I want to read the Pali Canon, what version should I get?
You do know how big it is?
>>7893679
Well I don't plan on reading it cover to cover, but I do want to learn more about buddhism.
>>7893670
>58 volumes
wew lad Proust ain't got shit on that
anyone wanna help me understand what's happening in that scene with everyone throwing food at each other and talking about pissing in sinks and where grampa was when James Dean died
Nothing at all. Otherwise, it would be symbolic piece ofshitliterature. It's postmodernity so it is what it is, a food fight. You didn't have much of food fight in classic lit.
>>7893656
They're talking about death in pop culture. They're also "intellectuals" throwing food like schoolchildren. There's another level of irony in the matter that this "New York crowd" studies what is, essentially, the effect of postmodernism. All this is incredibly obvious though. What are you asking? Did you read it?
Just read that section today, thought it was hilarious. Glad a fellow /lit/ poster is reading alongside me.
Do you think Orwell read We?
i-is this bait?
GREAT thread
>>7893567
Yes
whats the oldest antique book you own /lit/?
Just found a book that was printed in 1802
I own these old as fuck collected works of Goethe and Kierkegaard. Neither contains any of their greater works tho.
I actually have no idea when these are from, as it is not stated anywhere in them.
i dunno, shit shape is damn old. but good shape i got one from the 1860's i think
it's great because it's got a signature saying "to whoever it is, from whatever it was, on Christmas Eve 1868".
>>7893542
I could have bought an old Kirkegaard book like that but it had that dumbass print so i couldn't read it so i said fuck it. i already used almost all my money on other books
>“Yes,” said Paul automatically. As they entered a building, a few minutes later, he sort of glanced at Michelle and was surprised to see her grinning, then couldn’t stop himself from grinning. Sometimes, during an argument, feeling like he’d been acting in a movie and the scene had ended, Paul would suddenly grin, causing Michelle to grin, and they’d be able to enjoy doing things together again, for one to forty hours, but that hadn’t happened this time, partly because Michelle had grinned first. Paul looked away, slightly confused, and suppressed his grin. “What,” he said in an unintentionally loud monotone, unsure what he felt exactly, and they entered a large, mundane elevator, whose door closed slowly.”
Why haven't you published anything already, anon?
Tao works quite hard on his books, and they're more than just "omg mumblecore alternative slacker" literature. /lit/ hasn't published anything because no one here actually knows how to write well. People here live in their heads, in their fantasies, in their pseudo-intellectual criticisms, in their ironic distance. They cannot do good work.
I have actually gotten a few short stories published. Nothing that pays yet, but it's a start.
Ive come to the conclusion that his writing is a sincere attempt at writing serious lit using vapid contemporary text speak. I guess he's progressing form? But taipei is so fucking boring, had to put it down
What does /lit/ think about pic related?
A woman wrote it.
it was ok when i was 15. don't remember anything about it. will never read it again.
>>7893450
So what?
Looking for literature about the discussion of Christianity's influence on western civilization, dating back to Christ to present day. Want some unbiased stuff, but ultimately I'm looking to build or destroy the argument that Christianity was necessary for the prosperity and superiority of the West.
>Want some unbiased stuff
good luck with that
>>7893362
Europe and Faith by Hilaire Belloc
will also accept documentaries/ youtube videos :^)
what's the appeal of this book? why did you like it? why would you recommend it?it reads like a paulo coelho novel
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S7314697#p7324454
>>7893341
so that's it then
sort of disappointing
>>7893336
>it reads like a paulo coelho novel
You can't read.
ITT: words that you're sick of hearing to describe books
>sprawling
>>7893266
>essential
tour-de-force
page turner
>>7893266
>western
>canon
Since my journey with Dubliners is coming to an end soon,would /lit/ be so kind to decide what book should I move on to?
http://poal.me/9xu8bp
>>7893228
>lovecraft
>the art of snore
>>7893228
The Tunnel.
The Kalevala because I'm finnish. I can just hope the translation is as good as the original
Its seems like this board only talks about DEAD WHITE MEN! Recommend me something from analive white mandoesn't matter what
living people are all cucks
Do you think the "will to power" is our main driving force in life?
We always aim to have some achievements, be ambitious and reach the highest possible position in life.
Bump for interest.
>>7893205
No, I say the main driving force in life is subjective depending on who you ask.
Depends on the society and the individual I guess.
>>7893205
did you literally just look on wikipedia to 'learn' what the will to power is?
http://www.richardkmorgan.com/2016/04/gratuities-at-your-discretion-2/
Is he right? Or is he just a narrowminded genre fag?
>>7893176
Ask /v/
>>7893182
It's a good rumination on genre fiction, if you'd read it you'd know.
>>7893182
>didn't read the article
>>7893176
How is this narrow minded, its purely common sense. Did he really need to bother writing this or am I missing the point entirely.
>literary works are not often lauded for their cracking pace or plot that grips like a vice and doesn’t let go. Instead, their readers revel in other flavours – lyrical style, perhaps, or intense sense of place; acute social commentary; harrowing descriptions of poverty and suffering
>repeat content addiction of fixating nerd hordes who will keep on stumping up cash for yet more of what they’ve already seen a dozen times, however dilute and weak-ass the carrier wave for the next helping inevitably turns out to be. It doesn’t matter how poor the movie (or series novel) is – it’s got my desired content in, and lots of it!
Of course he's right.
Im sorry but English is not my first language.
what does this mean?
"he desires total dependence of his future partner"
he wants his future romantic partner to be totally dependent on him
dependence
>the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else
>>7893181
but wouldnt it make more sense for it to be "from"
"he desires total dependence from his future partner
>>7893185
yes i think so
i'm pretty sure the original sentence isn't correct
Recommend any books on philosophy(enlightenment age and classical)
And also atheism
A true skeptic cannot be an atheist. Atheists are no better than believers, because they, too, believe something they do not know.
>>7893297
this desu
(but god probably isn't real)
I know that lads.
But you got recommendations for the both subjects