Hi /lit/ could you please rate my slam poetry?
>Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT. Good genes, very good genes, OK? Very smart: the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart. You know, if you’re a conservative Republican—if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you’re a conservative Republican, they try—oh, do they do a number. That’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune. You know, I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged. But you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me: it would have been so easy—and it’s not as important as these lives are. Nuclear is so powerful. My uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power—and that was 35 years ago—he would explain the power of what’s going to happen, and he was right. Who would have thought? But when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners— now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three. And even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger: “Fellas,”—and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so you know it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so ... And they, they just killed, they just killed us.
YOU SLAMMED HIM GOOD
>>9158870
>slam poetry
Then I know it's absolute shit without even reading it.
>>9159038
Keep reading it
How do I into Nietzsche?
Seems like there's a lot of misconceptions surrounding this guy even within the communities of people who really enjoy his works.
Is there any particular piece of his I should begin reading first? Just curious what you guys think.
On the Genealogy of Morality
Lecture series on the book: https://youtu.be/2fTnEB_r_6Q
Get the Basic Writings of Nietzsche translated by Walter Kaufmann. It's in there and you also get a few of his other major books. Another good book to get is The Portable Nietzsche translated by the same guy.
>>9158737
start with Beyond Good and Evil
it was written specifically as an introductory to his philosophy
>tfw you realize the theory of the forms is metaphysical truth and you can effectively use the socratic method to make any rational being come to the same conclusion
>tfw the forms function as axioms from which further truths can be derived and therefore epistemology is a solved game
Oh my. . .
>>9158567
Destroy women, minorities, etc... Whatever.
Back to the topic!
>>9158556
Hey OP, help me come too the same conclusion.
>>9158579
I have a question I've been struggling with, and I was wondering if a learned man such as yourself could help.
Am I the same person today as I was yesterday?
>>9158556
but the premises of the Theory of Forms are contradicting by Platos own admission.
just try to think about the form of the theory of forms and you get BTFO pretty quick
What's the one (1) book I read in front of a woman to attract her? She's like you, /lit/.
>>9158071
Pics or it didn't happen
>>9158086
Go back to r.eddit with that lingo you cancerous fucking faggot
>implying I need a book to attract a lady
Is Holden Caulfield a profound intellectual or just a spoiled brat?
>>9157869
he was a fucking kid. a dumb juvenile.
I notice that it's always Holden Caulfield types who hate him most intensely
>>9157869
Holden, in his profoundly puerile musings, actually got everything right.
I just finished Lolita, amazing.
Where do I go to next with Nabokov?
>>9157468
Pnin -> Pale Fire -> Sebastian Knight -> Invitation to a Beheading -> Collected Short Stories -> (Lectures on Literature & Strong Opinions so you can better understand what he's trying to do in Ada) -> Ada, or Ardor -> Speak, Memory
The order of this doesn't matter in terms of accessibility (outside of Ada) as much as to maintain interest in Nabokov's corpus with variety and quality.
>>9157468
The Real Life of Seb. Knight. The most noir, and perhaps fun, is Laughter in the Dark. Pale Fire is nearly in a class by itself, but wait on that one. Bend Sinister is his one political novel, stark, Kafkaesque.
>>9157483
Pnin, absolutely. Subtle, heartbreaking-
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>>9157288
>find one of the other 6000 threads that this has been discussed in
Rude.
>>9157288
Personally, I believe free speech is an archaic principle left over from another time. We need the government to tell us what he can and can't say or read.
my diary desu
he's a libcuck
>>9153287
>that filename
Post the most cringeworthy goodreads reviews you have seen here, or book reviews from other sites like amazon.
>pic related
>>9150683
Hmmh.
>>9150683
Holy cow how can a single person be this stupid ?
What's on your mind.
I'm really bad at math
>>9144767
Gawwwwwthic
I can probably count on one hand the number of times I'll cry during my adult life
I can only see one thing happening that would makes me cry: the death of my dad
My apathy has really gone too far
ubiquitous shelf thread [1/4]
>>9136849
[2/4]
>>9136851
[3/4]
>>9136853
[4/4]
AKA Questions that don't deserve their own thread.
Taking a page out of /fit/.
>>9131825
Is Zen Buddhism just a meme?
>>9131825
When asses smell they smell bad. They either don't smell or smell bad.
>>9131817
Which country has the best literature?
>orwell was wrong, huxley was more accurate
is there a plebber opinion one can hold?
>>9161563
>believing fictional works are written as prophecy
is there a more retarded opinion one can hold
>>9161563
1984 was not an instruction manual!!!
>>9161563
>huxley was wrong, orwell was more accurate
There you go, opie
I was digging around some boxes of old books looking for a text book for a class to use in a paper, and turns out I have an old edition of A Game of Thrones.
I remember reading it years and years ago, before the idea of a movie or HBO show was even a glimmer in the eye of TV execs, but I had a hard time with it. I wasn't enjoying any of it, mostly because it was such full of scope and grandeur that I felt, one, that I needed to take notes and two, was an already established world that I was looking into where everyone knew what was going on except me.
Compared to Lord of the Rings (a fair comparison, I feel) our first glimpse into the series is in the Shire, on a sunny day in a simple village on a birthday party. Then, when our story gets going, we get to see this new world as our characters do. When we go "wait, what is a Nazgul?" the Hobbits are asking the same thing. When Aragorn and Theoden are discussing what is going to happen at Helm's Deep, we are subtly informed what Helm's Deep is, why the battle is going to go a certain way there, etc.
When I remember reading A Game of Thrones, it's like I was already expected to know stuff that had never been introduced, and it was difficult for me. For instance, I remember in chapter 2 (or maybe 1, after the prologue) when something is happening, they mention it in passing and I think "what the fuck is that" or "who the shit are they talking about?"
It was frustrating. I made it like 50 pages in and gave up. However, I was much younger then - maybe 17 or 18. I'm 24 now - I want to try and read them again.
What kind of mindset should I prepare for when diving into a Song of Ice and Fire? I went in expecting a Tolkien, and it clearly isn't that. What should I expect, in other words?
>>9161436
The first chapter of A Game of Thrones is kinda shitty. Doesn't really explain anything, is confusing, and is fairly irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
The rest of the book, they explain things as they go. For example, the first time you see most of the characters, you're in the eyes of Bran, a child, who needs things explained to him. Then you go to Eddard, who reminisces about old times with King Robert.
Also, the World of ASOIAF is no where near the same scope as Middle Earth. There's significantly less depth, the story itself is very focused on the political relationships between warring families, and very rarely do we get any information about common life for common people.
I like the first three books, because they're entertaining and have decent characters. Books 4 and 5 are pretty bad, though. Anyone who compares Martin to Tolkein is a literal idiot, though, and probably only watched GoT/LoR and never actually bothered to read any of their work.
>>9161436
If you read fantasy then you're a moron. End of discussion.
>>9161436
I was in your boat, anon. Read the first few in 2007, want to reread them today but can't find the motivation with my backlog.
Stick with it anon, it gets much better. GRRM is not near Tolkien's power level at all. A lot of the developments in book 2 and 3 are genre pulp tier, but fun to read. Just appreciate it for what it is.
What books would /lit/ recommend on military tactics and strategy? I don't really care whether it's ancient or modern. Also, I've already read the Art of War.
>>9161077
>>9161077
Infantry attacks by Erwin Rommel, WW1 tacticsIt's not just going over the top after a week of artillery barrage.
>>9161077
Start with the Greeks (or Romans)
Also, Shelby Foote's "The Civil War" is a plethora of military strategy in action.