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>>9548520
Any suggestions?

>>9548520
Get one with annotations. You'll be good without them after reading 2 or 3 plays.

Practice. Slow down and pay attention. Read aloud if it helps.

>>9548067
My dad really likes world war history, especially the 2nd one. He's not much of a reader but i wanted to get him some literature that he would enjoy.

Does anyone have recommendations?

>>9548168
The rise and fall of the third Reich. Although it is an extremely thick book.

>>9548067
Gross dude, what the fuck is that? "A Literary Classic" stamped on the front in fucking Word script font. Yeah I know it's a classic already dipshit, that's why I'm fucking buying it. Who thought that was a good idea? That shit looks like it'd be glued onto a shelf in a motel room.

Depends on what you want out of it or what you are looking for

>>9548003
I want to enjoy the story I can say. I don't really care much about the more religious aspect, but more about the stories themselves.
I would like interpretations about some of the stories or the characters as a side notes because I find it interesting. I learned bible at school (Jewish bible) and we would learn interpretations about the stories and the experience was more "complete" with it, much better then to just read the whole thing in my opinion.

>>9548033
Do you care for poetic form? If so, KJV
If not, I don't know :)

>>9547921
Spoilers etc.
>Seymour Glass has a severe case of PTSD(as did Salinger)
>He's on vacation with his shallow and self-absorbed wife.
>she's on the phone with her mother who insists he needs a psychiatrist but she disagrees because she's a spiritually passive adult
>Jump to Seymour laying on the beach
>First thing he does when we see him is self-consciously put his hand on his robe. He does this multiple times, but it isn't insecurity about his body- he has no problem with taking off the robe to get in the water. It's a spiritual vulnerability, something that's always on his mind.
>Him and Sybil chat and it's a very Catcher in the Rye dynamic- an intergenerational miscommunication. it's also God-tier dialogue.
>We meet Seymour for the first time and he's surprisingly childish, innocent, and charismatic. He's just a big kid, but he can't hide how clever and genuinely intelligent he is. He's an adult but he's trying very hard not to be. This could be why he's alone on the beach away from his wife.
>Then there's a some of literally the best dialogue I've ever read making a bunch of implications about their characters that I'm not gonna get into
>Then Seymour talks about bananafish
>Bananafish are representative of humans. "Their habits are very peculiar".
>They like to swim into a hole that's full of bananas, and they looked like ordinary fish when they swim in but then they go crazy when they eat the bananas and eat so much they can't get out of the hole. Then, stuck in the hole, they get banana fever and die.
>The bananas are representative of objects of desire. Money, status, etc. Adult things.
>Seymour sees adults grow up and kill themselves, engorged on their own greed. His PTSD allowed him to see a loss of innocence but took away his ability to cope with it.
>They swim around, Seymour is playful. He kisses her foot but it's affectionate and not some pedo shit.
>They leave, he gets in the hotel elevator and a woman stares at his feet for a second
>He mentions it and she denies that she's looking at his feet
>He snaps on her for lying because he didn't care in the first place but now she's lying to him about it
>This is representative of Seymour floating between childlike innocence and Adult behavior. The woman lied to him over something he saw as harmless- because she thought it was detrimental to her social standing to do something odd, she has "banana fever" because she's traded honesty for status.
>Seymour goes to his room where his wife is laying in bed with her back to him as it always is metaphorically
>he gets his pistol, sits on the bed facing his wife, and shoots himself.
>He knew that he too had "banana fever", but his was spiritual. If you read Franny and Zooey, his younger siblings mention that people can be greedy for spiritual things: peace, humility, goodwill, same as money or whatever else. Seymour was greedy for innocence and killed himself because he could never get it back, he was stuck in a hole.

>>9548102
Huh. Nice analysis. I actually thought he was a pedophile who killed himself because of the sadness of his condition and his inability to find love that satisfies him the first time I read it. Your explanation makes more sense.

the laughing man and uncle wiggily in conneticuit are his best stories especially wiggily

Definitely Foucault

Kant is a big guy.

>>9542404
with the greeks sweetie

>>9542404
Greeks>Descartes>Hume>Kant>Schopenhauer>Nietzsche

>>9542404
Thales

are you 14?

i'd read lovecraft was racist but this is just comically racist

>>9554691

Yeah, honestly I'm not bothered nor entertained by this type of stuff usually, but it was just so shocking I felt like I had to share

>>9554541
No one said this.

People are shippers yes.

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>So, how many of you saw Game of Thrones last night?

>Let me explain this part of the book with a Harry Potter analogy

>How do you communicate that to people who are only interested in video games and superhero flicks?

Why would you want to?

>>9554477
Plebs are smart people who don't waste their time digging deep in to social scenes in which people pretend to like the most obscure or cryptic art in order look smart, because they have better things to do, or normal people who just can't be bothered at all. Patricians are idiots pretending to be smart and cultured, whose sole goal in life is to dig deeper and deeper into obscure trash, only occasionally rewarding their humanity with something good, just so they can impress a circle of hipster faggots.

>>9554516
You described a pleb though, not a patrician. Being patrician is mostly something that you're born into, but people on this board don't understand the concept beyond a meme level.

Reminds me of this one parody I saw where the woman gets a long 2-3 paragraph description and then the guy gets a single line to the effect of "he was wearing a brown suit."

>>9554001

Why do bitches love him then?

>>9554028
because he presents precocious young girls blossoming into mysterious women who are desired and yearned for, and wimpy beta males who follow them wherever they go, without question.

https://www.amazon.com/Francis-Drizzlecock-Adventure-Gay-Manns-Gigglers/dp/1542621232/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495755114&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=popefrancis+drizzlecock

consume it

Where can i pirate the ebook?

>>9553596
wtf piracy is wrong i bought all of my software why do you ask get out no you have the wrong address

>>9553356
Clean your room
You're not even describing nihilism, you're describing Existential Absurdism

to be honest the more likely isn't that there's a lack of God, but rather we're but an intricate simulation.

you won't commit suicide because you lack the free will to do so.

and which "people" are these

will smith in dawn of the dead

>>9553322
Because there are more important things to write about than cats drinking milk and dogs eating shit

the limp dick guy in The Age of Reason.

A technological utopia. Inventing God and the kingdom of heaven.

>>9553077
Progress ended with WW2.

>>9553081

>inventing god

singularitists, pls stop

>>9552921
Shut up

>>9552921
>After millenia of written word we should have quantified this shit by now, why the fucking mystery?
When STEMfags try to /lit/

>>9552921
>>Books and articles tell you rules
There's rules?

>Show, don't tell, but most novels do so anyway

Sometimes showing can be just as effective. Show when it's best to show, tell when it's best to tell.

>Good prose means concise, direct language.

In general, it's best to teach beginners this. Probably the best skill a writer can have is writing ideas in shortest, most direct, and most impactful way. Not that you ALWAYS want to write like this though.