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this really effected me

>>9864995
Cool your autism, they're the same for all intensive purposes xD

>>9865001
I knew there was one I was forgetting

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/fitlit/

>>9864959
What's the point of having a body like that if you can't please a woman?

>>9864978
That body is for a boy's butt. Women do not deserve pleasure.

no cares about this book, angela
we're not going to buy it

Now that Zizek is no longer with us, Nagle will revolutionalize the left, mark my words

Fuck off, whore

nothing?

my diary desu

>>9864844
I really liked this book. I usually stick to non-fiction, but Dogwalker was great.

If you're up for something more perverse and less sensible, check out William Burroughs

The Power of Myth.

>>9864768
What was your takeaway?

>>9864791
I suggested it because it's the shortest, cheapest, easiest to get a copy of, and it gives you the idea of what his writings are like.


I don't remember much, honestly. The only thing that stuck is the brief distinction between social and natural — is that how he calls them? — religions. He only gives one example in the Power of Myth but interested me. I believe he talked about the Hebrews having a more tribal like religion because they were nomads who lived in a shitty place which made them turn inwards more and try to keep their tribe alive in a fallen world, unlike for example pagans in Europe who turned more towards nature, and worshiped it. This is apparently what leads to Judaeo-Christians not being so concerned with the environment. At least to the extent pagans are.

Maybe I forgot it and got it wrong, so correct me. lads.

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“God did not, as the Bible says, make man in His image; on the contrary man, as I have shown in The Essence of Christianity, made God in his image.”

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>For God does not want to be believed in, to be debated and defended by us, but simply to be realized through us.

"The kingdom of God is within you"

"The sexes deceive themselves about each other: this happens because basically they honour and love only themselves (or, to put the matter more pleasantly, only their own ideal -). Hence the man wants the woman to be peaceful - but woman, like a cat, is essentially not peaceful, however much she may have practised an appearance of peacefulness."

>>9864603
My own take is that humans do not experience objects as they are. We only contextualize them in their usefulness to us. So symbolism in literature is unavoidable as it is unavoidable in real life. This renders Jack Kerouac's take on the matter incongruent with the human brain. You can not simply write about real life as it is.

>>9864603
I enjoyed Ayn Rand and Norman Mailers replies.

Asimov gave the best answer:

>Did Isaac Asimov plant symbolism in his work? “Consciously? Heavens, no! Unconsciously? How can one avoid it?”

It also reminds of Tolkien's semi-essay in allegory in the introduction to the second edition of lord of the rings, in which symbolism and subtext and allegory in his work can only come after the fact from third parties, as he avoided it totally.

"For want of the price of tea and a slice, the old man died." Pure symbolism, like all art. Everything we consume and read is processed on a purely symbolic subconscious level.

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>>9864357
[2/2]

>>9864364
Was there any more information to go along with this? Like the stuff that got votes but didn't make the top 100? Thats essentially what I'm trying to find

I'm still picking both. No idea who they are though.

>another thread about old white men
ugh...

>>9864247
Yucky el oh el

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Similar position as you but i'm a dishwasher.

There's a podcast called 'the partially examined life' that is philosophy based. I've only listened to their dostoevsky one but it was good.

Other than that I have this chart someone posted a while back.

Another thing to consider: lots of libraries will allow you to borrow audiobooks. You should be able to get them digitally and download to your phone or use an app or something.

Late Frank Delaney's Re:Joyce.

He did around 200 pages of Ulysses before he died.

>>9864192
As a summer project, I've been using the HPPodcraft to work through Lovecrafts work chronologically. Usually listen to it while cooking or before bed. Gives some good insight into weird fiction in general and the historical context of the time.

Apart from that I'm subscribed to some other horror lit podcasts., like Pseudopod and The Ghastly Tales.
Also Levar Burton Reads and two German Podcasts, one on the Quran and the other on contemporary philosophy.

That thing under spec ops, that's not really a lesson, that's a middle schooler's attempt at lofty lyricism.

>>9864111
i hate that fucking stupid picture and i will not articulate my statement in any other way. good day

>>9864111
"No"

>>9864017
>male

are you an animal?

have you read everything there? if so you're already more well read than most of /lit/

but what should I reccomend you? it's all the same canonical stuff everyone else reads. divine comedy? brothers karamazov? aeneid? infinite jest? read whatevr you want bro

Objectively? kek

Subjectively? The tv show content is sanitized (purging the hobbit-esque food porn, the obsession with characters shitting, and reduced frequency of rape and rape discussion) and the pace is quickened by excising dozens of pointless characters and meandering plot points.

If you like lots of food porn, characters shitting, dozens of plot points and characters that make no material impact on the story arcs, then the books might be worth your time.

>>9863972
that's all you got from the books? I pity you.

>>9863982
I was giving examples of differences between the show and the books, not an exhaustive summation of the work.

But seriously, AsoIaF really is mid-tier fiction, nothing worth pitying someone over.

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>>9863907

>>9863918
is it a fiction or non fiction.
i only like non fiction

>>9863907
bump

>>9863887
I am sick and tired of this. Every day I come to /lit/, and every day there is at least one thread up with an OP image of an attractive woman dressed scantily and posing seductively. It's probably the same one or two people who do it honestly. Let me tell you something, you faggot pieces of shit who are doing this: you are the poster child for everything that is wrong in literature, art, and society as a whole today. You are incapable of coming up with anything creative, thought provoking, or of substance, and you lack even the smallest modicum of intelligence, so you use "style" and "flash" and pizazz in place of it and to draw attention to yourself, because that's the only way your SHIT "creation" and ideas would ever get seen by anyone. And before you say anything, this has NOTHING to do with the fact that I don't have a girlfriend. Anyway, I will be petitioning the owner of this website to ban your asses, so enjoy being able to post here while it lasts, because it's not going to last long, just like you that one time you convinced an obese girl to let you fuck her..

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I've got this clothbound edition that I like very much. I don't know if it's the 'best', but I think it's nice.

>come to /lit/
>another Paradise Lost thread

Is meme trilogy expecting a fourth member?