/lit/ - Literature

based on your faggy hat and coat, I will never, in my lifetime, read any of those books

>>1654143
You should at least read Google. "Dead Souls"

>>1654149
>You should at least read Gogol "Dead Souls"

fix'd

>>1654143
IT WAS JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS AND I WAS HIRING IT, AS I AM NOT A RESIDENT OF JAPAN AND HAD NOT SEEN SNOW IN MY ENTIRE LIFE LEADING UP TO GOING TO JAPAN, DID NOT SEEM EQUITABLE TO BUY A JACKET I MAY NEVER USE AGAIN, ESPECIALLY TO ADD TO THE WEIGHT OF MY LUGGAGE ON MY RETURN FLIGHT. ALSO, BEING 6"4' AND IN A SKI RESORT NOT OFTEN FREQUENTED BY FOREIGNERS, I DIDN'T HAVE A WIDE RANGE OF ATTIRE TO CHOOSE FROM.

FURTHERMORE, I DID NOT GIVE A FUCK. IT WAS MY FIRST TIME ON THE SNOW, AND I HAD A FUCKING GOOD TIME, WHILE YOU WERE PROBABLY SITTING ON YOUR FAT ASS.

>>1654156
HIRING THE JACKET IT IS, I PURCHASED THE REINDEER HEAD-SET THING.

WHEN I GO BACK TO JAPAN IN NOVEMBER, I'M GOING TO GET A FULL COSTUME OF A REINDEER, AND WALK DOWN THE CITY FOR CHRISTMAS. AND NO, I'M NOT AN ANIME FAGGOT THAT LIKES COSPLAY, JUST IT'S ANOTHER THING LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE IN MY COUNTRY (SOMETIMES AROUND 40 DEGREES CELSIUS, NOT EVEN FACTORING IN SOUTH-EAST QUEENSLAND'S HUMIDITY)

NICE DERAILING OF MY TOPIC BY THE WAY.

>>1654143
You should read The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol. Shit's whack.

>>1654169
SECONDING THIS.

anything but a Frank Herbert novel.

>>1654195
You must be the guy from the anti frank herbert thread, still on your vendetta I see. Do yourself a favor and stick to star wars.

>>1654205

Fuck both of them, original yes, entertaining no.

elfriede jelinek - the piano teacher
camilo jose cela - mrs caldwell speaks to her son
foucault - discipline and punish

Everybody Smokes in Hell by John Ridley
The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie
Lowboy by John Wray

Twilight saga by Stephanie Myer

BAMP

/LIT/, I NEED IDEAS.

I guess I won't do my favorites since they are well known classics everyone has probably read.

Stephen Crane - Maggie
Brian O'Nolan - The Third Policeman
Maugham - The Moon and Sixpence

Still classics though, just not as talked about here as my favorite novels.

Canterbury Tales
Beowulf
La Morte d'Artur

- Isidor Ducasse - Les chantes de Maldoror (The songs of Maldoror)
- George Bataille - The eye
- Raul Vaneigem - The revolution of everyday life

The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Ferdydurke - Wiltold Grombowiscz
Beowulf - unknown author(s)

heyy CAPSGUY the canterbury tales is pre ww2 authored by a male! why don't you read that? or will it be too difficult?

>>1654697
>>1654693

Most people read Beowulf and at least some of The Canterbury Tales in high-school.

>>1654699
I read that shit freshman year, it was rad

Brownbear & Deep&edgy confirmed for high-school tier.

>>1654697
BECAUSE AT THIS MOMENT I HAVE LITTLE INTEREST IN LITERATURE FROM THE 1300'S?

>>1654699
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>>1654704
okay so it's too difficult i understand

>>1654699
>>1654699
>>1654703
>>1654703
see picture

>>1654709
jesus dude

>>1654705
Fucking lol'd.
Where am i???

No seriously D&E.. where am i?

>>1654699
>>1654699
>>1654703
>>1654703
bet you both read a translated version too huh?

>>1654709
>>1654705

No one gives a fuck about your stupid tripfag shit. You can leave now.

>>1654709
YOU'RE A FUCKWIT THAT DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THAT SOME PEOPLE READ SOLELY FOR THEIR LEISURE. THIS IS BECAUSE YOU ARE WASTING THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ON A USELESS DEGREE WHILE YOU STILL LIVE WITH YOUR PARENTS.

IT'S OKAY I UNDERSTAND

>>1654715
stag made it wogwai

IDK about 3

Stephen Fry - English Delight of if that doesn't count The Ode Less Traveled

>>1654721
It's awesome.

>>1654715
Hopefully in the garbage where you belong.

>>1654721
no wonder it's a bunch of stupid troll bullshit

>>1654705

Stuff like this makes me think all trips on this board are just one dedicated troll.

>>1654728
they have a little club where they go and, i don't know, have teaparties or something

it's kinda pathetic

Paradise Lost - Milton
The Faerie Queene - Spenser
Old Arcadia - Sidney

Dr Jekyll & mr Hyde - Stevenson
Under the volcano - Lowry
Naked lunch - Burroughs

>>1654709
>onionring
>constructive

Notes of a dirty old man - Charles Bukowski
The Great Eastern - Andreas Embirikos
Bertolt Brecht - Man equals man

YOU NEED TO READ THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER BY PUSHKIN. ALSO, ARE YOU DONE WITH EVERYTHING FLOWS? ITS SO LULZY YOU TRIED TO READ IT AFTER LIFE AND FATE.

>>1654718
>>1654718
CAPSGUY you don't have an interest in literature, you have an interest in looking at words in a short amount of time

>>1654709
so thats basically admitting you samefag reposting this right?

>>1654705
also lol at my quotes. some of them were actually good in context

>>1654751
I LIKE READING BOOKS. NEVER SAID I DID ANYTHING MORE :D

I guess you do kind of have high standards /lit/

>>1654709
ftfy
Yes, I did do this in literally 5 seconds in MSpaint.

The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
The main character's hypocrisy and self-obsessed assholery makes the novel all the more intriguing. Beautiful, beautiful prose.

Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow
Vivid characterizations, the development thereof...

Sophie's Choice - William Styron
Soul crushingly depressing, or if not depressing, then frustrating.

>>1654767
This is interesting to read. I'm drawn to the overall impression Murdoch gave in her interviews and story themes; but when I sat down to read her (A Fairly Honorable Defeat) all I got was gossip over extramarital affairs and fag-baiting. Very blunt, plain style prose. This is asking a bit much but do you have an earmarked passage of particular merit you wouldn't mind posting here?

Anthem-Ayn Rand
Any thing Kafka!
Darhma Bums - Kraouac

THANK YOU /LIT/

YOU HAVE DONE A GOOD JOB WITH THIS THREAD.

>>1654771
“How did it go off, that severance, I wondered. Had he responded to the vision of 'all reality' which comes at the moment of death and by which one must instantly profit? Had he gone eagerly to that rendezvous and was he now, in what strange haven of release, 'set free', whatever that might mean? Or else, aching and weak like the shade of Achilles, shut in some purgatory to expiate sins which I could not even imagine? Was he now wandering in a dark monster-ridden bardo, encountering simulacra of people he had once known and being frightened by demons? For in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil must give us pause. How did one get out of bardo? (…) Why had I never asked him to explain? Would he meet me there, in the shade of some persistent horror, a foul phantom me, the creation of his mind? If so I prayed that when he achieved his liberation he might not forget me but come, in pity and in compassion, to know the truth. Whatever that might mean.

As I lay there, listening to the soft slap of the sea, and thinking these sad and strange thoughts, more and more and more stars had gathered, obliterating the separateness of the Milky Way and filling up the whole sky. And far far away in that ocean of gold, stars were silently shooting and falling and finding their fates, among those billions and billions of merging golden lights. And curtain after curtain of gauze was quietly removed, and I saw stars behind stars behind stars, as in the magical Odeons of my youth. And I saw into the vast soft interior of the universe which was slowly and gently turning itself inside out. I went to sleep, and in my sleep I seemed to hear the sound of singing.”

The Story of Your Life and other stories by Ted Chiang

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>>1654801

How does it feel to be the anti-bro?