/lit/ - Literature

>>4918768

>>4564100
>let a friend borrow one of my favorite ebooks
>send him link
>he returns it
>link broken
Never again.

>>4498230
I was looking for something like this pic, but I had to go with the juxtaposition GIS gave me. The filename's just a dumb word centipede; I wasn't thinking of any parallels. (I understand some people see deep parallels to TBK in Arrested Development, though.)

>mfw people equate good rhetoric to good argumentation

>>3823931
It was bound to happen

>>3814931

>>3322243
Until you get to So Long and Thanks For All the Fish and it becomes an erotic novel.

>Bookstore.
>Look for Tao Te King.
>Find three edtions.
>Read the beginning and observe that the three are completely different.
>Mfw I finally didn't buy any.

>Any of Bukowski.
>One of the best writters? Serious?

>>2649892
>They're all shit

>good author attempts to put poetry in their book but they just ain't no poet so it's fucking cringe worthy

Every single time. All these fantasy books with 'ye tales of old' or some such shit.

This was my friend's essay for an English class he's taking at Uni.

"December 11, 2010, Hokaido, Japan. My name is Nayr Kuroitenshi, and I'm in the middle of a battle to take over Japan. It all started after thousands of nuclear power plants scattered across the globe exploded due to a malfunction they had when mixing chemicals together. People within a 5 mile radius got caught in those explosions. Some were injured, but none died from it. For some strange reason who were exposed to the nuclear energy developed strange powers. Each persons power were different, but similar in a way. It's obviouse that I was exposed to this stuff as well. As time went by, my powers developed. I then decided to start an organization called the "Dark Angels" and our main purpose was to take over the world. The only reason I wanted to do this is because I wanted to have power and fight people who are strong. I didn't want kill innocent people or destroy buildings and towns. I just felt like fighting those who developed strange powers like me or anyone who was brave enough to challenge me. The members of my organization consisted of people who have powers just like me."

I hate this motherfucker.

>>2295376

>couple of months
>think youre in the clear

The Broom of the System by DFW

>mfw

Kill myself.

>>1838555
>Infinite Jest and Ulysses are the /lit/ equivalent of /mu/core. I'd steer clear if I were you.
>steer clear
>two of the most controversial/praised works in the 20th century
>mfw

it was okay, not the best read I had. Illuminati was better, in my opinion.

>>1729022
>clenthed
I hope you feel like a worthless idiot now.

>supposed to

>>1617802
>Not capitalizing the beginning of a sentence.

>>1599355
>no Greyjoys

The ironborn are the most awesome characters in the books

Question.
Wtf is a deathsheads?

"He’d filled his pockets with little candy deathsheads and he sat by the door and offered these to children passing on the walk under the eaves but they shied away like little horses." From Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian

Also a character from Nightmare Abby by Thomas Love Peacock is named Diggory Deathsheads.

Explanation is needed.

>>1562099
The Muirs are the Constance Garnetts of Kafka translations.

>part 1

oh boy