/lit/ - Literature

>>2947209
I've heard paradise argued as better. Never personally read any of the three.

Plath, Keats, Yeats, W. Blake, Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, EE Cummings, R. Frost, Dickinson, Poe

>>2265504
A Song of Ice and Fire really would fit this. It's not a bad series. I unfortunately stopped reading somewhere in the 3rd book and never picked it up again (why I have no clue, it was good...) but what I read was certainly better than the rehash stuff youre talking about.

I think 4chan ate my fucking post.

Here were my suggestions

Books (all short)

Animal Farm
The Old Man and the Sea
The Great Gatsby

Short Stories

A Rose For Emily
Araby
The Chrysanthemums
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Lottery
The Secret Miracle
Up In Michigan

>>2265478
Also, you say what "books" to read and you talk about previously mainly reading novels. Are you open to short stories? How about poetry?

Are you reading for pleasure?
Are you reading to culture yourself?

Would you still like to read fantasy? Do you have any experience, perhaps just school reading, in other genres?

>>2265473
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_fantasy

>>2265418
Some books just aren't really out there, but that's slowly changing.

Anyways, Id encourage you to go to your local library.

COME WATCH GAME OF THRONES WITH US!

>>1692306
Don't care much for the Ginsberg I've read, but I can respect his thing. Rand on the other hand...

I've never read Rand

inafterandb4 everyone posts the same few poems that everyone reads in undergraduate English courses.

>>1663831
If manga counts then Vagabond.

I also love Berserk.

>>1662436
I think so too.

Lol. Low anti social but high avoidant. Interesting.

I don't really have a favorite author. I guess I like Hemingway, but not as much as I used to I don't think.

>>1651849
Anyone who simply says Nietzsche was a nihilist and doesn't go in depth on his specific beliefs, which were much more life affirming than your run of the mill nihilist, isn't worth considering in this sphere of philosophy.

>>1651928
>>1651938
I feel as if you guys don't spend much time on /sci/. It's mostly just people philosophy and religion trolling along with tons of popsci shit. There are some math and physics majors there, along with the occasional chem or bio major, who know their stuff but it really is mostly no better than any other board.

As has been pointed out, Camus claimed it was the 'issue' of suicide. I think whether we ought to live our lives is probably the greatest question for us as well, but you very well may have to establish other things in order to establish that life is worth continuing. So it is not necessarily the first question to answer, and it's potential dependence on other questions might mean that it is not the most essential question. Despite this, I still say it is de facto the (most) essential question.

Read. Then read again. Then again. Now contemplate. Now read several more times. Contemplate again. Understand yet? No? Read several more times. Contemplate again? Still don't get it? Ask for help or repeat the first two steps. Once you do understand, move on.

Honestly I don't understand how this could be hard, but everyones different. Good luck, OP.

The Great Gatsby deals with the American dream, but I can't remember specific symbols used. Sorry.

>>1647239
Not a comedian in any professional sense.

As far as confidence on stage goes, it just takes time. I know that's probably not what you want to hear, but I truly feel it's an issue of practice.

Hey OP, I don't have much concrete advice to give accept that for me, comedy is largely spontaneous. I can't sit down and just think of funny things. It's the movement and passage of experiences that leads to hilarious happenings. I also think stand up is best formed in this more natural way, as it is essentially just conversation.

Always remember that laughter is our response to the absurd. Good luck.

Not directly, no. I suppose 1984 might fall most into this category as I read it when I was relatively young, but in general the answer is still no.

I get most of my 'profound' moments from just sitting and thinking and/or having a question posed to me.

>>1645414
Bumping the thread with a comment that is just as unoriginal and unhelpful as the thread is pointless.

Can't say if it ever was, but I can say it hasn't been good for awhile now.