>“Dad-a-chum? Dum-a-chum? Ded-a-chek? Did-a-chick?”
Should I read the book before the movie comes out?
>>7629796
The Lobstrosities scared the shit out of me when I read this being 12 in the 80s.
There's going to be a movie?
>>7629931
To be fair, they were more or less the closest thing that came to taking Roland down.
>>7629796
I think it would've worked better as a video game. But yes, read the book.
Who else /phonereads/?
I don't enjoy blindness and headaches op
>>7629319
Spreading outright myths, how mature.
Me
Does anybody have the collected poems of T.S. Eliot, and would mind sharing what edition they have and if it does actually include all of his poetry?
>>7633581
I have this one and it has all his poems from 1909-1962.
From prufrock and other observations to four quartets, including occasional verses.
The table of contents can be seen on Amazon.
is Ubu Roi the new meme? (pronounced mee mee, of course)
Ubu is a memre and is not new. You're new.
meme rhymes with jean
I'm studying the Odessey for a uni course that I am taking at the moment. It makes me feel nostalgic as it reminds me of Percy Jackson, a book series that I loved when I was a teenager. I was very obsessed eith Greek mythology but stopped reading the book series when I got older. Should I go back and read the new Percy Jackson novels? I am 20 and I know that I am technically too old for this book series, but damn, reading the Odessey is making me feel so nostalgic!
>Percy Hackson
no
A catharsis is very important to one's well being. Leaving a lot of things in your life unfinished can have a negative effect on your life. So I'd do it.
>>7633495
Freud pls go
Either way I don't see a harm in reading old books from your past, as long as they are not a way for you to be a child again
What does the roof squirrel represent in the young Hegelians philosophy?
Also, why were the German philosophers so edgy and smug?
>>7633451
The Absolute Spirit. It's constantly craving nuts.
Who are the major writers of Canada, Ireland and Australia to know about? Preparing for uni right now and can't find a good, comprehensive list about this area. I really don't know any apart from Wilde and Joyce.
>>7633415
Miles Franklin and Henry Lawson are the major Australian writers, I would say.
In the next ten years, it will also includeme
Were people in ye olde days retards?
>On opening night (10 December 1896), with traditionalists and the avant-garde in the audience, King Ubu (played by Firmin Gémier) stepped forward and intoned the opening word, "Merdre!" (often translated as "Pshit" or "Shittr!" in English). A quarter of an hour of pandemonium ensued: outraged cries, booing, and whistling by the offended parties, countered by cheers and applause by the more degenerate contingent. Such interruptions continued through the evening. At the time, only the dress rehearsal and opening night performance were held, and the play was not revived until after Jarry's death.
No wonder trench warfare was a thing.
>1896
>ye olden days
>>7633370
Kill yourself. Sage.
>>7633370
In most cultures there is an inverse relationship between "freedom of speech" and the cultural importance of speech.
Cussing is a big deal in cultures with strong speech taboos
Hey. Recently I have started to read books in English. Since English is not my first language, I find it difficult to read fluently.
The only book I read in English and found no difficulties to read it, was The Catcher in the Rye. It was easy to me to read.
Now, I have bought these books in English:
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Great Gatsby
Gravity's Rainbow
Into The Wild
Which one of these books are the *less* vocabulary challenging?
Why not just read something from Hemingway? You know that you won't get a translation and you know it won't have too many unknown words?
I'd say Gatsby and Cuckoo's Nest are the easiest to read of the bunch you posted. Also, l'd suggest you read some of Pynchon's other works before diving into the Gravity's Rainbow.
Here's the /lit/ starter chart too. Moat of the books here are entry level, so you shouldn't have a problem with them.
For non-native English speaker, anyone else feel like their writing is getting worse and worse? Couple of weeks ago I was churning out Hemingway's shit. Now it's just plain shit. What do?
fuck it, bump. Also, is this OCD?
My english get worse and worse every time I get back into browsing imageboards, especially krautchan.
So get off any imageboards and read more, it'll get better I guess.
Hello friends, can any of you recommend some audiobooks for my daily commute? I appreciate it.
shit thread
find a book, get the audio.
faggot
i don't know, brief interviews for fuck's sake
>>7633102
The Lost City of Z, by David Grainn
Super interesting.
>>7633102
History of Philosophy without any faps
It is the greatest masterpiece of the symbolists, however I have found only a few posts about it.
I can't read french yet you dope
It has translations though
>>7632696
>greatest masterpiece of the symbolists
>masterpiece of the symbolists
>symbolists
>SYMBOLISTS
You haven't read it, have you?
>and then he said he read a prose translation of the Illiad
>mfw someone's first exposure to the Iliad isn't a recitation in the original language
>>7632193
>she misspells iliad
>she didn't read it off the manuscript
>hse doesn't have at least one member of the Homer collective as an astral penpal
Are there any ethicians who portray murder as essentially a victimless crime?
No because then it would just be killing a person and not murder.
>>7631652
What do you consider the difference between killing and murder?
>>7631674
You do know there's a difference between Murder, Homicide, and Manslaughter, right?
I can't tell if you guys genuinely enjoy 'experimental' fiction or if you just really like three-inch thick novels because they are like a fun puzzle or video game to be defeated (and I suspect most of you are comfortable with long length because you were raised on big fantasy tomes) but what if you guys read every one of these novels before posting yet again about Pynchon, Nabokov, Wallace, or Joyce. what if that happened?
John Hawkes: The Lime Twig, Blood Oranges
Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities
Joy Williams: The Changeling
David Markson: Wittgenstein's Mistress
Donald Barthelme: Sixty Stories
Valeria Luiselli: Story of My Teeth
Alexandra Kleeman: You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano
Samuel Beckett: Molloy trilogy
George Saunders: Civilwarland in Bad Decline, Pastoralia
Nicolson Baker: Room Temperature, A Box of Matches
Kobo Abe: Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another, Kangaroo Notebook, The Box Man
Don DeLillo: The Body Artist
I didn't love every one of these books (see below) but they were all memorable. Here are some popular recommendations that I personally didn't enjoy:
William Gass-Omensetter's Luck: I'm not a fan of lyrical prose (Faulkner) or historical fiction. It wasn't bad tho, i guess.
George Saunders-the story collections above: his stories felt like the creation of a very bored person. they were weird in a great way and felt human, but he neglects tone in favor of voice (esp. in Civilwarland, in which every story is told in first person)
David Foster Wallce-Girl With Curious Hair: similar faults with this collection as George Saunders; both focus too much on satire and are devoid of consistent tone. Naming your first collection after the story which parodies another writer's style seems shitty. The 'Lost in the Funhouse' story just sucked imo. I'd rather just read his essays. I think Infinite Jest the only fiction DFW's that I've enjoyed.
lurk more faggot
>>7631254
Read the entire post, didn't see Tristram Shandy.
Fuck out of here, OP.
>>7631287
yeah, tristram shandy defeated me almost instantly.