/lit/ - Literature

Really great for poetry in particular, or lyrical prose. Coffee + kratom is highly recommended.

Yo just your daily reminder that Tolkien really called the Sheriffs of the shire "Shirriffs" lmao.

>>5867139

>ask question
>get answered
>get mad

>>5056348
>penis betwixt my fingers

I'm reading it right now, I'm in the part where he rips on lawyers as being the scum of the earth. It's funny because it's true. The book is pretty good. Also, you forgot
>that scene where the lilliputians pass under his legs and laugh at his massive dong

I haven't read much of the 18th century besides this, Candide and Robinson Crusoe when I was a kid. Any more recs (not just english lit)?

Native portuguese here. I like to read books as close to the original language as possible, so if they're in english I read in english, and since I can mostly get by on spanish and french I try to read the original books in those languages too.

The rest I read in what I feel most comfortable with, based on how close the languages are. So italian-portuguese, german-english, everything else in portuguese because at that point who cares. Most times I end up reading everything in english since portuguese translations are either rubbish or insanely expensive.

>>4749394
Too clever anon.

>>4352798
>Once told that one to a stripper.

Classy.

>>4346606

Loved it. It's basically what would happen if someone took a Borges story and expanded it to insane proportions. Except Borges himself thought that was pointless (he says so right in the prologue to Ficciones).

It's gimmicky, sure, but read it alone at night with the right mindset and you'll shiver a little, at least. I never thought I could be scared by a fucking black square.

>>3768778
>in year 4 of primary school
>bring my 1000 page Lord of The Rings to read during class
>couple of girls ask me why I'm reading it and not Captain Underpants
>decide to educate these poor underprivileged youth by telling them it has everything one could want in a book: 'adventure, action, romance...
>girls laugh at me and say that's gross
>class bully throws my beautiful copy of LOTR into the mud at break after the girls tell him
>mfw 7 years later one of the girls becomes a pseudo-intellectual hipster, finds me 'deep' and asks me out