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Read The Stranger. It's really easy, I literally finished it in a day and I struggle to read very fast at all.

>>9447859
Ecclesiastes and Camus' The Fall are probably good.

>reddit

I want my /lit/ back, where even mentioning your first goto is that pleb-hole shut a thread down.

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>>9447834
I looked at your rock but will contribute nothing to your thread.

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>>9447834
Ask yourself when making the character:
>Whats his goals
>Whats his upbringing been like? Strict? Loose?
>What does he have to loose?
>Is he just protecting his people?
>Is it out of love?
>Is he attempting to get revenge on someone or something from a past event?
Just stuff to think about, I suck at writing but I tend to understand where you're coming from. Making a believable villain is a hard thing to do, it jut takes practice and trial and error
>pic unrelatedish

ask /v/
you're obviously not going to read entire books, so go someplace that you can find fanwikis for their characters

>>9447812
>Nabokov
don't see it
>Hemingway
yeah
He's good. Under the Volcano is one of my favorite books. Don't get discouraged by the first chapter.

>>9447812
I purchased this book happily at an estate sale, and have attempted to read it about 3 times. It is unrelentingly boring, and doesnt even have the suicidal alcoholism I expected.

>>9447832
that said:

>Don't get discouraged by the first chapter

I did all three times.

>>9447788
I have ignored all of his academic work and used him like some cuck would use a buzzfeed "best of" list.

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>>9447788
Bloom matters more in spirit than he does in reality, its not about his opinions its about his gravitas to use as a compass

I've only read The Invention of the Human and seen a few of his talks.

The former was fairly interesting, but not particularly illuminating. He does seem to only provide an immediate, sometimes purely emotional response to the plays he's addressing without substantiating it with anything else. An argument in itself for interdisciplinary reading. Though he is a great proponent of aesthetics over critical theory, his aesthetic readings seem limp.

In his talks he says almost nothing of value. Just reels off about being "an old Gnostic," or goes on about how there is something undefinable about Whitman which he adored but can't express. He has a great talent for speaking a lot but saying very little.

ho - your mom

>>9447685
How pretentious is it to use newly invented words that haven't even been accepted by any dictioary yet?
http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/page/3

porco dio - a typical venetian expression of anger

>tfw reading "literature" is fun because you're not a moron

>tfw you give up on that and watch kardasians.

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>>9447648

>>9447399
It means he hasn't got around to reading them all, spergpai.

>>9447435
wew, lad

The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have! How many of these books have you read?” and the others — a very small minority — who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books.

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>>9447387
Sam Harris ''The Moral Landscape'' is a perfect introduction to ethics and morality and their related philosophical debates.
You should also try leading psychologist Jordan Peterson's ''Map of Meaning'', a neo-Jungian-Nietzscheian account of the contemporary human condition, and a deep and insightful analysis of the philosophies that arised from such a condition.

>>9447387
Do you have any particular interests?

>>9447387
Unfortunately if you are an adult there's little you can do to increase your height.
You could try to increase mass by eating more calories and expending less if that floats your boat

You're reading 31 books currently?

>>9447282
no he has 31 notebooks about the readings

>>9447303
Why does he need 31 notebooks for one or two books

>>9447231
>Suggestions

Ask your friend.

>opinions please

Read your friend's suggestions and come back for ours later.

>>9447231

He is a professor and I am afraid my interest in his favorite author will make it seem like I am trying to suck up and impress.

>>9447121
A Fan's Notes. Fred Exley.

>>9447121
Dog of The South by Charles Portis, if you don't mind it being wickedly funny too

City on Fire, by Garth Risk Hallberg.

>>9447120
Just read about Ancient Greek History before going into Platonism and you'll be in the clear. If you google "Ancient Greek History PDF" the first link will be a decent way for you contextualize future readings on this matter.

>>9447120
Most people argue that you need to start with the Greeks. This is only half true: you should start with a general book about western philosophy (one that reviews all the major philosophers and philosophical topics within their context). This book will generally start with reviewing the Greeks, after briefly analysing what philosophy actually is.

>>9447120
These principles only become apparent in his later, more difficult works. You don't need to read Timaeus and Parmenides in order to understand Euthyphro and Apology. You work your way up to them and then reconsider what you've read once you've finished his corpus.

>>9447101
Read Kant (its logic)

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>>9447101
aesthetics

Aesthetic, of course

honesty is the best policy

>not using wits and guts

blood sweat and tears

>>9447023
That's what you get for not leaving your bringing your emergency copy of Schopenhauer. Learn from this anon.

Can confirm.
Having a big dick alleviates the situation though.

Help guys I'm actively reading propaganda and now I'm believing it??

now you should the Gospel of Mark and Helen Waddell's Desert Fathers, then Augustine's Confessions

then Blake

don't let doctrinaire christfags take the joy out of thinking in new ways by turning it into an us vs. them thing for you, and don't feel obligated to "sign on" to any doctrine or subordinate your feeling that there's something more to the world

it's the feeling that counts, even (actually, especially) if you can't quite put your finger on it

>>9446978
thanks for the reply. have read the desert fathers and augustine already, but they didn't have the effect on me that Athanasius and Symeon the New Theologian have recently.

I think the problem I have is that I _do_ feel obligated to follow the scent of truth, even if it leads (yuck) to organized religion (probably Eastern Orthodoxy)... but I appreciate your warning against partisan thinking, I totally agree. The last time I had this feeling was reading Shankara and the Upanishads, so I doubt I'll ever be able to shut out 'outside' influences -- truth is everywhere, even if we humans are notoriously bad at recognizing it