/lit/ - Literature

>>22089861
>LOL haha i remember a youtube skit about that haha fellow 4channelers LOL

>>20471329
You presumably have all three books if you have the pic you posted...so why wouldn't you just read all three? I don't understand this mentality
That aside, Purgatorio and Paradiso surpass Inferno considerably. Absolutely transcendent works of poetry

>>19971303
>(video_game)

>>19599418
>>19599413
You are both coping faggotrons and I will be glad of heart when Ebola AIDS niggers finish your assholes.

I completely forgot one of the books I read this year...

>I'm just tired of being ao goddamn stupid, anons.

>>19085858
anyone know what to do about this? how do I slap myself back into normalcy?
or can being this far gone in numbness to self be beneficial for writing?
>>19085343 is what I'm starting to sound like, don't think it's doing me any favors

>>18938648
>See, here's the thing. I refuse to believe "incels" are real. Even the weirdo nerds in small towns like ours got laid before they finished highschool. Finding a romantic partner, let alone a casual fling for a night, isn't hard if you literally just talk to someone for a little bit.
Bad take

>shelf thread
>most posters own like 10-20 books
>lots of YA garbage, pop "science" and "non-fiction", meme trash, pseudo-philosophy,. celeb biographies, weeb shit and children's comics
You're as bad as the Funko Pop faggots you keep making fun of, you pretentious cunts. No wonder every other thread is full of people calling each other stormcucks and reddit trannies, posting shit poetry, and misunderstanding stoicism. Fuck this board and I'll see you dumb assholes tomorrow.

>Kerouac

>>16132619
>so many important Christian works of literature and art in the hands of Bergs and Steins, Greens and Golds, Baums and Blatts

Took two posts by overconfident midwits to make this thread trash.

You guys are working faster and faster with each passing day.

Can anyone point me in the direction to any books about lookism? Non fiction books preferably. Incel forums and pdfs don't count.

>>14451233
You could even say a will to power. This could be an idea worth exploring.

tmw i have to interact with irl lit/"intellectual" people because the nature of my job.
mfw they are the most shallow assemble of people ive ever met

What are some lines you count as pseudo-intellectual writings?
for me it's when the author wants to interpret the life as a doomed thing

>>13103805
>Tarkovski
Pic related
>>13104196
Magnolia is great. I never actually saw the over dramatic angle that people always claim. I can sort of see it in Tom Cruise's performance and William H Macy's but PSH and Julianne moore gave some decent performances imo. I think the movie fits really well in the new sincerity movement which was its closest artistic context. Magnolia feels like a David Foster Wallace work but like...better.
>>13104090
I find watching older french films helps me practice. Less slang. I can understand Le Grand Illusion but if you put La Haine in front of me Im fucked.
>>13104221
Brainlet tier comment
>>13104274
I would reccomend Hideaki Anno's work specifically Ryusei Kacho if you can find a copy. Have you seen Love Exposure?
>>13104292
Maybe not what you're looking for but In the Mouth of Madness is in my opinion the most post structuralist John Carpenter movie

I watched today that movie on TV as well.
My first thought was
>Wow, literally me

>>12171120
>But anon, if I browse /lit/ now I'll be the ultimate patrician by the time I'm 30

>>12081096
How insecure do you have to be with yourself and your sexuality to call a woman a whore because she has a bit of cleavage showing. Welcome back to the 18th century I guess.

This fucking board sometimes, I swear. Probably all the reddit and /pol/ posters

>>11923945
>oh nooooo noisesssss

>>11395909
>common sense

>>11384387
To claim that either medium is "better" than the other is silly in the first place — there are stories that simply work better in one than the other, and there are intersections between the two.

Film and literature have been in dialog since the day film was invented. Each benefits from the other's existence, and each informs the other. They're just suited to different sorts of experiences.

Ulysses could never be anything other than a novel, and Citizen Kane could never be anything other than a film. To even aim at a similar goal across mediums, you'd have to eliminate nearly all of the substance of the original and start anew.

Let great artists make great art, and let audiences find that art. This bullshit about whichever medium is "superior" is just a distraction from thoughtful appreciation and discussion of great works.

>>11376851
>There's no interior monologue in the play...
I'll take "idiots who don't know what (aside) means" for 500, Alex.

>be 14 and buy a Lovecraft shortstory collection
>mother is bipolar, every morning talks to herself and threatens to commit suicide
>for the first time ever, my mother shows interest in one of my books and tells me to write my name and address in the front
>obey
>she wants to see what the book's about, turns to the first story, Dagon
>"... and throw myself through the garret window into the street below."
>Hey anon, this word, garret, you know what it means? Underline it.
>obey
>"Maybe one day i'll do that too."
>Walks away
>
>stuck with permanently ruined book now
Thanks, mom.