>m-muh Buddah
>Fucking Bourgeois
>Plebs don't into fucking eastern spirituality reeeee
Hack?
>>9039555
story idea: a group of time travelling killers erase bad writers from history
after perusing a writer's works, they ask 'hack?' and if the consensus is 'hack!' they pay that writer a visit and hack him to pieces with cleavers etc
things get complicated when a bunch of nutty 1920s-1940s hacks with guns start fighting back
ooh
>>9039573
Write it
>>9039573
the story ends with them travelling to eliminate the writer of the very work they're in, unaware of this fact. turning the last page activates a device that sets the whole book alight
Can we have a thread to discuss any discrepancies/incoherent plot points that irrtate you?
Here's mine
>LoTR FoTR Frodo slashes at the witch-king's shin with a numenorean dagger
>Aragorn finds ragged cloak with the slash but claims that no blade can harm the wraith
>Frodo's sword doesn't disintegrate though, later he bradishes it at the Bruinen and the witch-king shatters it.
>Get to RoTK
>Merry stabs the Witch-King's calf
>numenorean blade apparently does horrific damage and disables the WK.
>disintegrates
>>9039542
I dont remember him stabbing one of the wraiths in fellowship
>>9039542
I thought Frodo was using Sting which is elvish and Merry was using the ancient weapons of Numenor
The elvish weapons are forged from shit like the tears of Ea and whatever, so I thought it was just tougher. Also Sting's got veteran status so likely Tolkien wouldn't make it weak enough to be destroyed.
Anyway, one thing that irks me is how it seems like wyrmtongue singlehandedly took over an entire Kingdom, the scale or Rohan was really confusing.
>>9040624
Nah he gets sting at rivendell which is after the wraith attack
I just received a first edition copy of The Recognitions, and I think that it's a fake.
>>9039534
why and who the fuck makes a fake book.
>>9039534
kek'd
>>9039534
That's a Google image book. This isn't even a real thread.
Why have so many notable men struggled so fundamentally with women?
I got a book with a collection of (love) letters and there are letters from nietzsche, kafka, kierkegaard, rilke, tucholsky, schiller, goethe, rousseau, dickens, hugo, fontane, heine, etc
The absolute worst being nietzsche and kafka.
Honestly, it is painfull to read. The autism is screaming. It was no wonder they failed with women. How can they be so genius in reading humans and so unable to interact with females?
>>9039523
>How can they be so genius in reading humans and so unable to interact with females?
Females aren't human.
Lol post excerpts
>>9039527
Why do you decide to take the easy way out? Declaring that the fault lies in the females is just so tempting, isn't it? It's exactly what nietzsche did too.
Which book have you reread the most times?
>He had bought a large map representing the sea,
>Without the least vestige of land:
>And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be
>A map they could all understand.
>"What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators,
>Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?"
>So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply
>"They are merely conventional signs!
>"Other maps are such shapes, with their islands and capes!
>But we've got our brave Captain to thank
>(So the crew would protest) "that he's bought us the best—
>A perfect and absolute blank!"
>"I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch—
>I said it in German and Greek:
>But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much)
>That English is what you speak!"
>When the verdict was called for, the Jury declined,
>As the word was so puzzling to spell;
>But they ventured to hope that the Snark wouldn't mind
>Undertaking that duty as well.
>So the Snark found the verdict, although, as it owned,
>It was spent with the toils of the day:
>When it said the word "GUILTY!" the Jury all groaned,
>And some of them fainted away.
>Then the Snark pronounced sentence, the Judge being quite
>Too nervous to utter a word:
>When it rose to its feet, there was silence like night,
> And the fall of a pin might be heard.
>"Transportation for life" was the sentence it gave,
>"And then to be fined forty pound."
>The Jury all cheered, though the Judge said he feared
>That the phrase was not legally sound.
>But their wild exultation was suddenly checked
>When the jailer informed them, with tears,
>Such a sentence would have not the slightest effect,
>As the pig had been dead for some years.
kek every time
i hope you have a version that prints the map, anon.
>>9040244
No, I wished for it for Christmas and I didn't want to be enough of a gaf to ask for a specific illustrator.
3 times.
What does /lit/ think about Chinese philosophy?
>>9039436
Not much
>>9039436
I've only read Zhuangzi. Breddy gud.
Basically ancient shitposting.
>>9039436
It's neat
I've been getting into books a lot recently. In total I've read about 50 books yet Catcher In The Rye is still my favourite book of all time.
Am I turbo pleb?
have u read Lolita? it might... heh... be on ur wavelength
>>9039277
Why do you guys say this meme so much?
>>9039280
how did you know about my personal shitposting think-tank? anyways, the answer is that the sister-rape meme has been fairly successful in focus groups.
>“What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of that ancient Greek who wanted to die under the brilliant sun. What I wanted was some natural, spontaneous suicide. I wanted a death like that of a fox, not yet well versed in cunning, that walks carelessly along a mountain path and is shot by a hunter because of its own stupidity…”
what did he mean by this?
It means he wanted someone to poz his ass.
>>9039261
He valued failure above triumph, and pursued it continually. Frequently, that was his means to triumph. So he wanted to die from failure; to kill himself by an attempt at life.
>>9039261
>What I wanted was some natural, spontaneous suicide
So why did he carefully plan it out?
Want to get into Literary Theory, where should I start? Which movement should I start with?
R U S S I A N
F O R M A L I S T Smaybe, I don't know
>>9039193
Beware of reading any "anthology" or "introduction" that goes through every different theory because it will inevitably be extremely biased depending on which theory the author himself ascribes to. Just take OPs pic for example. Terry Eagleton is a well know Marxist and so his perspectives on other theories will probably be skewed.
Anyway, pic related is a good starting point since it doesn't get bogged down in all the different theories.
>>9039193
Start with the Greeks obviously.
What are some good books on the philosophy of anime?
Try 'I Gargle Miles Of Nigger Schlong' by OP
>>9039195
???
There's no need to be rude
>>9039199
Paranoia Agent
What does /lit/ think of Welsh?
paluhniuk tier pseudo profound trash
I'm a fan. Marabou Stork Nightmares is a great book, same with Trainspotting and The Acid House. I recently read his Bedroom Secrets Of The Master Chefs though and it just felt like Irvine Lite, just all rehashes of his old ideas and not much substance.
Very hard to pronounce
>And his sons were blah, blah, blah, who had blah, blah, who went to blah, blah, blah, and his sons were blah blah ...
I really hope these names in the bible aren't important to know.
How do you guys take notes on big books like the Bible and such?
In the bible it's pretty common to skip the genealogy books. There's nothing of interest
>>9039183
not OP but skipping books is for casual scum.
t. non christian
>>9039157
You can literally skip all the genealogy. It doesn't matter.
The Bible isn't a linear novel. Its a collection of many books written by many people over a spanning period of time.
Is she as good as Joyce?
Or is she a meme?
Personally I like her books because the gibberish % is less than Joyce
>>9039145
it's hard to go below 0% senpai.
>>9039145
She's not as good as Joyce. But she's very, very good and I don't think I've ever seen her memed.
Brazillian here.
Read Machado and Guimarães first.
Any novels about precognition, or other forms of telekinesis?
Pic obviously related
The Chrysalids
>>9039115
gravitys rainbow
underworld
like half of philip k dick's books (yes i know minority report is a short story by him)
>Tough times produce tough men, tough men produce good times, good times produce weak men, weak men produce tough times
can this be said to be true in any historical setting? cause it sounds deep but comes across like a gross generalisation
I keep seeing variations of this posted a lot on social media, but can't seem to attribute the quote to any source
are we living at times of weak men?
>>9039075
We're living in a time of decadence. Life is more complicated than twitter.
There is a cyclical aspect to history that everyone notices but it's difficult to come up with anything other than banal platitudes about it.