>Some may seize on it as a masterpiece, but it is a bloated monster of a book. (...) The bloat is a consequence of sheer adipose verbosity and an unremitting condition of moral and intellectual flatulence.
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nobody that matters said this about IJ
STOP TRYING TO RUIN DFW'S NAME
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>>8228870
Not an argument.
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Is this is the only book you care about? Have you read a single book in your life or you just shitpost? Why every tenth post here have to be about IJ, where most of the people haven't even read it. No one claims it to be a masterpiece of literature. Yes, it's a good book. Please, get your shit together.
I want to unironically live with no regrets. How can I attain complete satisfaction and be happy with my decisions on my death bed? Does everyone regret something?
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>>8228865
stoicism
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Look into existentialism. Read jean paul sartre. Look into humanistic psychology like carl rogers,
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try dying in your sleep ye
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How do I improve my writing, /lit/?
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>>8228774
whats wrong with it
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>>8228774
Generally: Read more and write more
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>>8228774
Read the authors you wish to emulate and write as much as you can. Set realistic goals for writing each day.
What's the Fullmetal Alchemist of Literature?
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dunno, can anyone think of any highly overrated pleb books that normies love for some reason?
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>>8228763
catcher in the rye
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>>8228772
Infinite Jest
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What's the best book with the most unintentionally bad writing or unintelligent writer? Fiction or non fiction
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my diary desu
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>>8228713
Max Stirner
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>>8228806
Currently reading the ego and his own in the German original (native, so no problems). Stirner seems like a total idiot, but with a good point.
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what are /lit/'s thoughts on alt lit?
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>>8228706
I like that they're all contained in their little bubble so I don't have to pay any attention to them.
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>alt lit is alive
>alt lit ever was alive
go to bed Mira
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What about it makes it 'alt'? Mira Gonzalez is just a shitty confessionalist, Tao Lin is lost in a sea of irony
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is the Constance Garnett translation of Brothers Karamazov good?
pic related.
am i a plebeian?
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>>8228693
It's not just good it's beloved.
Everyone who disagrees is a newfag who got memed by the jew york times and P&V
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>>8228694
i googled it just now after being the book at a used book shop and the New Yorker seems to have their head up their ass.
i know that /lit/ generally hits it on the spot regarding >translations, just wanted to make sure
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Get the Avsey translation
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where did everyone get their /lit/ chops? 2016-07-01 12:41:55 Post No.8228665
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where did everyone get their /lit/ chops?
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>college
>age
>favorite book
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>>8228665
amherst
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moby dick
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Universidad de Oviedo
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Under The Volcano
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Yale
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The Recognitions
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Who's the greatest writer of all time?
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my diary desu
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>>8228666
satan's diary would be very interesting
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>>8228690
it really wouldn't desu
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what does /lit/ think of these?
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>>8228646
Trash.
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>>8228646
Worse than Twilight. Not even joking. To be fair the kid was only like 16 but still.
My dad loves them though. Whenever he talks about what a great writer Paolini is I get pissed off. We went to see one of those Hobbit movies and he said without a hint of irony that they were good but that they copied a lot from Eragon.
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>>8228646
It was my favorite series as a child.
I am actually afraid to reread them now because I know I'll probably think they're garbage.
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2666 or savage detectives 2016-07-01 12:17:59 Post No.8228624
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never read any bolano. seems like most people on here like 2666 more - any reason to not start with that? is savage detectives more accessible/anyone like that one more?
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I read Savage Detectives. I started 2666 twice but never made it past the first 150 pages. I'll go back and take it down one day.
Savage Detectives strikes me as more accessible. It is also pretty awesome.
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start with Distant Star
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Savage Detectives is still a pretty beastly novel. 600+ pages, constantly shifting narrators, non-linear, etc.
His shorter works are good, and more "traditional", therefore easier to get into.
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the recognitions / general gaddis discussion thread 2016-07-01 12:06:17 Post No.8228603
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the recognitions / general gaddis discussion thread
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just finished. like it. wasn't incredible. credit to him for seemingly inventing the style of using complicated/fractal plot structure with absurdist irony. or did he? but by the end, the sections not re: wyatt were pretty tough to get through, and his habit of making fun of people through overheard dialogue grew tired. anyways, i did like it - should i try "junior" or is it "j.r.", or is that worse? the themes of it sound more interesting. anyone who has read the recognitions and not seen orson welles' 'f is for fake' should check it out.
hearing that he read the golden bough right before writing it makes a fuck ton of sense - what are yer opinions on it?
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>>8228603
There is an interview on youtube where he goes on about the title meanings and what he is trying to do with constraints.
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reading it right now, p fun read :) story went right from wyatt to this otto fella and caught me off guard. gotta keep yer wits about ya with this book
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>>8228603
Today I started it (the first chapter) and It's really good so far.
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How do you make yourself read books?
For some reason my mind just wants to be turned off and watch TV or a movie instead, and just sit there and not have to think about anything.
It seems like that is normal for a lot of people, but I want to change it because I really want to read some philosophy books cause I am a faggot with no self control.
However, how do I make it so that I actually WANT to read books? Like I feel like I'll never succeed unless I actually start craving it, cause like I said I have no self control. But for some reason my mind just wants to be turned off, and I don't know why... Why is it normal for humans to want to not have to think? My mind is totally cool with just becoming stagnant... how do I stop it..?
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>>8228524
Monitoring for interest. I've become completely stagnant.
Resulting ins a failed interview for a UN job as I didn't even follow the latest news anymore. I haven't done anything in the past year. It's like I didn't exist at all. I didn't read nor did I even play video games. I just surfed the webs and retained no information at all.
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>>8228524
By following the deep pit of despair floating in my horizon and tailing it down til I'm in the familiar, comforting aura of banality that spawns any inkling of creativity I posses. Once there, I've no other recourse but to feed the void with copious amounts of prose, like a heroin addict who will only rouse his body for the next bit of smack.
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YOU PICK THE BOOK
RIGHT
YOU OPEN THE BOOK
RIGHT
YOU MOVE TO THE FIRST PAGE WITH LETTERS YOU SEE
RIGHT
YOU READ IT
RIGHT
its like teaching retarded kids shake my head ( s M H)
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Can you recommend any good books on buddhism and the principles of buddhism? Or just any books about spiritual identity
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For a beginner, read "What the Buddha Taught"
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Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha
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>>8228432
check warosu
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The Man Who Was Thursday 2016-07-01 09:29:56 Post No.8228390
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So who exactly IS Sunday?
What is he doing it for?
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>>8228390
He's God.
I have no idea.
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a nightmare
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He does it for free