Recommend me some great essayists.
I really like Patanjali, Seneca, Schopenhauer, and, for newer writers, Theodore Dalrymple.
They each write brilliantly.
I've also recently enjoyed some Emerson and On the Gradual Construction of Thoughts during Speech by Heinrich von Kleist
My philosophical worldview is immensly practical; my political worldview is (thoroughly) conservative.
Emerson exudes raw vigour and vitality.
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read the sticky
>>8002802
>patanjali
>essayist
what the
What the FUCK is this bvookkkkkkkk
the only good one he wrote
I do not understand.
>>8002641
This. I also like Birth of Tragedy, thoughts on that one?
Sappho vs. Catullus who is the better roman poet?
Sappho is Greek
Catullus
Mainly for reasons already stated.
Put your poems here and plz don't mess with my prose thread you hipster degenerates
>>8002578
>>8002580
http://pastebin.com/Phw496bh
1 its shit
2 funny
3 a let down on the third line/
>4 saying one word 3 times in a haiku
5 fuck off
6 enjoyable
7 fuck off
8 that makes me pity you
9 cute i like this one
10 fuck off
11 stupid
12 replace the first much with something else
13 creep
14 you need to write a story about a man who is sexually attracted to swans and spends his days in central park
15 fuck off
16 stupid
17 good you asshole, making me review all these poems. wow. dickhead. you're so cool. you wrote the laziest form of poem 50 times to tell me that you actually do shit! you think you're creative? you're garbage. this is all stupid garbage.
18 i bet you think you're so clever
19 i don't care
20 nobody likes haikus
21 literally the maximum you can get from a haiku is "ha"
22 lol so epik & randumb
23 you're worse than an ant fuck off
24 you can't read people as well as you think
25 ok that's clever well done
>26 i've never been to the tundra
27 gay
i'm done, stay out of my prose thread you nosefaced tinydick
Each stanza should be 4 lines and the last one, 8, but pastebin moved the words a bit.
http://pastebin.com/raw/QXmErW2G
>>8002599
thanks
What should I read next?
fuck off
>>8002364
glass bead game
>>8002364
handmaid's tale. they are making a tv series about it so you need to read it before that appears otherwise people will think you are only reading it because of the series. and of course it will mean you can knowledgeably point out the discrepancies between the book and the series.
Here's my list:
1. Franz Kafka - short stories collection
2. Milan Kundera - The unbearable lightness of being
3. Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha
4. Eugene Ionesco - Rhinoceros
5. J. D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
6. Angela Carter - The Passion of New Eve
7. Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon
8. Carson Mccullers - The Member of the Wedding
9. Hermann Hesse - Klingsor's Last Summer
10. Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf
11. Patrick Ness - The Rest of us just Live Here
12. Virginia Woolfe - To the Lighthouse
13. Fyodor Dosteovsky - Notes from Underground
14. Richard Bean - England People Very Nice
15. Clarice Lispector - Hour of the Star
16. Glen Cook - The Black Company
17. Dalton Trumbo - Johnny got his Gun
18. Michael Cisco - The Narrator
19. Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
20. Hubert Selby Jr - The Demon
21. Various - The Yellow Book
22. Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception and Heaven and hell
23. Flannery O'Connor - Wise Blood
24. Hermann Hesse - The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse
25. Jospeh Conrad - heart of Darkness
Currently reading Dostoevsky's Crime & Punishment (loving it so far).
What I've read already:
> Spiegelman's Maus
> Houellebecq's Submission
> Kafka's The Trial
> McCarthy's The Road
> McCarthy's Child Of God
> Weir's The Martian (it's shit but I felt inclined to read it since somebody gave it to me)
> Melville's Moby Dick
> Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49
> Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
> Dante's Divine Comedy
> Steinbeck's Of Mice & Men
> Nabokov's Lolita
> Moore's Watchmen
I have Don Quixote, To The Lighthouse, Blood Meridian, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and some Aristophanes lined up for the Summer.
I hated Hour of the Star, compared to her other books.
>Death of a salesman-Arthur Miller
>Cathedral-Raymond Carver
>Collected Stories-William Faulkner
>Hunger-Knut Hamsun
>Oblomov-Ivan Goncharov
>Dubliners-James Joyce
>Some stories by Conrad
>Fathers and sons-Turgenev
>El juguete rabioso-Roberto Arlt
>El beso de la mujer araña-Manuel Puig
>Wise Blood-Flannery O'Connor
>El libro de arena-Jorge Luis Borges
>Odyssey-Homer
>Taras Bulba-Nikolai Gogol
>Artificial Paradises-Charles Baudelaire
>Fear and trembling-Sören Kierkegaard
>Apology/Menon/Cratylus-Plato
>Tristram Shandy-Laurence Sterne
>Anabasis-Xenophon
>The violent bear it away-Flannery O'Connor
>Las fuerzas extrañas-Leopoldo Lugones
>Tractatus logico-philosophicus-Ludwing Wittgenstein
>V.-Thomas Pynchon
>Sorrows of Young Werther-J.W. Goethe
>Light in august-William Faulkner
>Violence-Slavoj Zizek
>Under the Volcano-Malcolm Lowry
Hey, this guy is pretty cool!
he's a sage
We don't like racists here
>>8002055
I guess you could describe him as 'cool' and he has 'cool' ideas but he's a terrible writer
Can you guys recommend me some resources to learn to write my native language (tacospeak)?
read corncob tortilla's "blood on the sand". There's some chip n dip in that one i think
>>8002483
give me the taco name bro.
google doesn't give me anything.
CHI
Lets see your shelves.
the only books that matter
>>8001542
404 literature not found
>>8001542
Only about two or three of those books are literature. They are all comics, manga books, and children's books. I think you're on the wrong board. There's a /co/ board for comics and cartoons. I know this sounds a bit mean but its true.
what's the comfiest book you've ever read?
>>8001317
blood meridian
Either Mason & Dixon or My Ántonia
I know it gets incredibly fucked at parts, but I just pictured the world so well
How do I go about writing? I have a fantastic story idea, but I want to go through with it to the end and not fuck it up/give up midway.
What's some good prep/motivator to do it?
Story ideas (plot) don't really matter tb h
>>8000838
What matters then?
>>8001047
How the story is told. Which includes prose and other things. Despite what other anons tell you it isn't just prose.
Is there a book about the author writing the same book and we're reading it?
And its called the Song of Eternity
That's genius
Things They Carried experiments with this to an extent, but not as far as you're thinking OP
Hello /lit/ I am new to the board and I keep reading how Camus is shit. What's so shit about him? I really enjoyed the Plague and the Stranger as well as his short stories.
Are those bad and I just didn't realize it?
Please halp.
>>7999037
bump
why can't I bump ;___;
this is actually a serious question for me. He is one of my favourite authors.
>>7999088
Ay I love aesop
And /lit/ is hyper elitist so they hate any existentialist philosopher, don't take it seriously, most of the people here seriously have not even read any of their work or even the work of the people they praise.
Recommend me a nice hardcover edition of Moby Dick
I want to dick moby.
>>7998495
>Muh whales, the book
I don't get the love.
Not hardcover, but this is a great edition I'm currently reading.
How do you deal with amount of violence and horrible things God did to non-believers?
would you rather God destroyed us all after we fucked up?yes
Starts with Teleological and ends with Ethical.
I select what is convenient for me.