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I just finished (listening to) The Windup Bird Chronicle, and I absolutely loved it!
As I'm not very good at noticing subtle threads in stories and am not an avid reader in general, I have a few questions that you guys may be able to answer.What were these powers of Noboru Wataya's? Is that ever hinted at? As far as I noticed, it's only mentioned that he controls his sister with them, nothing else.What was this other world in the hotel, and who were "they"? Is this ever mentioned?What was the deal with alternate world Kumiko, and why did she speak with different voices? Why was she so scared of Tooru seeing her or the corpse of who I assume was Noboru?What did the Zoo and Manchukuo stories have to do with anything? I enjoyed them a lot, but I can't see the connection.And finally, what is the windup bird? What does the sound of it mean?
I'm starting to feel that I might have missed some very important parts of the story now that I write my questions down.
I'd also love any recommendations of similar style, though I've heard that Murakami's other works are not like this one at all.
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Is Murakami considered that much of a pleb author? Am I just too late to the game to discuss this book?
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>>8990775
you missed the murakami hype wagon by about six or seven years
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>>8990807
Too bad that it has to depends on the zeitgeist, I'd love to discuss this.
Oh well, I'll take a look at Kafka on the Shore and hope for the best
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>This is water, this is water.
what did he mean by this?
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>>8990475
stay WOKE
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>>8990475
question EVERYTHING
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>>8990475
get REDPILLED
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What does it mean when an agent says the work is too derivative?
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>/lit/
>working on publishing
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>>8990472
It means he doesn't like it but isn't creative enough to offer constructive criticism.
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>>8990472
It means don't give up the day job.
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Just started reading babies second dystopia novel. What am I in for? What's with all the names alluding to Marxism?
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>>8990428
>What's with all the names alluding to Marxism?
The book is set in an idealised materialistic superstate.
Spoiler: it's not the paradise it seems to be.
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>>8990428
>What's with all the names alluding to Marxism?
You know how Marxism inevitably leads to dystopian societies? Something like that.
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>>8990428
Huxley just used different names of well known persons. It's not only related to marxism.
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What books about cynicism, death, and existentialism should I read before I kms? Planning to do it in a few months.
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead
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>>8990417
What a shame you chose to spend your brief life in the darkness of existentialism.
Protip: try reading something enjoyable instead.
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>>8990537
What's wrong with appreciating the fact that you are alive?
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I would like your feedback on my thoughts. An append to the second paragraph, towards the end I was talking about my anxious thoughts revolving around my thoughts. That seems erroneous, because how could a thought revolve around itself? Well I mean to say that the anxious thoughts are a product of thinking, not so much as a product of innate anxiety itself, though I explain later that perhaps the two are linked, because the thoughts seem to swirl around anxiety like they were all in a whirl pool, of the stream of consciousness, which is like the babble of a river when the words are stripped away and all that is left is the non verbal consciousness, hence why the words are basically meaningless. I don't re-write the paragraph, because I find there's a nasty pattern of re-writing something and negating the original meaning that was intended. I believe it still holds the original meaning, although I even admit it's a bit ambiguous and takes some analyzing and dot connecting, so to speak.
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>Post this in a crit thread
>Get no response
>"I'm so much of a special snowflake that I deserve to have this looked at"
It's Elliot Rodgers-tier buffoonery without any of the charm or inadvertent humor. It's Holden Caulfield working at Hot Topic and watching too much True Detective. A pseud's navelgazing uninteresting to every person on Earth but yourself and your therapist.
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>>8990570
Well, that's quite an interesting posit. I'm sure you didn't actually read what I wrote thoroughly, or you're just afraid to admit that you don't understand it. Are you done mocking me?
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>>8990577
>I'm sure you didn't actually read what I wrote thoroughly, or you're just afraid to admit that you don't understand it.
You asked for feedback and I gave you feedback, Columbine Jr. Your """thoughts""" don't amount to anything beyond infantile self-importance. It's a wristslasher's manifesto - what else is there to understand.
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Good books from the last 10-20 years
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I know this isn't our strong point, but what are some good newer books? What have you read or what have you heard is good? What will be some future classics? Did people live Gravity's rainbow and Ulyssess when they first came out?
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two words: michel houellebecq
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>>8990323
I did a quick google search for "best books of the 2000's" and this is what jumped out to me as ones i've read and liked and ones I want to read:
Have read:
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Amazing Adventures of Kavaleir and Clay by MIchael Chabon
Kafka on the Shore: Haruki Murikami
Never Let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Haven't read but want to.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenes
Kite Runner by Khaled Hossini
2666 by Roberto Bolano
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>>8990536
Also the Road by Cormac McCarthy
I realized they seperate out the 2010's. I haven't read most of these
Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (!!!!!! so good)
The Goldfinch by Donna Tratt
Also the Fates and the Furies by Lauren Goff which was my favorite book I've read recently.
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Recommend your favourite work of literature that's under 200 pages.
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>>8990260
hey, why you recommend that Nabokov's work? seems interesting
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>>8990268
because it's a great novel duh
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/marx/ General
What's your favourite work by our board's favourite philosopher?
Who's your favourite marx companion/secondary literature?
Right wing faggots this is not the place for you, not even the fucking board for you.
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>>8990244
Marx is complete horse shit
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>>8990244
>our board's favourite philosopher?
Dostoyevsky?
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>>8990244
>our board's favourite philosopher
O RLY?
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Where to go when I understand and find every action in this book completly rational and normal?
When I heard about it I was expecting some autismo filled protagonist doing retarded r9k stuff or some edgy self insert about how cool being absurdist is but after finishing I felt weird because it read like something completly mundane and normal to me.
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Autism town
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>>8990229
You go and become an Übermensch like me, Napoleon Bonaparte, Fredrick the Great, Julius Caesar, etcetera.
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>>8990269
And how would one become the übermensch
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Recommend me books to overcome my crippling jealousy, /lit/
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>>8990212
Might is right. Break that fucker's neck and conquer her.
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>>8990221
I'm not a troglodyte.
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>>8990240
The Prince, then. Do it in an indirect way.
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What does Christianity have to offer in comparison to the liberation promised by Eastern religions?
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Eastern religions offer some silly self-absorbed idea of transcendence.
Christ offers a true life away from death and sin.
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>>8990185
eternal life with a being that absolutely loves you, more than anything else can
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>>8990254
>x religion is silly
>my religion is the serious truth
Yeah ok my man
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Currently reading Critique of Pure reason. I need a few good and rather short novels I can read whenever I need a break. max. ~ 200 Pages. Don't disappoint me /lit/. I'm putting my trust in you.
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>>8990110
well what would be more fitting than the transcendentalists?
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>>8990110
Try the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus for a break.
It's a pretty Kantian project desu
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>>8990110
moominpappa at sea
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Please, can you recommend me some book (or books) including rats? Thank you!
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Have you heard of Redwall?
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>>8990023
It's about mouse as main protagonist. Mice are dumb and soft (compared to rats).
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>>8990017
>8990017
the Torah
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Can I read him if I am a new reader? What should I read first?
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Go for it. Where to start depends on what youre after. Whether you want a more systematic approach to his arguments or where you want prose and aphorisms.
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>>8989996
>Can I read him if I am a new reader? What should I read first?
If you just want to have a shallow understanding of his philosophy, then sure.
But if you really want to grasp it, you should START WITH THE GREEKS.
Also read through the neo-platonists and Christian philosophy so that you can have a fair understanding of his criticisms of Christianity.
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