>Copyrights
>Contents
>Editorial Notes
>Translator Notes
>Dedication
>Acknowledgements
>Preface
>Preface to Second Edition
>Introduction
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>Actual Book
>>7890491
i like it cause then when i put my bookmark in after my first sesh i feel like ive made good progress.
>>7890512
It can make you lose the plot of what the book is really about sometimes. Wandering about...
Please tell you guys don't read these unless they're by someone interesting.
Is there a literary equivalent to Sicario? It's a tense thriller about law enforcement bending/breaking the rules to combat drug cartels. It's also pretty brutal and unforgiving. Not a feel good movie.
Got anything like that for me to read?
>Emily Blunt cancels nude scene
Fukken dropped m8
>>7890452
She's not very attractive anyway.
Rec me some more military strategy, /lit/. I read a great book about Scipio Africanus and a book by Patton about his campaigns that were pretty good and would definitely recommend. I read that stupid black hearts book and would definitely recommend against.
>>7890396
Read history
Thucydides
Xenophanes
Arrian
Polybius
Thucydides into Xenophon.
greg seems like he likes foucault's pendulum
Is that pic supposed to represent schizophrenia?
>>7890411
i think it's just some divorced guy tinder messaging a girl
Are there any other practical philosophies in the modern age?
tao, buddhism to an extentstirner
but zizek is right about it, tfw
If you are truly great you will force the world to bend to your chosen philosophy until it is practical by default.
>>7890753
He's right about Buddhism or Egoism? Could you link a response of Zizek's to Egoism?
is Pound /lit/s favorite poet?
i see him praised a lot here, far more than any other poet.
no
barely anyone here has read him
but barely anyone here reads any poetry so whatever
/lit/ doesn't have a favorite poet
Poetry is for little faggot nancy boys that cry in their pillows
>>7890295
He was a stupid traitor wannabe Italian with an ugly mustache that looked bad even for a fascist.
How does /lit/ feel about web series/serials? What are your favourites?
I'm considering starting one this summer. and I'd like to know what advice you have for me.
>pic related
It was infantile to say the least, but I still really enjoyed it for a reason I can't quite explain.
>inb4 pleb
I like the web novel/light novel/anime ecosystem in Japan. It produces a far, far higher Sturgeon quotient but it gets a lot of people writing that otherwise wouldn't have and they get into themes that our high barrier-to-entry publishing system doesn't.
I don't actually read web serials because bad editing makes my eyes bleed, but I appreciate that it happens.
>>7892135
No they don't. At least not for the most part. 99% of web/light """""novels""""" are just generic high school waifushit or fantasy. The western equivalent of that is the kindle store and it's basically just as bad.
>>7892148
>99% of web/light """""novels""""" are just generic high school waifushit or fantasy.
That was exactly what I meant by a higher Sturgeon quotient. And there is some really generic crap that makes it big. On the other hand, you get this real examination of things that are important to the common man - things like video games and how we'd do if we were trapped inside one. Japan has a trapped-in-an-MMO genre, with the majority of works produced being really really bad wish fulfillment OPMC garbage, but with a very few that actually get to the heart of why we like MMOs so much and why we like summoned-to-another-world stories so much.
I wouldn't say the Kindle store is that similar. For a web serial to make it big it has to be really well-liked while it's being made available for free, and the Kindle store doesn't have a good system for that. It doesn't let the community bring editing suggestions while a work is in production. Wattpad is something similar, but I'll believe it when I see a Wattpad serial adapted to the screen.
Did Nietzsche really copy the big forehead german guy?
>>7890270
yeah
>>7890270
nah
Nietzsche is more angry than funny.
What are some good novels about partying?
>>7890219
inb4 Gatsby
>>7890219
name is escaping me, but the one by bret easton ellis about michael alig? or something
V.
So, when is your discourse on memes being published?
Mine's coming out this year.
all these geniuses are too busy memeing to use their professional knowledge to the best of its ability, the non miraculous sons of bitches
dumb frogposter
>>7890199
>having not yet published your discourse on memes
Tribune of the Plebs
What is the singular greatest piece of Japanese literature?
I vote for Tanizaki's essay, 'In Praise of Shadows', being a mere initiate into the world of JapLit (so far I only have Tanizaki and Murakami under my belt). Hopefully this thread can guide me.
> No matter what complaints we may have, Japan has chosen to follow the West, and there is nothing for her to do but move bravely ahead and leave us old ones behind. But we must be resigned to the fact that as long as our skin is the color it is the loss we have suffered cannot be remedied. I have written all this because I have thought that there might still be somewhere, possibly in literature or the arts, where something could be saved. I would call back at least for literature this world of shadows we are losing. In the mansion called literature I would have the eaves deep and the walls dark, I would push back into the shadows the things that come forward too clearly, I would strip away the useless decoration. I do not ask that this be done everywhere, but perhaps we may be allows at least one mansion where we can turn off the electric lights and see what it is like without them.
Kokoro
Master of Go (or Snow Country)
Makioka Sisters
>>7890184
/lit/'s pretentiousness summarized, making categorical judgments based on self-admitted near total ignorance on the subject.
Which Murakami did you read?
>>7890184
Are you looking for "the greatest work evers" which will always just be something about the most essential struggles like war and love. Or a great entry? Also Murakami, in my country, he is nothing.
Which book did you think you'd hate, but ended up loving?
>>7890170
I don't read books I think I'm going to hate
Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn
>>7890170
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
What music do you guys listen to while reading?
>>7890000
check em son
None. Disrupts my subvocalization.
>>7890000
Brian Eno
/lit/, I know HP/Rowling is a meme here, but is reading Harry Potter in a foreign language a good way to strengthen my vocabulary? I've read works of great consequence in French, but it can be a real slog. Harry Potter is long but easy to read, and I've already read it in English, so I'm assuming I wouldn't be having to translate an archaic or unknown word every other line, and will learn more easily by reading in context instead.
tl;dr should I read Harry Potter in my second language?
Yes, reading / watching simple shit in different languages is a pretty good way to learn them.
>>7889958
Honestly, The Stranger is an easier jumping off point than Harry Potter for French. I did both and The Stranger was far easier
heres a little fun fact for you:
in the french harry potter and the chamber of secrets, when hes in the chamber and voldemort shows that "i am lord voldemort" is an anagram of tom marvolo riddle, the french translation had to make his middle name elvis in order to spell je suis voldemort. the dark lords middle name is elvis. ill be crawling back to redit now, thanks for your time
Hello I want to know better the christian's philosophy
I have already 4 book :
Le Christ Philosophe / F. Lenoir
L'évangile selon Pilate / E-E. Schmidt
Le Royaume / E. Carrère
Le désenchantement du monde / M. Gauchet
I'm looking for other book like this and something who deals with Flavius Josèphe like the Deco work ?
And sorry for my bad english
>>7889954
How familiar are you with the Greeks?
Read The Republic by Plato, Categories, Ethics and Metaphysics by Aristotle. Then Augustine and Aquinas.
>>7889968
Yes, but, is there some links with the christian ?
I'm looking for book who deals with the age 0-100 too
but thank !
>>7889972
Your sentences make no sense. Rephrase please.