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ITT: Describe what kind of book you're looking for and others recommend you shit 2017-02-14 01:00:35 Post No.9104559
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ITT: Describe what kind of book you're looking for and others recommend you shit
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I've been really fucking nostialgic and reflective lately so I'd really love to read something about memory and introspection, something similar to Wild Strawberries maybe, just some deep nostalgic shit thanks
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I want to read something that beautifully defends nationalism, Yukio Mishima is great.
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Pedro Paramo
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pic related, United Irishmen makes my heart slam
Violent post-colonial literature where obvious breakdown in society trickles down to family and tribe. Areas of interest are South America and Africa.
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>>9104559
Sebald
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Is there a list of books that one should read prior to reading Ulisses to get a full experience out of it? I gave up two years ago at page number 254.
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The Bible, The Odyssey, Hamlet and Portrait would be the bare minimum.
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The Odyssey, just to get the parallels. Shakespeare, and Hamlet in particular, to kind of get the 'Scylla and Charybdis' episode. And A Portrait of the Artist, to know whose arm it was.
Then, I'd say, just go for it. Don't bother to understand everything – you won't. And if you felt like you needed some kind of aid nonetheless, 'The Bloomsday Book' should do just fine
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The difficult part about Ulysses isn't the references, it is the stream of consciousness. Read other modernists instead, and especially other writers of that style. Stephens chapters are the only "intellectual" ones, but Bloom's make up the bulk of the novel
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Recommend contemporary novels featuring relatively mundane subject matter and possibly including descriptions if clothing, food and daily routines. I find this kind of writing to have a deeply calming effect as I read it.
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>>9104468
On point
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K N A U S G Å R D
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Well /lit/ where do I start, and more importantly, is it worth to start?
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>>9104112
Start with your home, the trash.
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>>9104112
what a terrible thread, just read my diary instead
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He only has like 4 or 5, short, books.
Just read them if your interested.
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story telling with papa /lit/ 2017-02-14 08:36:48 Post No.9103966
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story telling with papa /lit/
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/lit/, what makes for a good story?
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T H I C C
AS FUCK
AND READY
TO TAKE IT
UP THE
A S S
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Wanting to know what happens next.
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>>9103966
A white man conquering blacks and raping women indescriminately
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Would extensive descriptions of foods and feasts be welcomed in fantasy? I've been cooking a lot recently and I feel like I could sell a book that focused on the food as much as the gore.
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Maigret does that and that's detective fiction. You're probably safe, but you'll have Freudians all over you asking what the food really means.
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>>9103878
Goddamn it, good point. Why can't food just be atmosphere and setting?
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Yes. Read American Psycho.
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What are the best dreamlike/symbolic/absurd/influenced by occultism works? 2017-02-14 07:31:10 Post No.9103846
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What are the best dreamlike/symbolic/absurd/influenced by occultism works?
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I'm not looking for something extremelly specific and cannot really describe it, but what I generally mean is that the works are happening on a more allegorical level (Divine Comedy or Sartre's Closed Doors) have symbolist/mystical elements (Rimbaud), dreamlike or absurd narratives/settings (Kafka, Beckett)...
I'm not looking for genre fiction.
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>>9103846
Do you read in Spanish? If so, I have some great suggestions.
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>>9103854
Sadly, no. However, I might start to learn it, if you convince me ;)
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>>9103846
Heartsnatcher by Boris Vian and The Robber by Robert Walser are some of my favourites and they fit what you want perfectly.
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ITT: the most degenerate /lit/ ever written
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Job's Book.
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>>9103828
Everything by De Sade
Story of the Eye
Appolronaire's smut that he wrote to pay the bills
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fimfiction.net
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How do I live a good life? 2017-02-14 05:58:31 Post No.9103606
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How do I live a good life?
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How do I live a good life and what books can help me towards that end?
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>>9103606
read the Bible
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>>9103606
Wow what an original question. It's almost like every single person is wondering the same thing, and there is no one book that will help you. That being said there is a book that will help you itsmy diary desu
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start with the rowling
I can't figure out how commas and periods work. (should this be a comma or period?) In English or my own language.
This is harder than quantum physics.
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>>9103451
You put periods after full sentences but commas before starting a dependent clause.
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>>9103451
I can't figure out how commas or periods work. I want to learn, but I'm not sure where to look. I came here wondering if you guys could help me. I feel pretty dumb, but I don't think it's my fault. Pic related, by the way, it's how I feel.
Hope you can figure it out by reading. It's pretty simple, really. If you need more help, I can go further. How old are you? What's your first language?
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>>9103611
Español
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What the fuck happened? First part of the book is fascinating, then the guy goes into some kind of unscientific personal rant.
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>>9103402
I don't remember this "unscientific personal rant" you speak of. If anything, the only thing that pissed me off about Harari was that the first part of the book "Homo Deus" felt like a recap of the book you posted. Then, the second half was amazing, so go figure.
Please quote some shit so I'd know what are you referring to.
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>>9103687
Basically when the book reaches the point when he starts talking about how the agricultural revolution was a fraud. That and anything after is just the guy giving his unsubstantiated opinions on shit.
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>>9103819
well it was, anon
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Are Stirnerfags just edgy fedoratippers? Is he their Joker?
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Yes, they're the worst posters on any board bar none
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>>9103412
cuckposters and the entirety of /pol/ exist
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>>9103432
not even close
So true!
https://www.bookstr.com/article/do-s-and-don-ts-of-reading-in-public/1735
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>>9103353
Is she reading Blood Meridian?
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oops
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This is irony.
I mean, how can it not be?
Right?
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What did he mean by this?
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This wanker's "Crash Course History" videos are required for my uni and it's insufferable.
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>>9103423
Do you attend a Community College?
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>>9103439
Nah, the history prof's just lazy. Look at this shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbuM0aJjVgE
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>have been interested in philosophy from a young age
>read a lot of philosophy during high school, getting even to study Hegel with the help of a very /lit/ dad
>wanted to study philosophy in college
>start browsing /lit/
>hear people saying that philosophy has devolved into masturbatory academic autism
>very worried at first, but then I hear other people saying that no, philosophy isn't dead and that these are just dumb frog memes
>happy again
>start my philosophy major, hopeful about the state of philosophy
>tfw philosophy has literally devolved into autistic bullshit that goes nowhere
>tfw the people who argued against this were the autistic retards themselves
>tfw the memes are literally true
Honestly, if you don't think philosophy is dead these days, please kill yourself. It's time to move on to better things. Philosophy will never come to any meaningful conclusions ever again.
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when's his next novel coming out? your dad, that is...
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>>9103230
Everything is Philosophy. There is only Information.
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>>9103230
That's because we transcended "conclusions" long ago, bub. After all your years of reading philosophy, how did you not realise this?