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Anonymous Fri Aug 1 03:50:04 2014 No.5222846 [DELETED]

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Whatcha reading, /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 03:52:40 2014 No.5222860 File: 61 KB, 500x500, eb2562314f.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 03:53:33 2014 No.5222866 File: 9 KB, 204x248, 15239754.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5222846 farewell to arms.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 03:53:48 2014 No.5222868 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep pleb I know. Thought it was time to get away from /lit/core and start having some fun with sci-fi

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 03:55:59 2014 No.5222882 >>5222868 how is it pleb when the book was recommended in starter kit.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 03:57:57 2014 No.5222887 File: 16 KB, 258x387, Johnny_Got_His_Gun_poster.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Dracula. For a book that's so old it's surprisingly easy to read. Johnny Got His Gun is next, it sounds nightmare fuel so I'm looking forward to it.

Anonymous Fri Aug 1 03:59:34 2014 No.5222897
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Not really enjoying it. It's written in that affected, pathos-ridden style that people who imitate romantic prose fall in to. Without the actual beauty of romantic prose.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 04:02:33 2014 No.5222910 >>5222882 You'll find that a fair amount of /lit/ levels accusations of "pleb" at anything in the starter kit. This is silly as it conflates "plebtier" with "entry level". Shit like ASoIaF is pleb. 1984, however "entry level" it is, isn't.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 04:08:14 2014 No.5222933 >>5222910 Yeah, no. 1984 is shit.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 04:11:17 2014 No.5222945 >>5222933 But if you put ASoIaF and 1984 in the same category, you're doing it all wrong.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 04:19:34 2014 No.5222969 File: 15 KB, 264x400, tumblr_le3de5Qxcf1qzb1rlo1_400.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5222868 That's not pleb, that's sci-fi canon. Currently reading pic related. Feels on every page that I don't know what to do with.

>>	Charles Bukkake !!dbC6x/DQFYo Fri Aug 1 04:20:55 2014 No.5222974 File: 179 KB, 800x948, BB0235_2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Reading this for the third time

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 04:24:50 2014 No.5222990 File: 42 KB, 280x400, 1040634.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5222846 The Egyptian is a great book, OP. Funnily enough, I am currently reading this.

OP Fri Aug 1 04:32:34 2014 No.5223018

>>5222990
Do you think most of its descriptions are accurate? Sometimes I have the feeling that the author describes things that wasn't really around back then in order to draw attention to the never changing nature of the human society. ("Stocks" in clay tablets for example.)

Anonymous Fri Aug 1 04:32:38 2014 No.5223020

Harry Potter and Methods of Rationality

I REALLY like the idea of the fanfic, but it's just awful how the story continuously becomes more of a trip to Harry's mind instead of a trip to reveal the secrets of magic. + the language is just "Oh look at these nice words i found in dictionary, look at 'em"

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 04:43:36 2014 No.5223051 File: 9 KB, 128x190, books.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. Currently on chapter 16

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 04:47:19 2014 No.5223062 >>5223018 Most. Waltari did an incredible amount of research before and during writing it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 04:56:55 2014 No.5223089 File: 35 KB, 295x457, Europe_the_Struggle_for_Supremacy_cover_295.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Almost finished this...Pretty god damn good

Anonymous Fri Aug 1 06:54:49 2014 No.5223307

No Longer Human

>>5223018
>Although Waltari employed some poetic license in combining the biographies of Sinuhe and Akhenaten, he was otherwise much concerned about the historical accuracy of his detailed description of ancient Egyptian life and carried out considerable research into the subject. The result has been praised not only by readers but also by Egyptologists.

OP, its my favourite book and I talked about it on /lit/ few times. How did you learned about it?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 06:59:03 2014 No.5223316 >>5222846 I ordered Meditations,Enchirdion and Epictetus' discourses. Is this good for a first time pleb wanting to learn about stoicism and apply it to his daily life?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 07:00:05 2014 No.5223323 File: 36 KB, 350x600, meditations.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5223316 forgot pic

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 07:20:30 2014 No.5223362 >>5223323 Yeah, but reading your post, it struck me that the word "ordered" sounds like the most unstoic word ever.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 07:38:14 2014 No.5223390 File: 640 KB, 344x229, 555.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Dune >mfw BOOK TWO Muad'dib

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 07:41:16 2014 No.5223394 Oblomov. Basically a book about me.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 07:53:34 2014 No.5223416 File: 46 KB, 340x453, szinuhe--3689267.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5223307 I don't really know where I got the idea to buy it. But I'm really liking it so far. Them feels in Crete...

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 07:59:26 2014 No.5223421 >>5223416 That pic is hot, would fap to

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 08:00:43 2014 No.5223425 File: 89 KB, 702x800, 1345571001602.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5223416 There are gonna be even heavier feels, be prepared. Also liked how Waltari incorporated some mythology into reality in Crete. That was neat.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 08:09:46 2014 No.5223439 >>5223425 Yeah, it's like a totally legit interpretation of where the myth originated.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 08:10:47 2014 No.5223444 File: 935 KB, 1520x2688, eac23975-0481-4b01-8f11-6e494cced.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm about to read pic related Am I in for a wild ride?

Anonymous Fri Aug 1 08:12:44 2014 No.5223448
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>>5223316

Yes.

I'd suggest reading them in the order of Meditations>Discourses. Enchiridion is like cliff notes version of Discourses and good for revisiting the ideas in for concise form. Even though Epictetus influenced Aurelius heavily I suggest that order, but if you've read a lot of philosophy and enjoy a more "technical/logical" approach, starting with him makes sense too. I just feel that Meditations is generally a better book when it comes to the more human, self-improvement side of Stoicism.

Also to the topic itself, pic related. Enjoying it way more than I thought I would, was expecting it to be more uneven in quality.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 08:19:59 2014 No.5223467 >>5223444 It's okay. Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 08:21:58 2014 No.5223474 >>5223467 is his second book better?

Anonymous Fri Aug 1 08:24:40 2014 No.5223484

>>5223474

Bear in mind that he himself did not have a second book. His students pieced together pieces of his writings and published them. Some were literally taken from his wastebasket. So clearly, some people care enough about his thoughts to dig through his trash to find them. Others get the impression that this was taken from somebody's trash.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 08:25:00 2014 No.5223486 >>5223394 it's about us all

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 08:26:00 2014 No.5223489 >>5223484 fair enough, I'll have to read it and find out

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>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 12:54:10 2014 No.5224360 Tintin and some other franco-belgian comics. Novels a shit.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 12:58:11 2014 No.5224378 >>5223444 It's a peek into the mind of a 20th century autist.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 13:01:50 2014 No.5224391 File: 51 KB, 640x426, metzinger.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5223597 Attaboy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 19:01:51 2014 No.5225898 File: 6 KB, 179x282, url.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Ive never connected with a character as much as i have with this man

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>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 06:34:27 2014 No.5228662 File: 29 KB, 388x584, Brief_Interviews_with_Hideous_Men_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Some stories are good but holly fuck others, sleepy's

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 06:37:21 2014 No.5228676 >>5225898 That's junior high for you. It'll pass.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 06:59:35 2014 No.5228713 File: 177 KB, 510x680, {75D15F44-93BB-48B9-A8B0-AE74CF0D2978}Img100.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] even better than the trial so far

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 07:36:46 2014 No.5228825 File: 33 KB, 263x414, PICT5289.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 07:43:29 2014 No.5228846 File: 33 KB, 260x412, 4580.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I think it's because I have an ss fetish.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 07:45:15 2014 No.5228852 >>5222887 JGHG is a great book, However it is not nightmare fuel

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 13:53:11 2014 No.5230179 >>5228676 I only started reading a lot at the beginning of my spring semester.

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Anonymous Sat Aug 2 14:06:11 2014 No.5230246
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He really destroys Heidegger. Like, if I were Heidegger and I read this, I would seppeku pronto.

The section "Copula" in particular. DAMN. Eviscerated. . . Guts drying in the sun, eaten by Lammergiers. Haven't seen any thinker so destroyed since Marx decimated Ricardo in Grundrisse.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 14:08:52 2014 No.5230263 Meditations. so far just vague Be Good crap

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 14:10:29 2014 No.5230277 File: 125 KB, 327x500, Inherent_vice_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] wow it's really like i'm reading Big Lebowski

RIcky Sat Aug 2 14:19:49 2014 No.5230319

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

Taking me 5 days instead of 2 because I'm lazy.

Very good book, though.
Prose is good without being amazing, but the characters are fantastic.
Carson McCullers had far more insight into the nature of people at age 23 or so than I do at 32.

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