How many pages do you read in an average day? I usually read around 200, but if I'm feeling lazy I read about 20 or 30.
>>8696365
I work a full time job. I cannot read 200 pages a day even if I tried. I'd fall asleep long before that, plus I work out every other day.
If I can read a book per month I'm happy.
>>8696365
Zero
These threads are made by retards. 150 pages of what? children's books, YA, Finnegans Wake, Zettel's Traum?
sometimes you can feel that this guy is almost touching greatness, but then he ruins it with corny lines and strange dialogue
what is it about him that makes his books sell so well despite his flaws?
>>8696320
>what is it about him that makes his books sell so well despite his flaws?
>why do Britney Spears albums sell despite her being a vapid cunt?
commercial success doesn't need to be explained. So much shite sell so well and so few ppl can reproduce said shite - its just mostly luck
recently watched him talking to george rrrrrr martin and he seems borderline...'special'
How do I get started with Samuel Beckett? Flowchart, the important influences on him, prerequisite reading, etc.
>>8696278
Start with the Greeks
Read Ulysses by Joyce as a pre-requisite for Waiting for Godot. Then Unnamable. If you like him, read through the rest of his corpus in any order, either way finish with Endgame.
>>8696290
Don't listen to this retard. You can't just read the Unnamable before the rest of the Trilogy
ITT: Name a movie and recieve some book recommendation
>Just original scripts
I usually avoid movies with cool dudes and guns because that's usually a poor formula, but I don't know anything about this movie except posters and people like it.
>>8696245
Worth it
>>8696047
The mother and the whore
would you read this /lit/?
sure
>>8695934
long as there's no mention of any 'milk stores'
>>8695957
thats the best part
you have ten seconds to post the name of the best prose poet you can think of.
Bob Dylan
i can only think of one and its solzhenitsyn
>>8695757
Tolstoyevski
Thoughts on Rene Guenon?
>>8695715
A less edgy Evola
he's a baller. called everything about now. A bunch of his short essays are available online at worldwisdom. too stubborn though. if you read Henry Corbin's Alone with the Alone I'll love you forever anon.
>>8695902
OP here.. I've read all guenon except metaphysical principles and most of corbin including alone with the alone
I want to hear what other people think about this stuff
I'm halfway through this novel and I'm confused as to how I should feel about it. Apparently, J.G Ballard is an important figure in New Wave SF but I don't get it. The book has a pulp feeling to it.
It's not good, it's not bad, it's just weird.
Has anyone read it?
>>8695646
I think it grows on you are you read it. I went into it very unsure, and stayed that way through most of the novel, but it definitely came through as one of my favourites from the era.
It's definitely pulpy, but that pulp is underpinned by some really fascinating psychology. That melding of styles is what Ballard does, basically, and personally I love it. For something less indebted to pulp, but also a lot less comprehensible, try The Atrocity Exhibition.
>>8695646
I agree. Read this earlier this year and the pulp was frankly a little much for me. The sort of psychological ploy was cool, but in my opinion not cool enough to justify the needless 'damsel in distress', bizarre racial caricatures etc. Some scenes are very aesthetically cool though.
What am I in for?
Read it and find out for yourself you stupid cunt
>>8695655
>asks what the book has to offer
>"lol no"
Edgy hippies jerking off
What is the opposite of the '-let' suffix? For example, if 'manlet' means a short guy, what suffix could be used to denote a tall guy? Same with brainlet, chinlet etc.
>>8695585
In English the typical thing to do seems to be to borrow the German "uber" as a prefix.
>>8695585
>if 'manlet' means a short guy, what suffix could be used to denote a tall guy?
A Big Guy.
>brainlet
Brainiac.
>chinlet
Fuck is that?
>>8695585
>manlet
lanklet
>brainlet
to intelligent
>chinlet
Chad
Recent purchases thread, but write a poem for another person's stack telling them how good/bad their stacks are.
>>8695565
There once was a freshman with matted down hair
Who posted on 4chan and read in his lair.
He posted and posted, gave occasional looks
Longingly over to his pile of books,
Which he said he would read in the upcoming day,
But which coming day he never would say.
So he posted and posted and took pictures too
Of the books on his shelves that he'd never gone through;
He bought more and more, stocking them like food,
But they never were opened 'cause he was a pseud.
>>8695573
*snaps*
>>8695573
upboat desu
Wtf is this shit and how is it comprehensible?
>>8695403
It's a book
>>8695408
yep, can confirm that it appears to be a book
>>8695403
It looks weird at a glance, but once you know what he's trying to do it's not difficult to comprehend at all. There's a recent New Yorker interview with the translator that explains it pretty well.
Could philosophy exist without language?
No? What kind of question is that?
>could math exist without numbers?
>>8695390
cats are sacred
>>8695397
Depends... Many animals, including humans up until a few thousand years ago, can/could perform basic mathematical operations without any formally defined mathematical system, and probably without even having any conscious awareness that they are/were doing it
post your reading chair
>>8695123
You actually just posted mine, OP. I even have the black cushion and brown wood.
Not my pic but I mainly read sitting on my bed, if not there than in a hammock, a chair, or the ground outside
>>8695135
>>8695123
>POÄNG
And mine is a gray cushion on black wood
Does anyone else think that it's fucked up how humans always want more, but are never satisfied?
I guess it's what has gotten humanity to this point of amazing advancement though. We are never satisfied we will always move forward.
But it sucks to want something so much, and to get it but still not feel any better.
It's bad for humans (cuz we're never truly fulfilled and happy), but good for humanity (cuz it pushes us to achieve).
Books for this feel?
>inb4: my diary desu
The Phenomenology of Spirit.
Bhagavad Gita
Bunp