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Ok, cool, I admire Joyce, the guy was clearly insane talented, probably the most talented writer to ever live, yeah, he is superior to Shakespeare and Cervantes, but I'm just sick of not getting what he is talking about 50% of the time, I already made it to half of Circe it's been quite a ride, but I wouldn't reccomend this book to anyone, is fucking hell, my brain feels legit dusty after reading 50 pages. I just want it to end, I quited my job just to end this fucking book as soon as I can. I just want to go back to read my comfy Stendhal. I will, from now on, hide every Ulysses thread, don't fall for the meme. Dont say I didnt warn you when you end up like me. My pee came out red today ffs.
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>>9172662
why do you think he is talented?
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>>9172666
Same reason
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>>9172662
you'll be back
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What's the intended message that I'm supposed to get out of this book? Somthing about innocence?
Also what's /lit/'s opinion on the idiot?
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When I was nine, my thirteen year old brother pulled this out a bookstore and said: hey gerry, they wrote a book about you!
I somehow feel too embarrassed to read it.
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>>9172378
It's a nice read, it's about the misadventures of this one guy that came back to Russia after being in a Swiss sanitarium for 4 years
There's a part where one of the characters is on a train, someone plucks the guy's cigar and throws it out the train window, so he does the same to the persons poodle
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>>9172390
no there isn't
the general tells that story but is exposed by nastasya who knew he had simply read about it in a magazine
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Should I read Against The Day or The Recognitions as my next book? I want to read a meme novel as my next book. I've read a lot of Pynchon in the past and have liked it, but I've never Gaddis. Which one is the funnier book out of the two?
Pic unrelated
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anyone who eats food like that should be euthanized
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The Recognitions is hilarious but in a way where you kind of want to kill yourself
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>>9171999
you should be euthanized
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What is /lit/'s opinion on this book?
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it looks nice on my book shelf. sometimes i carry it around without any intention of reading it. people see me as i casually walk by and (probably) think, "that guy must be really smart if he reads all those words."
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>>9171958
it sucks dick player
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Discounter pine cone. Great to meme pseuds.
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How do you feel about footnotes? Do you skip em' or is that sacrilege?
I'm reading a nonfiction book atm, and most of the footnotes are just sourcing. Penguin editions typically have a headache inducing deluge of footnotes, like pic related.
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>>9171418
Read only odd numbers.
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>>9171418
If it's footnotes that aren't from the author to explain historical contexts or archaic language, I skip it if it doesn't seem relevant or if I already know what's being said.
If I ever get around to reading Infinite Jest, I'll read all the footnotes because they're apparently relevant to the story.
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I've actually read literature where the footnotes (written by the author) added substantially to the book.
For non-fiction it's generally just references which is only interesting if you want to dig deep. I did find a faulty reference in one book though but that was only because I had read the source that was misquoted.
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Does this stand on its own as a good book or is it just propaganda for her philosophy?
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use the motherfucking archive retard
both the book and the philosophy are shit
now fuck off
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>>9171397
It is "Fifty Shades of Grey" fan fiction with rougher sex and a political speech at the end.
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How does /lit/ cope with loneliness?
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>>9171322
READ JULIUS EVOLA
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>>9171322
God is always at our side
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>>9171322
opiates, amphetamines, hypnotics, deliriants, masturbation
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For anyone who thinks women writers are bad here's a list of Great women writers:
Ruth Ozeki
Zadie Smith
Gertrude Stein
Toni Morrison
Jane Austen
Ursula Le Guin
Gayl Jones
Susan-Lori Parks
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Harryette Mullen
Sappho
Anne Carson
Dawn Lundy Martin
Mina Loy
H.D.
Barbara Guest
Margaret Atwood
Virginia Woolf
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Djuna Barnes
Kate Chopin
Zora Neale Hurston
Marianne Moore
Laura Riding
Jean Rhys
Clarice Lispector
Doris Lessing
Lydia Davis
Flannery O'Connor
Adrienne Rich
Susan Sontag
Alison Bechdel
Edwidge Danticat
Claudia Rankine
C.D. Wright
Sylvia Plath
Audre Lorde
Lorine Neidecker
Alice Walker
Maxine Hong Kingston
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>>9171300
>gertrude stein
>great writer
top meme
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>>9171300
>Zadie Smith
0/10 bait fuck off.
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>mfw I have just completed my fully fledged history of 4chan
Feels good man
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oh
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Doesn't even make sense. Unless you mean you wrote an article.
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So I just read this and thought it was great. What do you guys think of it?
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internalised colonialism
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>>9170795
how can it be internalized colonialism when japan was never under colonial control, and were on the contrary themselves a colonial power?
that's like saying weaboos have internalized colonialism because they like anime.
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Considering it's wide appeal to airport audience it's shit.
Never read it, never will.
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Just picked pic related up. Should I be expecting interesting insights into Christianity or just a summary of what I should already know?
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It's pretty good, it's mostly concerned with morality.
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>>9170498
Lewis's laity shows. You'd be better off with a dramatization/narrativization of the ideas -- get the Screwtape Letters.
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>>9170498
Lewis and Chesterton are the ultimate brainlet writers.
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i need a book that yanks my bf out of his immature mindset.
what could i get him?
preferably something that doesn't feel indocrinating or patronizing when i give it to him.
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dune
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>>9170460
that conspiracy of the human race book
then when he gets depressed u can dump him for being sad all the time lmao
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Questions that don't deserve their own thread.
Lotta shitposts today.
Ask questions here that shouldn't be their own thread.
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>>9170391
I own this book
does anyone else own this book
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>>9170391
Should I read the entire divine comedy or just inferno as a prerequisite for a portrait of the artist
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>>9170752
Have you read the greeks?
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Hi /lit/, so what's the general consensus on pic related?
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Not a work of literature.
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Good Introduction to Barbell Training but fails to achieve the depth that (many) other russian works did in regards to weightraining in general.
Now fuck off to /fit/
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Well, it is a book, but I wouldn't say it is an instant classic
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I'm looking for Buddhist reading, both fiction and non-fiction. In terms of fiction I've only read "Siddhartha," which I liked a lot. I'm interested in reading similar books.
As far as non-fiction I'm not interested in Buddhist history or basic tenets since I know those fairly well (however, if there's a remarkable book out there that explains the Buddha's story and tenets in a fresh and innovative way I'm game). Just hit me with what you've got. Give me your favorites, your most challenging reads, whatever.
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>>9169752
http://www.theravada-dhamma.org/pdf/Ajahn_Thate-Bio_of_a_Forest_Monk.pdf
http://www.buddhistische-gesellschaft-berlin.de/downloads/brokenbuddhanew.pdf
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>>9169826
Thank you. I've read some of Bhante Gunaratana's books and really like the Thai Forest tradition. I've also read up more on Theravada than Mahayana so I guess that goes hand in hand.
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Cold Mountain (Han Shan)