Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 936. page

>>9596664
They are not mentally handicapped, they are just idiots. Everyone knows it's not ok to be an idiot.

>>9596683
What's the difference. If it were just one idiot, I might see your point, but in both of these cases, it's a whole FAMILY of idiots, suggesting that the stupidity is some sort of inherited genetic condition and therefore not really their fault.

>>9596664
the childrens books are highly moralists. they try to tell you not to be this stupid.

I'm curious too, how hard will this book be to read for someone who doesn't read often?

>>9596663
>>9596692
Wallace likes to play with the English language a lot by making up words and using nouns as verbs and combining them and so on. I don't know how well you understand English, but if you know enough and are mildly clever you should have no problem.
He's not hard to read at all from a syntax or grammatical standpoint.

>>9596663
>whose English isn't his first language
you might have a bit of a hard time

>>9596621
Literally my dairy tübjörnest

>>9596630
whats tübjörnest

>>9596630
Can I have that translated, It says it's hungarian but it doesn't have a translation

I have it still in my shelf waiting. Thanks for reminding tho. Thought about reading David Grossman next but might switch to Alexievich cause of your post.

I became aware of it after it was short-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize (formerly the Samuel johnson prize). I intend to buy a copy of it soon and am very excited about it.

>an on-topic post about a book that isn't spoonfed to college kids as part of their curriculum.

I don't mean this in a bad way...but are you new here?

if so, please stay

what was your favourite part of the book?

>>9596257
>what was your favourite part of the book?

I can't really come up with a specific part, but the deep and profound suffering which was inflicted to entire populations of the Soviet Union is nothing like which has ever happened. What I really loved was the positivity which the people who lived through Socialism had. Even when starving, exploited and silenced they looked to the future. It's a triumph of the human spirit... or something along those lines.

any good arabic setting novels?

also

>africa

those are colonies

>What went wrong?

Arab Invasion + Islam

>>9596189
take the redpill
>>9596419
try the redpill
>>9596428
become redpilled

mmmhhhmmm she got the juicey pusy

>>9596059
Yea man, but what about the quotes

>>9596253
>>9596718
>>9597610
jesus man take a hint stop fucking bumping

>>9595901
because of the jewish conspiracy to breed out white masculine heterosexual conservative males like us, man.

Take the redpill and praise Lord Kek! DEUS FUCKING VULT

>>9595901
When I went to High School, one of my assignments was, "Write an alternate ending to The Great Gatsby"

Out of fear of crushing children's creativity, we don't teach deference to the masters anymore. There's this idea that all ideas are equally important and equally valuable

So of course these assholes grow up thinking that of course they're smart enough to tamper with Shakespeare

>>9595901
oh come on, OP. anti-semetism is not acceptable in 2017, and some boring play by some DWM (dead white man) isn't sacred, it needs to change with the times, and in 2017, that shit is NOT OK

>>9595608
It is not. Some here just like feeling superior.

>>9595608
usualy fantasy novels arw trash

>>9595608
>us
escapism for retards whose life is shit.
if you go to a dudes house and he has any self help books or fantasy YA on his shelf do humanity a favor and kill that dude right there and then don't let him reproduce sneak into that niggas house at night and microwave his balls or some shit but these YA fantasy self help pieces of trash keep whining about acceptance when they really need to be sterilized

>>9595344
I thought this was pretty vacuous, which is disappointing because I love her nonfic. It's a caricature of the "ennui novel" and its particular ironic tone sets it up to be exactly the thing it's trying to criticize. BEE and Nathaniel West did it better.

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>>9595344
Nathaniel West's "Day of the Locust" and Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep" are essential LA-core.

>>9595465
Fair criticism. Less Than Zero is complete fucking garbage tho.

>>9595227
it isn't viewed as his best work?

...its definitely considered his best though

>>9595234
>>9595240
grapes is often viewed as being part of the western canon. east of eden is not

Former

Latter

>>9595083
i think so too
if you read YA there is slight chance that someone will make you read something good but if you don't read there you don't read.

If someone wants to autistically create some sort of ethical system I don't care at all. Feel fucking free.

But yes OP, there are infinitely many possible ethical systems. Why is the idea of an "objective morality" even taken seriously? Dishonest and financially (and attentionwise) people, such as taxpayer funded (or book sale funded) academics. Or maybe many years ago it was dishonest and authoritarian religious people

>>9595020
>he hasn't even read Kant and wants to assert an opinion on ethics
I know you're bored and curious but actually read a fucking book, I know Kant is tough but it needs to get done somehow

>>9595069
constructivism isn't objective morality
human universality isn't objective truth

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>>9594705
>mfw an azn qt is posted and I can't concentrate on the post so I can't even contribute to /lit/

>>9594712
It's used to grab your attention. But you should be intelligent enough to be able to talk about but topic without even commenting on the picture.

/lit used to be good about this.

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Bump, and here's some more motivation to enter the thread, you depraved animals.

>>9594643
i dunno man, johnathan livingston seagull. fear and loathing. the wind in the willows.

>>9594657
Do you take the piss?

Aristotle's physics and metaphysics are the place to start. To understand them you need to read the Organon first. To read and comprehend all 3 will take you at least 6 months

Who the fuck is he?

>>9594642
leonard cohens son

he's jewish