Am I off to a good start?
>>7533880
if you're not writing in ebonics you're doing it wrong
>>7533880
My friend, the ' in 'twas goes before the twas, not after. The ' replaces the letter "i" in the contraction's full form "it was."
>>7533884
Fuck.
Why do you write /lit/?
So I can afford to sleep the pornstars I like desu senpai
>>7533848
It's what I'm good at.
Because I read a lot
nothing personal kid
>Orwell was a fedora
Kill yourself.
First day on /lit/?
>>7533772
>nothing personnel, kid
Is homotopy type theory an inscrutable but worthy challenge in trying to understand, the process of which is rewarding and elicits a paradigm-shift in the way I think about things? Or is it an elaborate dick joke?
Also, pic related vs Simulacra and Simulation thread.
Well, it couldn't possibly be worse than current foundations.
>>7533800
Could you elaborate? Are you referring to our popularly accepted axiomatic systems a la Euclid, or something else?
>>7533914
Our current Cantorian "axiomatic" systems are absolutely nothing like the axioms of Euclid. See Norman J. Wildberger for more details: http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~norman/views2.htm
Is Cormac McCarthy worth reading?
>>7533757
worst /lit/core by far.
>>7533757
Yes, very. All the kids on here who hate it just don't get it, because, well, they're fucking kids. Also very recommendable is The Road.
>>7533901
Why?
Why do so many people say House of Leaves is shit? Yeah, I get the whole ergodic lit thing is kind of a gimmick, but really, the ending made me feel more emotional than whenKing Théoden died in The Return of the King.The story and the writing itself are both a 10/10. What gives?
Definitely not 10/10, but I definitely like it more than /lit/ claims to
>>7533759
Word
It is a very cool blending of weird fiction and Borges style puzzles. I love both of those things and so I loved the book. But, the problem comes in when tons of people read this book without being aware of either of those traditions and so they think its 100% original and it blows their fucking mind and they don't shut up about it. This causes people who ARE aware of the clear influences, and its not like he was hiding them I mean the blind writer was clearly paying Borges the necessary homage, to shit on the book because they're annoyed with all the people who think its a breakthrough in literature just because they've never read anything more complicated than The Hobbit.
How do I get into Gaddis?
>>7533733
Start with The Recognitions, and don't expect to fully understand is work on the first--or second, for that matter--read.
Read the Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
>>7533748
Since it was written in english, does the edition I purchase matter?
>look into joining a book club in my area
>they are reading pic related, Wild by Cheryl Strayed
>read description and reviews
>about an adult woman (22) who unexpectedly loses her mother to cancer and then has a breakdown
>starts doing drugs and cheats on her husband with many strangers... because of the loss of her mother?
>decides that the only way to fix herself is by going on a long and difficult hike, although she is inexperienced and ill-prepared
>she gets help from other hikers (men) as well, and continues to cheat on her husband with these strangers
>recommended by Oprah
>4.5 stars on amazon with almost 12000 reviews
>3.9 rating on goodreads
has /lit/ read this book? the description and many reviews i've read say the book is bad. but it has such high ratings
It's a woman book, that's for sure. Think Eat Pray Love with edge. It was a major motion picture a year ago, that's part of the reason it's so big.
a lot of book clubs try to go for overly promoted books thinking that will keep the bad readers interested. It's not what you were looking for. Imagine someone who was trying to be a professional football player in HS, he changes his mind but goes to play with friends from the job just to get mad that they don't try as much as he does. Keep looking and don't get mad when people do their own thing.
>>7533709
I've read it, disappointed by how much of it was her flash back drug use and self made fuckery of a life, when I picked it up for a cool travel/hiking book. She can be annoying as fuck at times, I found myself despising Cheryl as a person but enjoying her adventures on the trail (Except when she cheats on her husband.)
Still not bad, not exactly /lit/ tier, I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much as I did if I wasn't into hiking.
Was he right all along?
>>7533699
>Dick
lmfao
About what. Fucking memes...
I'm just about finished with high castle. It fucking sucks. Why is this guy so highly regarded? How did they make a TV show out of this? Idgi.
Fuck GRRM and his fan-fuccbois.
>>7533687
not literature. reported
Soon
Not interested in it, really. Martin is the sort of fantasy I'd like to see less of; he's just recycling stuff from European history/mythology and adding sex scenes. Tyrion's an ok character though, you could do something with him in a different context.
Actually, what the genre needs is a three-year moratorium on anything with a knight or dragon in it.
Guns Germs and Steel.
Asked /pol/ was to come here
>>7533394
It doesn't fit with my worldview, it's shit.
Brace yourself.
>>7533399
So far it makes sense. It doesn't paint WHITEY DID IT or THE NATIVES OR X ARE STUPID
reddit's askhistorians have a bunch of posts explaining why each chapter of ggs should be read with care.
People post this 3 times a week here, imagine in leldit. The consensus is: Jared Diamond is a hack.
Dear English Lit students:
Does it ever bother you that we’re studying a dead subject? Like, it’s depressing to think we’re studying the thoughts of dead people. I don’t need to tell you that the market for English Literature jobs is not good. With the sciences, there are new breakthroughs all the time and all those discoveries are regulated by a rational, tried and tested method. That's the complete opposite of the humanities. Our so called interpretations are jargon at best, and what little credit English did have in the realms of philosophy will soon be completely undermined by neural-mapping.
There may be a very good reason why most English students are starry-eyed, absent-minded dreamers. Could it be that, despite our education so far, we chose to study English Literature because that's all we're really able to do? A mish-mash Jack of all trades subject that has the drawbacks of all the other disciplines and the benefits of none. I mean, certainly there is something to be said for building an argument, but Law does that better, and it's also more grounded because at least there's a set of rules that dictate correct and incorrect judicial codes. While studying Eng Lit, we brush elements of Human experience without ever going into full detail. Philosophy, R.E, Politics, History, Psychology... It's just one big whistle-stop tour that fails to really explain any of those subjects in the depth they deserve. Kind of like the off-cuts of meat. What that leaves us with is a kind of Bookology. We're essentially studying how a story narrative fits together through plot and symbolism, almost like art critics. And yet, does that really deserve a whole subject? From there it's not very far away from hobby territory, only that it isn't because when you make your hobby your degree, you basically turn your leisure into work. Medical students become Doctors. Biology students become biologists. Engineering students become engineers. History students become Historians. English Literature students become ...become ... Publishers?
Am I mistaken? Are we the butt of the educational cannon?
>>7533388
>History students become Historians
lol.
>>7533388
>implying history students aren't all sent down a chute into a trash bin to be collected and discarded immediately after graduation
>>7533435
Wow, really? Being entombed in my own corner of the humanitarian latrine, I thought they did pretty well. The more you know.
"Aah, that reminds me of my Plato paper in my second year which I wrote in an all nighter at the Brasenose library. Which Oxbridge college did you say you went to Anon?"
I-I already told you I was a high school drop out.
>imblying any sane berson wouldn gill gameron wid dere dare hanbs
Ok
>6 months ago applying for phds
>readying applications for oxbridge
>talk to profs about it
>they all laugh
>"oxbridge's phds aren't competitive hahahaha they have no funding ahhhhhhhahahaha don't apply there"
>talk to dozens of professors, including many who got oxbridge phds decades ago
>do lots of my own research to confirm
>it's 100% true
>mfw i saved a few hundred bucks on applications to those shitty schools
Thanks, Oxbridge!
What would you say are the favourite books of each person in picrelated?
Goethe's Faust and The Trial
>>7533097
50 Shades of Gay and can't read
Left: Eat, Pray, Love
Right: The Hunger Games
It's in the title
>>7532857
new sincerity avant la lettre
not the best writer but a lot of passion and enthusiasm and he gets it across well, both the happy and the sad parts. big sur is a legitimately great novel.
top lad
>>7532876
the only thing I know about Big Sur is the following quote:
“I have tonight begun reading a stupid, shitty book by Kerouac called Big Sur, and I would give a ball to wake up tomorrow on some empty ridge with a herd of beatniks grazing in the clearing about 200 yards below the house. And then to squat with the big boomer and feel it on my shoulder with the smell of grease and powder and, later, a little blood.”
~Hunter s thompson
>>7533233
Words of a jealous narcissist to be honest. Thompson is a meme writer compared to Kerouac.