/lit/ - Literature

>>17360986
What's the album with the roses?

>>17361081
Look at the right hand side of the image.

go away /mu/

>>17360986
i feel like if youve been reading 50-100 books a year for a decade or more, top 5 starts to become somewhat impossible

>>17360986
Seems gay. I'll pass

>>17361096
God I'm retarded

>>17361104
nobody cares

Books
> Conrad - Heart of Darkness
> Eliot - Middlemarch
> Orwell - The Lion and the Unicorn
> Woolf - The Waves
> Joyce - Dubliners

Films
> I don't really watch films

Music (I swear I listen to a lot more than just /mu/core but I like it the best desu)
> The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2
> Avey Tare and Panda Bear - Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
> Slint - Spiderland
> Radiohead - OK Computer
> Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

>>17360986
Can anyone link me to the archive of the previous thread? I missed it.

>>17361222
All you had to do was click "archive" and search for top 5, to 3 seconds.
>>17322471

>>17360986
What a worthless thread

>>17360986
Sorry can't really be bothered to make a chart.

Books:
>Italian Journey - Goethe
>Confessions - Saint Augustine
>Metaphysics
>To Kill a Mockingbird
>Austin Osman Spare - Phil Baker

Movies:
>Scorpio Rising - Anger
>Inland Empire - Lynch
>Cannibal Holocaust
>Space is the Place - Sun Ra
>Stalker - Tarkovsky

Albums:
>Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 1 - Coil
>Automatic Writing - Robert Ashley
>Giuseppi Logan Quartet
>Soliloquy for Lilith - Nurse With Wound
>Guitars from Agadez - Group Inerane

>>17360986
Movies:
>The Seventh Seal
>Nosferatu the Vampyre
>Perfect Blue
>Blues Brothers
>Loving Vincent
Albums:
>qp by Ichiko Aoba
>Etazhi by Molchat Doma
>Come In by Weatherday
>Intermission by No Vacation
>Black Aria by Glenn Danzig
Books:
>The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
>Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
>Ficciones by Borges
>The Good Soldier Svejk
>The Canterbury Tales
Might be cheating but The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa is tied with Ficciones for me.

>>17361312
The Italian Journey and Austin Osman Spare are good, but To Kill a Mockingbird? Really?

>>17361160
t. readlet

>>17361212
>Avey Tare and Panda Bear
Based and underrated taste there

>>17361303
Everything is worthless in an objective sense. But humans are subjective beings. You find meaning for yourself.

>>17361160
I judge a book based on whether we keep reading it or not. I don't want someone I don't know to tell me what is "good" to read.

>>17361430
>Italian Journey - Goethe
Quite a surreal experience.

>>17361423
You need to read "The Library of Babel" by Borges too.

>>17361891
I know I need to finish everything Borges wrote, especially that piece as it is tonally similar to some of Calvino's work form what I've heard. I'll get to it eventually, there are too many good books out there and there isn't nearly enough time.

>>17360986
Damn bro

You need to lighten up a bit

I always forget that this board has intro taste in film sprinkled with dogshit

>>17361670
I disagree.

>Movies
Woman in the Dunes
Marketa Lazarova
Society
Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie
L’avventura
>Books
Mason & Dixon
Good Morning, Midnight
The Castle
The Lime Twig
In Search of Lost Time
>Albums
The Crowded, Lonesome West - Modest Mouse
Tales of the night forest - Black Hill
ゆめ - Lamp
Chopin’s Nocturnes
Frengers - Mew

If English is your first language and you don't have an English language book in your top five, you're a faggot. Just sayin'.

>>17361430
Yeah I haven't read enough good books recently to fill a top 5 so I added it because I remember really liking it in highschool. What was the most interesting thing in the AOS for you?

>>17362402
Baker doesn't go in too hard on what exactly it was AOS believed and i was worried about that coming in so I liked the angle he came from.

holy shit you people have a really surface level taste in music

>>17362483
Is that bad though?

>>17362348
I don't support ethnocentrism especially when it comes to literacy.

>>17361614
>underrated
>anco
>literal /mu/ core
I hate these threads because they remind me that I delude myself into intellectually conversing with 19 year olds. The similarity in tastes here is despicable.

>>17362500
yes, it's the equivalent of only reading harry potter

>>17362329
Literally the only thing approaching taste in this thread

>>17360986
Books:
>Tao Te Ching
>In Search of Lost Time
>Anna Karenina
>Montaigne’s complete works
>Borges collected fictions

Films
>The Big Lebowski
>Wall-e
>Mad Max Fury Road
>Uncut Gems
>Blade trilogy - Wesley Snipes is a fucking legend in that

Albums:
>Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John
>Elton John’s greatest hits. It’s not an “album” but fuck you
>Vauxhall and I by Morrissey
>The Queen is Dead by the Smiths
>Viva Hate by Morrissey

>>17362536
I would say that's an unfair comparison as these albums aren't bad as much as they are popular. What you're doing is the equivalent of saying Shakespeare is bad because he's popular.

>>17362450
I agree with this, although I was left kind of wanting for the raw and radical Spare experience as it's my introduction to him. Baker kinda describes Spare's own books as verbose and impenetrable, is it really like that?

>>17362483
Yeah it's just surface level zoomer (and young millennial) bait, I think it's to be expected though because of the age bracket of this board. The taste in movies is ok but nothing unexpected

>>17362536
>>17362500
actually come to think of it, it's even worse, an album takes way less time to listen to than reading a book, there's no excuses

>>17362533
I don't use /mu/ so I wouldn't know

>>17362563
I have yet to get to reading Spare's work so I cannot say.

>>17361212

>>17362533
Mind to share your taste?

>>17362630
>Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
>Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
>Faust - Faust I
>Velvet Underground & Nico
>Doors - The Doors
>Tim Buckley - Lorca
>Pere Ubu - Modern Dance
>Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives
>John Fahey - Fare Forward Voyagers
>Nico - Desert Shore

Any synth recs?

>>17362630
Books? I am currently reading all of Canetti. I don't have a top five. The last thing that stuck to my ribs was Soul by Platonov.

Films?
Largely a waste of my time. I barely trust the screen I'm using to communicate you you. The last film I argued about was Lynch's Wild at Heart which I still don't have an firm opinion of.

Music?
I'm revisting Liszt's piano works after a brief interest in the fall out of Weimar Romanticism.

>>17362710
Scaruffi is good, but the biggest issue I've found with his recs is that they are largely inconsistent. The latter half of TRM is not nearly as interesting as the beginning, vice versa for Rock Bottom, etc. His book recs are oddly paced in a way that makes me think he doesn't spend much time reading fiction anymore, never really did in the first place.

But this is all signaling, and my response is as genuine as your response as is genuine as my criticism ad infinitum.

ctrl-f Lost (in translation). No results. Fuck this place

>>17362743
This is probably the biggest pseud post on /lit/ currently

>>17362818
Thanks, a true honor

>>17362818
It’s got some tough competition but it’s a contender

>>17362710
Fahey is great, he was on my list until I thought of something even better. Nothing beats the tunes on the Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death imo.

>>17362802
Its ok and adorable. Shouldn't be on anyone's top 5 if he has seen more than 5 movies though

>>17360986
If you participate in this thread you are literally a woman.

>>17363019
typical feminine bitching

>>17363019
but thats great?

>>17362818
Accurate

>>17362329
If you like Woman in the Dunes, you should check out Brown Bunny. There's something about both of these films that connect with me in a certain way.
https://youtu.be/p4FOzZcqS5c

>>17360986
oh god this board is turning into fucking /mu/

STOP MAKING PERSONAL CHART THREADS

>>17365237
Why does this bother you anon

>>17365057
Yeah I’ve not yet seen it; I only know of it through the infamous Gallo/Ebert back-and-forth and Chloe’s dick-sucking scene. I really enjoyed Buffalo 66 though

>>17360986
(Fiction only)
>Ovid's Metamorphoses
>Lucretius' On The Nature Of Things
>Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
>Homer's Iliad
>Dante's Divine Comedy

(movies, not big on em)
>A Hidden Life
>Evil Dead 2
>Call Me By Your Name
>Kick-Ass
>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

(Albums)
>David Sylvian's Gone To Earth
>Scott Walker's Scott 4
>Spooky Rubens' Modes Of Transportation Vol 1
>Rain Tree Crow's Self Titled Album
>Mac Demarco's Here Comes The Cowboy

(bonus top 3 shows)
>The Leftovers
>Twin Peaks
>True Detective

Why are /mu/ faggots so obsessed with appearances? No coincidence that it’s the most leftist board.

Like I have the time to make a stupid chart so some autist can reply either "cringe" or "based".

>>17366422
Cringe