Just call me Rainsford
>>9915774
Russian Cossack v. American big game hunter
I like it
Is having an older woman the most /lit/ lifestyle?
yes, philosophy, art and literature is anti-life
cooping up with an old, infertile woman is pretty /lit/
Macron dates his mother. Incest is fine now.
Anyone else here listen to bookworm? His DFW interviews are in the canon
https://www.kcrw.com/people/david-foster-wallace
It's probably the best literature podcast out there.
>>9915724
He is /our guy/
>>9915724
DFW's celebrity is vastly more interesting than his fiction 2bh
the incredible amount of media debris he generated--his interviews, biopics, essays (academic or otherwise), commencement speeches, syllabi and NYT articles on his life and work--is what people like to consume, not his writing, which is pedantic, deliberately boring and pretentious
so what the fuck was the kenosha kid?
You never did
Wait, you read 700+ pages amd never did the Kenosha kid?
>>9915695
An extended language joke.
Medical student currently on my Psychiatry rotation and I've really taken an interest to Schizophrenia and the other psychotic disorders.
Does anyone have good reading on:
>The Self
>Self consciousness
>Loss of self
>>9915545
'Der Einzigeund sein Eigentum' is all about the self and illustrates mental illness exceedingly well.
>>9915545
one time I dropped LSD and forgot who I was, where I was, who my friends were and even forgot the fact I took LSD. One of the most eye opening experiences of my life. I was like a baby, except I could still talk and use words.
Probably not what you're looking for but Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia and A Thousand Plateaus are cool books. Probably not what you're looking for though.
Post any haiku u have made and we can discuss the topics for them
Timmy McPherson
And his twin brother Jonah
Are fishing for eel
My carriage chunters,
charting its colourless course,
crammed with coughs and chokes.
ITT: Books that fucked you up
Can you sue the publisher if a book "fucks you up"?
>>9915510
>Redbone Coonhounds
>one is clearly a Bluetick
>>9915510
that one. Our librarian read it to us in fifth grade.
I want to work my way through most of the Western philosophical canon starting with them and want to make sure I get the best book on the topic possible.
>>9915489
I had your same question OP and I settled on your pic related as the best available practical answer.
Otherwise you have to get the complete Diels-Kranz (the actual answer to your question) for which you'd drop $150 bux or similar. As I've just said, Waterfield is a practical solution.
Think most people here recommend that, OP.
I would suggest having read The Iliad and The Odyssey, at least, and maybe even considering some of Herodotus' Histories before getting too far into Greek philosophy. It's all pretty enjoyable stuff.
Does anybody know a good site to find textbook Torrents/PDFs? I know of Library Genesis but it only had one of my classes' books. Preferably none of that shit I need a VPN for, but do post anyway in-case there's no other option.
Specific books I'm looking for:
-Art of Seeing 8th Edition by Zelanski & Fisher
-Design Elements: Graphic Style Manual by Samura
-Color for Designers: 95 things by Krause
>>9915452
I only know libgen.
What classes are these for? Art, I presume
>>9915482
Yes, Art Foundation and Graphic Design to be specific.
Booktubers are the enemy.
>>9915443
That's right. ForTheLoveOfRyan is a fucking Falangist, we shall crush him. No Pasaran!
dumb frogposter
alt-rights like you are the enemy
>>9915504
I'm alt+right.
hey /lit/
how to git gud at reading
i have only read 10 books in my lifetime mostly generic gothic literature and local literature
> inb4 start from greeks
>>9915427
Start with entertaining authors, short stories, and potentially any books on eras of history you like. I found Hemingway's and Dostoevsky's short stories to be very entertaining, along with Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities as I first started reading.
>>9915427
>git gud
Fuck off /v/ermin.
>>9915427
start with the greeks
Did anyone read this? I cant find it online
Yes. I have read it. Just once. Good book. I quite enjoyed it. A little slow in the midde perhaps. Definitely worth reading if you know a little of the backstory. I look forward to the first edition with footnotes. I believe mine was an advanced reader copy.
I highly suggest buyig it if you have the chance. It's quite a shame what happened to him and he needs money for a lawyer.
The book becomes even more impressive when you think of how it was made. A jail cell can be a hellish confined place but he seems to have transformed it into a peaceful monastary for writing through the unperturbed nature of his soul...
https://youtu.be/uk8eil7sCAU
https://youtu.be/EuB2caFs3aQ
https://youtu.be/Rs2XoZOLFb0
https://youtu.be/D1Hc0NptDfY
https://youtu.be/2JU2xlxUy3g
https://youtu.be/NBOzALkkG6s
So I want to get into surrealism but I'm not sure what to start with. I was thinking Lives of the Gods cause those are short stories but that is out of print. What works do you think would be a good intro?
Kobo Abe and Flann O'Brien are always good starts
>>9915384
>Pataphysics.
Kek, nice work trying to shill the meme, friendo.
>>9915677
Thank you for an actual useful response.
What is a good way to make a well-rounded, sense-of-responibility/duty mythological hero with flaws?
>>9915361
Don't make them extraordinary or destined for some bullshit
Arrogance or pride in their heroism in being noble
>>9915361
>hero
>WITH FLAWS
what the fuck you pleb?
>read 2/5 of great expectations
>read 2/3 of manufacturing consent
>read 3/4 of guns germs and steel
>finding them all boring
>can't bear to stop reading because pseuds will insult me (both lit and irl)
Can someone recommend some actually entertaining books? I have read about 2 new entertaining books in the past year. Most books are fucking boring
You are lost cause. Go browse /pol/ or play a videogame, swine.
>>9915331
Another thread was started about being unable to finish G&S + MC. Just read something you want to read rather than caring about pseud cred. There are plenty of Tom Clancy books to read out there
>>9915331
Can you please get a trip so I can filter you? I'm sick of seeing these dumb threads all the damn time.