Post the last three books you've read, and recommend three other books based on those to others.
The World's Religions
The Things They Carried
Landmarks in Humanities
>Fahrenheit 451
Okay
>The Sun Also Rises
Meh, and I love romance
>20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Loved it. Reading Moby next but what should I read after?
>>8735277
I'm filling in for my childhood, I'll get to Joyce and guys later
>Wise Blood, by Flannery O'Connor
Surprisingly funny. Good but lacked some punch.
>The Letter Killers Club, by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Occasionally interesting but the stories are hit and miss. Disappointing ending.
>The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
Pretty great. Was always going to chime well with my faggy socialist sensibilities.
Are there any books about a younger Asian guy fucking a white woman?
Tao Lin has in real life fucked a lot of white women out of their cash for his shitty books. If that counts.
>>8734927
my diary desu ;)
>>8734927
Elliot is that you?
What are your thoughts on Conrad? I tried reading Nostromo and I just couldn't get through it. something about his sentence structure and language seemed to bore me, or i simply couldnt get into it. Ive tried reading a few of his other short stories and experienced the same thing. But then again im new to reading recreational, and have never been an avid reader.
>>8734926
I haven't read Nostromo myself yet but I read a number of his other works. The Nigger of the Narcissus and the Secret Agent were my favourite
What I can say about is in his work is a criticism and hatred of the then emerging modern world we're still living in which is very relatable and relevant to this day. If you go in expecting a more spirited and compassionate Victorian novel it may explain your reaction.
>>8734947
it was more the sentence structure and type of language that made it difficult to follow. Maybe I'm just a bit slow in the head.
>>8734926
Nostromo is his magnum opus, it's his most dense and convoluted work. You should probably start somewhere else and work towards it to get a feel for his style
Has there ever been a bad American novel about WWII?
>>8734822
>>8734822
All of them
>>8734822
I tried to read Armada by Steven Wilson. Not sure if I could even get to page 20. What the fuck is a PT-155? What's an E-Boat or an F-Fighter? Now get me started on WWII smallarms, and I'll be typing all damn night with absolute glee. I love WWII firearms, but I know absolutely piss-all about vehicles, ships, subs, or whatever. Seems like he's just assuming that everyone knows what the shit he's talking about it.
I wrote a book that involved a Lee Enfield. I described its smooth wooden stock, the fact it's bolt-action, has long-radius aperture sights (granted not everyone might not know what that means, but they'll know it's a wooden-stocked bolt action from WWII which is the main thing), and so on. I described it and wrote about it as though the reader never heard of a 'No.4 Lee Enfield' before. It was the first fucking book I ever wrote and I knew this shit. It would seem he's written at LEAST two novels before this one.
wtf I hate the free market now
>>8734706
wtf your post made me hate all leftist thought
wtf i love bad threads now
Can we talk about how good this is? I am being completely honest, I don't understand all of it yet, but I feel as if I read something very profound that hides under the words.
>>8734616
pft, it's just about being cucked from beyond the grave.
>>8734616
I'm not sure if I'm allowed to say this openly on lit, but this was actually the only story from Dubliners I really liked.
>>8734671pleb.
Is this book even profound or thought provoking, or is it literally just word games and obscurity? I listened to Terence McKenna's lecture about it, and his take on it seemed like more McKenna drug-addled bullshit. The whole "every day, Rome falls" shit seemed like a load of tosh. He seemed to be spouting a bunch of things that seemed deep at first but really didn't mean anything after further inspection.
>>8734609
why in the world would you listen to mckenna about anything?
iunnobout fw, it's probably both incredibly deep and ultimately an utter joke to fuck with you. who fucking knows, friend.
It's literally word games of questionable taste and idiosyncratic obscurity, brought to you by the untalented, uninteresting Mr. Joyce. The very honest expression of a mind that is not worth your time. A tour de force in shallow stupidity. The proto-model of the contemporary pseudo-artist. A pretentious effort. Nothing to make of its circumambient peripherisation. An affront on the intellectual confidence of the reading public. A disgraceful, arrogant insult to literary orthodoxy. The work of someone who has not spent enough time with Shakespeare.
>>8734629
pleb
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>>8734488
Why not read both? Are you against fun or something?
>>8734488
Escapism.
Why limit yourself to things that actually happened, when reading about things that could happen can also broaden your perspective and imagination and inspire you?
After reading stuff like Stirner and Boudrillard, am I supposed to feel overwhelmed by information? I really do, even if I am not supposed to. I really don't want to sound even slightly pretentious or make myself out to be smarter than the "unwoke!!!!!!!!" people, but it's like I am seeing clearly now than I did before.
Please respond.
You're probably just stupid if you hadn't felt this before.
>>8734481
I agree, Baudelaire and Schindler had the same profound influence in my life. I feel as if I were to smart for you.
How to start reading the Bible when you're at that point at 25 when you finally realize you are becoming a Christian ?
>>8734452
Buy a study Bible. Read two chapters daily.
>>8734452
How do you know you're a Christian if you haven't read the Bible?
>>8734490
I understand it's best to read the Gospels first ? Would you recommend some with which you would start first ?
So the 4 year college I'm going to requires me to take a year of a foreign language, so which language is the best in terms of literature ?
>>8734426
russian because that's what i'm taking.
>>8734426
English>Russian>German>Spanish>French>Ancient Greek>Latin>Portuguese>Idk
>>8734426
Why didn't he just admit that he didn't believe in God?
>>8734420
I honestly shouldn't say this, since I've only read Notes and a bit of Crime and Punishment.
But are you retarded?
>>8734420
>When atheist """"""""""""""""freethinkers""""""""""" read Fyodor
Because he did believe in God.
who won?
I did, for having a good chuckle at all of the so-called intellectuals who believe that debate had any value whatsoever
>>8734380
Neither. They talked past each other the whole debate.
My diary desu
Where should I begin with continental phillosophy, /lit/? I've never read a phillosophy text in my life. Should I unironically start at the greeks? Is this a good reading list?
>inb4 goodreads
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/72071.Essential_Continental_Philosophy
>>8734376
lol its all shit unfalsifiable nonsense real men use rationality and logic and use analytical philosophy and SCIENCE bet you think marx was right when in reality he was a cuck who was intent on destroying whiteness, remember that continentals include freud and we all know wat he did to the world to destroy it, all you really need is a good grasp on what words mean and facts, and science and rationality and logic will give you that in analyitcal philosohy
>>8734376
Yes.
Why are so many literary people so full of shit?
Shakespeare dropped out of school at 15 and probably didn't even write his plays. They were probably written by Francis Bacon, which makes more sense since he was well to do.
Then you have Dante, who was a beta cuck obsessed with a girl he met only twice, and skipped over marrying him, for a rich man instead. And then Dante wrote an entire three part fanfic about her. Jesus christ.
Joyce is really fucked up, but you already knew that.
And today there's Harold Bloom, who self-satisfactorily sits on his reputation without actually making useful insights in literary criticism. To make things worse, his prose is turgid as shit. And that story about his 1,000 pages an hour reading speed? An obvious lie.
How can you guys even justify literature?
>>8734256
>Shakespeare dropped out of school at 15 and probably didn't even write his plays. They were probably written by Francis Bacon, which makes more sense since he was well to do.
Only people who are ignorant about Shakespeare’s work and times would think that.
First, Shakespeare’s family was not that poor. His father was even mayor of the Stratford for some time, and his mother was from a well-known rural family. It’s probable (almost certain) that William went to a Grammar School for quite some time, and do you know what they taught at schools that time? The name “Grammar Schools” already says a lot. Yeah, that’s right: grammar, especially Latin grammar. History and the Sciences were hardly a subject of teaching, but Latin and English, figures of speech, rhetoric, oratory, Ovid, Virgil, Seneca, metaphors and similes – that was the main thing kids learned at that time. It’s probable that a kind in Elizabethan England schools was having a better education to invest in a poetry career than people on literature courses on University in our own time.
Also, Shakespeare’s works are filled with imagery based on things that a country boy would have witnessed himself. More than that, it is know that Shakespeare’s father worked as a glover and owned a tannery, and images of making gloves and working with the skin of lambs and cattle are to be found only on Shakespeare’s work.
Finally, Ben Jonson was also a child of a poor middle class family and did not attend any University, and still he was one of the most learned man of his time in the subject of Latin and Greek literature.
>>8734256
>comparing two literal giants to a fucking fat critic hack.
>implying Francis Bacon could ever touch shakespeare.
>Implying Joyce's fart fetish isn't that much worse than a large portion of 4chan's fetishes.
>>8734266
Wrong. Shakespeare was a literal retard who just shit like, everywhere. He didn't speak until the age of 9 and never learned math. It was impossible that he could have written anything.
Francis Bacon most definitely wrote them while Francis Bacon's essays were actually written by Milton, while Paradise Lost was actually written by Alexander Pope, while Pope's poems were actually written by Samuel Johnson, while Samuel Johnson was a fictional character created by Harold Bloom whose critical writings were actually created by a collaberation between DFW and Pynchon who meant to play a joke on the academia, some of whom took this Bloom character too seriously.