/lit/ - Literature

>open Harry Potter: The First One.pdf
>ctrl+f: "stretched his legs"
>457 results
mfw

The most well-read man has luscious breasts, a flabby body, wide hips, a fully ass and a high-pitched squeaky voice. You think reading is a manly activity? Is this because you think reading Infinite Jest will build up your muscle mass?

Reminder that if you don't memorize a poem once a week at the very least, then you can't even come close to calling yourself a patrician.

>>8251503
>'The first time I read Blood Meridian, I was so appalled that while I was held, I gave up after about 60 pages. I don’t think I was feeling very well then anyway; my health was going through a bad time, and it was more than I could take. But it intrigued me, because there was no question about the quality of the writing, which is stunning. So I went back a second time, and I got, I don’t remember… 140, 150 pages, and then, I think it was the Judge who got me. He was beginning to give me nightmares just as he gives the kid nightmares. And then the third time, it went off like a shot. I went straight through it and was exhilarated. I said, “My God! This reminds me of Thomas Pynchon at his best, or Nathanael West.” It was the greatest single book since Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying ... It culminates all the aesthetic potential that Western fiction can have. I don’t think that anyone can hope to improve on it, that it essentially closes out the tradition ... we have four living writers in America who have, in one way or another, touched what I would call the sublime. They are McCarthy, of course, with Blood Meridian; Philip Roth, particularly with two extraordinary novels, the very savage Sabbath’s Theater and American Pastoral, which I mentioned before; Don DeLillo’s Underworld..'

Back to /r9k/, frogman. I'm sure you have anime, vidya, and the size of women's labia to discuss

>>8141893
>I went straight through it and was exhilarated. I said, “My God! This reminds me of Thomas Pynchon at his best, or Nathanael West.” It was the greatest single book since Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying.

>But to have written even one book so authentically strong and allusive, and capable of the perpetual reverberation that Blood Meridian possesses more than justifies him. I don’t think McCarthy will ever match it, but still… He has attained genius with that book.

> It culminates all the aesthetic potential that Western fiction can have. I don’t think that anyone can hope to improve on it, that it essentially closes out the tradition.

>>8096179
If only there were sorts of mass book-sharing institutions available to the public so you don't have to shill out $15 in a manner clearly unsustainable to people that read regularly and aren't of unusual wealth or lifestyle

>>7986638
How cutting and innovative your insight is. Social media is, like, shallower than talking to people.

I'm asking for accounts to follow that consistently post interesting articles or link read-worthy material.

You're at the library writing and this fat fuck rolls up to you and says you have indiscernible talents. What do you do?

>mfw I look up my advanced writing professor and he turns out to just be an alt-lit garbage artisan

What now, /lit/?

No discernible talent.

Also, faggot writes like he was using crayons.

>>7556368
>>7556371
That site itself has a list of way more books from the canon than blooms list itself

Got a bunch of lists from various places, and if you look at the index it has a list of all the books from every list complied by time/culture. It even includes the Eastern canon.

http://sonic.net/~rteeter/greatbks.html#indexes

Keep in mind though that this mostly focuses on fiction and poetry ect, there are some philosophers and historians and the like included, but their are more expansive lists of those elsewhere.

Anyone here studying lit or finished their degree? Was it worth it?

gof uck yourself

>there are people on /lit/ RIGHT NOW who can't explain why they like or dislike a book beyond 'it's good' or 'it's bad'

>>6922989
No, Bloom should be required reading so students get an overview of the canon and understand the school of resentment (who's members are most likely teaching the course they are taking)

Where is the best place to read critical analysis of literature/philosophy?

Hello, /lit/. My name is Harold Bloom. Throughout my whole life I've been a voracious reader, going through whole libraries as a child. It's a depressing thought that most great authors such as Montaigne and Hart Crane are unread by readers today, but this website gives me hope. There are many threads made by people, growing up in front of the screan, unable to concentrate on the very act of reading itself. Here are my suggestions to them.

-Reading is very important for discovering and strengthening the self. Even a great short poem or a five-page short story can have great power. There's no shame in starting with the shorter pieces.

-Reading should always be a pleasure, no matter how difficult the pleasure is attainined. However, it should never feel like a chore. If you start with the simpler, but still sublime works, such as Romeo and Juliet or The Pickwick Papers, you will want to continue with more difficult masterpieces by the same writers, such as King Lear, or Bleak House.

-Great writing is marvelously varied in its styles. Because we can never know enough people in real life, we should take care to read many different works so we know a variety of characters, their stories, and the authorial voices that carries those stories.

-Every reader has their own pace. I may have been a freakishly fast reader at a young age, but I always read slowly with many of my favorite authors. I always go as slow as possible when reading Milton, in order to pick up his subtleties.

-Reading on the screen is the gateway for many distractions. Try bringing a book of poems to a quiet place, such as a park, and read the poems aloud to yourself. As a boy of age eight, I frequently chanted the poems of Blake and Housman to myself, enraptured by their power.

-Read authors that have been praised by critics from across the ages and engage yourself in their discussion by being a sensitive and attentive reader.

>>6539750
HOW DARE YOU CELESTIAL NORTH KOREA TOTALITABARBLEBRLEBRE

>Ah, young Mr. Anonymous. Your professor tells me you're a fan of literature, it seems. Help us settle a bet. Who would you say appears to have a better grasp of the economy of language, Richard Ford or Joyce Carol Oates?

>>6477709
>Don Quixote
>pleb

>>6452134
>not reading the same book at least twice more to make sure you will remember and fully understand the text

>>6424039

Wallace, David Foster: No discernible talent.

>>6409926
Go to bed Harold

>there are people on /lit/ that don't read contemporary literature

explain yourselves