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/lit/,
What's your favorite book at the moment?

>> No.2292196
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Right now...... probably, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

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>>2292167
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>> No.2292219
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Honestly.

>> No.2292234

>>2292196
Jesus...

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The Iliad and/or Game of Thrones

>>2292219 why??? It's like a watered down version of the Iliad. You get culture instead of deep philosophy.

>> No.2292238

It's a tie between Lolita and The Sufferings of Young Werther.

>> No.2292239

>>2292235
>Ulysses
>It's like a watered down version of the Iliad.
>watered down version
>of the Iliad.
>Iliad.

>> No.2292243

That I'm reading right now?
The Gates by John Connolly.
I know it's children literature but I'm on my summer break here and felt like reading something that didn't requiere too much though. It turned out to be a great book, I've heard good things about the author and his more mature books.

Of all times?
Le cercle des menteurs by Jean-Claude Carrière
It's a compilation of different folk tales from around the world with analysis about how they connect with their history and between them. It made becoming a story teller be sort of an impossible dream since age 13.

Hungover, spellcheck for a different language underlining fucking everything. I'm sorry /lit/.

>> No.2292245

>>2292235
If "deep philosophy" is your metric, then the Homeric epics are not great works. I think they shine for other reasons, but if you are so enamored with "deep philosophy" then you ought to be reading some Dostoevsky etc.

>> No.2292248

>>2292235
Or, if you want "deep philosophy", just read philosophy.

>> No.2292254

>>2292239

My apologies, I've often heard of Odysseus translated as Ulysses so I thought this translation chose that name.

Everyone please ignore the second part of >>2292235

>> No.2292260

>>2292245

Really? To be honest I haven't read any philosophical works in full, I just did an incredibly long essay on the Iliad, over a period of 8 weeks and within that I believe I learned a huge deal about the purpose of our existence, whether life is worth living etc.

On the other hand I think the Odyssey is meh. It's good for those interested in culture but otherwise it does not seek to discover something, like the Iliad was created for a macho warrior prince demographic however it clearly had a far more sorrowful and tragic undertone reserved for the more intelligent.

>> No.2292273

What works of philosophy would people here recommend?

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>> No.2292720

I recently read White Noise- Don Delillo
It was pretty dope.

>> No.2292731

The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin

>> No.2292737

>>2292720
Holy shit, I finished it like two days ago.

I kinda liked it but I kinda didn't.

>> No.2292739

>>2292273
/lit/core: Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Russel, Wittgenstein.

Read Kant.

>>2292720
I'll be reading that next semester. Good to hear!

My favorite book remains Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe.

>> No.2292744

>>2292743

Which one?

>> No.2292743

>>2292167
Ada or Ardor

>> No.2292742

>>2292305
>Chuck Pancakenook

lol.

>> No.2292746

Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami

>> No.2292750

>>2292744
Lucette

>> No.2292768

good omens

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picture related. perspective changing. but you all hate kerouac.

>> No.2292790

>>2292739
Eh Kant and his moral imperative puts me off.

I don't know about you guys, though.

>> No.2292801

>>2292790

Critique of Judgment, bro.

>> No.2292815

the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay

but you all hate chabon

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Nothing has really come close since reading this last year.

>> No.2293272

>>2292772
Hell ya motherfucka

>>2292196
Meh.

>> No.2293286

>>2292790

I find the categorical imperative pretty fascinating, actually. Sure it has its flaws, but so does any ethical system that isn't total relativism. But I really like the notion that we're capable of determining what a moral act is with nothing except our own reason. And personally I just don't like consequential ethics.

>> No.2293291

My favorite book at this very moment is The Dispossessed by Ursula K LeGuin.

>> No.2293298

>>2292167

The adventure of the golden lake on the surfer mountains inside the cavern of the last temple

I wrote it yesterday, 10 page long. My favorite book so far.

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>>2292750

>> No.2293304

>>2292786
makes me want to go hiking and camping.

Also a good book for examining Kerouac's homophobia and homosexuality

>> No.2293464

>>2292786

Are we talking about that conservative faggot ?

>> No.2293638

>>2292746

Kill yourself

>> No.2293661

>>2293638
Ah, 4chan being as kind as always. I feel like home.