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Anyone read this?
Not since the late 1970s.
I'm thinking about reading this Chinese food menu but beta AF and need social validation for every single decision.what should I expect? Should I read Aristotle first? Can anyone reccomend any patrician menus?
>not starting with the greeks
baka senpai, how can you expect to understand what a kung pao chicken is if you haven't even gyrated with the gyros yet?
start with the chinks
Read Ubu Roi first, then order the pu pu platter.
ITT: We post a book and name the philosophy that could best describe it
>Taoism
>Relativism
>Absurdism
>>7712987
One of the most needlessly tangential books I've ever read.
>>7712987
You men eat your dinner
Eat your pork and beans
I eat more chicken
Than any man ever seen, yeah, yeah.
the most insane fucking genius book ever written.
The World Is A Stage! The world is like a giant play, written by and watched by God for His own personal entertainment. Just because there is a scientific explanation for everything, that doesn't mean there is no such thing as God. We are all God's toys, His playthings. God makes us build things, He has a few laughs, He watches us evolve. God is in complete control, but God is in control of people. God cannot make the human race act out of character, but He can create the characters that He needs to steer the...
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Post a download link and I'll read it.
Whats the link for your Kickstarter, Mikey?
>>7707231
Hi Mikey. Give me a free copy and I'll read it.
Consider making a better cover. The picture is fine but the title and the author text are shit.
Anyone here read the Inheritance Cycle? What did you think of it?
Read it when I was younger
Good young adult literature, but still young adult literature
>>7707016
>Cycle
That seems like an awfully pretentious description for a set of YA fantasy books written by a teenage autist.
>>7707016
Bad. I know it's a total /lit/ thing to talk about how even as kids they hated YA, but even as a kid I couldn't stand it, and I enjoyed everything I read when I was young. It's just not even good for YA.
What is the most "obscure" book you ever read? I mean "obscure" as "almost nobody knows about it".
Prolly shit tier national ya I read for school or literature from my country (I am from argentina)
I think my rarest non-argentine Pepe would be "beyond this place" a novel by Cronin that i foubd laying around my house or "la familia de pascual duarte" by Cela (which is a Nobel laureate anyway)
>>7703861
Probably one of the monographs I've read, if dissertations don't count. Because I doubt more than a dozen other people have read any given dissertation.
The library/museum catalogs I've read probably rank up there in obscurity as well.
>>7703861
Bunch! by David R. Bunch
>read Houellebecq's first novel after reading Soumission
>it's much better and at least as relevant
Why doesn't this stuff get memed?
>>7708885
Elementary Particle and Possibilities of an Island get a lot of love here.
Memes have nothing to do with the quality of the work. DFW is a great example of this.
>>7708897
Just started the Elementary Particles, seems good so far. I think I'll just go through his novels chronologically.
The Lovecraft book seems promising as well.
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Today my professor told the class that the Chief in The Laughing Man is black. This struck me as odd because I'm a careful reader and no part of the story ever implied that he was anything besides an upper-class WASP. unless I missed something. I wouldn't really mind, but he went on to claim that the Laughing Man's physical deformity was paralleled with the Chief being a black man in the early 20th century. This is completely incongruous with my understanding of the story, so please tell me I'm not crazy
Why don't you ask your professor to explain his statement instead of asking us?
Chief Aramaki is clearly an elderly Japanese man. It's just the lighting that makes him appear mulatto.
Moby dick thread
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick
I read this book over the summer and was honestly surprised to find it was like a slice of life story rather than the struggle of man versus whale. Maybe I just resonated and remember the parts about human interaction but the actual whale hunting events seemed few and far between. There was a great deal of anatomical information and sign of the times events at play but the more I read the more I felt it was not about a man hunting a whale, which I had always been shown by pop culture the book was about. I liked...
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>>7712880
I have been wanting to read it for a while now but put it off because I felt I wasn't ready. I think I'm finally going to join the ranks because of this thread.
>>7712880
>surprised to find it was like a slice of life story rather than the struggle of man versus whale
well, that's why it is famous
>>7712880
like an anon wrapped it up to me: "It's like the Bible. It's a book about everything"
absoluteyl amazing book. Not a single chapter I disliked.
Freedom, Sancho, is one of the most precious gifts that heaven ever gave to man. Neither the treasures hidden in the earth nor those the sea covers can equal it. For freedom, as well as for honor, one can and should risk one’s life. And the opposite is also true—captivity is the worst evil that can befall men
>translations
>>7712210
sweet, that stupidity gets out of the way right off the bat.
>>7712196
My first impulse is to wonder to what extent Quixote truly was free. On the one hand, he adhered to a strict code of chivalry (and a large dose of enchantment) which guided him to some specific actions. On the other hand, he wasn't ensnared by too much deliberation--'analysis paralysis' or what you will--in his behavior.
>>7712210
La libertad, Sancho, es uno de los más preciosos dones que a los hombres dieron los cielos; con ella no pueden igualarse los tesoros que encierra la tierra ni el mar encubre; por la libertad asà como por la honra se puede y debe aventurar la vida, y, por el contrario, el cautiverio es el mayor mal que puede venir a los hombres
you guys ever read this one?
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v18/n14/dale-peck/well-duh
notable excerpt:
>Pynchon does have his admirers, and he also has his followers, or people who are labelled his followers, and they do keep cropping up. I think there’s more than a little Pynchon floating around John Kennedy Toole, whose A Confederacy of Dunces is a book nearly as bloated as its protagonist; Don DeLillo’s social, um, satires owe more than a little to Pynchon’s work; and in a recent essay in Harper’s magazine the young novelist Jonathan Franzen declares Pynchon a personal hero. David Foster Wallace moves beyond admiration to adulation – if not, to put it more plainly, outright imitation. It is, in fact, a virtuoso performance that has eclipsed its progenitor: Wallace out-Pynchons Pynchon, and his third book, Infinite Jest, may well be the first novel to out-Gravity’s Rainbow Gravity’s Rainbow.
>>7711607
>starting threads with pictures of beautiful women
Why does everybody do this here? It lnly serves to make me sad.
>>7711700
same.
>tfw never be a beautiful girl
>tfw if i was a beautiful girl my ex would have never left me
>tfw biscum gonna biscum ;~;
I'm going to be working with a group on the campus I attend hoping to develop students who havn't read as much into better analytical readers. I think many students who end up in English classes (especially where I go) still lack the necessary tools to truly understand a text, and most of the time just see it the way the teacher says, (not that this is necessarily a bad thing but to truly understand a book students should be able to figure out what it means on their own). I go to a Community College so the reading level does vary a lot. Many students have even finished...
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Yo,
the first thing that came to mind was animal farm, because it's short and the symbolism is just in your fucking face and is always applicable to current events.
however, even that might be a bit beyond the kind of student you're describing. maybe take a look at finding a collection of short stories that are approved for high school level students. there's plenty of shit out there that's clever but still easy to understand. this post probably isn't very helpful, im sorry. hope it serves as a bump which may in turn give you at least one useful...
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>>7711343
actually I hadn't even thought of that, that sort of collection is specifically made to teach high school students the same thing so why not start there? Great idea, really
>>7711347
glad to help m8
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>has connections to multiple people, was part of the Illuminati, is a master of stealth and disguise and a perfect assassin, and has a fucking submarine with child slaves.
Why didn't he use his power to rob their fortune from the bank instead of making extremely elaborate plots to catch three kids?
>>7711234
bc he was also suffering from a mental disorder
>>7711234
Because he was a VILLAIN, not some goddamn money-grubbing business man who cares about such passing trivialities like common sense
>>7711234
I enjoyed these books very much
![Confederacy_of_dunces_cover[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/kL1CEGF.jpg "Confederacy_of_dunces_cover[1].jpg")
Im 100 pages into this and im considering dropping it. Its "funny" yeah, but i feel like im wasting my time.
Now I know.
All the pieces come together anon, and anyway it's shameful to drop out of a work of literature without seeing it through to the end.
If you're enjoying it (which I assume you are - you might not be) why not continue it? It's not like you were going to spend your time on something better. On the other hand, if you're not enjoying it, drop it and find something you do enjoy. No reason to suffer through something you do of your own free will.
Where should I start with Hemingway?
Grasp the base of the shaft firmly, fondle the balls with your spare hand then swirl the head with your tongue before working your way down to engulf the whole thing.
>>7709752
Thanks for the daddy boner.
Start with the greeks
