/lit/ - Literature

>>1531182
lawl

NO MY OPINION OF THE STRANGER IS OBJECTIVELY RIGHT!

And yeah, even though it says Hartford, I'm pretty sure it should work anyway, including in the online store.

There is a groupon up right now that's actually a pretty good deal to Bears & Noble. I figured some people here might enjoy it, so I decided to share.

http://www.groupon.com/deals/barnes-noble-hartford-ct

And no, I don't get money or anything for each person that clicks on the link. So please don't report me. I just wanted to be nice.

>>1532469
Somebody's trying way too hard.

Books: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said; Blindness
Porn: Casting couch stuff, lesbian

>>1532536
Really? I didn't even enjoy the movie on it's own merits. I thought the plotting moved too fast, and it didn't leave any sort of impression on me at the end.

For fiction, I would strongly recommend The King in Yellow, by Robert Chambers. You can find it for free online. If you like H.G. Wells and Oscar Wilde, you should like that quite a bit. It's mostly horror stories, but also has a lot of romance. Just be prepared for some very definite genre writing.

For non-fiction, read anything by Cicero. Because you need to.

If you hate everything about society, you're probably a maladjusted, pimply teenager. Not that I didn't also go through that phase, but I grew up.

Frankly, I have no problem with a lot of society. Wearing clothes, eating with utensils, facing forward in the elevator, sneezing into my sleeve, saying please and thank you- eschewing these things would be like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Are there some glaring errors in our culture that I hate? Fuck yes. Hatred and greed and blind consumerism and apathy are all terrible. So I just don't engage the parts of culture that I don't like.

Bitching about how bad society is is going to do nothing but make you depressed (however, OP, I realize that you weren't bitching). Engage the good parts of what you find around you, don't engage the bad parts. Find friends that think the same way so you don't get too discouraged. And when you can, throw a little good out into the world. It's worked for me, anyway.

>>1526141
Seconded. After all, if music be the food of love, play on.

THOSE ARE THE OPENING WORDS

I read it all. I think you need to, to understand the book.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is a good start for a couple of reasons, including the fact that it's short.

>>1516573
I lolled. Despite this being pretty accurate, I still liked the book.

Billy Collins.

>>1508645
Billy Collins is great. He might be a little over-exposed at this point, but he's contemporary, and he definitely doesn't suck. Probably as good a place to start as any.

Yer a wizard, Mark Twain.

Well this is timely. I'm actually reading Stranger in a Strange Land right now, after a failed attempt to read it in high school. I have to say, it's a lot of fun, but I can understand why /lit/ complains about it so much. A lot of the characters read like Gary Stus. Also, it was great in high school, but now all of the philosophical waxing on the nature of God and religion and society seems... sophomoric.

Just for the record, E-Prime is stupid.

http://imaginationh.tumblr.com/post/339453477

>The speed of light in a vacuum IS 299,792,458 meters per second. The boiling point of water IS 100 degrees Celsius. My name IS Peter Hildebrand, and George Washington IS dead. In each of these cases we gain nothing from stating these facts as opinions.

>>1493937
You did not answer my question. The fact remains that his "face" somehow conveys something that his "surface" does not. Where the hell is his face, inside his stomach?

Start a conversation about, assuming she doesn't look like she'll be pissed that I'm interrupting her.

>You could see it on his face. He was an empty soul
>But on the surface he was the most care free, fun loving you could be.

How is this not a contradiction? Or is his face somehow not on his surface?

>Read Richard K. Morgan's "Altered Carbon" while at school.
>Book opens with the main character smashing someone's skull against the pavement, "like a cantaloupe."
>Later, insane drug fueled orgies
>Try to conceal shock/boner respectively.

Emily Dickinson? I'm thinking Emily Dickinson.

I'm reading the 52 Deck of Books this year. Ya'll remember that?

>Last Read
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I'm surprised how much I liked this book. I had always heard that it was just about "Book burning in the future!" which struck me as sort of preachy and simple. But I was very happy to find that the language of the book was beautiful, and the ideas were sharp, without being sententious.

>Currently Reading
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein. I've started this one before, and really liked it, but never gotten through it. Reading it now, I'm starting to understand all of the criticisms of the book that I see here on /lit/, but I'm still enjoying it.

>To read
Well, all of the other cards in my deck, but the one on deck right now is The Atrocity Archives, by Charles Stross. Stross seems to be one of the newest SF celebrities, and I'm hoping this will be a good introduction to his work. The premise certainly sounds cool enough.

The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book of analytic philosophy that I have read so far, so I am far from a seasoned philosopher, but I liked it a lot. I found it very well reasoned. The only thing that I didn't fully agree with was the limits he put on philosophy. He seemed to think that no explicit knowledge could come from philosophy; while that may be true of logic, I think we can learn things from other philosophic disciplines.