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Will I be able to get a decent overview of Greek philosophy if I
>read modern books on Greek mythology like Edith Hamilton's book
>read modern books on Greek history
>read the works of Greek historians and poets
>read Homer and the work of the tragedians very carefully
>read what people have written about Homer and the tragedians
>read Plato and Aristotle very carefully
>read what people have written about Plato and Aristotle
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>>7358227
start with the greeks
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I mean yeah.
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Don't start with the greeks
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How did he learn so much about whales?
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>>7358124
Autism.
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by whaling
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>>7358149
did he actually go whaling?
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Free, online, complete, *annotated* Shakespeare.
It's 2015, why the hell can't I find this?
>inb4 someone tells me you can find Shakespeare easily online
note the following conditions:
Free: costing no money
Online: accesible via the world wide web
Complete: including at least all 38 plays
Annotated: So I don't have to reference other material every other sentence.
Shakespeare: a guy
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>>7358068
>Shakespeare: a guy
[citation needed]
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mfw you can find free high quality audio dramatizations of the bible, every major edition, annotated complete free and online.
The entire Western Canon deserves this treatment . How are there billions of hours of crap on youtube yet nobody has undertaken this? it should have been one of the first things we did with the internet.
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Dude you can get his complete annotated works on Amazon for like 99 cents.
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So lit, what did you think about this modern masterpiece?
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>>7358030
penis in vagina.
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>>7358044
I agree.
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I'm watching "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" to write an essay on them but I have to drink at least a pint of bourbon beforehand to tolerate their fucking obvious narcissism and vapidity. This prevents me from writing a coherent essay on them because I'm too hammered to operate a keyboard while watching their show but I blackout within 15 minutes of their show to write a comprehensive essay on their celebrity and cultural influence.
Hopefully I'll be enough of an alcoholic by next season to properly deconstruct them. I can already feel my liver screaming at me.
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I hear Beckett mentioned quite a bit. I tried to read Waiting for Godot, and was bored to tears.
What would you recommend to me to come to my senses and realize why Beckett is great?
Is he hard to read?
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>>7357951
He is surprisingly hard to read, something about his work that is just so dense.
You could try Endgame.
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>>7357951
If Joyce is the blueprint for modern lit, then Beckett is the cornerstone. Read Murphy.
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>>7357951
Godot you might need to see performed, though it's not exactly exciting. If the ways that he fucks with the language don't interest/move you, then he might not be for you.
Anyway, try to read some of his fiction. His short stories More Pricks than Kicks are enjoyable, and Murphy and Watt are very funny. Molloy is more in the vein of Godot (he wrote the play as a respite from the trilogy of novels, actually), but it is great.
Beckett's novels are better than his plays, so read them instead.
I have to pick a book for a grade 12 ISU (independent study unit)
I'm gonna have to analyze it and write essays on it and shit.
I don't know what to pick, thought you might help me with some suggestions
(Anything between 100-300 pages)
I was thinking of:
The Alchemist
Death of a Salesman
The Stranger
Catcher in the Rye
Difficulty/ Enjoyability of the books? I don't know, just lay it on me
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White Noise by Don DeLillo
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>>7357915
3 or 4. I like Catcher more.
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Go to bed. Make sure to wash the Dorito dust off your hands first.
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Hey /lit/.
I'm looking to learn more about influencing productivity in the private industry through government policies.
Could i be guided toward some pertinent literature ?
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>>7357853
Start with the Greeks.
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>>7357864
Shut the fuck up with your waste of life meme
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>>7357904
why don't you start with JMK
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Well, I just finished reading this comfy masterpiece. I liked it. What is your opinion on this book?
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Comfy masterpiece
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>>7357793
What's with this "comfy" meme? What does it even mean?
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>>7357803
Just like desu means To Be Honest, comfy means comfortable
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What was the problem exactly?
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>>7357774
Winston was a pessemist loser who didn't know that not everything has to be perfect. Luckily the book has a happy ending when he realizes that you have to be happy with what you have and enjoy life as it comes.
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>>7357781
What? I did not interpret it as a happy ending at all. More like a tragic / nightmarish ending where the protagonist loses all his personality.
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>>7357781
>happy ending
edgy
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Give me real critical reasons why H.P. LOVECRAFT isn't a 10/10 author.
You can't. It's genius how he weaves stories.
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His crutchey, "unspeakable" prose.
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lovecraft's so reddit it hurts
CTHULHU F'LAGHN XD
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>>7357831
>a certain author is only liked by users of a specific site
>reddit bogeyman
Kill yourself, my friend
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>it's a coming of age story
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>Delightfully quirky
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>it's a "bildungsroman"
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>hauntingly beautiful
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Why do normies like to brag about using literature as escapism?
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Right? That's what severe mental illness is for.
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>my favorite book
>the best book I've ever read
Pick one you dumb bitches, you can't have two favorites.
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>>7357663
It's just a pleb attitude to treat art only as escapism, something just to pass the time, and books as merely scripts for little movies they play in their head, mainly bad movies.
has anyone here learned a language just for the purposes of reading?
i want to learn russian, but i dont know if the time investment is worth it, especially considering it will probably be hard to learn.
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Yes. And I hate that fucking picture.
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>>7357614
what language? how long did it take you? and what don't you like about the froggy?
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>>7357609
Are you always the same person posting this exact same thread
How smart are you, /lit/?
A man should not hold grudges against the world or himself, otherwise it becomes a tangled web constructed of loops of anxiety and self-doubt. There are web-makers in us all, and they may be hardened machinists knitting intricate cotton into the fabric of self-pitying life or simply spiders that run rampant within the skull. But the outcome is all the same; it is negative and compromising to the being
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>>7357446
Cioran?
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>>7357466
is that a yes?
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Have you read the novel of the decade yet? It has been prophetical since the day of release.
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Please read relevant contemporary literary fiction, friends.
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I want to read this book + more relevant contemporary fiction but I always feel like I'm never "caught up" enough in the canon. For example, I know Submission revolves around a professor of Huysmans, who I haven't read. If I knew more about late 20th-century French literature my appreciation and understanding of the book would be much improved, but it may become irrelevant in the time it would take me to get caught up.
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>I'm a loser but finally I can marry 3 women
SUCH PROPHETICAL
OP, you haven't read it, have you?
>>7357438
Sheesh, just read it