/lit/ - Literature

Raymond Carver to fix Dickens.

Hi, I'm a tripfag.

lrn2DavidHume

You might like Cormac McCarthy, based on your booklist. I'm sure audiobooks of The Road will be all over the place, but try to find Blood Meridian instead if you can, which is vastly superior.

I heard this one was good.

Oh, look. An example of libertarians being extremely active on the internet, but no where else.

Pic related.

>>870389

And dumbass boys get off to the thought of a porn star actually reading that book. She didn't, a fan sent it to her.

That's a porn star newfags.

Old pic is old.

>>You have exiled me from your heart.

1) Keep your damn job
2) Work until you retire
3) Write when you're old, after you've, you know, actually experienced life
4) ???
5) Profit.

How are books not eco-friendly? Leave it out in the rain, it disolves. 100% organic, recyclable, reusable. How much more do you stupid hippies want?

>>inb4 "MY $200 EBOOK WHICH WILL SIT IN A LANDFILL FOREVER AFTER I DROP IT IN A FEW WEEKS IS MORE ECO FRIENDLY THEN PAPER.

http://www.amazon.com/Dracula-Norton-Critical-Editions-Stoker/dp/0393970124

Camus' philosophy implies a much more anarchistic spirit then a libertarian one. He goes into great depth about economic freedom (including with it a lovely comparison to Marquis de Sade) in the Rebel.

People who want to compare him to Objectivist Randians are drastically reducing his intellectual accomplishments and the complexity of his work, and should be ignored with prejudice.

Lit theory has never been the same.

>>Is your character a woman?
>>Does your character live in England?
>>Is your character married?
>>Wife of Bath (Chaucer)

HOLY SHIT.

Bullshit Shock-lit for kids who think horror movies can be art.

I see not windmills but giants.

Literary critics of the 21st century.

Not exactly good ones, but if it informs some tween's cloud / separoth fanfic then I guess that's all you can do.

>>834583

I think most forms of art are valuable in their own ways. I personally prefer reading. It's one of the oldest, and arguably the most mature.

And I don't think that it's indoctrination that reading makes you 'smarter'. Reading great literature is more difficult an art to watch a movie. In it, you reap more rewards.

I don't view reading as a reaction to what's around me since I've always done it as long as I've could; and I've read 'high' lit ever since I figured out that it was better.

You're overthinking it in my opinion; and although I normally detest that type of argument, sometimes you have to love what you love for the sake of it and allow it to make you happy.

Also, Columbia.

>>Implying a university can endow you with creativity or perspective.

The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction. We live in a post-modern world, there can be no doubt.

I love literature for it's aesthetic glory and the personal enrichment. Nothing more, at least not seriously.

Whenever I get like this, I start to dig into theorists who help me appreciate literature; Bloom and Johnson, and the Frankfurt School. It really affirms my love of literature as a bastion of a sound love of art when I start to feel this way.

Pic related, it's Benny-boy.