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Hello /lit/. I'm reading Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, and I am able to understand it without using any secondary texts, but I'd like to read more about the Prometheus myth. Can you suggest me a good book/article/paper about it?
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How I get into eastern philosophy? Who are the most notable philosophers, and which one should I start with? Please no new-agey shit, if possible.
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Reading philosophy is waste of time
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>>8000844
And, if this means anything, I'm not a complete novice to philosophy, having read most of Plato's dialogues, most of Aristotle's Shit, most of Nietzsche and The Tractatus.
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>>8000844
Does Buddha have his own writings? You should read those, probably.
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Hello /lit/. I'm interested in classical books and authors like Shakespeare, Dante and Cervantes. The thing is that I haven't read any classical pieces before or many other books than some when I was a teenager, so should I read something to "prepare" myself for reading classical pieces by starting in some order so that I would "get it"? Or can you just go ahead and read all you want from where ever you want without it affecting your reading experience or understanding the book? Thank you for your time...
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>>8000262
Start with Shakespeare, if you can't enjoy him you're basically a permapleb.
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>>8000272
What book/books?
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>>8000307
Do you want humor, sadness, action, romace, historical stuff, etc? Its all there. Look around and see, you can't go wrong and none of the works are that long so you can power through them if you feel like they start off slow.
I don't know of your level of comprehension of his diction, if you feel like your having trouble, there's a few versions that define words and summarize scenes so you can both enjoy and understand the writing.
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Ok, so I read The Futurological Congress by Lem on /lit/'s recommendation. I was searching for sci-fi with beautiful prose and the book came up. Being a fan of Tarkovsky's Solaris, I thought Lem's books would be equally intense and beautiful.
What I got, however, seemed like third rate Vonnegut (and Vonnegut's already third rate). Don't get me wrong. It was a decent and amusing read, which is what I needed at the time. My question is just, should I try any other Lem books? I want to read Solaris. But I'm afraid it'll be just like FC; an interesting idea wrapped up in mediocre postmodernist prose. Thoughts?
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>>7998178
You know Polish?
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>postmodernist prose
>The Futurological Congress
wat
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ITT: We post our favorite sex manual.
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ITT: We post our favorite genocide collection book.
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>>7997482
Tips fedora and katana
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>>7997512
(you)
favorite books of all time. i'll start
-- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
-- Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
-- A Separate Peace, John Knowles
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First time on /lit/, but I'm like 90% sure this is how you guys shitpost.
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Look what I saw driving today. Is he back?
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>>8001789
That's my car. : /
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That's my car, OP.
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>>8001789
That's my car famicon
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Should I read this? The hype surrounding it and the author's image has always turned me off. Is it really as good as some say it is?
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I'm about half way though right now. I'm enjoying myself.
>choose all tennis courts
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>>8001723
*vapes in your direction*
China is already a world power. It's pretty much colonized Africa already. But the fact is it has a corrupt political system, a disgusting backwards pseudo-Western culture, a brutal legal system and no aesthetic standards at all. It's one giant Kowloon Walled City. Observing China from space is like watching flies reproduce on a piece of dog feces. I'm sure it's fun walking around Guangzhou in your leather trenchcoat, black sports shades and pinstriped fedora while the hunchbacked peasants clack and hurry around your slow-moving gait, but in reality the only reason you enjoy it is because you enjoy a sense of superiority there that you know you will never experience anywhere else as a result of your autism and lack of social grace. Who cares if it's going to be a "major international player"? All that means is that a bunch of figures will change on official government documents. Regardless of muh GDP or muh exports you will still be living as the only semi self-aware human being in a sea of callous clones. But, hey. Who am I to judge right? I mean I'm sure you enjoy taking financially desperate girls who were lucky not to be aborted (forcefull or otherwise) back to your cube-like apartment where you can eat your gutter oil-based food and watch a Chinese imitation of Rush Hour 2 with a Uyghur playing Chris Rock's character. I'm sure it's great wheezing through the smog each morning to teach a bunch of kids who look like anime burn victims how to say "good afternoon!" and "my parents wanted a son!". I wouldn't be at all surprised if your face bears a wide and expressive smile as you stand at your window at night and watch the diesel-guzzling trucks spewing black smoke as they and other vehicles traverse a street lined with the bodies of deceased children. I mean why wouldn't you enjoy the prospect of dressing in your favorite imitation Armani tshirts sewed by some eight year old in Shenzhen and then stepping into an elevator knowing that today may very well be the day it plummets all fifty stories of your poorly engineered apartment building or traps you inside its doors, leaving you to starve as a nation of consumers squat near their bulky televisions and eat rice with chopsticks while watching a reality TV show in which your death inside the aforementioned elevator provides the entertainment. Well good luck buddy, to you and your Samsung wife and your pudgy, asthmatic son who you really didn't expect to look like that.
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I have, it is.
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The Zen master Hakuin was praised by his neighbours as one living a pure life.
A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned a food store lived near him. Suddenly, without any warning, her parents discovered she was with child.
This made her parents angry. She would not confess who the man was, but after much harassment at last named Hakuin.
In great anger the parent went to the master. "Is that so?" was all he would say.
After the child was born it was brought to Hakuin. By this time he had lost his reputation, which did not trouble him, but he took very good care of the child. He obtained milk from his neighbours and everything else he needed.
A year later the girl-mother could stand it no longer. She told her parents the truth - the real father of the child was a young man who worked in the fishmarket.
The mother and father of the girl at once went to Hakuin to ask forgiveness, to apologize at length, and to get the child back.
Hakuin was willing. In yielding the child, all he said was: "Is that so?"
>How do you interpret this Koan?
>What does it teach you?
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It teaches me to do my own homework.
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>>8001708
take things as they come
this isn't really that deep a koan
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How do you learn to read faster? I know, read more. And, by the way, I know that the speed of reading does not necesarily make you a good reader. I ask because I find my mind wandering very easily when I read, and find it very difficult to use my time efficiently when I read. I see myself reading a passage and pretty much forgetting how to read for a second before I wake up from my trance and have to start the whole passage over again. Does meditation help with concentration? If possible, I would like to be able to read both deeply/thoroughly as well as efficiently, so if you guys have any tips, I'd appreciate the help.
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bumpin
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Yeah meditation would probably help.
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From http://www.cosmoetica.com/b326-des266.htm
"Infinite Jest shows
David Foster Wallace sucks
really, really bad."
Is he right?
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>>7999496
Does this guy even like books
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I'm not sure the guy likes anything. His YouTube channel is just him shitting on everything from Steven Spielberg to James Joyce to David Foster Wallace.
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>>7999616
His favorite author is Vonnegut.
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>Flannery O'Connor
>Walker Percy
>Gene Wolfe
why do people say there's no good American writers?
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Why would you compare my girl Flan to those autistic fucks
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>>7997275
nigga, have you read Peace or The Moviegoer? get the fuck outta here
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>>7997263
>american
>good
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is end zone worth reading? i know nothing about football, but the premise is really interesting
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it's okay
didn't really get the point desu but it was funny
Is there any reason to read this?
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>>8000105
Not really.
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>>8000105
So you can form your own opinions and stop being a co-dependent pleb.
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i don't know, maybe if you want to read the life of pi there's a reason.
/lit/ is there really any books that have come out recently that are even worth reading? Honestly, this is a serious question.
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>>7999934
>A Brief History of Seven Killings
>A Visit from the Goon Squad (five years is recent in literature, fuck off)
>Purity
>The Sympathiser
>Fortune Smiles
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>>8001553
I can't bring myself to read books just because they won awards.
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>>7999934
Knausgård bitch nigga do you even meme?