/lit/ - Literature

>>5265300
When I get a girlfriend I'm gonna tell her to wear push up bras. I don't care if it's disingenuous, they look amazing

So you're like, 17? I would have guessed about 13 from your "poems".

Advice: read more poetry, act your age, be more interesting. I don't care about your pathetic teenage angst, you know fuck all about the world.

That's my brutal honesty.

It's because she's 5

At least she's trying. Princess Diana never read a book.

Depends on what you mean by intelligent. I know a mathematician who I would say is pretty retarded in some respects

Start with Plato and Aristotle, and probably a good general knowledge of the main pre-Socratics.

Then honestly you can skip to Descartes.

Then Hume, then Kant. Then I would recommend Schopenhauer but I guess you could come back to him later.

From there you can go on to any of those guys you're interested in except maybe Derrida, but why would anyone want to read him anyway

Barry Lyndon
Mirror
8 1/2
Persona
Mulholland Drive
Seven Samurai
The Third Man
Apocalypse Now
Breathless
Night of the Hunter

Boredom is boring

>>5252103
Ivan's Childhood is entry-level Tarkovsky though. It's not really a good representation of his work. Mirror and Nostalghia are the final bosses

>>5252004
This

Cats are mascots for loneliness

Religion is the feeling of the infinite, and I get that literature (and some other things).

Now fuck off.

YOU MOTHERFUCKERS TAKE YOUR HANDS OF YOUR SHAFTS
CAUSE NOW ITS FUCKING PARTY WITH H. P. LOVECRAFT!

IM A FUCKING AWESOME AUTHOR WHO WRITES LIKE A BOSS
YOU OPEN MY BOOKS START READING A JUST GET LOST?

WHOS THE MASTER OF HORROR? EDGAR ALLEN POE?
MAN BITCHES AINT SHIT. THAT FUCKERS MY HOE

HES GOT A RAVEN IVE GOTTEN MOTHERFUCKING CTHULHU
POE SAYS NEVERMORE, BUT MY CREATURES WILL FUCKING KILL YOU

IF SAW THEM YOU'D JUST START SCREAMING AND NEVER FUCKING STOP
YOUD TAKE AN AXE TO YOU HEAD AND JUST START TO CHOP

THEYRE FUCKING SCARY AS FUCK - WAIT. WHATD YOU SAY?
WHAT DO THEY LOOK LIKE? UH... AYE....

THEY'RE INDESCRIBLY TERRIBLE, MAN. I DONT WHERE TO START.
LIKE, ONE PART SCARY. AND AWFUL IS THE OTHER PART.

THEY'RE LIKE TERRIBLY UNSPEAKABLY AWFUL AND SCARY.
YOU KNOW WHAT? ITS BAD, OKAY? JUST FUCKING TRUST ME.

HEY GUYS ITS ME DEEP&EDGY
LOL IM SO DEEP AND EDGY

CHECK OUT MY GUIDE TO PHILOSOPHY
YOU MAD? LOL LOOK AT ME!

OH WAIT I CAN FINISH THIS RAP GUYS SORRY
MY BOYFRIENDS OVER AND HE GHAHAHHHHABBBRRLLG

It's good.

It's "I'D TAKE THIS TO A DESERTED ISLAND"-good.

/x/ has invaded us because they've been invaded by /b/.

Lets go to /mu/

>>>/mu/12291654

wild swans is way better

Pride & Prejudice
Alice in Wonderland
Dracula
Ulysses
The Counte of Monte Cristo
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Cuba in War Time by Richard Harding Davis
A bunch of Sherlock Holmes
The Prince (finally)
Daniel Deronda
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Most of War & Peace
Metamorphosis
Secret Adversary
Wuthering Heights
Dante's Inferno et al.
The Time Machine (again)
Most of the Koran
War of the Worlds
Les Misérables
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Emma
King Lear
Jane Eyre
Through the Looking-Glass
The Devil's Dictionary
Walden
Paradise Lost
The Mysterious Affair
Frankenstein
The Republic by Plato
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1
A Study in Scarlet

jk, it's just that a lot of you fuckers read a shit ton

>>1055383
>A novel is by its very nature fictitious
cf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonfiction_novel

>A novel is fallacious because it is always a work of rhetoric, persuasive argument. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be a novel; it would be a work of philosophy.
How does this make sense:
>if book == "persuasive argument", then book = novel
>else book = "work of philosophy"
You got yourself twisted

Anyway, who gives a fuck

I don't understand this sentiment. I saw that a lot of people tripped over here, so I started tripfagging myself. Now I see shit like this. What's the big fucking deal, other then "TRIPFAGS ARE SELF-CENTERED" or whatever else you read into my personality based on the fact I post online with a corny handle?

I'm on /lit/

>>1055367
Eat a dick. We know its you, Stagolee

>>1054392
>just out of general curiosity... the sexual preference of the writer matters why?
I think anon was asking for gay subject matter, or maybe OP is gay and hopes to gain perspective from smart people who he shares a trait with

>>1054396
>imagine the picture of dorian gray as written by an heterosexual oscar wilde.
that's funny

nobody said Capote yet?