Can I get some good quotes about the meaninglessness of life, love you've never had and will never have, and the chaos of the universe?
read the hour i first believed by wally lamb
and fuck yourself
kill yourself
"Someone ought to stand with a hammer at the door of every happy contented man, continually banging on it to remind him that there are unhappy people around and that however happy he may be at the time, sooner or later life will show him its claws and disaster will overtake him in the form of illness, poverty, bereavement and there will be no one to see or hear him."
- Anton Chekov, "Gooseberries"
What did /lit/ think?
Whenever I see the name Cockburn by peen twinges in sympathy
Cockburn.
Lmfao.
No fucking way that's his name.
Bahahahahahaha. I'm sorry, I can't. Honestly. Where's the camera?
What are /lit/'s thoughts on this? Is it better than his other works?
>>7695993
who cares? Orwell was a pleb who just wrote basic novels for kids to 'study' in school.
>>7696078
Homage to Catalonia is nice tho
>>7696078
Okay. Post the list of books you consider not pleb so I can read them.
This thread is about everything audiobooks.
I usually listen to them on my phone, but now I realized I can also do it while playing certain games. Any suggestions on good audiobook players?
I specifically need the speed increase tool without screwing the audio, because one of the things I listen to is the economist and they talk waaaay too slow.
What do you think of audioboooks?
Are they as good as regular books?
Never used audiobooks.
Are they any good?
>>7696515
No.
I listen to audiobooks in the summer while I run, training for the half marathon.
I just put the mp3's on my iPod.
I have no software recommendation, but that problem seems extremely basic and solvable by any sound editor.
>Are they as good as regular books?
Well no, it's another medium.
If I read Caums, say, if that consists of a narrator saying something I can't go back to what has been said several times, let alone in the next paragraph or at the next page content, then I have no chance of grasping a good interpretation of what's been said.
It might be good for listening to Harry Potter, that's another type of reading.
Any critiques on pic related? Enjoying the audio book right now (don't kill me). Maybe one of the other boards are better for this, now?
ruined my life
this psedoscience mulatto should be shot
>>7695966
ask /sci/ about this. I know it's supposed to be a more user friendly understanding of "success", or whatever, it relies on math too much, to get that thesis across.
/lit/ is more about stories of old racoons.
>>7695974
could you talk a little more about it?
any good sites/books for learning the basics of german grammar and punctuation?
Mein Kampf
>>7695985
/thread
>>7695988
I was also going to suggest the complete works of Hegel, but OP should probably move onto them after Mein Kampf.
Cerré la puerta de mi departamento y me dirigà al ascensor. Iba a llamarlo cuando un personaje rarÃsimo ocupó toda mi atención. Era tan alto que yo debà haber comprendido que lo soñaba. Aumentaba su estatura un bonete cónico. Su rostro (que no vi nunca de perfil) tenÃa algo de tártaro o de lo que yo imagino que es tártaro y terminaba en una barba negra, que también era cónica. Los ojos me miraban burlonamente. Usaba un largo sobretodo negro y lustroso, lleno de grandes discos blancos. Casi tocaba el suelo. Acaso sospechando que soñaba, me atrevà a preguntarle no sé en qué idioma por qué vestÃa de esa manera. Me sonrió con sorna y se desabrochó el sobretodo. Vi que debajo habÃa un largo traje enterizo del mismo material y con los mismos discos blancos, y supe (como se saben las cosas en los sueños) que debajo habÃa otro.
En aquel preciso momento sentà el inconfundible sabor de la pesadilla y me desperté.
1985
>>7695956
" I closed the door to my apartment and walked to the elevator. I was about to press the call button when a truly starling person arrested my attention. He was so tall that i should have understood that i was dreaming him. His stature was incresad by a cone-shaped cap. His face
(which i never saw in profile) had about it something of the tartar, or what I imagine a tartar to be, and it ended in a black beard , also cone shaped. His eyes gazed at me in a mocking manner. He was dressed in a long overcoat, black and glossy covered with large white discs. It reached nearly the floor. With a suspicion that perhaps i was dreaming, i ventured to ask him , in some languaje or other, why he was dressed in such a fashion. He gave a ironic smile and unbuttoned his overcoat. I saw that under it was a long piece suit in the same material and covered with the same white discs, and i realized ( in the way one does in dreams) that under it there would be another one.
At the exact moment i tasted the unmistakable savor of nightmare, and awoke."
>>7695956
>que yo debÃ
Hasta ahi llegué
>>7695978
preety cool translation
Recent purchases thread?
These were £2 each, nabbed them from a charity bookshop.
That's a nice Blood Meridian cover. I believe i have Outer Dark in a similar edition.
I got myself:
>Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard
>Dicipline and Punish by Foucault
>Nietzsche and Philosophy by Deleuze
>A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Barthes
>We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion
No pic because they're all in Italian except for the last one and you wouldn't care anyway
>tfw local Oxfam bookshop raised prices to £2.49
It often has good stuff as well, but the pricing pushes it just above that impulse instabuy level for me...
I found a practically new version of Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre for 84 cents today at a used book store. Probably going to go back tomorrow to see if I can find something else.
It's going to be a comfy weekend.
what's the literary equivalent of kino?
Kino's Journey
TOP
Octavo
Opuscule
Bible
Compendium
Codex
Lexicon
Tome
Literature
Novel
Magazine
Book
Paperback
Softcover
Reads
Speller
BOTTOM
>>7695826
The first episode is the only good one. Every episode after felt tacked on
Why does /lit/ hate Fight Club?
>>7695731
because it's pleb fodder
Oh wait, I know this one: "they're pretentious elitist cunts".
Because they're tumblr
So who wants to meet up with me on the east coast and work and find work out on the seas?
I can;t be the only one who is super depressed after reading this as I watch whats left of my youth pass in front of computer screens.
>>7695713
The east coast of where?
>>7695717
any coast will do mate lets just get on the water. I need to spend some years working on a ship
>>7695717
Africa
aka the mother land
A few weeks ago I read 3 short novels (in the miso soup, piercing and audition) by Japanese author ryu murakami and thoroughly enjoyed. Has anyone read these books, and maybe could recommend any similar artists? I'm looking for disturbing themes that make the reader feel uneasy but is also captivating. Any help would be incredible thanks.
Also, sorry if this post doesn't read very well, I'm coming down from a very big weekend and am struggling to string sentences together :)
Try his movies
or Jack Ketchum, or even Palahanananiuk
>>7695627
His best is Coin Locker Babies you haven't read Ryu until you've read that
>>7695631
Great thanks heaps!
What do I have to do to get into UPenn for graduate studies coming from St John's College?
>>7695578
as a current penn student why do you want to come here/what research interests?
>>7695583
I'd like to get into the PhD program because of the facilities and the professors. I'm interested in exploring avant-garde movements in relation with linguistics and literary theory. Bernstein is someone I've always wanted to work with. Not to mention the fact my parents are in bankruptcy so I don't have much money, UPenn will provide tuition largely reduced.
>>7695590
hey i'm actually in Bernstein's class right now, though just an undergrad. really great and unique readings of poetry, poetics, and aesthetics
yeah all of the professors i've worked with/learned from are fantastic
Is the Everyman's Library version of Les Miserable any good? Also, what are some of the best translation available in Everyman's Library?
>>7695493
>translation
They have the GOAT Dante translation.
>>7695657
meh. depends on your perspective/needs
GOAT is definitely stretching it.
What are some good war books lit? I've only read
The Things they Carried - O'Brien
The Face of War - Gellhorn
In Pharaoh's Army-Tobias Wolff
you're welcome
>>7695446
Also Storm of Steel.
>>7695446
Infantry Attacks (WW1, tactics heavy but autobiographical)
Read Storm of Steel and All Quiet on the Western Front together, both memoirs (WW1)
The collected works of Wilfred Owen (poetry, WWI)
Company Commander (WW2, memoir)
Catch-22 (WW2)
Platoon Leader (Vietnam, memoir),
Fields of Fire (Vietnam, fiction)
Trees of Smoke (Vietnam, fiction)
Dien Cai Dau (Vietnam, poetry)
Fiasco (Iraq, contemporary history)
I haven't read any fiction from recent wars. Lots of people recommend The Unforgiving Minute (Afghanistan, memoir) but as a lieutenant who served in Afghanistan, I think the author's a bitch.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk got decent reviews (Iraq, fiction) but I've never read it.