Post a page in a book that contains the book's name. Others guess the book
>>7718713
My?
>>7718718
Good start, not quite
>>7718727
My cousin?
Redwall thread? Redwall thread.I'm not the only one who was turned furry by this series, am I?
>>7717468
/thread
Is it ok to reread these as an adult?
There's a lot of talk on here about Marxism and Cultural Marxism.
I don't really know anything about Marxism past the basics. Should I read Das Kapital or is there something else I should read to get a grasp on what Marxism is all about?
Or should I just skip learning about it all together?
only read Capital if you have a decent grasp of classical political economy
>>7716368
Cultural Marxism is a 99% conspiratorial reading of The Frankfurt School by uneducated monkeys who truly believe that generational mass conspiracies can exist in a species as prone to gossip as this one.
As far as readings in Marxism, oxfordbibliographies will give you numerous well received peer reviewed texts.
>>7716377
I read the beginning where he talks about commodities and the different "values" and I understood it completely. Does it get more difficult?
A friendly reminder to take the leap, my dear anons. Yours truly, Soren.
>>7720960
By the way, are his works on public domain ?
I didn't find them.
>>7720960
>mfw a christfag falls into the void
Am I missing some sort of value in Daniil Kharms' writing? I'm about halfway through Today I Wrote Nothing, and I don't hate it but I'm not sure I get it either. I've heard he's a big influence on George Saunders, and I like Saunders a lot but Kharms just leaves me confused.
>>7720846
you westeners are so fucking spoiled
try begging for this book for months years
try sneaking it past censor with vpn
try translating it yourself
fuck you
>>7720974
lol
youre too pleb for russian literature that isnt the standard dostoyevsky/tolstoy.
I haven't been on /lit/ for a while, why do we hate Joyce now?
>>7720793
Do we?
I like him but his humor is too vulgar for my tastes and some times he goes a little too far with his experiments.
>>7720793
We don't, and anyone that does has weapons-grade autism.
Is it a problem if your book has too many female characters in it?
No? I like women. Why wouldnt I want them in my stories?
>>7720740
I can't think of one book with too many female characters
>>7720753
I just don't want this thing to seem like some weird feminist crap.
I'm about 330 pages in. 250 more to go. I'm liking it so far, it's quite good, but I've heard East of Eden destroys this. What do you think about it?
how well do i need to know the bible to get all the allusions?
I know the stories do seem seem to stand up on their own tho
grapes of wrath is pretty badass. but yeah...east of eden is Steinbeck's best imo. definitely has the best ending of the 5-6 or so books I've read by him.
you really need to hear woody Guthrie's "dust bowl ballads" in the background while reading grapes.
although I won't spoil the ending for grapes...the ending was pretty badass and satisfying as well.
Books similar to Neuromancer?
Count Zero
Don't listen to anyone who says Snow Crash. It's not good.
>>7720491
I fell for that already. Where the fuck were you to warn me anon
What is your favorite piece of pop fiction?
ποποπο-πωkερφεις ποπο-πωkεραεις
>>7720302
wind up bird chronicle
John Green! Get it?why are pop fiction and YA so looked down upon here
>Today I will once more be a prophet: If the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevization of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!
>thought i was making an ebin meme
>no replies
>>7720004
john irving said that?
So I was re-reading this for fun and I ran into something that's bugging me a bit.At the end of the book, when Shadow is being pulled out of the freezing lake, he dreams of Whiskey Jack, The Land, and the Thunderbird turning their back on him. Now, obviously they know Hinzelmann is about to get offed, but why do they care? Does that have anything to do with it at all? Sure, Hinzelmann created the lake and made Lakeside prosperous, but I can't imagine them caring about that at all, especially given it's artificiality.
One perspective I found was that they were anticipating his death. That doesn't make a ton of sense to me given that they were disappointed. Especially not Whiskey Jack, who ripped Shadow's ass out of nothing just to have a talk.
Obviously they turned their backs on him in disappointment. He was inadvertently engineering the death of an Old God. Is that what they were upset about?
What do you guys think? Has Gaiman explained this?
>>7719562
Read American Gods and had enjoyable discussion here before.
I don't understand your question, maybe it's my headache. Can you rephrase it?
>>7719565At the end of the book, The Buffalo Man, Whiskey Jack, and The Thunderbird Woman turn their backs on Shadow and walk away. The implication is that they're disappointed in him and have abandoned him.
So why?
Try asking on /r/books
what are some books about being an ambitionless hack with no personality?
pic unrelated.
Anon, I've been wondering myself, and I've been toying with the theory that the experience of being a totally ambitionless hack is so complete and life encompassing, and the experience involved in writing a book is so opposite in terms of effort, determination, and diligence, that no author has really captured the essence of bottom tier of loserdom.
I would love to stand corrected though.
the comforts of madness - paul sayer
both of you
Tao Lin-Tai Pei
How does one go about learning a new language on a budget? Is Rosetta Stone the only viable option to learn? I'd prefer to just self teach myself rather than take a series of classes.
L I B R A R Y
I
B
R
A
R
Y
Rosetta stone is never a viable option.
>>7719245
Okay, but which books would help?
What are his best books other than Dune?
nobody knows because no one's read them
>>7719228
I read one the other day, Whipping Star. It was okay. It was kind of weird setting, the main character works for the bureau of sabotage, a government bureau committed solely to making sure the other bureaus don't do their jobs too well.
I only read Dune but i hear Pandora sequence is not bad