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Why does /lit/ love this goofy fuck? His zany but "deep" postmodern writing is just like Vonnegut. How could he be placed along side Melville, Joyce, Dante and Tolstoy? How could anyone take this board seriously after that? It's an embarassment.
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ahhhhh go fuck yaself
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Do you people are able to write in any enviroment or circunstance? Or do you get blocks easily and need a specific circunstance to write?
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>>9924175
I easily get blocks. Then sometimes I can write under any circumstance. Very random. No trust in myself.
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I dont write at all. 8 hours of working in factory, then 8 hours at uni (computer science), come back home, solving alghoritms/working at my website, while eating something, read some philosophy/poetry i am interested at certain time, and finally go to sleep for 5 hours, cyc only, but its only monday-friday, so i dont know how i am supposed to do it, should i quit my job?
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>>9924237
ups
*cycle repeats. Next year i want to start major in philosophy but its only monday-friday, should i quit my job?
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>As early as 2011, the phrase “Wallace backlash” was being employed in online publications (Giardina 2011, Warnica 2011) in response to articles criticising Wallace’s writing and literary influence that had begun to appear in mainstream outlets including Prospect Magazine and The New York Times (Dyer 2011, Newton 2011). In the wave of responses that followed the release of the biographical film The End of the Tour in 2015, some commentators turned their ire on the “Wallace Industry” for an alleged hijacking of Wallace’s reception and public image (Shechtman 2015, Lorentzen 2015). More recently still, these two themes have sometimes combined in feminist commentary that connects the perceived maleness of Wallace’s writing with the makeup of his readership and his place within a broader patriarchal culture
https://pynchon.net/articles/10.16995/orbit.224/
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I went to have dinner with my parents the other day and my dad told me DFW was a faggot. I didn't know what to say.
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>>9924093
"and butt so?"
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>Trump image
>DFW and feminist critique
>link to a Pynchon.net that my browser says is trying to steal my credit card information
where's Stirner?
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Was it autism?
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>>9924033
Yes?
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>>9924033
yes but super influential...read a condensation/explanation
try reading it through and you'll be wasting time and killing your soul...sloooooooooww
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Who was in the wrong here?
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>>9924030
Reminder the protesters were actually hardcore Maoists.
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>>9924040
confirmed for not knowing shit about the protests
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>>9924030
Im gonna go ahead and say this was an occasion where governments and shadow organizations do whatever the fuck they want, except this time it wasn't kept under wraps. That's what they fear the most anyway. Huge publicity.
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What are some good books on eastern christianity?
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>>9924007
The Bible
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Philokalia.
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>>9924007
An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith - St John of Damascus.
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Is there a point to reading Copleston's history of philosophy if I don't know classic Greek or Latin?
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>>9923965
Try Anthony Kenny's A New History of Western Philosophy, or Western Philosophy: An Anthology by John G. Cottingham
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>>9923965
Yes, because he wrote in English dumbass.
What are some good books about people who happen to be LGBTIQ+?
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the bible, although even that might not be enough to save you.
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Aristotle - Metaphysics
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>>9923925
Giovanni's Room, The Counterfeiters, Pale Fire
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ripped my fucking heart out. go anon find love before its too late. Kazuo has fascinating and quite painful things to say about the nature of love and how love has a proper time, a time that may be lost or missed. As someone who has loved, lost and missed I found this particularly challenging. The relationship between sex and love and illness is perhaps something people may find simply too much - not because this is handled in any way that is too explicit, but because I do believe we like to think that sex, as a manifestation of love, has curative and redemptive powers. A book that questions this, questions something we hold very dear and some readers may find this too much to ask.
This is also a book about betrayal. The betrayals we commit against those we love the most and yet that we barely can understand or explain after we have committed them - these are constant throughout the book. He is a writer all too aware of the human condition. The scene which gives the book its title is a wonderful example of the near impossibility of our being understood by others and yet our endless desire for just such an understanding.
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>>9923891
Looks interesting. I am at a point of my life I am just wating to read something that will make me more aware of why my life is so shit.
I will check it out, thanks for the suggestion, op.
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we dont discuss books here in /lit/. take that to reddit
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>>9923898
oh fuck this book will make you want to live if anything. made me want to live and made me realize how precious our time on earth really is and how easily it can be wiped away. if you were to die next year. before dying take a look at your life. was it good?
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Which is the superior one? Which side has produced the best literature? Do we have more in common than we have differences? Which is the true Church?
Discuss.
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comet suicide homobroteenposerqueernorm
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>>9931553
>muh slave morality
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>>9931553
It would be really lame if you devoted your life to God and he sent you to hell for being in the wrong sect.
books to unspook myself?
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>My diary
>The Bible
>Grade 9 history textbook
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>>9923880
Ego I...
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>>9923880
I would move the switch so the train killed the most ppl
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I just finished reading the Lime Twig by John Hawkes and enjoyed it very much. I can see how Pynchon was inspired by it as the first chapter reminded me of parts in the first section of GR. Has anyone else read Hawkes? If so, what are some other recommendations?
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>>9923867
I read travesty and thought it was great. if what its about doesn't sound 2edgy4u you will like it.
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>>9923893
I've got Travesty, the Beetle Leg, and the Cannibal on order right now so maybe I'll read Travesty next. I love Hawkes' prose as it's almost hallucinatory.
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Books for this feel?
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Random walk down wall street
One up on wall street
The intelligent investor
Rich dad, poor dad
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>>9923863
thanks kindly
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Margin of Safety
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I love space movies like Moon and 2001. Are there any good books with the same theme?
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>>9931195
Did you LIKE 2001, the movie?
If so, you'll like the books. They go farther and describe motivations in the movie.
Did you think the 2001 movie is one of the GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS OF CINEMA OF ALL TIME?
Do NOT read the books. They spoon feed you things present in the movie to the astute viewer. I never made it past book 1.5.
Can't speak on Moon.
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>>9931195
Rendezvous with Rama is good, and it was written by a guy who helped Kubrick write the script of 2001.
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>>9931195
Solaris blyat
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I feel like I can't remember much of anything related to what I read about a month after I finish a book. Especially regarding philosophy. Basically, after I finish something, I can only really have a vague feeling as to how the author feels or would respond about topics. Do I have a disease? Am I wasting my time?
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>>9923858
No and no.
Thats super natural. The point in reading shoudent be knowing word-by-word of work, it should be a expirience where you not only enrich yourself, but also understand what said author would think of a specific subject.
This is specialy irritating in philosophy, where pieces of shit will call you pseud for not knowing every fucking obscure word in some work, while these same retards forget the point of reading philosophy in the first place.
Dont fall for the "if you cant remember, then you are pseud" meme, this is just elitist garbage. Enjoy yourself, thats the most basic tenant of literature ever.
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If you remembered everything you read, I assume you would not keep a library then.
I can't speak for anybody else but I forget most of what I read except for two or three things that may have really affected my worldview. What matters is: did the book change the way you feel or look at something/yourself? Did that remain with you? Then perhaps you've not 'forgotten' the book after all.
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>>9923871
Oh yeah, I forgot to mencion, if literature was about learning by heart word for word of some book, then we all would be a bunch of haffez of several books.
Even schoolars of some authors dont know word by word of their area of expertise, why should you who is just a casual reader or enthusiast?