Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 864. page

Start with the Greeks.

>>9663700
Honestly, if youre just getting back into reading, /lit/ probably isnt the place

Because right now, what's important for you is to just get back into the flow of reading. Start doing it casually again, start enjoying it again, and eventually reach the point where a book can hold your attention

maybe reddit can help you more than /lit/

eventually youll reach the point where you read the things /lit/ recommends, but right now its probably a bad idea. if youre just starting reading again, you should read for pure entertainment. and /lit/ tends to prefer challenging works over works that offer easy entertainment. joyce made me feel retarded the first time i tried to read any of his works

>>9663714
I meant what should I read you fruit.

>>9663661
Whenever people can understand his convoluted, pretentious superficial writing style. He is definitely right about everything, but fuck me if I can soak in more than one chapter a day from his books.

He is my toilet material. Everytime I take a dump I read a few pages and think about it for the rest of the day. There are definitely times when he uses exuberant prose to convey a simple idea that is already in the average readers mind.

If there was a quality source of paraphrased information out there I would pick that up instead. Like you said, he was a genius in every sense of the word, but he had issues that his own philosophy glaringly distinguishes.

>>9663661
They won't. Nietzsche isn't even original, most of his ideas were banal commonplaces during the 19th century. Great Man theory (ie the Übermensch) he learned from Emerson. His strein of melodramatic Romanticism comes from Byron. The "Death of God" was probably the most widely discussed intellectual talking point of his era, everybody and their mother was talking about it. He also has a bad habit of self-dramatization and self-pity; like most "Great Man" theorists, he more interested in making sure his readers knew that he was "great" than actually engaging in honest intellectual inquiry.

He only seems original because liberalism has such influence in modern society.

>>9663763
Who exposed the triumph of the mind virus of slave morality before him?

I think most of the modern ones, Battlefield Earth and later, are ghost written for the CoS.

That said, I liked most of BE and the first few books of the Invaders Plan. Nothing astounding, but I remember it being decent old school scifi

Leave it to millionaire Hollywood actors

>an entire religion became built around [his sci-fi]
>liked little boys a little too much

L Ron's got plenty of sins, anon, but you haven't really done your research. Read Dianetics

Anyone who looks down on genre fiction or fiction in general is a pretentious cunt. It's like the old elites who looked down on acting and theater, or fragile normie who thinks video games are childish.

>>9663662
/thread

>>9663662
i really do think videogames are cool in theory but i dont like actually playing them.
Feels like a waste of time only a young mind could enjoy. Like a dog and its bone.
When I do play I feel sort of patronized and in a way, sorta childish.
Now I just use 4chan for that outlet instead and I realize there's probably not much of a difference.

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not sure if it is underrated but i think it is overlooked

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>>9663607
It hurts how good this was.

Sell me on The Last Samurai, what is so good about it?

>>9664021
Really entertaining with an interesting view of motherhood from a po-mo perspective. Reminds me of if one of the characters from the Secret History had kids.
It was ahead of its time in projecting the pseudo(faux)-intellectual millenial attitude that has blown up culturally. Plus it has stream of consciousness elements that are actually done well and not just masturbatory.

muh fragilistas

Holy FUCK

>>9663600
embracing postmodernism while denigrating the theological arm of the left because it's the hot new meme

>>9663587
pretty great

God-tier American lit

Amazing. I still haven't read the last two of the series, I should really get around to them.

tractatus logico-philosophicus

Why don't you talk to your friends?

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>>9663574
>friends
You're not lonely, you just want attention. Start here

I'd bet a few /lit/izens have been or will be published.

The important question is how does it feel to be passionate about literature but never actually complete a project of ones own, only to die with your 401k and occasional family vacations.

>>9663561
The second line is why I write. I'm terrified of looking in the mirror as a middle aged man and realizing I never even hammered out a first draft. That any rough potential I may have was left to rot.

I wonder if any published authors browse here regularly desu.

>>9663542
but i am a published author

>>9663506
I don't have a mirror handy

>>9663507
owned

>>9663507
You can use your phone to take a picture of yourself

>>9663491
He never did. Started from the bottom and died there.

>>9663523
t.
didn't read Pratchett in middle school

>>9663531
t. considers middle school level books worth reading

Go do an online quiz about which Hogwarts house you could have been in.

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>>9663471

This shit right here son

>>9663471
harry potter and the goblet of fire

>>9663543
the objectively correct answer

The Power Elite is great.

Try not to fall into a coma reading the Weber.

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>>9663424

Less than 80 bucks in Cambridge MA. Excuse the potato quality

>>9663424
nice haul senpai

And what did you grasp?

>>9663385
I could still be very wrong but what I grasped was:

That regardless of class, location, fortune, Nationality there is always going to be misery and misfortune. That regardless of how you view the world this is a certain. However depending on how you view the world depends on take such misfortune, Candide was a roller-coaster of high highs and low lows. More high than low for the most part, whereas Martin who viewed the world as negative always was much more constant in his attitude and emotion

>>9663381
Threadly reminder that Leibniz was right.

>>9663331
Glad to see someone else posting about Barthelme.

I just got into him recently, I've read all of Come Back, Dr. Caligari as well as a few of his more famous stories like "The School" and "The Balloon." He may be on the road to becoming one of my favorite writers. I've made two threads about him but they get few replies.

Did you read The Dead Father, anon? Was it any good?

>>9663331
ive only read 60 and 40.

what else should i git?

>>9665300
Flying to America is his third and final compilation, but I haven't read it. Nor have I read all of 60 or 40