/lit/ - Literature

>>12406907
You are full of shit anon and you should feel bad for lieing.

>parmenides is chilling in limbo with plato and socrates having the dankest conversations

I am /lit/'s foremost prose stylist and intellectual. Come for my title, if you dare.

The answer is obvious

>>9590473
>Wow, you really proved him wrong there.
>Guess you should've been the recipient of 42 honorary degrees, author of over 100 books, creator of over 40 notable ideas, and one of the most important and influential contemporary philosophers.

>I know I'm not disproving your point, that's cause I don't know the field well enough to. But seriously, what are the fucking odds that you're right and he's wrong

>>8934890
lmao you don't need to be a butthurt little crybaby just because there are people on your board who've had sex. The fact that OP had a gf was kind of paramount to the premise of his (literature-related) greentext, so there's no real reason for you to get upset about it unless you've got some severely untreated turboautism. In any case, >>>r9k

I really hope I got baited here

You guys complete your reading challenge for Goodreads in 2016?

>set goal of 30 books
>only read 15 before coming back home from dad's house in Florida
>It's December 20th
>try to pad my "read this year" by sitting around Barnes and Noble in the kids section reading as many books as I can find, like Gary Paulson, Shiloh books, etc.
>3 YA novellas from the library
>24 books total by December 31st

Trying to get a head start this year on novellas so that come December I can really assess how many long novels I want to read so I don't end up in a similar situation.

Oh, and I'm reading 40 this year, I hope.

America- Baudrillard
In the Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud- Henry Miller
Outer Dark- Cormac McCarthy
Man & His Symbols- Compiled by Jung
Myths Dreams & Religion- Compiled by Joseph Campbell
Utopia- More

i could study... but i could ALSO reread antigone

who else here /literaryfeels/?

>>8770111
I picked up Girl with Curious Hair at a bookstore here thinking I just badmouth DFW too much and I was going to give it a shot and his prose is almost indistinguishable from some of his main influences like Stephen King. I bought Infinite Jest and tried it a few years ago and it was just absolute crap. I have never read a book in my life that "gets 'good'", everything from Paradise Lost, Satantango, Lolita, Gravity's Rainbow, Shakespeare. DFW gets some pass that on the 200 mark the unforgivably clunky prose and ham-handedly cobbled themes will eventually become interesting.

Why are you reading him, when there's not only a ton of great contemporary literature, but a ton of great world literature being written right now, and thousands of years of literature you haven't read yet? You could read Stephen King and watch movie-tier movies and get an almost identical experience, the main difference being that you won't be sent to the dictionary for words that describe a 9-sided dice or slog through a copy and pasted outdated '80s merck manual with technical drug terms.

Sauce?

>summer is over
>come back to /lit/
>I'm excited and actually put on a suit and some cologne for the occasion
>clear throat to prepare my mid-Atlantic accent
>there are still 6 threads on DFW, pol nazis, newfags
>no more gays, Catholics or communists
What the fuck happened to a once great community? This fucking sucks

I love Infinite Jest, I just finished discussing it with some of my friends at my other house in Malibu. What did you guys think of the part
>Wardine be cry
?

Nah, I don't want to hang out with a bunch of faggots that read graphic novels, watch superhero movies and talk about "nerd culture". I'll be back at the crib discussing literature and philosophy if you guys are still up after the party.

What's this guy's IQ?
Must be at least 180.

Also, what's his endgame?

Infinite Jest

ITT: chad-core

Fuck you if you dont say dfw posting

>>7505182

>>7501375
Patrish

>tfw somebody squeezes your shoes

>mfw "read" solely to pick up women
>use /lit/ to get alternative and personal perspectives on works
>use wikipedia and spark notes for trivia & plot summary
>last book I actually finished was the old man and the sea in 7th grade

>>7146550