What non-fiction are you reading?
Any suggestions?
Anything in particular you want suggested?
Spent the first half of pic related looking up background info, since it covers a brief period of time in detail. It's great though, the author is clearly excited by the subject and it carries into his writing.
Does anyone have books on improving time management or organizational skills?
Well, in order:
The Sense of an Ending - Frank Kermode
The Temptation to Exist - Emil Cioran
Black Light: Theory and Praxis in the writings of Giorgio Manganelli - Mattia Cavadini
The Image-Movement - Gilles Deleuze
Pretty good stuff, I'll tell you. Cioran and Deleuze in particular
got this for free, gonna give it a chance soon.
guys when I read mobi dick I feel like I'm not really getting the deeper meaning behind the book. I mean, I can say what the story line is, it's a pretty simple story, I can recap it just fine. It's just all the symbolism and shit that goes on in the book, and all the literary references, and the dream, and ishmael comparing the whale to the innermost soul or something, and all these other allusions to stuff. I just ugh, I'm about a third of the way through the book and I feel like I'd have to go back and re-read the entire thing just so I can get the "deeper meaning".
>ugh
Post tits
>>8519425
pleb general?
>>8519425
Your little woman mind can't comprehend it, stick to John Green
How well has it aged?
>>8519363
Why would speculation age?
>>8519363
Most of the concepts never were too plausible to begin with.
It's still a great book, the illustrations are amazing.
>>8519815
This, but Man After Man had funnier pictures.
>Look up a controversial philosopher on Wikipedia
>The longest segment of their page is dedicated to their view of race
>>8519343
>wikipedia
>>8519343
Are you redpilled like me? Just avoid wiki, they have a liberal cultural Marxist bias.
Find infographics on /pol/ if you want the truth about race
so it wasn't locke. i checked. who was it?assuming you're an amerifat
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>>8519330
>as an entire group of people can be looked at as a biologically flawed quantum computer.
the most reddit statement in existence
>people can be looked at as a biologically flawed quantum computer
Stopped reading here. A bunch of fashionable buzzwords attributed to very well known things.
Anywhere is the world to get by with minimal money?
So reading can be a priority again.
Make reading great again.
>>8519324
Not literature related
Go back to /r9k/
Sage and report
Macedonia and Albania are pretty cheap and safe.
Maybe Scandinavia.
Hey /lit/
I just became "living in a car" homeless and decided, fuck it I can just travel the nation. What writers do you think I should try to meet and what state or city do they live in? Harlan Ellison is one of my favourites and he's already offered to meet me but I want to meet people /lit/ likes, not just m heroes, and maybe post some rewarding photo evidence for everyone over the next couple weeks.
Maybe I can record a video of me calling Franzen an "audience pussy"?
sounds pretty fun desu. make sure to do acid with tao lin.
>>8519319
how do you contact a writer?
>>8519325
As far as I know Tao lives in New York, right? Great suggestion, I can do that. I was in Virginia but I'm in Kansas today. Ill be happy to do Tao soon but if some other people could suggest other NY writers I could knock multiple out in one trip rather than have to go back.
Have you ever gotten 50 pages into a book, realized you're not going to like/ enjoy it, but power through just so you can pad your goodreads with it? If so, what book? Also, other than reading children's stories like Dr. Seuss and pocket poetry books, what are some quick ways to increase my "read" shelf (I have already added virtually 100 books from preschool and upwards but want to diversify so it's not obvious what I'm doing)?
>>8519285
who are you trying to impress with your goodreads account?
>>8519285
This is why I don't have a Goodreads account, and why I deleted my RYM accound - because I don't want to consume art for the sake of others who does the same
you should only worry about the art you consume, not what others think about the art you consume
>>8519285
I hate to intrude on your insanity, but you know you can just list any book you want and claim to have read it, right? If you're just trying to impress some hypothetical bespectacled college girl.
I am going to recap what's happened up to page 248 in my copy of mobi dick, and I want people to tell me if there's some big themes that I've missed. I mean, I get what's happening in the story, but it seems like a lot of the deeper overarching themes are pretty much going over my head. If you could help tell me what some of the themes leading up to the part I'm at right now are, that'd be great.
ishmael introduces himself. he decides that he doesn't want to sail out of new hampture, but instead wants to sail out of nantucket because it has more history and was where whailing started. in an inn called coffin or something, after wandering around the city, he goes inside and stares at an ominous picture, then he talks to the owner about sharing a room with someone. He thought he was going to share a room with one of the guys at the end of the bar, but he went out again and didn't seem to come back.
He didn't like the idea of sharing a bed with another guy, so instead he decided that would go and sleep on a bench, but there was a terrible freezing draft, so instead he decided that he would sleep with another guy anyways. The guy he was sleeping with was quequeg, who at first freaked out when he saw him sleeping in his bed and ishmael had to call up the landlord to keep quequeg from killing him with a hatchet (quequeg is also a severed head sailsmen), but in the end quequeg and him were buddies and sort of shared a semi gay loving friendship with each other.
They went to church and the preacher said all this shit about god which was pretty evangelical and conservative in nature (as opposed to ishmael's more liberal nature) and he also shared in a ritual with quequeg which was a pagan ritual with the small wooden negro statue. Ishmael figured that he would simply respect quequeg's religious practices because he respects people's beliefs, and since they were friends he didn't want to be rude. They decided that they would sail out on the ship with each other, and it was ishmael's job to go and pick out the ship they were sailing on, quequeg's wooden statue told quequeg he must do it.
On the nights leading up to shipping out, they stayed in a small inn somewhere that was recommended by the owner of the coffin inn, and while there they had to tear down a door, because quequeg was meditating and fasting all day in one position, and they thought that he had committed suicide because someone who had stayed in that inn before committed suicide and quequeg's speer was missing from downstairs, but it turned out that he was just fasting. Before they left for the ship, a strange man came up and warned ishmael and quequeg about the journey, and the prophecy that was fulfilled when ahab had his leg severed off by the whale. Thus proceeds the journey, where it takes a while for ahab to come out of the cabin.
Then, after a while ahab decides that not even smoking or looking out the back window of the boat brought him and comfort or love of the beauty around him, because all he could think about was how fucking mobi dick bit his leg off. So he goes up on deck and nails a piece of gold to the wall and tells everyone that they're on a hunt for mobi dick, and everyone is really happy about the hunt and excited, except for starbuck who's like "bitch I'm here to make money, not carry out your 'payback' to some stupid mindless whale". Then they have a party down below and ahab talks about how unhappy he is again, and a squall hits. Then ishmael talks about how dangerous moby dick is.
That's how far I am into the story for now.
>>8519241
>mobi
is this a meme or what?
>>8519958
Oh shit, mobi is a book file format. It's moby isn't it.
what is the point of a text being written in verse, meter or rhyming scheme?
I'm reading Goethe's Faust right now and the childish rhyming robs it of all dignity, and I don't understand how any of this is desirable
pic unrelated
>>8519188
you're reading it in the original german I presume?
>>8519188
You're probably reading Goethe in a shitty translation. If so, just stop.
If not, you are just a pleb who can't appreciate the true genius that someone like Goethe tells us a story of epic proportions and does so in a highly stylised manner. In your pleb opinion, Dante and Homer are probably shit too.
>pic unrelated
Your dubs beg to differ.
>>8519188
Rhyming is completely different to metre. Milton, the writer of the greatest poem in the English language, wrote this:
>THE Measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and Virgil in Latin; Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but much to thir own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse then else they would have exprest them. Not without cause therefore some both Italian, and Spanish Poets of prime note have rejected Rhime both in longer and shorter Works, as have also long since our best English Tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, triveal, and of no true musical delight; which consists onely in apt Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one Verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoyded by the learned Ancients both in Poetry and all good Oratory. This neglect then of Rhime so little is to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar Readers, that it rather is to be esteem'd an example set, the first in English, of ancient liberty recover'd to heroic Poem from the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.
so has anyone actually seen god or heaven or hell and can prove that they exist? If god could be proven to exist, wouldn't there be no more religions, because there would be no faith, it could just be factually verifiable?
>>8519186
Oh wow! Eureka! You've discovered what so many people have already. why did you start this thread?
>>8519194
Fuck off name fag
>>8519186
>implying Catholics are the same as Baptists or Presbyterians
They all believe in God, just different somehow.
Are there any books that have actually scared you? None of this gore crap.
>>8519184
He's big influence for Hillary.
The gore is only implied. Pure, real, terror.
>>8519184
Hate to say it but pet sematary scared the shit out of me. I did read it when i was really young so could just be the adolescent mind.
>>8519239
It feels like most of the top horror stories come from Stephen King, but honestly it just feels like normie hype.
I just ordered a hard cover copy of infinite jest. Are you mad?
>>8519150
thats gay
no
enjoy your read friend
>>8519150
not mad, but you have wasted your money
i know you also need grammar books, etc. but lets say im learning german. is it better to watch german tv with english subtitles. or english language tv with german subtitles? and will either actually help in conjuction with duolingo/grammar books/studying/etc.?
sorry i know this is a kind of frequent post but couldnt find one or anythjng on the wiki.
german tv with english subtitles and yes enough that it's worth doing
Don't use books or websites or anything. Just live it. Learn the way children learn: by using it as your only means of communication with anyone.
>>8519149
how would i do that in philadelphia?
Where is the depository of all the worthwhile books? It was separated into folders like "Russian lit" and "Sci Fi." Does anybody have those links?
I already checked the stick btw, theres nothing.
Google libgen
>>8519132
>all the worthwhile books
wut
you talking about the old foler links from sharethreads?