Should I bother reading Pnin before reading Pale Fire? I've read some of Pnin and just want to get around to Pale Fire.
then read it. why do you need approval for your decisions. this is an 18+ board
Read whatever you want in whatever order you want. Besides, Pnin has nothing to do with Pale Fire.
Pale Fire isn't very good by the way
>>7712625
this desu ne
who told you you have to read them in any order anyway? it's not as if comprehending nabokov is really that challenging
>Invented the Atomic Bomb
>I am expected to root for this man
Bad protagonists thread?
>>7712609
It's in my opinion that if a person makes it to 100 years old, they are allowed to do whatever they want. Laws no longer apply to them.
The book was just trash. I was embarrassed that I picked it up just because the New Yorker said it was good. Now I ask /lit/ before I read anything.
>>7712722
>listening to the new yorker
you dense motherfucker
I've been wanting to write a novel that's story is based on Germany after WW1 (Hyperinflation, Hitler's uprising, ect) though I'm stumped on what the general context would be.
Help me out /lit/.
good hearted aliens want to decrease the evil in the world, so they give the humanity a baby, adolf hitler.
Hey /lit/, I need your advise.
I want to make a present for a friend, and I was thinking about a book.
The thing is, the friend of mine went through a painful break up some time ago, and he seems to be struggling to close that wound, and I wanted to give him a book that coud help him to deal with his feelings.
My friend is not really a bookworm, he doesnt read a lot, and I thought it could be a good opportunity to try to make him read more, so a light book would be better.
Also, general Reccomendation thread.
Mindfulness in Plain English
STICKY: read it
>>7712579
Kerouac's "On The Road". See him forget about that bitch and explode like fabulous yellow roman candles.
How does one establish that characters care about each other without everyone assuming it's sexual? Or is that simply not possible in this day and age?
By not being a sex-obsessed autist who assumes everything is about sex to begin with, as you evidently do.
By the person being abundant enough, then doing a favor and not expecting sex in return.
What are their characters? You might be able to make the reader predict or at least understand their actions.
>>7712164
Were you this deprived of regular human contact in your life that you can't think of how people can care for each other without it being sexual? I don't know if writing is the best hobby for you.
What are the prerequisites for this, /lit/? No meme answers please. Keep it to less than 10 books or ~5000 pages overall.
>>7711524
The obvious ones would be Iliad, Odyssey, and the Bible. Hop to it anon.
WOW ITS THIS THREAD AGIAN HAJAHAHAJAJAJA
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none. ulysses is a book: read it
What is /lit/'s opinion on Rousseau? More specifically, The Social Contract?
Him and everybody like him are, for lack of a better word, absolutely fedorable. Cult of Reason-type idiots who believe they aren't idiots.
>>7710889
Are there any good critiques you would recommend of Rousseau?
He traces all royalty back to Adam forgetting that all plebs are categorically descended from Adam. Pretending the Book of Genesis isn't poetic horseshit, for a moment, lime most ecclesiastic doggerel it doesn't pass its own logic.
Where do I start with him?
first you unzip
GIVE
HER
I just finished Ride the Tiger, it changed my way of thinking in ways i couldnt foresee.
How do you deal with the empty materialism of the Kali Yuga?
What are books that completely changed your thought?
>inb4 /pol/ get out
fakin stormfag
I did like marx very much
plz respond?
Am I the only one that dislikes dustcovers on hardcover books?
No, I hate it.
They look good (most of the time), but if I am to read that book I remove the dustcover and dont put it back until Im finished with the book. It is horrible to read with it on
>tfw you will never get a rusty trombone, even un-enthusiastically.
yo /lit/ i had "The book thief" recommended to me
i like dark books
Have any of y'all read it?
Is it good?
Would you recommend it, if not what else?
it's schmultzy and popular, it's enjoyable enough but not really 'good'
recommend what exactly? you could read the bible or the quran i suppose
>>7712442
Im a good Cat Lick boy i read the bible
And take your Saracen filth books away from me
>>7712432
The Painted Bird is just like "The book thief" and is appropriately dark. Also recommend The Wasp Factory as an equally similar book. Finally Las-Bas by Huysman is right up your alley.
Finally reading American Psycho and it's making me fucking depressed.
I wish I could have Bateman's lifestyle. I wish I could be a Wall Street finance guy wearing ten thousand dollar ensebles, doing coke nightly, having debaucherous sex and spending all day having lunch at fancy restaurants.
Instead I was born in the fucking Midwest and studies STEM, now I work in a laboratory.
Fuck my life.
>>7712402
You will sooner or later get used to being stuck in only one life.
This depression might be re-ignited sometime ofcourse, but then you will again get used to it.
I'd add some bullshit on how it works and why we always dive into acceptance of everything we can't change but that's some elementary school level philosophy so I rather don't.
>>7712402
You'd feel the same no matter what the fuck you would be doing. Coke, hookers and money wouldn't change the fact that you feel something was missing.
Well, I didn't read this book any farther than the first chapter because it felt like it was written to shock people in the fucking midwest studying STEM. The Bateman class was to my taste portrayed much more realistic and much more succinctly in the "Hyperboloid of the Engineer Garin" and the "Dunno" series.
Can anyone provide a summary for this weird chapter? I'm really enjoying V. so far and I like the writing style, but this third Chapter (in which Stencil does eight impersonations) went all over the place and it was kind of hard to pick up how the story was continuing.
Sorry for being a bit stupid
its been a while but
pre ww1 tensions
two agents porpentine and bongo-shaftsbury (forget who is who) from enemy sides meet at a ball event or something and meet up with victoria wren
they spend the rest of the night with victoria and some other folks despite being enemies
on the train one of the agents tells a little girl he is a mechanical man. i never undersdtood if he was meant to be some degree of a cyborg or if he was just joking, i think the latter, but symbolically he does represent the mechanizing effects of modernization (as another key figure comes to later on)
then the one guy kills the other guy at a play(?)
its told from multiple perspectives, from what i recall, a cafe server, a ball waiter and wannabe anarchist, a farmer,(?) a train conductor, some con man and ex child predator, someone hiding in a bush (a burglar?) and then like an objective pov with no character attarched
>>7711640
All those POVs are stencil
Also OP is a re-written version of a previous story of pinecones, it may help to read the older one. I think its called Under the Rose.
>>7711640
thank you
What are some examples of Master/Slave Morality in history? My friend said that Achilles was the best example of Master Morality he could think of, is this true?
>>7710769
Achilles isn't an actual historical figure, but there are tons of historical examples of both moralities
>>7710769
Achilles was just being controlled by his emotions.
>they fell for the Hegelian meme
Tell me why I shouldn't read this.
it's written by stephen king
It's +800 pages long.
>>7710161
My dad liked it, so you might too, idk