What do you guys think of this bloke?
I like his attachment to the Western tradition
Great poet, terrible thinker.
>>7839232
you're wrong
>>7839232
lol.
have you read any of his essays? this guy was an intellectual giant.
Anybody know of any good historical books about Unit 731 in China during World War Two?
miya-san is based
"Read, expected, got" thread
and template for the lazy
>>7833081
Makes me want to read it senpai
What have you anons picked up recently?
Show us your finds.
did you up the saturation or something?
all the colors here look really pretty, especially the orange
>>7825376
How's that Herodotus? Does it includes maps like that of the Landmark Edition?
I have to read at least one book from my english class oral (I'm a foreigner) that I will pass on tuesday.
I'm a computer science student so the teacher would appreciate that I read something computer related even if it's sci-fi.
But I have not begin so I'd like something that is less than 200 pages, and I didn't find one.
>>7849869
Kevin Mitnick - The Art of Deception should be an easy read.
>>7849869
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
Relatively short, english, award winning non-fiction with lots of technology in it written for plebs.
http://bookzz.org/dl/2329708/f0876d
Is there a right way to understand symbolism or does it all just boil down to your own interpretation? Is there a way to learn to understand the proper meaning behind the author?
i don't know how to read sorry
Obviously no objective right way.
What I do is try going into it with as little expectation as possible. See what it means to me to extent i'm willing to try.
Then check other interpretations to see if they match or add anything to how I feel. Maybe reread if I think there is much I missed.
I actually never do this but it's what I think I would do if I could be bothered to make the effort
Symbolism is mostly interpretation, but there are dictionaries of symbols around. People like Freud also schematized the use of symbols and some of the authors they influenced keep to those specific meanings.
You can interpret whatever as long as it has convincing evidence and a purpose.
What Hunter S Thompson novels have you read and your opinion?
>>7849690
>What Hunter S Thompson novels have you read
only fear and loathing
>and your opinion?
only cirumcised hamsters should be allowed to reproduce
F&L in Las Vegas is a classic, don't think anyone would dispute that. You're either into it or it's not for you.
Hell's Angels and F&L on The Campaign Trail were both fantastic I thought, albeit, decidedly not novels, and nothing like F&L in Las Vegas whatsoever. Rum Diary was terrible, it's not wonder nobody wanted to publish it back in the day. Didn't really care for The Curse of Lono, but it might be your most direct equivalent to F&L in Las Vegas.
Thoughts on the man? What's there really to say? Resentfully became the 'voice of a generation' the same way Bob Dylan did and eventually found himself swallowed whole by his own cultural legacy. Seemed to me a sad man in his later years, you can see it in his interviews, read it in his writings.
>>7849690
I read Hell's Angels and really liked it. His style makes the book really pleasant to read, he makes a nice critical review of how journalists change facts to make them more sensationnal, and has very interesting observations/analysis about Hell's Angel. He is not the edgy stoner that the movie with Depp describes.
I know there was a thread about it recently but it died before I could read it.
Can any of you give me a brief outline of the movement, its aims, its roots, who's who and where to start reading it? I've heard the names of Badiou and Kant thrown around, but without much context.
I'm a philosophy undergrad so I'm not out of my depth but I've read Cyclonopedia and didn't really get that much out of it apart from general fun times and HPL, so I'd like to understand what the fuck they're ambling towards.
Fuck off op. Do your own research.
>>7849624
I did. I just felt like asking for directions on this topic may prove helpful to my own research.
Hey /lit/ as part of a college project I have to write a poem with melancholic humour, I'm shit at both of these and want to see what you think of it so far.
It's based on Plosives bouncing off of sibilance, by the way
The Time Travellers Parents
Quickly now
I have lost my device
I have lost my timeline
Said the Baby.
I will throw a tantrum
Should you not comply
Said the Baby.
Why on Earth
Is our Baby talking
Talking about a device
Talking about a timeline
Said the Mother.
What kind of device
What other timeline
Why on Earth
Is this happening
Said the Father.
Do not fear
For I have it here
I have found my contraption
Said the Doctor.
Crisis Averted
Timeline Deserted
With all being said and done
The Baby and the Doctor were gone.
>>7849524
can't tell if this is deep or not
>>7849524
>doctor who
Let slip from mine hand
>>7849524
i made a better one
ripping the letters
on einsteins pages
while moving through the same spot
year before year
a highschool dance
a crowd in the crowd
shyly cruising
me
before I ate all that pizza
I walk through them
they bounce off me
like i am a the ball
as well as the obstacles
in a flipper-machine
the mini-me looks
at me
her skeletal face shows disgust
at my pizza themed unitard
i hug her, full of sweat
until she gets slippery
she screams
like a drowning person
trying to get air
vomiting salty liquid
finally releasing my flabby embrace
she collapses in puddles of sweat and yellow urin
I look at myself
and
wisper gently
"pizza"
Any advice on getting into writing?
It's been hard for me to write about any character that isn't myself or like me, or to not write in first person view.
I don't know, I got a dream journal and when I'm describing a vivid dream I have no problems.
>>7849486
I literally just finished writing a book last week. Let me ask this: why you want to get into writing?
I have nothing to do, so if you want you can ask something, but I'm Italian so keep that in mind.
>>7849486
Those are the classic symptoms of autism anon, I am so sorry.
My advice is if you are writing, always start from the characters up.
Never use retarded shit for dialogue like: "You're a big guy." He objected, assuredly.
It makes people cringe when people use big words and pointless adverbs to describe dialogue. I am sure you read enough books to know the difference between good dialogue and bad dialogue but if you don't just do your research before you make any reader want to blow their brains out.
When you are writing, always ask yourself what your story is about. Not what's happening, but what it's about. Always have your theme in mind as you are writing, because otherwise you are just writing garbage that belongs in the trash. What's the point of the story?
Always be aware of all the human senses when describing details of a scene, most people just use sight. If you are a good and creative writer you can bring all senses into the description with just a few clever sentences.
that's all I got.
>>7849486
You read more you fucking dip
Which one I better?
Pinocchio.
If Barth's was better it would have made me read it
geez, hard to say, both masterpieces for whatever that's worth.
i'm leaning slightly in the direction of m&d just because I adore pynchon and prefer his brand of humor to barth's...
i will say though, between the two is not so good a comparison as it may seem. while M&D is decidedly ABOUT america, the sot-weed factor is almost only set in america by coincidence. i would say sot-weed is much more a book about the poet, the figure of ebeneezer cooke in specifc, and a parody of the early american novel, not a parody of early america.
Which ethical works successfully defend speciesism?
>>7849445
Just about every non utilitarian work.
>>7849451
So non-utilitarians as a rule consider it fine to make other persons suffer just because they're not human?
>>>>>>>Peter Singer
>lit mag response time is "1 to 3 months"
>"submitted 9/13/2015 (6 months, 11 days ago)"
>>>>>>>>>no response
>>>>>>>>>no simultaneous submissions
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>>7849420
>taking no simultaneous submissions seriously
>>7849420
>he submitted the first and only thing he's ever written
>>7849599
>implying I haven't been published already
https://books.google.com/books?id=xdn1as-n4VMC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
How has this book not gotten the critical acclaim it deserves?
Institutional racism and sexism desu senpai
Because Iceberg Slim did it first and better.
I prefer this one.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bVJLPKjTUkIC&pg=PA3&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
So, why aren't you guys published yet?
My girlfriend loves twentieth century music and recently got really hooked on John Cage. I ordered this book online for her, I was wondering if any of you guys had ever read it? I flipped through the copy of my local library and lost myself in it for practically an hour.
It's just gonna be blank sheets of paper, right?
I don't like cage.
I don't think philosophy can ever justify music just because you say so.
I think that if you want to express an idea in music it must be embedded within the music, un-programmatically, deriving its power from the ability of the listener to infer upward from sense perception to intellection.
The key to understanding so called classical music is in my view simply the adequate development of this ability.
I think stravinsky is extremely worth noting here.
>>7849249
hehehe
Haven't read it yet, but bump for interest