/lit/ - Literature

lul

>>11037844
"Simple French Phrases for Dummies" should be there as well.

>>11037844

>>11037904
Epic

+1 because only oldfags will get it

>>11038016
Kill yourself.

>>11037945
it wasnt that difficult to read

>>11038016
fuck pol but,
yes, kys

>>11037904

>>11038444
worth it? I've read On The Road and Dharma Bums. Both were fun, though I think Dharma Bums was technically better.

>>11038383
I see this posted every thread, and it continues to be just as autistic as before

>>11038369
t.nigger

>>11037927
this

>>11038454
I liked it more than Dharma Bums
it's depressing as fuck, by then Kerouac had abandoned Buddhism and hard turned into a complete depressive asshole. He spends an entire chapter and then some describing a booze induced mental breakdown in all its glory.
some anon said it reads like a suicide note, I completely agree

>>11038466
if you don't get it you're just a brainlet

>>11038511
sweet

>>11037844

>>11038280
I should get this, but I don't. Guess I'll have to reread it this summer.

>>11037967
why Borges?

>>11038368
The image does imply difficulty; it implies that the text is fragmented

>>11038603
This one isn't even memey. It's completely honest. I'm not sure how I feel I about that.

>>11038614

He's known for being well-read and civilized, two things noobs might expect from /lit/.

>>11038629

It's not him in particular, obviously, just a generic <person with a big library>. If you want some points for recognizing him, award yourself however many you think you earned.

>>11038016
(you)
>>11038383
faggot

>>11038634
funny because Borges wasn't an avid reader

check 'em

>>11038016
>too true for /lit/

nice

>>11038511
>He spends an entire chapter and then some describing a booze induced mental breakdown in all its glory

sounds like Kerouac at his finest

>>11037904
I need to reread this

>>11038603
thats a big cat

>>11038016
fucking retard

>>11038924
for you and the Master

>>11038636

>>11039043
>that hat
lmao

oc

>>11039052
>Yes Yes

>>11037904
>that time where he trips up in public and just lays on the ground for a while
Lmao

>>11038783
should put some tears in his eyes
the JUST ones might be nice

>>11038368

how many times and across how many boards do I have to tell you people that spamming a million images in panels 2 and 3 is NOT how you make one of these funny. jesus if these are the people I've been talking to in other threads then you really are morons

this >>11037904
NOT this >>11039394

>>11039358
I've read the book of Job like ten times and I have no clue what the fuck this is supposed to mean

>>11037844
Ive been on /lit/ far too long

>>11037978
nice

>>11038026
Stop deluding yourself you agedfag

>>11037844

>>11038368
You don't have to show off. Benjy's perspective was very difficult at first, but it was also very pleasurable.

>>11038617
Exactly my thoughts.

>>11038638
Nigga what the actual fuck. You're talking shit.

>Jude the Obscure
>Reasons to be original
>Reasons to never have relationships

>>11040726
He lied, look it up

>>11038933
underrated

>>11040096
God is like the smug anime girl saying he was there at the beginning. Its a chart of good arguments and you cant top Gods

>>11039247
it's reversed m8

>>11038516
You expected Juggalos?

>>11040748
okay that's pretty good

>>11038603
>no foreign currency memes

best part of the book desu

>>11040681
Absolute made man.

Holding accelorator and going where the game takes you

>>11040738
I'm gonna slap the shit out of you.

>>11039358
Serpent lion spurdo? What the fuck??

>>11040850
It's the demiurge. Did they teach you nothing in public school?

>>11040865
No...

>>11037844
accurate pic desu
Lolita was my slowest read so far, even slower than Critique of Pure Reason

>>11040860
Don't forget about the exorbitant amount of knowledge on designer menswear brands

>>11040928
You're not wrong.

>>11039034
How good is Tree of Smoke? Only read Jesus Son and want to read more Johnson.

>>11040751
low quality bait

someone post the anne frank one please I told my gf about it but I haven‘t seen it since

>>11038425
nice

>>11038361
Best part is it’s not even a bad thing

>>11038016
> Leftie produces a god-awful abortion of a "meme"
Imagine my shock.

>>11038933
>>11037978
>>11039130
nice

>>11040154
Nice one

>>11038016
he doesnt talk much about those belifes in the book, if the character in the book is based on him my guess would be he only sided with the nazis since he thought they would win

>>11039165
Nice resolution faggot

>>11040110

Man, I don't know if I'm reading this right, but if I am: 10/10.

>>11038016
>think this is nothing
>see that a bunch of alt-right pussies are crying about it
damn...

>>11038605
It just relates to the last few pages I think but some anon once said it's also about Norton fucking both Espinoza and Peltier

>>11038016
Céline is neither right nor left. He just does not like people.

>>11038911
You mean read for the first time

>>11037844
As a non-native speaker, this is perfectly accurate. Enjoyed it nonetheless.

>>11042052
I mean, this happened too in dostov and tolstoi

Why the fuck are untranslated french phrases not explained at the bottom of the page?
I'm gonna see the meaning anyway, looking them up on google, but shit, it really takes you out the scene

>>11038783
Saw the movie before I read the book

>>11038016
>needing text to explain your image
detected

>>11042165

Yeah, at least have a fat weeping NEET with a /pol/ shirt or something

Very low-effort memeing IMO

>>11042180
the logo is enough, mr. americano

>>11039165
>he's a proud massman

>>11040105
The beauty of Caesar's commentaries is that it encompasses both the 'expected' and 'got' part of the meme.

>>11041334
I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I'll also say it was my first of Denis Johnson so I can't compare it to any of his other stuff. Funny enough I've been trying to find a copy of Jesus' Son now

>>11042122
is it still a fun read as an adult? i liked the first one a lot as a kid but it made me feel like a fag so i never read the rest

5 years and im still mad i forced myself through all three books

>>11042849
lol this

>>11042879
kek'd audibly

>>11042879
>>11042896
Are you guys even real people? This autistic joke gets put up 100 times a day and was never funny to begin with. Seriously wondering if everyone posting it and all who reply with "kek" are living breathing human beings. We usually have a containment thread for Camus and DFW posters. Please stay there. Jesus fucking Christ.

>>11039165
Can I ask how you made this? I tried making >>11040681 as a gif but eveything kept fuckin up, had to make it a webm.

>>11042849
i am starting this one right now, is it really that bad?

>>11042973
>new users never start using the board
-(You)

>>11042007
Well, to be fair, that was really your fault.

>>11043120
I personally think Anthem is worse in the "what Ms. Rand liked in bed" department.

>>11040110
please explain
t. newfag

>>11040781
woop woop

>>11043618

Yeah I was thinking I should make the second picture slightly less bucolic since no-one really goes into Plath expecting that.

But wanted the contrast with the 3rd pic.

>>11043626
I meant to respond to
>>11040105

It was basically spammed in every one of these threads

>>11038454
>>11038444
Big Sur is a lot more contemplative than the earlier novels. It's basically an account of him dealing with the incredibly obnoxious "beats movement" that had sprung up around them, and trying to both reclaim some of the vitalism of their youth and come to terms with it being gone. Good book but depressing as fuck, tho the descriptions of living in Big Sur are comfy

>>11042844
Yes it's really comfy.

>>11043950
>vitalism
*vitality

>>11040928
Clearly the author is gay.

>>11038361
Levin all the way. Gotta work those fields.

>>11037844
Dictionary and also google translate

>>11038516
The first time I read this I was a teen and I thought it was dense and nonsensical. The second time I read this I was a starving college student and it scared me. 10/10 would bury rubles again.

>>11040850
Newfag detected

>>11043120
Yes, i really disliked it. Good ideas basically abandoned while author self-inserts herse;f as a genius millionaire business-woman with a couple of genius millionaire lovers. Story is shitting on collectivist parasites, shlicking on how smart and ambicious she or her lovers are, then more shitting on collectivism. This is the plot for WHOLE book.
Most people agree that this book became somewhat popular only because of anti-communism propaganda in america during that time period.
God this is fucking women's romance novel.

Remember when /lit/ banned Rand?

>>11038280
Good job haha

>>11043001
I used photoshop. But as >>11041652 points out, the filesize restrictions means the resolution has to be shit. You could probably use FFmpeg to convert the WebM to a gif.

>>11042285
kek

>>11039334
Currently reading and I dread finishing that books because and don't want to see his fall

>>11042061
Whatever you do, don't read The Magus by John Fowles

>>11038016
Left can’t meme

>>11039191
>yes I said yes I will Yes

>>11043533
Accurate. He describes himself as an autistic loser in the first page and then completely backtracks for the rest of the book.

>>11038016
the picture and its replies are are like a prophecy making itself true
congratulations, op

>>11042165
It was a banner

>>11038016
So what, it was still a great book. The WW1 segment is probably the best depiction of the war in literature.

>>11038630
underrated

>>11045204
Am I a brainlet? I never made the Ulysses-The Tiger connection before.
Nael truly was a genius.

>>11044191

>>11042973
kek

>>11045250
shoulda used a picture of legs in the 3rd panel

>>11037978
that's the most accurate ada cover i've ever seen.

>>11038933
the omnivores dilemma

>>11038280
This book showed up in my house one day. Not sure who left it. Is it worth a read?

I need to do one for Tiger Force
>Expected: Super covert SF group hunting down key targets, crawling for miles in dense jungle to recon, horrible but justified
>Got: Alcoholics with childhood history of being abused secretly told to kill unarmed civilians 5 minutes out from each helicopter drop off

>>11047400
basically

>>11047356
What's that show on the right? Is it good?

>>11037844
>no template

for shame, /lit/

>>11042285
finally one i can relate to

>>11038016
>the /pol/ice giving this all the (Yous)

kek

>>11038280
Ja Ja Ja Orale.

>>11047559
Just paste white squares over the covers in OPs image you computer illiterate shit.

>>11047744

>>11047543
>not knowing Legend of the Galactic Heroes
if you have the patience to watch 80+ hours of cheaply animated 80s anime - yes it's good.

>>11047400

Kekd

>>11037904
This so much, fucking /r9k/ incarnate.

>>11049035
Fuck, I just bought that.

>>11038016
Based

>>11049253
i didnt actually read it yet i just made that based on one excerpt

>>11049035
back to plebbit

>>11047348
Absolutely, what are you even asking us for.

>>11037844
Lolita had some fapworthy moments in Part I.

> that lap scene

Dump Incoming.

>>11050223
Wow sometimes what you get is better than what was expected.

>>11050315
Ha, this.

I had an interest in the Roman Empire but I feel like this is way too advanced for me. I'm still kind of reading it, but I feel like the only way I can get through it is to be by a computer because I'm not THAT well versed with Roman Empire history.

Does anyone have any recommendations as to literature I can read about the Roman Empire? One that can help supplement any prior knowledge that would be helpful for "Decline and Fall?"

>>11047816
nice

>>11050416
That is an extremely sexy book cover though idea though. Very good. 10/10

>>11051077
>not putting a picture of an anus on the ‘expected’

>>11038016
10/10 bait

>>11050416
Gallic wars by caesar, John Julius Norwich abridged Byzantine history and his book on the papacy, Thucydides Peloponnesian war, any of tactius.

Those will give a easy to read into to Roman life. You will notice many of the names and locations carry over and you will get better at identifying locations. Eventually you will realize who and where things are.

>>11052050
And obviously some of these are not Roman exactly but they all start to build a image of antiquity that you can understand.

>>11037904
Can't stop laughing at this

>>11038016
Can someone explain

>>11039247
Seems a bit strange to use a picture of Derrida himself as one of the 'what I got' philosophers. It's a given.

>>11042268
nice

>>11052481
this felt like nails in the hand

>>11052543

"Between nails in the hand and nothing, I will take nails in the hand." - William Faulkner

>>11040110
id appreciate an explain

>>11042849
Hank “Galloping Abs” Rearden

>>11047356
It's incredible how that man slept thru artillery shells blowing literally in the same house as he was in.

>>11050232
its greek you moron why would you expect romans?
>>11050272
don't forget the note at the end, that was cringe worthy

>>11043626
>>11052611

the post just above it ( >>11040105 ) is a good example of what it's trying to convey

>>11039334

ᵛᶦᵛᵉ ˡ'ᵉᵐᵖᵉʳᵉᵘʳ

>>11040105
>Only three yous
It is evident that all the oldfags have left the board

>>11054813
I think it's because it's posted in everyone of these threads.

>>11047400
Lol this is true

Is there one for The Black Company?

>>11047400
Why did you read that? Were they all out of teletubbies novelizations?

>>11052481
To be honest I was so mad when he returned with no fish because of the damn sharks. He didn't deserve this.

>>11055162
for my money, by far, best collection of horror short stories I've ever read.

>>11055189
It's just weird though.
All the characters have tunnel vision that doesn't allow them to question or break from whatever bleak thing it is that's going on.
We just accept they live in some World that working 23h a day is "a bit odd" etc?

>>11040105

>>11055273
die

>>11055273
please no, corn father

>>11055337
die

>>11055321
what is that, a cover for ants?

>>11051077
kek Coriolanus is an example of how democracy doesn't work

>>11045735
I just wanted cute sailor moon shit when I started Madoka Magicka, I didn't want that kind of intensity

>>11055339
please no, corn father

>>11042268
Should be the clock pepe

>>11037844
That books was disgusting.

>>11037904
kek

>>11055139
but the middle happens in the first book.

>>11043158

>>11042078
Is the book worth reading?
Loved the movie but I worry I won't get anything new out of the book.

>>11039253
I'm reading this right now, what doesit mean?

>>11052621

>>11047509
Accurate. Stoicism is such a ridiculous philosophy and can't be taken seriously.

>>11058489
>saying this
>not saying why

>>11052584
More like

>>11038016
Glad somebody finally said it, journey to the end of the night was such hateful bullshit, oh but that's ok because it's so nihilistic and hopeless lmao get fucked, go read Crime and Punishment again
>>11041697
calling bullshit on this, Celine was a huge anti-semite and actively collaborated with the Nazi occupation of France by contributing to collaborationist journals.

>>11052284
the book is about this young frogman who walks around and hates decadence, and it was written by a nazi sympathizer

>>11038016
based

>>11055197
that's often the case with good horror.
Poe - hysteric, solipsistic, maniacs
HPL - two-dimensional puppets about to be severely dislocated from everything they know
Ligotti - anons, silent voices, slowly tracing their spiraling down to madness

>>11040826
Relatable

>>11038454
Yes, I enjoyed Big Sur a lot more than On The Road and Dharma Bums (not to trash the latter two though, all three were amazing reads).

>>11038444
The last 50 pages of Big Sur fucked me up big time. I think he knew his flame had gone out and that he was going to die soon (which he did, 7 years later).

>>11038016
Nice bait. Have another (You) for triggering /pol/sters

OC

>>11052481
Fucking heartbreaking.
Shark genocide when?

>>11059681
sauce on girl with horse

>>11037844
OC

>>11059900
accurate

>>11038016

>>11043533
>>11045312
>he was popular with the girls, he must have been a chad!
Literally off yourselves.

>>11058601
Because it teaches you to be a weak person. Don't try to gain power. Don't try to better yourself. Just enjoy being a mediocre person while everyone else walks all over you and takes advantage of you.
It's a dangerous philosophy and most hypocritical of all is that Aurelius himself didn't even follow his own rules. Dude was the emperor of the Roman Empire. The literal most powerful person on the planet. And he has the audacity to say the condescending shit he says.
It's basically one step away from "dude weed lmao I'm a free spirit, just enjoy the moment brah"

>>11038016
>all these (You)s

/pol/ eternally butt blasted

>>11061143
oh, you're a troll. never mind then

>>11061143

I think you're missing the point. Stoicism isn't a call to complacency or passivity, it's a recognition of the inherent transience in all human endeavor. We have to die one day and that knowledge, though terrifying, can be a tool to help us consider what is truly important in our lives. At least as it appears to me, stoic tenets are about striving to improve yourself to the best of your ability.

You can't obtain all knowledge, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't read. You can't become a perfect judge, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't aim for better discernment. All in the same vein that, though one day your body is guaranteed to wither and fail you, that doesn't preclude that exercise now will improve you for a time. Climb what mountains you may while you can, but try to discern which heights are most worth viewing.

>>11061572
>>11061143
>>11061553

Incidentally, here's some relevant OC I've just made.

>>11061553
Explain how anything of what I said is wrong.

>>11058603
>all QUIET on the western front

>>11040154
This needs fixing there’s no alligator

>>11049165
what

>>11062862
Ehhhhh... That doesn't matter

>>11062862
Well, in German title means "Nothing new on the Western front"

>>11061143
>Because it teaches you to be a weak person
>literally the philosophy of choice of the most powerful person in the world at the time
Wew

>>11040096
Book of Job: Even if you're faithful and follow god, you will fucking suffer and suffer and suffer until you die. Have faith in god anyway.

>>11061513
/thread/

oc

>>11041780
why would you say that?

>>11037904

>>11063599

>>11061613
Perfect.

>>11063599
this, but for no longer human

>>11063599
>>11063599

>>11037904
kek

>>11055321

>>11058007
Yes! i loved the movie before reading the book. saw it many times. The book is even better!

>>11063519
It's a favorite of Nick Land's, apparently.

>>11043158
Does he actually attack dvorak in the book?
I saw him call it an abomination on twitter.

>>11061143
Congratulations, one of the most simple philosophies went soaring over your head.

>>11062049
Stoics say not to become emotional or irrational over things that can’t be helped. Here’s a really simple example: You can’t stop the rain. There’s no point in getting mad at it. Instead of cursing the rain you should do what you can about it, like wear a jacket and use an umbrella. What you’re saying is Stoics believe you should just be rained on.

>>11064743
Nope. That was just a joke about his use of qwerty. Also, lol.

>>11063516
Wow good one eh?

>>11063690
Imagine being so angsty you /want/ to be like yozo
Know some shame

>>11058686
You sound like a really fun person. But to dismiss Celine entirely for his political actions shows your ignorance of his influence over French lit, I bet you read it in translation you absolute pseud. De Man's work is still just as worthwhile even after it was discovered that he collaborated and wrote anti-Semitic articles for the Belgian collaborationist press. The "anything I don't like that could be construed as right wing is /pol/" argument is stupid.