/lit/ - Literature

>>16349004
Asimov’s guide to the Bible

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

>>16349004
Demons

Prisoner of Azkaban. It's really comfy.

>>16349004

I'm working on my coding and listening to music.

>>16349004
your post!

Aquinas commentary on gospel of John

>>16349004
The Devil Chessboard. The beginning is pretty boring, recounting how Dulles ignored the Holocaust during his posting in Bern for the OSS. It seems like the author (a bona fide Democrat) just wants to paint him as a raging anti-semite (which he obviously was) before going on into his CIA career. I don't really care for this kind of moral judgement: just tell me what that person wants and I judge him for myself.
I hope it gets better.

>>16349004
Crash
It's not that great but I want to finish it so I can start either Ubik, or The Third Reich by Bolano.

>>16349004
persona 5 royal dialogue desu

Slaughterhouse five. I like it but I haven't read other postmodern novels to compare it to.

I’m drinking beer and just finished reading Kafka’s The Stoker with Physical Graffiti playing in the background. I only have one beer left so I’m not sure whether to continue onto Metamorphosis or begin the winding down process.

>>16349004
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH WOMEN?
How the fuck can you go to sleep like that? A cup of tea on a towel that says coffee in bed next to you and still holding the book like that? I bet she never even read Sade and the only Sade she knows is the nigerian tranny singer. Women are all worthless, ofcourse, there are a lot more important problems than women to worry about. We have to truly end apartheid, stop the nuclears arm race. We have to provide food and shelter for the white homeless men. Increase racial discrimination and demote civil rights, while also impeding womens rights.We have to return to traditional moral values most important we have to promote general social concern and less materialism.

>>16349370
have fun bro

>>16349004
Journal of Jules Renard

>>16349074
Im actually listening to that right now. its comfy

>>16349004
Just picked up Denial of Death, 40 pp in

>>16349484
Oh man I’ve read the first two and loved them. I can’t wait to start GR.

>>16349074
im listening to it right now

Trying to read this but the writing style is so fucking jarring and it makes it hard to follow and harder to enjoy. The author very often avoids saying things directly, leaving it clear that some other meaning is implied, but without enough context to safely assume the intended meaning. He constantly name drops new people, places, factions, etc without ever making any effort to introduce them to the reader. This not only leaves entire exchanges between characters meaningless, but it means the goals, motivations, and current objectives of the main group of characters is basically a mystery half the time. It's like everyone just reads each other's minds but the other is leaving out any explanation of their unspoken understandings. He often jumps from one situation to the next with no transition at all, to the point where it often feels as if entire pages were missing and have no idea where they are or why.

All in all this book is fucking terrible so far and I have no clue how it got so popular without anyone pointing any of this out. I'm hoping it gets better, because I like the basic premise of the book, but I don't have a lot of hope at this point.

Scorsese by Ebert

>>16349697
It's a style valuing exceptionally low-exposition in favour of informing the reader gradually through context, call-backs, and their own interpretation of events. Cook was writing military fiction that happened to be set in a fantasy universe, and the goal was to have a documentary feel, as though the reader is an embedded journalist who begins feeling disoriented but gradually slots in and gets a feel for things. It is a risky style that can leave people feeling alienated, but plenty of people gain a sense of satisfaction when the penny drops on certain questions they have had.

That said I am not a fan of The Black Company because I think the writing is poor, and would remain poor even if it was front-loaded with exposition and lore. Malazan, while suffering from its own problems, and considerable bloat, executed the style far better imo.

I am reading pic related.

>>16349067
Just finished it yesterday. Overall I didn't enjoy it very much but the final chapter is very, very good.

>>16349453
What are you doing on /lit/? Go back to whatever hole you crawled up from.

sadly /lit/

>>16349453
hahahahahah shut the fuck up

>>16349678
don't you have nightmares after reading these kind of books?

>>16349004
I just play Among Us

>>16349453
Lmao have sex Patrick

>>16352013
I wish, I never have nightmares anymore

Notes from underground

>>16349004
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

>>16349790
suspiciously based

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>>16349004
>before bed
The Poems by WB Yeats.

>>16349453
Based.