/lit/ - Literature

>>19767506
Make that 35. I saw the aforementioned thread with the voting, but did not partake, for I did not know to the extant of seriousness, the makeup of those that wish to set off on this grand endeavor. If I shall not see you this fine day, I wish all a fine morrow.

>>19767506
hey m8, how can i register for this bookclub?do ineed an account of some sort?

>>19767632
'Registration' was merely casting a vote in our poll. In truth, there is no registration besides doing the needful, and reading your book with us.
>>19767625
Quite based, sir. Glad to have you aboard!

so the discussion will only take place in this manchurian maggot farming forum rite?

>>19768003
Correct! my dear sir. This club was created with the intention of bettering our environment here. Were we to take our discussion and outsource to some other venue, why, all would be lost.

>>19768015
ok then fren, see ya next tuesday.

>>19768035
Don't be nonsensical! Stay a while, warm your feet. Tell us what you find in this delightful story!

>>19768051
I shall in a short while, but I must take leave, for the hour for which I sup is approaching with great haste.

>>19768180
My apologies, I do not wish to disturb a man whilst he eats.

>>19767506
Would love to join you fellows in this endeavour, since I myself absolutely adore The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Containing a Faithful Record of the Perambulations, Perils, Travels, Adventures and Sporting Transactions of the Corresponding Members, but I only read it like 7-8 months ago so for me that's a bit soon to be going back to it, especially when I've got so many books to get to. Still, I'll definitely join in if this carries on after The Pickwick Papers and a book I either haven't read, or read long enough ago to want to re-read it, is voted in. Anyways I hope you all enjoy Pickwick at least half as much as I did and good luck to you gentlemen.

>>19767506
oneday.thatgotaway
>ib4club

>>19768525
Though I hate to see a potential Pickwickian decide against joining our little band, due to your predicament I must understand your decision. I wish to see you in a month when we decide on a new novel, an oxymoron isn't it? Due to the board's tastes, I suspect our next novel will likely be Don Quixote, though I could be pleasantly mistaken. We shall see, my friend, we shall see.

>>19767506
Downloaded and ready to read my friend.

>>19769146
I will probably skip Don Quixote, I feel like it would be wrong to read it without a knowledge of the chivalric tales it parodies.

>>19769146
Don Quixote would suit me wonderfully well; that is to say, I've already planned on re-reading it this year, so yes that would be superb.

>>19768414
No apology is necessary my most humblest of travel companions. You did not interrupt my feeding in a negative manner. Great fortune I have to not be of similar mind of the endangered Siberian Snow Leopard, that once disturbed from feeding on its kill, is likely to not return. I am nourished, and have refreshed my mind with a good sit in the out of doors setting of my abode. This scripture, may it find you in good health and security, is to increase the order for which this loosely assembled writings of travel companions sits in the catalog. Reading of the tale that has received the highest of marks, shall begin momentarily, and I will indubitably inscribe my findings, here, on this wall.

Great thread and great idea, OP. Thank you.

>>19767506
This is one of the most based threads I've ever seen.

>>19767506
What a delightfully chaotic first chapter! It reminded me of the confusion and bewilderment I experienced when I read the first chapter of Blood Meridian, though not so violent.
The second chapter was fantastic as well. I never realized that this scene from Dead Poets Society was taken from this book!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dh8C_HHE2g

>>19767506
I wonder if the exchange between Winkle and Snodgrass concerning the duel had any influence on this scene from Woody Allen's Love & Death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2JVOrAZGU

>>19770948
I like what was said in the first chapter, on love. I got a little chuckle out of it.

>>19771085
I don't remember the quote specifically, what was it?

>>19771147
On his right sat Mr. Tracy Tupman—the too susceptible Tupman, who to the wisdom and experience of maturer years superadded the enthusiasm and ardour of a boy in the most interesting and pardonable of human weaknesses—love.

>you fags picked 800 pages of dickens first
fuck bros i dont feel so good

>>19771268
Stop wasting your time here.

>>19771165
Ah yes that's the one! And it is this 'weakness' which gets him into a bit of trouble in the second and third chapters!

>>19771553
I vaguely remember that from reading it before. I did enjoy immensely, but I'm not going to read it til I wake up though. I've been ending things in the middle somewhat lately, to try to stop me from getting locked in and not going to sleep. But I'll certainly talk about the rest of chapter two and beyond tomorrow. So exciting.

I'm ready.

>>19772138
Alright then. Bend over.

Kek, the first two chapters are hilarious. But the prose filtered me hard, i had to reread sentences frequently

>>19773048
His prose, for all of it's beauty and candor, often dips into density.

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>>19773048
Good morning Pickwicks! Remember to do the needful and read full today!

>>19773489
if that pic ain't comfy, i don't know what is

I'm not letting this thread get killed by shitposting.

>>19774644
It's nice to see that you're in it for the long haul.

>>19767506
Salutations, my good man! I do hope I did not miss the coach on this most eminent journey. In this rather deplorable neighborhood I am pleased to find a bastion of enlightenment and good manners. I look forward to the adventures that await us in the coming weeks!

oi i thought mr. winkle was a goner for certain there in chapter two— looking forward to the hijinx sure to come in chapter three

>>19775092
No no. We are still on schedule. We just had a ruffian come about these ways and give us a licken, like the beginning of chapter two, but we're well on our way.

>>19775432
Phooey! A man such as Winkle never says die and so ne'er shall!

Pickwick Papers is a legendary romp. I can't pick a favorite episode but perhaps Sam Weller on the stand in court. Try and get an illustrated edition if you can, they really add a lot of charm.

>There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable consideration, as when he is in the pursuit of his own hat.

>>19767506
>"Ah! poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage--strip the one of its false embellishments, and the other of its illusions, and what is there real in either to live or care for?"
I like this quote.

Brainlet checking in here. Why does the cab driver get so upset with Pickwick in Chapter 2? What does he mean when he calls them 'informers?'

>>19775945
Doesn't it say, because Pickwick was writing down information, and wasn't willing to pay what the cab driver thought warranted from him collecting said data.

>>19775601
yeah, I'm reading the pirated epub of that illustrated version which also comes with introduction and footnotes. These additions do help add nuance

>>19767506
I hope we'll see some of these characters again, specifically Lieutenant Tappleton, Doctor Slammer and Joe the Fat Boy.

Strange...I just watched the series so I have no idea if I would really want to read the book but the coincidence is tempting me to so I probably will. I'm a bit late though I guess.

>>19776732
Take your time.

>>19776732
You're not late at all, my dear friend, you're just in time. This is only the first week! There really isn't a pace you must follow, we all just aim to finish up right around a month from now.

>"And allow me to say, Sir," said the irascible Doctor Payne, "that if I had been Tappleton, or if I had been Slammer, I would have pulled your nose, Sir, and the nose of every man in this company. I would, Sir, – every man."
my sides

bump

>>19777601
>Do you bite your thumb, sir?