/lit/ - Literature

>>8103629
Southern lit isn't shitty, but I respect your opinions.

>>8105262
Musil, Celine, Mishima, Zweig

>>8104326

Othello was a fucking moron.

Flannery O'Connor - Everything that Rises Must Converge AND The Violent Bear it Away
Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse
Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Djuna Barnes - Nightwood

>>8104376
TSatF is better.

>>8104386
Stick to TSatF.

Top 5 novel of all time. This was Hesse's best novel.

>>8096985
You could ease yourself into reading progressively tougher works, so The Unvanquished, then Sanctuary, then Light in August, then The Sound and the Fury, then Absalom, Absalom!

Then if you feel lucky, punk, A Fable.

Don't read Fable, though. It's shit.

>>8097126
This works, too.

>>8096735
It's all a matter of taste, or William Faulkner. :)

>>8096671
I only talk to my dad, my previous /lit/ teachers, and this board when it comes to literature.

The books are cheap when you have the diligence to search for them, though, since no one else reads good books.

Good day!

>>8095741
Thank you for that story.

What a brilliant, fucked-up, good story.

>>8095706
28
Philippines
Quadraturin

>>8095719
Saw Richard II and ignored it for Othello. Is it a good play of his? Because I've read that among Shakespeare's historical plays Henry V takes the cake.

>>8095719
No, this is what I was also asking. It seems to me that most teenagers won't get the gist of Shakespeare, because when I was 14 I honestly asked myself why Shakespeare was considered the greatest writer ever and all I saw were gibberish words.

I think one needs to be more familiar with the world in order to understand and actually perceive plays like Hamlet to be transcendent literature.

Shakespeare could sometimes be so positive and sometimes be so ... nihilistic.

>>8095612
I had an easier time with A,A! once I finished reading with TSATF. It's complicated at times, but just read through it. In the end everything just coalesces and makes sense.

>>8095661
Claudius is more surreptitious with his treachery than Macbeth. Macbeth is more emotional, which is the reason why he was easily convinced by his wife regarding the throne.

I enjoyed Claudius's death more, though. It was glorious murder from Hamlet, who despite his fears and hallucinations, succeeded in being his father's avatar of vengeance.

tl;dr: I like Macbeth more, but I loved Claudius's death.

>>8095642
It's either Hamlet or Macbeth. I started with Macbeth, then followed up with Hamlet.

At what age do you guys think that Shakespeare should be read? I think reading him at an age too young invites too much misunderstanding, especially with the themes of his more serious (and lauded) plays. I myself started reading Shakespeare intermittently when I was already in my 20s.

What's your favorite Shakespeare play?

(I'm currently reading pic related, since it features the best villain Shakespeare wrote.)

Major in Biology, Post-grad in Medicine

Parents. I'm being a resident physician.

>>8090756
75% for Joyce vs. King
67% for Dickens vs. Bulwer-Lytton

>>8091133
Although I hate Finnegans Wake, I reckoned I will try it again after I've read Vico's New Science. I still have to find a copy, though.

>>8091218
I'm 28, but Faulkner, to me, grows in stature every time I read him. I know I'm a different individual from you, though. I just prefer novels with great storytelling amid stylistic creativity.

I haven't read War and Peace, though. I probably won't read another Tolstoy.

>>8091237
I loved Harper's Biochemistry. It made a tough subject easier to understand. Jawetz's Medical Microbiology is readable at least.

>>8090464
A Fable is one of Faulkner's few shit works. Although Intruder in the Dust is good, the second isn't a very good collection.

The first collection is useless because the Snopes trilogy is nothing without Hamlet.

The third collection has two of his masterpieces, a great pulp novel, and shit in Pylon. I'd pick the third one.