/lit/ - Literature

>>13200914
>not using catalog

might make an alright film to be fair

and i speak as someone who firmly believes this to be one of the worst books ever written.

>>8881089

>>8874372

>mfw someone bitches that Western/European culture is dominated by white people
>mfw people get mad that the place where white people live has white people stuff

>edited and abridged

>tfw reading Foundation and enjoying it
>tfw getting to the duke guy who talks like Elmer Fudd with a lisp
>tfw Asimov keeps him around for that section and gives him a lot of dialogue
Please

Read Umberto Eco - How to write a thesis.

>implying this thread wasn't interesting

The Catcher in the Rye

>>6138032
Identifying with the Steppenwolf is no different from identifying with fight club.

>>5876590

>>5860961
>poorly written work
>(Critique of Pure Reason being an excellent example)

Why wouldn't I win against someone who relies on peasants and is willing to sacrifice the king?

>tfw you have a literary friend

>>5709784
>when someone tells me he is going to get started on Nietzsche with "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"

wats ur fave book

I'm trying really hard to get through War and Peace

I really want to get into it but I fucking can't
It has taken me almost a month just to read the first fucking volume

And it's holding my backlist up because i have so much to read

>>5366666
Fuck you i was enjoying this thread

Why is there no apostophe in the possessive "its"?

Like
>The party explained how hopeless its prospects were

That's equivalent ot saying
>The party explaiend how hopeless the party's prospects were

>>5243610
I'm Australian so hearing some American saying "G'DAY M8 HOW ARE YA COBBER" burns my ears

>>5056140
>Chicago School
>anarchist

>So I'm reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera, (it's magic realism, btw. his style of writing is amazing)

>>1101011
Yes, Anon. The Great Gatsby was written in the 20s, a time period sometimes referred to as the "flapper era". You're very observant.