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Is he any good?
>>7728104
Of course!
>>7728104
Yes. The second greatest poet of antiquity (after Homer).
Metamorphoses also has claim to be the most influential work of fiction in the history of western literature.
no, he was geared towards teenagers
>underlining things in books like a retard
>highlighting
>>7727988
>writing in margins
>reading
which one of you faggots did this
You.
>>7727978
Him.
>>7727977
hey reddit
I get on the first page of /lit/ and see pic related. No threads at all involving a serious discussion of the literary merits of Harry Potter. Like what the fuck, amirito?
>>7727954
What's happening is part of a phenomenon I wrote about a couple of years ago when I was asked to comment on Rowling. I went to the Yale University bookstore and bought and read a copy of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." I suffered a great deal in the process. The writing was dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs." I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing.
But when I wrote that in a newspaper, I was denounced. I was told that children would now read only J.K. Rowling, and I was asked whether that wasn't, after all, better than reading nothing at all? If Rowling was what it took to make them pick up a book, wasn't that a good thing?
It is not. "Harry Potter" will not lead our children on to Kipling's "Just So Stories" or his "Jungle Book." It will not lead them to Thurber's "Thirteen Clocks" or Kenneth Grahame's "Wind in the Willows" or Lewis Carroll's "Alice."
Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.
Our society and our literature and our culture are being dumbed down, and the causes are very complex. I'm 73 years old. In a lifetime of teaching English, I've seen the study of literature debased. There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.
There are plenty of Harry Potter threads here bitch, just use the catalogue and it will be self-evident family.
copypasta from Harold Bloom, 2003
hope that old fart is dead now because his opinion is shit
Where do I go for some Slavic folk and mythology? Going to start with pic related, anyone have anything to add to it? Wanting to start with Russian since that's where my family is from, going to branch out after that.
>>7727943
Start with the Greeks.
>>7727943
Read pushkin or something ruskaia svinya
Idi nahui shtob rasiya zdohla
Hope that makes sense. Can't be fucked to use a cyrillic keyboard
I'm russian too. Try pushkin, my mom will literally never stop talking about his shit.
Does anyone have experience with a bookzz.org account? I hate being limited to 5 downloads a day, but I really don't want to be attached to an account on a site that is legally ambiguous. Does anyone have experience with an account? Is it worth it?
Thanks.
>not being behind 17 proxies and a VPN
So that's a "don't do it" then?
Let me guess. It's a free account, isn't it? and you haven't even conceived of using a separate e-mail?
Hope that helps?
Does anyone here have a recommended course of study for approaching Marxist theory?
I really think I should know something about this stuff, but I'm pretty much limited to what I've gotten from wikipedia and the stanford encyclopedia of philosophy.
I've tried picking up Marx's stuff before but I dunno... Most of it just really long and dry. Does he have any books where he sums up his ideas succinctly, or something like that?
>>7727901
so, you want to understand his work without putting in the effort? why? why bother? fuck you.
>>7727914
I'm asking if he has any books where he summarizes his work for the layman because it's insanely obvious that his major works are not accessible to anyone except academic specialists.
>>7727901
>his major works are not accessible to anyone except academic specialists
uh no
Capital is a fairly easy read
anybody on lit read this? its his only book to be translated in english so far but its japanese surrealist sci-fi/detective story by way of pkd, chandler and will burroughs.
>>7727900
But how does it compare to Mememurakami?
>>7729665
I haven't read any murakami except for south of the border west of the sun.
The form of this novel might be jarring in that each sentence to few sentences is a paragraph like a japanese airport novel. The prose is pretty good for an english translation from japanese. I found the plot and characters to be done well too
Sounds good. I'll check it out.
I'm looking for books similar to Hardboiled Wonderland. Specifically, I liked the chapters dealing with the calcutec. They should be considered science fiction I guess, but there aren't a bunch of typical tropes (robots, spaceships, etc). I'd like to find some other books with a similar tone.
Oh boy a Memerkami thread. This should make for a promising couple of days.
Have you tried just browsing Reddit and pretending it's a book?
Is good genre fiction making a shift towards interactivity?
>>7727792
>genre fiction
>good
Free will does exist, though.
In what order should I read the chapters of this book?
For the Agent Lee Plotline, read
And Start West, The Rube, Benway, Hospital, Lazarus Go Home, Islam Incorporated, The County Clerk, Hauser and O'Brien
>>7727786
read it to where rumpus room is the last chapter
is there a clear separation between these two types of thought?
i often see people and philosophers say that logic is "good", while emotion is "bad" and simply gets in the way.
I never quite understood this. It often seems like enjoyment stems from emotion. Our subjective feelings, IMO, often feel more "real" and "true" than logic when we experience them in the heat of the moment. It seems like some of the best moments we experience are when we just let go, stop thinking and feel (like during sex, or watching an entrancing performance, or euphoria from drugs/drinking, or being in love with someone).
Thoughts? Basically I struggle between the idea that being logical is good, but it's not as satisfying as listening to your emotional side. How much should emotion factor into our decision making?
I have nothing to add to this discussion except my interest. Bumping.
Humans are irrational creatures, thats the basic fact, even the desire to be logcial is based off an emotional impetus.
The real meat is understanding the perceptions behind those emotions, how valid they are. Understand your motives, the real core of why you do what you do, and you're on your way to better thinking.
post the book you have read the most,
it doesnt exactly have to be your favorite but one you keep going back to
anna karenina
To re-live that sweet sweet childhood.
>>7727775
are you an anarchist anon?
KUBRICK!!! WHAT THE HEL DID YOU DO WITH MY FAVORITE BOOK???
>>7727715
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