/lit/ - Literature

I like Canadians.
They are so unlike Americans.
They go home at night.
Their cigarettes don't smell bad.
Their hats fit.
They really believe that they won the war.
They don't believe in Literature.
They think Art has been exaggerated.
But they are wonderful on ice skates.
A few of them are very rich.
But when they are rich they buy more horses
Than motor cars.
Chicago calls Toronto a puritan town.
But both boxing and horse-racing are illegal
In Chicago.
Nobody works on Sunday.
Nobody.
That doesn't make me mad.
There is only one Woodbine.
But were you ever at Blue Bonnets?
If you kill somebody with a motor car in Ontario
You are liable to go to jail.
So it isn't done.
There have been over 500 people killed by motor cars
In Chicago
So far this year.
It is hard to get rich in Canada.
But it is easy to make money.
There are too many tea rooms.
But, then, there are no cabarets.
If you tip a waiter a quarter
He says 'Thank you.'
Instead of calling the bouncer.
They let women stand up in the street cars.
Even if they are good-looking.
They are all in a hurry to get home to supper
And their radio sets.
They are a fine people.
I like them.

>>11557001
Huckleberry Finn

/fit/ vs /lit/ hype fellows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFBdivwRm5A

I just read Ulysses and Gravity's Rainbow back to back and I'd like to give my brain a bit of a break. What's your favourite novel with a very direct and to the point writing style?

There's more where that came from.

>>10045740

2 dollar words are for losers. The essence of creativity is restriction. If you can't create literary art with a vocabulary of fewer than 300 words you're a fraud.

"And in the end, it truly was a... the sun also rises."

jesus christ really?

>>9801749
Joyce would disagree, buddy.

Even Joyce was influenced by him.

I'm new here, what does /lit/ think of Hemingway?

What do you think of Papa's reading list?

>The Common Reader, Virginia Woolf
>House Divided, Ben Ames Williams
>The Republic, Charles Beard
>Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia, Eugene Tarle
>How Young You Look, Peggy Wood
>African Hunting, William Charles Baldwin
>Collected Poems, T.S. Eliot
>Ulysses, James Joyce
>Dubliners, James Joyce
>A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, James Joyce
>King Lear, Shakespeare
>The Open Boat and Other Stories, Stephen Crane
>The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
>Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
>Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert
>The Red and the Black, Stendhal
>Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham
>Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
>War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
>Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann
>Hail and Farewell, George Moore
>The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
>The Enormous Room, E.E. Cummings
>Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
>Far Away and Long Ago, W. H. Hudson
>The American, Henry James
>Complete Short Stories, Henry James
>Mr. Midshipman Easy, Frederick Marryat
>Frank Mildmay, Frederick Marryat
>Peter Simple, Frederick Marryat
>Complete Works, Rudyard Kipling
>Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
>Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding
>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
>Autobiographies, W. B. Yeats
>A Sportsman’s Sketches, Ivan Turgenev
>Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
>"Winesburg, Ohio", Sherwood Anderson
>Queen Margot, Alexandre Dumas
>In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust

Thoughts on Hemingway's novels?

His best? His worst?

>le epic manly masculinity! bacon, beards and beer!

>Ernest Hemingway

find a flaw

best short story writer in english?

/lit/ wins.

Big Papa be praised.

Hey /lit/.
I wanted to start reading something written by Ernest Hemingway. The problem is, I don't know where to start. Could you tell me three of his books that are a good entry in Hemnigways works?

How do I into Hemingway, /lit/? I just received a nice collection of 4 stories and I've never read his stuff. It includes A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Which should be the first I read?

what does lit think of papa's iceberg theory?

>>5950621
forgot image

>>5921443
How pervasive this sick leftist attitude of male opprobrium is, that Hemingway's work is now criticized as being 'hypermasculine' by the self-abasing men of modernity.

What is your opinion on Hemingway? His writing or his persona

Why do so many writers kill themselves?

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