what was his fucking problem???
>>25468448Don't read Jung
>>25466617he was too based
>>25468667I don't.
>>25468631Most likely answer is most likely.
>>25466617Needed more ENF scenes
Was the interracial cuckold scene really necessary?Moreover, implicitly inviting the neighbours to watch by keeping the blinds up, and debasing his head-of-the-house authority by dismissing his son's objections to the defilement of his friend/budding love interest, nudges the entire thing into the category of humiliation fetish porn.Not to mention unemployed Rabbit cranking it out to fantasies of his sister getting fucked by a greek wop.
>>25468253Rabbit is the archetypal All-American Asshole. Nothing he does is responsible or justifiable. He's not a role model FFS.
>>25468285Nothin'. What's up with you?
>>25468433I always assumed Rabbit was Updike indulging in a what-if and imaging what his life would have been like as a dumb jock instead of a bookish nerd. It's got just the right balance of sympathy and disdain for his protagonist.If nothing else it's interesting to see an author return to the same setting and characters 4 times over 30 years, reflecting on the changes in his writing and American society. I can't think of many other long-term literary projects like that.
>>25468265Rabbit Run is a timeless classic. It's required reading even if you don't intend to read the rest of the series. Rabbit at Rest is also quite good and Rabbit is Rich got me horned up with their country club swinger friends.
>>25469729Updike writes remarkably unsexy sex scenes. That said Rabbit cucking his deadbeat son in book 4 git me.
How's "The Meme Trilogy" going /lit/?Did you read them already?
>>25464531>I will never read Infinite JestWhy not?
>>25463963>"The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit"Yeah no duh
no and I'm not planning to
>>25460368You're right, it's much better.
>>25459983>Welsh don't seem to do muchThey gave us Aphex Twin
I've noticed this board has been pretty miserable lately. Lots of bad vibes. Post a book that made you happy when you read it. Doesn't matter when you read it, or at what age. Just post a book that reminds you why you read books.
>>25453170First two Harry Potter books.
>>25465637They're all locked in their own insular little social media bubbles. Everything is fragmented and there are basically no real places where people congregate over their niches. I have a few very specific hobbies and even then I find it difficult to talk about them online mainly because every major social media platform has a terrible terrible UI and the algorithm drowns any possibility of organic discussion out. Discord sucks ass too, it enables people's worst impulses in ways that even anonymous message boards haven't done before.Talking to people individually is the only thing that's left.
>>25453170is that book as anti-war mizyaki film?
>>25469406the book is pretty different from the movie
>>25458139>"Nooooo! You can't enjoy a book like you would a movie or a show! It HAS to be for intellectual masturbation! H-hey, put down that copy of Ice and Fire... YOU SHOULD BE READING NIETZSCHE INSTEAD!"
edition edition prev >>25465167
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>>25469938lmao wtf does this have to do with the post you responded to
>>25469944Gots to put in work for the bread. There is no other way.
>>25467055new thread>>25469978new thread>>25469978new thread>>25469978mwah <3
>>25469213i watch other stuff like sopranos and mad men, and a few other british shows. but the office is probably the pound-for-pound number 1 sitcom.
Why didn't you tell me that learning math was an important part of being /lit/ years ago? Learning it is such a lenghty process.
AOPS Prealgebra -> AOPS Introduction to Algebra -> Hammack’s Book of Proof -> Zeitz’s The Art and Craft of Problem Solving -> Spivak’s CalculusThey should give you enough foundation to tackle anything in math. A lot of math textbooks, even advanced graduate ones, are self-contained. They just expect certain level of algebra + proof writing + problem solving skills.
>>25469350Its not
>>25469355>>25469719Not OP, but here are a book and a thread where what OP says is true:>>25468700
>>25469350>Learning it is such a lenghty process.Only if you're dumb and started old.
>>25469824Just the latter. Learning math up to say, a math major level, will be a very lengthy process if you're legit starting at basic arithmetic. But of course how long it takes in general depends on how much you already know and how far you're trying to go with it.
I am a brainrotted ADHD normie but I really, really want to read Ulysses. How do I best go about that?
Anon........
>>25469221why do you idiots keep posting here? go away
>>25469828>>25469892People talk about using guides all the time... how is asking for some help any different? I want to be cultured & enlightened. I'm actually doing my best to engage with difficult material because I believe it can make me a better, more fulfilled person. What's wrong with that?
You open it up to page one and start reading from left to right.
>>25469911Buy the Penguin student annotated edition. Read the intro, and per chapter feel free to go to the back to see notes that offers plot summaries of each chapter. Beyond that, god speed, reading Joyce with ADHD is like going mountain climbing with only one arm and one leg.
Is he based? Godbuilding seems rather redpilled
>>25469787haha more like beef gorky
>>25469787one time an actual shooting star flew by in the top of my vision as an important character returned. was pretty awesome
Metamorphoseon editio>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>25423360>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>25468615οὐκ εὐτελὲς τᾠστοποιεῖντίη πέραν ὁδοῦ 'κεῖνος ὥρνις διαβαίνει;ᾦα οὐ μὴν ἀλλᾶντας ἀπαίτησαπροσεδόκησαν πρὶν ὄρθρον μολεῖν ἅδην ἄνδραςὑποτελεστέος δασμὸς ἕκαστος τοῦτου τοῦ μηνόςεἰ μὴ 'ρνήθη ὥναξ τὴν εἰρήνης ἐπαγγελίαν, ἴσως ἄν οὐδὲν ἧττον προσέβαλονἵν' εἰς λιμέν' ἥκῃς λοχούντων σε τῶν πολεμίων πολλοὺς ἤδη 'μέρας μὴ αἰσθησομένων καὶ σφαξόντων σε νηλεῶς, σκόπει ἐάν σοι θάρσος τὸν διὰ τῆς νάπης διάγοντα πόρον ἐν μέσῃ τῇ νήσῳ· διὰ τί θάρσον φῄς; οὐ μὴν οὐδενὸς χάριν οἱ αὐτόχθονες οὔποτε κατῴκισαν οὔτε ξυλοτόμους ἢ ἐπισιτιστὰς πέμπουσιν εἴσω τῆς χώρας· ὁτιοῦν κεύθει θὴρ ἢ θεὸς ἐνδέχεται μὲν τοὺς προσέρχοντας ἀλλ' ὥς γε πᾶσι δοκεῖ οὐδένας δ' ἀφίησιν. ἆρά συ πρῶτος διασκεδεῖς ταύτην τὴν φήμην; εὖ χωροῖς, δέον γὰρ τύχης.
I wish Latin still maintained a productive locative case, instead of just a few remnants usages.
just finished familia romana ask me anythingchapter 35 is really boring so I just spent like one hour total studying itnow I begin Wheelock's Latin and extensive reading
>>25469203why are you reading wheelock’s if you already read FR. that’s a lot of time that could be spent reading actual Latin
It's kind of crazy that in a given chunk of Roma Aeterna, as early as cap. 40, I'll find like 4x the unknown vocabulary compared to Caesar. Like, the sentence structure is absolutely more straightforward and clear, but the vocab ramp up in Roma Aeterna is brutal.I read the introduction to the companion and it said that a rigorous pace for covering Roma Aeterna in school would be 2 years lmao. I'm thinking I'm going to take the sections that the companion breaks it up into and treat them as individual works for the purpose of deep study and review.
Is it the best adaptation of Shakespeare or Macbeth for that matter.
No it isn’t.
>>25469577>of Shakespeare or Macbeth for that matterShakespeare and Macbeth should be flipped in that sentence. You're low IQ so your opinions on such things are invalid.
>>25469577I present to you the best Hamlet adaptation (it’s basically Hamlet but with Rosencratz and guilderstein as main characters).https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2pacru8ve9k&pp=ygUUU3RyYW5nZSBicmV3IHRyYWlsZXI%3D&ra=m
>>25469837>Hamlet but with Rosencratz and guilderstein as main charactersRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Can anyone explain why this book has become such an essential component of the "chud canon"? It doesn't seem particularly relevant to issues like race, sex, nationalism etc. in the slightest bit.
>>25468824>mainstream media and politicians in Europe do, going on about European Values, which are all about feminism, democracy and tolerance towards imported brown people,yeah, but these "politicians" however purport these values as universal and global, when they are actually completely in the minority.Spengler joins the clique of >the browns masses will rise up one day and kill whitey for what empire he built himselfas he writes in "Der Mensch und Technik"
>>25468700COLLAPSE
>>25468700>self destruct
>>25468700You're retarded if you want to read someone reiterate the modern beaten to death points about race and sex over and over again. Its a good book.
>>25468887>FutaDomWorldI was horrified to learn they kept changing it after the Rye update.
What should kids read this year?
>>25469785yes this is good for white kids
>>25469785>School is starting againNot for another two weeks.
Anyone got a reading list for all of the major academic disciplines?
Kinda sad, nowadays people would just use AI to get a reading list.
>>25469546Wouldn't this argument always be true for any kind of recommendation? Either way, asking for a specific reading list is still beneficial for the books in the list as opposed to the books given by an LLM.
>>25469536I thought the Humanities were the social sciences?
>>25469725Anon..........
>>25469536>Anyone got a reading list for all of the major academic disciplines?Try this (somewhat outdated) book. I bet there are more recent projects like thishttps://archive.org/details/listofbooks00raph
Has any other author suffered such a humiliating fall from grace in recent times?
>>25464424Joyce didn't write for normies. He wrote for academics and literati who he knew would analyze and masturbate over his puns for centuries.
>>25469174Hilarious that if you handed Ulysses to Bloom he'd throw it to the pigs or jack off into it and then throw it.
>>25469174He thought Ulysses would resonate with the common man, actually
>>25464424For fucks sake let a nigga sniff farts in peace
>>25469174he wrote for both but you didnt finsh the novel so you wouldnt know
what do these retarded foids even annotate? is this something people actually do with their books?
>>25455654Or you could just read it and but treat everything like a fucking homework task. Fuck.
>>25461569>tits or GTFOQuote it right, newfag>Inb4 been here all summer
meanwhile in uni all my meticulous notes were just >COURSE CODE>DATE>(blank entry) repeated a couple dozen times
>men don't annotate their books>they are afraid to write in their booksIck
>>25454536every time the female MC gets knotted by a werewolf i guess
