/lit/ - Literature

>>16500327
Okay. Summarize a textbook you used in high school or uni

>book is 1st person POV

>>11721535
really nigga, out of all of the great stand alone lem books (memoirs found in a bath tub, congress of futurology, etc) you choose fiasco? a book with a recurring character?

>>11458061
Shilling it? By saying the meat puppets Wolfe tried to disguise as characters and their interpersonal relationships are built in an inept way?

Am I supposed to be impressed?

Am I missing something? Is this one of those stories where everything just "clicks" after you are done with it, and some grandiose revelation re-contextualizes everything up to that point? Why is this treated as the alpha and omega of fantasy / genre fiction and raised to the position of flagship for the whole genre? I find both the characters and their interpersonal dynamic to be mediocre.

>Buy Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals because the animals look awesome
>Want to go out in the fields to watch them but find out that these animals are actually extinct
What book buying mistakes did you make?

>Be me sitting in coffee shop reading physics
>See guy in other table look so similar to DFW it's scary
>Mfw I see he's reading Infinite Jest
Are any of you self aware in real life?

>>9467600
faggots need to get OFF MY BOARD

>Thinking of studying philosophy.
>Go to library to the philosophy section
>There is this guy called Kant
>His book is BIG
Wtf I didn't knew I had to read big books for philosophy. Why don't philosophers try to put forward their ideas in small bits????

>>9423498
>Tfw brainlets won't understand that he is referring to the concept of Mirror Symmetry, where in the weak sense, implies that the A-model topological string theory on a CY 3-fold will always have an equivalent description as the B-model on a different CY 3-fold with flipped Hodge numbers, so that geometry of one 3-fold isn't more "true" than the other.

/lit/ could you please recommend which book by Yukio Mishima I should start with?
I am a literary pleb so pls no bully.

>>9323243
Dostoyevsky, Shakespeare, Wilde, Nietzsche, and many other writers are popular. Through you logics, they are all shit.

>>16162
I mean, if you suffer living in the first world working with this, think of me, a little redpilled boy in BRAZIL.

>That thread is making me lose the motivation to get in medical university.

What do women talk about in private and how do I write it?

Whenever I hear women talk in private, they either talk to each other about mundane things that most men talk about but I can't tell if this is some secret conversation that they employ because they can tell I can hear them.

Other times, they will talk about men and their social media accounts and their interest in them which seems to me rather strange. The other day, I overheard two women talking about their fascination over a guy who didn't have a Facebook account despite being very attractive.

Is this the kind of crap people talk about all day? Good God!

What books should I keep in my dining room shelf to convince visitors I'm smart?

Can one be materialistic without being nihilistic?

How do I buy books in Europe with paypal?

>>8845215
>Tao te Ching

would a middle-aged upper class white woman enjoy this?

What's the best intro book to law out there?

Where can I learn more about literary topos?
Any good short intro books on the topic?
Also, where can I find a list of common topos?

"And then I woke up."

>sitting in a coffee shop
>reading Brothers Karamzov
>catch qt checking me out from another table
>sitting with two "guy friends" obviously either gay or beta friendzone tier
>hear giggling
>they shout across the from the other table (across a couple having something to eat)
>"SHE WANTS TO KNOW WHAT YOURE READING"
>I look confused and reply with "a book"
>she looks disgruntled and the two guys look confused
>carry on reading

wtf bros why do people do this

>two weeks later I saw her again and she gave me her number

So /lit/, what is the best book objectively ever created?