/lit/ - Literature

Obligatory "defenestrate"

>>16941189
I enjoyed south of the border west of the sun aswell. I'm also readomg sputnik sweetheart at the moment and I'm enjoying it thoroughly.
>>16941195
He seems to enjoy lesbians a lot. A true man of culture.

>>15383114

Welcome to the party! I worked as a doorman in a bar throughout college, a number of books can be read in this environment so long as you're not swamped and the owners are cool. Short chapters, poetry, are your best bets. They allow you to put the book down easily to handle a customer. some particularly pleasurable reads for me during this period and by this method:

>Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
>Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
>The Essays of Sir Francis Bacon

and poetry of any sort. Baudelaire, Whitman, and Coleridge were my favorite from this period. If American, many Americans respect Whitman. You can bring him up as a war poet.

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>>13986180
Also, when reading "nigga" or any kind of ebonics.
It's great for mental hygiene to not burden yourself with the writings of people who use those things unironically.

>>13881879
I am glad there are still worthwhile people in this board.

>>13829832
>Henri Poincaré.
Glad to see some of /lit/ still standing tall

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>>11571423
This.
>Little Prince
>The Jungle Book
>Just So Stories
>Winnie-the-Pooh
>Alice In Wonderland
>Through the Looking Glass
The list goes on.

In comparison, good YA:
>Salinger
>Maybe some Night Vale shit
>???

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>>10174133
>my cousin Diane, who was in truth — in waking life — the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.

>>9853851

>>9646302
/lit/ has taught me that if I'm gonna escape from my shitty life, escaping with dead people is better then wasting my time playing video games. I love the discussion even if it all ends in "fuck you you autistic cunt", its still better then upvote shilling on plebbit. And I actually like reading again.

>>9491594
this

>>9384514
Agatha Christie and Zoe Voss for myself

I imagine you don't read outside your genre much.

>mfw a fellow anon likes Zoe Voss

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>>8987242
My fellow Patrician. I stopped reading Cain so I could read the Black Company. I liked Dreams of Steel a lot, the Croaker chapters especially due to Soulcatcher's relationship with Croaker. I just wish it was expanded upon more.

As for quality? It's a bit of a bumpy ride. Murgen is the Annalist of the next two books but everyone feels a bit more bitter to me. Croaker calls Lady his dearly beloved, but I can't help but feel it comes off sarcastic compared to Soldier's Live. Murgen's books are also the ones said to cause the most confusion. I may simply think everyone is bitter thanks to a reddit post.

Sleepy and Croaker are the Annalists for the last two and I really welcomed Sleepy's presence and her way of writing the Annals. It's also interesting because she's the first religious character whom we get some real perspective on. Croaker is just as good as in Soldier's Live and his love for Lady comes off as more genuine than it did in Murgen's.

Some spoilers below, but my thoughts on the quality of the series after Dreams of Steel.

I will say this. Though there are some somewhat major spoilers ahead.

I feel the series would have been better off the north. The series always had some high fantasy to it, but I feel things go over the top when Cook starts mixing in Kina and whatnot. I preferred the setting of the North as well and don't like the fact that there are other worlds, but that's simply my personal preference. However, the stupidest part of the series comes near the end of Soldier's Live when Lady says that her mother was the basis for Sleeping Beauty. I honestly wish the Company had just gone on to find another contract or stayed in the North and tried to make it look like Lady still had a shred of power. In addition, the band of brother's feel is kinda dead after White Rose.

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