/lit/ - Literature

>>11289574
I quite enjoyed Dickinson's collected poems

Special Topics in Calamity Physics, it was one of the first books I read when I got into literature, so I really liked it. Not so sure if I'd like it if I read it now.

>It's another virtue signal about the wahmen you've read thread

>Wise Blood
bretty gud
change of tone near the end was a bit jarring but that's FlinFlan for you

>>11289574
Juliette Aristides' "Classical Drawing Atelier." It's pretty damn awesome and interesting. Beautiful art, too.

>>11289574
Wuthering Heights, I think, about five years ago. It was okay

Pride and Prejudice
Good

>>11289574
the latest novel by Ayalet Gundar-Goshen.
9/10 would read again. I love her books

>>11289574
I've read lots of books and I literally can't remember the last time I've read something written by a woman.

>>11289574
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann. It was good, not great. Currently reading The Children of the Dead by Elfriede Jelinek, and it's some of the strangest prose I've ever read.

>>11289574
it was mega comfy, too

>>11289574
Brideshead Revisited

>>11289783
have you read any fleur jaeggy? i haven't read any bachmann but i know they were friends and jaeggy writes about her

>>11289825
Only book by a female I ever liked
All the rest were pure cancer

10/10, really got carried away by her missionary zeal

>>11289834
No, sorry. Ingeborg Bachmann was very involved I guess. Friends with Hans Werner Henze and relationships with Max Frisch and Paul Celan. But I've never even heard of Fleur Jaeggy.

>>11289574
The Hunger Games. Six years ago.

Villette. It's OK. Jane Eyre in a minor key. The best bit by far was the description of the young Polly and her friendship with Graham.

This was admittedly a few months back. I don't read female authors that often.

Sappho was great

I finished Mrs. Dalloway yesterday. It was pretty great. Makes me scratch my head at all the posters on this board who say women can't write. If they can't write then Woolf is an anomaly.

>>11289825
>>11289840
E-Evelyn Waugh is a man though

>>11289574
Jamaica Inn, it was okay.

>>11290117
Not them but I didn't know that either. I guess I don't like any female writers.

>>11290135
I used to think it was a woman too tbf until I googled it. Such a feminine name

>>11289825
epic

>>11290135
Read Dickinson

Harry Potter

>>11289917
well, i would recommend her. i have read sweet days of discipline, i am the brother of xx and i'm reading last vanities at the moment and that's great, and also my answer to this thread

>>11290256
Have. She sucks.

>>11290847
Woolf? If you like Joyce hard to see how you can dislike Woolf.

>>11290900
Never said I like Joyce.

>>11289574
i read pic related a couple of weeks ago
it's a bit of a mixed bag
some of the stories are a bit dated but some of them are a bit weird which is good
the most famous story is the lottery which is a bit of an exception since none of the other stories are very similar to it

Autobiography of Red
Hated the YA vibe. Carson should stick to classics.

I've never read a book by a women. I see no problem with it theoretically though.

>>11289618
/r9k/

>>11289655
Holy fuck, I thought I was the only one here who had this book.

I love the rise of the ateliers that we are having right now.

>>11290847

You better read her again.

Susan Howe's My Emily Dickinson is a crazy mashup of personal scholarly digging into Dickinsons poetry, mythos and context, while also assimilating LANGAUGE poetry and that shit. A wild ride where you learn a lot about Dickinson and her culture, basically, told through weird post-modern prose poetry.

>>11291181
Just did. She sucks.

>>11290944
then you're a pleb

Pain has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.

It had no future but itself,
It infinite realms contain
It's past, enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain.

>just a reminder that the e-dick is the only /lit/ approved female.

White Teeth by Zadie Smith
I quite liked it, not my favorite, but definitely several cuts above the muck. Interesting narrative voice, perspectives, and such. Both enjoyable and of literary value

The House of Mirth

It was good. Edith really went after the roasties.

>>11291249
comfy gif

>>11291214
>Muh prose!

>>11291205

And why do you deslike her? What do you see as her main faults?

>>11291307
She was a tryhard and a thot.

>>11291316
lmao jesus christ why can't tryhards and thots be good poets?

If you are serious you are making me giggle. Dickinson a thot.

>>11291329
It's true. She sought out local rich married men to hook up with. She was a lowdown dirty thot.

>>11291343

Wild nights - Wild nights!
Were I with thee
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!

Futile - the winds -
To a Heart in port -
Done with the Compass -
Done with the Chart!

Rowing in Eden -
Ah - the Sea!
Might I but moor - tonight -
In thee!

>the best thot

>>11291384
The best thot is still a thot. I don't tolerate them in life, why would I tolerate them in books?

>>11291397
I like a look of agony,
Because I know its true;
Men do not sham convulsion,
Nor stimulate a throe.

The eyes glaze once, and that is death.
Impossible to feign
The beads upon the forehead
By homely anguish stung.

>not wanting to die in your death-obsessed thot's arms.

>>11291456
I guess you're a mentally ill college student.

>>11291397

I think you should read that poem of hers:

>Ruin is not an instant act

You’re in the process of erosion ;)

>>11289574
some psychology book. i don't read women's literature otherwise, just like i don't wear their clothes or take their thoughts all too seriously. i like to bone them, talk to them, watch them, and listen to them. but read? lol

>>11291512
She's absolutely incorrect.

>>11291537

Nobody wake up one fine day and say: “today I will ruin my life”. Sure, you can be hit by a bus, but the process of mental and psychological self-destruction takes time.

I just finished off of Ayn Rand's works by finally getting around to reading The Romantic Manifesto. I thought the aesthetics branch of her philosophy would be merely incidental to the whole and I'd be bored to tears but it's just as interesting as the rest of her philosophy.
She writes that art serves as a concretizer of a sapient being's conceptual values back to the perceptual level. She's holds that as man is a conceptual being that must volitionally elevate his perceptual material in conceptual abstractions, and those into still higher concepts; art serves as a way to encapsulate those concepts back to objects of perceptual assessment. To serve as an object purely for man's contemplation and a satisfier of his spiritual needs. Here her philosophic system comes first circle and the aesthetics of Objectivism is a capstone to the philosophy.
Cool.

>>11291563
Wrong. You're talking out your ass.

>>11291397

You don’t like women very much, don’t you, Anon? :|

>>11291590
I don't subject myself to them.

I'm reading a book by a woman right now and it's a commentary on the illiad, euripid, pindar and such.

I’ve been boycotting non male authors ever since the ‘no boys allowed’ screenings of Wonder Woman. I haven’t missed them desu.

>>11291606

I see, so you are a virgin then.

Also, you had made up your mind about Dickinson even before you read her.

>>11291653
I am a virgin by choice. You would like to push a narrative that I'm repulsive. But back when I had to interact with women somewhat (in school) they often had crushes on me. Three different ones even asked me out when they eventually saw I wasn't going to go to them and I turned them all down.

>>11291653
Not that guy.

Sexism and racism are great ways to avoid reading, I recommend both if you want to read as little as possible. Of course you can also call some a hack in case your main strategies don't work. Example: "Aristotle is a hack". Have a great day not reading, fellow /lit/ poster.

>>11291665
are you just asexual or what?

>>11291699
I have clearly defined values and an unusually strong will.

>>11291254
>White Teeth by Zadie Smith
I need to finally read this but every time I pick it up i’m reminded of the page count. Never seems good enough.

>>11289783
What a trip this book is. A tad too long, maybe, but she’s a great stylist. I read the first half in english and the second in french... interesting experience (needed a break halfway through).

Memoirs of Hadrian.

It’s one of the greatest books I have ever read, and I have read a lot. It’s a perfect work of art, a diamond sculpted with words.

>>11291523
I wear their clothes, take their thoughts as seriously as anyone's, read their books, and enjoy talking to them, listening to them, boning them, and watching them.

>>11291706
and what, like three swords?

>>11291758
I assume you're talking about Malina, since Children of the Dead hasn't been translated into English yet. Yeah, it's a trip. I don't know if I would say it drags on, and I have a hard time finding a real flaw with it, it just didn't impress me in the way a real great book does. Still, I liked the bits in the first part where they go to the zoo, gives you an anchor in the narrator's deranged headlife. And the second part with the father-dreams. Made me feel claustrophobic like no other book.

>>11291745
Once you get through the first hundred pages or so and get familiar with all the characters and how they're related, it goes super quick.