So is he a meme or GOAT
>>8191214
GOAT, if you understand him.
I've read his main works, which is more than almost anyone can say.
he's a meme confirmed
>>8191214
Big bit of column A, little bit of column B.
Rereading, never seen it mentioned on /lit/. Is John Irving's prose not fancy enough for ya? Also, 4chan would probably like his take on feminism.
>>8191186
does he BTFO feminist roastwhores? If so, I'm definitely adding this to my list!!
john irving is mom-core
>>8191186
this shit was hilarious.
>"Plato is a bore. " - Nietzsche
Never a truer word spoken.
>>8191125
>"Nietzsche is dead." - God
Never a truer word spoken.
>>8191125
It's not Nietzsches fault that Plato is a shit tier philosopher.
>>8191125
"Mathematics is better than literature" - Roland "Barthes" Simpson.
A while back someone posted a mega link for a huge library of ebook versions of esoteric/mystical texts, and I thought I bookmarked it but evidently I did not. Does anyone have that link?
Also esotericism general.
You are most welcome, kind sir
http://www.hermetics.org/library/Library_Grimoires.html
also
http://sacred-texts.com/eso/index.htm
>>8191122
while these are both really good, i'm booking marking it and i appreciate such a quick response, there was specifically a megaupload link that i'm looking for.
Plot your current read on this scale and have a license to get pretentious
See if you can guess what I'm reading!
>>8191109
Lolita
>>8191109
my diary
Hi /lit/, newfag here from /sp/. I'm studying medicine and I like to read about some new subjects. I'm in the 2nd year of study. Can you guys recommend me some books? I like hematology and immunology so far in my journey to be medic. I'd be more than thankful i you could link me some books , bonus points if they deliver world wide ( Romania )
Have you read before the novel Infinite Jest by acclaimed author David Foster Wallace?
>>8191086
No , I rarely read belletristic.
So , if someone has some suggestions , I'd like a medicine book based on a single disease but multiple diseases are good too.
>>8191094
Then just read it academically?
let's play a few rounds of who would you rather.
who would you rather read
tao lin or Franzen
who would you rather meet
lin or Franzen
who would you rather fuck
lin or Franzen
who would you rather drop dead right now
lin or Franzen
10th poster gets to start his next round. pick who ever. pick what ever.
>>8191045
Franzen every question.
>who would you rather read
tao lin
>who would you rather meet
tao lin but they both seem insufferable
>who would you rather fuck
why are you asking these painful questions. they're both so ugly. but fine. tao i guess.
>who would you rather drop dead right now
franzen. i hate him whereas i only dislike the other guy. his works are utter garbage and don't deserve any praise whatsoever.
>>8191045
Lin for everything except the last one.
>Watching movies and TV is for plebs; it rots your brain
>Reading novels is for patricians; it's gentlemanly and learned
Is there any truth to this meme? (And if so, then what of audiobooks?)
Is the distaste for "merely watching TV/Movies" simply a modern development; a reaction of the disgust reflex against the media addiction that goes hand-in-hand with (and arguably supports) our objectively measurable intellectual and social development? After all, given the choice of reading a novel and watching a film with the same content, most will opt for the film if only because it will take a fraction of the time and energy.
Aren't reading and "watching" both just passively absorbing narratives? On what grounds can we put one on a pedestal and the other in the gutter? Because reading is less efficient it's "better"?
And if we accept that reading is "mere consumption" as well, isn't the critical fault-line actually that between creating new ideas and passively absorbing existing ideas?
>>8190956
You need CONSCIOUS, ACTIVE, THOUGHT to read and understand a book.
Movies, music, and even audiobooks, require little for your mental thinking to be working. It's what some people can say as white noise, or background.
I mean really anon, don't you already understand that when you sit down on your chair, open the book, and stare at black and white text, you're putting more thought and action than blandly staring at a screen.
People hate movie/TV people because most modern stuff is garbage. Kind of in the same way that most modern books are garbage. Similarly, most of everything created ever is garbage. However, humans have made a crap ton of books over the years so the tiny percent that isn't crap is actually a large absolute number. So most TV sucks but we're on 4chan so we have no high horse here.
>>8190956
not trynna sound like a fedora tipping gentleman but obly idiots deal in absolutes.
There is trash in both merit and trash in both mediums.
Thoughts?
>>8190955
self help book for 13 year olds
>>8190955
It's alright, yeah. Nothing mind-blowing, and i'd certainly rather kids read it than Neetzche.
>>8190963
13 year olds these days read sublime works of Stoic literature by Roman emperors? Wow, perhaps I've misjudged them...
Opinions on Slaughterhouse-Five? Always thought it was a bit overrated desu and don't see why it's the classic that it is
>>8190898
Just started reading it. What am I in for?
>>8190921
It's a very strange book. It's kind of hard to follow because Vonnegut keeps jumping around and time traveling and messing with the plotline. It's all over the place, really
It's alright but I don't see why it's a classic
>>8190898
I thought it was ok and the whole think of everything alive and dead ideology kind of dumb. I also didn't like the style of writing, but over all i still thought it was a good book.
Hey. I'm going to spent six weeks in a psych ward soon and since the use of electronics is highly limited and I assume it gets boring really fast, I thought this is a good time to get into literature. What are the best, must read books under 200 pages? Can be from any time period or genre, really.
>>8190840
This is what the wiki is for. Look at it.
>>8190840
What are you going in for?
By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño is great.
Whores for Gloria by William T Vollmann is very good but very sad.
Agapē Agape by William Gaddis is very good.
Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon is under 200 pages, I believe.
If I may ask, why do you want books under 200 pages?
>tfw you spend 800 pages completely demolishing the claims of reason and philosophy that have ravaged the human mind for thousands of years and completely radicalize what it means to have a positioned, human existence within the world only to end it with: "just be good and shit and you'll be happy one day--you just gotta believe that God exists and that heaven is a place in the future"
Did this nigga really just spend 10 years demolishing everything just to leave it as it was by the time he finished?
>>8190812
Why are you calling him nigga?
You think that's bad you should check out Newton.
>>8190842
I don't read rape manuals.
imagine being one of the suckered who's been reading this since 1996 lmaooooooo
>>8190616
Stop posting stupid threads
>>8190616
Started in 2000 and stopped after they aired season 2 or 3. I was bored.
>>8190616
I read the first one, and the second one bored the tits off me. Never finished it, nor read anything else by GRRM.
Best female writers?
Post 'em if you got 'em.
me
>>8190565
Austen is my waifu
>>8190573
Post either feet or writings please.
Why in children tales good always win while in reality evil triumphs?
Is it immoral to give children false impression just from the beginning? Children should be exposed to truth, not blatant lies.
Why do you masturbate to drawings?
>>8190517
I kill all my children the day after their ninth birthday so they won't have to experience how horrible the world really is.
>>8190517
>Why in children tales good always win while in reality evil triumphs?
Because it might confuse audiences that the evil in the first place is good, you have to have a play between the two or they might fail to recognize what is and is not evil; and why it's necessary to stand up for what you believe. Evil thrives when good men do nothing, and good men don't come from nothing.