Does anyone know and good but cheap edition of
Le Chants De Maldoror?
h-help me p-pls
>>7448543
ebook maybe?
>>7448625
physical copy please
ITT: post your favourite thing you have ever written
You may be memeing but i like it. (This is a comment on your picture, not the favourite thing i've written). Nor was that. Nor was that. Nor was that. x∞
>>7439430
thanks it gets exponentially worse after that paragraph though
>>7439420
Such thing doesn't exist, I hate everything I have written. I'm almost finishing this notepad and already planning on burning it or throwing it away like the last one.
How do I overcome this?
What do I do now that I'm finished with this thing? I feel so lost
>>7454593
The fact that you feel lost implies that you have not developed a personal taste, even after reading these 20 books.
read good books
Pick a few authors and read more of their works. I especially like Fitzgerald.
What are good books with mediocre to bad prose? (i.e. books that have good ideas but aren't all that impressive on an aesthetic level)
>pic somewhat related
>>7454374
but the prose is good
did you read it in german?
>>7454374
You didn't read it in German did you? You read a shitty translation, you twat.
And anything by Huxely.
McCarthy, Pynchon, etc.
Have you ever read the Bhagavad Gita? If so, what did you think of it? If not, why haven't you read it yet?
>Have you read the Bhagavad Gita?
No
>Why not?
I've many other books to read
spiritual monk gave me a copy in detroit. made me promise thatd id read the entire thing. still sitting on my desk, barely read twenty pages. ill get to it one day
The main reason is because I've got other things to read
The secondary reason is that I'm never sure which is the best version/translation to read
What do you think of her writing? Never read her.
I've heard The Fountainhead is great. Is it worth it?
read it and find out
Her writing's terrible.
I'd really recommend something about a pirate captain or rogueish nobleman from Mills and Boon before The Fountainhead. Or a biography of Frank Lloyd Wright.
The prose in either would be better, and the plot the same.
>>7454235
Fountain head is great.
Anthem is OK.
Atlas Shrugged is her most well-known one, but it spells out the same message that the Fountain head does, except with a few hundred extra pages.
Would you guys recommend reading this book or something similar for someone new to serious reading? I can read just fine but don't feel I absorb as much as I'd like.
I'd avoid it personally. Just read a lot of good books, read the intros and notes that come with them. But mainly enjoy and experience the book. Don't get worried about 'the correct way to read'. You'll become a better reader with experience.
It's shit.
Get Reading Like a Writer and/or How to Read Literature.
>>7454068
I wouldn't recommend it. It's pretty old and some of the sections are useless.
For someone getting into "serious reading" (and by that I assume you mean getting into literary novels and the classics and stuff), I'd recommend pic related, which is mostly about analyzing symbolism and subtext, so you'll understand a story's themes and overall get a deeper understanding of a piece of literature.
Is he the Camus of our time?
Don't compare the sexiest existentialist there ever was with that jaded cave troll.
>>7453810
I mean that they're both popular French literary authors who engage with important ideas of and about their time in the form of accessible novels.
He seems to fill the same niche.
>>7453810
>he's probably never even read "The Map and Its Territory"
Kys my man and so on
> that face when neither Nietzsche nor Hume ever refuted, or even addressed, Aristotle
who gives a fuck about some 2000 year old olive eating pederast
Aristotle is overrated. Theophrastus would have completely obscured him in history were it not for the machinations of *ahem* certain Greek aristocrats.
Also, >>>/his/
>>7453705
I do. Who cares about you?!? Not even your mom! If you have a girlfriend, she's cheating on you. Go fuck yourself.
Damn, do you know how dumb you sound?
Why is /lit/ the only board on this site (out of the other media boards, them being /co/, /mu/, /tv/, and /v/) to have any taste in anything?
we 're inteligent people
>>7453515
Literature has the most established canon so it's easier to pretend to have taste.
>>7453518
my sides
Post humorous woman writers.
Double dubs bitch
Take us out Erock
where to start with the new meme trilogy? do I need to read Savage Detectives?
Whoever decided on those is retarded
>>7453351
Why? They all seem like highly well-regarded novels, if a bit obtuse.
That's not the meme trilogy.
It's probably just because of my melancholic personality, but /lit/ I crave perfection. I've read through classics, I've read through epics, but just nothing has seriously -grabbed- me when it comes to fiction- the closest is Tolkien but more often then not I always end up reading the struggles and epics of real human beings because they are actually three dimensional beings, or were at once.
But is there somebody out there, anybody at all, who writes with the purple prose of lovecraft/lovecraftian work, has the world building of Tolkien, and the very real, human feeling characters of Shakespeare? To me this would be the definition of perfection literature, and I am desperate to know if it exists in anybody's opinion.
And before anybody says GRRM, no. The man's prose is more dry than bloody Tolkien. I'm looking for something that reads like colour out of space and has the pain and tragedy of Macbeth.
you wouldn't know perfection if it jumped up and bit you in the dick
sounds like you don't know how to appreciate literature
>>7453313
How so? My search is for the perfect story. The problem is that I only ever find one that excels in one regard- either it has excellent characters, a fantastic world/plot, or it has glorious prose. There's never a combination of all three. There is never perfection. And it's driving me mad.
Authors and "intellectuals" that disturb you but at the same time strike a morbid fascination of.
Not necessarily for there ideas, books or ect, but more the content and power of there personality and ideas.
For example
L Ron Hubbard
Marquis de Sade
Pier paolo pausini
Michel Foucault
Philosophy is just samantics LMAO
Arguing over what words means is pointless like "buh buh buh buh buh" could mean anything dude just roll with it
dumb guy hears: 'buh buh buh'. Assumes everything is nonesense. Writes paper: literally 'buh buh buh'.
Professor: 'I don't know about this paper'
Dumb guy: Troll face
4 years later: "Welcome to Applebees, can I interets you in our drink specials?'
>>7453140
What the fuck is Applebees.
>>7453140
This isn't Applebees
This is Hitler's house