What are some titles like pic related?
I loved the "light" feel of it - not too serious at all.
Oliver Twist, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter; what else is there?
>>8434445
try trading the percy jackson book series.
I got that book years ago when it first came out, when I was 15 and just started to get into reading. I thought it was going to be horror, paranormal type of book. Anyways I was severely disappointed.
>The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing
>For Whom the Bell Tolls
>Brave New World
>I Capture the Castle
>Infinite Jest
>So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
>Oh, the Places You'll Go
>Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained
>>8434445
Literally every brightly-colored book in the YA section or kid's books at your local store. Stop making threads about this piece of shit.
>tfw the writting drunk meme is true
i think i can handle a little alcoholism
>writing sober
why even
>>8434447
i dont what i was thinking
>>8434437
what is that picture from? it looks like a mugshot
Is there any annotated version of pic related? It's really hard to read without turning to a dictionary or encyclopedia. The esoteric occult stuff interests me but it's out of my bailiwick.
You figuratively have google and a notebook, something people in the 80s did not. Get to work like our better members did. There are notes in Italian, but I'm guessing...
>>8434446
Ok. I'm on it. It's my oeuvre
Frack, I made detailed notes for this, Name of the Rose, and Baudolino a while back when I was in university. They were unfortunately damaged beyond salvaging, after they were left on and it rained on my parents' front porch.
If not for that, I would have gladly scanned and uploaded them by now in a pdf. For lack of a professionally published companion, I covered vocabulary, scene summaries, foreign language passages, themes, and some historical, et al, context when Eco was being distant about a topic. It wasn't completely systematic (pages long hallucinations I merely noted the chapter/page number), but I pared exceedingly little of what would be considered excruciatingly dense detail.
If I reread them, I'll be sure to revamp the notes digitally and post them here (and then get annoyed when it gets reposted on Reddit without proper credit).
is more important to write a lot and read less or to read a lot and write less?
read more
>>8434410
You can't write unless you read.
You can't write unless you write.
>>8434410
write more than you read, if you read too much you'll develop perma-writer block
I first read The Catcher in the Rye in seventh grade, and since then, I haven't found anything as fulfilling or enjoyable. What books do you recommend? I read a fair amount but haven't found anything quite like it.
>>8434378
What have you read?
>>8434383
The Bell Jar is the closest thing I've read to Catcher, but I didn't love it. Otherwise, apart from Catcher, I really enjoyed Stoner and Jonathan Franzen's work. I think the trend is sad, realistic novels with painfully relatable insights into the human condition.
>>8434401
Perhaps you'll like the Virgin Suicides then. It's a little dry though.
What are the best books to learn about political science?
>INB4 Mein Kampf
Fuck off with obvious /pol/ bait.
I would just like to get back into reading again and I have an interest in political science so I think it would be fun.
I dunno, textbooks? Boring shit you have to go to a University library for.
>>8434369
Cliff notes for AP American Government :^)
Hague And Harrop, 'Comparative Government And Politics: an Introduction'
I had the 9th edition, pretty sure there's a 10th edition now.
>>"But what pained her most and enraged her most and made her most bitter was the fragrant and wormy guava grove of love that was dragging her toward death"
Is that you, John Green?
>>8434341
That's what you get for reading translations.
>>8434346
But anon I'm quite sure that this metaphor was a deliberate choice by Marquez, not some cheap translation error
>>8434341
Marquez does get sappy
For me pic related was more like a long-running British soap opera than anything else
Was he Elliot Rodger if he was actually smart?
It's true. But it's also true because I don't think about dudes. If I did, it would likely be the same.
Really you can sub 'people' in for women. Most men get closer to women than any of their male friends. It's just the way of things.
>>8434295
>I spent more time studying the world, seeing the world for the horrible, unfair place it is. I then had the revelation that just because I was condemned to suffer a life of loneliness and rejection, doesn’t mean I am insignificant. I have an exceptionally high level of intelligence. I see the world differently than anyone else. Because of all of the injustices I went through and the worldview I developed because of them, I must be destined for greatness. I must be destined to change the world, to shape it into an image that suits me!
>>8435817
who are you quoting?
Every time I get myself to read something, it almost immediately bored my to death and stop reading it. Either rhat, or the overly-detailed writing styles of older books just require too much effort to read. But I wanna read things. I wanna read catcher in the rye despite it being boring as hell. I wanna read Meditations and AsoIF despite them being pretty long. I wanna read a bunch of books, but I just lose interest.
It's probably my ADD, desu, but how do I get the will to earnestly get into reading?
read something you enjoy, start with King if you have to, seriously. Meditate, seriously. Limit yourself to a computer screen in any way that you can, seriously. Maybe allow yourself to browse the internet or play video games or talk to people on Teamspeak only after you read 50 pages. Go to the gym. Start thinking for yourself.
Or don't, whatever.
realistic answer - its hard to will yourself to like to read books you don't want to read. My advice would be not to try and tackle intense books and just stick with what actually interests you and read out of that pile... There is not much room for people who don't want to read literature yet try and read literature with no interest...
methods that helped me focus and read include -
- setting a goal that could actually be reached by me (I started with 30 pages a day, which was perfect cause each book of The Iliad is about 30 pages) and then I worked my way up or at least stayed at my original goal
- immersive yourself in stuff that goes with what you are reading, (my examples are mostly going to be about my experience reading The Iliad because I wasn't very motivated to read it) I watched the movie about The Iliad which prompted me to find out the differences between the book and the movie, I read about Greek Mythology, etc.
- As for your ADD if you don't want to use prescription drugs to numb that shit use recreation drugs is what I have heard.... Some people say reading while high is better then without...
- Also this post might be a meme but if it isn't hope you can find the motivation
>>8434280
>Meditations
>long
hee haw I guess I should have caught the joke before this point
Any good? Hot neighbor gave it to me and I don't know if I should read it, or just find a detailed summary and pretend to be amazed as I discuss what amounts to cliff notes from anonymous idiots or actually read it.
I kind of enjoyed Gold Coast, but was ultimately dissapointed. Nice sarcastic narration and great characterizations (deplorable characters, but still), but the book ultimately felt pointless and anticlimactic.
From what I've read, this is supposed to be far better. That said, I've got damn near 50 books either on kindle or print on my reading list ahead of this. I know what I'll get with all them though, whereas this one's a bit of a mystery.
Worth a read,/lit/?
Come on, /lit/, give me a hand. Book's description sounds like some Le Carre shit, and I'm assuming it has the same sense of humor as Gold Coast.
This confirms something I've long suspected about this board.
You guys don't read shit. You comment on 'classics' that you may or may not have read, you shit on authours who move copies out of sheer jealousy, and you're all just a bunch of clowns seething with envy over anyone even moderately successful.
Just a little food for thought here, homos; maybe nobody wants your shit because the overwhelming majority of you are shit writers.
>>8434828
you're acting like you're saying something new
most of /lit/ accepts that /lit/ is garbage, with its occasional moments that just barely kind of make it worth it
Who are the best prose writers in English?
>>8434248
>English
but OP, that's an American
so you can namedrop them at your next cocktail party?
>>8434248
Woolf
Emily Bronte
Nabokov
Faulkner
this is the reason I never even considered reading the classics. that show was so goddamn boring. it turned me off for years and years. I feel like highschool does the same thing for plebs. they just associate reading with booooooring.
>>8434196
I just googled this show and pic related popped up. You're a fucking bullshitter this show looks great.
Nigga what the fuck that's what got me into the Odyssey at age 10. And then ten years later I picked up Ulysses out of the Odyssey connection with no clue what I was getting into, and it catapulted me into literature. Nigga Wishbone is probably why I'm here.
Ah Canadian TV. I learned about computers from reboot too
Official Discord server of /lit/. https://discord.gg/n26SG2p
there's already a discord
fuck off
There's a TinyChat but not a Discord. This is the official Discord of /lit/ as of now.
>>8435614
fuck off retard
https://discord.gg/SFxx8
Any books that read like a french New Wave or an italian Neo-Realist movie? I've been wanting to read something like that, where the characters are all self-aware, erudite, curious and critical, and where the city/forest/shore seem to be characters unto themselves.
Anyone know what I mean?
>>8434146
The Stranger reads like a Godard movie to me for some reason but I'm sure you've read that
>tfw all these beautiful European cities are flooded with shit skins
Don't go to Europe boys, I was so fucking disappointed.
Le chants de Maldoror, maybe
What does /lit/ think of it? It's basically promoting reason over experience to have beliefs or opinions. I personally like it because it has some form of way to promote reason.probably because I am trying to find some philosophy that deals with intelligence, smartness, or wisdom. Let me know in spoilers in case you got a list of such philosophies. Hard mode: Don't list empiricism.
Also, has their been any work that deals with Rationalism?
>>8434118
You sound like a New Atheist. Can you even define reason?
>>8434127
>You sound like a new atheist
I've actually have been an atheist, I just want to clarify my stuff.
>>8434138
So can you tell me what reason is?