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Hey /lit/
I accidentally emailed my Sociology professor my (all dead white men) reading list and now he said he's going to fail me if I don't read at least 10 books by diverse writers in the next two months
Reccomend me some god-tier Bliterature (Arabs and indians will also do, but he specifically said Japanese arent diverse)
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>>9106366
>but he specifically said Japanese arent diverse
your sociology professor is a fucking hack.
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Did your professor smirk Jewishly as he threatened to fail you
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Just load up on Indian scripture. Or do some black American lit. People just meme that it's bad but black identity is super interesting and probably worth knowing for sociology
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they are Carliclaires favorite. do you like the Bronte sisters?
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If she likes em I like em!
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>>9106323
amen
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>>9105861
Yeah
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post em niggers
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roses are red
violets are blue
op is a fag
my diary desu
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>>9109491
that's a bad poem, not an aphorism, famalam
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>>9109496
from OED:
>1. A pithy observation which contains a general truth
poem, aphorism, same shit. my post fits that definition, it just happens to rhyme. many chinese and spanish aphorisms rhyme in the original.
youre just mad bc ur a faggot.
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>want to start reading at 10:00
>watch Gordon Ramsay videos till 2:00
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cool
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*subscribe*
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>want to read
>write
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I just paid cash to a literature teacher to give me his honest opinion about my work because i cant trust my family about it anymore and i have no one else to show it to.
Was it wasted money? My biggest fear is him telling me is good just to not hurt me because i paid. I just need one honest opinion.
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Probably unless you find yourself taught
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>>9108636
>Was it wasted money?
I think it was, but have no credentials, so.
All I am saying is that writing style appeals to different groups of people
I think certain books trash while others love it: case in point; 1984
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>>9108637
>>9108638
I might have despaired too much, i know. It was just that i realized that there was no point in showing it to my sister, she just liked everything i did so it was the most likely that she could not really judge me, same as my mom. And there is no one else. And i have showed some of my works to other friends and they got bored so i wondered, what if what i write is just boring? Id still write anyways but knowing would make me try to understand what im doing wrong.
Anyways yeah i probably fucked up but its done. I only hope he at least gives me some good commentary.
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Daily reminder that Looking for Alaska is required reading in several public high schools.
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Doesn't that book include graphic depictions of child sex?
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wow really got my noggin joggin'
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That suit is so ill fitting its reviewbrah tier
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38978023
>His Dark Materials follow-ups announced by author Philip Pullman
>The new trilogy is called The Book of Dust and the first novel will come out in October, 17 years after the last instalment.
>In a separate interview Mr Pullman said: "I know from their letters and tweets that my readers have been waiting patiently (mostly) for The Book of Dust for a long time.
"It gives me great pleasure and some excitement at last to satisfy their curiosity (and mine) about this book.
>"At the centre of The Book Of Dust is the struggle between a despotic and totalitarian organisation, which wants to stifle speculation and inquiry, and those who believe thought and speech should be free."
Post books you loved as a kid.
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Will and Lyra's romance better be a big focus, or i'm not buying these.
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>>9108438
Amber Spyglass scene with Will and Lyra in the grove losing their innocence was my first tug. I cried a bit, as I remember
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>books supposedly against religion and god
>literally have angels, demons and god in them
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hi /lit/
I've read 3 books in my life and they were all sci fi shit.
I'm 20 and I want to get into reading but every time I think about silently sitting down and reading something I get an urge to break glass.
Any advice on how to get into reading?
I know I sound fucking stupid but I feel like I need sound or I always read in a hurry and skim over shit to much.
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>>9108298
>reading something I get an urge to break glass.
Wuthering Heights
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>>9108302
i googled it
its an old book
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I want to start a new hobby - reading books.
Something about me so you would know what books I should read. I am a looser. I masturbate to porn. So I started reading The third Reich by Williamson. Too pussy to read Mein Kampf. But enought of Hitler! I tried Notes-from-the-Underground by Dostoievski. I tought existentialism - cool! but got me bored. I also believe the world sucks and I want to kill myself in the far future. I like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8x73UW8Hjk
So what should I start with? Something easy, small interesting.
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Try reading the sticky.
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>>9108106
Copy-pasta creation can be the lowest form of trolling sometimes.
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>>9108127
believe it or not it's not trolling. It's my just stupid thoughts put on paper. I want to seek wisdom from books.
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>if you are a fascist who like jazz you are mentally ill
>capitalism also sucks because people have different taste in art then me
>why was humanity so much more fulfilled before civilization
>but the enlightenment is great guys
Is he the biggest meme of all time?
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Is he?
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>>9107975
Teddy: Hello. Sally, do you love your mummy?
Sally: Why yes Teddy. You could say I Adorno her *TeHe*
Teddy: . . . (shots Sally)
Bystander: WHY DID YOU KILL THAT LITTLE GIRL?
Teddy: The nuclear family is an agent of Fascism. . .
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What are /lit/s thoughts on Consciousness? Are you materialists? Dualists? If literature deals with human growth and the eternal and corruptible "soul", does the realization that we're a bunch of nuerons kill anything transcendental you can garner from literature?
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fallor ergo sum
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>>9107838
What did he mean by this?
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any categorial rifts in the perception of concepts tells you not to confront but complement each. as the duality of confront and complement are also a rift in perception.
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/lit/, what are your thoughts on Baudrillard and his concept of hyperreality? I didn't think much of it, but with recent political events, it's starting to make a lot more sense to me. I feel like everyone---on both the left and the right politically---have totally lost sight of reality to the point that I don't think they will ever leave hyperreality. For those who don't know what is:
>postmodernist philosophy, so it's all based in signs/language
>in short, everyone has gotten entrapped so deeply in the world of signs, they are forgetting about their base existence
>base reality is engaging the world with your base senses, using SIMPLE language
It's like they're drowning in hyperreality, it's scary. People on the left and the right will not question ANY of their beliefs, and from BOTH sides---for the left and the right political audiences as targets--- there are fake news stories being produced nonstop. (Of course, if you are left or right, you won't believe this)
People have been attacking news as being fake for decades. That's nothing new. What's new is this trend of calling ANYTHING fake news. There is indeed, a great amount of news being put out which is fake, but at the same time, so much real news is probably being called fake too.
My solution---I don't read about the news, I'm done with it. What are your thoughts on hyperreality and 2017?
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Simulacra and Simulation is that Milo Yiannopoulos is not a human being with ideas of his own, but a 9th order hypermedia simulacrum fascist warmachine assemblage.
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people dont think it be like it is but it do
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>>9107956
You're completely right. Politics first came about as people complained about simple things like working conditions. Now people are complaining and building politics around hyper-real things.
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ITT: the most embarrassing things that great authors did.
Pic related.
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simone de beauvoir
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>>9107308
>vollman_in_drag.jpg
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>>9107308
I'd say it was only as embarassing as it was necessary.
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>"The meek shall inherit the Earth"
>"The last man lives longest"
Wow, it's almost like Nietzsche and Jesus agreed on stuff.
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>>9107162
Those aren't good things for Nietzsche, though. Although he does say the ideal overman is a "Roman Caesar with the heart of Christ."
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>>9107162
Well, Nietzsche didn't really hate Jesus. He really hated St. Paul and the greek philosophy in Christianity.
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>>9107162
>The meek shall inherit the Earth
Doubtful: Studies show that psychopathic bullies target the meek and weak.
which one was smarter
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Peter
Christopher never grew out of his edgy teenager phase, he had so much potential.
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Christopher
Peter never grew out of his edgy teenager phase, he had so much potential.
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Hitch was about as retarded as his brother, but reached a wider audience, so I'd say him.