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Just read it. It was extremely heavy, because of it's nature. Sometimes I had the feeling I was not reading but falling in spiral through a dark well.
What's your take on the book?
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>>8328016
Kind of average iibh
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>>8328016
All his books are like that.
Read Schoolgirl and The Setting Sun.
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>>8328016
liked The Setting Sun better, anon
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I'm looking for a book where the lead character actually is a really sensitive gay pansy who's really thoughtful about his feelings and has really cute and affectionate crushes on other guys, but also a good story, like as deep as Dostoyevsky or something.
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>>8327989
Hmmm really makes me think
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>>8327989
Your diary desu
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>>8328039
true bth
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So here it is.
What have you read from it?
What have you been planning to read from it?
Favorite?
Least favorite?
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i enjoyed longlisted
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>>8327908
probably gonna read schooldays of jesus
read childhood and it was decent, wasn't aware that a sequel (?) was coming
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I don't like that they allow non-Commonwealth authors in now. Probably for more "diversity" I guess.
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Post random youtube videos/ pictures that you think have some poetic or literary significance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mko5Y8QUEjI
>conductor we have a problem
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>>8327879
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfK0Y_qzE54
The modern child.
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>>8327897
>hoi hoi hoi hoi hoi
>thats how a victim of child abuse laughs
>hoi hoi hoi
fuck... that's sad
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>be transfer student to 4 year university, already admitted, but way behind schedule for various reasons
>awaiting email replies confirming that my admission is on track
>listening to Wallace's "This is Water" speech to understand the parody posted on the /lit/ humor thread
>email indication
>Oh, a reply already?
>official email from admissions staff at large university literally reads,
>"I didn’t see no term change. You’re good to go and don’t need to resubmit anything we’re have all of the items."
>start making this thread
>another email indication
>maybe it's a better written reply by someone more profession or an apology for the blatant stupidity put forth in the last email
>"We’re already have everything"
I'm at a loss for words. What the fuck am I doing with my life? Do I really need to submit my time and vast quantities of unearned income to a university that employs people like this for inquiry response just to have a future career that pays enough to live? I guess it's worth noting that the uni is in a native English speaking country. What else can I say: Fuck.
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>>8327856
The best job to take is a mindless one that only works your body. This means your mind will not be tired when it comes time to read and write.
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>>8327867
Tried that, used to be a /fit/ guy, but I always felt too drained to think so I stopped.
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>/lit/ suddenly hates Orwell
What happened?
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I believe that's a false assertion
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The contrarian pendulum swings to the other side.
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>>8327697
Most of /lit/ is Armenian.
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>philosopher
>writer
>one of the best bodies ever
how most writers and intelectuals are lazy pieces of shit?
how come they work so hard on their brain and then let their body rots.
how come they never workout and then blames women for not liking them (shopenhauer)?
Is there any philosophical school about working out both your body and your mind?
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Read Sun & Steel
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ya, the fucking greeks.
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who dat
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hit me up with some outdoorsy, adventure books about survival
fiction and non-fiction welcome
pic related was good, if a tiny bit long-winded
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Hatchet is pretty fun but it's a kid's book
The Wendigo and The Willows by Algernon Blackwood are both good
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Sir Edmund Hillary's books are solid.
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also pretty good
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Organisational Existential Crisis
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How do I feel guilty about not working non stop? Apart from things all humans do plus going to the gym, I feel guilty about any of my habits. And I have no goals.
I want to read books but I feel guilty about reading a set number of pages a day. I am worried about being called a pleb for not reading ten trillion boring Western canon novels. I feel like an ADD pleb for rarely reading more than 60 pages at a time. I hate that I'm more likely to put a book down at the end of a chapter.
Similarly for working. I know I could always be working to become better off. I know that people who talk about taking breaks are just lying to themselves.
And the funny thing is that I'm a Stirnerite. When you stay unspooked then everyone else's belief system feels like a personal attack. Fuck these people who say that X is so important. X is always working hard / enjoying yourself / focusing on one thing / focusing on many things / reading history / classics / philosophy / other shit.
The awful thing is that I know everyone else is a fraud. That NFL player who everyone loves and says is hardworking has never read a book. That mathematics professor known as a genius is a disgusting dyel. That literary figures who goes on about Shakespeare being a god doesn't know any maths or science greater than an 18 year old yet claims to be worldly. That billionaire who goes on about humanity's big issues does nothing but write checks for people who make social media apps.
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*stop feeling guilty
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>>8327623
>The awful thing is that I know everyone else is a fraud. That NFL player who everyone loves and says is hardworking has never read a book. That mathematics professor known as a genius is a disgusting dyel. That literary figures who goes on about Shakespeare being a god doesn't know any maths or science greater than an 18 year old yet claims to be worldly. That billionaire who goes on about humanity's big issues does nothing but write checks for people who make social media apps.
Making a lot of assumptions there. Plenty that can be proven wrong with multiple examples. I can think of about 15 for the NFL one alone.
And btw, there are many great contemporary literary figures who went to school for mathematics and science.
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Is there a best copy/translation of The Ego and Its Own that anyone would recommend?
Hey, /lit/. So I'm thinking of picking this up soon but I was just wondering if I'm going to have to have read anything else before this to really understand what's Camus is talking about, or if I can just jump right in.
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>>8327600
Reading The Stranger can give you some insight into his philosophy, but it is not required
That or the Greeks
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>>8327600
No, go ahead and read it.
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Pretty decent book, doesn't require much context.
He refers to Nietzsche and Kierkegaard a lot so at least have an idea of what they stand for.
I read the penguin ideas version because I could get it really cheap. Dont know what the 'other essays' here are.
A really good interview with the guy behind the Complete Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_vWueM0h3A
This guy reads a book per day. Talks about Arno Schmidt, The Story of the Stone, underrated world literature, how he picks books, etc.
Also he looks like Count Olaf from A Series of Unfortunate Events.
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>>8327581
this looks like 3D graphics
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Netflix casting for a Series of Unfortunate Events is incredible.
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>>8327581
Just fyi, a lot of /lit/'s charts draw pretty heavily on what he recs.
Has Nietzsche ever been debunked?
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Ya, by a horse
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yes, look in the mirror and close one eye.
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>>8327578
/thread
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This is objectively the list of the best books of all time, in order. Prove me wrong (Non-Fiction excluded)
1. Ulysses - James Joyce
2. The Faerie Queene - Edmund Spenser
3. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
4. Omeros - Derek Walcott
5. The Life and Times of Michael K. - J.M. Coetzee
6. Beloved - Toni Morrison
7. The Trial - Franz Kafka
8. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
9. Trilogy - Samuel Beckett
10. Paradise Lost - John Milton
11. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
12. Pale Fire - Vladamir Nabakov
13. "A" - Louis Zukofsky
14. Dictee - Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
15. Spring and All - William Carlos Williams
16. Prometheus Unbound - Percy Bysshe Shelley
17. The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
18. Crystallography - Christian Bok
19. The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
20. A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki
21. 2666 - Roberto Bolano
22. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
23. The Wasteland - T.S. Eliot
24. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
25. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
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>IJ is his contemporary choice
>not Suttree
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>>8327570
Pretty arbitrary and meaningless. 2/10
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>No Lolita
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What are some good books about religion and atheism?
Not like The God Delusion. I'm not looking for a fedora-tier book but one that portrays accurately religious beliefs and written by someone who have studied religion - Dawkins and Hitches do not count.
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Dawkins and Hitchens are perfectly food at criticizing religion. OP you think that religion is this great big mystical thing and surely the plain, direct arguments of the two above simply cannot be good enough. But the reality is religion really is just that weak. Its bred from human fears and ignorance. If you can sum up someone as savagely intelligent as Hitchens as fedora tier then you deserve to be religious.
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>>8327580
Hitchens early work is fine, the later is just mumbling what others have said for the sake of being polemic.
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>>8327580
Dawkins is a biologist. Nothing more.
Theologians don't take him seriously. His books concerning religion aren't studied in academia. Other atheist professors don't even take him seriously.
Worth reading as an intro?
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>>8327555
No, unless you're 13.
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>>8327555
>555
Trips speak the truth.
>555 bc death of the Greek poet Stesichorus
>Stesichorus wrote The Palinode
>The Palinode begins with "There is no truth in that story"
The trips have spoken. You must start with Platonic dialogues instead.
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>>8327555
Yes. I think it's important to get a nice view of what subjects philosophy tackles before getting into more meaty primary texts, and this book should be a good introduction into that.