Pretty good, but the advice in it is ultimately at the prejudice of the reader.
>>8593893
It's definitely a book. I looked inside it a few times and found words, some of them in sentences. One time I even read it so I can confirm that it is a book.
>Philosophy became a disease in his mind and cut him off from the truths of practical life. He was steeped in the grossest superstition; he surrounded himself with charlatans and magicians, and took with seriousness even the knavery of Alexander of Abonoteichos. The highest offices in the empire were sometimes conferred on his philosophic teachers, whose lectures he attended even after he became emperor. In the midst of the Parthian war he found time to keep a kind of private diary, his famous "Meditations", or twelve short books of detached thoughts and sentences in which he gave over to posterity the results of a rigorous self-examination. With the exception of a few letters discovered among the works of Fronto (M. Corn. Frontonis Reliquiae, Berlin, 1816) this history of his inner life is the only work which we have from his pen. The style is utterly without merit and distinction, apparently a matter of pride for he tells us he had learned to abstain from rhetoric, and poetry, and fine writing. Though a Stoic deeply rooted in the principles developed by Seneca and Epictetus, Aurelius cannot be said to have any consistent system of philosophy. It might be said, perhaps, in justice to this "seeker after righteousness", that his faults were the faults of his philosophy rooted in the principle that human nature naturally inclined towards evil and needed to be constantly kept in check. Only once does he refer to Christianity (Medit., XI, iii), a spiritual regenerative force that was visibly increasing its activity, and then only to brand the Christians with the reproach of obstinacy (parataxis), the highest social crime in the eyes of Roman authority. He seems also (ibid.) to look on Christian martyrdom as devoid of the serenity and calm that should accompany the death of the wise man.
DROPPED
He hated Infinite Jest
Still does, I am sure
it's okay, because DFW had a great deal of contempt for his ideas. most contemporary writers do.
Yeah, because he has good taste. Putting Infinite Jest next to Ulysses and Gravity's Rainbow in the meme trilogy is like putting a flexing child next to two NFL players.
What am I in for?
>>8593701
good book
a book and a few other small books inside the book
>>8593701
long, boring, repetitive adventures and tom and jerry tier jokes
How do I live the bohemian/literary lifestyle?
What are the essential lifestyle changes I need to make?
flush yourself and this shit thread
go read a book idiot
>>8593694
Be rich.
>>8593694
step one: read books.
There. You are done.
>decide to keep a list of books read
>am forced to make a section for short stories since they are so different in size
>poems, theater/movie scripts???
wat? use tags instead of separate sections
>>8593675
But the list in word format. How do you do it?
>>8593714
what are you, a caveman?
Make up a kafka-esque story and let /lit/ judge it.
>A man wakes up one morning and discovers he is turning into a judge, and he has to put an insect-man on trial
>>8593622
A man eats cereal with a soup spoon and soup with a cereal spoon
for sale: queue to the bank, never moved.
What are some books I can read to help me become more of an educated citizen? Things like Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, etc.
common sense by thomas paine
capital by karl marx
>>8593606
start with the greeks
https://soundcloud.com/taolin/my-podcast-5
Did he finally lose his shit?
who?
>>8593583
Our guy.
>>8593560
No, he's just fucking around. I'm reading Taipei right now. Second half is better than the first, but it sucks overall. Shoplifting from AA was terrible too. Not reading anything by him for a long time.
What are some of the best essays/novels/etc. that detail and explore depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, psychopathy, and whatever else.
The subject interests me and I'd like to discover more.
>>8593529
Notes From Underground is about a Narcissist
>>8593529
As someone with OCD, I thought The Temple of the Golden Pavilion was pretty good.
>>8593730
I thought it was a failed dreamer
Sup, I'm new to all things /lit/ but been trying to change that, started with the greeks but fuck it was hard as fuck to find Mythology by Edith Hamilton. Now that I finally got my hands on a decent pdf after weeks of searching, is there any good sites I can upload it to so newfags can get it more easily and culture their ignorant asses?
Create a mega account
http://www.wikihow.com/Use-MEGA-Cloud-Storage
>>8593505
>it was hard as fuck to find Mythology by Edith Hamilton
The library I work at has, no exaggeration, 40 copies of this.
Why is this guy seen as a cynic? I've only read Elementary particles and half of The Possibility of an Island, but he seems like a romantic to me. All that "love redeems" shit in EP.
>>8593471
>He never read whatever.
His cynicism is nasty to the point of caricature, filled with grotesque displays of romanticism.
His views of self-loathing, misanthropy, pessimism, cynicism, and hopelessness in the face of a life that is pointless and only made moreso by the vivid way he describes hollow seductions of sex and consumer capitalism.
>>8593471
I've read all of Houellebecq's full-length novels, and as far as I've been able to understand it, he's a natural romantic who has been made bitter, twisted and cynical by modern life. His characters' romances rarely end happily, and subsequent misanthropy and alienation are pretty much a given.
because his dog died
Not /lit/ poster. Is this book worth it, if you are fan of the HP series?
>>8593435
its not a book. its a transcript of a play and its basically Shrek Forever After with homo subtext, so no not even an HP fan would like it
>>8593435
>A fan of the series
>Not a lit poster
That's self evident isn't it m8
Smugfrog.tiff
>>8593455
I know it's transcript and that it isn't even written by JKR herself. Still, I'd like to hear opinion of someone who actually did read it.
Hello /lit
So I've been reading some Italo Calvino and just find the stories fantastic and I'm looking for something similar.
This far I've read following.
Cosmicomics, my first and really good even if short stories isn't my favorite form.
If on a winter's night a traveler, the beginning of the book when you read about someone buying a book was one of the best things I've read. Unfortunately I think it goes downward somewhat as it goes on but still a great book.
Invisible Cities, would probably be my least favorite because I found it a bit repetitive.
And lastly I'm currently reading The Baron in the Trees which I'm halfway through and currently enjoying.
The books are so calm and cozy, a bit like reading The Housekeeper and the Professor, you know that nothing bad is going to happen but made in such a fantasy like way. Something else that jumps to my mind of fantastical writing would be about the frog hunting in Cannery Row when the narrative moves more to the frogs.
So what am I looking for?
I barley know myself, something like Calvino, calm, cozy, fantastical and bit crazy.
Bumping because reasons and I'm going to sleep.
Alice in Wonderland
Borges' more fantastical stories I guess? Most of them are in Ficciones.
>>8593816
Waking up from the drunken stupor.
Read Alice in wonderland and Through the looking glass, yes they are both really good.
Even read The Hunting of the Snark but no it's not that good,
Jorge Luis Borges I assume after google told me so. Any place in paralytically I should start ?
Everytime the nobel is just around the corner I get sad when I think about him. He is a hundred times worthier than these nobodies, fucking SJWs had to ruin it all
kien
en mi país, ese hombre no es nadie
En mi país, todos somos ese hombre.
NaNoWriMo is only a few weeks away.
What do YOU have planned?
>>8593386
I thought they were baboons. I was excited.
You have let me down.
>>8593386
Holy shit what r they eating?
I always wanted to try it, just writing a book in a month, never really get around to it.
I pretty much am always in the middle of writing a book, like now, than to start one and finish it all in a month.