What is the best /lit/ poster (the most gifted one) that still posts today on critique threads?
Take a dam stupid poster to post in a critique thread online and stooopid postas dun write goood
>>9305926
me AKA the infamous poster who is the genuine author of the acclaimed classic "My Diary Desu"
Has anyone here attended Frankfurt School?
>11th birthday
>patiently wait for my letter of acceptance to the Frankfurt School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from Marx
>tfw it never arrives
>>9305913
>tfw Frankfurt wizard lvl 666
>tfw made millions by CTR'ing
2nd worst thread on /lit/, go meme on /pol/
>the controversy continues as to whether or not it is sexist (or discriminatory) to use the third person singular masculine form when one intends to include both the meaning of he and she, as in
>When a person first arrives in a new country, he has many adjustments to make (use of masculine)
>for now, the controversy will have to be resolved by each individual. Stylistic alternatives are possible and often preferred:
>When a person first arrives in a new country, he or she has many adjustments to make (use of 'he or she')
>When a person first arrives in a new country, they have many adjustments to make (use of plural)
Which varioation of a pronoun do you prefer? Which one is the most literary?
Ugh, who fucking cares
>that feel when the book you are reading has an engrossing plot, vivid imagery, and truly interesting characters that you read for hours on end.
'Tis an awesome feeling. I'll be sad when I finish this series.
>>9305875
>series
stopped reading there
so engrossing that you couldn't help yourself from making a worthless thread on /lit/ to insist about how enthralled you are
>>9305911
What's the problem
Has there ever been a book so bad that it ends up good, /lit/?
I doubt it. Reading requires more mental work than watching a film.
all of the meme trilogy is actually pretty bad by modern entertainment standards.
>>9305855
wrong
Whats your favorite Conrad?
I've read The Secret Agent which I thought was strikingly prescient and Nostromo which I adored.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIKObk6t83o
Lord Jim, for the impact it had on me when a child. If you liked Nostromo, read Victory.
>>9305845
>I've read The Secret Agent which I thought was strikingly prescient
It was inspired by a newspaper account of a failed anarchist bombing. It wasn't prescient. That stuff was going on back then too.
When does this book get good? I've barely made it past 100 pages and it's quite a slog to read. I can appreciate the prose, but the content is just fucking boring. I was able to get into Gravity's Rainbow from the first page, but this book I literally have to force myself to read. Should I drop it or is the entire book written like this?
>>9305700
Drop it and read something you like. I haven't read The Recognitions but JR was a big disappointment for me.
I'm not convinced he's on the level of Pynchon, or that Pynchon was influenced by him (even though Inherent Vice is a line taken from The Recognitions - that's late Pynchon). The similarities people perceive is because they both read Norbert Wiener.
>>9305700
if you dont like the first 100 pages it might be best to drop, it only gets worse
>>9305700
Wow sorry guys. This is all my fault. I've spent the past 2 years memeing gaddis but I've come to realize you are all too stupid for him. Especially after the disastrous j r thread yesterday.
Tell me all I need to know about this tome, /lit/. Convince me of its worthiness to my having read it, pray tell.
>Also
Was pic related right?
>>9305676
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-_Bk5NLhbY
Wait! Hark! I've'st'd'ly just found this gem of a relic of an artefact, indeed, I shall read IJ in all its splendour for this video, herein, has convinced me of its Genuineness.
thats accurate. the recommendation part i mean.
its why most 4channers like it.
but most of them dont get it either.
the sad truth is i think the people most primed to "get" the book are also not the target audience
>>9305689
My dear fellow, I daresay, you should really work on your Capitalisation, grammar and syntax -- I must say!
what is the most open to interpretation book or short story ever written?
For read: babybook, never written.
>>9305638
Finnegans Wake
>>9305699
came here to post this
I may be totally wrong, but I expect Palahniuk and Welsh to be reasonably similar. I want to check them out. I'd imagine for whatever reason they also have a Guy Ritchie vibe.
What would you recommend? I'm thinking Damned or Skags.
>>9305623
>Damned
Invisible Monsters or Rant are his best books, Damned is WAY down the line.
Why would an American and a Scotsman have cockney vibes? None of those three are similar at all.
>>9305623
I can't really recommend you anything since I've only read a book by each (Porno and Fight Club) but neither are as bad as /lit/ makes em out to be, they're good "soft" lit if you get me, the sort of authors you read when you don't really wanna grapple with a "literary tour de force"
Is Stoicism the best philosophy?
it's pretty good
Yes, being a cuck is fashionable these days
>"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
hoyl fuck I finally GOT IT.
>>9305455
And yet you still made this post.
>>9305473
Why did he Plato and Aristotle so much though? Why did he hate philosophy so much that it lead him to such categorical statement about one of the first movers of contemplative thinking?
It took the West until the 20th Century to catch up to Lao Tzu.
Since I've heard the book recommended around here, I decided to pick up a copy of "How to Read a Book" by Adler and also a copy of "The Well-Educated Mind". I still have to consolidate my notes on those books, but something that bothers me is that the method they seem to suggest is:
1. Read over a book the first time without stopping, skipping over confusing parts
2. Once the "superficial reading" is done, go back and look over parts you marked
And from then on, it seems to get to targeting specific ideas or parts of the book. However, I can't help but wonder if this truly gives you a cohesive view of the book. Isn't it wrong to not get such a great first reading? It seems futile to look over the book and only have a decent understanding of what's going on before diving deep into specific sections. How has /lit/ experienced things like this? Thanks in advance
>>9305198
The book seems to be intended for instructing people who don't normally read (I get this mostly from the title). It's basically saying, 'Read the book once over really fast. Don't worry if you don't get it the first time, you'll go back and get it!'
Rereading books is valuable, and to readers that is obvious (particularly if you actually like the book). But, those who aren't readers might not know this or, by themselves, have the genuine willingness to reread something. So, the reread not only has to be coached but seemingly contextualized as the actual part when the reader begins to put effort into understanding the book (and the first go-thru was merely preliminary).
>>9305286
Forgot pic, it's unrelated
I prefer this book. you might as well.
Would you recommend any of the books by Manstein, Rommel, or Guderian? And Clausewitz's On War?
What are the most essential pieces of German literature?
>>9305168
Read the Qo'ran instead, vile Almania scum.
>>9305168
The most important pieces of German literature are Luthers Bible translation (Pretty much the base of the German language, one of the books with the biggest impact in the world) "Das Lied Der Niebellungen" (ancient Germanic folklore, first narrative story to be turned into a book in Germany), everything from Goethe (most important German author, Werther led to a suicide wave, good example for romantic literature and Faust is the national play of Germany, he worked half a century on this), Mein Kampf, das Kapital (cultural impact) and Zarathustra.
Name a more useless, meaningless word in english language
>>9305160
FUCK
>>9305160
(You)
>>9305160
America