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Would you consider yourself a well read individual?
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>>8463267
I suppose, but I also try to not smell too much of the lamp.
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>>8463267
you tell me
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no, I'm honestly just a fraud
>real page turner
>New York times best seller
>a powerful read
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>haunting
>hilarious
>skewers the American dream
>scathing satire of the fashion industry
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>>8463234
tour de force
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>Title: A Novel
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What would be the ideal chronological order in which a nietzsche noob like myself should read his books?
I have a light understanding of kants work and a competant understanding of Schopenhauers writings.
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>>8463197
The ideal chronological order would be from the first thing he wrote to the last.
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Start with the Greeks.
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read them in alphabetical order instead
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Is the trilogy that follows after Rendevous with Rama worth reading? I've heard the first two are a slog and filled with more drama than exploration or science. But on the other hand I've heard the third one fixes that issue and also, you know, reveals things.
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>>8463106
Stop after Rendezvous, the whole point is that you don't get told what Rama actually is. The mysterious aspect is why the book is good.
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I've only read the first. Loved it.
I think the alien nature of the craft is overstated in the reviews I've read. What makes it so... unnerving or mystical, is that it's so nearly human.
That aspect isn't talked about enough.
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>>8463106
>first true contact with aliens
>this might be the most important oment in the history of man kind
>lets send a bunch of criminals lol
i was never more pissed at a book than when reading about how the prisioners shit the bed and ruin everything for everyone else on the ship when things were going so well until the moment they showed up
Starting with an easy one.
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>>8463066
Taipei
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>>8463066
doors of perception
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Infinite Vice
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I may be in the minority here but this is one of the few books I wholeheartedly regret wasting my time and money on.
Should've just re-re-reread Neuromancer desu.
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>>8463035
>Now I'm wasting a thread on it too
>>>/sffg/
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>>8463035
>not liking the delivorator.
I shiggy diggy do da
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>>8463035
What did you dislike? I haven't read Neuromancer myself, but I really loved a lot about this book.
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pic related is mine
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Did he write this one before or after he impregnated his cousin?
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King Bolo’s Royal Body Guard
Were called ‘The Jersey Lilies’—
A bold and bestial set of blacks
Undaunted by syphilis.
They wore the national uniform
Of a garland of verbenas
And a pair of big black hairy balls
And a big black hairy penis.
-T.S. Eliot (seriously-this is just an excerpt)
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Sam T. Coleridge. That shit is metal as fuck.
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I wrote this when I was drunk over a year ago.
What does /lit/ think of this in terms of a very short "slice of life" story?
"Are you good dude?"
The propensity flows over me, as it has many times before.
"Yea man, I'm fine....I'm definitely good to drive."
He looks at me with a slight look of concern
"Whatever you say pal, have a good night."
"Yea, you too."
I take off from the front door, stumbling to my car. "I should have stayed over," I think to myself as I unlock the car door. I know I'm in no condition to drive, but I certainly don't want to impose on my friend. He lives with his girlfriend now, I wouldn't want to interrupt any plans he has with her.
I step in my car and start the ignition. Pulling away, I try to act as normal as possible.
"Well here we go, let's hope we can make it home without getting pulled over."
Through the streets I drive. The highway is my destination. I must make it there. I must make it home.
Gunning my vehicle, I make my way onto the on-ramp.
"I must make it up to merging speed," I think to myself
Swerving ever so slightly, I make it up to sixty five miles per hour.
"I need to keep it at this speed, so I seem coherent with the flow of traffic."
Pulling around the bend, I keep track of my speedometer like a hawk.
"Look at these people around me," I muse,
"They can't drive worth a damn!" I think as I floor past them. Good drivers are like attractive women, so far and so few between. Onwards I go, towards my exit.
"Easy, easy...I'm doing well. I just have to keep en-between the lines, and the cops won't notice me."
Racing towards my destination, I blend in with the other vehicles. Making my way upon the intersection, I see my exit is coming up. I must prepare to merge onto my exit.
Merging goes smoothly, and I'm on my way. I'm so close to home, but something could happen.
Going down a close side street, I tighten up, every small movement is exaggerated and amplified, and analyzed.
So close to home, got to keep it together.
Finally, I'm on my street. I pull into my drive way, relief flooding over me like a tsunami .
"Well, that was interesting." I think to myself.
"I should really be more careful, before I drive home drunk."
- END
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>>8462927
Pretty good.
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>>8462927
Kind of pretentious. Also lacks proper motive. No person drunk enough to think they're okay to drive would ever question if they are ok to drive. Plus he was offered the night why didn't he just stay? Its not that odd. The narrator also seems to be relativley clear of mind. If I was that hammered and I got on the road my mind would be somewhere between dazed and delirious. The road, the trees, the cars would all be remembered as a blur, and your writing does not reflect that. Theres also no sense of suspense. Although we (the readers) are aware the mc is taking a stupid risk and is going against better judgement to do something extremely dangerous it never feels like hes going to get hurt. Its almost like one could tell that you were going to end with the mc getting home safe within the first couple sentences. All things considered, I'd give it a 6 maybe 7 out of 10. If you want to make something decent work harder at your writing, and read more. Otherwise you'll be stuck in mediocrity forever.
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>>8463750
I thought it was pretty accurate to driving drunk...I never feel good about it, no matter how drunk I am. You're always conscious you're driving drunk and that you could get pulled over. Maybe some drunk drivers just don't give a damn, but most reasonable people are conscious like OP, in fact driving drunk can be sobering because it makes you nervous.
That said OP I like it but some of the wording is a little awkward.
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Which philosopher is the most fun to read?
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Derrida
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>>8462923
Nietzsche
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Kant
also you have shitty taste in music
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is there a point in reading another taco book other than don quixote if I want to learn to write in taco?
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>>8462840
funny
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>>8462840
ya lots
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xD
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Greatest male or female characters of all time?
I'm looking to study and discuss amazing characters in history and literature, and I mean amazing in the broadest sense. They don't have to be considered moral, popular, heroic etc.
I'm just looking for interesting and deep characters.
Pic related is a fascinating character for her outsmarting the church.
I'd like to see amazing characters from all walks, any political or cultural identity is fine as well.
Thanks.
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Satan, Paradise Lost, Milton
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So you're looking for character driven works? Do you care if it's in first person? Have you tried Lolita?
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Maldoror
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Philistine here, haven't touched a book since high school's required reading. What do I have to gain from reading?
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>>8462792
The thoughts and stories of other people
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>>8462792
Well thought out perspectives on the world other than your own.
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>>8462792
Bragging rights and an inflated sense of superiority
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most enjoyable book ive ever read
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>>8462784
Good book. Good movie too
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Check out Yeager's autobio while you're at it. Mailer's Of a Fire on the Moon too if you don't mind his dabbling in his own brand of pseudo-psychology.
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>>8463102
Holy shit I just started a thread about this
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What are some interesting non-fiction journals, diaries or reports of expeditions into the new world?
I'm thinking about encounters with savages, huge unknown animals and ruins of lost civilisations.
Can we get a thread on this, /lit/?
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Historical travelogues are always fiction.
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>>8462777
I remember reading about a book (I read more about books than actual books, thanks, /lit/) about this crazy American adventurer who got lost forever in the Amazon jungle while foolishly searching for some Eldorado-like fantasy. The book sounded pretty comfy. I think the name of this guy was Percy something. That's what I know.
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Saga of Erik the Red
In "The Raven" did the protagonist kill his fair maiden Lenore in a crime of passion ? I feel that the raven is a messenger from the devil that's purpose is to warn the protagonist that he is going to Hell.
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>>8462773
He's telling the protagonist that his lost love really is lost forever. She's not in the afterlife. There likely isn't one. He's fucked
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If there was a single line in that poem which hinted the protagonist killed her, that would be interesting. Unfortunately I don't think there is.
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>>8462786
Is the bird supernatural or is the protagonist hallucinating that the bird is speaking ?