Why does everyone hate it?
I have never seen or read any adaption relating to this book, yet all I hear is libel about its idealogy. Can someone tell me why it is so hated?
What's wrong with it?
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>>8388204
long
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>>8388204
I don't like it because it is atheistic and takes individualism to an extreme.
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>>8388235
>atheistic
lol
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This is Dutch author Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Praise for his first book Hex:
>“This is totally, brilliantly original.” ―Stephen King
>“HEX is creepy and gripping and original, sure to be one of the top horror novels of 2016.” ―George R.R. Martin
>“[O]ne of the most original, clever, and terrifying books to be published in the 21st century”. ―New York Journal of Books
How do you feel reading critically acclaimed books by Chad?
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>>8388188
I would read a book by this qt.
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King and Martin have slightly dubious taste, but I guess I can trust them when it comes to pulpy, bloody horror.
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>>8388188
Never heard of the guy, and I'm Dutch
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First time dipping my toes into Dostoevsky and I'm going to start with Crime & Punishment. I've narrowed down my translations to Oliver Ready, Constance Garnet and Pevear and Volokhonsky.
While I am a competent reader my comprehension is probably not on par with the average /lit/ reader so which translation do you think I should go with to enjoy this book the most?
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>>8388185
Oliver, Garnet is ""fine"" but it changes a lot of things for being "inappropriate", P&V are a fucking joke.
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André Markowicz is the best Dostoyevsky translator.
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>>8388185
Hello OP. I've only read the Garnett translation, and I read it at a time when I didn't bother about selecting the "right" translation.
I found the Garnett translation to be a pleasant read, but I think a big complaint that modern audiences (/lit/) have about it is that it is a bit stilted and "too-nineteenth century", ironically, even though the whole point of reading the book is to read a great nineteenth century novel.
I can't speak for the other translations, only give you an idea of what Garnett is like. You just have to be willing to think just a little bit while you're reading, and it'll come to you. If you come to some hard bit or a reference you don't understand, I would recommend just jotting a note, skipping over it, /keep reading/, and maybe come back to the issue you had every chapter or two. don't stop every paragraph and check for annotation. I made that mistake as a kid when reading Joyce's Portrait (I would literally flip to the back for every single annotation) and I destroyed the reading experience for myself. You're smarter than you know, and you can pick up most of the necessary context, especially with a book like C&P.
Personally I've read a little bit of Dickens and I find his native-English prose to be significantly more taxing than Garnett's English translation of C&P, or TBK for that matter (which I've also read).
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Hello /lit/.
I have just finished reading Ayn Rand's "Atlus Shrugged" and I got say I really enjoy it.
I am a high school student who doesn't read books much but I really enjoyed this book and completely agree with Ayn Rand's views and opinions on economics and I now think objectivism is one of the best philosophies in existance and i was just wondering what /lit/ thinks of this book.
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>>8388180
0/10 bait
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>>8388180
>objectivism is one of the best philosophies in existance
I hope you are joking.
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>>8388257
>falling for obvious bait
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Just finished The Tunnel, what did /lit/ think?
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>>8388160
Lit thought fuck you and your thread
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>>8388160
>Just finished The Tunnel, tell me what to think about it
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its been a reeeeeeeaaaaaaal fuckin slow year thus far
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Are there any books similar in setting or tone to The Witch that are any good?
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The Scarlet Letter
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>>8388153
Practically anything by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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>>8388153
we literally had this exact fucking thread a few days ago. im sure AV club or some shit has a list of similar novels, or something
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Who else likes trashy midcentury novels?
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>>8388048
is that Robert Dietrich the pen name of E. Howard Hunt... who served 33 months in prison for Watergate?
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>>8388071
That's the one.
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>>8388071
The sequel was called Mistress to Jamal
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okay /lit/, I'm ready to embrace the memes
I know hardly fuckall about philosophy but I feel like reading some Žižek. Is he fine to read for a beginner or should I just come back later? Which book is best to start with?
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>>8388047
start with le grecos :^)
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>>8388055
I should clarify that the memes I want to embrace aren't day 1 /lit/ shitposting, I'm talking day 3 at least
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If you really want to understand philosophy you need to read his works backwards
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Sorry /lit/, but I just can do it. I can't read effectively on an e-reader. Does anyone feel the same way? If you don't, why do you like e-readers?
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Yeah same here. I'm not trying to be pretentious I just don't like e-readers. In all honesty it's because I get distracted way to easily if my "book" can go on the internet and play music.
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>>8388035
same
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>>8388035
>Millenial ADDH
Favourite book covers
I love the simplistic design of the penguin books
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Fucking shitty phone. It always does this. Hopefully this edit fixes the rotation
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I posted this in the last one but I love it, and I own a copy. I still haven't read it, but I scored a first edition, and it has some really cool artwork on the inside too.
I also really like the paperback GR that Frank Miller did.
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Two kids getting their first library cards. Don't you miss when reading was actually fun?
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It's still fun. For me, at least
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>>8387875
fuck outta here kids dont even read
i remember my girlfriend's little sister was assigned a challenge to "read the book of mormon" or something, along with her entire class or whatnot, and all they did was just run their eyes across the words making vague interpretations of each misread word if anything at all
that's what all kids do, every childrens book is like a rorschach test for those idiots
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>>8387893
>Book of Mormon
I don't blame her. I flat out refused to read the Bible until I was like 20
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Thoughts?
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the guy isn't thug enough, real voice probably sounds like Urkel
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>>8387868
ROASTED
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this comes up once a month or so here.
he summarizes the plot and characters pretty effectively and then gives you the most basic sparknotes-level interpretation. a perfectly ok way to learn about the most popular and least in-depth analyses
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Learning Spanish using The Great Courses
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Recently happened upon this http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/learning-spanish-how-to-understand-and-speak-a-new-language.html
and was wondering if any of you, guys, tried it out yourselves. Should I buy it? Anyways, I'm learning from scratch so if you have any recommendations as to how to begin, please share it with me. But please do not mention that shit duolingo here.
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>>8387859
do u have nice feet
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>>8387867
what do my feet have to do with the endeavour to learn Spanish?
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I want to see OP's feet as well
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>Fact that I'm forgotten that I'm left on the shelf with the dead white guys in the academic curriculum
He knew... he fucking KNEW.
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He lived for this whiny, obvious-profound, defeatist shit. He's never quite as bad DFW at least. People here shit on Pynchon, but, at least he never resorts to woeisme porn.
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Is agape agape good? I liked recognitions
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>>8387865
It's a 90 page monologue by a loopy ranting cancer and emphysema-riddled old man on his deathbed.
Other than the themes/ideas, it's not really like any of his other books.
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if the amount of suffering in this world is greater than the pleasure, why aren't we striving towards globally accepted euthanasia?
it seems kind of silly that you could have a brain aneurysm at any point in time and lose practically everything, but there exists no "pleasure" counter part to that. you will never experience some anti-brain aneurysm where you suddenly aquire loads of knowledge with in an instant
so why are humans, primal reasons aside, afraid of death when it's the only escape from this unbalanced world?
if it's because of the pain then shouldn't euthanasia be widely accepted?
can somebody on /lit/ explain this to me I clearly don't read any books or even browse this board, but I've always wondered this
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>>8387752
I enjoy suffering.
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The biggest part of life isn't suffering but boredom. And only very few people kill themselves because of boredom. They do something and then they are happy or unhappy for a while.
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>>8387752
What exactly is the question?
We don't allow euthanasia because non-suicidals think it would be abused by folks with legitimate mental illness, e.g. mentally ill people who would "regret" it---not literally, of course, but, like, they could be cured of their desire to die.
The problem here is that people have gone and defined mental illness as wanting to die---so you see the quandary that the "legitimately" (aka not mentally ill) suicidal are in.
Or are you asking why the world's full of suffering? Well, that one's easy. It's because the world doesn't give a shit or even recognize your feelings or existence. Humans value consciousness because they possess it, not because it has inherent value.