Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 4750. page

>The Old Man and the Sea
shoulda been called
>The Young Man and the City
ba dum tss

>>7478056
I don't get it but then again I haven't read it either

>>7478056
>>7478583
I've read it but I don't get it either.

>>7477825
>have to take another French class for my degree

What degree?

>>7477825

French 101? I'd guess that's probably getting you to A2 or B1 level. Read stupid shit like Camus. If you want to build a vocab quickly, read Flaubert.

>>7477840
Bachelors in Digital Media Production.

>inb4 why are you wasting your time on such a pleb degree?
It's what I like, mang. I'm not competent enough for a STEM degree.

>>7477727
Only really started listening to them two weeks ago. I only know Dan Carlin atm, listened to Wrath of the Khans completely, halfway through WWI podcast now. I'd like some other topics or other people, though. Maybe even just storytellers.

I'm aware of them but have never felt the need to listen to them. If I want to switch off my brain I'll listen to music, if I want to learn I'll listen to recorded lectures. Why would I want to listen to some random knobjockey prattle on about whatever they feel like talking about based solely on their dull interests?

>>7477761
uhh, what? Podcasts are basically lectures.

Monks watch as a strange enemy naval fleet descends upon their tiny sea-side state. This is the breathless moment before cannons start to fire. The black one death, bows his head in silence, and waits. The red one war, prepares to cast off his cassock and take up the sword, as he is young and reckless, but eternal.

do your own homework

crossdressing with my butch friend
he has to turn away whiIe pee
I piss mind bending geometry

sacred wood, the paris review interviews, and simon leys are all def. worth reading
the abc of reading was pure fucking nonsense start to finish
avoid edmund wilson, he was a shitty contrarian critic and hardcore marxist (shat all over LOTR and Ulysses, most of the books he commends are all lost to history)
the eco collection is disappointing. I was excited given how much of a pedant he was but his actual essays are mediocre.
Gass' nonfiction is kinda meh besides one hilarious account of a Wittgenstein lecture he once attended, all of his fiction is breathtaking though.
avoid Borges' non-fiction too, broke my heart to learn he was an edgy schopenhauerian at core

>>7477650

Noted. Thanks, anon.

read how fiction works about a month back. first of this kind of thing i ever read except for a few things in high school. really liked it. lots of good advice for readers and writers. want to keep reading similar shit. thank you for turning me on to this list.

>not reading Mein Kampf auf Deutsch
>Kristallnacht + 77

>>7484835
won't be available for another 2 weeks

>>7484821
Keep /pol/ on /pol/. This isn't /lit/ related. This is you spreading fascism. SAGED! The mods will take care of your off topic thread soon.

Go outside and eavesdrop on some real conversations you nonce.

>>7477293
But everyone outside has an IQ in double digits and nothing interesting to talk about.

Go read some plays

Is this thread any good? It got posted just now but I'm not going to read it, unless I know the OP isn't a moron.

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>>7477100

Its great. Without a doubt the best book published in the 21st century so far. English version is only something like 900 pages. Pretty easy read also, I sped through it. It took me longer to read Crime and Punishment which is only around 400-500 pages depending on the translation.

there was a cool thread on it earlier this week and i really liked what this anon had to say

https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S7468196#p7469822

>all these fellow STEMfags

Wow, didn't realize that we were so many

I studied

F I N A N C E
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with minors in English and Chemistry

>>7477087
>pick one
Both desu

>>7482942
Romance languages

god tier languages:

french
german
english
russian
greek

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>(other than English)

Speak for yourself heh

>tfw every sentence you write is a perfect encapsulation of your innermost thoughts
>tfw able to weave complex literary, mythological, and philosophical allusions into a rich multi layered narrative without sacrificing accessibility or brevity
>tfw your prose is usually lucid and unembellished, so once you lull the reader into a false sense of security you hit them in the dick with prose so visionary and poetic there hasn't been a single person whose read your story that hasn't broken into tears at that one part

>>7476890
Cool?

>>7476897
>in a shitposting thread
>decides to take a reply seriously
Stop breathing.

>>7476405
watch the movie first

dude uses slang and all sorts of words that if you're not prepared for or an expert context clue soul, it'll piss you off to no end

movie is better than the book anyway

prepare for
>hyperviolence
>rape
>rape
>violence
>ol ludwig B

>>7476405
>movie is better than the book anyway

kek

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Cover art reminds me of this guy

>>7475964
it's a narrow field
but no

uh no, in fact it shits all over western rationalism that has been obsoleted by science.

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>Eastern """"""""""""""""""""philosophy""""""""""""""""""""

>>7475654
i like it. i think in places it's a bit heavy handed but that's easily fixed.

pretty good

>>7475254
Wondering the same thing.
My impression was no.

this book was trash 2bhwy

>>7475254
No as far as I know.
He became retarded again.

It's a nice little book.