how do you guys concentrate while reading? I used to be able to get engrossed in a book....
cute pic
>>7980357
thank
>>7980320
Read the book. If you think about something else stop thinking about that thing and read the book.
Hope that helps
Do you think he's ever used the word "cuck"?
Might have. He was plenty mad when that pal of his gave an interview.
>>7980263
He sets several major events in Gravity's Rainbow at a place called Cuxhaven with the intent of making a pun, so pretty much.
Did stoner rape edith? I didn't think it was rape when I was reading through it, just consummation.
>>7980247
are you autistic? of course not. there just wasn't any love involved in the lovemaking.
>>7980247
It is impossible to rape ones wife habibi.
>>7980247
If you go by the feminist definition of rape, just existing as a fucking white male is proof that he's a rapist.
What do you think of audio books?
Do you use them?
Never tried them but don't outright hate them
>>7980191
/lit/ approved: non-fiction when working out or traveling
pleb approved: replacing the reading of literature with audible
>>7980206
this
They are probably nice for some books, it depends on the style
How do we stop the anti-POMO menace?
pic related may be our best bet—his new novel? he said will be the end of all literature as we know it.
Postmodernism has been dead since 1996, OP.
>>7980153
But Endless Fun was thru & through POMO...
Mason & Dixon was unleashed in 1997.
You are the problem, fuckface.
>>7980150
>Magic Mountain.jpg
What are your thoughts on this lit? Did anyone love it or hate it, and if so why? I'm in the process of reading it right now and while I think that there is a lot of interesting content it is presented in a very unengaging way.
Piggyback question, somewhat related.
Has anyone read Reveries of a Solitary Walker, and did you like it?
Bump.
Shit. Emerson is superior by far.
>>7980173
Could you elaborate as to why you think it's shit and why I should read Emerson instead?
Would you consider yourself a good writer? A good world builder?
Man, Wolf's Rain was such a mess.
>>7980093
It had bad pacing.
>>7980096
Something something promised land something something world restart. That was the plot, right? If there was ever a show that should've killed off boring characters early, this was the one.
>Pic related: Derrida, Foucault, Kant and Marx.
>>7980079
>>>/r/communism
>>7980091
Go on...complete your muddled point.
>>7980091
>Dear 88-Year Old
Cultivate younger friends. Otherwise, yours will all die off. Sincerely, 91-years old.
Is it just me or does MC Ride from Death Grips look like Shel Silverstein?
Wait a minute, I think its just that every dark skinned bald guy with a beard looks that way
nvrmnd
Okay
Hey guys. First post ever on /lit/. Just finished "Stoner" and wanted to know what you geniuses thought of it.
>>7979952
Grey.
my thoughts on it havent changed since the last stoner thread about 6 minutes ago
>>7979975
Yea but I didn't read the last one since I didn't want the book spoiled. Just give me a quick run down of what it was about on a deeper level
throwme a redpill on 1889
Things started tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down for Brazil after the first coup of many in its history.
P.S. I'm not of the opinion that the present impeachment procedure is a coup, more like just shoddy law interpretation mixed in with political opportunism, but not at all illegal.
Sorry to ask for advice here on /lit/ but I've got nowhere else to turn, so please hear out my desperate plea for advice. Should I major in English or Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature? I'm really not sure, both seem interesting. I think I'd like to go into publishing or be a librarian or something. Maybe an English teacher in some rural small town where the living is cheap and I can keep to myself.
My worries concerning the English major are that it won't delve deeply enough into the nature of literature and that a lot of the people in that major will be very uninteresting and will talk about the same things I talked about in high school (not trying to sound smart I just went to a very literature oriented high school). My concerns with Cultural Studies and Comparative Lit are that it won't focus enough on the literature itself and I'll be talking a lot about theory and culture while not doing as much actual literary studies. As with anyone who loves literature a small part of me wants to write as well but that's really a side note. They seem like very similar majors which is why it's somewhat hard for me to choose. Thanks for replying if anyone does. I don't know what I'm talking about I'm just a dumb kid (18 tho no ban pls).
P.S. I know many will say this is a waste of time majoring in something that won't really help me in life but I don't really care about lifestyle or money or anything like that, I just want to learn more about things I care about. I feel like I'll either be happy in life or I won't and that a decision like this won't change anything.
pic not related
well it depends on the school
but cultural studies and comp literature will almost guaranteed focus more on society/theory as opposed to english, which will focus more on literature.
if you're willing to say what school could maybe help you but as is no idea
>>7979907
University of Minnesota Twin Cities.
Not the best school in the world but it's what I can afford.
>>7979921
https://onestop2.umn.edu/pcas/viewCatalogProgram.do?programID=83
https://onestop2.umn.edu/pcas/viewCatalogProgram.do?programID=109
you can see the course lists
cultural studies looks like a blend of new media stuff and theory, without much of an emphasis on literature
English is more of the traditional stuff
pick what sounds more appealing to you. be warned the cultural studies major courses looks like it attracts SJWs and people who dont read but say they "read"
hegelian dialectics memes
>>7979797
What is between thesis and synthesis? That's what I wear.
>>7979797
empty
thanks Hegel
>Put thousands together
>Less bad,
>But the cage less gay.
what did he mean by this
>>7979747
I'm not sure of the context, but isn't it obvious?
Slaves.
He was well aware of the rolling disaster of the modern age was bringing.
>>7979747
>Following his earlier experiments with rats, in 1972 Calhoun would later create his "Mortality-Inhibiting Environment for Mice": a 101-inch square cage for mice with food and water replenished to support any increase in population,[9] which took his experimental approach to its limits. In his most famous experiment in the series, "Universe 25", population peaked at 2,200 mice and thereafter exhibited a variety of abnormal, often destructive behaviors. By the 600th day, the population was on its way to extinction.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink
>implying stendhal said this
What are some good books about serial killers? Fiction or non fiction.
Picture is unrelated, but enjoy my cat.
>>7979745
cute cat :3
American psycho.
>>7979745
The devil in the white city is pretty good.