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What books would you murder someone for enjoying?
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>>8932393
Harry Pooper
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>>8932393
this was pretty reddit but I wouldn't kill someone over it. just call them a genre pleb. I would kill someone for enjoying naked lunch.
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>>8932419
But I enjoyed it, Burroughs is brilliant
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What is the best book about mental health?
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>>8932313
Probably not your diary. Though, it would likely make a great case study.
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>>8932313
The Bible or Discipline and Punishment, depending on your feels
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>>8932313
my suicide note desu senpai
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So /lit/... has Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein or was it her husband? Or both?
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>>8932305
Do you think it has literary merit? Then it was a male.
Do you think it was shit? Then it was the woman.
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>>8932305
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein
Some faggot called Scott Douglas wrote speculative pop-history to make money
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>>8932317
You sure about that?
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What is the Studio Ghibli of Literature?
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>>8932053
Stephen King
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Alice in Wonderland comes pretty close. Also Dr Seuss stories.
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Roald Dahl
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Have you realised that the information age, with the huge amount of reading material, everything in English or translated to English, and vastly increased number of (sub-)media for books alone (physical, magazine, tablet, phone, e-reader, website, blog etc.), has destroyed the idea of being "well read"?
I think this for two reasons. First is the huge volume of stuff. You could read all day and never even read 1 % of all that "valuable" stuff. When it was 1600 and you could have read everything during your 3 years of formal education (more than 99 % of people) you could immediately join the intellectuals club. Now that's not true and it's demoralising.
The second reason is the killer. The idea of some sort of central planning bureau setting the list of required books is seen as farcical. We truly live in a much more multipolar world. Back in 1100 the Church told you to read the Greeks and the Bible and you are suddenly intelligent and well informed. There were no universities or companies or groups to tell you otherwise. These days, the huge increase in education means that everyone has an opinion and the arbitrariness of the "canon" has been exposed even to the most soody of pseudo intellectuals. Not only due to the multipolarisation within literature, but also the multipolarisation among activities. Who would claim that some Fields Medallist winning mathematician is an idiot because he hasn't read the Bible? It would take a high level of soodiness. But it would have been easy 1000 years ago.
Ultimately all this "well read" stuff was just a way for groups of people to signal social status / intellectualism or deriving other benefits by grouping their claimed interests together. We see it today when the academia-media-publishing industrial complex tells you that you have to read books or you're stupid. But this has been taken to a farcical new level now that writers like Tao Lin / Mira Gonzalez exist. It's also clear in other activities.
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you remain the worst poster on this site and I'm glad your life is miserable
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>>8932011
You must lead the most pathetic life imaginable
https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search&ghost=&search_text=academia-media-publishing
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What is your endgame?
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Thoughts on this man, /lit/?
I'm currently halfway through The Monkey Wrench Gang and rather enjoying it.
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>>8932008
Is he redpilled?
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>>8932010
http://compassrosebooks.blogspot.com/2009/10/edward-abbey-on-immigration.html
>This being so, it occurs to some of us that perhaps evercontinuing industrial and population growth is not the true road to human happiness, that simple gross quantitative increase of this kind creates only more pain, dislocation, confusion, and misery. In which case it might be wise for us as American citizens to consider calling a halt to the mass influx of even more millions of hungry, ignorant, unskilled, and culturally-morally-genetically impoverished people. At least until we have brought our own affairs into order. Especially when these uninvited millions bring with them an alien mode of life which - let us be honest about this - is not appealing to the majority of Americans. Why not? Because we prefer democratic government, for one thing; because we still hope for an open, spacious, uncrowded, and beautiful--yes, beautiful!--society, for another. The alternative, in the squalor, cruelty, and corruption of Latin America, is plain for all to see.
Yes?
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>>8932025
>redpilled
>fetishizes democracy
Nah. I can't fathom the sort of cognitive dissonance requisite for saying all that and then concluding that democracy is some sacred cow.
How would you improve the Bible, /lit/? Remove all those boring genealogies of people no one cares about? More sexy bits like Song of Solomon? Make God's character more consistent?
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>>8931996
>God wrote it
>God is perfect
>therefore the book is perfect
try again, reddit scum atheist degenerate
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>>8932002
God also wrote your DNA but it didn't stop you from having Down Syndrome
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Replace the books with the Corpus Platonicum.
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When I looked up buying the Everyman Library set, some of the images showed what's on the left, and some showed what's on the right. How will the books come? Is the black the dust jacket? Or a newer edition?
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You'll have to look at what the site you're buying them from says. They might be selling the old version, they might be selling the new.
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>>8931814
I guess that depends on who's shipping it.
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>>8931817
I got the black jacket on a recent purchase
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was he a sexist?
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Who gives a fuck?
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>>8931774
the 21st century?
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>>8931755
if you're not a sexist you aren't a rational person, sexist is a compliment. Men and women are mentally different, GET OVER IT
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is proust worth reading?
his books are long as shit.
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>>8931726
To me, I couldn't give less of a fuck if your books are good; if your series is too long I won't even bother. Why should I apply my time in something like this when I could read way more novels in that amount of time.
Same reason I gave up on the wheel of time midway through the first book.
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>>8931759
>implying he doesn't read anything other than tweets just because he happens to not like that gay frenchie
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is it, in this day and age, still possible to come up with single short sentences that are as profound as e.g. 'cogito ergo sum'?
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>>8931676
yes, I did so a few times
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>>8931676
'Don't be yourself, free yourself.'
There, made one. It's fucking easy, op
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>>8931676
define profound precisely and i will answer your question
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Which is a better translation of the Iliad? Fagles, Lattimore, or Fitzgerald?
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Pope.
Fagles is good and an easy read though.
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>>8931591
I'll check out Pope. I was interested in Fagles because he has translated all three, the Odyssey, the Iliad, and the Aeneid.
What makes Pope stand out from the rest?
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>>8931599
It's just that his mastery of the English language is superior. The others may be more faithful to the Greek, but the style is not as beautiful. Pope has also translated all three iirc.
But just take a look at passages from different translations and make your own judgement.
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Looking for financial help. Not just get rich books but real financial theory type stuff. Suggestions?
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>>8931536
get a job
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Hit the bookies, mate!
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>>8931536
https://www.etf.com/docs/IfYouCan.pdf
is bernsteins pamphlet for millenials
A Random Walk Down Wallstreet with Malkiel is both instructive and functional.
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Should I read picrelated, or just skim over the synopsis on Wikipedia?
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>>8931461
Guys, please, this is important.
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Roll for initiative
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>>8931461
If its for school and you are a state uni pleb with no interest in reading, wikipedia.
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>>8931460
Lmao you're pathetic OP
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>>8931479
and how are you not?
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>>8931460
This is horrible. Why would you write that?????