Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 3525. page

>>8204436
Because deciding for myself which books I actually want to read is just too much work

>>8204436
>http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading

read the sticky you mongoloid

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Return the favor with all your novella charts plz

You can't trust STEM wizards, man. They're cold people.

Because social science courses are laughably easy and social science majors are intolerable cunts. Also because social science is typacilly taught and executed with social and political agendas in mind, whereas that's not really possible with something like mathematics or engineering.

the way they use statistics in social science is almost always wrong.

This is why none of the findings from any of their studies can be replicated.

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I fucked up Today's Reading, it is June 17th pages 200-219, scenes 57 and 58!

>>8172835
Reposting last year's poll, rereaders weigh in

http://strawpoll.me/4625366

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TODAY'S SIDE-TOPIC: Who's your favorite Ennet House resident?

is anyone actually still reading this? damn i quit after like page 50

/lit/, pls

>>8211710
Kafka had a cool perspective on being a bit of an outsider. He also understood absurdity like no one else, and because the world is so absurd, lots of people like his stuff. Other reasons too, but I'm too drunk to go next level without knowing you.

>>8211748
I'm kinda drunk, too, anon. Here's a little about me: He's my favorite writer, I went to Prague to visit his birth site, I'm learning German in hopes of becoming fluent enough to be able to read him in Deutsch, and I love Jewish girls.

Bump. Come on guys, you're my best hope, here. There was a slang term for them...?

Stilyagi. Took me 30 seconds to look up.

PS: pol fags don't read anything but memes and their own hatemail. Who is really going to bite your ass is the elitists who are going to spam anti genre fiction posts

>>8211431
Do you actually believe that or do you just want to trigger us?

I'm being curious.

>>8211305
>I am very racist and sexist
Aren't we all?

Shit I got the new oxford. Now im pissed

>>8211305
You should hardly take note of attempts to make the Bible gender neutral. I have the Oxford one and I enjoy it. The annotations are more scholarly/academic than theologically elucidating though

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Eyestrain, read this instead

>>8211216
I now am no longer a Maoist
t. French philosopher in the 70s

>>8211244
I am no longer a Stalinist and now a Maoist
t. French philosopher in the 70s

>>8211176
Dadism is proto-post-modernism

more like we live in a penais society

is dadaist society neo-patriarchy

it was pretty good. but i appreciate other things besides true-to-lifeness in the performances, i don't know if their DFW was accurate.

>>8210908
>>8210919
Is it worth watching for someone who has yet to read him?

Not as an introduction to his work but i like lit films about writers.

Is it a decent watch regardless?

>>8211088
It was only pleasing to me because i watched some dfw interviews beforehand. The movie is slow and doesn't really capture any of dfws wittiness. It also doesn't propose or enhance any understanding of pomoism. I liked it but can't recommend it

>>8210770
>Also, are there any great "plays" that were never intended to be performed/are impossible to perform according to the stage directions?

psychosis 4:48

The Circe episode.

>>8210770
Though Shakespeare was obviously written for performance first and foremost, many of the Romantics considered his work beyond the scope of stage acting
To take an example, Hazlitt:
>We do not like to see our author's plays acted, and least of all, Hamlet. There is no play that suffers so much in being transferred to the stage. Hamlet himself seems hardly capable of being acted.

Infinite Jest

medieval theology or skip directly to descartes/hume/kant, don't get memed by romanfags into thinking they're relevant.

>>8210721
Resume with the Romans

>>8210688
Okay, you have my attention.

>>8210688
Embrace the vastness of everything else and let yourself become lost in the enormity of the human experience.

You don't cope. You recognise that you're needy and desperate for attention.

Do something productive instead. Do your own thing and stop worrying about others and how they act and behave around you.

4chan is the only social site worth being a part of.

>>8210637
I'd actually have to agree with this, the only exception being obscure forums related to specific interests.

pseudo intellectual buzzwords that amount to a formula of "exclude others" + "the past was better"

no thanks.

>>8210559
Read The diary of Laura Palmer, and the diary of Dale Cooper. They are both good books to read if you love Twin peaks and those characters.

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>>8210559
>Something about a small town with a dark, subtle, and mystical vibe that can also be very light hearted at the same time.
>Also a heavy focus on setting that treats the setting almost as a character itself

two out of three ain't bad, as a wise man once said

I ***highly*** recommend Haruki Murakami. I got into Lynch and Murakami at the same time, when I was seventeen or eighteen, and although their content isn't exactly the same by virtue of being from different countries and upbringings, their work *works* in extremely similar ways, and deals with similar themes and cultural and personal issues, etc, etc.
Please read Kafka on the Shore, I think you will like it. It's a great starting point, and perhaps his most actively Lynchian. Dance, Dance, Dance, Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World, and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle are all masterpieces as well, but not the best starting points.

your mom's diary

Shitty books for edgelords?
Diary of an Oxygen Thief.