Despite reading extensively and every day, I've only read two books this year. The reason is I have been obsessively reading the news, news magazines (Atlantic and New Yorker), and news commentary.
Has anyone else found their news reading is crowding out literature reading? The news has just been too compelling this year, I find it impossible to look away. I value being well-informed but am starting to think a NYTimes subscription was a bad idea...
Pic unrelated, I only have my greyhound on my phone. Adopt one though seriously. Great breed.
>Great breed.
Oh I bet ;)
No, I don't enjoy reading the news at all. What do you intend to do about your problem?
No, books are good and papers are shit.
For news just use /pol/
>What did I like most about [book]? Well, uh, I really liked the prose.
>>9282443
Legit.
>>9282443
Why do all numales look like this? I pointed it out to my gf now she always laughs when I see them. Sometimes she spots them to hahahahahaha.
>>9282458
>Why do all numales look like this?
Confirmation bias
Is it worth reading?
>>9282338
Nope
He is the new Zizek and not a marxist cuck, read him
>that pretentious font
dropped
This is pretty funny
>>9282277
Did someone say something about a dead father?
>>9282980
dumb peterposter
>>9282986
Looks like someone hasn't revivified his dead father...
>be me, in school
>somone says something
>randomly get reminded of a feeling/aesthetic from my childhood. It's just a recollection of something I had thought of when I was younger, I have no idea what it really was or what it meant, but I felt it was stronger than any sensation I have felt for a while. I feel a high, and decide to learn more about this
Any books on this /lit/?
you've never heard of In Search of Lost Time? It's exactly what you're describing
>>9282280
I've been having this same elusive feeling of seeing things as though I was a child. It happens when the sun is out. I had no idea that Proust's work dealt with this. Thank you!
holy shit dude, I've felt exactly that. not just in school though. In fact, almost never in school. It's usually when I'm out and about.
It's so rare and wonderful, though. It's the most amazing thing I experience, it's like I can feel an emotion beyond words. And it's different every time.
I feel it whenever I can tell the seasons are changing, you know?
Confucius : Socrates :: Buddha : Aristotle :: Laozi : Epictetus
Discuss.
>>9282210
Nah
HaHa that one nigga on the left be like 'yo taste my soup its fine as hell' and the others be like 'nah son shit its crap' and they all squint their eyes all angry and shit.
all is one
I hate literary, journalistic, and humanities department culture but I feel like I'm a hostage. If I admit this irl people will think I'm a pleb.
I simply have no interest in all sorts of shit. I don't care what Plato / Locke / Hobbes / millions of others had to say about politics. Why do I have to pretend that a priori mental masturbation is anything other than puffed up garbage?
Critically thinking about any philosopher's thoughts is fucking forbidden. You are only allowed to worship them. This can take many forms. Plain and outright praise. Giving credit for predicting things by selectively quoting them ("Aristotle said that 'Stuff moves'. He predicted Quantum Mechanics! He's a genius!"). Praising a fictional example that became famous ("Ahh gosh, Plato's conception of a philosopher king has always been relevant!". Hmm... a trivial name for a "perfect" leader is somehow illuminating...). Of course in case of emergency, break glass for a "Literary Analysis" of a famous philosopher. ("Nietzsche had a name with two syllables. There were two world wars in the 20th century. My God, humanity's tragic will to power was predicted by this prophet!").
A lesser problem is history fags. Sometimes this can be interesting but a lot of it is significance porn, plain and simple. ("Ahh gosh, this battle defined the contours of 17th century Prussia's borders for the next two centuries!") But again, it's not as bad as the above stuff, though we all know that within 150 years Hitler will be openly worshipped.
It is funny seeing Historians try to act as "experts" when talking to stupid journalists but they obviously do it for the money rather than because they're stupid.
>>9282200
>If I admit this irl people will think I'm a pleb.
I can't imagine why.
You're at a phase in your life where you think you've got "everything figured" and that you've somehow risen above it all due to your cynicism in everything.
You're at the point where you think everything you don't understand is "pretentious" and not worth understanding. You're frustrated that there are things and concepts that may be above your current intellectual level so instead of humbling yourself you lash out at them.
We've all been there, OP. Luckily, you'll probably grow out of this once you hit your twenties.
>>9282200
Get out of university and read what you want. We pay tuition to jump through hoops and get our little stamp of approval so we can show everyone how we are good little boys.
I just orderd this. Did i fuck up?
>>9282194
Should have gotten the RSV version.
Anyways, the best Bible is the one you actually read.
I have that one too now OP, it's fine.
Yes you did. The translators for the NSRV were politically motivated and inserted gender neutral language where it isn't appropriate.
http://helpmewithbiblestudy.org/5Bible/TransWhatsWrongGenderNeutralBible_Grudem.aspx
>contrary to the postulates of contemporary
thought, a human nature does exist
dropped
But anon he's so CUTE :3
Just read Sartre
No point in reading Chadmus
>>9282620
>2017
>to read Sartre
Who remember that ugly faggot comunist now compared with Camus
why's this book so boring
>>9282155
Because it's about bureaucratic torture.
You just don't get it/have a terrible inner life.
I know you're not going to like this response, but it's true.
>>9282155
I don't like you
What does /lit/ think of this work?
Haven't read it but wilderness is overrated
have read it long ago and it was ok but not mindblowing
I have this in a compilation of his works and I thought it was one of the weakest in the collection. A walk in winter or the one about his trip down the river up the mountain were way better.
Still good though. Ive been meaning to get into Muir and that other dude, as well as thoreaus main transcendental homie whos name escapes me right now,
What have you read this year?
Just noticed "A Study in Scarlet" is there twice, what the fuck Goodreads? Full of bugs since they introduced the rereading feature.
>/lit/
>actually reading
you are on the wrong website desu senpai
>He thinks we actually read books
What does /lit/ think of the Paris Review?
Are there any widely available, print based literature magazines/journals that you prefer?
>>9282046
Is this what Liberal Arts students read in America?
>ask literary studies friend about what to read to get into literature
>gives me a list
>3000 books
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_books#Series
>>9282032
He's baiting you. You only need to read about 1000 books to gain an elementary understanding of literature.
>>9282282
The actual number is 319.
Which books written in the past 10 years will be read in most high schools 20 or more years from now?
>>9281937
They won't even read books in school 20 years from now :(
the brief wondrous life of oscar wao
the fault in our stars
cormac mccarthy's and murakami's novels
20 years from now books will be uploaded to our xenofeminist bodies