/lit/ - Literature

Oh, if you want you can also suggest documentaries related to authors if you think they're good. They usually aren't as far as I can tell.

How do I read with noise?
I just can't tolerate noise whilst I am reading.
How do you read with distractions?

George realizes that every action he can take is ultimately meaningless on a long enough timeline. While he finds this revelation liberating in a way, it also devastates him existentially when he realizes that action and no action will ultimately, given enough time, result in identical outcomes. “I am nothing, and I am everything,” he explains to Jerry, sadly, “but everything and nothing are effectively the same thing.”

His existential despair proves contagious when Jerry stops caring about how funny any of his jokes are, reciting meaningless and incomprehensible garbage without setups or punchlines that leave the audience confused and angry. “But this is life!” wails Jerry, to a particularly disappointed crowd. “Whether you laugh or not, you’ll still end up in the same grave!”

Kramer confuses himself for a pile of dog excrement on the sidewalk in front of the building. When a passerby treads through it unintentionally, Kramer follows the man home, repeating, “I have soiled your shoe.”

Elaine develops lung cancer without having ever done anything that might jeopardize the health of her lungs.

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nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity

>>3806304
I don't get this one. Is it quoting a borderline retarded moon landing denier?

>>3596856

It really isn't. I was expecting dense and dry shite, but when I started the thing, it reads surprisingly modern. It has a clear introduction, going through what has been thought on the subject before, and then just happily strutting onward, improving everything he comes across.

>>3418482
A coffee-table book...

about coffee tables!

Are vcr manuals /lit/?

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>>3286152
>he thinks "form over function" is a meaningful statement when talking about art

pic related it's you

>Not everything has to be meaningless philosophy you know, reading can be an entertainment medium.
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By the way, "entertainment" doesn't mean "dumb fun" as people usually imply, it means "retaining attention". Just because philosophy doesn't retain your attention doesn't mean it's not entertaining to others. And just because it's entertaining doesn't mean it is made to be entertaining and nothing else. In fact, when that's implied that is quite offensive, it makes LotR and other "entertaining" things to be just "stuff that hiptnotizes you and make you not realize time has passed until the book is over" and not something that stays with you in thought and emotion, which is true to all genuinely entertaining books, philosophy, fantasy, fiction, non-fiction, textbooks or whatever.

Think of a magician on stage, doing his trick. That's entertainment for entertainment's sake. The good thing of magic is watching it. On tv, on "show business", you have to capture your audience and that's where the art of entertainment. To say that books (or some books) are like that and nothing else is just wrong.

And reading is not a medium, books are a medium.

To answer your question, I like LotR, but I prefer the beggining of the story much more than anything else. Gandalf the grey, a strange evil, nazgul on horses, Strider, etc. Later I get bored at the politics and detail of the war in Middle Earth, I like the personal suspense of the beggining.

What do you read when you want a break from being high brow?