/lit/ - Literature

>you just came in here and told me I was wrong without explaining why

>>8422816

That book is heartrending, especially towards the end. There were some passages that made me want to cry, like the Crown Prince's memories of the war in East Prussia; the peasant cavalrymen reluctant to trample the ripe wheat, the Russian with the lance in his chest begging the crying German not to feel bad. . .it makes your heart hurt. World War One began in late summer, right when the crops were ready to be taken in. I know from other reading that they delayed mobilization to the last possible second so that the men could harvest one last crop before going to war and getting slaughtered.

Reck's grim, short, description of the disasters in Russia was a high point as well.

>It's a the mailman didn't bring me my fucking abebooks packages today episode!

Books aren't considered old if they were printed after 1700

The rarest book I own, other than The Legacy of Autism in a Tundra, would be a book by a local author that has 0 ratings on goodreads. Actually it has one 5 star review.

>mfw it's from the author

>>7907398
s-she got better and left right?

>try to write genre fiction
>end up writing something of literary merit

Pilot episode
Start with the Greeks
Dave recently moves into town and throws a house warming party. Naturally a ton of Greeks turn up with hospitality being their thing. Dave has a heart felt conversation with a man who shares the same opinions on water and finds someone with a similar interest in paradoxes. later on Dave starts to suspect one man to a god in disguise when he hears him making a Dionysian chant and but so he grants all his demands for wine only later to find out it was his alcoholic neighbor. Things go awry when Diogenes defecates in one of Daves Nike shoes and Socrates dies of alcohol poisoning.

>10 page epilogue of a 500 page book where the MC turns around completely and comes Christian

>>7504829
>Latin finally gets revived
>Comic sans

transliterary