/lit/ - Literature

slammin cover holmes where u cop that at?

>>11102349
Probably The Three Musketeers

>>11102349
so far

>>11102708
my man

>nobody gets OP's joke

>>11102753
?

>>11102782
Siddhartha is like, 100 pages that a child could read. This is a disguised pseud thread.

>>11102812
I've met people past the age of twenty who say Siddhartha is their favorite book

>>11102751
>dude allow me to digress for it is in the authors nature to tell all that must be told and mayhaps even some that must not lmao

>>11102820
t. didn't get the whole book

>>11102818
I'm so sorry for you anon

>>11102823
I only read the first part. I just started it a couple days ago

>>11102812
>>11102825
There's nothing wrong with being a teenager, but LARPing as mature on an anonymous internet forum is just dumb. Enjoy your youth instead of making stupid comments in order to persudade youself of your own "maturity".

>>11102854
Sorry for offending you so badly Anon, might I suggest reading some Goosebumps books next?

>>11102854
My point was that it was hasty to assume that OP was making a pseud bait thread, because some people genuinely enjoy Siddhartha.
>but LARPing as mature on an anonymous internet forum is just dumb. Enjoy your youth instead of making stupid comments in order to persudade youself of your own "maturity".
You mean like you're doing, right now?

>>11102349

>>11102860
>>11102861
>n-no you

>>11102349
At the moment, it's pic related.

Fear and loathing in Las Vegas

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>>11102349
Not joking Siddhartha is actually my favorite book so far.

>>11102751
if I’m not a native should I bother reading this in english or just read a translation?

I can read in english things like Stoner and Hemingway, Steinbeck or Fitzgerald. I can’t read Moby Dick all that well though and A portrait of the artist as a young man gave me some trouble in the first 50 something pages

This and Anna Karenina do it for me

>>11106151
So far as I've read (only ~340p in), he actually uses mostly plain English, except for those parts where they might spell should as shou'd or though as tho' and such. The biggest problem for you might be the sentence structure. It's a lot of long, very wordy and digressive sentences that separate with a whole markup of dashes and colons and semicolons, but not periods, to lay out this thought and that thought in a not-so conventionally (according to contemporary writing conventions) straightforward manner.

>>11106151
In all six hundred pages there is probably not a single one that doesn't involved a play on words. So I would say read it in English if you can. What's your native language?

>>11106167
I guess I’ll check a pdf to see if I can follow before buying it then
>>11106174
Spanish. Last 3 books I read were all in English, but they were fairly easy reads

>>11102868
nice

I know it's an intro level meme but I still love it.

>>11102349
Fiction: On the Road
Non-fiction: Anything by Marx

Bataille's book on Lascaux

this desu

Moby Dick

>>11107871
I just bought it. What am I in for?

Got a few, but this is the most recent. Absolutely amazing.

>>11107874
>I just bought it. What am I in for?
Care to extrapolate?

>>11107878
Go to bed, Tao.

>>11107871
caius...easy on the skooma

>>11107876
yes
YES

I actually was reading this in the last month of my wife's pregnancy. It really helped.