/lit/ - Literature

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>>18417327
is the coiled serpent worth the read?

>>18417327
I like this format.

>>18418740
Absolutely, yes.

>>18417327
How do you fuck up this badly with the first post?
Thread = >>>/trash/

>>18417327

>>18418837
>>18418881
What's your problem lol

>>18417327
Reditt

>>18418045
This is pretty accurate

>>18418686
based schizo
>thisisnotajokepleasehelpme.jpg
take meds

This thread is missing

>Caesar
>War
>Corn

>>18417327

>>18417327
I'm reading what's this book is about and sounds like complete mumbo jumbo, fuck this.

>>18421844
Would you recommend it?

>>18417327
>what I expected
>bad
>what i get
>good
here we go again

>>18417327
Phonefag here working with inferior software and made this memé on the John so forgive me padre. Wanted to put stats in the center.

>>18421331
Don Quixote, besides being a solid book, is important because of it what it did to literature. I remember almost losing my shit in college because a professor dismissed it as dead white dude writing.

>>18424406
I only heard about the content of the book in passing an saw two or three maps and graphs.

Care to clarify the 'what I got' part?

>>18421844
first 5 pages, sure.

t otherfag

>>18424435
>dismissing Cervantes
what was he a professor of, physical education?

>>18424583
If you only knew how bad things really are.

>>18418686

>>18423036
Certainly! It can get repetitive at times but it's an amazing book. I've never felt so close to an author.

>>18418686
Books for this feel?

>>18423290
You don't have to click on these threads, peasant

>>18424435
> what it did to literature
what is that exactly?

>>18424693
Long and short of it is making the novel a respected format

>>18424520
700 pages of verbose civic nationalist pathos appeals to soothe the brown Femoid butthurt
I get to the afterword and it says, "we wrote this book to be as moderate as possible. You wouldn't want to distance yourself from blacks and women would you? Of course not! So why is that law even necessary?"
Heh
Right....

>>18424435
>>18421331
Amazing that I still know nothing about Don Quijote but "Bro...I mean bro.. just read it bro I can't explain it bro"

Amazing that Literature majors can't tell me a few words about a giant tome of words.

>>18427658
No one owes you shit. Read it or don't sperg

>>18427022
>Reads a book called "The Bell Curve"
>Book contains bell curves

How about that...

>>18427662
>"Brooooooo"

Just made this, the novel is great. Too bad it is left unfinished

>>18427676
Cringe

>>18427677
You didn't find that book frustrating?

>>18427703
Not at all, it's pretty brief and the characters are gregarious enough (this being German Expressionism and all) to keep kicking it forward and keep it lively despite the theme of impotence. I did find Metamorphosis to be insufferable, however.

>>18424672
my diary desu

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>>18427691
Correct take

An upgrade, perhaps?

>>18427658
yeah its shit. one thousand pages of slapstick and toilet humour. don't waste your time.

>>18427707
keked, very true, and a very good novel

>>18427677
What a blast of a book. Like waking up after a datura trip and realizing you have no idea how you ended up in Eastern Europe.

To be fair, the book did have plenty of elements from your "What I Expected" as well

>>18427658
I really liked it because of how completely it managed to show its characters. Don Quixote is the butt of every joke for 1000 pages but he's still one of the most lovable people I've ever met, makes valid philosophical points w/r/t the highly constructed nature of society even if he does so accidentally, and has you rooting for him every step of the way. Sancho likewise is a fool but somehow manages to come across as the perfect kind of best friend. Side characters get in on it too, random people who are only around for a couple of chapters (or even one) get full backstories and relatable personalities. Also one thing I never see talked about regarding this book is that the ending is the most amazing possible ending for a novel of its type and will hit you in feels you didn't know that you had.

>>18427658

What >>18429851 said but the subtext of Alonzo Quixano possibly CHOOSING his insanity makes it even better and vaguely inspirational.

>>18417578

Thanks for giving the old coyote a bit of his own peyote

>>18424672
my diary to be quite desu with you fampai

>>18421394
His axiomatic method is why I love him so dearly

>>18430049
I love it when expectations are surpassed.

>>18427022
now read The Mismeasure of Man

>>18418200
elaborate, if this book is actually about medieval city layouts Ima read it next

>>18430049
>>18430306
idgi

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>>18430049
The easiest way to check if someone has read The Lord of the Rings is to show him a picture of Tom Bombadil.

>>18431682
Imagine an alternate universe where Peter Jackson's adaptation of "Fellowship" contained an hour-long Tom Bombadil segment just to troll audiences :D

>>18420773
Here you go

>>18418740
Absolutely not
It's the same trite bullshit repeated over and over, basically a 400 page long appeal to authority with no valid arguments

>>18431872
He repeats himself because he tackles the same problem from many different angles. He literally says in the first few pages that there will be some repetition and you can skip chapters. The structure of the book is intentional and allows the author to really drive his point home. It's what makes this book great.

>>18427658
I'd help you but I'm only on chapter 3 myself because I'm reading it in spanish

>>18433505
but it's literally what you expected

>>18427658
It’s almost like the manifesto of literature as a whole, it predates post-modernism by centuries yet it does post-modernism better than anyone else

>>18433505
You were expecting a book about the 1920s and instead you got a character-driven story? How are those mutually exclusive?

From that maker of

>>18417578

Fresh OC coming through

>>18433505
The reality of the book is what you expected plus what you got.

>>18424672
My diary desu

>>18435775
fucking weeb faggot

anyone has this picture read/expected/got with the illiad and world of warcraft?

>>18424672
probably my diary desu

>>18430022
Good book

>>18435775
no one cares you made the other thing, wtf are you doing

>>18430678
an example he gives involves city building. its been a while but he talks about philosophy before him is basically a city without an architect, everything is sprawling and random and chaotic. he began his thinking from the first philosophy (I think therefore I am) and built the city from that, proving everything from there and trusting no one elses thoughts. having one central planner ends up with a better designed city than everyone fighting for what they want.
naturally he describes it much better than I do and you should read it yourself

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>>18417327
Definitely a good read.

>>18427658
A wealthy middling land owner decides to go insane and become a romantic knight, solving crimes and saving princesses across spain. He manifests fantasy into reality with his strong, ironic will. He travels with his trusty, sober sidekick Sancho Panza.

>>18417578
lol'd good at the first one

>>18429877
dude i'm reading it right now and all i can say is hell yeah that's fucking rad

>>18439284
Same but switch out the expected and got

>>18435775
bro fuck the other guys you're 2/2 on my count

>>18417327
Best book I've read in ages, but make sure you get the Graves translation. He does an exceptional job.

>>18427658
It accomplished what all modernists were trying to do 4 centuries before. And for the one's talking about a 'pomo' feel on it, the answer it's actually very obvious, it's because of the Baroque, just think of the paintings of Velazquez.

love these threads

>>18442376

Thanks, I'll dig out some others, just for you.

>>18442564
I recognize that band.

does anyone have one of these for the lord of the rings, the silmarillion, or any other tolkien stuff

>>18442862
Holy fuckin kek you can really read a face, Anon. The fact that you have those exact faces saved ready on command is baffling to me who is always on a rush when lurking here. I'm amazed at the long exposure tenacity on this site. No where else is this much effort placed on exacting long thought of aesthetics

>>18435775
Fuck don't remind me about the dog

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>>18442373
Same but put both pics in both panels and throw in some fish

>>18418771
I lost

Was reading on the train yesterday and some guy doubled over to check the cover and took a picture of it

>>18440239
Fine, I'll read Hesiod

>>18419326
I enjoyed Magus doe

>>18443306
did i just read a spoiler for a 3 thousand year old book ?

>>18430341
A strawman written by a jew.

>>18419038
Made me laigh, great one.

>>18446347
you had three thousand years to read it bro

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>>18418045
Kek

>>18435775
I don't get the ghosts and ghouls thing, explain?

>>18418771
If you are still looking, the book you want is pic

>>18424435
I love when professors do shit like that.

It just radicalizes white people.

It's not worth it.

>>18447467
What you got is better than what you expected

I expected a book that deals with the hermetic appliance of Deleuze to be much more unreadable.
Instead I'm actually gaining some valuable insight and view points that actually make sense with material I still struggle with.

>>18447370
man, this takes me back the begining of the 10's was so much more hopeful than how it ended

>>18424435
sounds like a shitty prof

>>18447563
>the begining of the 10's was so much more hopeful
lole

>>18442879
kek

>>18426600
I am currently working at my father's accounting firm. Is this going to help me cope with the drudgery of being a paper pusher?

>>18442879
This is true kek

>>18447045
Tru

>>18426600
kek
>>18448056
sort of not really
i'm a midwit tho
my best takeaway from it was the distinction between his "true" nihilism and the faux hip nihilism, which helped whip me into shape

>>18430049
This. It's that one annoying idiosyncrasy in the book that later defines your whole experience of it.

>>18448393
P.S. Fuck Tolkien and fuck that character.

>>18419326
The latest addition to my to-read list

>>18445120
Works and Days is something Hesiod wrote to try to change his brother's character. His brother was supposedly a lazy shit and Hesiod talks to his brother Perses in the book a lot.

>>18447528
That's pretty good. I enjoyed the story time though.

>>18424435
I’m sorry your Professor was Jewish :(

>>18447349

That game is notorious for making you play through the entire thing twice. It's referencing Odysseus continuously getting blown out of his way by Poseidon.

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>>18448481
Weak.

>>18447370
Mystery was the weakest next to that bal Kike Strauss.
Tyler Durden and Gambler were the only ones with anything interesting to say.

>>18447045
kek at the religion one

Great book tho.

>>18418771
I LOST THE GAME

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>>18443654
Kill yourselves, anime niggers.

>>18452722
this

>>18435248
accurate

>>18439604
christ what a wanker

>>18452722
BASED

>>18450392
Ordered a copy of this recently. How is it? It looks good. Apparently Powys was brought on as a witness to defend Ulysses in court.

>>18418679
>Barseghian
>slavic

>>18447045

>>18427799
there is no humor in this meme, try again.

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>>18418200
Interesting. If anything I’d replace the maps with an anatomy diagram.

>>18427707
It was both tho

>>18427753
Kek, accurate. Great book.

>>18449450
Oh yea, I thought it was pretty interesting as well.

>>18452722

Can you imagine being unable to find meaning and appreciate the artistic value of the few gems in any (admittedly lesser in general) medium because of misplaced elitism? What a burden being narrow-minded must be.

>>18447467
Then why is what you got so fucking rad

>>18450392
Sigh, another one of these that makes want to read the book immediately despite knowing I never really will. You paint a compelling picture of what the book has to offer though.

>>18447528
Story time was the good bit though.

>>18442862

I mean... it's pretty accurate

>>18418771
This was the whole point of the book, is that the author and all his friends are shallow, pathetic people with issues stemming from child trauma, and that their lifestyle is only making them more sociopathic and depressed. It starts with Mystery on the verge of suicide, remember?

>>18424435
>dead white dude writing.
do americans really...?

>>18418280
i didnt like it, prefer crime&punishment

>>18417327
GREAT BOOK! Anymore like this one?

>>18459695
If that's what you expected you have a very low IQ.

>>18459745
It's a joke you fucking retard.

>>18459745
It's a fucking joke you dumb piece of worthless scum shit

>>18452722
Based
>>18455220
clown

>>18459745
Humans have this thing called 'humour.'

>>18418045
Lmao

>>18459879
>>18459961
>>18460770
>only pretending to be retarded

>>18460770
Don’t defend him

>>18441542
This could be used for almost all of Schoppy's books

>>18435775
Based boatCHAD

>>18427022
the bell curve was good read , short and sweet

>>18442862
fuckign kek, this is true

>>18452722
Yeah that's gonna be a based from me hoss.

>>18459363
Most of the books he quotes are also worth a read, Solovyov's Justification of the Good is great for example.

>>18461337
Yes I first thought this was Wille und Vorstellung which I'm reading right now lol

>>18447045
my sides

>>18453590
I loved it, I've ordered more of his books.

>>18418200
Pseud

>>18429760
Nigger

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>>18438311
Thx for the proper laugh anons

>>18447045
The truth hurts

>>18463615
Man I forgot all about his elegant defense of squatting over a hole in the ground. Thanks for this memory.

>>18447528
Its a recurring pattern with his books, but a well executed and good pattern

>>18431872
Vril-deficient hands typed this post

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>>18424672
my diary desu

>>18447045
nigger

>>18463615
Top kek and based

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>>18419326
I have seen this place in my dreams

>>18442879
holy kek

>>18452722
Seconded, this is an anti-anime board.

>>18464465
It is called the Drepung Monastery

>>18419326
My favourite book - and you're a pleb.

>>18464030
Is it good ?

>>18456979
kek

>>18418881
Sounds about right

>>18424671
You're supposed to read one passage a day, ie one passage before bed

>>18452722
sorry, bruv, but this is an anime site
don't like it, get out

>>18464264
Love this book

>>18442862
filtered

rich but no gf wtf

>>18468337
another. this book was funny but jesus christ

>>18468337
4 4 1 deal, nice

>>18467693
Longer than it needed to be but still pretty good

>>18457352
lol

>>18467705
underrated

>>18430341

Gould is a hack

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/science/14skull.html

>>18468337
Who the fuck in their right mind would ever read Rand?

This is fun - and you should all read Steppenwolf.

>>18439604
>having one central planner ends up with a better designed city than everyone fighting for what they want.
No, fuck that

>>18442879
Lmao

>>18449698
Lol accurate

>>18424435
Cervantes wasn’t even white. This is ridiculous.

TISAIF and The Waning of Humaneness is the same book by different people cmm

>>18472863
it was on my tbr, should I read it next?

>>18452722
based

>>18447045
TODAY I WILL REMIND THEM

>>18472895
>Gadafi's fangirl/wife
Oh god, it's amazing people like this exist somewhere. Truth is much more strange than fiction.

No Joyce?

>>18472987
That's a man

>>18418881
best post

>>18472895
I feel like there are more Tripfriends on other boards

>>18417327
amazing book

>>18428442
>being this shallow
stop reading, you're wasting your time

>>18452722
What book will give me this feel?

>>18467117
these assholes need to stop summoning us there while we sleep. It freaks me out.

>>18424672
haha write what other people wrote xD just like those epic youtube comments!
my diary!

>>18431870
kek

>>18452722
based. fuck tranime

>>18417578
This is so true.

>>18461173
you just won 4chan anon!

>>18457352
>autism

10/10