>what are you reading?
>cool, what's it about?
>>8726941
>Blood Meridian
>Torture which comes in all shapes and sizes
>>8726941
>Essays and Aphorisms by Schopenhauer
>The vanity and suffering inherent in all existence :DDDDDDDD
* New Testament (specifically, Gospel according to Matthew)
* It's about these Jews completely misinterpreting the Old Testament and forming a new religion around a guy who can do magic tricks. I wish I were exaggerating, but at the very least, that's literally what Matthew is.
Ask me for audiobooks , non fiction only
I can deliver much faster right now.
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Can i request turings cathedral by george dyson please?
Keep up the good work based audio friend
>>8726900
Women and Men by Joseph Mcelroy, and/or The Highland Lute by Gjergj Fishta please
>>8726900
Pls
>go to Tesco buying some bread and milk
>decide to pick up a 'Duck in Hoisin Sauce' wrap whilst i'm there
>take a seat on a bench eating it
>take out Ferdyurke (my currently-reading book)
>girl asks if she can sit next to me
>of course she can
>asks what book i'm reading
>tell her and she says she's really into literature
>we start chatting about books and stuff and i ask her what her favourite books are
>she tells me she really likes sci-fi and asks me what i think about it
>i tell her i only read literature
>she looks upset for some reason and asks if i like fantasy
>i tell her fantasy is for people who can't cope with real life and if they actually want escapism they should kill themselves
>she looks even more upset but keeps asking me what i think of her fav books
>i tell her i don't think they're that great but each to their own i guess
>i say i have to leave and she sees me checking the time on my mobile
>she grabs it off of me and puts her name and number in saying 'how about we meet up sometime and we can discuss this in more detail or something'
>walk away
>name in my phone is 'Jenny ;) xxx'
>delete it because i don't think we'd be able to talk about her literature tastes when her favourite books were the ASOIAF series, Enders Game and The Discworld books :/
anyways, can we get a Ferdydurke general?
im really enjoying it so far though i feel most of it is going over my head, this is my first Polish novel and is modernist to the point of absurdism.
i recommend it though i feel it may need a re-read to 'get' everything that's going on.
You could have been a bit more gentle, how is ferdyduke? Also, I think she didn't want to talk but rather get the d. Then you could have manipulated her into reading something that isn't utter shit. What's ferdyduke even about?
>>8726865
0/10 you didn't even try to make this realistic.
It's a hard life, being a pseud.
What does /lit/ think of Carl Jung? Particularly Answer to Job.
>>8726856
Jung is a meme.
He's a boss.
Are there other musical versions of books? Not theatre, but albums where each song covers a part of the story, perhaps with some spoken word mixed in..
Poe - Haunted is based on Book of Leaves, to the best of my knowledge
Klaus Schulze's "Audentity" is allegedly based on Trakl's "Sebastian im Traum"
>The piece is about the life history of Sebastian, starting on 'Cellistica' and moving through Sebastian's childhood ('Tango - Saty', 'Amourage' and 'Opheylissem') and adulthood ('Spielglocken') to the dream-summary of what he has learned ('Sebastian im Traum').
Honestly, I'd recommend just getting into opera if you want music+story. Most of them are adaptations of literary works. There are also oratorios and passions if you don't want any physical action.
>>8726759
Also Poe
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by the Alan Parsons Project
also I Robot by the same band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfBpxfRAPo4
Sup, i recently got into cyberpunk in literature and this shits great
Recommend me some nice cyberpunk books
>high tech, low life
>no post-apo
>no space travels
Also sorry if there is a thread for recommending, i couldn't find any
Snow Crash I guess, tho the second half is shit
I miss cyberpunk, sad there's no more modern version of it
The two classics are Neuromancer and Snow Crash. Neuromancer is unreadable for some (Gibson loves weird similes), Snow Crash is either a satire or straightforward kitsch, I can't decide.
for more modern books, I've seen people praise Windup Girl but too many biotech cliches for me. There's an older collection called Hackers, get that one, it's fun.
Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep? would count, that one's great. Altered Carbon is a nice mix of cyberpunk and noir detective.
>>8726141
So there is basicaly no modern cyberpunk?
>think up my magna cum laude as a way to escape depression
>finally stabalize, begin writing
>find out i'm terminally ill, no chance of finishing in time
JUST
sounds like you just got a free one way ticket out of depressionville so stop whining
>>8725673
Im sorry, anon. What's killing you?
>>8725679
Late find on an astrocytoma. I technichally got a chance, but shits looking grim.
Hello /lit/, I have 2 questions. What are the most trustworthy & factual news sources I can read from?
From now on I'm thinking of just reading Reuters, The Economist, & maybe the New Yorker. Where do you get your news from?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
>>8725590
Al Jazeera & Democracy Now
Does not apply to news on Qatar, obviously.
>>8725590
Associated Press. Old, highly reputable, nothing but the facts.
Still cant tell if this fag is 100% right or 100% wrong
>>8724763
Both.
>>8724777
Ahhhh the trips my braaaiiiin the paradox too strong aaaahhhhhhhhhUUUAAAARGGGUUUUUUUUUUAAARGHHHHHH
How do I maximize comfiness while reading? Aka position tips, etc.
I
>start on my back
>sit up
>role onto stomach with pillow for support
When I'm drunk I
>read at my desk in a chair
>cry violently
>pass out
i have a selection of different sized buttplugs i put in for different types of books and for different authors
5 minutes sitting, 5 minutes standing, rinse and repeat.
>GO go go go!!!
>>8723945
Here you go OP
Why does this man look like a criminal?
>Thoughts on Hip Hop in general?
>Does /lit/ have some personal favorite rappers?
>How seriously does /lit/ take Hip Hop? Do you think it has (or already reached) it's fullest potential? Or will it never be taken seriously as literature?
I know /lit/ is retarded when it comes to music. But i'm interested in what you guys think about this?
Holy shit I thought I was on /mu/ at the first glance
>>8723880
hip hop is 80% production, nothing more
>the most significant American verse poetry of the 20th and early 21st century
>reflects the core values of American culture (not just ghetto culture) more accurately than nearly any other music
>this thread will probably fade away or be trolled into pointlessness because "lol niggers"
Fight me
Post comic books with more intellectual depth than Infinite Jest
>tfw ever since I've read Infinite Jest I am unable to read anything else cause it doesn't live up to it
>go to community college
>lit class is full of extreme normies
>semesters almost over
>quiet all semester, only talk when giving really good reports and projects
>finally got my 7 inch long hair cut to short hair on the weekend
>kind of average looking hairy guy, pretty chubby
>cutest/classiest girl in class turns to me before class and says "I like you're haircut :)"
>book report due
>I chose Lolita at the beginning of the semester
>have to read report infront of class
>open with
>"This is the character study of a pedophile, and at the end another pedophile steals the girl from the main pedophile. It is one of the most beautiful books ever written."
>people laugh like "is this guy serious?"
>teacher has to constantly chime in saying "this book is one of the most influential and important books, and is used in academia constantly"
>doesn't matter, community Chad and community Stacey are just here for their parents and don't know why the fuck I'd choose this book
>end up getting through it pretty well
>teacher was pretty happy
>students think I'm scum
>TL;DR
>quiet guy reads Lolita book report to community college class after getting a compliment from a cute girl and will never even be looked at by anyone for the rest of the year
it was worth it desu
>>8723581
moron
>>8723581
>>go to community college
>>"I like ***YOU'RE*** haircut :)"
>>says the classiest girl in class
>YOU'RE
>YOU'RE
>YOU'RE
super edgy
How do i get into thomas aquinas and scholasticism?
I have already read the catechism,bible and some apologetical works i.e pensees,mere christianity,city of god,confessions,etc.
>>8723259
I wouldn't bother with scholasticism it's an archaic way of thinking. Aristotle is a good starting point for Catholic philosophy. I would assume the Bible and Augustine too.
>>8723259
It's pretty hard, but the way I did it
Fredrick Copleston history of philosophy I and II
Important Plato dialogues like the trial and death, laws, symposium, laws, the republic
Aristotle, categories, metaphysics, ethics, politics, organon, a priori and a posterior logic
Then City of God
Then you are ready to start reading him. This can of course be improved.
Reading Feser will be a valuable as introductory material after Copleston
Certain other contemporary thomists can also be good due to instant applicability of thomism to your life, namely Alasdair MacIntyre and ethical works of Elizabeth Anscombe.
Also, it is very important to ignore all protestants concepts and leave C s Lewis in high school where he belongs.
Scholastic philosophy is fucking huge and for the most part not very important, outside of Aquinas as you don't have contemporary Scottishist, Bonaventurians, Eurigenians, Ockhamists etc outside of theology.
To read all of preparation for Aquinas you'll need at least a year of heavy reading and a lot of willpower. I'm just starting to go through Aquinas with notes.
Hello /lit/, this might be a little bit off-topic but I hope some of you can help me. I'm trying to understand who was "Apollo", if he has any link to Apollyon/Abaddon and Satan. I'm trying to understand why some people say he's evil and/or Satan.