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What's the literary equivalent to pic related?
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please try harder to make a good thread next time. thank you
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>>8145364
I'm completely serious, cawksuckah. Why don'tcha tug my big juicy peckah, or sumpthin'.
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>personalities
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Which Stephen king book is worth reading?
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Cujo is actually good because the dog shenanigans are a backdrop to a tragic family drama. But all of it is very good and it blends well.
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The Long Walk is a quick and solid read.
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None because all stephen king books are vile degenarate pleb garbage
If you haven't read this, all your reading has had no foundation whatsoever. Read The Bible and start over.
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>Not acquainting with the Akkadians
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>all your reading has no foundation whatsoever
Unless you started with the Greeks
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>>8145250
>not Beginning with the Babylonians
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Thoughts on this? The first 50 pages are surely astounding.
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>>8145194
I like the cover photo
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Quite boring. The least interesting of the canon post-modernist doorstoppers I've read.
I found White Noise by the same author more enjoyable.
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>>8145226
jesus christ, what caused the sudden influx of redditors?
What is the fucking point in Pop-Sci? Is it just stuff written for the masses for entertainment purposes? These books don't actually teach you anything useful and a lot of them contain common knowledge of modern science which you can find in a high school book. If you actually want to learn about real science why not read a textbook?
I personally think pop-sci is aimed at pseudo-intellectuals who just want to memorise useless facts in order to show off their 'knowledge'. These books are no better than those shitty YouTube videos like crash course which teach you nothing useful.
> pic related
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>>8145185
>common knowledge
go on then mate give us a quick summary of hawking's key theories. no googling.
>I personally think pop-sci is aimed at pseudo-intellectuals
your whole stupid fucking post is a paradigm example of the worst kind of /lit/ pseud-ness
>inb4 200 shitposts from angry boys who have read a pop-thinking book and think they're fucking socrates
pic unrelated
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>>8145185
Pop-Sci books are alright, usually because they actually delve into some topic deep enough to have a general grasp without having to know the mathematics behind it
Pop-Sci videos, like ASAPscience and Minute Physics, annoy me more because they're similar, but even shallower and they're aimed at people who have attention spans of hedgehogs.
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>>8145185
I read this and a brief history of time when I was in high school and I thought they were okay, but when I reflected upon it I realized it was just a collection of facts. There was no actual transferring of knowledge. As someone studying engineering physics I can say that those books are not even science, there is no reasoning for anything, only analogies.
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Books similar to moby dick? Not necessarily about the sea, more looking for the atmosphere and theme of man's obsessive need to conquer
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blood meridian lol
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>>8145211
Yea that's a good one, already read it though! Any others?
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>>8145183
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber sorta fits that theme, though it's more about manhood.
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Has anyone read this? Is it good?
I have yet to read it, but it seems pretty interesting. I can't say I completely agree with the premise, but I think it'll be great to understand the idea of masculinity in Donovan eyes, and his thoughts on it. It really shows the modern way of thinking.
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>>8145176
>I AM AN ALPHA HUNTER WOMAN STOP PUTTING ESTROGEN IN MY WATER
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There was this exact thread 3 weeks ago.
Pretty long thread.
Maybe there's an archive.
It developed in a right-wing "intellectual words" name calling though
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It's essentially evolutionary psychology hogwash invented by an amateur trying to justify homosexual caveman LARPing
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I'm in the verge of wasting $100 on philosophy books. Should I do it?
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There is nothing wrong with that but I think its more of a question of the right ones to pick
you could also consider used vs new, and that it might be a while before you get to read them all
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>>8145146
Buy a Kindle instead
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this is an off-topic thread. fuck off
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Are there any books that will teach me about hacking? Something that isn't too technical or boring but will be a good guide to navigate or explore through things like snapchat and stuff? I'm excessively paranoid and want a good resource to quell my fears and give me some measure of power.
Also: cyberpunk/sci-fi recommendations?
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>>8145110
there are loads of hacking books. look up syngress publishing and just pick a "basics of..." or something
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>>8145110
>not to technically
Lmao
If you suck at programming learn python, books never help learning programming. You have to try it out.
You cant "hack" without knowing at least 1 or 2 coding languages pretty good.
If you are interested in smartphone apps learn java
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>>8145260
i don't think you actually know anything about the subject you are posting about
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So if you've seen a decreased in DFW threads recently its because I got a global month ban from making threads on /pol/. Well, my appeal was accepted and now its time for redemption.
POST YOU'RE DFW
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You've been missed anon.
I got no images to contribute to your cause but GL.
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Mods are asleep, post Meridians
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>Corncob Tortillas
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>>8145130
>asperger pedophilia butterfly man
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>>8145042
I happen to think this may be a comfy book. Is it a comfy book?
Hawkes thread.
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>>8144878
is hawkes any good? are there some similar authors that are more commonly read?
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>>8144878
Are you a Hawkes scholar or what?
I'm looking for very poetic sort of avant garde, dream like literature. Preferably something that's more human feeling, not ridged. It could be stories, or personal writings, or poems. Whatever. I just want something brilliant, imaginative, written like it was written for no one but the writer his or herself.
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Proust
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The Other Side by Alfred Kubin
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Infinite Jest
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>character is described as fat
>instantly detest them
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Why are you so filled with self-contempt Ignatius?
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>>8144719
because my father touched me as a child
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>character's physical aspect is described
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>In the literary machine that Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” constitutes, we are struck by the fact that all the parts are produced as asymmetrical sections, paths that suddenly come to an end, hermetically sealed boxes, noncommunicating vessels, watertight compartments, in which there are gaps even between things that are contiguous, gaps that are affirmations, pieces of a puzzle belonging not to any one puzzle but to many, pieces assembled by forcing them into a certain place where they may or may not belong, their unmatched edges violently forced out of shape, forcibly made to fit together, to interlock, with a number of pieces always left over.
Well /lit/?
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>>8144602
so, short stories?
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>>8144602
Deleuze is pretty great, but if you aren't familiar with his work he always sounds like a rambling hobo. I suppose that stands for most philosophers though.
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>>8144667
He's definitely for people already deep within it.