/lit/ - Literature

L:4
P:3
A:18
S:student and office worker

Rendezvous with Rama
It's awe inspiringly huge.

Ender's Game

clockw-

fo rizzle OP, my nigga

>>3947345
>tago mago
mah nigga

I'm cranking through the 1961 version and I'm so hurrdurr right now. I can't stop because it's so pretty, but I only catch half the story. I've never had to use a dictionary for a book before, I don't speak five different languages, and I don't know the layout of Dublin. WTF Joyce? Why do I like it? why cant I stop?

fresh oc coming through

>>3935874
ha

>>3928233
when you have an excellent vocabulary, a giant dictionary, a babelfish, and a love of opera.

I only wish I had time for one more bowl of chilli

>>3924613
when you listen to the symphonic opera
then watch 2001 you twat

>>3923256
screenplay was written before the film by Krubrick and clarke

>>3925419
that reading is what got me into ender's game

>>3925697
>tfw the database has every translation of a book except the most acclaimed one
Every copy of Kafka my library has is complete shit.

>tfw giant stack of books checked out
>tfw I started reading Ulysses and I can't take the time for anything else.
I'm in episode six; I like it but, help.

>>3917462
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can you expand on that?

For me, it's the Placebo Effect vs G-d

If prayer can actually heal people through the power of the Placebo Effect, then can the Placebo Effect be the tool through which G-d works? Can the things that people use to prove G-d doesn't exist be outright rejected because according to creation he made the rules and everything in the universe. So maybe miracles are just improbable but scientifically sound events caused by...?

Ugh, I want to believe so bad. Everytime I say yes to G-d I feel empty and alone, but to reject it makes me feel like I'm making a huge mistake.

So I stay here on top of this fense, with gusts of wind coming from both directions. The air tears my scalp and places lice in my skull. My mind aches and my heart longs for the truth. I itch for clarity.

>>3908504
There are a few possibilities.
One is that Slartibartfast did it, but he would have had to do so single handedly, so not very likely.
Another is that Guide MK:II did it.
Another is that the space time continuum was beginning to crack, so it might just be improbable anomalies happening because of the heart of gold and MK:II.
>>3908498

So I just finished Mostly Harmless, and it was wonderful.
The ending was a little abrupt and sad, but it made "sense" (in a Douglas Adams sort of way) so I'm okay with it.
I feel so bad for Arthur, he finally found a happy place and Trillian just dumps her test tube baby (made with Arthur's donated semen unbeknownst to him) on his lap. Random, his daughter, proceeds to just fuck everything up by opening the Guide MK:II, a pandimentional object that goes back in time to make people's requests come true.
Any more novels with dimentionality all over the place that will make my head spin?
I also like Flatland if that helps.

Ayways... I think it's my fav in the series.
Ford's escape and re-entry into the Headquarters were hilarious. The King stuff was hilarious.
Marvin's death was so marvin it hurt.

For those that read it, whad'ja think?

bump, I'm interested

>LAST THREE
Cyrano De Bergerac
THe Fifty Year Sword
So long and thanks for all the fish
>CURRENTLY READING
Mostly Harmless and Ulysses
>NEXT THREE
Old Man And The Sea
Animal Farm
Lolita

>>3904202
w-wr-rong a-author

and OP, I started with his short story Hills Like White Elephants. It was a great intro for me

>>3904202
b-but

hi, dad

I'm gettin the paperwhite kindle