get into an entire field of academics when you don't have any lecturers or whatever to guide you.
Any good books related to Christianity?
>>7806069
>inb4 Bible
He said good.
Augustine's Confessions
For the Bible use The Jerusalem Bible
what's the /lit/ way of learning a new language?
>>7805739
shitposting in a imageboard of the lenguage that you want to learn, i learned english that way and im currently shitposting in german imageboards.
>>7805751
What German imageboards?
>>7805753
http://afaegypt.org/
Where do I start with the Traditionalist School?
>>7805735
What are you looking to get out of it?
Whatever it is, not Evola.
what is your motive OP, your endgame with this. let's begin with that
>>7805735
DUDE SEMEN IS MAGICK LMAO
>he re-reads books
>>7805683
>he reads
>he
>
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tinychat is for fags anyways
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I'm a qt girl and I'm totally in here to chat up. Slake yo thirst on me.
bump for qt
Bump. Not bump. Rump. 'cause I'm showing off my sexy rump in here. Dang. You don't know what you're missing.
Teehee! I'm so drunk, I drank a whole winecooler!
I'm a girl btw
You're
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Prove it
There's something about that image of Wittgenstein that I love.
>>7805548
Wittgenstein is a hack fraud guilty of perpretating the very fraudulent obscurantism he accused other philosophers of doing.
What are some books about characters that feel worthless and have few redeeming qualities?
L'etranger
my diary t/b/h
Is Columbine by Dave Cullen the definitive text on the Columbine High School massacre? Has anyone else read this? I understand that it has become a somewhat popular textbook in high schools and colleges in America. It seems so exhaustive in scope. Admittedly I have not read any other books on the topic and I bought this out of morbid curiosity (what else?)
The text is illuminating, if not at times sordid. For years, I thought Dylan was the leader and the sociopath, and that Eric was merely accessory in the murders when in fact Eric was the mastermind behind the shooting. But it addresses so much more such as the Trench Coat Mafia, Gothic subculture, theories about multiple shooters, conspiracies, Did Cassie Bernall say yes? (she didn't), etc. I know most of this may already be common knowledge, but it's not a topic I have researched extensively. Not that I honestly care to either, it's sort of passing fancy. That being said, it does stay with me and I am interested in what others have to say about the book.
I was in the 6th grade when the mass murder occurred. At the time in my puerile thinking, I considered it the crime of the century and it certainly was for the State of Colorado, but then as many of you know it was quickly and abruptly overshadowed by other events and the fervor died away. The Attacks on September 11th quickly became the crime of a new century and millennium. If this book is correct, the misinformation and just the mythos surrounding the shooting have been and are still distorted.
Anyway, to reiterate, has anyone else read this? Did anyone feel the need to shower after reading it? (It made my skin crawl and I felt ashamed at times. Maybe that's good [or bad] writing that makes you feel like a fly on the wall.) Is this as good as it gets when it comes to this topic? Any or thoughts/critiques about the book/general discussion?
Short Story about a Massacre
by Eric Harris
As I walked through the broken door entrance to the final military
installation, I realized that this hellish experience was almost over.
The invasion was stopped, all of the aliens were dead, and whatever
wasn't dead was waiting for me ahead. While I was leaning against a
granite wall in a large calmly lit room, I scanned over the dozens of
marine bodies that scattered the floor in front of me. A last, futile,
stand that wasn't enough to ward off the alien attacks. Bullet shells
sprinkled the floor, on top of the carpet of blood. I must go on, to
fight whatever waited ahead, I am the only one left on humanity's side
of the battle. The bright room ahead suggested that I wouldn't have
anywhere to hide once I showed myself. I almost laid down beside my
fallen comrades and just went to sleep, as some of them appeared to be.
But that would mean that they bad guys would win, and I just could not
allow that to happen. So I gathered up all the bullets and superior
firepower I could scavenge off of the dead soldiers, or what was left of
them, and prepared myself for the last battle.
As I entered the last military base on the moon, I came upon a hellish
sight. Bodies of my former marine buddies were scattered across the
stone floor. The deathly dark glow of light from above provided barely
enough light to notice the blood and flesh splattered on the large slabs
of granite that passed for walls. The platoon had tried to barricade
themselves in, but with the alien fire coming through two gigantic
windows and with a blitzkrieg of monsters in the small doorway between
the windows, the marines couldn't hold them. Arms, legs, and heads were
tossed about as if a small child turned on a blender with no lid in the
middle of the room. Some were burnt off, some torn, some eaten. Even
though the mass of alien bodies outside the room was at least 10 times
the marines', they still fell. I must be crazy to fight this war; I must
be out of my battered mind. How could one soldier stop all of these
monsters? There must be someway out of here that doesn't involve
firepower. It is just too much, all the death and destruction. It's
pointless, there's no way, no way at all. I can't fight anymore-let them
take Earth-I'll stay here on my little moon-along with my squad of dead
soldiers.
>>7805626
You should post this in a critique thread in a trollish manner and claim you wrote it. Obviously, you can see his obsession with id's Doom as well as his human extinction fantasy .
Anyway, Eric broadcasted a lot of this stuff. He wrote essays, short stories, maintained a journal and a website as well as communicated a lot of this shit on the internet. It would be ridiculous to think that someone could even get away with this much ideation and planning today, let alone any of it. He threatened people's lives via the internet, made no secret about building bombs, had a shit list/hit list, etc.
Some of it has to do with police incompetence as well. One family in particular tried to warn the police about Eric's activities, his 'night missions', and so forth. An unrelated thought but I remember night ops as they called them were a popular thing in the 90s. I used to see threads posted about them on totse on a lot.
Boys will be boys, you know victimizing those two.
Is infinite jest worth a read?
>>7805480
>he used to spend time here
run far far away
What are the essential texts of Eastern philosophy?
I am currently reading through pic related and the Analects. What else should I read after I am done.
>>7805407
hagakure was an interesting read.
>>7805415
Hagakure was pagan-morality garbage
>>7805407
murakami
