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Mel Mudkiper posted:i don't care about any of those boring looking books op Ballad of Reading Gaol is decent.
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Reading Gaol sounds like a name for this subforum.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:i don't care about any of those boring looking books op I'm surprised you don't like Carson McCullers.
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vyelkin posted:Reading Gaol sounds like a name for this subforum. reading gaol: quit being a loving child
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vyelkin posted:Reading Gaol sounds like a name for this subforum. reading gay-ol
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chernobyl kinsman posted:reading gay-ol It's pronounced jail.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:It's pronounced jail. As the flinstones said, we'll have a gaol time. The be sent to Reading Gay (h)Old for homosexual practices.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:It's pronounced jail. wrong
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smh I bet y'all have been pronouncing kafka wrong all this time too
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jagstag posted:smh I bet y'all have been pronouncing kafka wrong all this time too His books were very kafkaesque. Which is something that wouldn't be lost on him.
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100 pages in to "ulysses" and it owns and i hope i actually finish it this time also i bought nabokov's lectures because of this thread and i read "dr jekyll and mr hyde" before reading the lecture but then i ended up skipping over most of it because it was mostly quotes from the book i'd just read but hey at least it finally got me to read it
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The typical accusation against science fiction, no matter how revealed the characters are, is that it's more about the idea than it is about the people. What "genre" of writing would it be where there's a similar focus on ideas, but without the actual science fiction element to it. I'm forced to think of dystopias. There may be unrealistic elements to it in the sense they're not set in our world, but the technology and setting is all believable. I can only think of dystopias because any examination of a large social idea, as it would need to be, inevitably ends in dystopian circumstances.
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John dos passos is all about writing social fictions rather than individual fictions though, and he's p good. I think you could argue writing 'about the people' is itself about expressing a certain idea. But I get what you mean, that it's in practice usually a crude piece of speculation on one idea, usually a scientific one, rather than a system of connected ones developed from different arenas.
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Socialist realism.
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I wanna read a lot about philosophy or maybe about literature itself, what's good
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Farg posted:I wanna read a lot about philosophy or maybe about literature itself, what's good what kind of philosophy in particular le mythe de sisyphe chuangtzu's inner chapters
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Yeah, it's published by Penguin. There's also a censored and shortened public-domain one that should not be in print but is everywhere; avoid it at all costs. A human heart posted:It's pretty good and its really easy to read despite being very long 
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Tree Goat posted:what kind of philosophy in particular Lol @ wade-giles romanisation
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CestMoi posted:Lol @ wade-giles romanisation lo mitzu sisifi
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Tree Goat posted:chuangtzu's inner chapters drat when you go back to the 19th century warn them about the world wars
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CestMoi posted:Lol @ wade-giles romanisation
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my edition is from 1974 : (
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Farg posted:I wanna read a lot about philosophy or maybe about literature itself, what's good Little known gent known as Plato!!!
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Farg posted:I wanna read a lot about philosophy or maybe about literature itself, what's good borges essays
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in terms of philosophy it really depends whethery ou want a kind of intro to whats been going on for the past 3000 years or just to read something good thqat makes you think. either waty just read the crowley translation of the dao de jing
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J_RBG posted:Little known gent known as Plato!!! plato is legit good. start with the apology and symposium, and then just pick whatever. phaedrus is pretty good, and has that part about writing and memory that every media studies prof. loves so much
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Read Aristotle if you want the good poo poo, Plato is for posers
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Read them both and then get into long arguments with yourself about it.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Read Aristotle if you want the good poo poo, Plato is for posers I mean Plato is just really readable for philosophy, even in translation
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Thanks, Hieronymous.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Thanks, Hieronymous.
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if i didnt have this thread to shitpost in id have to shitpost in literally every other thread on this subforum, which is definitely not what i just do anyway
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Thanks, Hieronymous. that was a strange derail
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read augustine
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Tree Goat posted:read augustine Yeah for real. I've been thinking about City of God a lot lately. And he's not the patron Saint of partying for nothing
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i've been reading dead souls and am finding it Very Agreeable
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Read Aristotle if you want the good poo poo, Plato is for posers You should be demodded for this post. I've read Albertine Sarrazines La Cavale (In this years new translation into german). Wow, what a book! Being caught in the french prison system never seemed funnier. An autobiographical masterpiece from the unique perspective of a female prison inmate, something which hitherto has not been repeated except for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure 6: Stone Ocean.
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packsmack posted:It's funny that you mention that about Gravity's Rainbow. I'm listening to that now and I was starting to wonder if I was just dumb. There's something about the constant perspective shifts that is making it hard to follow. I'm really digging the language though and some of the ideas are really cool. It's definitely one where I'll have to reread at some point. Hopefully when I have more time to actually read instead of having to listen to my books. My advice for Gravity's Rainbow is to take acid and then read as much of it as you can during the comedown, you'll know you're ready when the cover stops looking like an animated gold Hearthstone card Have you tried The Crying of Lot 49? It's much more linear and focused on the protagonist, but still has Pynchon's general attitude toward questionable reality. It also helps that it's about a fifth as long as Gravity's Rainbow (I got stuck about 2/3rds into GR for about three months and spent a lot of time feeling vaguely guilty about it, so having actually finished one of his books might have relieved that pressure a bit)
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