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>make a goodreads
>start adding books i've read from memory
>barely make it to 100 books
>know that i have read a lot more but simply can't remember them
What's the point of reading if we simply forget?
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I just only mark down the stuff I read from the point I make an account.
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>>8606818
'I can not remember the books I've read any more than the meals I've eaten. None the less, they've made me'
--Ralph Waldo Emeerson
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Which translation of the One Thousand and One Nights would you recommend?
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The Oxford google translated version, or the Cambridge Wikipedia simple rendition.
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>>8608009
Now that's shitty advice if I ever saw one.
Well written review of different translations:
https://www.amazon.com/review/R1DW7PN775BD3H/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1466203897&nodeID=283155&store=books
You've two options for complete translations:
A. New Penguin Classics translation by Lyons/Lyons. Easy to read, accurate, modern language, a bit dull, and with absolutely terrible index and chapter system. Stories are separated by days only, so trying to find one that you look for is absolute pain. Contents actually look like this:
Nights 720 to 739
Nights 740 to 759
B. Burton translation. He was a pervert, so he even embellished naughty parts. Language is arhaic at times and more fluid. The problem is that it's past copyright date, and there are a huge amount of editions of his around. From complete, to abridged, to censored, so finding the right one is as hard as selecting translation.
You can also check abridged ones. The work is absolutely massive, so just reading selected stories is nothing to look past.
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>>8608687
I've read the penguin editions. They're probably the best you'll get if you want the full unabridged package. However being unabridged you'll see that some of the stories are almost copy-pasted from each other with different names and locations making reading a chore after a while
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Since it's expensive as fuck,is it worth it and what would you rate it?
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>>8606789
The $1 paperback is the same content. It's just some silly Lovecraft-copied stuff padded out with old Babylonian Marduk seals. If you want something more convincing in content, try Donald Tyson's Necronomicon.
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>>8606789
who wrote this version
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>>8606809
Lovecraft
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What must I read before writing anything at all?
I'm a newfag to /lit/core and recently got inspired to write something.
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Sorry m8 your gonna have to read it all
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You don't have to read anything to write. You should have spent your entire life reading if you want to write well.
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the western canon
>>8606771
also this
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Opinions on the Dark Tower series? They're my favorite
Yes we know King is for plebs etc etc
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>>>/sffg/
>>>/r/eddit
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>>8606748
just finished the first book. boy, it was rough. i liked the ending but the entire book just felt thrown together on a whim. there's little worldbuilding and the characters are pretty bland. it certainly has potential i guess but ive only read the first book so maybe the others are better.
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What was the point of the jawbone?
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Is Zizek's dislike of Buddhism rooted in narcissism of small differences?
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>>8606606
Essentially yes. He's a very butthurt individual
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>>8606606
>narcissism of small differences
I can't imagine a Yugoslav being prone to such things...
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bolshe zizek
Post your favourite quotes from literature. Here's one from William Gass' The Tunnel:
>Wild eyes were another sign. It is something I have seldom seen — the expression of an ecstatic state — though much is foolishly written of them, as if they grew like Jerusalem artichokes along the road. The eyes are black, right enough, whatever their normal color is; they are black because their perception is condensed to a coal, because the touch and taste and perfume of the lover, the outcry of a dirty word, a welcome river, have been reduced in the heat of passion to a black ash, and this unburnt residue of oxidation, this calyx, replaces the pupil so it no longer receives but sends, and every hair is on end, though perhaps only outspread on a pillow, and the nostrils are flared, mouth agape, cheeks sucked so the whole face seems as squeezed as a juiced fruit; I know, for once Lou went into that wildness while we were absorbing one another, trying to kiss, not merely forcefully, not the skull of our skeleton, but the skull and all the bones on which the essential self is hung, kiss so the shape of the soul is stirred too, that's what is called the ultimate French, the furtherest fuck, when a cock makes a concept cry out and climax; I know, for more than once, though not often, I shuddered into that other region, when a mouth drew me through its generosity into the realm of unravel, and every sensation lay extended as a lake, every tie was loosed, and the glue of things dissolved. I knew I wore the wild look then. The greatest gift you can give another human being is to let them warm you till, in passing beyond pleasure, your defenses fall, your ego surrenders, its structure melts, its towers topple, lies, fancies, vanities, blow away in no wind, and you return, not to the clay you came from — the unfired vessel — but to the original moment of inspiration, when you were the unabbreviated breath of God.
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>>8606576
woah
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>>8606576
I've read that out loud and it sounds absolutely great. Good passage anon.
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>>8606576
>The stars are real. The future is that mountain.
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what are some essential, beautiful works in japanese lit? Im going to Japan for a week and want something to read. I have pic related already and wanted something else comfy to read.
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>>8606541
>japanese
>lit
Yeah nah. Mishima is an extrapolation of European cultural export and Murakami, of American cultural export
The only Asian lit worth it is Persian or Indian, some Chinese classics too.
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>>8606541
Silence by Shusaku Endo of course.
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>>8606566
That's a great one.
Also get a collection of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa stories/novelettes.
If you read a lot fast, try Eiji Yoshikawa's Taiko or Musashi.
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What is the 'I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream' of literature?
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Ur mom
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>>8606536
It's Kind Of A Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
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>>8606536
>when you think you're on /b/ or /s4s/
Have you read this? Is it Dianetics tier psychological fiction or genuine insight into the psychedelic experience?
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>>8606533
The only way to genuinely gain insights into the psychedelic experiences is to do psychedelics.
LSD, shrooms, mescaline as a start and then go from there.
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>>8607110
True, but before you do this you should get some information to avoid stupid mistakes (like taking LSD at noisy place with terrible ppl). Just read in forums, experience reports on erowid, and stuff like this
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>>8607416
do you think it may be bad idea to take psychedelic in philharmony at bruckner symphony?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9g2m8rAcO0
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/lit/ I got the idea in my head that I want to try writing fantasy. Then it occured to me that I don't think I've read a fantasy novel in half a decade.
Please recommend me some must-reads from the genre, whether it's high fantasy shit with dragons and wizards or low fantasy shit with knights battling each other in """"not""""" Earth. Even shit you think is braindead obvious like Tolkiens shit because I really haven't read much good fantasy at all.
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There's a thread dedicated to fantasy
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Well yesterday we had the guy who disliked erotica but wanted to write in the genre, and today we have the guy who wants to write fantasy but hasn't read a fantasy novel in ages!
Do you mongrels think Cervantes wrote Don Quijote without having completely immersed himself in chivalry novels?
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>>8606558
who's don coyote
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What are some works that attempt to justify altruism, empathy and love on a logical, philosophical basis?
Something that'll BTFO Ayn Rand and Stirner for example.
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This guy.
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>>8606493
Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Hume, Kant
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>>8606493
Here's the real question:
WHY do you want to justify altruism, empathy and love?
If they are not self-evidently justified, you had better start asking some hard questions.
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Would you ever praise a poet that uses emojis in their writing?
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>>8606461
>Would you ever praise a poet that uses emojis in their writing?
Would you eat your cereal if it had forty dicks in it?
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I plan to as soon as emojis are enabled here
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Dovstoevsky is a retard
Prove me wrong
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>>8606436
Your thread is shit
Prove me wrong
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>>8606437
Of course its shit,no one has even tried to contest my statement
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>>8606436
>believes in god
checks out desu fampai
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who is the scaruffi of literature?
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>>8606425
Scaruffi
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Bloom
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>>8606425
scaruffi thinks ummagumma is better than dark side of the moon.