/lit/ - Literature

No wonder you don't love Ophelia!

I liked the following (in conjunction with the books):
Requiem for a Dream
The Shawshank Redemption
Othello (the one with Kenneth Branagh, Laurence Fishburne, and Irène Jacob)

>>1528003
Outdated pop-science books are.

>>1527993
Well-played!

He's a talented writer. His books are light, paced nicely, and enjoyable. I feel like he has a false reputation for depicting modern Afghanistan, though. He specifically said he didn't write for that purpose, and the books hardly do that. Nevertheless, they're worth a read - though /lit/ has flamed the hell out of him in the past.

>>1526054
Eh, I fear a musical of Othello couldn't capture Iago's character too well.

I think it must be one of the comedies. A Midsummer Night's Dream?

>>1525969
>I remember having to learn this in elementary

Hah! I just had to learn how to look up books on the computer and how, if they're available, to find them based on the information on the computer.
Oddly enough, today I know how to navigate the library and the bookstore better than I know how to use the library's website.

>>1525987
I agree that, especially in the non-fiction section, there are often annoying ambiguities.

Buy books.

I have yet to read it, but The Ode Less Traveled by Stephen Fry seems like what you're looking for, OP.

>>1524868
Except to relate and actually to appreciate those writers, it is necessary to have a bit of life experience. I can't imagine a child not finding The Sun Also Rises boring. How would they ever relate to Robert Cohn? How would they understand Josheph K and his relation to society? They wouldn't.

Railroad
Steam Engine
Telegraph

>>1524395
I know what you mean!

I never buy 'em, and I'm surprised they earn any profits.

Metamorphoses doesn't have all of them, but it certainly ought to be in your canon. I would recommend the edition published by the Loeb library.

I don't think there's any omnibus of Greek myths.

I just think of it as a book which doesn't praise people who do seemingly reprehensible things, but suggests we not dehumanize them..

This is always subject to change, but here goes:

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
The Stranger by Albert Camus
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Crash by J. G. Ballard
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

>Does anyone have a download link for this?
I bought it.

>It is worth reading or is it just hipster circlejerking?
It's worth reading. If you're unsure, I suggest you watch some of the few short clips from interviews with him on YouTube. They give you a taste of how his mind works.

>I really liked the corrections and freedom by jonathan franzen btw.
I did too. They were buddies for a while. I personally like Infinite Jest than both of those books. DFW's pretty different, but if you like Franzen you should definitely give Wallace a shot.

>Does anyone have a download link for this?
I bought it.

>It is worth reading or is it just hipster circlejerking?
It's worth reading. If you're unsure, I suggest you watch some of the few short clips from interviews with him on YouTube. They give you a taste of how his mind works.

>>1522529
That was the first work by Wilde I read. Shortly after, I bought this collection. His grasp of language is incredibly delightful!

"Mumu" by Ivan Turgenev is my favorite.

>>1522236
I really like his stories as well. Did you get the massive anthology published by Norton as well? I got the paperback as a holiday gift to myself. That guy was great.

"Mumu" by Ivan Turgenev is my favorite.

>>1521622
So does Ayn Rand. :-P

Perhaps this doesn't meet the length-requirement, but I think it still belongs ITT.