Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 4698. page

A couple years ago a friend of mine was staying over. We went to the library to check out some DVDs to watch. We returned with a documentary about corn production in the US and a cartoon adaptation of Discworld.

Is discworld not a children's book?

>>7521439
Nah man.

>>7521439
Some of it is fairly adult in theme. Anyway, kids wouldn't understand some of it very well. It's written in a way that child could read it though.

I've grown to enjoy the Discworld books. They're very entertaining. I don't read them for the same reason I read Pynchon.

By kids for kids senpai

Do your duty and remember to sage, report, and hide Eragonposters

>>7521411
gtfo
we're not doing this again
this shit sin't even arguable
at least start a harry potter thread for serious arguments

Decaying

>>7521159

I think it depends on the future of consumer culture, which could possibly disappear in 100 years if terrorism doesn't steal the narrative in the meantime. That is, we work towards the cessation of global warming, which might consequently destroy much of consumerism, which might cause more living equality in the world, which makes "school for getting a job" obsolete, by which school will be obsolete anyways, and possibly most jobs, and people start reading and watching good films etc. again (no need for mass escapism in a semi-utopia), etc.

So in 200 years, if this all takes place, which there is a chance of, we'll be looked upon as totally retarded. We'll have our Melville of the era, probably not a shakespeare, but a Melville; most consumerism shit will be ignored as artifacts (pop music/film, science fiction for the most part, probably traditional religion other than maybe Catholicism and Islam which will likely survive along with Hinduism that India can't function without)

But by and large we'll be considered (or rather, perhaps our parents will be considered) complete retards on average, but our geniuses will be recognized as such.

Well, that's just a wild ass guess at least.

>>7521169
>think it depends on the future of consumer culture, which could possibly disappear in 100 years if terrorism doesn't steal the narrative in the meantime. That is, we work towards the cessation of global warming, which might consequently destroy much of consumerism, which might cause more living equality in the world, which makes "school for getting a job" obsolete, by which school will be obsolete anyways, and possibly most jobs, and people start reading and watching good films etc. again (no need for mass escapism in a semi-utopia), etc.

Shiggy diggy

File: 3-D-Micro-Printed-Spaceship-1-650x399.jpg (43KB, 650x399px) Image search: [Google]

43KB, 650x399px

shameless selfbumb with a micro-spaceship

The Greeks, either their philosophy, poems or tragedies it doesn't matter.

>>7521009

Don't be intimidated. You're way ahead of many here in terms of your desire to learn and not show off.
What do you want to do with your reading? Any particular area(s) of interest?

>it's meme-tier
really a dumbass description in general tho

>A tour de force

if you havent been on this board for a while its really terrible

Lolita

A Confederacy of Dunces

>>7520926
It doesn't happen often, mostly because reading is an active activity, you cannot read and be unaware of the meaning of the message.

It's more common in music though...
Lorde's Royals became very popular precisely among the public the song criticizes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVB6np4qwG0

>>7520906
The Game

The problem is, I'm making myself read a book I don't really want to read currently, so as a result I'm avoiding it even though I could finish in a day.

joke's on you I'm redding Game of thrones!

File: the meme dream reseen.png (2MB, 1560x750px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 1560x750px

>>7520752

>>7520817
hey why the fuck did we chose the recognitions
that book is probably the oldest piece of pomo lit referenced on this board and it gets to be part of the "new" trilogy?

File: Trilogy Trilogy.png (335KB, 607x277px) Image search: [Google]

335KB, 607x277px

>>7520752
>>7520817

File: Crimeandpunishmentcover.png (435KB, 417x640px) Image search: [Google]

435KB, 417x640px

Starting with crime and punishment.

File: image.jpg (3MB, 1820x4348px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 1820x4348px

>>7520741
The 2015 one is from the END of 2015, ya dingus.

>>7520739
No. It'll be difficult. So difficult that you'll most likely give it up within a few months and move on to something else you'll never follow through with

File: Kiprensky_Pushkin.jpg (713KB, 1690x1964px) Image search: [Google]

713KB, 1690x1964px

>>7520739

Yes, but not for the right reasons

learn German instead

Harry Potter

The Enders Game series.

50 Shades of Grey

Because being uncomfortable about something is not a necessary condition for it to cause the failure of one's verbal or behavioural expression.

>>7520504
To be specific, being uncomfortable with the fixed aspects of words and ideas.

It's as though words are metallic rectangles trying to express the totality of clay that is being constantly molded. Attempting to represent the self with fixed ideas when the self is never fixed.

>>7520512
"The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternar veritates [something everlastingly true] he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world. The sculptor of language was not so modest as to believe that he was only giving things designations, he conceived rather that with words he was expressing supreme knowledge of things; language is, in fact, the first stage of the occupation with science. Here, too, it is the belief that the truth has been found out which the mightiest sources of energy have flowed. A great deal later – only now – it dawns on men that in their belief in language they have propagated a tremendous error."

self bump

Bataille.

because you forgot to include gilles deleuze on this list

Can anyone else get over the fact that this man is rich and famous from repackaging old narratives and cliches and platitudes into 'books' and creating nauseating 'educational' videos which are just rehashes of wiki articles with a liberal spin? We will all live and die without making one percent of the cultural impact of this fool

>>7520456
speak for yourself senpai

Meme magic

Willfully in Chicago
People here don't read.
Public libraries are redundant.
Not a big variety in bookstores.
Bookstores contain crap in general.
Second hand bookstores even crappier.
BOOKS FUCKINGLY OVER-PRICED

>>7520406
As for your questions, try e-books.

Job-offer in Perth
People here don't read.
Public libraries are redundant.
No bookstores outside CBD
Bookstores contain crap in general.
Second hand bookstores even crappier.
BOOKS FUCKINGLY OVER-PRICED