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What are some /lit/ approved books like this? Basically comfy narrative with underlying philosophy.
i liked it but I'm sure there's better
siddhartha is better alchemist
alchemist is drivel, new age self help dsigusied as literature
This is not /lit/ approved
This is worse than YA
Only untermensxhen read this book
>>7762407
This
What the fuck?
Right now I'm reading Bertrand Russell, and I feel pretty identified with his ideas. What's the 2016 equivalent? What changed during the moment of his death and today? What should I study to be updated?
i heard there was this website, which is like an entire community that deals with his legacy, forgot the name tho
A lot of stuff happened in-between his death and 2016. Please, narrow it down.
Until you specify which Russellian idea(s) you found yourself "identifying" with, we cannot help you.
>>7762300
Well, if you've read Russell you should probably read Frege if you haven't already and then Wittgenstein to witness the culmination of early analytic philosophy. After that it gets even more exciting with Quine and Putnam and the reemergence of analytic metaphysics through Lewis and Armstrong. You could try the positivists like Carnap and Ayer. It all really depends on where you want to go.
you haven't heard?
What's the most beautiful sentence/paragraph ever written by Stephen King? Everything I've read of his has been generic as all hell.
wwhy why gunslinger is black #italiano
>>7762303
My first thought was, he lied at every word,
That hoary cripple, with malicious eye
Askance to watch the working of his lie
On mine, and mouth scarce able to afford
Suppression of the glee, that pursed and scored
Its edge, at one more victim gained thereby.
Post quote from book, others try to guess what book it is from.
“Exquisite little creature!” said the Director, looking after her. Then, turning to
his students, “What I’m going to tell you now,” he said, “may sound incredible.
But then, when you’re not accustomed to history, most facts about the past do
sound incredible.”
He let out the amazing truth. For a very long period before the time of Our
Ford, and even for some generations afterwards, erotic play between children
had been regarded as abnormal (there was a roar of laughter);...
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That's easy, it's from 1984.
>>7761941
no it's from a clockwork orange
>>7761931
Speak, Memory.
Can /lit/ recommend books like this one? I like drugs and the life philosophy Thompson had.
>inb4 degenerate drug user
>>7761922
I bet you're not a day over 18, and if you are you really need to fucking grow up.
>>7761958
>le drug users are all teens meme X>DDD
>>7761958
This.
Not an insult, this was exactly what I was into when I was 18.
Not exactly the same thing, but try some Hesse.
Favorite author when I was in this state.
why do /lit/ dislike this man? Is it because you think atheist is fedora, i think most of the guys here are fedora tier anyway. I personally believe in a higher power but not like christian describes it.
Atheism is not fedora in itself, but just look at the man's twitter and tell me he's not a complete fedora-lord.
Because I kind of admire religious fundamentalists.
>telling boys that when they masturbate an angel cries
>saying that satan planted dinosaur bones underground with a straight face
Where do they come up with this stuff?
>>7761810
because strawmen arguments.
A breakthrough at last. I have received an official expression of interest in my work by an agent representing many names of great literary renown. What a day this is. Just as I begin the sixth and final installment of my memoir, the second book (chapters of which which I am using as part of my submission) has been described as "a curious [...] project" and my efforts praised as being "uncommon" in a sense I can only conclude as being evidence of my unique genius and the interesting novelty of my writing style.
How are your efforts to earn publication...
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I've published a few books; nothing that's made me very rich, however.
My best has made me around £5000.
The trouble is that I insist upon not dumbing down my work for retards, who sadly comprise most of the market nowadays.
>>7761075
Currently just working on intertextual stuff and plotting.
Going to submit some poetry soon, though.
>>7761093
I can't stand poetry that doesn't have rhyme and a consistent metre.
That probably qualifies as an unpopular opinion around here.
What's your opinion on him?
>old CIS white guy
don't care lol
>>7760935
Reported for ageism and misandry.
One of the best poets bar none. He helped numerous artists get published and move up the literary ranks (Hemingway, Joyce, Anderson, etc.).
Nazi-sympathizer, sure, but one can't let a little thing like politics skew our perceptions of such a prized and influential poet/publisher, now, can we?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn6r2Nm0ZMo
Well, /lit/, a few days ago marked twenty years since this bad mama jamma tender juicy beef cake of a hot simmering bucket of prose landed on our plates. What are our thoughts?
it's a meme you dip
So many better books and authors out there. A shame that this was one that was made into a meme.
>>7760190
in modern literature? what about as influential?
>3-4 page essay on a summary
>due tomorrow at 11am
>it's 9:50pm right now
>haven't started
Lads, I'm finished.
>1 word shitepost due in 24 hours
>haven't started
Lads, I'm finished.
>>7760054
>not crossing the International Date Line to buy time
Why is writing essays so fucking hard. I hate this shit.,
MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE
Hegel?
>>7759665
He has no style, he has no grace
>>7759730
Spirit
Just read about how Goethe suffered from premature ejaculation.
Did this influence his works?
What are some other interesting curiosities about classical authors? Bonus points for sexual things so can judge them Freud-style.
>suffered from premature ejaculation
i know that feel
When I fuck my girlfriend, I cum in like 5 minutes. A long one would be like 15. Sometimes it feels like I don't even enjoy my own orgasm. It just happens and I feel guilty for all the buildup and everything.
Hmmmmm. She seems not to care. One time she noticed I was upset and stayed naked so I could fuck her again in a half hour. So I did.
Also fuck Burgers or whoever the fuck you're psychoanalysing. Also fuck you.
>>7759712
Why does it happen? Can't you just hold it in? How long has this been going on?
Can't even comprehend.
Do you feel like your manliness suffers?
What do you think of Math/STEM in literature a la Pynchon/DFW/Richard Powers? Is it stupid masturbatory shit just to impress ignorant English Majors with fancy symbols? Does Math/Science have a place in literature, or should it be reserved more for those advanced sci-fi novels that actually explore scientific ideas?
If it relates to the story it's fine.
Deriving Einstein's e=mc^2 as a means of talking about relativity, for example, would work well in a story.
There are scientifically-minded people out there. Why shouldn't we hear stories from their perspective?
>>7759445
>Is it stupid masturbatory shit just to impress ignorant English Majors with fancy symbols?
I can't comment about DFW/Power, but, fuck, man, Gravity's Rainbow isn't that difficult and it makes sense.
He's writing about the change in culture that occurred with the military industrial complex of WWII.
He tied a lot of things together brilliantly in a way that a great historian only wished he could have done.
>>7759445
is Powers good? been looking to pick up some of his stuff.
/lit/ I need your help, I have gone full pleb.
I used to read a lot, now I have reached a point where I only read a book a month or so. I waste my time with vidya so much. I am installing Ubuntu atm so I can't play anymore, hopefully that will help somewhat.
Any advice for a former-patrician-gone-pleb to recover from severe ADHD brain?
This is not a troll post, genuinely want advice.
Thank you
Get a day planner.
Lunch/dinner aside, I have every day from 12:00-20:00 set aside for being productive; 2 hours for reading, 1 for writing and 2 for learning.
I stick by this 99% of the time; save for shit I genuinely can't help. Makes me wonder how I ever managed to piss days away on 4chan and vidya; now it's like there's not enough time in the day.
I became an avid reader like fifteen months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time spamming my message on 4chan anymore.
Here's how I did it.
-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person
-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure
-Read various books at the same...
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>>7759379
50-100 is the minimum daily reading if you consider yourself a reader at all. 5 pages is shit. Set a limit of time, not pages that vary in size.
>>7759373
Find a nice spot to read. Preferably in a room away from your computer, and if you must, leave your phone behind as well. I like to use mine as a dictionary, I just can't be bothered flipping through an actual dictionary.
So, today my prof said "There's nothing in Aristotle that wasn't first in Plato."
Is she right?
>>7759263
something something socrates dick
That sounds like a soundbite she heard and repeated without having read much of either.
What does she study?
And is she a real professor or a TA?
People love that meme. "all philosophy is footnotes to plato".
Xev can certainly get me hard. Pretty good ass, nice tits. I like when she begs for it.
