/lit/ - Literature

Wait, what?

Is there a more difficult book?

>>13131412

A formless and dull mass of phony folklore, a cold pudding of a book. Conventional and drab, redeemed from utter insipidity only by infrequent snatches of heavenly intonations. Detest it. A cancerous growth of fancy word-tissue hardly redeems the dreadful joviality of the folklore and the easy, too easy, allegory. Indifferent to it, as to all regional literature written in dialect. A tragic failure and a frightful bore.

which translation should I read?

i read for fun and i don't care if people say my favourite books are for young adults

>>11674009
>As for the inequality, I will yield that it's gotten a lot bigger than whats healthy
Unfortunately this is a trend that, more than likely, will continue.

>>11674009
>In my own native country we are effectively taxed at 50% on average,
I'm paying 20%, but I still pay more tax than the billion dollar IT multinational I work for. The amount of tax workers pay here is often a minimal to maintain a healthy workforce, while services for those on the periphery are severely neglected. 90 billion of untaxed corporate revenue passes through my country every year, but local (and vital) public services run through their budget in the first three months. It's a reality I wouldn't consider very socialist. Maybe it's just me, but I've perceived this to be a trend in most countries I've visited. Hopefully you have it better off!

>>11674009
>and the bubble always bursts eventually
See you at the next crash my friend

>>11605606
>>11605606
I guess so. I think a lot of new people found 4chan (and /pol/ in particular) in 2016 thanks to the presidential election. This new demographic is exploring the other boards and contributing in their own unique way.
It's very much like the influx of people who found /b/ in 2008 thanks to chanology, and make no mistake, /pol/ is the new /b/.

I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed, but over the years you could kind of follow the board cultures based on an average age demographic. For instance, the type of meme humor 10 years ago. Or the almost rebellious, anti-theistic, anti-paternalistic, liberal culture following chanology. Or how about the bouts of trolling between /sci/ and /lit/ when the majority of posters were obviously entering or going through undergrad. A lot of people have left since then, and they're being replaced by the people who arrive during these populous moments such as the 2016 election. I guess you can't really expect anything else from an imageboard.

Which translation should I get for this serious replies only

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aegP8j5al0

>wake up
>eggs, toast with lotsa butter, juice, chocolate
>coffeeguzzle
>while coffeeguzzling, read about 5 pages of Finnegans Wake, Chapter 3
>make a LITTLE bit of sense of, understand a LITTLE bit of one section, about 7 lines long
feels like a huge accomplishment, /lit
today's gonna be a good day

what am i in for?

Post-Postmodernism is post-sensalism
See:

this is the final boss for me. what are some last minute preparations i can make? who wants to read it with me in 2018?

What did he mean by this?

But no, seriously: what was he trying to do here?

>>10331348
>not composing your book entirely out of namedrops

>walk into coffee shop with book under my arm
>a few people have noticed what I'm carrying
>it's the wake
>I sit down by the window and begin reading from where I left off, half way into the book
>I can hear gasps and gossip of disbelief from my audience
>"there's no way" they say, "he's just faking it"
>I begin to read aloud
>fbtoogrjebleh, I say
>one could feel the collective shock from a mile away
>at this point the employees and customers at the register were watching in amazement
>the more insecure customers begin to walk out in embarrassment
>hours later I close the book and leave with my head held high, having not purchased anything from the coffee shop
>I can hear applause from behind me as I push the doors open and exit

What have YOU done today, lit?

I haven't picked this up in a while and I'm about 40% of the way through it. Refresh me, /lit/.

>>10158648

>>10115778
This one, brainlet

finnegans wake? more like winnegans fake! explain this shit to me desu

>"Oi, looks like Finnegan's 'wake"
really Joyce?