/lit/ - Literature

/lit/ do you consider tolkien as a plagarism of Wagner?

Lord of the rings/ ring of the nibelungs

almost serius thread

Currently:
A Short History of Nearly Everything.
Norwegian wood
All the Myriad ways
Timequake
Strength In Numbers: Discovering the Joy and Power of Mathematics in Everyday Life
Apathy and other small victories(favourite out of these)
1984
Rum diary

I can't read

>>2167981

Clearly you didn't read Plato's works close enough.

Are the Four Great Chinese Classics or whatever they're called a decent read?

I've heard Water Margin recommended once, and I really like that period of history, but juts wanted to see /lit/'s opinion.

>>1917109
Yes, because it's only thanks to some ill-defined category of outcasts and "wrong sort of people" that authors like Gaiman regularly make bestseller lists, or that books like Lord of the Rings and the Narnia series are some of the bestselling books OF ALL TIME.

So /lit/ lately i have been interested on stealth tactics used by ninjas and such during feudal japan.
Any books that actually have descriptions on methods of how they were able to move so quiet yet so quickly and how they managed to stay hidden.
Not the martial arts, just the stealth part.
Preferably written by an actual Japanese guy during the period, not an american that watched too much Naruto.

Sup c/lit/

I was wondering if anyone could suggest any books wherin the protagonist is a sociopath.

I've read Bret Easton Ellis' works, and i read "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" which i regret.

Are there any GOOD books / series of books out there with a sociopath as the protagonist?

Which art form do you believe to be superior? Rate in order of lowest to highest, and state your reasons why.
>Music
>Fine Art
>Literature
>Film

marshall mcluhan discusses language a lot, and its implications on human perception/conginition. i'd recomend 'the Gutenberg Galaxy' or "understanding media"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLDM9z9fhRY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gg1HzZ57ps

Anarchists report!

Anarcho-syndicalist here.

i have many op, four of them are exes. the rest i met in high school, parties, work, etc.
go out and talk to women op, whats the worst that could happen? rejection? pfft smalltime.

move to seattle, plenty of people read in the pubs there, and only idiots or non-natives point them out as odd

Relevant to my interests.

So whatever happened to the guy with the bookstore that always used this picture in his OP?

>>1327917
>>1327935
I have to disagree, I found many posts to be educational and many trolls to be cruelly denounced.

/tg/ told me you could probably answer this question better than them

>>12876664

the day when nihilists get caught up with there own meaningless logic and decide its meaningless to speak to anyone else at all about meaninglessness is the day i will be very, very happy for philosophy, because i wont have to listen to their shit.

>>1277383

can we /thread now

>>1264166
R.D. Laing and thomas szas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ5l5Npfdsg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ouvTpEvt_U

Hello /lit/, I'm planning on writing a book(s). I have little recent experience writing anything, and no post secondary education, but I'm confident I can put together a decent story. Any advice/obligatory first timer resources?

Um, I've never posted on the /lit/ before, but I need help with finding examples of how structuralism and semiotics can be used in literature. I would be grateful for any assistance.

Does anyone have a copy of Assholes Finish First that they'd be willing to upload? I'm a poor college student so I don't have the money to go out and buy a copy. Our library also doesn't carry it.

Dearest /lit/erate friends,
I am currently doing an assignment for a government class, and I am unsure as to what the definition of "a non-functional" law is. Perhaps you may help?
Pic unrelated.