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what is the literary equivalent of their season /lit/?
>inb4 /sp/
I crossboard here
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Jesus.
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I still believe the whole season was rigged as fuck by the bookies.
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>>7991454
I'm trying to think of a book where the lead character hates Asians as much as Jamie Vardy.
The Thin Red Line or The Naked and the Dead maybe?
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What does /lit/ think of Julius Evola?
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I haven't read him yet but I started one of René Guénon's books so I could better understand him once I got to him. Gave up on Guenon's book over half way since it was so awful.
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Right about everything.
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muh tradition
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Who should I read next if I enjoyed notes, brothers and crime? I was recommended Tolstoy but if Anna Kareina is anything to go by Tolstoy's tone is starkly different from the gritty, in your face examination of the human condition that really captured my attention in Dostoevsky's work.
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>>7991432
Start with the greeks
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Demons
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>>7991432
>Tolstoy
>gritty, in your face examination of the human condition
Read The Kreutzer Sonata by Tolstoy.
It is short and not as popular as his other stuff, but it seems to fit the bill of what you are looking for.
What does /lit/ think of Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
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>>7991429
high quality normie lit
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>>7991429
Really enjoyed "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" and his "Eyes of a Blue Dog" story collection. I'm trying to learn Spanish so I can read him in his native tongue.
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>>7991429
fantastic.
i think autumn of the patriarch is superior to ohyos.
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ITT: Recommend historical biographies you have read.
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>>7991426
that's a neat one though I have yet to read it for longer periods of time.
Biography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley is great
Life of JK Huysmans by Robert Baldick is good
that Divine Invasions PKD bio is also pretty good
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>>7991426
The Black Jacobins
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>>7991426
I'm finishing up The Metaphysical Club and it's been a very enjoyable read.
It's about American Intellectual History, following the lives of Oliver Wendell Holmes, William James and John Dewey.
Would recommend.
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Anyone else have trouble remembering a novel's plot a month or two after reading? I can remember the title, some of the basic plot points, and main characters, but it all gets pretty hazy from there.
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I often end up remembering a sentence or a specific scene but can't recall exactly in which book I read it.
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You're not a reader, don't worry about it, leave it to the real readers to remember what a book is actually about.
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>>7991393
Depends on the book. Some novels I've read years ago and I can still recall it really well. Other novels I forgot I even read it shortly after finishing it.
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How's your Everyman's Library collection coming along?
So far I've got
>The Divine Comedy
>Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely, The High Window
>Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest
>William Shakespeare: Histories: Volume 2
>Beloved
>Gulliver's Travels
Think I'm gonna start getting the Tolstoys next.
How 'bout you?
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I've got
Montaigne's Essays
andthat's it.
I'm not wealthy enough to buy much of these. Most of my books are cheap paperbacks bought used.
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>>7991362
That's a good one, it's on my wishlist.
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I have:
Ulysses
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
A Hero of Our Time
Demons
War and Peace box set
Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as one book
Wuthering Heights
>>7991353
>Think I'm gonna start getting the Tolstoys next.
The War and Peace box set is nice af. I already have most of his other stuff as paperbacks, so I don't plan on getting those.
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I know this isn't very /lit/ related but I want to increase my time spend time reading /lit/.
I want to read +-50 books a year next to my studies, and not the 4 I am reading currently due to the amount of time I'm wasting away on video games, FACEBOOK, PS4, and so forth.
Fuck I can't even imagine how much time I spend reading people's retarded opinions on social media, the amount of time I spend wasting away on a fucking computer screen.
What is /lit/'s advice on becoming more /lit/? Anyone else discarded unnecessary stimuli before? Like smartphone, social media, games.
I will start reading everything of pic related to help me achieve my goals.
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>>7991346
>reading on a screen
It will leave you quick access to the internet and also comprehension drops on the screen
Also read some actual lit dont just drop into philsophy cuz you wanna seem smart
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dude you can do a book a week and still check all that stupid shit. you should keep up on how people are, that's important.
the only video game worth playing is super mario bros 3. do that for a couple minutes a day if you want that.
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>>7991359
>you should keep up on how people are, that's important
??
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Has anyone here read The Way of the Pilgrim, or any other Orthodox novels or theology they'd like to discuss? What about Laurus?
How do Roman Catholics feel about Vatican II?
>The Church regards with esteem also the Moslems. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself; merciful and all- powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth,(5) who has spoken to men; they take pains to submit wholeheartedly to even His inscrutable decrees, just as Abraham, with whom the faith of Islam takes pleasure in linking itself, submitted to God. Though they do not acknowledge Jesus as God, they revere Him as a prophet. They also honor Mary, His virgin Mother; at times they even call on her with devotion. In addition, they await the day of judgment when God will render their deserts to all those who have been raised up from the dead. Finally, they value the moral life and worship God especially through prayer, almsgiving and fasting.
-Nostra aetate
>But the plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator. In the first place amongst these there are the Muslims, who, professing to hold the faith of Abraham, along with us adore the one and merciful God, who on the last day will judge mankind.
-Lumen gentium
You should leave that funk and come to the Orthodox Church.
This is what our Lamentation service (Friday Night after the Crucifixion, in the dark, with candles) sounds like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeP70fSe3Io
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Just dropping by to say Happy Easter, Orthodox bro.
Also, I like those mini stories about monks and nuns, you know what I'm talking about but idk what they're called in English.
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>>7991316
Χριστός ἀνέστη
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>>7991484
Truly, He is risen!
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“I am completely an elitist, in the cultural but emphatically not the social sense. I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the merely primitive, and full to partial consciousness. I love the spectacle of skill, whether it’s an expert gardener at work, or a good carpenter chopping dovetails . . . I don’t think stupid or ill-read people are as good to be with as wise and fully literate ones. I would rather watch a great tennis player than a mediocre one . . . Consequently, most of the human race doesn’t matter much to me, outside the normal and necessary frame of courtesy and the obligation to respect human rights. I see no reason to squirm around apologizing for this. I am, after all, a cultural critic, and my main job is to distinguish the good from the second-rate.”
What does /lit/ think of Robert Hughes?
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shit poet. riding off plath's coattails however shitty hers were
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>i like good things
woah
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>>7991299
>not being an elitist in the social sense
Nothing to be proud of, tbqh.
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technē interests me
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Instrumentalization
Heidegger
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Technik
Phronesis
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>>7991272
kekked a bit desu
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Do you think I could get away with putting this on a bookshelf filled with paperbacks without looking like a pedophile?
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if someone thinks you're a pedophile for owning Lolita then you really shouldn't care what they think in the first place
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Embrace your true self and put it on the bookshelf.
>it's a "/lit/ doesn't even read a good fantasy series" episode
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>fantasy
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>Fantasy
Why read fantasy when ancient mythology has done all of the same things in a much more profound, time tempered way?
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>>7991219
Honestly, it's not that good. You need a whole bottle of vodka to stomach some of the more boring chapters. Sometimes it's really fun, though, and the short stories are generally nice.
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Comedy thread (in plays, books, movies, musicals, etc.)
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*Before you guys proceed into the thread, just asnwear me if you know tips on how to organize plots in comedy plays and movies. For example, the comedies of Shakespeare have a lot of identity confusions, mistakes, convoluted and complex plots, and when I try to think on a comedy I never know how to organize the plot, how to model the scenes in such a complex way as, for example, the confusions of the couples in A Midsummer Night Dream. I can think on good ideas for comedies, but I don’t know how to make such complex structures as plots, and I wonder if there is a way to learn this.
What are the greatest comedies of all time, and I mean in all the different kinds of comedy there are.
Let’s say, for example, romantic comedy.
>Twelfth Night
>A Midsummer Night Dream
>The Merchant of Venice
>The Way of the World
all of them come to mind. But why stop only in plays? What about movie and musical scripts? Example:
>Some Like it Hot
>A Little Night Music
>Amelie
And what about the deep satiric kind of comedy? Some examples:
>Volpone
>The Alchemist
>A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
And what about more darker comedies, or political comedies, like:
>Network
>Doctor Strangelove
>Lolita (this is one of the funniest books I ever read, despite the terrible themes of child abuse and pedophilia)
>A Fish Called Wanda
So, can you guys offer other suggestions?
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>>7991210
bump
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What are some good works about nature? Fiction and non-fiction.
So far I have the works of Linkola, Aldo Leopold, and Emerson
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Also John Muir. I'm really looking for radical writers like Linkola, but anything that puts into words the beauty of nature works.
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No one?
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fuck my asshole