/lit/ - Literature

>>4894084

Hey guys.

My brother just finished the Harry Potter series and asks me what he should start reading now. What should i tell him?

pic not totaly related

And I found a couple more

I dunno. The Kingkiller Chronicle is pretty good if you're up for genre fiction.

>>3276131
1st
>Moby Dick
So is Tolkien, but both are also regularly criticized for their "expositional" sections.
>how I'm "absurd" I think you'll have to reiterate
It seems to me that you're advocating the merit of this fan fiction based only on emotion. When I (allegedly) advocated against the piece on the basis of emotion, you criticizing me for being subjective.

2nd
>So you assume I'm taking the logic behind my statement to its extreme, and not that I'm just casually saying something?
Perhaps I wouldn't have if you didn't seem to be making your entire defense of this fan fiction "casually."
>I may assume you believe when a lot of people "do" like something that means absolutely nothing?
Correct. Lots of people like MacDonalds, but that doesn't make it fine cuisine.

3rd
> It can be done, it just has to be well done,... I'm pretty sure your meritorious authors really meant what I just said.
We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us — and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle or amaze with itself, but with its subject. -Keats

>Titanic
The Titanic won its awards for the following:
>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/awards
Pretty much all of these are technical innovations, and had nothing to do with the actual plot.

>Final notes:
Emotions aren't worthless in art, but they certainly aren't important enough to debunk every single other aspect possible in a work. You can't possibly say that a fan fiction short story written on a weekend can compare to a work that takes seven to ten years to compose, assemble and refine.

hello /lit/.

lately i've been rather busy with school; i had to quit reading Aristotle's metaphysics so i could write a paper contextualizing a passage to india within indian communications theory. the point is: i haven't jumped back into metaphysics, even now that the semester is over. i've been drinking instead. what's that say about me?

but what i really want to ask, to all you il/lit/erates that've read dickloads of philosophy: has it made your life any better? do you think clearer or more intensively than before? i have a crateload of books, from plato to foucault, yet i'm wondering if it'll really enrich my life? i feel like i'm almost crazy, after reading buddhist scriptures and the tao te ching - is western philosophy different? is there anything you'd highly recommend, before taking this task on? before i was on the path to a chronological reading of philosophy - is that worth it? what do you say?

pic unrelated; /lit/ sucks, i know.

I'm burning down all my bookshelves but it's going to take some time and I don't have any kerosene for my e-reader

what hobby should I take up to be superior again