/lit/ - Literature

How do you get comfy to read, /lit/?

>>16083614
Night fren, I should head to bed too

>>15928069
Literally same, just started Meditations yesterday, which translation/edition do you have?

What is the best English translation of Zola's Thérèse Raquin? By 'best' I mean true to the original. I've heard Robin Buss and the newer Adam Thorpe are both good

OP, with your samples you convinced me to go to ebay and order a lovely leather bound 1870s edition of Popes' translation with Flaxman's engraving paying a fortune of 8 pounds to read during incoming 2-week vacation
t. non-native english speaker

bump for interest

So... now that the dust has settled, what WAS the name of the rose?

>>12252453
>what are you reading?
Flowers for Algernon

>what are you reading next?
Death's End (last of Three Body Problem Trilogy)
Senlin Ascends

>amazon kindle gem you recently found
>owning a kindle unironically
I don't even own one ironically

>>11840570
It holds up fine. When I was a kid I was frustrated by the slow pace of the first couple hundred pages. Re-reading when I was older, that part became much more enjoyable. Something that isn't talked about much is the weird structure of the book. Not just the very slow start compared to the rapid climax, but how Tolkien splits the narrative when the Fellowship breaks. He follows one group of characters and then, halfway through the Two Towers, we go back in time and join the other group. This would seem like a bad idea but the power of the story means it doesn't matter.

The first chapter in the Lord of the Rings deals purely with Bilbo's birthday party. It's what, 30 pages or so? Imagine having the balls to do that with the first chapter of your most important story.

Anyway, I think Tolkien's prose is a tad underrated

>That night they heard no noises. But either in his dreams or out of them, he could not tell which, Frodo heard a sweet singing running in his mind: a song that seemed to come like a pale light behind a grey rain-curtain, and growing stronger to turn the veil all to glass and silver, until at last it was rolled back, and a far green country opened before him under a swift sunrise.

>>11472929

>>11470552
Pirate bay -> x file to mobi converter

The only problem is that you won't get cover art once it's on your kindle. If you care about that, then you can use 'calibre' (which also helps with organising your files) but I can't be bothered with that shit.

>in a hole in the ground there lived a The Hobbit

Someone give me a book to read for an overview of the occult.

Preferably one with a cheap ebook version/torrentable ebook version.

>>11248228
/lit/

>>11240264
>we have our own culture and norms
>the Group Norm aka Old Wise One from Fifth Head
>anons posting together constitute the Group Norm
>Gene Wolfe has done it again
>mfw

Allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go.

Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake.

>>11213321
Some good ones.

>The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.

Gibson, Neuromancer

>Waking up begins with saying *am* and *now*. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognised *I*, and therefrom deduced *I am, I am now*. *Here* comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because *here*, this morning, is where it had expected to find itself; what's called *at home*.

Isherwood, A Single Man

>Here's how it started. I'd never said a word. Not one word.

Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

>This is the only story of mine whose moral I know. I don't think it's a marvelous moral; I simply happen to know what it is: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Vonnegut, Mother Night

>>11194912
asimov = sterile prose & high concepts
pretty much the opposite to gibson, i guess that's what anon was getting at.

e.g. asimov's foundation is pretty much the decline and fall of the roman empire IN SPACE (to extend my earlier meme metaphor >>11194573) compared to gibson's "we wuz drugs and the matrix n shiet" and when you go into space, instead of empires and starships, you get the high space jamaicans rather than empires