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Book equivalent to LSD: Dream Emulator? (Besides from the actual dream journal, I'm already planning on reading it)
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Why not actually read it instead of planning to? Step away from this thread until you have.
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So something surreal and unsettling, with an emphasis on dreams and with extensive use of the unexpected?
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2666 is like a long nightmare.
Excellent book.
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Favorite /lit/ podcasts, channels, or websites 2016-07-24 02:37:09 Post No.8313942
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Favorite /lit/ podcasts, channels, or websites
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I'm curious what you use besides /lit/ to inform your literary opinions and refine your taste?
I listen to Bookworm with Michael Silverblatt, but I'm looking for other sources. Please share.
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I read books.
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Bookworm is great.
Whenever I start to listen to a podcast I always laugh at Michael Silverblatt's voice.
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christine of polandbananasBOOKS xd
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What are /lit/ favorite meta books?
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The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology
and...
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The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
is pretty good
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>>8313956
That is a good book.
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Good books in which the protagonist has amnesia and tries to find out who they are?
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Latro in the Mist
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>>8314021
this, Soldier of Sidon was also a superb sequel and one my favourite books.
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>>8313913
Random Harvest
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What Book Should I Read? 2016-07-24 02:21:22 Post No.8313895
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I'm 26 years old and I've only read 3-4 books in my life. What book should I read?
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How to kill yourself
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Bible
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>>8313895
>I'm 26 years old and I've only read 3-4 books in my life.
why
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Which philosophical movement best describes our current generation?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_postmodernism
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hello?
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>>8314376
YOU HAVE TO START WITH YOUR OWN IDEA YOU MONGOLOID POOFDUMP
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>>8313894
what is this picture conveying?
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Hey /lit/ recommend me the hottest, sexiest shit you know
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>>8313830
Lolita
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La Vita Nuova
Seriously, the way that guy describes Beatrice, you just KNOW she was hot
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Use this thread to ask for /lit/-recommended translations of works.
I'll start by asking -- what are the best English translations of Homer's Odyssey, Herodotus' Histories and Hesiod's Theogyny and Work & Days?
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Best translation of Mein Kampf?
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>reading translations
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The best translations of Homer are Fagles, Lattimore, and Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald takes the most poetic license, Lattimore is the most literal, and Fagles is in between the two.
Please don't believe all the liars on this page who claim to have read - and understood - everything. They're totally full of shit. This page is not full of savants, and any book worth your time is going to take just that - time - to fully appreciate.
Also, reading aloud - especially fiction - is not a crime and is often the only way to fully appreciate a book. You're not going to enjoy Ulysses or In Search of Lost Time without hearing the prose read out loud. Anyone who says otherwise is totally full of shit.
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I thought the whole point of Ulysses is that everybody is literally full of shit
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Absolutely this
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What is some literature for people who feel like they know nothing, feel like they are nothing, like they are just drifting in this strange, strange world?
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Literature isnt "for" anybody, it is of people, but if general existential dread is your problem youre in luck because most of it comes from people with that anyway
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Notes from the underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
No longer human - Osamu Dazai
The death of Ivan Ilich - Lev Tolstoi
The stranger - Albert Camus
The tunnel - Ernesto Sábato
The metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
If you're lucky enough, after reading those you will have less doubts on ending your life on this strange, strange world!
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>>8313817
Really good list.
I would be extremely grateful if you could suggest which translations to pick up for:
1. Notes from underground
2. Death of Ivan Ilyich
3. The tunnel.
Which translations are considered the best for these?
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Any of you read Italian Knausgaard? What did you think.
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Nope. Haven't read Bridget Jones either.
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That's insulting. She's a hell of a lot better than Knausgaard.
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>>8313763
So a series of novels makes you Knausgaard? I can't think of any other similarities
What's a book that will re-sensitize even the most desensitized soul?
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none really sorry pal
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>>8313745
my diary desu
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Eragon
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decided to try out this stupid service again, any worthwhile literary accounts i should follow? so far i've got nick land
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Pick up a book and read it, leave twitter alone.
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@PolarWashington
@gnOmebooks
@cryptbooks
@wint
@tifdaff
@RuinOfVandal
etc
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>>8313743
not norm, he's team leo
This is not a shitposting thread, please direct yourself to the 5 other DFW shitposting threads in the catalog.
Can we have an actual discussion on DFW's view of entertainment and media? Here's a primer if you haven't read IJ and want to join in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUf2MiNKqVc
Is he right? Are we going to create media that is so perfect that we would rather consume a piece of media just one more time if it meant dying of dehydration? Since DFW was a known heroin addict, it's easy to see where he is coming from with this perspective. Is he right?
Also as an example of the part in IJ about a character's father becoming fanatical about the TV show MASH to the point where he was creating religious theories on reality based on the show, have this thread
>>>/x/17941173
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Do you mind if I save this image?
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>>8313700
He was a known heroin addict? Can I have a source for this?
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Is there another author that embodies 4chan as much as Houellebecq?
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>>8313685
Probably not.
>Certains êtres éprouvent très tôt une effrayante impossibilité à vivre par eux-mêmes; au fond ils ne supportent pas de voir leur propre vie en face, et de la voir en entier, sans zones d'ombre, sans arrière-plans. Leur existence est j'en conviens une exception aux lois de la nature, non seulement parce que cette fracture d'inadaptation fondamentale se produit en dehors de toute finalité génétique mais aussi en raison de l'excessive lucidité qu'elle présuppose, lucidité évidemment transcendante aux schémas perceptifs de l'existence ordinaire. Il suffit parfois de placer un autre être en face d'eux, à condition de le supposer aussi pur, aussi transparent qu'eux-mêmes, pour que cette insoutenable fracture se résolve en une aspiration lumineuse, tendue et permanente vers l'absolument inaccessible. Ainsi, alors qu'un miroir ne renvoie jour après jour que la même désespérante image, deux miroirs parallèles élaborent et construisent un réseau net et dense qui entraîne l'œil humain dans une trajectoire infinie, sans limites, infinie dans sa pureté géométrale, au-delà des souffrances et du monde.
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Maybe
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He's the Dostoevsky of hte 21st century.