It wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual!
It wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual!
>>9986068
Fun fact: the Kim Dynasty was created in 1948, the year 1984 was completed.
>>9986068
No. It was a warning of what was already happening. You didn't listen.
Post essential kidcore lads.
Made my childhood
>Its another repost of a popular thread from only days ago because OP wants (You)s.
Have you ever quit a book before? I've read about 50 in the past two years and haven't quit any, but my god, pic related is so fucking boring. I just can't take it. I'm not a stranger to dense books or literature. I read the Iliad before this. This book gives a new definition to "nothing happens" though. I'm about 40% through, is it worth finishing or should I just quit?
>>9985852
quit. I loved it for the world and the style, but if that isn't doing it for you, it won't be worth it
>>9985852
Your post seems to me to be just a catharsis.
A few words of advice:
Don't say out loud that you thought The Iliad was boring.
Don't say out loud that you've read about 50 books in the past two years.
Keep reading, come back to it someday.
>>9985878
>two books a month
Is there actually something wrong with this?
Is Raymundo Costa, the Mexican blogging sophist, the voice of our generation?
>>9985806
Apology but that is Rei Koizumi, the great sage of Japan.
>>9985806
He looks like he spends all his free time in Tlapan.
Name a more boring author.
Pro tip: you can't.
>>9985771
Gaddis
Murakami
DFW
>>9985778
Close! But they're no match for Ishiyawno's "Remains of the Yawn" and "Never let me Yawn".
What a useless writer. Totally unremarkable style, no imagination, no originality, no humor, books drag on endlessly without the grace of, say, a Proust. He even managed to put the vibrant sci-fi dystopia genre into a coma.
>>9985771
Buried Giant was my introduction to him. I absolutely loved it, and was astonished to discover that it seems to be the black sheep of his oeuvre.
Is it possible for someone who doesn't know Russian to take from Russian literature what a native speaker would?
I've always wanted to know this too. Perhaps it's less a matter of being fluent in the language than understanding Russian culture and society , which is extremely weird from a western point of view. Whenever I read Russian novels I feel I'm not quite catching something and I have no idea what it is. Russian bros pls enlighten us
test
>>9985712
It's not about speaking the language as much as it is about having an understanding of their culture their take on Russia's history their values and so on.
our civilization's trajectory is irreversible - we are being psychically culled by illusions - and our machines are now domesticating us - corporations are plotting to build sub-realities - via trendy virtual-reality technology - that celebrities will soon endorse as fashion - so they may act as gods to the under classes - in a matrix of their own creation - the spiritual peasants are all too eager to submit - sexual intimacy will no longer be intimate - the act will be as mundane conversation - we will be monitored by artificial intelligence - through every medium for "our own protection" - and humans will always feel incline to erode morality - through slogans relating to love and freedom - believing that it is part of evolution - conditioned from birth to worship the institution - the narrative will not be conquered from within - faith must be put into intangible higher orders - do not submit to the god of mere machines
https://www.nobodytm.com/Beholding%20a%20New%20Pale%20Horse.pdf
Ride the Tiger.
go to bed, Drew.
>>9985699
why do you mourn the erosion of morality?
it's just how we kept order in the past
now we'll have better ways to keep order and we'll get to have more fun while doing it
jump in or you'll regret it
Is there any good modern chinese lit?
doubtful. anything of substance would probably be interpreted as having some sort of anti-gov undertone and wouldn't see publication
>>9985644
Can Xue gets Borges comparisons but take that with a grain of salt since that is critic shorthand for "I suck at my job."
the acting in three kingdoms is pretty bad.
was hong kong the only good source of modern chinese art?
Does anyone else feel a little like they're in an uphill battle with the whole autodidact path? I can study philosophy all I want, but I will never get the opportunity as a philosophy major that attends a prestigious college. They have people to share ideas with and debate, they have their works published, they have feedback and guidance from professors and are assisted by the state to continue their pursuit. The autodidact has nothing but his will to learn. I feels suffocating, like I'm getting buried in a pile of books while these people glide over all of it and get published.
I feel like I missed my mark in adolescence by not trying to be a model student and weasel my way into the ivory towers. Apologies for the blogpost.
I'm a PhD student at a prestigious university and I just spent an hour writing an email to my mind-bogglingly brilliant autodidact friend about how fucking awful academia is, and how it's all going to collapse within a decade or two at most
The only things you are missing by not being in academia are the constant impetus to improve, and the constant reminder that you're in a race against other people and you should be checking your progress against them as objective markers of your own success.
Autodidacts usually sputter out because they never hit the successive plateaux of effort and self-sacrifice involved in educating oneself. Learning how to learn is a series of milestones where you realize you were a baby before you hit this milestone, and then hitting another one and realizing the last one was small fries compared to it, and so on. Grad students are forced to hit 1, maybe 2 of those milestones. Undergrads are rarely forced to hit one at all and basically just spend 4 years farting around doing nothing. The only worthwhile grad students are themselves autodidacts, relative to their shitdick peers who hit the first or second plateau and stagnate there. Getting published academically doesn't mean dick either, it means you did the correct little dance to publish a piece of shit no one will ever read. It's a paper mill.
All autodidacts have to do is keep reading endlessly, and set real goals for themselves in terms of comprehension, and keep doing the latter every time you hit those goals.
If your only goal is to have understanding on par with a grad student, you could pay me $50 to "tutor" you in how to do that. I'd show up to your house with my list of required readings for oral comprehensive exams, about 200 books that I'm expected to kinda-sorta read and skim for basic comprehension. Congratulations, you are now apparently qualified to teach undergraduates! If you want to actually be an intelligent person, then make your whole life about reading, and see it as a work in progress until you're dead.
>they have their works published
No they don't.
>they have feedback and guidance from professors
>They have people to share ideas with and debate
Being an autodidact does not mean that you just sit on your desk after work and read books alone and frankly this is a stupid misconception.
Unless you're talking post grad I think you severely overestimating philosophy undergrads or any undergrad for that matter.
Make friends with similar interests, start something yourself that attracts like-minded people, make the most of what you do have. Fucking hide in the philosophy section at your library and when someone makes the mistake of walking down your aisle attack them relentlessly with your brilliant half-baked ideas.
Fuck the educational system, it is a proverbial puppy mill
Also I am reading Vita Nuova as of tonight
http://variety.com/2017/film/news/casey-affleck-blumhouse-joe-wright-stoner-1202547390/
>Andrew Bovell will adapt the script based on the novel of the same name by John Williams. The movie will follow the life of William Stoner, a dirt-poor farmer turned academic, who emerges as an unlikely existential hero while making his way through the first half of the 20th Century.
>“Because the novel is so beautiful but not well-known, fans of ‘Stoner’ feel like they’re in a secret club. I’m so excited that Casey, Joe and Andrew have come aboard to help expand this club’s membership,” said Blum, who optioned the book in 2011. “This quintessentially American work is being brought to the screen by a terrific international team and we’re confident their combined perspectives will add rich layers to this moving story.”
Is it over lads?
Amazing actor so might be good
>existential hero
Hmm...
ive seen this thread before
Does this mean a Catcher in the Rye movie is coming?
can we discuss tuck everlasting please?
One of my favorite childhood books
seemd like an inneresting book when i was a kid
but now im grown and its kinda lame
the movie was cool
i wish i could live forever
>>9985339
Change one letter in that title and it becomes a very different book :)
>>9985348
tuck everfasting?
>poor man's J.G. Ballard
your turn
>>9985317
>poor man's faggot
>>9985317
mf dark crystal lookin ass
>>9985350
why are you so angry?
Is he overrated?
Sort of. In the context of genre fiction he entirely deserves his praise for re-inventing the modern interpretation of fantasy.
That said, The Hobbit is the only one that stands the test of time for it's purely literary merits. The writing for LotR/Silmarillion/etc are less literary and more of a platform for Tolkien to flesh out his fictional languages, being a philologist. I don't mean that as a rejection of Tolkien (again, he's important), just that it becomes more obvious over time where his faults lay.
He's kind of the spiritual successor to Chesterton, and succeeded in transmitting a lot of medievalist/distributist/reactionary ideas to a lot of people very subtly.
Moorcock isn't wrong to dislike Tolkien on intellectual grounds; or, rather, he's right to suspect that in LOTR Tolkien is advancing a broad philosophy diametrically opposed to Moorcock's own.
>>9985236
Within fantasy he's of course one of the best, but fantasy is ultimately a pretty small field compared to literature in genetal. He certainly doesn't merit all the tomes of analysis and reference material people have written about LotR, or for it to be declared Britain's Favorite Novel
Faust is non-fiction
The idea of "fiction" is a fiction
>>9985179
This is the truth. Under God the Infinite Source All realities are realized, and as such all fiction is real.
I just got into audibles free trial. So far audiobooks suck for me, I get to easily distracted my mind starts to wander every 10 minutes or so. Does this happen to you /lit/ ? how do you avoid it? I really don't have time to read books no more, and a long commute to work everyday.
try getting fucked up on opiates
>>9985109
Listen to them before bed. Sit there with your eyes closed, words in your head, landscapes in your mind, one character fucking over another while you lay there comfortable in the serenity of your king memory foam mattress. Wondrous.
Commuting I listen to old favorites I heard dozens of times because of the distractions of travel. When I want to concentrate,its when I am working with my hands,housework and the like that I explore new purchases. And it could be the book too:quality varies widely with both book and reader.