/lit/ - Literature

>Oedipa settled back, to await the crying of lot 49
never reading pynchon again

>>8989491
>He is a Marxist

>tfw me and my bff look like these two

>>7020855

thats fucking retarded. Playing homeless for two days would be at best like being on tour with the troops... for two days. After that you fuck off, after nothing happens probably, and they stick around until something does or their tour ends. You got none of the experience of the long term psychological impacts of an extended low intensity conflict, you just had two anxiety filled days in which you could have called it quits whenever you wanted. The troops did not have that option and (to make the metaphor accurate) have been on multiple tours before you arrived and will keep on deploying long after you fuck off. Months upon months of the shit that you experienced two days of. And you expect to gain more than a superficial understanding of the soldiers situation. Horrifically vain and naive, as has already been pointed out.

>>6502102
No in the future showers emit veet as soap so everyone is a hairless twink to their vr suits can properly simulate the genital regions.

>Gets swole by doing pushups everyday
>Uses his new found superpowers to break into a highly restricted secret corporation and steal classified data about m-murders
>Casually walks out
>Does all of this to impress his online gf who stopped talking to him

You ever noticed that almost every surname of every character ever in anything ends with 'er' or 'es'.

When naming my characters i tend to use people's names i've met in real life. Gives the characters a believably that having an Awesome McCool name steals from them.

>mfw discovering i was a humanitarian nihilist.

I hate Italians.

>>4809010
high kek

>>4737208
>and believe me I have read extensively into religions. Christianity is LITERALLY Diet Judaism + Jesus's aphorisms.
What? Most theologians and people who study religions consider it to be something more like 10% Judaism, 40% Jesus, and 50% St. Paul. Paul even directly opposed other Apostles and insisted on getting rid of Hebrew/Jewish religious customs and rites (like the rules about shellfish and pork). I'm not even him, but I really hope you're not taking your statement there seriously. I don't know how you missed the influence of Paul on Christianity, when he was one of it's biggest contributers, it's first theologian, and one of the people who held the most influence over it's early development.

And yes, Christian morality and ethics is different from the ancient Jewish morality and ethics it separated from. I really don't know how you could have "read extensively into religions" and still be so wrong on things that are widely known and definitively accepted in these religions.

>>4622053
I'm getting angry just looking at that image.

I'm a girl.

What books should I read? :)

>>3770915
If you want some REALLY trippy stuff, read his Cthulhu stories. That's where he gets into the stuff about extra-dimensional beings and shit.
As far as his short stories go, The Temple, Dagon, and The Tomb are my favorites. They're just good, creepy stories.

>>3459184
I was ridiculing the all-caps post, bud.

>chapter takes up immediately after the previous one

What's the fucking point?

>>3058286
>having sex with dogs

ok /lit/ I wanna ask...
What is the best way to read Shakespeare?
I tried to read it in English, but fuck can't understand (English it's not my main language).
There are any guides or books on he?
Should I first learn figures of speech before reading him?
What does /lit/ think of him?

Hey, can i make the transition from show to book with game of thrones? Do i need to read from the beginning or can I just start where the show leaves off?

I was a typical lefty teenager and as I've grown a number of my views have shifted towards a central position. I think a true "right winger" would be for practial application of science etc.
In general , it's just large groups of people that are anti-intellectual , and the right wing media panders to them.

>>2594002
Shut the fuck up ya bitch. Sharing your writing is about the opposite of being embarrassed. Every writer has written something they thought was tremendously awesome, when in reality it was a giant turd burger. Simply share, grow, and, most importantly, enjoy yourself. No one's forcing you to write.

>my face when john doesn't die at the end of john dies at the end

Because they invented Modernity

Do you think there exists a phrase or sentence that could make anybody kill themselves without hesitation? If yes, post it.

>ask American friends what his favorite books are
>"Animal Farm and 1984"
>really? I didn't expect that from you.
>"Why not?"
>because you are firm and fervent in your conservatism
>"So?"
>I thought you hated socialism
>"Yes, that is also why I love those books."

Are all of them like this? I mean, it's not that hard to see that Orwell was pro socialism in those books.