/lit/ - Literature

Flannery O'Connor's Collected Stories.

Easy.

>>7951750
This is one of my enduring favorites. It's one of the few novels I've read more than once.

>>7950814
Nietzsche was never studied in my four philosophy subjects back in university.

Last:
>Your Mind Matters - Stott
Currently:
>The Pit - Frank Norris
Next:
>maybe Blood Meridian

>>7949077
George Meredith - The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

>>7948449
Actually, for someone who lives in the Philippines, it would have cost me 50 USD with shipping. That's exorbitant.

But now that I've discovered Bookdepository I'll save for it next month.

>>7948412
No, I buy them new because I don't see them being sold in used bookstores. I've never seen Vico's New Science in any bookstore I've been to.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HXdNyv1r4Y
Just as nonsense as this song.

>>7940542
The Sound and the Fury - Decline and fall of a once great Southern family

This is horrible, excessively purple prose. I've no right to lambaste it, seeing that I like Faulkner, but Faulkner's prose isn't as nauseous as this.

Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.

>>7931147
Thanks. Finishing up on State and Revolution, will look that up.

Hey /lit/!

Have you read any novels that feature historical or Biblical revisionism? I read this a few weeks ago, but wanted to have an appropriate lens to compare the novel with, so I watched its film as well. The book was able to salvage the utterly horrible film and actually gave the characters character.

The best work I've read that features historical revisionism was The Procurator of Judea by Anatole France. The Three Versions of Judas was also great.

Incest, cement, and if I remembered correctly, patricide.

I still liked it.

To be fair, Anatole France's The Gods Will Have Blood was fucking brilliant. Like the introduction opined, he was one of the few men who was able to create a genuinely good man and a genuinely evil man - but he did it in one novel.

The Procurator of Judea was also one of the better short stories I've read, too.

>>7931077
Hesse - The Glass Bead Game
Broch - The Sleepwalkers
Boll - Billiars at Half-Past Nine

I usually take care not to. Sometimes, however, I do, and the answer is yes.

>>7931080
I am a medical doctor. But my love is literature, so I read fiction and philosophy when I can.

>>7927924
It's one of the first postmodern novels, predating Dujardin's by more than 200 years. Extremely creative, at times even laugh-out-loud funny. I liked it.

>>7930858
I actually prefer going to /lit/ especially after hanging around /a/ because /lit/'s probably one of the most domesticated boards in 4chan.

>>7930006
I'm currently reading State and Revolution. It's relatively lucid, and is unexpectedly only a short read.

The Wretched of the Earth is a good read from Frantz Fanon, by the way.

I just finished Wibberley's Mouse that Roared. It was definitely fun.

I got my fondness for books from my dad, so he was the one who told me to read Lolita if I could find it. I looked up the synopsis, didn't like it, and read Bend Sinister instead. My dad's also more fond of the more classical Russian novelists, so he also led me to read Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.

Until now, I still haven't read Lolita. Maybe I will someday, but I'd probably prefer Pnin and Pale Fire first.

>>7923264
I'll take Hume over Nietzsche, and maybe Aristotle over Plato.