/lit/ - Literature

I used to reading H.G. Wells like a fiend when I was 14. War of the Worlds? Now that was the shit.

Catch-22

Not a troll. It's a genius work, there's no escaping it.

act as a compass mechanism that, to orient the magnetic birds, depend on the position of the sun.

Read the history of Rome.

Sarah Palin.

>>922442
Started real good, ended bad.

>>913989
Lrn2deconstruct Plato's pharmacy.

>>913134

I love you.

Also read Boswell's Life of Johnson, and try to find a decent selected writings by him, preferably with an emphasis on his criticism.

Wow ignorant tweens like awful books.
I never knew.

Don't be a pussy. Get your PhD in Comparative Lit.

>>895022
I'd like to Lynch him, if you know what I mean.

Interpretation of Dreams. Should be read by anyone born after 1900.

king of making and deleting threads until he GETs.

I feel that people should read Shakespeare more then they do.

>>889188

Well obviously. But in the context of music from the 60's and 70's....

...not sure what Lou Reed would be, though.

Shakespeare is the Velvet Underground

Because the Velvet Underground was actually good, and everything since then has has been a product of them.

If you like that, Pale Fire is even better.
It's a work of structuralist magic, it's hard to believe a work that complex and beautiful could even exist.

Fuck yeah pall malls.

>>884358
And The Rebel

The Myth of Sisyphus.
It's downright irresponsible to read The Stranger without subsequently reading The Myth of Sisyphus.

>>883787

Demons is by far his finest work. It's better then the boy-scout rally that is The Brothers Karamazov.

An impressionist painter is having a bad day.