/lit/ - Literature

>>1316991
Is there no end to this grand delivery?

Continental Philosophy vs Analytic Philosophy
WHAT DOES THIS EVEN MEAN
I don't even know.
/lit/, please explain and discuss

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>>1316221
What the fuck? I just gained weight AND lost my appetite.

>>1313682
...What? I enjoyed everything I posted. I don't post less "classic" books, because OP said "books every one generally agrees are good" - this rendering the likes of Ludlum, John Green, Trevanian, Silva, Isaac Babel, etc. sort of irrelevant.

>>1313652
Good stuff, sir.

Tea

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Fall by Albert Camus
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Light in August by William Faulkner
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
The Trial by Franz Kafka
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
On the Road by John Kerouac
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Eugene Onegin by Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin
V. by Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

Vintage

Also, Picador, Harper Perennial, Norton, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster

>>1312060
There is hardly any reason to believe she abused any child sexually!

>>1312047
This. Not at all life-changing, but you should definitely go through it.

>>1312035
Crime & Punishment, War and Peace, The Brothers Karamzov come to mind, though you may have already read those. I'd recommend "Diary of a Superfluous Man" and The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev.

>>1312034
>terrible
How?

>>1312043
>Simply because a transsexual comedian wrote a memoirs does not pique my interest
Transsexual and asexual are not the same thing (though some people can be both).
Also, her sexuality is irrelevant. I got her books because I happen to think she's funny, and she seems like an interesting person. After her arrest, she visited her kids as close to daily as possible, hung out with them, and did not leave until they were asleep. She often promotes libraries, doesn't hate technology but doesn't exactly understand the nuances of modern technology (like me), and - in my opinion - she's funny.

>>1312034
I don't agree, but I have an off sense of humor.

Amazon and B&N. After a long time of not buying books, I just bought from both of those sources yesterday. :-)

Also, library.

What kind(s) of books do you like? Saying "I should start getting into books again" is like saying "I should start getting into music again." It's incredibly vague. Please help to narrow down potential recommendations.

>>1312019
By the way, the three unidentified kids where her (adopted) kids that were in the car as she drove drunk. The charge for "lewd acts" was dropped. Also mentioned in that latter link.

>>1312019
Right. I know about that. She's not a pedophile. She was drunk as shit when she did that. She's asexual.

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/LAW/11/01/poundstone.hearing/index.html
>She was also ordered to spend 180 days in a secure alcohol and drug treatment rehabilitation facility in lieu of jail.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:U4wM8WHo-DwJ:www.nndb.com/people/340/000022274/
+Paula+Poundstone+asexual&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
>she is asexual, doesn't date, and she has never been romantically linked with anyone of any gender.

>>1312007
>uninteresting
Have you seen her stand-up? I think it's brilliant. If you don't, I can imagine why some people wouldn't like her brand of humor. Anyway, I guess you haven't read the book...

>>1310869
This.

>>1311999
You say pedophile. I say asexual who used to have a drinking problem.

>>1311993

Hey, /lit/. I am a fan of Paula Poundstone. I learned that she was on the first five episodes of Home Movies a while ago. Afterward, I found a lot of her stand-up on YouTube and some other places. I found her hilarious and quite witty. Then I learned she wrote a book! For those of you who don't know, this is (from what I know) sort of a collection of memoirs in which she compares her self to numerous famous people: Joan of Arc, Abraham Lincoln, Beethoven, etc. Apparently, regardless of how informal the book is, she read about four biographies per person! Anyway, I recently ordered this book (along with some others). Has anyone here read it, perchance? Thoughts?

Economics

"Mumu" by Ivan Turgenev