So, anyone know any good eastern literature? There is manga of course, which has some great ones (Lone Wolf and Cub is probably my favorite, though I've read to read more Tezuka). What are some good novels from the east, not just Japan as well? Musashi, The Book of Five Rings, Art of War and Haruki Murakami are the only ones I've heard of really.
Obligatory No Longer Human and Confessions of a Mask.
>>8271385
>No Longer Human
Damn forgot that, I remember someone read the manga and told me it was good. Which reminds me I've heard good things about Another.
>>8271385
This.
Mishima is a top don, OP.
I'm going to Paris to visit my wife I'llbe there for a month. While I am there I would like to learn some art history. I'd like to read a chapter or two on a specific style or era in the evening and then spend the next day looking at examples in a museum. Do you have recommendations for an art history book formatted in a style conducive to this?
Yes.
Gardner's Art through the Ages.
Gombrich is the best "quick" option there is, but his book is still a good 600 pages long.
I'd also recommend you Likeness and Presence, by Hans Belting and Theories of Modern Art by Herschel B. Chipp.
>>8271318
This is ok but lackluster, it's better to tackle a more difficult text, but if you feel you won't be able to, go for this.
After you've read all of this, read Panofsky and Warburg and move to Confronting Images to find out why we're wrong.
Why not ask your wife? I mean, do you really expect to understand an artistic sensibility as complex and vast as the French just by reading a book a couple of evenings? Don't bother, just go to the Louvre and pretend.
Is speed reading a hoax?
>>8271248
anyone can speed read if you're not looking to gain any depth of knowledge but you're not getting the full experience of the text
>>8271248
you can try it anytime. There are plenty browser-addons out there.
>>8271248
I've found it works for non-fiction, especially non-fiction by journalists or scientists with absolutely no sense of aesthetic prose.
Speed reading good prose is equal to speed eating a great meal or speed fucking someone you love, or speed walking through the Louvre.
At what point does life-apologetics enter into his philosophy? What is so distasteful about suicide that causes philosophers to go full retard and come up with ad-hoc rationalizations for why its wrong?
>>8271231
The Plague
>>8271231
The problem here is that you a) assume that there is nothing wrong with suicide and that b) all arguments as proposed by philosophers are just rationalisations.
Unless you are some sort of super genius, or that everyone else who has every done philosophy is amazingly stupid and for some reason no one smart ever decided to do it, you should maybe consider the option that there might, just might be some well reasoned idea as to why one shouldn't kill oneself.
I'm looking for really funny books.
The Third Policeman
>>8271227
>Hi horse. Nice to Nietzsche you
>Hi horse. Nice to Nietzsche you
>Hi horse. Nice to Nietzsche you
>Hi horse. Nice to Nietzsche you
>Hi horse. Nice to Nietzsche you
>Hi horse. Nice to Nietzsche you
>Hi horse. Nice to Nietzsche you
>>8271227
your diary
Just finished this. Didn't you tell me women couldn't write?
just read this last week, it's great senpai.
cather is amazing writer
>yfw she was a lesbian
>yfw she was redpilled as fuck about female authors:
>While Cather enjoyed the novels of George Eliot, the Brontës, and Jane Austen, she regarded most women writers with disdain, judging them overly sentimental and mawkish.[2]:110 Cather's biographer James Woodress notes that Cather "so completely . . . embraced masculine values that when she wrote about women writers, she sounded like a patronizing man."
bump bump
>>8271176
>Didn't you tell me women couldn't write?
some can, like george eliot, the brontes, and austen, but a lot of them are overly sentimental and mawkish
IS THERE A BOOK WRITTEN IN ALL CAPS?
>>8271133
There's the Rei website.
>>8271134
WHAT?
>>8271133
my diary tbth
Is being a highschool teacher worth it in any way?
nope
>>8271081
I'm talking 9th grade english here, hopefully AP
>>8271090
bye friend
underageb&
Would Edgar Allan Poe be a Pepe poster? If so, why?
>>8270997
Well, he did write the Imp of the Perverse... The man clearly had issues with gratuitously doing the wrong thing.
I read on some Poe biography that he would in fact run to the market every sunday morning and place frogs under various boxes of vegetables and other containers all the while screaming "OH THE PAYPAY, IT BEATS IN MY NIGHTMARES! ALL PRAISE HIM"
EAG would still find Jack Nicholson memes from The Shining funny.
Post backlogs. I obviously have a lot of catching up to do.
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9/10ths of my book collection
i've nearly 50gb.
Is Edgar Allen Poe a hack fraud? If so, why?
what about you give us your goddamn opinion before starting the thread OP?
>>8270965
I like his prose tbqh. he's a terrible poet, though (except Israfel.)
>>8270969
he asked the begged-est question I've ever seen, so he basically did.
Who is the modern Jules Verne?
>>8270951
Sadly, it's probably the Martian guy, or maybe Doctorow - SF has gone up its own arse rehashing tropes, practically none of it is about plausible near-future tech anymore.
>>8270951
There is no modern Jules Verne, partly because the world (including reading market) is incomparably different today
Fortunately there's plenty of Verne to read
>>8271005
I can tell you that world today is bigger than it has ever been. I would gladly read exploration of Alpha Centauri or something like that.
Hey /lit/ghtbringers
What book or article or essay or any text has the most complicated prose and most advanced vocabulary?
Or just anything with a really hard vocabulary.
>>8270859
FW for the most complicated
>>8271028
>Fins Wake
>complicated
More like retarded and randumb xDD.
It's not complicated.
What could it be /lit/?
>>8270807
I missed this unpacking the book meme.
>>8270807
What can it possibly be...
>>8270807
Oh! Oh! Pick me, OP!
Is it a book?
didn't see one in the catalog, so figured I'd start one.
This is my little library, the back row on both shelves is all Warhammer 40,000, plus the missing One Punch Man volume
>>8270716
this is bait.
*slow claps*
*steps out of the shadows*
Heh... not bad, kid. Not bad at all. Your meme, I mean. It's not bad. A good first attempt. It's plenty dank... I can tell it's got some thought behind it... lots of quotable material...
But memeing isn't all sunshine and rainbows, kid. You're skilled... that much I can tell. But do you have what it takes to be a Memester? To join those esteemed meme ranks? To call yourself a member of the Ruseman's Corps? Memeing takes talent, that much is true. But more than that it takes heart. The world-class Memesters - I mean the big guys, like Johnny Hammersticks and Billy Kuahana - they're out there day and night, burning the midnight meme-oil, working tirelessly to craft that next big meme.
And you know what, kid? 99 times out of a hundred, that new meme fails. Someone dismisses it as bait, or says it's "tryhard," or ignores it as they copy/paste the latest shitpost copypasta dreamt up by those sorry excuses for cut-rate memers over at reddit. The Meme Game is rough, kid, and I don't just mean the one you just lost :^). It's a rough business, and for every artisan meme you craft in your meme bakery, some cocksucker at 9gag has a picture of a duck or some shit that a million different Johnny No-Names will attach a milion different captions to. Chin up, kid. Don't get all mopey on me. You've got skill. You've got talent. You just need to show your drive.
See you on the boards...
Bait, but props for LotGH.