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What you think about this book? Im thinking of giving it a show, a lot of people recommend it.
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>>9335007
shot*
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Eh...
It's not terrible.
I suck at expressing why I dislike something.
Yeah sure give it a try, I'll give you a bump.
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I read it in my teenage angst years and rather forget about it

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First time on /lit/, please enlighten me on greater literature.

What I've read and enjoyed:
>George Orwell
1984
Animal Farm
>Terry Pratchett
Discworld up to Mort
Good Omens
>Dmitry Glukhovsky
Metro 2033
>Andrzej Sapkowski
The Witcher Series
>Hiroshi Sakurazaka
All you need is kill
>Ernest Hemingway
Many works over the years
>Jules Verne
Many works over the years
>H.P Lovecraft
Many works over the years
>Fernando Pessoa
Every other poem he's written is pretty good
>Misc.
Art of the Deal
Mein Kampf
The God Delusion
A Brief History Time
Other things I've read:
Tolkien's Middle Earth series
Much Mango/Light Novels
Much Fiction, scattered and isolated volumes of it; a chapter of Harry Potter here, a Song of Ice and Fire there, some chapters of The Dark Tower, etc...

Can you help me transcend my normie-ness, and achieve a higher appreciation of writing?
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>>9334935
Lol
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Start here. http://imgur.com/gallery/U4OHY

>Art of the Deal
>Mein Kampf
>The God Delusion

wew
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Please, please be kidding.

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Essential bourgeois cuck reading
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True. I knew a bourgeois normie guy who was totally in love with this book
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is any fitzgerald good?
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>>9334846
>Essential bourgeois cuck reading
Correction, is "essential bourgeois cuck reading 101"

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This was supposed to be a warning, not a fucking guide.
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holy...I want more
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Yet it's a brave new world We find ourselves in
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wow

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the fifth sentence on the 31 page of the book you're currently reading describes your mental health.

GO
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There are times when even the vanquished feel courage rushing back to their hearts, and the conquering Danaans fall.
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>>9334353
>Tho' young, he was shrewd enough to smoak that what they were after was his Plainness, including an idea of his Innocence, which they fail'd to notice was long, even enjoyably, departed
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Most of what they said interested David only vaguely.

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if you were going to read the following philosophers (their SEP articles, criticisms, couple major works), which order would you read them in?

Stirner
Marx
Bakunin
James
Thoreau
Darwin
Spencer
Schopenhauer
Kierkegaard
Nietzsche
Husserl
Heidegger
Hayek
Beauvoir
Sartre
Freud
Jung
Lacan
Russell
Wittgenstein
Quine
Rorty
Singer
Baudrillard
Merleau-Ponty
Barthes
Foucalt
Searle
Derrida
Chomsky
Zizek
Adorno
Danto
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>>9334157
Knowing what I know now, I'd save myself a lot of time and avoid Hayek, Lacan, Baudrillard, Zizek, Spencer, and probably Singer too.
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Chronological order
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>>9334169
just useless/repetitive or what

Literature is dying because the humanities have been severely emasculated, often creating either 1) a damaging inferiority complex that worms its way into art and lessens its artistic purity and quality for the sake of immature, unnecessary nihilism, maximalism and complexity or an attempt to prove one's intelligence, or 2) an unambitious, submissive attempt at art with no attempt at true artistic greatness or attempt to convey an important message, but a complacent acceptance of inferiority and of the relative insignificance of art in modern society.
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*Literature is dying IN PART
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art is dying because of the internet

the 90s certified the death throws of art.

it's easier to see this by looking at music than literature.
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>>9334125
Because nobody gives a shit about art, why should an artist be made famous and wealthy over someone with an actual job, an actual useful purpose? If art disappeared from the planet, life would go on. Creatives need to accept this

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>The value of art depends on the values of the art critic.
>Most art is born as imitation, not innovation.
>The critic, not the artist, is the one who defines innovation, and rates it.
>The artist is merely a vehicle for the aesthetic/ideology of the critic.
>The critic is the real artist.
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Even if that is true, who cares?

Nobody.
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>>9334006
Shouldn't anyone care about what's true?
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>>9334009
Maybe a philosopher, not everyone. For example I care about beauty, so the opinion of Piero is worthless for me.

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In your best prose, describe yourself.
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Intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor
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Was.
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I become what I am.

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Thoughts on Rainald Goetz? Did he go full retard in 83 or was it one of the coolest moment in German literature? Does anyone here even know him?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn64AVFydDw

related video
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Why don't you tell us about this feller?
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>>9334077
He's basically one of the more well known high-brow authors in modern Germany. He recently got awarded with the Georg-Büchner-Preis which is one of the most important landmarks for an author to achieve. He writes in a very contemporary, sharp and stunningly fast style. In 1983 he cut his own forehead with a razor while reading something from his first novel "Irre" to an astounded audience at the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis. I'm reading his newest novel Johann Holtrop right now and while I think he's better as a cultural observer than a true novelist, his writing style and observational skills are great.

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We post books which we may have read back in school, and the sight gives good feelings of nostalgia
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I read these back when they came out around 3rd grade or so and thought they were amazing. Eoin Colfer in general was my childhood. Haven't read any of his stuff since I was little and I couldn't imagine getting back into them now.
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>>9335185
The scene in The Lost Colony where the qt girl was stabbed in the heart was stuck in my mind for a long time
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Im looking into balkan literature and first thing im noticing that Croatian literature is huge, whilst serbian, bosnian, bulgarian are small and irrelevant

just compare these articles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian_literature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_literature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_literature
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>>9333773
>Croatian literature is huge, whilst serbian, bosnian, bulgarian are small and irrelevant
I'm sure this statement, like many things Balkan, is quite uncontroversial and everybody will agree.
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Slovenia and Croatia are the only relevant Yugo countries, so it's only natural for their literature to be superior.
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>>9333773
ministry of pain - Dubravka Ugresic

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Hey /lit/, what's some good dutch literature.

I'm always reading English literature and my dutch vocabulary is suffering because of it.

PS: Belgium Dutch and Netherlands Dutch are both fine for me.
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I'm having the same problem but I recently started reading some Dutch stuff.
try Een Vlucht Regenwulpen by Maarten 't Hart
De Stille Kracht by Couperus
Lof Der Zotheid by Erasmus, he wrote in Latin but read it anyways because it's good.
De Elementen by Mulisch is also good and pretty short.

here's a Dutch poem:
Poëzie is een daad
van bevestiging. Ik bevestig
dat ik leef, dat ik niet alleen leef.

Poëzie is een toekomst, denken
aan de volgende week, aan een ander land,
aan jou als je oud bent.

Poëzie is mijn adem, beweegt
mijn voeten, aarzelend soms,
over de aarde die daarom vraagt.

Voltaire had pokken, maar
genas zichzelf door o.a. te drinken
120 liter limonade: dat is poëzie.
Of neem de branding. Stukgeslagen
op de rotsen is zij niet werkelijk verslagen,
maar herneemt zich en is daarin poëzie.

Elk woord dat wordt geschreven
is een aanslag op de ouderdom.
Tenslotte wint de dood, jazeker,

maar de dood is slechts de stilte in de zaal
nadat het laatste woord geklonken heeft.
De dood is een ontroering.

Uit: Het huis waarin ik woonde.
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>>9333608
Elsschot is goud. Begin met kaas: Het boek is niet al te lang, maar wel ijzersterk.
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De tijd is aangebroken om een woord te wijden
Aan de geschonden reputatie van Herodes Antipas
Die een hele tijd geleden koning van Judea was
Een bloeiend rijkje aan de Middellandse Zee
U moet bedenken dat hij ernstig had te lijden
Van de Romeinse overheersing en zijn vrouw Herodias
Farizeeen, Sadduceeen, hoge bloeddruk, ischias
En de ideeen van zijn dochter Salome

't Is toch kras, kras, kras
Zei Herodes Antipas
Van mijn dochter Salome
't Is weer heel, heel, heel
Helemaal niet rationeel
Van je een, twee, drie

En die ideeen leiden vaak tot handelingen
De ene keer was zij vermomd als de markies van Carabas
Even later zat ze weer met pacifisten in het gras
Het was een duidelijk geval van pubertijd
Haar moeder ergerde zich zeer aan deze dingen
Daar moet een eind aan komen, zei ze tot Herodes Antipas
Moet je nou weer zien die jas, ze loopt erbij als een pias
En dat komt allemaal door jouw toegeeflijkheid

Antipas, pas, pas
Sprak zijn vrouw Herodias
Heus ze moet, moet, moet
Beter worden opgevoed
Want dat kind, kind, kind
Doet maar wat ze lollig vindt
Van je een, twee, drie

Kan ik het helpen zei de zwaar beproefde vader
Ze is nu eenmaal artistiek en niet de beste van de klas
En ze kan zich ook gedragen als een echte wildebras
Maar waar het goed voor blijken kan dat weet je nooit
Ik heb geen zin, aldus verklaarde hij zich nader
Een predikatie aan te heffen over elke wissewas
En il faut, zoals de Fransen zeggen, que je ne sais pas
Hoe wil je anders dat zo'n meisje zich ontplooit

En hij las, las, las
Een regeringspaperas
En hij ging, ging, ging
Naar een spoedvergadering
En hij dacht, dacht, dacht
Niet meer aan zijn nageslacht
Van je een, twee, drie

Ze kon hem spoedig die ontplooiing laten blijken
Op zijn verjaardag danste Salome met zwoele tangopas
En in meer en meer ontklede toestand rond op het terras
Het was het klapstuk van het druk bezochte feest
De gasten wisten niet meer hoe ze moesten kijken
Terwijl haar moeder was vertrokken met een pijnlijke grimas
Maar haar vader Antipas, die niet haar echte vader was
Verklaarde dat het zeer opwindend was geweest

En al ras, ras, ras
Riep hij om de huishoudkas
En hij zag, zag, zag
Dat er niet veel geld in lag
Dus hij zei, zei, zei
Haal de staatskas er maar bij
Van je een, twee, drie

Toen mocht de danseres een mooi cadeautje vragen
En om het goed te maken consulteerde zij Herodias
Deze zei: vraag om een hoofd, zoiets komt altijd wel van pas
Ik weet nog iemand die er eentje missen kan
Wat een sensatie toen het binnen werd gedragen
Met een garnering van olijven, sla en schijfjes ananas
Een takje peterselie en snufje sassafras
De mensen spreken er nog altijd schande van

Wel, dat was, was, was
Dan Herodes Antipas
Sterk verguisd, guisd, guisd
Maar vooral erin geluisd
Met dat hoofd, hoofd, hoofd
Want een hoofd is toch beloofd
Van je een, twee, drie

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Biographies, history anything

> ought to get you started
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>>9333530
my diary desu
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What is "essential"?
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>>9333530
I like this one

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What are some /lit/ composers?
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>>9332560
No idea what a /lit/ composer would be but my favorites are Scriabin, Prokofiev, and Cyril Scott. Scriabin's 2nd symphony paints such a narrative-like picture in my mind, with very clear progressions of mood
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Ravel?
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>>9332560
Bob dYLAN.

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