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This is so me thanks for posting this OP

best thread on /lit/ in the current moment

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_lol

>>7731663
i dont read terrorist, sorry op.

she's the best short story writer in america. that's pretty patrician.

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>>7731672
she's a fukken postcolonial writer bro, not even a borderline postmodernist. mind the formally conventional prose
>tell me Guido, why is mainstream literature decades behind every other art form, ha?

>the2016presidentialelections.webm

>>7731537
sanders, trump, clinton, the list goes on...

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My Twisted World

Cured my terminal cancer.

Buddhism has been working for me. But only with a healthy amount of strenuous excersize and sleep.

You need to push both your mind AND your body, don't get meme'd into thinking some ideology will cure you.

>>7731436
siddartha is a must read OP.

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>>7731411

>>7731402

Will Self isn't funny, he's sardonic. Carver isn't great, a rip off will be worse. What have you published?

>>7731402
>no "stretched [my/his/her] legs" under Rowling
Sage in all fields

>>7731424
Sardonic people can be funny though can't they, I think we both know that Will Self is funny. I like Carver, what do you think of him? Nothing yet, I want to create something that is sincerely mine and not shit before I send something off.

Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only interest I can derive from writing about it has to come from myself, from such display of intelligence, wit and malice as I can contrive. One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

>>7731349
I think it depends on how you look at it. Think of The Catcher in the Rye and the guy who shot John Lennon. On one had you can say the book made him worse but on the other hand you can say he misinterpreted it and he was a bad person to begin with and that if it was not that book it would have been another.

I'd agree more with the second one.

(Without trying to start a religious debate) Think of all the people who have killed for their gods. Most recently we have Muslim extremists. Lots claim that this is a misinterpretation of the religion and its holy book.
We can say that bad people will be bad with or without books and that the books are not to blame.

The problem for me is that the same could be said about good books effecting people.

My conclusion is that there are no books that will inherently make someone "worse" or "better", but an individual's interpretation of or reaction to a book is what will make them "worse" or "better"

>the idiot
>michael lewis
>daniel kahneman
into the trash it goes

>>7731287
b8

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>he fell for the 'memes are bad' meme

Joke

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"Jest" is the word you are looking for.

Horror books fail to be scary and lack of any literary merit

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>>7731222
Boo!

>>7731222
Bump

Trying to expand my genre pallet this year

>>7731136
Literally St.Thomas Aquinas is what you're looking for.

His "Summa Theologica"

Go read Kant and then see for yourself!
http://www.zeno.org/Philosophie/M/Kant,+Immanuel/Kritik+der+Urteilskraft

poststructuralism is its closest relative
-autonomous value as opposed to heteronomous mimesis or paedagogic utility (platonism, marxism)
-focus on subjective impression of the "consumer" as opposed to artistic intent
it also helps that most german idealists saw literature and poetry as highest artforms while neitzsche, schopenhauer or adorno favored music

>>7731176
>focus on subjective impression of the "consumer" as opposed to artistic intent

Even with all the theories of genius?

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>>7731097
>I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times

Are you serious wallace?

yo fuckin consider the fact that possibly he wrote that line and THEN felt the excerpt represented the work as a whole unless you seriously think he thought of a quirky title "one hundred years of solitude" and extrapolated an entire book out of that which would explain your feelings of being slighted somehow because the author didn't write the work "legitimately"

..bittch

>>7731097
>As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect after having undergone metamorphosis
I stopped reading there

Even if they are they will not be very good translations and they are worth about next to nothing individually. Maybe 10 dollars each.

>>7731079

>The Great Books series reprints the works of Aristotle in the standard English translations, licensed from Oxford University Press.

From what I can find it's all the known works, so you should be ok there.

This took me literally less than 10 seconds to find, so....fuck you, OP.

Logic treatises (Organon):
Categories, translated by E.M. Edghill
Prior Analytics, translated by A.J. Jenkinson
Posterior Analytics, translated by G.R.G. Mure
Topics, translated by W. A. Pickard-Cambridge
On Sophistical Refutations, translated by W. A. Pickard-Cambridge

Physical Treatises:
Physics, translated by R.P. Hardie and R.K. Gaye
On the Heavens, translated by J. L. Stocks
On Generation and Corruption (Sometimes called, "On Coming to be and passing away"), translated by H. H. Joachim
Meteorology, translated by E. W. Webster

Metaphysics, translated by W. D. Ross

On the Soul, translated by J. A. Smith

Short Physical Treatises (Parva Naturalia):
On Sense and the Sensible, translated by J.I. Beare
On Memory and Reminiscence, translated by J.I. Beare
On Sleep and Sleeplessness, translated by J.I. Beare
On Dreams, translated by J.I. Beare
On Prophesying by Dreams, translated by J.I. Beare
On Longevity and Shortness of Life, translated by G.R.T. Ross
On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death, On Breathing, translated by G.R.T. Ross

Volume 2:

BIOLOGICAL TREATISES: History of Animals, translated by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
On the Parts of Animals, translated by William Ogle
On the Motion of Animals, translated by A. S. L. Farquharson;
On the Generation o Animals, translated by Arthur Platt.

ETHICAL AND POLITICAL WORKS: Nicomachean Ethics, translated by W. D. Ross;
Politics, translated by Benjamin Jowett;
The Athenian Constitution, translated by Sir Frederic G. Kenyon;
Rhetoric, translated by W. Rhys Roberts;
On Poetics, translated by Ingram Bywater.

The Oxford University Press edition of the Works of Aristotle is edited by W. D. Ross.

>>7731148

I searched for more than ten seconds, but I accept your 'fuck you OP' and thank you for your service.