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>the twenties were an exciting time
>the twenties was an exciting time
Well, /lit/?
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>the neighbours were a pair of fuckable girls
Id say were
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Were, m8, subject is plural, doesn't matter that the object isn't.
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The first one.
What are you, retarded?
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How do book-stands impact the reading experience, are they essential to the dedicated reader or merely quality of life?
Personally I can't just sit a book down laterally and read it, the regular sitting posture tends to hurt my back, especially during long sessions, so I tend to slope on the chair and hold the book in the air. But this then causes fatigue in the arms, so I can never really escape muscle pain.
I was thinking about buying a pic related. Thoughts?
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>fiddling with the entire fucking contraption everytime you want to turn the page
yeah, you're gonna wanna kill yourself in about ten minutes.
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>>9013048
Not planning on locking in it, all I care about is a steady upright position desu
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since ur such a faggot, why not get your boyfriend to hold it for u?
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>tfw all the shit you have to read
what do i do you guys?
i wanna be an author but every time i feel i have some sort of ground i find another huge tome that seems important and i want to be informed about
there's just so much content out there
help?
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You help me.
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>>9012992
i dunno man
the only thing that i can think of is being patient
damn you /lit/ not being a pseud is fucking impossible
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>>9012990
It is a common thing to feel that you need to read more before you're ready to write.
You will never ever feel ready, so you might aswell just start now. Repeat that like some mantra, and just write. If it's shit, that's ok, you can rewise it later.
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The question that many literary figures have struggled with:
Is it a history or an history?
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art thou an on or ein
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she's real pretty
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Just read Garner's Usage
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What's lit/ opinion on Andy Warhol? Was he a hack or naah?
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>>9012973
not a hack. but honestly while he was alive he dictated what was in and what was out within art which kinda pisses me off but what ever.
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>>9012973
his silver balloons are fun, though i suspect balloons are fun in any shape and colour
have a lecture about his academic reference skills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PpPZbtwTjU
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hack, modern art is a meme
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Post your word of the day, /lit/. And then discuss where you happened upon it
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>>9012917
>Cuck
It's what my wife's son called me
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>Cul-de-sac
When the word sounds amazing but means some dumb shit...
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>>9012982
5 year old me knew this word because I lived in one.
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I want to read the travel writings of an honest-to-god explorer, who actually discovered some major unknown shit. I also want to read a sincere, respectful and descriptive travel book rather than a self-aware ironic "easy" book about some retards wacky travels filled with lame jokes and a shitty lighthearted tone. So I guess I'm looking for something from the 19th Century or so, the Age of Exploration.
What is the best Victorian-ish travel writing to start with?
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>>9012892
Typee
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Heinrich Barth has a good account of his travels in the Dark Continent. Very worth checking out but expensive.
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>>9012903
My library has
>Barth's travels in Nigeria : extracts from the journal of Heinrich Barth's travels in Nigeria, 1850-1855 / selected and edited, with an introduction by A. H. M. Kirk-Greene.
and
>Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa : being a journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H.B.M.'s Government, in the years 1849-1855
currently available.
Which should I start with?
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When will the terrible meme of coffee shaps and bars being combined with bookstores end?
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>>9012888
When there stops being a demand for them
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>>9012888
Why do you care? Let people drink coffee and read as much as they want to. Why so bitter?
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>>9012888
Have you considered getting a life and not fretting over such frivolous matters?
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I'm trying to interpret these passages, can someone help me?
"The reason of the unreasonableness which against my reason is wrought, doth so weaken my reason, as with all reason I do justly complain of your beauty."
"The high heavens, which with your divinity doth fortify you divinely with the stars, and make you deserveress of the deserts that your greatness deserves."
I know there is deeper meaning here, I just can't quite grasp it.
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Not even Aristotle could figure out what those meant, even if he were brought back to life for that sole purpose.
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>>9012867
I can feel my brain drying out as we speak. Best give whatever horrible books you're reading a rest.
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>>9012867
>I know there is deeper meaning here
I don't think there is
Requesting mod to permaban me from this terrible, bitter place.
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Me too, do it mod. I need some help
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Haven't seen one of these in a while...
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>>9012747
>>9012759
Anon NO
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What exactly makes contemporary literature so bad?
Why do you guys hate it?
Is it because you believe that there is nothing original left to be written; that every possible idea for a philosophy or story today would have to be in some way a rehash or retelling of something that was done better long ago?
Is it because you have a contempt for modern society, politics and technology? Personally I think that with the rapid development of new technology, it gives authors tons of new and interesting things to write about.
I mean for example, you couldn't really write about the internet as we know it today in the 20th century simply because it didn't exist. I think as long as new things keep getting invented that drastically change the way the world is, new authors will always have interesting things to potentially write about.
And as language evolves alongside these technologies, I would imagine that prose could become very different too, I mean if you compare Shakespeare to the English we have now, it is a very different style but they both have their merits I think.
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Most contemporary lit is pretty bad, because YA has now taken over as what most adults read, since most people are permanently stuck in a 14 year old's mindset.
I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing though, if that's what people want to read, whatevs.
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>>9012735
I agree with you, very well put. I think that most people here on /lit/ are a bunch of pretentious contrarians that hate everything that doesn't pander to them. Sad losers, if you ask me.
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>>9012735
plot
concept
prose
no contemporary book does a good job at all 3
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What is pic related good for? Why is everyone so weak to it? As far the movies go, it does nothing but teleport you to the Upside Down.
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>>9012725
for starters it's the ring of giygas AND you can do other stuff with it probably
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It auto-resizes to owner's fingers so it should be great for fapping.
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>>9012725
It contains the unbendable will of Sauron. If the bearer chooses to wield it, it will allow them them to dominate others and give themselves power. The downside is complete corruption and eventually becoming a slave to the ring's true master.
Is it a blessing in disguise that modern society doesn't take philosophy seriously?
If they tried to -- lacking the strength for recognising the primacy of philosophers of the Spinoza, Stirner, Nietzsche, Alex Kierkegaard type -- they would glorify only those who appease the majority's weaknesses, state-sanctioned. Perhaps even those who provide the greatest antidote to the aforementioned, the corruptions (as Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Foucault are for Nietzsche).
Instead with philosophy's disregard or ridicule, we at least have that a chaotic laise faire liberal realpolitik political mess, that allows elitism to thrive in the fields where the masses have no immediate grasp. (Our culture continues to grow because in the midst of democratic political degeneration a few individuals proudly and unapologetically continue the tyrannical, despotic tradition in businesses, armies, universities, sports teams, cultural clubs, the arts, and so on. If democracy were instituted in every field of human endeavor — instead of merely in politics — with the soldiers voting on what the army should do, students the school and universities, workers the business, the uncultured the arts, etc., civilization on this planet would be wiped out within a generation, and we would revert to barbarism — if we didn't all starve to death well before that, that is, which we so obviously would.)
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>>9012710
>philosophy
>covering simple ideas applied on basic abstractions with a thick layer of badly defined deliberately obfuscated linguistic mess
Not everyone is willing to spend time on pointless mental masturbation.
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>>9012736
did you say masturbation?
;^)
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What a hot mess of buzzwords.
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/lit/ recommend me some good self study chemistry books.
Something that starts from the basics since I haven't really got any interests in this field prior to some time ago
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How about I recommend you look up the difference between literature and textbooks.
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>he wants to learn chemistry
>he cant even use google
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>>9012701
Read /sci/ sticky
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Anyone have good torrent links for CURATED ebook collections (not the low-quality shit that is normally bundled together in the massive ebook collections)? I want ebooks that are correctly formatted and not the result of some shitty calibre heuristic conversion.
I'll be using these on my K4NT with KOReader, so the filetype is not a huge issue.
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Why? Do you just pick books at random to read?
Random collections are never going to have exactly the right book you're after.
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>>9012696
I'm not worried so much by the genre of book, I do tend to read things at random (mainly stick to the classics). I am more interested in the quality of formatting, etc in the ebook themselves. I hate getting into an ebook and then discovering that all of the "i"'s are displayed as "j's" or that there are no spaces following punctuation or other weird formatting (see image in OP).
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>>9012712
Just go on gutenberg if you want books without stupid formats. I don't know where you'll find reliably well formatted random books, that idea seems stupid to me.