What's your favourite novel by the greatest living writer /lit/?
>>24763180Genuinely difficult for me to pick. I’ll shortlist it at Sputnik, South…West and Sheep Chase.
>>24763751As someone who didn’t enjoy hardboiled wonderland Im reading city and it’s uncertain walls at the moment and it’s made me want to go back and read it again. Ive liked what I read so far, feels like a second pass through a cycle a la Celtic myths or journey to the west as opposed to a sequel.
>>24763780Yeah it's definitely not a sequel. Which to me cheapens the angle on Hardboiled where the city was specific to him and feels like the eight-millionth time a Japanese writer has wanted to do a take on collective unconcious. I do feel it's bloated, and way too full of Murakami-isms I'm already kind of tired of, but I do think it's good in itself. If I could forget I read anything else by him I probably would have loved it.
>>24763261Gross.
>>24763180>by the greatest living writerHe's not, and I'm a Murakami fan.For me, he died just after he wrote Kafka on the Shore. Or maybe before he wrote Sputnik Sweetheart. No books ever came from him after that.
Steelman it for me. Why should I read it, why is it good, and why is it enlightening?
>>24764081That is demonstrably untrue; the logistics, transportation, and gastronomy are literally dependent on low-skilled foreign workers. That's their primary role, especially in a rapidly aging society like Germany.
>>24764116It is demonstrably true. Not all low-skilled workers are equal and MENA trash is a net negative.
>>24764116So, our decadent lifestyle is dependant on infinite jeet migration, would be the logical conclusion to make, then. Is it worth it is the question.
>>24762652>>24764086>sub 80 IQ monolingualswhat's life like knowing there are thousands ways to love and you'll experience none?
>>24764079>The entire world economy is based on population growth.And that's a retarded strategy.
looking to get into reading thinking of picking this up as my first book? thoughts?
I do not like green eggs and ham.
>>24763478Lots of good comments here. Just want to add that it's a good choice for a first book. Not too many words.
>>24764203What? The thread literally has zero replies right now, Are you hallucinating or something?
>>24763478It’s a good first book.
do you agree?
unreadablethe nazis themselves abandoned the usage of blackletter typefaces early in the war
>>24763891Its cool looking though, don't be a hater.
>>24763920wrong. form follows function. if it gets in the way, then that means it's SHIT
>>24763947ok but it's still cool looking
yes
>Grisham has described the book as "very autobiographical" in that the novel's "young attorney is basically me" and the drama is based on a case he witnessed. In 1984 Grisham witnessed the harrowing testimony of a 12-year-old rape victim at the DeSoto County courthouse in Hernando, Mississippi. Two sisters, Julie Scott, 16 years old, and Marcie Scott, 12 years old, had both been raped, brutally beaten, and nearly murdered by Willie James Harris. Unlike Grisham's depiction, however, the Scotts were white and their assailant was black.
>>24764666>Unlike Grisham's depiction, however, the Scotts were white and their assailant was black.Kek wtf
>says that the French language is so majestic and commanding that it's proof that France has a God-given duty to rule all of EuropeAll right, that's it, I'm gonna learn French. I've got to see what all the fuss is about.
>>24764325The key to language learning is simply spending time with the language If you're attending college or university it might be difficult to find the time but don't let your age discourage you from studying a languageFrench is probably a good choice if you don't have that much time but I'd recommend you try to push past the beginner phase as quickly as possible without burning out since it's very frustrating and demoralising to be stuck as a beginner whose only learning activity is grinding anki and reading textbooksI'd recommend French for Reading by Karl Sandberg as a textbook because it gets you started reading French ASAP Imo you need to read aloud otherwise you will reinforce harmful habits like translating in your head
>>24764201I reckon Owen spent way too much time on /int/
>>24764343I've had this website recommended to me for learning French:https://www.aliceayel.com/Thoughts?
I talk to character.ai AI bots in French.They even fix your shit
>>24764482I'm not a fan since it's a lot slower of a method but you do need a lot of listening practice in order to comprehend spoken French which this would provideI found that that was something I was missing when I focused so much time on reading French but I only learn languages in order to read literature so I don't really care that much
*dethrones Zizek as the most influential living philosopher*
>>24764547The wildcard is if they actually try a coup. Failing that the movement is basically terminal. They tried using Kirk to polarize against Antifa or whatever but half the discourse just turned to blaming it on Israel. But I’m curious; what sort of method did you have in mind?
>>24764573I don't have any in mind. More so thinking about how much insane, unforeseen shit has gone down in a decade, and how quickly things oscillate. I just don't rule shit out anymore. It was a general point
>>24764573nta but i also have been thinking a lot lately about the possibility of the trump admin trying to pull off a coup in 2028. personally i just dont see it as a real possibility but like others have said ITT trying to predict history almost always ends in the predictor looking like a silly retard and with how polarized and upside down the world feels right now you never can fully write it off as impossible. the main reason i think a coup is unlikely is simply because it would not bode well for the financial & business elite that actually control america. there is a certain function to the disfunction of american politics in the sense that its very convenient to maintain a system that is so broken and fractured it cannot accomplish anything that goes beyond national defense and the interests of the elite. why destroy an illusion that placates the masses and become responsible for this mess we're in? i can see no real benefits from a trump coup that would outweigh all the potential downsides but with that said nothing in america makes sense anymore so my guess is as good as yours.
>>24762664Supposedly he’s on Ozempic now so that should fix it
>le pol face but fat and long hairmonarchists used to at least have fashion sense
I'm looking forward to his next book (after this one) already.
>>24750634Won't get it till the 7th (according to my book service)
>>24764636There is a country of pathologically literal ESLs that are already "reading" it in translation.
why is it so short? Against the Day was like 1200 pages long
>>24764645Nigga's about 100 years old. Better to keep things short-ish than to get bogged down with a bunch of sprawling, unfinishable magna opera like McElroy.
Multiple generations of students are being taught that they need to communicate in the ugliest, most turgid critical theory-speak to be taken seriously / be seen as intelligent. How do we defeat critical theory?
>>24759194>How do we defeat critical theory?Stand up for yourselves. If you can't because the theorists put something in the water, then play dead, have the critical theorists arrange the ambulance in sheer panic and pay for it, then reincarnate in the hospital, go home, build yourself a study desk, stand up for yourself, study critical theory or whatever you actually need to study on your own terms, and find the solution to your problem yourself. Posing a question means answering that question. I am not yóúr student, I have my own questions to answer.
>>24762560What do you think the offspring of a black SJW kween + a 60 IQ dalit couple would look like?
>>24759194By making fun of how exhausting it is to speak like this until its cringe.
>>24764603saaarr i am brahmin we are having the superior IQ number 61
>>24764603>What do you think the offspring of a black SJW kween + a 60 IQ dalit couple would look like?Picrel, and it's glorious.
>>24764616he basically was a weird, lonely crazy dude who opened his home to runaways, street kids and dope fiends. that's how he got all fucked up on meth. said he hung out with fags, too. could've been doing bennies and stuff in the 50s before this, but i don't think he really became a speed freak until the freaks he let in turned him onto meth.
>>24764622he definitely blew up his own safe, by the way. or i suppose one of his drug tenants might've tried to rob him. definitely not some weird conspiracy like he claimed.
>>24764625>>24764622btw, i think he was a fine writer and maybe the most interesting storyteller of the 20th century. not trying to dismiss his genius, but let's be real about this cat
>>24764617It's the work of American cartoonist, illustrator, painter, designer and part-time musician Gary Panter.
>>24764630cool, ty anon
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>>24764623A friendly reminder not to reply to low-effort threads, thank you
>"objective" philosophy>posts a bunch of idealists
Fellow anons, now that the dynamics of the postmodern age have destroyed every cultural and institutional norms left out there, how do we deal with this new world? What books cover this topic?
>>24762393I know Gabriel Marcel, haven’t read him yet but will soon. I’m reading pascal and Kierkegaard at the moment.I honestly can’t really explain what exactly shattered my previous understanding of the world, but I was thinking a lot about truth and perspective and how reason relates to both and I had a lot of discussions with non-believing friends about faith and about what god is in philosophy compared to how he reveals himself in religion. To my shame i had initially thought that I could argue my friends to accept the notion of god and the need for a connection with the divine, but this obviously failed. In the meantime I was trying to understand how modern philosophy was born from the nominalism in late scholasticism. By the time I read Kant and later on Wittgenstein, I somehow knew that my previous realism wasn’t tenable anymore.I had read Nietzsche way before I became catholic but returned to him every now and then and found him to always be a fruitful encounter.My faith was strangely strengthened through this whole process though. So I thank god for this grace.
>>24762399>>24762403These look quite promising, thank you.
>>24762261Nietzsche of course
And now a whole lot of conservatives need to die.After that the survivors will be able to work out new norms without the discussion being derailed by conservatives.
>>24762261Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self.
Is Junky worth reading as my first Burroughs?
I suspect this is the only Burroughs who is worth reading
>>24761194Yes, definitely. It's suitably hair-raising, but very accessible.I'm currently reading Naked Lunch, and it's amazing how dense and oblique it gets.
>>24761994this. I didn't really understand a lot of the new york parts of NAked Lunch until i read Junky
>>24761194>If what you read becomes a part of you,>was becoming a junky part of your childhood ambition?Answer would probably be 'no'.AND:>STUDY Junky>Help junkies kick their destructive habit>Improve societyALSO:Worth? Check out the price tag on the book. That's the price. Decide for yourself if it's an acceptable investment for your future, also taking into account what I laid before you above. What emotional worth it will have for you as a human, only you can know, and only having read it and/or studied it.
>>24763160>How do I know if I'll like a book/record unless I consume it, and to consume it means to buy it and spend time (further money on) it?
All memes aside, is does picrel have any literary or philsophical merit or is it just a bible for larpers?
>>24757484porn-addled twitterbro bible
>>24764049BAP’s aesthetic vision is just camp style
>>24764040What's a fascist?
>>24757484Isnt this written by an e-celebrity from twitter
>>24757484lol surely noone on this board takes this seriously. the guy is an e-celeb one step above indian run "save the west" twitter accounts, cashing in on zoomers discovering conservatism and building their entire ideology from social media posts and news headlines. him and raw egg nationalist are suspiciously afraid of criticizing israel for their US-enabled impunity, which makes me believe that they're on thiel's payroll
I've just read the every single book ever written, AMA.
>>24761566Does it burn when you pee now and smell like asparagus constantly?
>>24761566how are you going to keep up with all the new works that are about to come out
>>24761566you even read Call of the Croc?
Best book on how to stay calm around white people but not end up as a coon?
>>24761566What about ancient lost manuscripts, or all the books I've written solely in my head? Do you have access to the Akashic scrolls or smth?
