I've heard it's good, but people are idiots.
The treasure was at his home all along.
its p good. The part where he works in the tea shop was good.
That's it. I just can't read this book. I read 'The Name of the Rose' and 'The Prague Cemetery' and thoroughly loved them, specially the former.
But Foucault's Pendulum makes me want to rip my ballsack open and watch as my testicles roll down the stairs. I've read almost exactly half of the book and I'm seriously thinking about dropping it. Does it get any better?
>>9898861
Hey I'm reading this as well. Whats your issue with it? I get thats theres a ton of info/societies/people etc being thrown at you at once, but I'm enjoying the characters of Belbo et al. Where abouts are you? I'm nearly done Tiferet
>>9898861
>The Name of the Rose
I tried to read that. It was well written, it truly was. But by page five, after dozens of long-winded, meandering sentences, I had to give up.
My parents read that to me when I was an infant. How abused was I?
What does it really mean to "Find your own meaning in life"? It's a commonly repeated phrase, but few people go into detail about what it means. Sure, there's the obvious interpretation that a person should do what they love regardless of societal expectations, but there must be more depth to the idea than that. For instance, you might be able to attach a feeling of universal importance to things most people deem trivial, and model your whole world-view around that. Thus, by adjusting your values to match with your current life, you can ensure a basic sense of fulfillment at all times simply by adhering to whatever you choose.
What do you make of it?
Society gives you a predetermined way of life that is the standard for a "meaningful" life. A person may reject this meaning or regard it as insufficient. Many people realize this but are unable to forgo their roles and duties. Finding your own meaning is to go outside the boundaries of safety and risk being lost in the search for your personal meaning.
>>9898788
Don't think of this as society placing some constraint on you but rather you being a happy petal fitting within an arrangement of a huge flower. Lucky for us, man is never truly happy than when he is participating in and witnessing harmony. The natural order serves us and we serve it.
I'm not as sad as Dostoevsky,
I'm not as clever as Mark Twain,
I'll only buy a book for the way it looks,
And then I stick it on the shelf again.
What did he mean by this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsGXWTJ-r_c
The most /lit/ song i've heard.
>>9898303
Just because a song namedrops famous authors doesn't make it /lit/, anon.
care to fetch me a proper ebook version of pic related, /lit/?
http://www.cakravartin.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Julius-Evola-Revolt-Against-the-Modern-World.pdf
Not a ebook version but if you literally google the titles all of Evola's works there are free PDF's online of them. Very convenient
DUDE RITUAL SUICIDE LMFAO
DUDE CARVED INTO HISTORY FOREVER LMFAO
Let's see 'em.
I'll start
No spoilers please lol. I want to read Moby Dick soon. I want to know what to read before hand to understand it.
The Bible, obvious one.
A book on Greek and Roman mythology.
A survey on philosophy and philosophers.
An anthology of Romantic poetry.
Pliny's Natural History.
Divine Comedy.
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Life of Johnson.
>>9897678
bullshit
>>9897685
What?
Why do we hate self-insert fanfics when the biggest self-insert fanfic in history is a world's classic?
Is Utopia by Thomas Morus and others.
And Paradise Lost is just than classical bad boy fanfic. Why we hate the newer ones and love the old ones?
We need to stop.
>>9897433
Firstly
>WTF
Secondly, fanfic isn't written in beautiful poetry and filled with some of the most piercing analysis of the human condition the world has ever seen. Case closed. Move on.
Because Dante is a spectator, not the protagonist.
>>9897440
B-but... If some of then are?
If someone made it and is out there floating in some place of fanfiction . net?
>lack of enthusiasm for postmodernism justifies a return to modernism
>the purpose of literature is to provoke thought and expand our worldview
>death of the author is justified by psychoanalysis
>the best reading of a text is one that speaks to social issues
>positivism couldn’t possibly have any consequences
>radical politics are a good idea
>higher education is a scam
>there is no canon
>>9897399
>*cums on ur face*
>>9897399
>>there is no canon
Can you guys recommend me some books with detailed description of war, art of warfare, army manouvers, descriptive battles, military organizations and so on in a sci-fi, fantasy or a fiction setting (maybe something like Malazan Book of the Fallen series). Maybe also throw some good Non-fiction and historical books in there. Thanks!
>>9897274
Starship Troopers by Heinlein.
It has everything you need.
>>9897315
Thanks anon...got any more?
Gates of Fire, The Virtues of War, and The Afghan Campaign by Steven Pressfield are all excellent historical fiction war novels. Legend by David Gemmell is pretty much the best fantasy siege novel you'll ever read. And I haven't read many sci-fi novels yet, but Galaxy's Edge: Legionnaire is about an elite military unit trapped on a hostile planet with plenty of great action.
I a lot of us are in our 20's, and understandably our main /lit/ focus is to consume as much good literature as we possibly can.
I am as guilty of this as anyone, but i do realize that upon first read a book is so foreign to us that it's impossible to fully "grasp" the work. We get exponentially more out of a reread.
I read around 40 novels a year, and that's already too slow a pace to ever finish everything i'd like to read in my lifetime. But I think maybe there would be value to spending 3-5 of my yearly quota rereading my favorite and highest rated books from the past.
Is that too many? Too few? Does anybody here reread? Is it worth it>?
>>9897212
There isn't some unlimited amount of great literature. Hit 300 or so and you'll know what to re-read.
Then re-read.
>>9897212
Reading is more important as a productive act, not a receptive act. A great and thoughtful reading of one great book is worth infinitely more than simply knowing the contents of a thousand. Quantity should be your last concern.
>>9897212
Did this guy ever actually write anything of note?
I am a little embarrassed to post this thread, and I am not sure if anyone on this thread can help or has experience with this type of thing, but its worth a shot.
Awhile back I started having a curiosity for erotica literature and more recently have had strong desires to start reading mythical beast erotica. I don't even know where to start, but I know this feeling is not going to go away.
Has anyone on this board every dabbled into the erotica involving any sort of mythical beasts? and if so are you able to recommend any titles? So far I have found a couple on Amazon, but none of them have been that spectacular.
This is a pretty good one. Give it a go.
It doesn't get any more serious than a rhinoceros about to charge your ass.
What albums/pieces suit which books? I am reading The Illiad and I was thinking that some kind of Greek symphonies would probably good for it, any recs?
Athena best girl.
>>9897109
why not just read in silence?
>>9897778
I find it a lot easier to focus if I have music. Also tinnitus.
Post modernism is the best thing that happen to literature, desu
>>9897020
it was honestly the Romantics, but Modernism is my favorite (po-mo behind it)
>>9897020
Whats the book about? I am aesthetically attracted to the cover and title. Seems edgy.