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ITT: We create /lit/ top 100 non-fiction books
Post your top three non-fiction books.
>>7734381
non fiction is for boring autistics cunts.
Operacion Masacre - Walsh
The Sickness unto Death by Kierkegaard
Summa Theologicae by Aquinas
The Bible
Worth the time reading? It looks interesting but at the same time demanding
Is /lit/ slowly becoming /tv/ with DFW, Pincone, and Zizek instead of TDKR, Star Wars, and interracial porn?
Best ways to kill yourself?
>be me
>english major
>live in a suite with three koreans
>all stem majors
>early afternoon
>reading a novel in the common room
>one of the koreans comes home
>does a double take
>smiles
>"you're reading a book???"
>smile guiltily
>"yeah, i guess"
>laughs heartily and shakes his head
>goes in his room and shuts the door
he's shaking his head out of pity because you don't have Korean Privilege
>>7732136
>reading a novel in the common room
That's pretty modest. When I decide I'm going to read, I go into my room mate's room, announce to him loudly that I am going to read as well as what I'm reading, then I sit and read at his desk and grunt at interesting passages.
>>7732136
Get outta that stem school, my man
Anyone read books on math? I need recommendations.
>>7730263
sci
>>7730263
Philibert Schogt's The Wild Numbers
Engineering Mathematics - Stroud
I'm disappointed that David Foster Wallace is treated like such a joke around here, because I figure most people on 4chan are the same, and I also figure I'm like most people on 4chan, and he's quickly becoming a bit of a hero to me. Ever since I became shackled to my computer and stopped interacting with anyone outside of my mom and brother, and even when I do that it's mostly in a kind of baby talk that we kept up with after we grew out of childhood as a joke and has now become some kind of pre-post meta-apathetic "ironic" "joke", I've steadily felt worse and worse, and only in the last few months have I begun to put my finger on what issues are causing me to feel like that. When I found DFW, it's like my prayers were answered: the more of his work I read and the more interviews I listened to, the more my eyes were opened. Irony, sincerity, entertainment, the information age, depression, fear, boredom and why the society we were raised/are in made/makes us think that's so scary; everything that's been gnawing at the back of my mind for years and I didn't even know it, presented and explained and unpacked. Honestly, if I could bring back anyone I wanted to from the dead and talk to them for 15 minutes, DFW would be in second place right behind my father, and a strong second. I don't want this to seem like some crazy religious deal: I get that he was a goofy, screwed up son of a bitch who ended up offing himself, but some people take the jokes too far, and it just makes me sad sometimes.
>>7733254
If this is sincere, then you are not the only one here who really appreciates Wallace and wishes he weren't such a joke. Sadly it's the nature of the site to have that be part of the dialogue here; it's the other edge of the sword.
read the bible
>>7733254
You're a newfag. We love Wallace. Jokes are jokes.
This guy's logic is fucking absurd
How?
You're fucking retarded
>>7732379
>logic
How does this make you feel when you see shit like this?
Filled with sad loneliness that I will mask with anger directed at whoever uploaded the picture desu
Disappointed that I only see one good book.
>>7729486
It makes me feel nothing becaaue I don't know most of those authors/books
Only recognize Yeats and Nabby. The other books could be patrician shit afaik
Name a better philosopher from the last 100 years.
But that's easy, my dear OP.
Any of the philosophers that belong to the following set: {x : x is a philosopher from the last 100 years} \ {Sam Harris}.
Wittgenstein
Dawkins, Nye, Krauss the list goes on
why is having knit clothing obligatory for writers?
>>7720079
also, can it make you get your ass kicked by hispanic kids?
>>7720079
Good writers don't live in warm places, statistically speaking.
In fact, if a pop/news science reporter got a hold of statistics relating to writing success and temperature, they'd probably conclude that cold temperatures caused quality/popular writing.
>>7720119
Hey hold on a sec that doesn't make any s
>Russia
HOLY HELL
You guys seem to like these. Share what you're writing and provide helpful criticism to others.
>"official" critique thread
>numbering threads
I dont ussually write in english, my prose is only geniusly in my native language.
De las gualdas luces de la noche abrióse dentro de las profundidades el gran Dr. Gorothy Hendry Prothorne. «¡Oh dios!», se escuchaba por un lado «Llegó, llegó. Es él, es él. ¡Qué increible!» decÃan otros. «Si es él, es él. Se podrÃa tener calma. Un poco.» Dijo F, que ya se aproximaba pecheando a la gran multitud que se conformaba rodeando a Dr. Gorothy Henry Prothorne. La comunidad estaba ahÃ, y siempre lo estuvo. La aparición de el doctor era, desde ya siglos, una ventaja del pueblo Kollotöran, que aunque por su tamaño demográfico dejaba mucho por desear, era, en invierno, cuando los turistas se instalaban allà a contemplar tal espectáculo, era gran poseedora de hombre con riquezas.
F, al poder haber llegado a su destino con el logro de haber aportado a la curiosa y humilde gente, quedó firme al llegar en la orilla de la trampilla cubierta de la grande y oronda complexión de el querido invitado. F, contemplo la regordeta cara de el Doctor con seriedad que luego mudóse a una leve sonrisa inevitable. «Bienvenido nuevamente, Dr. Gorothy Hendry Prothorne». El doctor lanzó una corta pero estrepitosa risa, y extendiendo su mano a F, trataba sin resultados saltar de la escalera. «Jo Jo, deme la mano Frodorich. Mira que se te ha extrañado», F alzó con su fornido brazo a el Dr lográndolo sacar de la trampilla.
El Dr. Gorothy Hendry Prothorne se incorporó y con un trapo que logró sacar de el bolsillo de su grande y atezado traje dió unos bailes secos y ágiles a sus ropajes.
>>7716033
Que barroco m8
Lets go, lads.
>>7730104
i can't say i quite understand your "what i got" panel fampai
>>7730298
I'm absolutely laughing my ass off at the absurdity of this image. Anyone with even the faintest knowledge of history would know that the "corn" that Caesar speaks of in Commentaries On The Gallic War is not the corn that we in the west are familiar with, but is rather a poor translation for the word "grain" which in Latin is "Frumentum"
Myself and many others who have read the commentaries would know what you're trying to refer to with your image but it's wrong. Unless of course you were already aware of this and you are posting this ironically. In which case I commend you for your post but it's still blatantly wrong. I would have gone with a collage of images of wheat instead.
7/10
IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN
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>This is a terrible list. It's not by people who love reading but by those that love telling people they read.
/lit/ BTFO
>>7728713
>I like Douglas Adams, ut no Pratchett? No Gaiman? Also James Joyce is a terrible read.
Jesus Christ these comments are painful.
Anyway the 2014 list was somehow worse than the 2015 one. This one has a lot more shit on it like BEE and Fight Club and HP.
>This is a terrible list. It's not by people who love reading but by those that love telling people they read.
Yeah, that's exactly why those people use an anonymous imageboard to talk about books. Makes sense.
>redditfags can't into literature
kek
Is this a accurate list of the best works in each of their mediums?
>books
>comics
>films
>TV series
>music
>videogames
go to /b/ this is not strictly literature.
The Sopranos? Really? You have seen the finale right?
Citizen Kane is great but overrated if you say it's the best.
The Beatles when you have Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, etc.. to choose from?
SMB3 is a classic but even Mario Kart is more enjoyable.
I don't know what comic that's supposed to be, and I don't know enough about comics to have an opinion about what the best is.
I can't fault you for Ulysses.
>The Beatles
So what's the point of keeping magic society hidden from the muggles?
>>7729865
Bullets > magic.
Also, Rowling did not think that far into ot.
>>7729865
Because muggles are greedy and would use magic for war and so on and so forth.
Same reason why we try to keep plebs off /lit/
Because plebs ruin everything. And muggles are the plebs of HP
Or maybe wizards are just racist.
Im about to start reading this for the first time, what should i expect?
>>7731312
Me toooooo
Turds sucked like negro cocks
nigger dingleberries
