There wasn't one up.
Can someone please tell me who they're refering to here:
https://youtu.be/YWi0AMyniYc?t=592 [Embed]
i can't seem to get the spelling of his name right, and i don't find him in any list of knights.
There wasn't a stupid
Michael Arnold
>>8102014
cant wait for the old cunt to die.
If Harold Bloom was a janitor he would be Harold Broom.
Lets have one of these going, lads.
>>8101781
I don't get it. I don't watch children cartoons.
1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2. 1984
3. Dune
4. Slaughterhouse 5
5. Ender's Game
Do you agree with this list?
I agree, that is probably reddit's top 5 books. I don't know, I've never been there.
Hitchhiker's Guide and 1984 are alright but they're not the greatest of all time.
yes, the
Greatest philosopher who ever lived. Final boss of philosophy.
>implying "greatest philosopher" isn't like saying "greatest Star Wars EU loremaster"
>>8101446
>Kant ended philosophy
>Hegel ended philosophy
>Heidegger ended philosophy
>Wittgeinstein ended philosophy
ITT: 15 year old you's favorite book
Moby-Dick
vurt
city of god
the virgin suicides
Has a woman ever written a masterpiece?
No, and they never will.
Periods and cooking don't make good subjects for high literature.
The Waves
Of course and if you need to ask for examples, you are too dumb to be on /lit/. Mods need to start locking these threads or we are going to become aslightlybetter read /r9k/.
Are the witcher novels any good, /lit/?
>>8100726
Harry Potter/GoT-tier.
>>8100726
I'm currently reading The Last Wish and am about 2/3rds into it. It's really good fun, Geralt is a fun protagonist and the world he inhabits is interesting. Some of the short stories within are of varying quality but on the whole I'd recommend reading them, especially if you're a fan of the games. I'm looking forward to cracking into Sword of Destiny.
Don't think this is on any higher philosophical level than most fantasy though, it's designed to be lost in and enjoyable first and foremost.
No, but ok entertainment I guess.
Aparte de Borges y Cortázar, quiénes son los escritores escenciales de américa latina?
Machado de Assis.
Roberto Bolaño.
JoĂŁo GuimarĂŁes Rosa.
Juan Carlos Onetti
Felisberto Hernández
Juan José Arreola
Juan Filloy
Horacio Quiroga
Fernando Vallejo
Juan Rulfo
Arreola
Roa Bastos
>Cortázar
>falling on the meme boom
What asian language has the best literature? I would assume chinese for having the longest history because to be honest I don't give a shit about animu.
Does anyone here have experience as a westerner learning such drastically different languages? Is it reasonably possible to get fluent enough to read their classics? I'm a native english speaker who has always regretted being monolingual. I'm trying to remedy that with french first, then move onto something harder.
>>8097040
>Chinese
>literature
Honestly, I would recommend Japanese over Chinese. Chinese is significantly harder to get accustomed to, and you'll struggle with the tonal system and the uncommon phonology. The several spoken Chinese forms are another difficulty you would like to avoid, and its literary history has a hole, namely communist China. It means the written Chinese of the classics are already different than the one you will study and that the modern literature still offers little to compare with Japan. Thanks to its syllabary, Japanese is more friendly and a bilingual English/French speaker will have a homely feel when it comes to pronunciation. Japanese is very close to French and Italian, and has some sounds found in German. It also gives a “musical” accent, similar to French, which has little importance, unlike Chinese. A European can effortlessly read a Japanese sentence. On a literary note, Japan is younger than China but has demonstrated more consistence through the ages, and a positive incorporation of European influences. The contemporary and modern literatures are still highly active. Chinese is a perfect second language choice for Japanese speaker since early Japanese literature involves Chinese, and that Japanese characters are directly borrowed to China. Actually, I speak French, Japanese and Chinese so feel free to ask questions.
>>8097336
Thank you anon. How did you learn japanese? Do you have any tips for that or language-learning in general? I'm reading through /int/'s language guide and I've signed up for a french class in the fall for uni, but my school doesn't offer japanese that I know of.
ah, blood meridian, monsieur? that novel is the sark and chaparral of literature, the filament whereon rode the remuda of highbrow, corraled out of some destitute hacienda upon the arroya, quirting and splurting with main and with pyrolatrous coagulate of lobated grandiloquence. our eyes rode over the pages, monsieur, of that slatribed azotea like argonauts of suttee, juzgados of swole, bights and systoles of walleyed and tyrolean and carbolic and tectite and scurvid and querent and creosote and scapular malpais and shillelagh. we scalped, monsieur, the gantlet of its esker and led our naked bodies into the rebozos of its mennonite and siliceous fauna, wallowing in the jasper and the carnelian like archimandrites, teamsters, combers of cassinette scoria, centroids of holothurian chancre, with pizzles of enfiladed indigo panic grass in the saltbush of our vigas, true commodores of the written page, rebuses, monsieur, we were the mygale spiders too and the devonian and debouched pulque that settled on the frizzen studebakers, listening the wolves howling in the desert while we saw the judge rise out of a thicket of corbelled arches, whinstone, cairn, cholla, lemurs, femurs, leantos, moonblanched nacre, uncottered fistulas of groaning osnaburg and kelp, isomers of fluepipe and halms awap of griddle, guisado, pelancillo.
Yeah, I actually read the whole thing because I had to. I was entering a prestigious PhD program and focusing on Joyce because I loved Dubliners, Portrait, and Ulysses. To my shame, though, I'd never read the Wake. I'd never even tried, as hard as that was to admit. It was this huge blind spot and area of vulnerability for me. Whenever it'd come up with my colleagues I'd just smile and nod, smile and nod, hoping they wouldn't ask me anything specific about it. "The musicality of it," somebody would say, and I'd say, "Oh God, yes, it's like Beethoven." Finally, though, I had to dive into it, and let me tell you it was tough going. Joseph Campbell's guide helped a lot. Reading it out loud helped. I listened to other people read it, read online commentaries. Eventually it started to make some sort of sense. It was like I was learning to read for the first time again, and in a way this was enjoyable. I got better at reading the book. Soon I was reading entire paragraphs without trouble, getting the puns, laughing at the jokes. I could sort of follow the story, it was like a blurry picture resolving into clarity, or like I was drunk and I was sobering up, I could actually understand it. As I became more and more adept at reading the Wake, I began putting myself to the test, initiating conversations with my colleagues about it, but specific passages this time, specific parts of the book. You can probably guess what happened. After a number of these conversations it became blindingly obvious that I understood the book a lot better than they did, they who I thought were the experts. It eventually became sort of embarrassing for them and I stopped trying to talk about it. And at the end of the day I would pack my things, catch the bus home, and settle into my apartment to read the Wake. It had surpassed all of Joyce's other works in my estimation. Ulysses, the book months earlier I would've named as my favorite of all time, the best book ever written, was now #2 to the Wake. So majestic, so ambitious, so wide-ranging, erudite, glorious, incredible was it that I couldn't believe that it was the work of one man. Best of all, the heart of it isn't complicated at all. What did I get from the Wake, what are its lessons? First of all, be yourself. Second of all, put one foot in front of the other. And lastly, just do it for crying out loud, time's a wastin'!
>>8087981
>Tfw no reply from short story competition curators
>tfw something i worked hard on was just ignored
>tfw i'm starting to believe that's what's best for me at this point
>tfw given me the boost of contempt I need to really crank out some of my best work just to show the fuckers
>tfw I'm an arrogant blowhard who thinks of himself as a genius and looks down on everyone who doesn't understand what I'm trying to convey
>Tfw unalloyed ambition will lead to death or literary respect because i have little passion for anything else
>tfw sperg
>tfw people like your stuff that is 70-80% of your "ability" but don't like your 100% stuff at all
>tfw you take a shit and you go to flush it but it gets clogged so now you have to frantically remove the top of the tank to stop the shit-water from flowing on to the floor of your newly renovated bathroom
Dante has never known a terror as the Inferno of shit
>Tfw girls like the way i write
what was the closest thing to newsgroups/message boards before the internet/computer networking? is there anything even remotely similar, that i could find at a library?
basically i just want to read transcripts of casual conversations from past eras.
http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm
I.2.20 (Bar/Brothel of Innulus and Papilio); 3932: Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!
my vibe desu
>>8106067
ROMA
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>>8106087
SPQueeR
University of Edinburgh gave free access to their journals and publications until the end of May (i.e. 2 hours 40 minutes left, GMT time), this is the url: http://www.euppublishing.com/action/showPublications
Is there a way to bulk download it? The whole archive is free, some journals as far as 2004, literature and philosophy included.
Use wget
>>8106003
can someone pls do it
>>8106111
https://sourceforge.net/projects/winwget/ I will try and use this, it's wget with an actual interface.
Is there any way to get similar book recommendations besides goodreads crappy lists?
>>8105706
>Is there any way to get similar book recommendations besides goodreads crappy lists?
YesREAD THEM
>Im the EDGE
>>8105713
your answer is a non sequitur.
It is normal to have difficulty reading philosophy books at 19?
I've been reading Lovecraft and George R. R. Martin since I was 17 but I still have problems reading complex texts, how can I improve?
literally start with the greeks
>>8105695
>Tfw read the Critique of Pure Reason at 15
You're trying to be like the pseuds on here and read philosophy after reading 4/10 difficulties
Read harder fiction and then try philosophy if you must, alrhough there really probably isnt much there for you