Green text the new plot of your novel, i'ts not like it's going anywhere
Only one enemy remained... Two if you counted God.
>i die
>bunch of shit happens
>make everyone think it's real for 400 pages
>wake up
>it was just a coma dream
Lol. You wasted 400 pages of your life reading my "lol I trol u plot twist"
A, B, C, D, and.. There it was. A whole E. But I wanted more.
why do i find fiction so pointless to read?
what is the point of reading fiction? you learn very little whilst non-fiction has the same entertainment/enjoyment factor plus it leaves you more knowledgable.
>>8985241
You sound fun at parties.
>>8985241
let me guess, STEM wannabe
>>8985241
Great fiction, and bear in mind that yes 99% of fiction is pretty much just pointless shit, can give you an intuition about human nature that can't properly be explained yet by raw facts or science.
Just finished this.
Now what? Homer, then Ulysses again? Portrait? The fuck do I do with my life now
Smear feces on the floor and roll around in it
>>8985286
I have already walked barefoot through the streets trodding in all of the horse dung I could find
Get a gf
now wtf was THIS guy's problem?
>>8985100
He was a filthy statist.
>>8985100
He sailed to the centerof the sea and saw Cthulhu, which he bapthised The Leviathan. YHe was a cuck too so you guess.
That he was right and everyone else was wrong.
Was he as great as his reputation indicates? Or am I setting myself up for failure as I did when I jumped into For Whom the Bell Tolls thinking it would be an amazing piece of literature and only finding it to be bland for the most part. What I'm asking is: will Dostoevsky let me down?
idk lol
>>8985097
you are very helpful
>>8985093
I liked for Whom the Bell Tolls.
Jump into Dostoevsky, I thought he was a fantastic author. You don't know until you try right?
why isn't everything printed on bible paper so you can save space on your shelf for the most books possible?
>>8985077
>Printing just anything on Holy Parchmentâ„¢ paper
>skepticalcostanza.png
>>8985077
costs more i assume
>>8985077
bible paper sucks
Hey /lit/, can we have one of these threads?
>>8985075
Can we please never have these fucking threads again unless it's OC?
So this book allegedly sucks. What should I read instead?
>>8985069
Yeah, currently reading this on and off. Reads like a long essay, except charged with political correctness. Doesn't account for the fact that the inherent superiority of western culture is directly tied to its longevity. A culture that is 15,000 years old is guaranteed to be more intellectually stimulating and nurturing than a 5,000 year old culture.
>>8985087
But no culture is even 5000 years old
Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
Can anyone recommend some introductory books on political philosophy? Particularly American political philosophy.
>>8985067
You literally cannot start any American political philosophy without starting in England.
Obvious answer to your question is Hobbes and Locke.
Go to the Oxford Bibliographies page for Political Philosophy and look at the General Overviews section
Oxford Biblios requires paid access which you should be able to get through your university, if you're at one. If not I or someone else can hopefully give you a pastebin of the best recs for overviews + their description, I'm just at work right now
>>8985157
Thumbs up. But you cannot start Hobbes and Locke before the Greeks.
What should I read first? Crime and Punishment or The Bros. Karamazov?
I've read Notes already.
Whatever you want to, buddy :^)
>>8985070
I want /lit/ to spoonfeed me you dunce
>>8985076
Do either one, both are really good pieces of literature. It's not as if you'd be shortchanging yourself by picking one over the other.
Just a quick question before I have time to read more into it, how is Infinite Jest part sierpinski triangle? Ive heard david in an interview just quickly reference it... Only once when I was super fucked up on methylon I could see the fractile in the paragraphs, but never really again
(Oddly right when I could an earthquake happened which is an /x/ topic hehe)
Thank you
Who gives a shit, honestly? Mathematics and geometry have no purpose in literature. It's simply a way to jack off and pretend your book is a holistic creation of every facet of your large impressive brain. I like Infinite Jest, but you should be trying to decipher what the book means rather than pointless structural wankery.
20 mins in DFW predicts trump presidency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkxUY0kxH80
do that math
When I was last in the book like 700-800 pages in while liberally reading the footnotes, It was just a fucking crazy story about recovery meetings for the most part...
I swear he was just copying bullshit that was happening in real life or using it liberally as a muse because it was a bit much...
I need to read more soon, at the time I was just barely getting into drug recovery and it was a bit of an overload hahaha. I ended up leaving it at a rehab.
How does one into poetry?
Read the best, figure out what makes them the best, emulate.
>>8984996
I actually meant to ask "where do you start reading?" Or is it reasonable to just pick and choose from the grab bag of the greats?
>>8985031
>I actually meant to ask "where do you start reading?"
Reading literature is for fags, so I can't help you there.
When will this hack finally die?
>>8984990
When this timer reaches zero
I hate this cuck!
>tfw you reached the age of 17 and realized Dennett isn't a real philosopher but just Sam Harris taking the form of a surly paedophile during the parts of the year when Saturn is in the 7th House
YOU DECEIVED ME DAN
I READ ALL YOUR FUCKING SHALLOW REDDITPEDIA TIER BOOKS ABOUT EPIPHENOMENALISM
AND ALL YOUR OTHER, EQUALLY UNSATISFYING PUERILE CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHILOSOPHY OF MIND, THAT SHOULD AT MOST BE UTTERED BY NEIL DE GRASSE TYSON OR LAWRENCE KRAUSS, NOT BY A MAN WHO DOES THIS FOR A LIVING
STOP WORSHIPING QUINE WHEN YOU DON'T EVEN DO ANYTHING NEARLY ON THE LEVEL OF WHAT QUINE DID, AND YOU'RE JUST A FAKE PHILOSOPHER FOR REDDIT FAGGOTS
QUINE FUCKING SUCKS ANYWAY YOU OLD BEARDED BITCH
EVERYONE AT TUFTS THAT I TALK TO SAYS YOU'RE A CUNT
GO FUCK YOURSELF DAN DENNETT
YOU WASTED YEARS OF MY LIFE
Thoughts on this one?
Just wrapped it up and am myself amazed at Salinger's command of dialogue. His replications of plain but ingenious speech are highly captivating...Green My Eyes was heart breaking.
>>8984894
haven't read it, but your post sounds sarcastic, but since I haven't read it I can't be sure, and of course you'd say you aren't, so can anyone else confirm that OP is being sarcastic?
>>8984894
Salinger is the American author
Meaning he's pragmatist without forgetting the primordial questions
I actually was completely underwhelmed. I was memed by the "Catcher is overrated, Nine Stories is his actual masterpiece!" when it's just some decent stories caught halfway between Hemingway and Carver, some great, others just okay.and please don't give me "Catcher and Nine Stories are overrated, Franny and Zooey is his best work!" I'm not falling for that again, I don't need to read any more Salinger in my lifetime.
Help me trim down my bookshelf, /lit/
I've been hitting the thrift stores and libraries for used books (mostly science fiction and fantasy), but I kinda overdid it. My shelf is overflowing and I ended up buying a lot of crap along with the good stuff (there wasn't time to look up individual books so I mostly just grabbed anything with a spaceship on the cover or similar).
Some of the books are obvious keepers (such as the Hugo-winning _Fountains of Paradise_ and _Ringworld_) and others are obvious goners (realistically, I am never gonna hunt down and read the first four _Dancing Gods_ books so that I can enjoy the fifth one, nor am I gonna look for the entire _Wheel of Time_ or _Sworth of Truth_ series), but beyond that I am lost. Any advice on what books to keep, what to chuck, and what is a good size for a science fiction collection?
http://pastebin.com/pkhqL7H6
(the + mark indicates a book that is in the public domain or in the free Baen CDs or by Cory Doctorow, so even if I get rid of the physical copy I can download a digital copy to my Kindle without any trouble)
get rid of all of it.
>>8984885
But... why?
Here's what you do, pal. Right now, look at every book you own, one by one.
take every one you don't want to continue to own and put it in a box. Or bag or whatever
Once it's in the box, don't look at it again, if it goes in the box it's going, period.
Fix up your shelves, put everything you're keeping on the shelf where it belongs
Go through all those books again. one by one, put any book you don't want to keep in the box.
you're done