Jow Forums literature club
Jow Forums literature club
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No good updates
Been reading "Ghosts" from the Enchanted World series and "Wizard's first rule" but haven't completed any books
I just brought Ovid's the Metamorphosis, and I am on the flood. I think these threads suffer because they rely on recent updates rather then conversation, I propose we have a question asked each thread to start a conversation. Who is your favourite poet and why?
>Who is your favourite poet and why?
Blake probably. I love his brutally straightforward, minimalistic writing style and how it belies the moral/spiritual ambiguity of his philisophy.
Poetry is faggotry.
Same, the guy was well ahead of his time. I love how experimental he is, and his unique handling of Romanticism. There is a sense of madness in his poems, but that is what really makes them special and powerful sometimes.
Baudelaire would beg to differ.
>sometimes
well most of his work is special and powerful
Poetry and short stories are unironically the only forms of English literature worth reading.
That is quite a bold stateent
I'd agree, much of his work exudes a vibe of apocalyptic, otherworldly madness akin to that of an Old Testament prophet. I mean, nlmotherfucker basically predicted the birth of Jow Forums (pic related).
Currently reading "I Could Help Laughing", stories complied by Ogden Nash. Some leave you with a stupid grin on your face when you finish, others just make you go wtf
**I Couldn't Help Laughing
Probably too extreme, but it's just how I've personally come to feel over the years; it irritates me to no end how much the presence of filler universally tends to dominate the very art form of the novel.
His writing is almost like a disjointed version of the old testament from another world, it also seems that Jow Forums has been prophesied throughout history. I have his complete poems, but I have yet to go through all of them
Can I be VP?
War and Peace is good, but you are right. You have to remember that these novels were written for magazines, so to be fair, they had to include a lot of filler. But I like the detail that the form of the novel goes into, In Search of Lost Time is long but its complexity and uncanny correlation with personal experience makes it a masterpiece
bump :3
I just finished the Illaid
Shakespeare, the man has a way with words.
I'm about to embark on Nietzsche, what book do you suggest I start with?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil are definitely the highlights of Nietzsche.
Have you read Schopenhauer?
Yeah, some
Ive been too depressed to read
Might start with beyond good and evil
Just read "The Last Wish" collection of Witcher short stories, it's very dialogue heavy but I liked it.
Cool
Which translation?
Fagles, don’t look at me like that.
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Have you read the odyssey?
I’m about to start
I personally find it better made then the Iliad, in terms of things like themes and structure, I hope you enjoy it
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Hey, you, yeah you, have you read House of Leaves yet?
What a fun book OP got here but holy fucking shit this book phisically exhausted me... That accent and weird language with russian translation was pain in ass.
>reading FAGles instead of Pope
No cussing
The fishe
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Have you taken your soma yet Jow Forums?
IT LASTED A DAY! Bump
Read Marx
Reading this bad boy
How big is it?
Mika Waltari's The Secret of the Kingdom.
It's not a religious book although it's about the founding days of Christianity.
It is indeed incredibly vulgar and incredibly great at the same time.
He uses the word proletariat and bourgeois every five fucking lines
Anything by Foucault really. He'd have been a Jow Forumsposter for sure, probably a really slutty one who constantly shared his trap n00dz.
There are ftaires!
Possibly the most overrated, overdiscussed, overanalyzed philosopher of all time? At the very least, one of the top ten, somewhere ahead of Ayn Rand and behind Jesus Christ.
Ayn Rand’s only good book was Fountainhead
How interesting.
I'm just over 1/7 of the way into Gravity's Rainbow. So far it's really seemed overhyped, and I'm wondering if I should just stop.
>one of the top ten, somewhere ahead of Ayn Rand and behind Jesus Christ.
>Ayan Rand
>top 10
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHBAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHABHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHNAHHANHAHAHAHA DID YOU SERIOUSLY TAKE THAT STUPID FUCKING BITCH THAT LEACHED OFF OF THE GOVERNMENT SERIOUSLY? THAT RETARD, EXPANDING HUMAN ABILITY AND ALL THAT BULLSHIT? KILLING OFF THE POOR FOR YOUR SELFISH BULLSHIT? YOU PUT HER IN THE SAME SENTENCE AS JESUS CHRIST? TEEN RAND? REDDIT RAND? HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA
If you don’t want to read a book then don’t
I am sorry for my post, I just really don't like Ayn Rand
You shouldn’t apologize if you’re sincere
I had a nice conversation with the guy earlier in the thread, I don't want to be too rude.
bump before I sleep
bump again
The hero we don’t deserve
^-^
Is James Joyce any good?
I have read Dubliners, A portrait of the artist and like 60 pages of Ulysses. Yes, start with A Portrait of the Artist
is this thread supposed to die?
no
Right now im reading ride the tiger, but i have a few things to read after that like meditations and a few books on celtic mythos
Three days woo
Have a random ass game
fullyramblomatic.com
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The Odyssey is breddy good
Reading this because I wanted to read some south american shit but 2666 was too scary for my small brain. It's great, pretty much a compilation of really interesting character portraits and short stories. Though the bit I got to is starting to sag, the last few characters like the American science fiction writers have been fairly 2-D but I can tell it's picking up again. It's great.
After this, I'm moving onto Ulysses which I'm sure will take forever and beat the shit out of me
Yeats. The discipline of form and rhyme makes for much better poems if the writer is up for it. The themes he covers hit with me as he avoids sappy, sentimentalism or being obviously emotional and I think that makes for more beautiful poetry. He has a detached air to him but not at all unfeeling.
I like him because he's /comfy/
nice, seems interesting, I would like to give it a go one time. As for Ulysses, I think the best thing to do is to not beat yourself too hard about; there is a lot in the book and you cannot get all out of it in one reading. Take it all as it comes, try the best you can, and if you don't understand something take it as the experience and move on. Look at it both as a text to be analysed, and as a stream of consciousness that serves as a pure experience, but do not concern yourself too much with what is actually going on because that is beside the point. It is actually easy to read if you get in the right mindset.
Reading Watchmen now, it's pretty interesting so far.
Here's some books for anyone who wants to start reading about the history of space exploration
Here is a good book if you want fictional space exploration
I have been reading pilars of the earth. A friend recomended it. At first I though i wouldn't like it because it is not a genre i knew much about, but, so far, i quite like the story.