Why is John Green such an annoying faggot?
>>8556036
wtf I love John green now
Seems reasonable and polite
>>8556046
the big JG is literally always reasonable and polite, that's what stresses /lit/ out
Can you give examples where sociology of the past has ever predicted modern social phenomena?
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>>8555996
probably never, which is why it's bullshit
>>8555996
Read Marx. I'm not going to spoonfeed you answers for your homework m8.
Best second language, /lit/?
IMO
Ancient tier: Homeric Greek, Roman, Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, Sanskrit
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God tier: French, German
Top tier: Spanish, Russian, Italian
Great tier: Arabic, Farsi, Japanese, whatever most chinese shit is written in, Norwegian, Portuguese
Good tier: all other euro languages
Why? tier: old english, indigenous peoples' languages, that viet-cong shit, everything else
>>8554823
>tfw speak German, Spanish, English
>tfw finna learn French and Japanese
only thing left is to do Arabic, maybe Chinese
>>8554823
>Why? tier: old english, indigenous peoples' languages
>>8554835
To be fair, the mainland Chinese government in the 1950s modified their writing system into something called "Simplified" Chinese (vs. Traditional Chinese which places like Taiwan and Hong Kong still use).
Also, different parts of China speak in different dialects (Cantonese and Mandrin have about as much in common with each other as English and French) although they use the same writing system.
To give an example of the differences, here is "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in
Simplified: 三国演义
Traditional: 三國演義
Just for fun, I believe this is how the Japanese write "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" (note that it's a combination of simplified and traditional Chinese characters):
三国志演義
Who /post-grad depression/ here?
I'm one year out of school and I feel so overwhelmingly inert and directionless. Feels like I have no real prospects. I have a part-time job and I send out applications to various full-time positions that I don't even really want, but at least seem tolerable. I'm losing interest in all of my hobbies and can barely motivate myself to do anything but drink beer and eat junk food. I have no idea what to do with myself.
Anyone have similar experiences, or maybe a book to recommend that might be helpful or at least cathartic?
>>8554042
Same boat except I paid $40,000 extra for 2 years of grad school that let me run away and live in the delusion that I could actually be successful in a world where knowing the right people matters more than knowing the right skills a little longer.
Graduated in June, not a single interview despite probably ~80 full job applications sent in since then.
>>8554042
You just have to find your niche. I can't believe how satisfying my life is after school. Get a job that requires the least amount of work possible, that pays not-shit (say 12-17/hr). Live a simple life, read all day, do whatever you want.
>>8554064
You sir, are the scum of society.
Who is your favorite female author?
What is her best work?
Probably Gramsci. Big fan of her prison notebooks.
Jane Eyre is the most solid work by a female author I can think of.
Flannery O'Connor
Everything That Rises Must Converge
I'm trying to read the Myth of Sisyphus but I'm not getting it. Am I retarded?
No. Camus is not a very good writer.
just watch some JAV instead
What do you think of the high culture/low culture divide?
>>8552522
False dichotomy in our wondrous post-ironic era.
>>8552522
It denotes a real thing, but something being high culture doesn't automatically make it good or worthwhile or heaven forbid "important" in any way .
AXIOMATIC FACT: Beethoven was THE lowest of the low.
>Me: I'm thinking about majoring in English
>STEM Major: Oh what are you gonna do with that
Everytime
I go through this sort of conversation so often /lit/. I'm thinking about pursuing a degree in English because its the only thing thats really ever interested me. I don't think its unreasonable to have some sort of plan for when you graduate but the whole idea of knowing exactly what you want to do with a degree strikes me as unrealistic; how am i suppose to know where I'll be in 4 years? It strikes me that people who ask this question arn't so much interested in higher education as they are in the job it will give them. I want to go to college to learn something and grow as a person. Still I do know I will need a job and what I've heard about English degrees is they are applicable to many different areas. I'm curious about the experience you English majors here had after college and what you think an English degree is worth. What do you think?
>>8549898
Don't listen to neo-/lit/
Follow your dreams
English majors are shit. Go major in something like Philosophy, Classics, or Linguistics if you're going for a humanities degree and actually learn some pretty sick shit.
Just bought the Wordsworth Classics Kafka collection and am halfway through Metamorphosis.
What should I read next?
What's his best work?
I'm enjoying the surrealism of Metamorphosis a lot.
The prose isn't exceptional but it is comfy and enjoyable to read.
>>8544844
>the prose isn't exceptional
Your translation has got to be shit. Kafka is considered a master of the German idiom.
>>8544844
>Wordsworth
There's your problem, get Everyman, even Vintage, just not Wordsworth.
>>8544894
What's wrong with Wordsworth? It only cost 1p plus shipping, it was a bargain. I'm not concerned with the acidity of paper or whatever
What you lads got?
>>8543064
>browsing /a/
m8...
Who is a well-known author that has worse prose than JK Rowling?
>>8556117
Why would you care
>>8556117
E. L. James
Are you kidding me
It's 2017 and president Donald Trump has just moved into the white house. Trump has concluded that there are way too many books in America and asks you anon, as a literary expert, what books should be burnt. He's impatiently waiting for your answer.
>>8555633
The Art of the Deal
>>8555633
please, hillary would be the book burner- she's probably a terrible cook.
All of them, if there is a cataclysm might as well make it real
>tfw you've been pronouncing Foucault incorrectly since forever and no one has ever corrected you
>camuS
foo coh
Be real, how many times can you count when you've discussed Foucault earnestly to another human being not through a chinese checker website?
>shitty places like russia make good literature
>well-off places like britain make shitty literature
But why
>not knowing that art comes from pain
Fucking NEWBIE.
/thread.
>>8553933
I'm to smart to know that
What are some books about the fear of sex? I, having a fear of sex.
Why is hating Jews bad but hating Catholics is hip and down-with-the-kids
Well, I can point you in the direction of books featuring a shy young maiden or a murderous twat who can't deal with the rigmarole of mating with the opposite sex. What's your pleasure?
>>8553729
it's not