>last read book
>your rating out of 5
Kokoro
pretty neat/10, havent finished yet
Dracula
comfy/10
>>9847601
The Great Gatsby
Pretty good/10
i'm escaping my cave tomorrow and going to a small local bookstore for the first time. any advice?
>>9847472
Have a good time and buy some cool books? I don't know what you want anon to say.
>>9847472
Don't expect too much. Go there with a book in mind, ask if they have it and read a little.
>>9847472
browse and buy something that looks interesting and actually read it? don't ask out any qts.
Ok, let's end it once and for all fags
What is better
>Ringworld
or
>Halo
>>9847407
Ringo
Bungo took a fat dump on all the mystery, so Ringworld de facto wins.
>>9847439
You sound like a desperate delinquent of the highest nature my friend. Bring out the cheese they cry from the rafters of the promenade, and not the OG variety, the dairy-type!
Los Angeles is known for many things- but grilled cheese is probably not one of them. Hollywood and grilled cheese go together like Taylor Swift and steady boyfriends. But if we've learned anything from cheesy (get it?) romantic comedies, it's that unlikely pairings sometimes make for the best bedfellows. We here at Hommily pride ourselves on finding the more unique food offerings in Los Angeles, and a grilled cheese and beer combination may be our favorite yet.
Work and play. Politics and religion. Alcohol and text messaging. Just a few examples of things that may not go well together. Grilled cheese and beer? One may produce the warm childhood memory of eating mom's homemade grilled cheese sandwich, while the other might bring back that regrettable moment of poor judgement from that college beer pong match.
Beer and cheese are not a food combination you frequently hear about. Bread and pasta, cookies and milk, coffee and donuts. These are the regulars. Even "wine and cheese" easily rolls off the tongue. But cheese and beer is something you need to try.
Now, we're not talking about chasing your Kraft singles with a cold PBR (though that doesn't sound like the worst idea ever.) We're talking about artisan cheeses paired with premium craft beers.
Being that beer and cheese have a similar origin, grass, they compliment each other by sharing similar characteristics such as aroma and flavor, and the carbonation of the beer aids in bringing out some of the flavors of the cheese. Using these artisan cheeses to create grilled cheese sandwiches brings a comfort food element into the fold, another characteristic that can be used to describe beer as well.
A light, spicy wheat beer would pair wonderfully with the tangy goat cheese. Prefer a more malty ale with hints of toffee? Try it along side a salty aged sheep cheese. Have no idea where to go next? Cheese guru Bradley Frank can help guide you during the upcoming Grilled Cheese and Beer Pairing event at Artisan Cheese Gallery. Not only will this allow you to experience the pairing of grilled cheese and beer, the two hour event is also a class in which you will learn more about cheese and how to pair it with other foods.
Credo, creed, I've heard them called different things. It's a list of my personal beliefs essentially.
>First time poster on this board, /b/iz/nussman reporting in
This was a project I did for a high school English class junior year. I turned it in 2 months late and basically illegible, got a 35/30. I just transcripted it from paper to digital and I figured I'd share it, what better of a place for my writing to get shit on and to be called a faggot for my beliefs than 4chan.
Looking for feedback of you didn't get the message
You can barely form a sentence, why would you think that anyone is interested in reading your homework?
>>9847396
Because I've revised it last the point of being homework, and because what the fuck else do you neets have to do that's so important
>>9847400
Learn some self-reflection and pick up a book please.
post stuff you wrote in your adolescence
eeerrighhhhghgghgg fuck it's pretty bad
>those criticism proof self referential first lines
>that inconsistency
>meandering failure to connect paragraph to paragraph or even sentence to sentence
>that naive misuse of "postmodern"
>It’s gotten cold now. Gone are the searing temperatures of the late afternoon, the kind that drive men to begging for the very cold they damn in a few hours’ time. It’s dark now too, far darker than customary. Perhaps darkness even takes front seat on a night like this. Storm clouds that rolled in from Mexico. By day, they mock from the horizon, ever a reminder of what waits for those trapped beneath when the sun goes down.
>By night, they loom overhead in such a way that not even the moon can cast a sliver of light down on the world below. It leaves one blind in a realm of beasts who thrive in the dark. All it takes is half a minute for a pack of lobos to go from tracking a prey to tearing it apart, less, even, if the prey is one of god’s unlucky creatures cursed by diurnal vision. Should one actually find themselves in the arid chihuahuan on a night like this, it is perhaps most preferable to simply lie in wait for whatever the world decides to bring them.
>Man's nature will tell a man to forge his own path and reject the control of nature, but in a place like this on a night like this, it will be nature alone that determines a man’s fate, and it is, perhaps, as I say, most preferable to be at ease when the desert finally does roll your dice.
E D G Y, this was when i was discovering cormac mccarthy and camus lmao
>>9847430
Liked it OK till the dice mijo
Opinions on Shelley? Really enjoy "Mutability" and "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"
>>9847368
He's great
>>9847368
Defence of Poetry
Has /lit/ reached a consensus on this book? I haven't seen anyone mention in yet. Anyone own it?
>>9847354
great title real attention grabber
>>9847354
Hi, FBI
>>9847354
Sounds like another psyop like the Anarchist's Cookbook, so fuck no I don't own it.
>"unnamed colour"
>"impossible colour"
>"indescribable colour"
>it was like a bluish-reddish-brownish-greenish.
Reddish green
>>9847304
Unthinkable designs, unbearable decisions
Unquestionable pain, unprepossessing features
Impenetrable signs, unfounded accusations
Unskillful states of mind, unsettling misgivings
Undisciplined retreats, unscientific methods
Unburyable guilt, unmurmuring surrender
Unpardonable faults, unbudgeable positions
Implausible events, unpalatable findings
Unsound
Unsound
Unsound
Unsound
Unscrupulous deceits, unwitting acts of kindness
Unsystematic thought, untraceable descendants
Unwholesome points of view, insufferable insults
Unprecedented moves, unseasonable weather
Insatiable desires, untenable proposals
Unenviable loss, unstoppable collisions
Unnatural delights, unwarranted reprisals
Imponderable ideas, unvalidated parking
Unsound
Unsound
Unsound
Unsound
The unwaged, the unscathed
The unproud, the unbowed
The unhinged, the unbared
The unloved, the undead
Innumerable crimes, unlimited distractions
Intolerable weakness, unfathomable reasons
Unchivalrous displays, unornamented violence
Inalienable rights, unquestioning compliance
Unmannerly behavior, ungovernable impulse
Unbridgeable divides, interminable pleasure
Untested wonder drugs, unmissable attractions
Incredible excitement, unmitigated bullshit
Unveiled machinations unsparing of your feelings
Unmediated voltage, unattenuated input
Uncheckable conclusions, unreasonable exactions
Invidious assignments, invincible diseases
Unsound
Unsound
Unsound
Unsound
- shriekback
Should I start with the Greeks ? Then Romans ? I've seen stuff about the Bronze Age too. When do I read and study the Bible, the Quran and other texts such as the Sira, the two Sahih, the Talmud ? How should I balance history, literature, philosophy, economics, politics ?
I'm lost right now.
>>9847303
Here's an alternative chart. Don't ask me which is better I haven't read either yet.
>>9847322
Yeah I have it + the Romans
I know it's a meme but it seems like a pretty good idea to study things in a chronological order. But then again, what do I do after or before the Greeks ? Should I do Bronze Age > Greeks > Romans, and then ? Study the texts of Christianity, Judaism and Islam ? Then history, literature, philosophy of the Middle Ages in Europe (and Mid East) ? etc.
>>9847303
>What is a good reading list for a beginner ?
Pic related is /lit/-approved specifically for beginners
you guys say norms lit well he just raged on twitter
seems like he just scrapped his latest book
Even Reddit is calling him pretensions because he shits on modern lit while praises the Russians
Is this the end of his career in literature?
http://imgur.com/a/6jg4V
idk, but his latest podcast eps havent been funny
i hope this isnt the death of norm
nothing more /lit/ than refraining from publishing at any cost something that clearly isn't ready, i.e. the exact opposite of how things run in genre fiction
Norm didn't waste his time. He should know bombing is part of the process. Hope he gets over it and gets back at it.
If one's life goal was to become a foremost Joycean scholar with a developed and individual understanding of the Wake, where should one start?
Which languages need one have mastery over? Which works are most essential in understanding it's allusive nature? Is such a goal hopeless?
Would Joyce be pulling one over on this man?
I think that simply attempting to amass the linguistic and literary knowledge needed to begin to comprehend such a work sounds like an entertaining way to become decently self educated.
"Joyce is 100% nonsense" mouthbreathers need not apply, please and thank you.
>>9847158
Start with John Bishop's book
and then read the text itself over and over until it becomes second nature
Read this two months ago, and I can say that the most important thing I had read prior was the Bible, especially the four Gospels being a main motif. The second most important to my understanding was Beckett because you can trace a lot of devices and techniques that Beckett later adopted and sort of reverse engineer them when you read FW and start recognizing them. Obviously you should read Joyce's other stuff, and Ellmann's Joyce biography is pretty major too, and in fact its what made me comfortable with the idea of reading FW. You should have read the usual Canon stuff of course (Shakespeare, Dante, Herodotus, Ibsen, etc), be familiar with some philosophy (Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer get direct mentions, Joyce was big on Aquinas, Vico plays a huge role in the actual composition of FW). It can't hurt to read up on Irish history and Irish folklore. But it may sound crazy after everything I wrote above, but the text itself is the most important part of the text; it's an extremely original thing that Joyce wrote, one of a kind, something that ebbs and flows within itself, and getting its rhythms down and understanding its structure are far bigger breakthroughs than any outside influencing text could provide. Good luck anon, and also have fun with it. You know you won't understand everything your first time so don't worry over every detail. I'd recommend the copy OWC publishes.
Oh and hang on to that chart, it is pretty helpful.
>>9847256
I've read bits of Dubliners and A Portrait, which might be my favorite book. Where should I start with Beckett? I'm embarrassed to admit that I am not very familiar with him.
Isn't the commodius vicus bit a Vico pun?
Can we settle the score on this edition of Gravity's Rainbow once and for all? I've seen nothing but posts saying this edition is riddled with errors with zero evidence suggesting that this is the case. Is this edition /lit/-approved yet?
>>9847069
All errors were fixed after the first printing.
>>9847073
This
I'm almost done with the not-fixed version and I've only noticed a few unimportant errata not counting that one missing line.
>>9847073
>t. Penguin shill
Why don't you pens?
neg my shelfs
>>9846974
You stole that shoplifting sign didn't you
>>9846974
i'd guess you have ironic facial hair that you're not so secretly proud of and that your homepage is /plebbit/
weak collection but looks nice in photo
what the hell is on your GR
Can we get one of these going?
>Posting a months old repetitively posted stack.
Please fuck off.
>>9847058
lol nah just stunt on em
>>9846969
>physical books
is it normal to take a 10 day break from book you're reading and then resume? do any of you do this?
>>9846909
Ill read like 7 books in a short period of time and then let them rest for a while before starting a new set. The only problem with this is sometimes it's hard to start a new set. I can get preoccupied with other interests, but once I start again I am consumed.
>>9846949
I don't think ill ever read this many at a time. Maybe two, at max three. I try to stick to one at a time though. Still my basic question is... is it normal to take that long of a break for books? Context: it is a book with fairly "heavy" material (for lack of a better word, sorry) and its 600+ pages so I wanted to take a break and read something different. I just hope staying away from my first read this long won't have any detrimental effects...
>>9846909
i took like weeks off before and came back to it, but that's because of shit i had to do job, school, etc. when i returned to it i remembered like 80%-85% of it. so i guess yes? why wouldn't it be normal?