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Does good American poetry exist? Rec me
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How about you read the fucking sticky
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WS Merwin
Billy Collins
Sharon Olds
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>>7481947
Walt Whitman is quintessential American
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I'm looking for recommendations on Kafka. What books would you recommend that are similar in feeling and atmosphere to The Castle?
Something about uncertainty, cold, a strange sense of something mystical.
I know it's probably a long shot because books are usually unique in feeling (at least for me), but still. I also like how the book was also an experience, in that I didn't necessarily enjoy reading it because it was so tedious and drawn-out, but it really made you feel like the main character did at times. And looking back on it, I get a feeling of wistful nostalgia, like you sometimes get with not altogether pleasant experiences.
Also enjoyed "The Tartar Steppe" by Dino Buzzati, if that matters. For some reason, they seem to evoke a similar feeling in me.
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if you're looking for more kafka, then literally anything else he wrote, most obviously the trial
if you're looking for stuff by other people with a kafkaesque feel, then try the melancholy of resistance by laszlo krasnahorkhai and the unconsoled by kazuo ishiguro
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>>7481946
I've read pretty much everything by Kafka himself, and while I enjoyed it, none of it was quite like The Castle. It's probably the combination of knee-deep snow and alienation.
I've also read the Unconsoled. It was okay. I'll give the other one a try as well, thanks!
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Anything else, anyone?
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Any good vampire books out there? I know someone whose really into Anne Rice. I'd like to find them a book in this genre that isn't young adult tier or at least something different that lit likes
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Let the Right One In.
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>>7481776
>good
>vampire book
Pick one and one only.
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well there's carmilla by j. sheridan le fanu and the vampyre by jw polidori. and then of couse Dracula...
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Name some notable Stirnerites
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awww shit faggots screener copy of The Revenant just leaked, downloading that shit without a spook
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Renzo Novatore
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>>7481763
>Freud
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Is there any good book taking multiverse as a plot device? I just read Adventures of Luther Arkwright and it was horrendous. Haven't experienced anything so pompously empty since second season of Fargo.
To be honest I have no idea how to make this sort of shit interesting.
>There's this universe
>But here you go, have some others
>See, these are a bit different
>...
>Now let's have a story
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>pompously empty since second season of Fargo
Nice b8 kiddo
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Probably not because ideas like that are used by people who have no imagination but think they do so they use some incredibly abstract physics idea dumbed down to shit that is really trippy which people like.
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>>7481737
>Not recognizing the quality of The Adventures Of Luther Arkwright
All right, I'll bite the b8. What was it you didn't like about it? The artwork, the metaphysics, or the plot?
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>reading a book that has lots of words I can't pronounce
>trying to discuss it in real life
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iktf
Tfw there are so many words you don't know how to pronounce because you've only seen them in books and the internet
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>love a few Hungarian authors
>always have to google how to spell their names
THE S AND THE Z AREN'T EVEN ALWAYS IN THE SAME ORDER WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH YOUR LANGUAGE
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>>7481606
when i come across this i try to pronounce them with a french accent as to appear as though it is the way that they are to be said
plebs buy it all the time
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There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet
an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says,
“Morning, boys, how's the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a
bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes,
“What the hell is water?”
If at this moment, you're worried that I plan to present myself here as the
wise old fish explaining what water is to you younger fish, please don't be. I
am not the wise old fish. The immediate point of the fish story is that the
most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are
the hardest to see and talk about. Stated as an English sentence, of course,
this is just a banal platitude — but the fact is that, in the day-to-day
trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death
importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.
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A huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is,
it turns out, totally wrong and deluded. Here's one example of the utter
wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of: Everything in
my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the
absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important
person in existence. We rarely talk about this sort of natural, basic selfcenteredness,
because it's so socially repulsive, but it's pretty much the
same for all of us, deep down. It is our default-setting, hard-wired into our
boards at birth. Think about it: There is no experience you've had that you
were not at the absolute center of. The world as you experience it is right
there in front of you, or behind you, to the left or right of you, on your TV,
or your monitor, or whatever. Other people's thoughts and feelings have to
be communicated to you somehow, but your own are so immediate, urgent,
real — you get the idea. But please don't worry
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>IMPORTANT THINGS AREN'T THOUGHT ABOUT!
>PERCEPTION IS SELF CENTERED!
>LET ME STATE THE OBVIOUS BUT USE AN ABSTRACT FORM OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TO MAKE IT SEEM INTELLECTUAL AS THE READER DECIPHERS WHAT I AM TRYING TO CONVEY!
Pretentious as fuck.
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>mfw "this is water" has become in itself a banal platitude
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>he reads non fiction
way to be a boring twat.
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MAN'S GREATEST GLIMPSE OF FIRE RED
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>>7481394
go back to /v/
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That's a rare pepe.
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What books will explain what is wrong with the underground man.
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Or just explain please
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he is Hegels worst nightmare basically. he shuts himself off from all external spirit.
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He has autism.
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Was he an edgelord?
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Yes, but he was also a brilliant mind and a talented writer
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Yes, but he did something noteworthy with it, unlike most people.
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>>7481260
Read The Great Shark Hunt asap, a true goldmine.
Dubs decides what book I buy myself for Christmas.
Last digit is how many days I have to read it.
pro tip: [spolier] no women and men :^) [/spoiler]
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>>7481132
The Fault in our Stars.
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Dying Grass by Vollmann
also what happens if the dubs are 0
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>>7481138
Then I have to finish it on Christmas.
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I'm thinking about buying this. Has anyone read it? What did you think about it?
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avoid all pop sci books that have to do with rationality or happiness
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>>7481033
But Kahneman is a real economist.
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>>7481043
>economists ever being right
Howdy, I am a very young man in the military who is interested in majoring in the fields of linguistics and anthropology in my civilian life. I am interested in getting a pretty firm grasp on how Latin and Greek work, more or less an elementary level introduction to these languages, and I suppose just understanding Linguistics in general. I come to you today to ask this: where do I start? Pic completely unrelated, I have no relevant pictures on my laptop.
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Language: The Basics by R. L. Trask is a decent, short introduction to Linguistics. Are there any subfields in particular you find interesting?
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>>7480915
There's so so much.
Ethnolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, Historical Linguistics... Phonology, Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis and Stylistics are the things that have appealed to me the most, which I know is quite a bit so that might not help any. What first interested me in the field was English poetry, and how the structure and metre could affect the mood and "feel," for lack of a better term, of a poem if that helps any.
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>>7480902
As far as learn Latin and Greek go, pick up Mastronarde's textbook for Greek and Keller and Russell's for Latin. Easily the two best out there.
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Did exist a more based philosopher than Diogenes?
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>the "haha diogenes is the COOLEST philosopher!!! he jerked off in public what an absolute madman!" meme
if he's so "based" why don't you follow any of his teachings whatsoever?
go be a homeless chump and wallow in the mud, gratified in your self-superiority, faggot.
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>le witty hobo man
Yeah, Epictetus.
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Stop trying to make a meme of my /his/bando
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just found this book at the library, have not opened it's contents, what do you guys think /lit/?
do you think it's possible God created the world and us and then determined it would be best for us to be evolutionary biologists?
http://www.amazon.com/God-creationist-religious-against-creation-science/dp/0684179938/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1450540861&sr=8-2&keywords=is+god+a+creationist
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>>7480810
How the hell should we know what God thinks. He sends us Bibles but then we fuck around with them mistranslating and misinterpreting that shit and it seems like he doesn't give a fuck what we do with them.
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>>7480810
>God
Who is this again?
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And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?
And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.