/lit/ - Literature

I blame JK Rowling for this discrepancy to literature.

>>2577825

Just buy it. I actually got mine for free.

What other works by Machiavelli is worth looking into?

http://lichess.org/fkt83uq8

I suppose it wouldn't hurt.

Because Dostoyevsky is more interesting than you disgusting sluts.

Need to add No Longer Human and Rousseau's Confessions but I can't be arsed at the moment.

>>2572678

Is it a decent introduction to his work? I was thinking about buying that or Beyond: good and evil but I bought Zarathustra instead.

This week I bought:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Albert Camus omnibus
Song of Roland-Harrison translation
Sophocles's Oedipus Rex trilogy.

Good haul? It was a toss up between SOR and Beowulf but I went with SOR instead since i've been wanting to read that for ages.

i'm planning to read this too later in the year.

Is it best to go with a complete edition that has the full 3000pg book in one collection or should I buy the vintage 1-7 volumes?

I suggest No Longer Human by Dazai. Excellent book.

Where would be the best place to start with Natsume Soseki?

I have the actual book next to me.

Why not order it on Ebay like I did?

Are Dazai's other works worth reading?

I hate the whole smugness kindle owners have about their E-readers. Not to mention i'm worried about actual bookshops going out of business because of them.

Also, I like my bookshelf and the feel of paper in my hands, thank you very much.

Haven't they always been doing this and not just recently?

Mostly seems to be the hipster and emo kids so that they feel like special snowflakes.

I had a feeling the Elves were completely smug due to the fact they live longer than most people. I don't remember picking up on anything racist. Then again I was 11 when I read it.

>>2561065

i'm only a newb to the genre too so sorry if I wasn't much help. Will look into putting KOTS onto my "To Watch" list this season.

>>2561069

Will give that a read later in the year. Is it the one by Quincy Trope?

Is that the new anime about the soldiers stationed at Japan or something along those lines?

I suggest looking into Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and Coltrane. Can't help you bookwise.

Last: Confessions:
Current: Brothers Karamazov.
Next: Gilgamesh

Women thinking they can write novels with lots of political humour.

Nothing to see here move along.

I honestly thought she'd write something like a Detective story once HP was done. But this just sounds like it'll be shit.

I don't hate it nor like it.

To me, it is just very medicore.

Semi-related.

Has a release date for The Familiar been announced yet?

>>2556830

The "Occupy" protestors are still going on? I would imagine it had died down by now.

>>2556818

Some parts are, it's a lot like a child throwing a tantrum in a supermarket because they're parents won't buy them sweets.

>>2556836

i've already read Crime and Punishment. This will be the 4th book by Dostoyevsky that I will read.

Also have Infinite Jest to read but I think i'll save that for summer.

Last I read was Confessions by Rousseau.

Anons pick what I read from this lot:

Dune
Brothers Karamazov
Paradise Lost
Gilgamesh
An Invitation to a Beheading
World War Z

Just like every other form of "activism".

Childish.

>>2553420

>Putting LNs in the same league as actual literature.