/lit/ - Literature

Better than reign in hell then serve in heaven

OK so it's a european medieval dark age folklore mythology fantasy series with wizards and dragons and dark lords and petty gods, and the good guys are white and blue and the bad guys are brown and black and red and green, and gender roles are very strict and there are no sexual deviants except as preordained evil and there are a lot of family trees, languages, heraldic flags and many poems, songs and stories and creation myths
.....BUT......
Instead of it all going quite well in the end with prince marrying the princess and them living happily ever after in the castle it just all goes to hell and the dark lord wins.

>>20071249
>Especially absent/neglectful mothers in childhood

>>10116621
>radiohead
Shit taste

>>9090612
>Don't speak a word of Frog
>Still watched the whole thing for some reason
Why did I do this?

>>7952145
>I hope he turns NRx.

>tfw Internet retards even have initialisms for their homosexual nonsense

>>7920223

Hello, /lit/. What are some entry/good books about French Revolution?

>>4629951
>>4629951

bumping for interest
also coming to slightly depressing realisation that I don't think I can remember the last book I read that was written this century

ITT: You post your face when history is considered a niche or quaint study and not the cornerstone of any examination of the human condition

How have we fallen so far?

any comment on this sort of stream of consciousness poetry (?)

Hard to get a handle on whether anyone else would ever want to read something like this or if I should just keep it to my diary. Pic unrelated

Pictures keep falling off the wall
Maybe its because my neighbor likes to knock his bedposts around
or maybe I didn't get those picture hooks in properly
but pictures keep falling off my wall
I come into the room after a few days on the other end of the island to find shards of marble and plastic all of the wooden slats
The scene of the crime isn't fresh, but I know who the culprit is
The man who lives next door didn't have any artful criticism of my painting of Rafael
the teenage mutant ninja turtle, not the artist
a gift from my brother
but I could see some measure of scorn in his eyes as he caressed the lacquered finish above his half shell
I could see the plot thickening in his eyes
and I knew that this day would come
so I take to my bedposts with matched vigor
and I start off with a steady rhythm but sort of degrade into something of a frenzy
he knows not to hang his paintings on the south wall
he saw that in my eyes and he was prepared
I received one sealed envelope addressed ℅ Master Splinter, the sewers of Manhattan
and orders of half-cold pepperoni pizzas arrive at my door
and I know that his cross hairs is turning on me with a mechanical patience
the kind of patience that only reptiles can really get a handle on
and in that envelope is one ripped half sheet of legal pad
and scrawled in leaky red pen
"cowabunga"

How do you consider yourself as a person?

Do you ever contemplate the nature of your personality; what it is and how it changes?

>>3500059
Why is Scanty with that strange man?

>>3290769

>Have to keep a journal for lit class
>Fill every entry with misanthropic bullshit and angst
>Mfw I remember what I wrote

>>3263490
>"It wasn't that the scientific method is wrong, it is: that because science is a human endeavor it is vested with human qualities--including the kind that is of the wrongness quality."

Stopped reading right there. That sentence man... I think you need to step away from the keyboard.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is certainly one of my favourite books of all time, even if it's not a Nabokov or Borges of prose, high brow and all, it still has the very thought provoking catharsis I look for in books. It's my darling.

I have to say though, that even if LSD experiences influenced Kesey a lot on writing it, the Chief's hallucinations and all, I don't think that is even near the focus of the book, the problems addressed there and etc.

I haven't read the Acid Test. I also don't know much about Kesey's connection with Jerry Garcia. But I guess reading Acid Test could be a good first move.

I have this documentary here, which was shown to the actors of the movie adaptation of the book, which addresses a mental institution at the time.
http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f240/titicut-follies-real-life-one-flew-over-cuckoos-nest-62
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Warning: depressing stuff.

>Have to keep a journal for English class
>Fill it to the brim with babby's first existentialism and misanthropic bullshit
>So edgy I have to be careful when I pick it up, because it might cut me
>Mfw I'm having a good day and I remember the stuff I wrote in those notebooks

>>3197520

>Having a great day; really happy with myself and how everything's going
>Remember the misanthropic English journals I wrote in freshman year of highscool
>Mfw

God damnit.

>>3063995

Picasso and Duchamp born during the 1880s.

>mfw the greatest artistic minds of the last century were 90s kids.

>>2974454

>Buy a book you've never heard of before
>Looks awesome
>Look it up online later
>It's gay and lesbian fiction