/lit/ - Literature

>>9807517
Fantasy

Sword and sandal. Same as conan.

why dont u tel lme

>>9807455
Yeah, Catcher in the Rye is literally nothing more than long-instituted jewish propaganda to make white children think rebelliousness is cool and natural. Most of those are pretty simple books but I'd say only the last two are worth reading. Maybe some Jack London if you want something simple to inspire a go-get-it attitude.

>>9807451
four? that's a pathetically small number. great jewish intellectuals must outnumber great fascist intellectuals by like 50:1

>>9807451
and they still lost the war with all those high iqs? wowe.

i know one of them. who are the other three you're referring to? legit curious.

>>9807451
>One observational basis for inferring that Jews have high intelligence is their prevalence in intellectually demanding fields. While only about 2% of the U.S. population is of full Jewish descent,[2] 27% of United States Nobel prize winners in the 20th century,[2][3] 25% of Fields Medal winners,[4] 25% of ACM Turing Award winners,[2] 9 out of the 19 world chess champions, and a quarter of Westinghouse Science Talent Search winners have either full or partial Jewish ancestry.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence

>>9807500
>great jewish intellectuals
Lol. No such thing. Jews are propagandists to their core, not intellectuals in the European sense, because jews aren't actually interested in intellectual endeavors.

Certainly not pic related.

He's right. Hitchens was a great writer.

>>9807416
Aren't you supposed to say no longer in that context? Not a native, it just strikes me as odd

>>9807416
Trick question.

Superiority complex that results in us lacking friends or at least friends that are at a similar intellectual level as we are and therefore our thoughts ferment within our minds without other people being there to tell us that our thoughts and opinions are stupid and shallow and indicative of us lacking any degree of life experience.
If we are confronted with somebody who is more successful in us than our supposed field of expertise we experience a deep and traumatic shock which I have personally gone through and has resulted in my interests changing entirely.

>>9807416
A bullet, hopefully.

I secretly like Tom Sharpe novels after an eccentric relative gave me a stack of them when I was a rowdy teenager. I've kept a certain fondness for them since.
Pic related

>>9807486
Wut

Pynchon > DeLillo so far I don't even know why anyone bothers to read the latter.

Nathaniel Hawthorne is a bad writer and should be removed from the school curriculum.

Creative Writing MFAs are useless and possibly the worst study program ever devised.

Acquisition of a new language should be mandatory in a BA program. Latin and other historical languages would be acceptable.

I tend to hate reading as a whole. And I hate writing as a whole.
But I want to read and write, but both are a vicious waste of time, because there are other things to do.
I can't use Audible because it's too much money for something I already own - aka almost every piece of classic literature -> I got about two rooms filled with books in my house
I also like to spit on recent literary works.
I tend to go to book stores, pick up a new book, read the resume and laugh at it's misery. People can't write nowadays. Or, at least, nobody writes interesting things.
Also fan fictions.
People rarely write stuff that doesn't involve romance. Remove yourselves romance writers. Filthy.

>>9807486
is that cover illustrated by robert crumb

>bumping for help

>>9807274
Lankhmar series by Fritz Lieber

>>9807274
What did you like about them? Some recs:

John Carter of Mars
Lyonesse
Dune
Lankhmar
The Last Unicorn
The Wheel of Time
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn

>>9807312
>opens thread with two lines of green text
>gets mad people aren't putting any effort
You're not gonna get much out of anything when you're mentally challenged.

>>9807322
He's hardly an autodidact though.

>>9807331
True I guess.

>>9807249
It works for mathematics.

>>9807284
>He thinks the academy appeared spontaneously, like Athena from the head of Zeus
Ok kid
>oh jesus. Lord help us.
good goy

fun fact: 5000 years ago the potato plant was called the softened stone tree and nobody understood why they were softer than real stones but one guy in a village said you could power cars with them one day and he was potatoed to death for taking allah's name in vain

>>9807477
are you trying to implying my fun facts aren't facts?

because fun fact: ancient farmers used to wrap up their seeds in blue cloth. Scientists couldn't figure out why, until they compared seeds stored in white cloth to seeds stored in blue cloth. The seeds stored in blue cloth sprouted significantly earlier than the control group.

>>9807493
dont listen to the nay sayers or satirists anon, keep given us those facts

>>9807501
No problem! Don't know how many veggie facts I still got.

but...

fun fact: the coveted purple dye of ancient times, which was only available to the filthy rich was actually made from snails.

>>9807361
Keep going please

I don't know what an ESL is, but holyfuck is this novel good. AAA reading. Every page is a delight to the /lit/guy and to the seeker of good entertainment!

>>9807220
Good book, might have weird words you'll have to look up but I remember it being very literal. It will help a lot with parsing complex sentence structure.

>>9807317
It's not a good book, it's melodramatic tear-jerker.

>>9807204
idk man. if you are new to reading then you're going to have to read a bit before you discover what your tastes are. once you figure that out then it's all downhill. don't waste time on what you think you should read, focus on what you find enjoyable and google around.

>>9807204
Read a page-turner

your attention span is fucked. take a break from the phone checking and internet use, take a break from 4chan. Or just listen to audiobooks, there's no shame in putting on a book while doing other things

>>9807199
loved it.

>>9807199
Musée des Beaux Arts is absolutely amazing

the only book i liked from him.

I never really liked them after I got into modernist poetry. I would rather listen to some Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen albums than read him.

plus 2049 in my diary (desu), so a total 6569

400 so far today, 1700 yesterday. That was an anomaly though, I usually only manage 500 if I write at all.

>>9807164
I want to know what's happening in that picture

Meow this.

>>9807096
that's a meow awesome list, thanks anon meow

>>9807146
i'll meow check it out, thanks meow

You mean the comeownist meownifesto?

>>9807023
you mad faggot?
tell me how many people have read that book here,

it's not about the publisher but the book being read by only a few people thus being overlooked

>>9807029
I bet you wear boots and hipster glasses and sigh to yourself about the absurdity of life a lot. take your trash recs and shove em up your loose patchouli smelling asshole

>>9807015
Why should I read it?
I don't think you can call it a 'rec' if you just give the title, its just not helpful in motivating somebody to read the book.

>>9807043
It's a war novel in a sense, about how a person is used by things such as ideology, ideas and other people, but also by pleasure, desire, money. This is illustrated in the three families that are the main focus of the novel.

It's a novel about the illusory nature of victory, about the dehumanization of man as a result of someone's mere will, about how those who were controlled are the worst at controlling others later on etc.

If you like existential realism, you might dig it.

Tbh I read it because I was looking for novels where young guys visit whores, like Stephen in A Portrait.

>>9807035
(You)

>>9807072
>>9807029
>>9807015
>reddit spacing

>>9807079
I'm Ukrainian but I live in Russia lol

>>9807091
>I speak two languages pretty good
No, you don't.

>>9807094
What makes you say that?

>>9807095
Your post.

>>9807099
I speak norwegian. I also speak english. I learned both languages when I was a tiny boy. (before I was 5)

I would never read "Sult" by Knut Hamsun in english. I know that it won't be as good. On the other hand, I'm okay with reading translated russian texts because I don't know russian.

I feel that you are being argumentative just to give me a hard time. I feel saddened because of your comments, because I feel that you will not believe me no matter what I say.

>>9806917
You said you would post this after your wagecuckery if the thread didn't die, it's not dead

>>9806922
the other one is full of IQ autism

>>9806964
You're just saying that because you have a below average IQ. Mine on the other hand is 164.

>>9806985
what a coincidence, that's my penis length in inches

>>9806985
>below average
101 actually

>>9806894
Doestoeyvsky

Elizabeth Barret Browning

>>9806894
Tolstoy, Nicholai

>>9807335
I rather liked Aurora Leigh, but tell no one.

Anthony Powell