Show me the /lit/ brain
Well, um, there you have it. The /lit/ brain. Just enough space for Slavoj Zizek and John Green.
>>9426428
Just put "my opinion" in all of them.
Can someone please tell me why people take the dust jackets off of their books? I have a moral dilemma with doing so. I hate dust covers. They slide off when I'm trying to read the book, I always have to take them off and put them in a drawer until I've read the whole book, so I can put it back on the shelf. They get fucked up really easily and I always feel like I have to handle them delicately.
But here's the thing. I don't like the feeling of having an incomplete book. I personally wish that I could find some reason to just take off the dust jackets of my books and just set them on my shelf like that, but for the aforementioned incompleteness reason, and the fact that it may increase the longevity of the book, I can't bring myself to do that. I wish hardcovers all came in slipcases.
>>9426395
It's simple. You are autistic.
I throw mine away.
>Step 1. Buy books with slipcases instead of dust covers.
>Step 2. Enjoy.
I throw away all the dust covers unless they are particularly nice (artbooks mostly). No matter how careful you are they will inevitably turn to shit and they have 0 function anyway.
Absolute best are hardcovers with glossy covers glued on. Best of all worlds. The copy of JBP's Maps of Meaning I'm reading is like this. Feels good.
What comes after these two? The Start With the Greeks chart is trash.
Do I check out some Greek philosophy or what?
I can sense you are hurt. You are hurt by /lit/. You are no longer your former self. I know it hurts, I really do. /lit/ shouldn't do this to you. You shouldn't have to do this. You won't get smarter.
Forget about the stupid Greeks. They are meanies. You should read whatever you like.
>>9426392
>follows 'start with the Greeks'
>thinks he's finished after just the Iliad and the Odyssey
>>9426392
Homer is just the groudwork for fully appreciating Plato (Hesiod helps too). Now your journey of philosophy can begin.
Finally read my first Doestoevsky (Notes from the Underground), and now I want to learn Russian. Is this a normal response to his work?
It was for me. A year on and I can now read YA level books in Russian and am working my way up.
I could have gotten here faster had I known anything about learning languages
>>9426194
No. You are just an edgy fag who will give up on the
>le russian xD
idea tomorrow.
Yeah, but don't bother.
I advise not learning a language unless you REALLY need it and CAN use it
How do I get rid of the mentality that I need to read more before I can start writing? Aside from a full time job and coming here for like 15minutes a day, basically all I do is read, I've read 15k pages this year alone but it feels like it's never enough.
Start writing.
>>9426131
>I've read 15k pages this year alone
Who the fuck counts pages they've read?
>>9426396
>he doesn't use Goodreads to autistically collect statistics
kek
What's a good first book to interest in me in literature?
Tell me about what shit you like, my child.
>>9426053
War, mystery, history (to some extent), Philosophy. I also wouldn't mind reading something that would be practical in life like Psychology, Economics etc...
>>9426087
fuck all that shit, read The Belgariad, by David Eddings.
Anyone else ever read these as a kid? When I think back to my early ventures into the world of literature I am immediately reminded of Redwall. At the age of 12 or 13, Brian Jacque's world was to me a perfect platter of adventure and intrigue, without compromising the maturity of the characters and their relationships with each other. I do not understand why authors who write with the young reader in mind oft think him incapable of understanding situations beyond the extremely simplistic and fickle. I want to thank Brian Jacques for proving that a book can be kid-friendly, without being childish.
“Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.”
My favorite books growing up.
I only started reading lit as an early pubescent, and I was really into Redwall when I was in high school. Miraculously I've managed to find (and purchase) several copies of the books with Brian Jacques' signature inside, which I found in thrift stores. Whenever I'm in a thrift store and I see anything by him, I always check the title cover. You never know.
>>9426471
He signed all books sold directly from the website, i have one for Marlfox.
I am looking for a serious, long-term partner for writing with, mutually criticising each other's work and hopefully producing good literature with. You must be at least eighteen years old and be seriously committed as I am to writing at least 1000 words a day. You'll be required to sign a mutual contract at the beginning which protects our work from each other.
I figure that the best way we can find appropriate matches is to compare our 10 favourite artists. So here are my 10, my e-mail is farewellto4rms at gmail dot com, if you are interested please drop me an e-mail NO TIMEWASTERS:
Hemingway
Stephen King
Turgenev
Bret Easton Ellis
Kazuo Ichiguro
Tolstoy
Dumas
Hunter S Thompson
George Orwell
Bulgakov
>>9425936
>10 favourite artists
>Stephen King
>Ellis
>HS Thompson
jesus man
>>9425936
farewellto4rms? Is this an anti-plato thing or do you just hate agriculture?
>>9425936
spooky
Which books advocate independence and, indeed, selfishess over groupthink and collective ideology?
I've come to really despise the way groups (i,.e mobs) pressure everybody into subscribing to their ideology. Just this past calendar year I've been criticized publicly (either aggressively or in a "joking" manner) for:
>refusing to tip at a restaurant
>walking past a woman who was struggling to life her luggage up some stairs
>refusing to sacrifice 9+ hours of my day to support a society I despise
>sleeping on the kitchen & living room floor in my house
>walking suddenly away as someone was saying something to me at length
>taking out a large loan and refusing to pay it back (ongoing)
>trick-or-treating "at my age"
>eating all of the food the old lady at the supermarket was handing out as free 'tasters'
>taking a bunch of bottled water being handed out free at a local half-marathon
>using a public library computer to stream movies
>wearing my bathrobe and slippers to the local grocery store
>reading books for hours in an independent bookshop without buying any
>walking my pet snake with a leash (shoestring) attached
>mowing the lawn at 3:40am
I just don't care, yet I'm punished for not caring by the mob. Which books support my side of the argument in these cases?
You care so much, anon. You're desperate for attention.
>>9425904
>independence and, indeed, selfishess
>over groupthink and collective ideology
Why must you speak only in terms of such extremes? There is ample middle ground between the two
>>9425958
Middle ground is mediocrity and mediocrity is for plebs
When did you realise that lesbians are exempt from the maxim that women can't write?
Theyre not
But plently straight women can and do write well so this convo is going to descend into stupidity real soon
>>9425822
Woolf
Yourcenar
McCullers
Stein
Highsmith
It checks out.
>>9425833
Not really, and even if that's somewhat true, it's only true for the Anglo world. There are almost no great female authors in more complex languages
PSEUDS BTFO
Sartre was a faggot
t. Celine reader
>it doesn't cover kierkegaard
How can you even play at exegeting dosto without a thorough discussion of the Knight of Faith?
>>9425814
>guys look i have a book im smart pls believe me
>fukk off bitch go lick a toilet bowl
Dear friends, can someone suggest some good readings to learn about corporativism? I can read English, Italian and a bit of German!
Hello lit. I am going to be a father.
I want to raise my child with literature. What are some /lit/ childrens books that i can read too her?
>>9426877
Grimm's fairytales
>>9426877
Frog and Toad
>Finish reading The Iliad.
>No mention of Trojan Horses.
What a waste of my fucking time. The Greeks are the worst meme of all time.
>>9425733
It wasn't funny when you posted it for the first time either.
They mention Trojan horses all the time, OP. Diomedes steals a bunch of them in the first battle!
>>9425733
Are you retarded? They barely had computer back then, how would they be able to write malicious software?
Does anyone have a French/German version of this?
/int/ didn't hdlp me :(
>>9425707
Read Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner, you'll be able to make a full plan for any language you want on your own.
>>9425714
Thank you kindly
I'll tell you what took me from zero to a2 in German in four months with minimal effort, you use this information and do as you will with it, I wish I started knowing these things.
Daily practice when you wake up, make it light, use duolingo and lingvist.
Create your own anki cards set.
Get a grammar book, I used Routledge beginner German grammar workbook. Work with this religiously for a month and you'll be fine in the grammar department, it has about 28 lessons so it shouldn't be that hard.
Watch a couple of movies in German paying attention to whatever word you can understand and if you notice words that keep repeating that you don't understand, write them down, add them to your Anki set for practice. This will give you a somewhat decent base.
Now comes the fun part, you're going to translate stories to your native language, or English, that's what I did. Google a torrent named German graded readers, it has 80 short stories ranging from A1 to whatever, pick some stories and start translating them, I've found this has helped my vocabulary greatly and now I can read at a B1 level.
The problem with all this plan is that, at least for personally, it makes it hard to express yourself in German but you can understand a lot and it's start.
It should take you a couple of months to get to A2, maybe higher, if you work at it one hour a day, I did it a hella lot more lightly, skipping days and so and still made some progress, depending on your discipline you could become better.
Subjects on things like philosophy, legal thought, history, politics, logic etc.
>>9425607
>philosophy, legal thought, history, politics, logic
>>9425607
>Subjects on things like philosophy, legal thought, history, politics, logic etc.
Ahahaha kid, you're going to have fun.