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Reading this book makes my blood boil and I’ll tell you why: it was written by a college professor.
I respect college professor as felling human beings, but as teachers, they’re pretentious fucks.
We write to convey thoughts, so our fellow human beings can understand. To write in an easy to understand manner is to stay humble.
College professors, on the other hand, write like diarrhea is coming out of their mouths; they use big words and long sentences to convey simple ideas.
Here’s an example from the book.
Neil Postman wrote:
“I believe, a wise and particularly relevant supposition that the media of communication available to a culture are a dominant influence on the formation of the culture’s intellectual and social preoccuptions”
He could had simply wrote:
“TV can influence how people think.”
Reading this book is like having shit flung into my eyes.
College professors have big egos because there’s nobody to tell them:
“Listen, you pussy lickers, your writings suck. Stop using flowery, big words and write in a simple manner so people can understand. Express your ideas simply, you fuck nuts. Also, stop jerking each other off in the office, it smells like semen.”
Same reason why I don’t read business books by college professors because the book is 1,200 page – YET – the college professor never opened or ran a successful business.
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Same reason why I don’t read business books by college professors because the book is 1,200 page – YET – the college professor never opened or ran a successful business.
But that's decidedly not the same reason.
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>>7441273
> I believe
assuming a posture of subjectivity to avoid passing unsupported thesis as fact too early
>a wise and particularly relevant supposition
emphasizing both the aptness and relevance of his postulation
>the media available to a culture
Not just tv, any artificial entertainment materials that a person may come across
>are a dominant influence on the formation
explaining the degree which media informs culture
>intellectual and social preoccupations
draws attention to the fact that media can encourage an antiintellectual sentiment in the culture it effects (something that is a widely documented problem by now)
Your suggested stand in doesn't convey nearly as much and is at best the engine in an inevitable freight-train iteration of the above
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>implying complex language isn't a presupposition for complex reasoning
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As an aspiring author, how do I deal with having nothing to say?
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Write about having nothing to say
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You put the cart before the horse.
First, you have something to say. Then, you write/be an author. Until you're in the right order, you'll always be a joke calling himself an "aspiring author".
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Be reassured that some of the very best had nothing to say.
I just need one good history book about the Middle East.
Not about Islam, not about terrorism, just one good, comprehensive book about the history of the Middle East. Preferably not written by a Jew or an American either. Does such a thing exist?
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>>7441159
>one good, comprehensive book about the history of the Middle East
there is no such thing. the region is gigantic and a lot has happened. specify a time period and possibly a specific nation and we can help.
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>>7441159
Shouldnt this be posted on /his/?I fear what may begin with this mere utterance
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Mansfield's A History of the Middle East
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What is /lit/'s opinion on Twilight? Should I start with the first book or is there a better starting point?
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>>7441047
Start with The Complete Manual of Suicide.
Hide this thread. Sage if you do post.
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>>7441047
Still a better love story than Twilight.
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>>7441050
Singles checked
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What is his best book? I've never read any Dickens and want to read something by him.
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The great train robbery
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>>7441012
Bleak House, David Copperfield, or Pickwick Papers
I really like all his stuff regardless. Got me into reading. :)
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Activate greentext: Reading moralistic books for kids
Does /lit/ have a chart for exploring nihilism?
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yeah pic related
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yes, it's called /tv/
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just look out your window man...
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I can speak Russian because I was raised in a Russian speaking house but I can't read the alphabet and my vocabulary is pretty limited
Will I ever be able to read Dostoevsky in Russian? Or do I have to stick to translations
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just practice the language with more focus on the alphabet with reading.
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Why try? Just give up, now.
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>>7440920
Alphabets are easy and since you have an inherent knowledge of the grammar you should be able to skip through the books with ease so long as you keep a thesaurus about. Really, half an hour at most to get to grip with the alphabet and a dictionary whilst you read. You might be a bit slow at first but you'll be fine.
What are some good novels set in feudal Japan? Preferably written by a Japanese person, since I've tried reading white folks writing in that setting and it just sounds forced. Though I've heard Shogun is very good. Any recommendations? And yes, I know "feudal Japan" covers 2000 years and about a dozen different actual time periods, but you know what I mean. Pre-Meiji, basically. Can certainly have fantasy elements, since I'm looking for something with a folktale quality to it, something timeless.
Also, is Musashi any good?
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Just bumping with some Japanese fox porn.
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Tales of the Otori by Liam Hearn
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>>7440928
I tried so hard with the first book, I just could not get into it. One of the very few times I returned a book from where I bought it.
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Is it possible, in your experiences? What sort of rules or guidelines to be established in order for a relationship of 3 or more people to work? And is there any reading material you would recommend on the subject?
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this isn't a love column.
>And is there any reading material you would recommend on the subject?
the berlin stories by isherwood.
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had an exgf into it.
it never works out because of feels. someone always loves someone more, same as a standard relationship. love is never even.
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>>7440766
Maybe I should have asked about the moral implications of a polyamory.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/i-love-dick-is-one-of-the-most-important-books-about-being-a-woman-no-wonder-it-s-being-dismissed-a6721336.html
>It’s hard to explain exactly what I Love Dick is: autofiction; an epistolary novel; fantasy; or, according to early critics, a gossipy invasion of a feted art critic’s privacy. But how it is categorised is less important than the reaction to the book.
>Ferrante, in a recent Vanity Fair interview said: “Often that which we are unable to tell ourselves coincides with that which we do not want to tell, and if a book offers us a portrait of those things, we feel annoyed, or resentful, because… reading about them disturbs us.”
>The same sense of being disturbed afflicts critics of Kraus’s book - many of whom refuse to read it at all, denying it is art and dismissing it as gossip.
>Women can be as destructive, possessive and prone to rage as men, it turns out: but discovering that is what terrifies them, while exhilarating women.
/lit/ misogynists BTFO. I bet you shitlords haven't even read this stunning and brave work of modern fiction yet. It's not gossip, it's art--and men are just scared.
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>>7440528
everybody trust this man's informed opinion
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>>7440518
>Chris Kraus
I can't tell what would be worse: that being a pen name, or that being a real name
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>>7440539
"Eh..yes...KLOWS...Mr. KLOWS"
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How quickly could I learn to read Portuguese if I'm fluent in Spanish?
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Also what are the best translations of Pessoa?
Spanish translations are acceptable if they're better than the English ones.
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>>7440269
If you're fluent in spanish you should instantly get 70 % of Portuguese. All the people I know, myself included can understand Castillano perfectly fine being that Portuguese is our first language. There are grammatical variations but nothing to overwhelming. Most of the diferences are vocabulary but most times the words are a lot similar. In regards to your other question - não existe melhor tradução que a língua original !
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>>7440439
t. Alberto Barbosa
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Lay it on me, folks.
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Idolatry probably
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knowledge of good and evil
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The real Original Sin, that we know of, is Satan's rebellion against God.
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Just started reading this after reading and loving The Death of Ivan Illich because i found a physical copy in my house.
Im on chapter two and its fucking terrible. Should i continue with it?
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>>7439975
Maybe.
It has big ideas about the nature of humanity and our place in the cosmos as well as being a damn good political drama. The characters are all so very self-aware, almost neurotic yet there still manages to be surprises. It has central arc of a hero myth throughout the book that ties everything together nicely. But my favourite thing about Dune is that it's a good primer for the 2nd book, Dune: Messiah, which is my favourite in the series. It's completely different and I regard more of a character study. In fact, I think I'm going to read it again now.
Are you new to Sci-Fi? It's the greatest Sci-Fi ever written but I can understand if it's unpalatable to people who read Dostoyevsky and academic /lit/ instead.
You can go fuck yourself if you're a fantasy pleb though.
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>>7439995
I'm new to almost everything, just started reading seriously few months ago and i read some Tolstoi novellas , some camus, 1984, and a few other terrible books.
This is my first Sci-fi and so far is boring me to death. Just wanted to know if i should continue wasting my time with it or just drop it.
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>>7440065
Try reading Childhood's End if you haven't read any SF before.
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I really don't know as much about Italian lit as I would like to. What are some of the best authors and works, besides the obvious answer Dante.
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here's the obvious answerread the sticky
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Calvino, specifically
If on a winters night a traveler and invisible cities
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>>7439924
An anon once described Tabucchi's "Pereira Declares" as a brilliant work, so try that out if you want something a bit more recent.
I thought it was alright.
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So, anyone here ever I Ching: book of changes? Thoughts? Gonna get it tomorrow.
>pic related
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It's alright, if you don't read it in chinese you're going to miss a lot of the jokes and puns. The book is just a compilation of ancient memes and times people got trolled but some dank daoists. Taoism was the /b/ of ancient china
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I used to be really into it until I realized that it was doing more harm than good in terms of my psychological health.
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>>7439982
damn
tell me, if you may, how many pages it had +-? I found a version but not quite sure it is right