/lit/ - Literature

irl lol

i too have only started heavy reading recently

Slaughterhouse-Five was a really great book
and i just finished Jonathan Livingston Seagull about 30 mins ago

i'd say read those, but im no lit-buff

reading is bad mmmkay?

read Clarissa - Samuel Richardson, and learn to loathe the evil that is the book.

>>1588130

hey, that is a winner. It is free on Amazon. I have sent it to my Kindle. It is slightly interesting that there are NO reviews of it. How much evil is the book?


http://www.amazon.com/Clarissa-Harlowe-history-young-ebook/dp/B000JQV3QU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG
56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1298773422&sr=1-1

I hated The Catcher in the Rye

I was really uninterested in it and didn't care much for it. I didn't even finish it. I finish a book I don't care for but this book didn't even feel worth finishing.

I just finished The Red Book. Honestly, I think that if I read this story a few years ago, I would be a different person today.

I am looking for my next book. I don't think I want another introspective look into my own faults. However, I don't want to read fluff.

I am asking because I have only really gotten into reading every day as of late.

>>1588162
Picture a word. Everything is good, everyone is happy.
Now picture ONE MILLION of them.
You're getting scared, I know.
But wait... these million words... they say practically NOTHING.
>Here reader, take this protagonist, and observe as she does NOTHING in response to what is happening to her.

I've heard that it was actually supposed to be a sort of instruction manual on how to write letters, but oh god oh god oh god tedious. If you get through a quarter of it I'll be impressed.

American Psycho.

Still my favorite novel.
It changed my life and the way I look at people.

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>>1588197
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>>1588180
What exactly was the red book about?
Was it just rambling or was their a cohesive structure to it?

>>1588213
I lol'd.

>>1588790
he text, sometimes captivating, sometimes tedious, echoes the multitude of voices from sacred and secular literature that influenced Jung: Old Testament, New Testament, many eastern religious classics, Dante, Goethe, Nietzsche, Pascal, Swedenborg – to name just a few.
Flipping back and forth between the original German, the art, the English text and those annotations I found myself disoriented and exhausted.
Although the “Red Book” is clearly the record of a spiritual crisis and the author’s repeated attempts to wrest meaning from it, much of its content seems to be more raw than integrated. Throughout, it seems that Jung tinkered with his story – insisting on the veracity of his time frame but, in fact, often collapsing time and creating composites, issues that are live controversies among writers of memoir today.

>>1588822
It was written in 1957 – four years before he died — at a time he still felt it prudent to keep the object under wrap:

“Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me liker an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, the scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything, was then.”

>>1588837
>The text
Buh!

>>1588790
In his comprehensive and valiant attempt at summarizing the contents and contextualizing Jung, Shamdasani argues that there can be few unpublished works that have ever exerted such influence on social and intellectual history. Jung, he writes, “played a central role in modern psychology, psychotherapy and psychiatry and a large international profession of analytical psychologists work under his name. His work has had its widest impact, however, outside professional circles.”

Herman Hesse was briefly one of his analysands and his “Steppenwolf” and “Magister Ludi” owe much to Jung, as do Doris Lessing’s novels, Federico Fellini’s films and Joseph Campbell’s research on comparative mythology and religions. Laurens Van der Post thought Jung was the only human being he had ever met “of whose greatness” he was certain, and wrote the memoir “Jung and the Story of our Time,” to show why.

C.G. Jung was born in 1875, the son of a poor, small-town pastor of the Swiss Reformed Church who ended every family dinner with a reading from Luther’s Bible. His parents’ marriage was an unhappy one and Carl grew up a solitary child with a much younger sister, given to ruminating about both his day and night dreams as well as his frequent visual hallucinations.

His mother and much of the maternal (Preiswerk) side of the family were as interested in parapsychology as his father was in the Protestant Church and their precognitive dreams, crystal gazing, trance states and séances were part of daily conversation. Jung also grew up frightened of Catholic priests and by 12, had lost faith in his father’s brand of religion.