/lit/ - Literature

>A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, and thereafter.
What's the book?

>Sowell believes that if the Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden wins the 2020 US presidential election, it could signal a point of no return for the country. He believes it could lead to a tipping point for the country like the fall of the Roman Empire. In an interview in July 2020, he stated that; "the Roman Empire overcame many problems in its long history but eventually it reached a point where it could no longer continue on, and much of that was from within, not just the barbarians attacking from outside.” Sowell believes that if Biden wins, the Democratic party would have a huge amount of control over the country and if this happened, they could twin with the radical left and ideas such as defunding the police could come to fruition which would be very negative for the country

This guy was meant to have spent a decade as a marxist but thinks biden/democrats are ultraleft?

>>15151175
>conservative liberalism.

>>14828472
>Is literature the only place to explore ethics?
Where does he say this. I've only read literary theory: an introduction and he pulled this doozy.
>Barthes's theory is not, as the reader might have suspected, without its problems. There is something a little disturbing about this self-indulgent avant-garde hedonism in a world where others lack not only books but food.

Define Art
Define Greatest

>mass political movement
>nietzsche approved

"in answer to the question: what scenes I would like to have filmed, Lewis Carroll's picnics."
― Vladimir Nabokov

>>12425297
>still impossible to read a century later

All too easy if anything

>Molly's monologue is the weakest chapter in the book.

Do you agree?

>>12239954
Not quite first rate. A fraud.

It's a book for the 'general reader' (plebs), but real patricians aren't fooled by it

>A little too long. A rollicking historical novel written for the general reader, specifically for the young. Artistically unsatisfying. Cumbersome messages, didactic interludes, artificial coincidences. Uncritical of its historical sources.

>http://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Larry+McCaffery's+20th+Century+Greatest+Hits

Thoughts?

>Never wrote a bad book.

How did he do it?

Daily reminder that it's pronounced naBOkov not NAbokov, you silly yanks.

>one cannot read a book

If it’s good enough for Nabokov, it’s good enough for me.

>intellectuals and academics are so egotistic and misguided lol
Reading Pnin and just finished with Pale Fire. Nabokov seems to really despise the 'intelligentsia', generally speaking. Most of them read like self-important, narcissistic buffoons. How did he reconcile this with the fact that he himself was a part of that scene?

>>11117857
Huh? That book was funny af. If you read it correctly, there’s at least a joke a page.

>one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader. And I shall tell you why. When we read a book for the first time the very process of laboriously moving our eyes from left to right, line after line, page after page, this complicated physical work upon the book, the very process of learning in terms of space and time what the book is about, this stands between us and artistic appreciation.

>>10638663
>this your brain on STEM

How do I reach Nabokovs level of smug?
I feel like I have a pretty good extreme egotism going on but people can still catch me off guard and find myself not being as impetuous as he would be
Is it just a matter of practice and age?

>>10497118
nice

>>10306000
>His two most famous works are overrated as fuck, go with Dostoevsky
t. numale who prefers half baked philosophical musing disguised as fiction to writerly craft

>dry
sensationalist trash that speaks mainly to faggots who treat literature as if it was depression pills (>>9825023) for sure, but dry?