Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 499. page

>>9840729
m.d.d.

I am greek

The Phenomenology of Spirit seems like a good choice.

>>9840562
This list is shit and filled with meme books. We need a new one.

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>>9840562
Already been done m8.

>>9840582
Dat Infinity Jest

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>>9840467
they jumped the shark man. they got the ability to work and control their fertility so now it is just catty old spinsters talking about triggers

>>9840467
The Second Sex, The Female Eunuch, Sexual Personae, the rest is trash

>>9840528
The Second Sex is a classic I do wanna read (just didnt done wet cause the one I know where it sells is expansive as shit, and it isent in my priority lista).
What 'bout "Based Mom"? Is she worthy it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc_PO32nT4g

>>9840457
based zack

>>9840457
i wonder if he ha skilled himself yet

>>9840433
>I am become as sounding brass
Sounds badass

>>9840452
Yeah I'll give it just that one, though resounding gong isn't too bad. Certainly doesn't make up for "tinkling cymbal"

Anybody know in the movie Hackers (1995) when Matthew Lillard quotes 1 Corinthians Chapter 13 verse 11?

That part always makes me laugh.

>>9840118
I quitted a book after like, 30 pages of how boring it was.
Luckly it was cheap.
The book is yours, you can do whatever you want.
And maybe you may come back in the future to read it.
No rushes

>>9840118
Life is short. If you manage to read 100 books a year for the next 60 years, thats 6000 books. It is reasonable to assume about 2 million books are published each year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_published_per_country_per_year

Why would you waste your time on one of the literally millions of bad ones.

>>9840118
Force yourself. You won't regret it I think.

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>>9840064
>reading the desert Jew

Why the fuck would you read the Bible it's meaningless garbage with no relevance to anything

If your one of those "historical greatness " faggots then make this stupid thread in Pol and stop wasting space here with your anti-intellectual bullshit

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>>9840077
>reading the barbarous hun

>>9839799
I liked it but I found Demian to be much more impactful.

I'm only 18 and just graduated high school so that might have something to do with my opinion.

What about its approach to spirituality? I always felt that the one-upmanship game of transcendence that Siddharta played with all the other characters felt somewhat off, maybe I'm just not one for Buddhism and its reincarnation wheel.

>>9839799
The whole listening to the river thing was kind of perplexing to me if he didn't mean that the inherent beauty in a river was enough to be happy with (discounting bodily essentials).

I felt like it displayed the life of an ascetic really well in that they are so self secluded and not really active in the world, up a pretentious but mostly meaningless nothingness.

A great 'find your own meaning' book.

>>9839746
>Engels
Just forget the Young Hegelians, they were all great erudites who studied intensively for their whole life.

>>9839755
They were still people though.

Sucks being an anglo-languagelet

>>9839763
They were people who devoted their life to erudition. I'm sure no one here on /lit/ has done so. Also most of them were actual geniuses.

its more conservative than marxist schools and more focused on culture/society and telecom than economic and labour.

It extends the analysis of how capital overdetermines all aspects of culture/society, showing how even the basic ways that people live out their daily lives or try in vain to achieve fulfillment are jeopardized by capitalism.

>>9839678
They were more Marxist than liberal schools of thought.

You fat retard

the book was alright desu

idk what made her write this nonsensical tweet

>>9839505
are you sure she isn't right?

>>9839523
I am sure there was less than one nigger in roman britain.

Vote, you cucks

>>9839277
fuck you

The pacing of The Idiot felt much less consistent than C&P

>>9839240
21

lol my schools not even here even though it outranks a bunch of other schools from my country listed here..

13.

Nanobots. Accurate gene-manipulation radiowaves. Lasers. Manipulation of quantum fluctuations. It doesn't matter.

>>9839223
this is Harlan's ham-fisted attempt to address the notion of the singularity. a lot of screaming, flailing about and shouting, but no resolution, like most of the short one's work.

Its pretty clear they're trapped under the surface of the Earth inside AM's complex. The author makes it clear the surface is hostile to life, the "ice caves" are under the North Pole and at one point Benny tries to climb through a hole onto the surface until AM blinds him.

>I don't understand how the computer is able to turn someone in a blob, for example

He's super intelligent. The story is told from the point of view of the humans being tortured by him, so they wouldn't understand how a world-encompassing computer works and to them it may as well be a wizard. Turning Ted into a blob is the least impressive thing AM does, considering he can summon a massive bird out of nowhere and make things materialize before their eyes.

>>9839149
you can be less formal about it

http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
coursera
great courses streaming is cheap
edx

Of course you wont get a degree, but you are getting an alternative education, and if you want to study in more depth including writing prompts most of the professors will respond to your emails.

I do a course a month or so, and make an attempt to read some of the core books of the bibliographies if they are on libgen or whatever.

>>9839164
This is good, thanks.

have you by any chance tried the Civil war course on Great Courses? It's on sale right now but the overwhelmingly good reviews in contrast to the two very bad ones makes me skeptic

>>9839231
Its ok, I like the guy well enough, but he definitely focuses on his favorite generals.

pirate it or get the streaming service, individual courses are for institutions