>17-19
>read literature non-stop
>22 now
>read one book this year
Who /failure/ here?
>aged 19 read 160 books / year
>aged 20 read 200 books / year
>age 21 read 9 books / year
>age 22 read 0 books this year
at least I got the greeks in when I had the drive i guess
>17-20
>read classic literature non stop
>20-30
>just read pynchon over and over
cram it homo
I'm reading this and I'm wondering if it's worth continuing since i'm getting confused a lot. I didn't really understand the threat the adenoid dream prevented and I'm at the part about Slothrop's relatives gravestones and i've got no idea what's going on.
I read infinite jest pretty easily but this is on a whole different level. Should I keep trying /lit/?
Try starting with the Greeks first
>>8167465
Same here f a m
It took me a few pages in to realise these people were army people
>>8167488
this
Hey /lit/, sorry for the pleb question, but is this a decent reading order for Nietzsche?
Untimely Meditations
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
The Gay Science
The Birth of Tragedy
Beyond Good and Evil
Genealogy of Morals
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Case of Wagner
The Twilight of the Idols
The Antichrist
Ecce Homo
Nietzsche Contra Wagner
Is there anything I should take out/any unnecessary works that aren't important or good? Anything I should change up? Also, do you guys have any good recommendations for secondary sources? I want to make sure that I don't misinterpret Nietzsche as I've heard that many people do.
I apologize for the gap between Untimely Meditations and Human, All Too Human. It is pissing me the fuck off.
>>8167437
Did you read Schopenhauer?
I'd start with twilight of the idols, ecce homo and zarathustra.
Anybody got suggestions for milhist books on gunpowder period pre-WWI conflicts that are NOT about the American revolution, the American Civil War, the war of 1812, or English-French focused Napoleonic period? Stuff like the pike and shot period or the Italian wars.
War and Peace.
>>8167484
That's a novel. I'm looking more for stuff like Gibbon's Decline and Fall of Rome or Robert Massie's Castles of Steel.
>>8167544
Decline and Fall is outdated, and is only read as a grand series of novels.
Also War and Peace is absolutely a historical text. Tolstoy was the first Russian writer to fully understand the invasion if 1812.
Would you let Chomsky make tender yet dominating love to you?
Can you write better than this man?
No one can write better than the Meme God.
He already published many books and made lots of money so probably not.
>>8167321
Not yet
what are some good love stories? I've been reading a lot of the memes from here and they have left me feeling empty and hollow. in the past I've read never let me go, the virgin suicides, the English patient, the remains of the day. so I guess more shit like that.
mel gibson lookin jacked
lolita
>virgin suicides
>love story
>>8167627
the boys were in lovewith the girls
What's the worst book you've ever read all the way through?
Many moons ago. Complex bullshit is fascinating.
Basically this book and all of Dan Brown work in my opinion.
>>8167258
This. Friend who recommended it to me did not enjoy hearing my feedback.
What's the comfiest book you've ever read?
a rebours
The Waves by Virginia Wolf
>>8167226
my diary, desu
What do you guys think of this reconstructed ancient Greek pronunciation of the first lines of The Odissey?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOvVWiDsPWQ
>>8167203
And here is Aeschylus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuoKgbDgdek&list=PL942E6CB97EFE79FD
>>8167203
>>8167229
>>8167203
Why does he sound like an extremely well endowed Japanese man who's baked out of his fucking mind?
Angsty kids read F&LiLV sometime in high school and it convinces them to do more drugs and talk about how good the book is, so a lot of people tend to just avoid Thompson's work altogether.
Fucking ridiculous. F&LiLV is somewhat entertaining, but some of the dude's other shit is legitimately outstanding (pic related). Thompson himself didn't even particularly like how popular LV got, and it really fucked him up.
Thompson appreciation bread. Post your favorite articles, books, stories, picture, anything. He was a real treasure.
>>8167141
Yeah most people misinterpret his genius and just feel like he's telling them to do drugs. Fear and loathing on the campaign trail is awesome, the Hell Angels though is my favorite and the Rum diaries of course. The book I'm working on now is the 40 Oz diaries
kind of torn on HST. at times he's lyrical, and at other times he comes across as an entitled aspie - like when he was demanding that Willie Hearst fire one of his editors for daring to change the way he spelled "ghadaffi".
Hells Angels is highly entertaining, aesthetically pleasing, and genuinely informative.
;-; poor little buggy ;-;
>>8167064
>this guy walks into the club
>turns into a vermin
wat do?
>>8167077
Throw dubs at him so that they lodge into his stinkin' bug back!
WILL WINTER EVER COME
>>8167044
WAT. BUT WHY? WHY I SAY 4CHANER, WHY?
>>8167058
because dubs and you're a faggot
Is really possible to write something really good without having lived those feelings.
I mean, someone whose parents were good and lovable can write a novel about evil and tough parents? Someone who never went to war, can write something really good being a filthy, idle neet?
>>8167015
Nope its impossible, Tolkien was a wizard
>>8167039
Well, in the case of fantasy literature, everything it creates comes from a metaphor or any literary figure which requires of something real
So there's my question again, refering to that "something real"
>>8167015
How do you even recognize the possibility that it may be necessary to live through something before you write a story about it, and then feel the need to try to make the case that it's not true?
Obviously it's necessary. All art is imitation, so your choice is simply to either imitate life or imitate other art, and you're constantly making that choice whether you're aware of it or not.
And obviously if your art is imitating other art then you're doing an imitation of an imitation (of an imitation), so you're basically either fucked if you're unaware of it, or you can make it into a meme work of art if you are aware of it. Though arguably in both cases you suck.
>Promised myself when I first started college that I'd be publish by 22
>I'm now 23 and haven't had a single thing published outside of what I put up on the internet myself
I think I fell for the "Hard work and constant practice will lead to success" meme, but I'm not quite sure yet.
>>8166990
>hard work and constant practice
>is only 23
A lot of writers don't even publish first books until their 30s and 40s.
Consider yourself lucky OP, Borges realized that a writer isn't bound to publish when he was almost dead.
>>8167012
Where does he said that?
I'm very interested in this