Thoughts?
>>8909725
Outdated: https://www.supermemo.com/help/read.htm
>>8909725
How can I read a book if I don't know HOW TO READ A BOOK
>>8909744
Is this what the pros use?
Where should one start?
Only philosophy I've read is Descartes, Hobbes and Platon
This >8893585 prior thread gave 0 informative answer, I thought /lit/ was the smartest 4chan board...
Plato and Kant. I believe his introduction to his chief work tells you what is recommended before reading.
>>8909711
Start with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_time
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/parmenides/
https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2157
>>8909711
>Coming to 4chan for an answer
>Believing a board as a whole can be smart like you can measure the average IQ of every user
You fucked up.
What are the best books for learning Latin?
What about this?
https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Latin-Homeschoolers-Self-Taught/dp/0979505100/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1483225288&sr=8-1&keywords=learn+latin
Latin Via Ovid by Goldberg
No one ever mentions this one, but it's the best way to get reading fluency, starting fro nothing, bar none.
>>8910563
Thx, started reading moderately this year and I already get the sense that learning Latin will be good just for books but I know it's a dead language so it's almost completely useless other than that
>literally cries over his own shit house rhetoric performance vlog
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YnEFt20qe0o
Has he replaced meme harris, whose podcast he'll soon be on in possibly the biggest collide of unearned, smug pseudishness as the biggest hack faggot of our day?
>>8909557
He seems like a nice enough guy and very genuine.
Maps of meaning has a good amount of decent analysis
He isn't a part of the alt-right, and it's kind of weird he hasn't made any attempt to distance himself from them, but apart from that I can't see any reason to dislike him other than the fact that he subscribes to some fairly radically non-nihilistic ideas, which puts him against the majority of intellectuals
>>8909557
I love him. Thanks for sharing his podcast !
Perhaps the person most desperate to be a martyr on earth
Is he worth reading?
Yeah. Buckley's a subtle thinker even when he's "wrong," and subtly representative of a worldview that few embodied better than he.
Really understanding that worldview, and especially understanding its fragility, its weariness and resignation, and eventually its intellectual balkanisation by more vigorous but also much narrower conservative worldviews, is crucial to understanding 20th century American culture, modern American politics, etc.
>>8909469
persuasive post
>>8909449
No. A library checkout's worth perhaps.
How do I learn Ancient Greek?
>>8909302
Learn modern Greek then work backwards
>>8909302
Buy a textbook and work through it.
>>8909662
Which textbook?
What's the best translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Lattimore
>>8909203
Samuel Butler
What's the consensus on prose translations? Yay or nay?
Why do I hate this so-called poetry /lit/? Seriously, give me a good answer as to why this poetry book and this style of poetry is grotesque. My heart feels disgust when reading it, but I cannot put my tongue on as to why it is such shit.
>"Rupi Kaur is a contemporary Canadian feminist poet[...]"
Stopped reading there desu
does your inability to find your own words really justify polluting everybody else's toilet with something that supposedly disgusts you
>>8909083
Like it would matter if you shit in a toilet and I barf in it too; both are gross
Lit newbie here and I'm retarded
Just read book one of the Iliad, so is Achilles now fighting for the Trojans? Why is one side referred to as the Greeks when they're both Greek?
what translation?
how about you read more to find out you fucking idiot
>>8909031
This is the story of Achaean Greeks fighting Trojans, who live on the shore of Anatolia. Even today the one side is Greece and the other is Turkey
What is her best poem? what do you think of her body of work?
you can blowjob your way to the literary world
She causes such a stir and rapid outpouring of interest on here that there it is nearly beyond doubt that there is a manifestation of the /lit/ spirit within her
>>8909057
4chan has a natural affinity towards talentless camwhores
rate my bookgroup's taste, /lit/
sign me up lol ;) haha
Not too bad desu.
7/10
What types of humor adapt well to literature? Are actual jokes and standup-like material bound to look childish in literature?
>>8908710
Idk I don't think a great deal of books have done humor very well outside of being occasionally funny. Most books I've read by stand-up comedians tend to be short stories more or less based on said comedians life and are not as good as their stand-up. Don't get me wrong they are pretty enjoyable light reads but you might expect 2 light laughs from every story at best. They come across as underdeveloped standup bits.
Pic related is unironically the funniest book I've read.
>>8908798
You haven't read much then have you?
>>8908798
Read Candide or L'Ingénu. It's great classic satire.
Is this worth reading or is it too old to be of interest?
Is there better modern cyberpunk out there?
>>8908533
They say it's still great
>>8908533
i couldn't finish it
great ideas but terrible execution
gibson has been a big disappointment for me personally
>>8908581
you didn't enjoy the style?
And so this year has come to pass. List the books you've read in 2016. It's nice to find new books from people with similar taste.
I'll start:
Ficciones- Jorge Luis Borges
The Book of Sand (and Shakespeare's Memory)- Borges
A Universal History of Infamy- Borges
Dreamtigers- Borges
Antwerp- Roberto Bolano
Richard II- William Shakespeare
Henry IV Pt. 1- Shakespeare
Henry IV Pt. 2- Shakespeare
Henry V- Shakespeare
The Merry Wives of Windsor- Shakespeare
De Fledermaus- Johan Strauss
Faust I- Johan von Goethe
Faust II- von Goethe
A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea- Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls- Hemingway
The Stalin Front- Gert Ledig
Peace- Richard Bausch
Those Who Dare- Phil Ward
Dead Eagles- Ward
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk- Ben Fountain
The Death of Ivan Ilych- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina- Tolstoy
The Atom Station- Halldor Laxness
Burial Rights- Hannah Kent
Selected Stories- Katherine Mansfield
The Heart of a Dog- Mikhail Bulgakov
The Sound and the Fury- William Faulkner
Blood Meridian- Cormac McCarthy
War of the Worlds- H.G. Wells (reread from 8th grade)
The Lathe of Heaven- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas- Le Guin (standalone short story)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain
No Longer Human- Osamu Dazai
The Setting Sun- Dazai
Pale Fire- Vladimir Nabakov
House Made of Dawn- N. Scott Momaday
To the Lighthouse- Virginia Woolf
A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees- Kenko
Beowulf- Anon
Grendel- John Garner
Last Words from Montmartre- Qiu Miaojin
Goodbye Chunky Rice- Craig Thompson (graphic novel)
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72- Hunter S. Thompson
Shadow of the Colossus- Nick Suttner
Deep Survival- Laurence Gonzales
The Art of Conversation- Catherine Blyth
Furiously Happy- Jenny Lawson
Hillbilly Elegy- J.D. Vance
King Leopold's Ghost- Adam Hochschild
Paid For- Rachel Moran
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl- Carrie Brownstein
Man's Search for Meaning- Viktor Frankl
Countdown to Zero Day- Kim Zetter
The Silent Epidemic- Alan Lockwood
What a Fish Knows- Jonathan Balcombe
My Dog Tulip- J.R. Ackerley
The Invaders- Pat Shipman
A Million Years of Music- Gary Tomlinson
The Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory- Max Planck (speech)
Quantum Mechanics and Experience- David Albert
>The crying of lot 49
>Catcher un the rye
the revenant-Michael punke
The iliad- homer (fitzgerald trs)
The odyssey- homer (fitzgerald trs)
The Aeneid-virgil (fitzgerald trs)
Hannibal fields of blood- Ben kane
Communist Mannifesto- Marx and engels
Emma-Jane austen
Importance of being earnest- Oscar Wilde
Soul of man under socialism- Oscar Wilde
Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
Salems lot- Stephen king
Grapes of wrath- John Steinbeck
Babylon revisited- F. scott fitzgerald
Socrates Trial- plato
Moby Dick- Hermann Melville
1984- orwell
animal farm- orwell
Heart of darkness- Conrad
Tom sawyer _twain
huck finn - twain
Brave new world- Huxley
How much land does one man need? - Tolstoy
pride and prejudice- austen
metamorphosis- kafka
Dubliners- joyce
Harvest- jim crace
Eureka: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks but were Afraid to Ask - Peter jones
Babylon- paul kriwacyk (idk some polish name)
Anna Karenina- Tolstoy
Jane eyre- charlotte bronte
oliver twist- dickens
a Christmas carol- dickens
spqr- mary beard
a dolls house- ibsen
>>8908794
You did good anon
>itt we pretend we are our favorite authors in an early 2000's online chat room.
DFW: is anyone still awake? asl?
>>8908370
>tfw this is actually a good idea for a thread
>tfw ur just to unimaginative and self-conscious too reply
dfw1962: wtf
dfw1962: cyber??
dfw1962: i put on my robe and bandana
>>8908370
what's a chat room? what's asl means