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>>8198440

>liking anything book related
>ever
gb2reddit

>>8198440
wait you mean the band The Books they are my favourite band yes OP /lit/ does

>>8198440
what the fuck did he mean by this

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>>8198414
>entertainment
>literature

you're the reason the big d an hero'd

>>8198414
This lil qt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUr_69RFoUU

Why are they making a movie? That shit is so old.

Is it my imagination, or are more and more movies being based off of books?

Am I the only one who didn't read that bullshit?

>>8198303
Japanese John Green.

>>8198303
/lit/ hates a lot but that is an outstanding (and hilarious) book. If murakami has a flaw it's that he likes to write the same book. This can be overcome by limiting yourself to Hard Boiled Wonderland at the End of the World, Norwegian Wood and if you need one more Kaftka on the Shore.

>>8198323
I see, thanks anon. A lot of reviews have said similar things about him liking to write the same book

It is the point

L'art pour l'art, you pleb.

>>8198140
wilde pls go. formalism has been debunked for ages

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Epic.

Ancaps have nothing in common with other anarchists.

>>8198058
2nded. All they want is to replace the mechanisms of the state with private corps. that accomplish the same unethical actions.
>inb4 voluntaryists get butthurt

anyone?

>>8198041
Calibre.

It's a bit slow to boot, but it's wonderfully complete.

SumatraPDF
It's small, simple and can read mobi, epub, pdfs...

>>8197948
I loved the first one. I read it before I knew of the games. I've managed about two chapters of 2034. My memory card on which it was saved was lost (along with ~250 other books).

From what I read it seemed alright, nothing very engaging. At least not enough to download it again. I do need to pick it back up though.

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>metpo

>>8197948
I heard bad things about Metro 2034 too but I've always been curious about checking it out for myself since I enjoyed 2033 a lot more than I expected I would (I'm not usually keen on video games or genre fiction).

What other works would you recommend if I liked Metro 2033, apart from Roadside Picnic?

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>>8198045
His philosophy of music is extremely outdated.

>>8197906
I'm a classical musician, and every musicologist I've ever known has autism. just el skip-o that bullcrap fαm.

Boing Boing was a good site back in the day. Then they all decided to become internet famous and spewed out a bunch of crappy content and left their website by the wayside.

RU Sirius and old Mondo 2000 issues from 1997 are more relevant right now than anything Cory wrote. Sorry bud.

Never said his stuff was particularly relevant, just that they were enjoyable.

It's pretty decent YA

>>8197726
>decent
>YA

They're pretty different in approach and were written decades apart iirc. I think preferred part 2, but if you read 1 you should probably read 2 as well.

There are about 40 years between the publication of both. The second part was published after his death.

The second part came out of Goethe taking the "start with the Greeks" meme very, very seriously, to the point that it's a hard read when you don't know the allusions, so most people skip it. The first part works fine on its own.

>>8197518
ah okay. i know the basics of the faust myth, is that covered in its entirety in part 1?

is part 1 a more or less complete narrative?

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>>8197412
Don't go for philosophy.

Here are some unreleased thoughts of Cioran (unreleased in English) about philosophy. It sums up my own sentiment quite fairly.

Translated with Google Translate because I'm lazy, but you'll get the meaning:

>The most stupid thing we can do is to study philosophy. One can study a problem, but it is absurd to merely study… all the problems. To say that I went through that error!

>Essential condition if we want to think, refrain from thinking about philosophy.

>There is nothing more sterilant for a poet to read other poets. Similarly, they read philosophers and nothing (that is what the prof. do), is to condemn oneself to never have one philosophical thought.

>The history of philosophy is the negation of philosophy.

>One of the few advantages I had, it was to have understoof, in twenty years, that philosophy had an answer for anything, and that even its questions were inessential.

>I hate to develop, explain, comment, support, I hate everything that reminds the philosopher, thus the teacher.
> The philosophy: spread a thought (as they say of a dung it stretches, stretches). I do not like the thought picked up, blasted into a formula.

> Except Pyrrho, Epicurus and others, Greek philosophy is disappointing: it seeks only the truth ...; on the contrary Hindu philosophy does not pursue the issue: what is otherwise important.

>"This philosophy is not worth an hour of trouble. "- This affirmation of Pascal, I did it unconsciously since my time insomnia, whenever I read or reread a philosopher.

>Sartre managed to make good Heidegger but not good Celine. Counterfeiting is easier in philosophy than in literature. This ambitious who thought wanting was enough to have talent. He has not even managed to give the illusion of "depth" which is very easy for any philosopher who encroaches on the letters.

>A philosopher is someone who indefinitely explains his thinking. The artist fortunately can't have such bad taste.
>I name non-philosopher the one who can not have the bad taste to explain his thinking.

>Any exegesis is desecration. A text explained is not a text, like a corpse is no longer a body. The history of philosophy is the negation of philosophy. We struggle with an idea, we do not describe the steps. The scholarship is to be avoided. The same criticism. Find innocence. Let destructive.

>It took me a long time to get rid of the fascination on me philosophical jargon. But I finally got rid of it. This style of teachers, pedantic, laborious, which turns round, and whose essential aim is to hide away the problem is the long intolerable. But we understand that deceives young and fills teachers.

>I just read a very fair thing in correspondence of an English critic. According to Aristotle, there has been no poetry in Greece.
> The philosophy kills inspiration.

>>8197608
These quotes are some of the most idiotic things I've ever heard. How can you possibly claim that thinking and learning are bad things?

In regards to studying literature of philosophy, its a matter of taste. Do you enjoy philosophy? Do you enjoy literature? Which one do you enjoy more? That's all that's really important.

>>8197852

>How can you possibly claim that thinking and learning are bad things?

Swing and a miss. At least you tried.

>>8197403
I once see a King Lear where all characters were in contemporary dress (suit and tie), and Lear was actually the CEO of a company named "Lear, Inc."

It was appalling.

The right thing to do as a director for classic plays is to be vaguely historical (not too precise, not trying to emulate too hard the "old time" unless it's required by the play), and be discreet. The audience must focus on the text, not on the director's quirky ideas. The text is king.

>>8197439
There are also excellent non-traditional productions that are revolutionary precisely because of the "director's quirky ideas". For example, Peter Brook's 1970 Midsummer Night's Dream.

The problem lies in the director's competence to effectively convey and express those ideas without sacrificing the text or the whole production.

>>8197403
in the winter's tale, i would have actual bears

He's not. Those who dislike him typically have not read his books and are bogged down by the labels associated with reading one of his books. I'd like to think the typical /lit/ anon would be smarter than to let that determine their reading tastes, but you never know.

>>8197389
wow that was actaully good, what book of his is that from? :)

>>8197406
I guessed it right from the first sentence :)

Yes. If he had everything right, there wouldn't figures like Nietzsche or Kierkegaard in the first place.

>>8197273
>wouldn't be

>>8197273
>Is it wrong if I disagree with a lot of things that this commie faggot Aristotle blurts out?
it is if you don't think about what you're reading and just see shit you don't agree with and move along.