ITT: We compile a list of books one pretty much should have read before posting on /lit/, one at a time.
I'll start with War and Peace.
the complete works of william shakespeare
>>7727780
lost already. peace out /lit/
The Bible
just the OT or the NT is fine
How fucked is he? Is he even a good novelist?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/salman-rushdie-iranian-state-media-renew-fatwa-on-satanic-verses-author-with-600000-bounty-a6887141.html
lmao
He's not fucked at all. Salmon patty's got British service men protecting him in perpetuity.
Prophet's hair was really enjoyable, but still pomo as hell.
yes he's a good novelist
it's pretty shitty but he'll be ok, don't know if he'll fix his hoverhand though
Who are some great playwrights besides Shakespeare?
pic related
Johnson
Beckett
Sophocles
Chekov
>>7725076
No need to know them. The Tempest is the greatest peace of playwright comedy ever created. You may as well as just end your life right now, knowing that it will never be surpassed.
Hebbel is underrated tbqh
Hey /lit/, I've lost my ability to fall in love with girls/women for over a year now...
Is there any book I can read that may rekindle my heart?
Infinite Jest
>>7721965
How old are you
same, all i think about is getting money, having a gf doesn't pay the rent
Where do I start if I want to read about aesthetics?
I feel like other branches of philosophy have pretty good road maps for getting into, but I don't know about this one.
>>7720657
A e s t h e t i c s ?
Nipple leash
Kant, Adorno, Benjamin, Heidegger
Plotinus, though not relevant anymore, also tackles aesthetics in a very interesting way IMO
Is this accurate?
you're truly an autist if you need a chart to read an author.
>>7727423
Read the chart retard.
General chart thread to salvage this shit. I'll start off by asking for the 11 charts on philosophy.
What should I read before getting into Camus?
Camus.
A better idea would be to not read Camus haha
>>7726757
Why so?
HOW 2 MOTIVATE WRITING?
cocaine & hard liquor
>>7726715
Writers don't write because they want to, but because they have to.
Smoking helped my creativity when I was younger for some reason.
What was the fucking point of telling the masses every couple of years that the enemy was a different one? If they had full control of the information why they just didn't invent a permanent one?
Is orwell such a hack that he portrayed the party as retards just for the sake or proving the point that people were totally alienated by them?
To keep the masses afraid and dependent on the establishment. To prevent the stagnation of fear of the enemy
>>7725267
Having the same enemy for years on end would increase the chances of war weariness, as well as making the government seem incompetent.
"Oh, we've been fighting the African Negro Freedom Coalition for 40 years now? Why does it seem we're never good enough to beat them?"
>>7725267
it is well explained when Winston reads Goldstein's book.
>would of
> doggy dog world
>>7722254
I read this one in a paper that I recently graded:
>the ability to be able to
>>7722276
Oh lawdy. I actually lol'd at that. People don't actually say this do they?
Am I about to get memed?
Daily IJ thread I guess.
DFW's intelligence and work are really depressing
>tfw you'll never be a genius who smokes weed on a daily basis
The book is profoundly sad. It's very enjoyable too, and lots of the episodes are excellent pieces of writing unto themselves.
>>7721625
I'm 60 pages into it and, no offense, but I have yet to encounter an interesting scene. Approximately when does it get good?
Is it true that "world building" is just a crutch for bad fantasy or is an intergral part of the book?
Is it true that "good prose" is just a crutch for bad fantasy or is it an integral part of the book?
>>7725068
>what did he mean by this?
>>7725012
Yes.
Is this worth reading?
nigga u spying on me? i literally just torrented the audiobook and started playing it one second before i refreshed the page,shit seems pretty patrish so far, "story of civilization" tier epic history
>>7723344
Too long. Try the 500 p one by johnson.
Hey I'm pretty average intelligence (think somewhere between 105 and 115 IQ). Is reading literature a waste of my time? You guys seem like you're a cut above most other boards in terms of intelligenceno homo
>>7718486
No it isn't, IQ has nothing to do with it.
>>7718486
Whoever tells you that intelligence is innate is lying.
Read literature, read philosophy, learn a language! You can be as smart as the best of mankind if you apply yourself intellectually. Man does not become brilliant by nature, but by habit.
>>7718486
You don't need to be intelligent to read
Just look at /lit/
Wrote this in an hour, Talk to me /lit/erati... pls.
After drinking a liter of boxed merlot, I had smoked pack of Camel Blues and watched enough Chopped to give a lecture on how much Food Network
is too much. The light buzz achived from the cheap red wine had worn down to the point where I had started feeling sorry for myself again and
even jerking off for a solid hour to soft-core internet porn could not cut the sting. And it's only 11 o' clock, fuck.
Cool blog.
it's bad
wanna know why?
>>7727039
Do tell.