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Thoughts on Norman Mailer?
Hemmingway fully realized.
What are the 10 most relevant books about Buddhism or meditation?
>>7755399
Meditation is for trendy western dweebs. Only vacuous denominations of Buddhism practice it more than ten minutes daily.
>>7755399
>relevent
Relevent? Relevent to what? You as a westerner? To a beginner? To a modern lifestyle? To spiritual attainment? Gonna need some more info on what you're after, buddy.
I wrote about beginner texts here:
>>7753278
>>7755432
I'm not sure what you're basing this on but all the major denominations in Asia meditate far more than this in a monastic routine. If you're talking about the large swathes of de facto Buddhists due to it being the national religion or whatever, then sure. But that's because they adhere more to the traditional rites and rituals of the religious aspect (which the Buddha actually teaches against clinging to in the suttas).
>>7755489
>I'm not sure what you're basing this on but all the major denominations in Asia meditate far more than this in a monastic routine.
This is just factually wrong.
I'm not sure what I expected
>be me, david lagercrantz
>get dumbass idea to revive dead cohort's series
>make it a book about 1337hacking skillz
>have a super autisitic kid as a main character
>ignore autism as a severe developmental impairment and make it a superpower for some awful reason
>provide backstory into why lisbeth salander is "the wasp" because marvel comics bullshit
>remind the reader that mikael blomkvist is still a womanizer somehow and erika berger still occasionally hate-fucks him
>write lots of sentences like 'blomkvist narrowed his way down the snowy alley toward saltsjobaden and into a meeting with gunnar shyokelhelm and then went to minnarksguborrow to find hans grandballs and then to sahtuaoewumlaut emporium to aufinadsofnuasfigadyu5ujtrhaba
>include bunch of bullshit about zalachenko's past
>somehow convinced that the plot isn't retarded enough, feel the need to include artificial intelligence as a plot device
>have salander get shot, even though she spent nearly the entire previous book recuperating from her injuries
>only have 2 'suspenseful' events in the first 400 pages
>salander somehow teaches the autistic wonder kid how to factor massive prime numbers in minutes
don't read this.
>>7755860
kek
You wake up in a dark room.
And then you turn on a light. The End.
>>7754749
You take advantage of the darkness to fap in secrecy...
How do I know I've woken up if it's dark?
It must not be so dark as you say it is.
Otherwise, there are other key details you're leaving out which suggest I've woken up and that my current experience is not a dream. That is, OP is deliberately (and maliciously!) withholding information from me which could completely and incontrovertibly establish my current consciousness.
Thanks, asshole.
Why does everyone overanalyze this? The novel is about the fear of being a detriment to one's family, friends, ect. Gregor becomes a bug and drags everyone down, only to realize that in he had been dragging them down his whole life. His sister matures without him, his father becomes healthy again, and pretty much everyone is better off after he dies.I found it very relatable.
>>7754670
>only to realize that in he had been dragging them down his whole life
Just plain wrong nigga
Hes been sustaining the whole damn family
It is a modern "protocols if the elders of Zion"
>>7754684
>Hes been sustaining the whole damn family
Did you even read the book? After he dies the family goes on better than they were before he was normal.
>It is a modern "protocols if the elders of Zion"
What the fuck are you on about?
>>7754684
>It is a modern "protocols if the elders of Zion"
Aside from everything else that's retarded about this, they were published 12 years apart.
It's 13:20 in my time zone and I literally did nothing since I woke up. My hangover isn't even that hard. I neither wrote shit yesterdey.
Encourage me to write after lunch, /lit/
>>7753594
read instead. isolate yourself completely, and pore over an idolized author. do this for 3 weeks. then, write. write something, and gaze in awe at your newfound ability. next, go back to that same author, and pore over that same work until you know it by heart, 1 entire year for one book. dream it, breathe it, eat it and shit it. now. write something, and notice how easily your mind is framed by that author, every word is one of his, every thought a continuation of his. write and write and write until you lose sight of him, and you'll notice that you have something new.
>>7753594
alternatively, after the first year is up, forego the writing, and then move on to another single book and repeat the process. when i say isolated, you must remain completely alone, hear no one, speak to no one, become a monk, essentially. do nothing but read the book over and over again until every bit of meaning and prose washes over you.
>>7753594
what you write will never be read by anyone
![Tor_Complete_MBotF_ebook_2014[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/X6MejER.jpg "Tor Complete MBotF ebook 2014[1]")
I'm a good ways into this and I am starting to feel overwhelmed with everything that is going on. At one point I thought getting into this may have been a mistake because of how dense and massive it is, but it is turning out to be one of the best reads I have had in a long time.
>>7752413
cool blog post
>that shit
>dense
sage
>>7752413
Sounds like you are on books 2-5.
"Enjoy" the rest.
Also, it always turned me off that it was written around a card game that never came out.
The most successful GoodReads group is a feminist coffee table appreciation society.
GoodReads thread? Do we even want to use this site anymore? What are you currently reading? Your target for this year? Etc, etc.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/50993735-emma-watson
> biggest book group on site
> only read two books
it's rym for books, only with far more stupid teenagers. what else is there to use?
>>7753856
We don't really have much choice for literature-based communities…
Has there ever been an author as bad as this when it comes to retconning their own work for really no reason?
Yes... the authors of the Bible.
>>7752474
nothing compares
/thread
>>7752474
Well played, well played.
Dante > Shakespeare
Interesting proposition. Care to explain?
Me > Op
>>7749459
Dante isn't boring like Shakespeare.
maybe we'll see again a specimen of pedovoreorum austisticus
>>7749587
>>7749587
The Sibyl - Pär Lagerkvist
Can we have a /lit/ guide thread?
>>7744525
Bump.
what are some books that will inform an involved social justice warrior, rather than a social justice craft dodger/tumblr-core bourgeois-feminist?
>>7755000
*draft dodger. fucking auto correct
Just kill yourself
What does /lit/ say is the simplest/dumbest/most-accessible/most-plebian/lowest-reading-level book to still hold a decent amount of literary merit? I say it's The Outsiders.
>stay golden, pony-boy
>>7752563
What is that from originally?
>>7752543
Of Mice and Men.
Gatsby did the death of the American Dream much better.
I'm reading a lot of Mishima's work right now and I'm already worried I'll reach the end of it soon.
Can you recommend me any authors who share his aesthetic vision? I want to read about beautiful death and violent elegance. The Japanese historical context is also interesting but not necessary.
>>7729643
>beautiful death and violent elegance
Try any edgy teenager's diary.
The Iliad
Storm of Steel
The Saga of the Volsungs
>>7729685
Well if you can point me to any published ones I'll check them out.
>>7729691
It seems like your suggestions are all about historical, factual accounts of war. Obviously I haven't read them, so maybe I'm mistaken. But I'm more interested in the conflict of brutality and elegance that defines his style.
I'm sorry if my words don't adequately describe it.
