/lit/ - Literature

>>17427558
You son of a bitch

>>17427386
Drop Brief Notes on the Art for sure. Seems pointless unless you have thousands of books.

Anyone who claims that this book is "about" something clearly doesn't get it, because it isn't a simple work about one or two subjects. There's a reason it's a thousand fucking pages and has like 100 characters. Honestly you could have easily pulled multiple standalone books from the original unedited manuscript of Infinite Jest, each of which would approach multiple subjects.

>>17427410
To be quite honest, I never knew Inferno came first, but that works out quite well so I'm happy. Definitely need the annotations, my edition of Inferno had a shit ton of footnotes and idk what I would've done without them.

>>17427312
>Is Dazai a meme or actually good In your opinion?
He's definitely somewhat an embodiment of "my diary desu" but he wasn't horrible. That being said, not as good as I hoped he'd be. Still gonna read The Setting Sun though.
>How did you like Joyce?
I struggled with Joyce in the past, and was happy to make it through this time. Some parts were sublime, but others were just horribly boring to me. Probably getting filtered but whatever. Will probably try to read Dubliners soon.
>How’s pnin stack up against the other works of nabokov you’ve read?
Pnin was a beautiful story about a ridiculous man, and in my opinion was almost as good as Lolita. Still on my shelf are Pale Fire and Invitation to a Beheading.
>Why just inferno? Is it because you didn’t start The other two or because you think the other two aren’t worth reading? If so, let me just say that purgatorio and paradiso are both superior to inferno.
Which one would to recommend I read first? I chose inferno just because it seemed to be the one most alluded to in modern culture

Here's January:

A Portrait of the Artist... - James Joyce
No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
Inferno - Dante
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

Ended up reading more than I thought I would, so I'm ahead of schedule for my goal this year. Gonna read some heavier stuff next. I'm open for recs

This is so sad. Did you expect fair treatment when you submitted to a magazine in /lit/ of all places? Why do you even care what happens to your bad short story? Write something better and submit it to a real publication, then you'll have the right to actually complain if something goes wrong

Try listening to the album And Their Refinement of the Decline by the band Stars of the Lid. Excellent ambient music, not too repetitive, easy to forget about while still providing atmosphere. My favorite to listen to while reading.

>>17388018
Why would there be 110 catches, specifically

Here's your (you).

I want to add another based on a separate thread I just saw: bookshelves organized by color. That shit is fucking wack

I don't care if they make sense. Just post /lit/ stuff that makes you seethe. I'll start:

>when the author's name is in a much larger font size than the title
>when the book was cheaply printed and the pages go abruptly from faintly printed gray to dark over-inked letters
>when anyone makes literally any comment about the number of white male authors on your shelf
>when a book has too many endnotes (IJ exempted)

And obligatory:

>used book has been dog-eared

>>17322202
Sadly accurate

>>17320145
Been avoiding classics for a while now, but I guess it's time to bite the bullet. Been told by several people on and offline that it's worth it.

>>17320377
What's wrong with penguin books anon

Diary of an Oxygen Thief might unironically be good for this

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Change my mind

I'll take assault, please. Posted this once already in another thread but I want a little more critique.

>>17317624
Honestly, what is the technical purpose of books like the one in your pic? Are they only ever made by bookbinders as a gag? Even if it was some huge dictionary or technical encyclopedia, it could just as easily be bound in volumes. I don't get it.

Maybe lay off the onions, wristlet

Can someone tell me what this guy did exactly that earned him a Nobel prize? Preferably in greentext in the most simplest way possible, as well.

How hard is this to read?
I’ve just started getting into reading and my friend let me borrow some of his favourite books.
I’ve read some Oscar wilde and Anthony burgess and I tried reading moby dick but I found myself looking in a dictionary every 5 minutes and it got tedious. Is this in my reading range?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYm4-Lax-ko

>>16030961
Coffee and cannabis is much more patrician

>>16030919
Because all the unhappy people have killed themselves