/lit/ - Literature

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adventures of huckleberry finn

>>21978200

>>21978200
flaubert

it's not exactly light fucking reading. his taste in books is as dark and twisted as his fucking worldview. In the show, he's seen reading "The King in Yellow," a collection of stories by Robert W. Chambers that deals with madness, the supernatural, and existential dread. It's not exactly bedtime reading, if you know what the fuck I mean. But hey, if you're into that kind of shit, go ahead and give it a try. Just don't blame me if you end up in a padded fucking cell, seeing cosmic horror around every goddamn corner.

>>21978244
HOLY BASED

>>21978200
Zapffe

>>21978548
Ay edgelord, the show was based on this and he was just promoting it like the rest of hollywood actors

>>21978200
The Tumult of the Niggers.

>>21978244
lmfao

>>21978653
Kill yourself Gardner

>>21978548
What a strange person you are. The king in yellow is just a mediocre horror novel.

>>21978238
is this actually from the show?
this is the only shot of his reading i could find
would be interesting if he really nietzsche though obviously nothing much stuck with him

>>21978200
It's a book by Jack Torrance, but instead of consisting solely of the sentence "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," it says " Alright, Alright, Alright," over and over again.

It's the Upanishads. You can see it if you zoom in the page of the book in a higher resolution pic.

>>21979327
Here it is.

>>21979341
how is this so high definition?

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>>21979216
Don't laugh at me but straight after the show I bought king in yellow and my /lit/ journey began.
'True detective s1' was full of sudo- philosophical quotes and IMHO it was zeitgeist-defining akin Silence of lambs or X-files as defining detective of 90s.
The yellow king book was meh though.
But the themes from the show are common with /lit/s rent-free s , McCarty, Pynchon, Dumas, etc

>>21979341
I've actually hunted after this edition of the Upanishads but it seems to be a prop made for the show. Funny because this particular scene isn't even in the show..

>>21978253
This book has a weird rabbit hole of its author, I don’t think anyone knows who actually wrote this shit.

Jesus fucking Christ with this thread again THERE IS A LITERAL SHOT OF A STACK OF BOOKS BY HIS BEDSIDE IN LIKE EPISODE TWO STOP ASKING THIS STUPID QUESTION AND OPEN YOUR FUCKING EYES

>>21979350
Who is this /lit/ guy you are talking about. Is he on twitter?

>>21978244
Waiting for the seething to commence. I am betting this will be delet

Lawn mower owner's manual

>>21979753
No I mean it was TV series
From wiki:
True Detective's first season explores themes of philosophical pessimism, masculinity, and Christianity; critics have analyzed the show's portrayal of women

>>21979354
This scene is in the show but it's not viewed from that angle.

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>>21979216

I’ve been reading the king and yellow to help me fall asleep, it’s ok. Horror is hard to write in a way that is scary to generations after film and games captured dread so well. Outside of steven king does anyone have recommendations?

>>21978200
off topic but this show's conception of nechian philosophy is so juvenile and pedestrian that it's distracting. clearly demonstrates the limits of the medium of the television drama, despite its popular 'elevation'

>>21978200
What show?

>>21982040
True Detective Season 1

>>21982040

True Detective, the first season is pretty damn good. The rest are meh.

>>21982013
>off topic but this show's conception of nechian philosophy is so juvenile and pedestrian that it's distracting
If nechian means Nietzsche, why do you think that the show is conceptualizing his philosophy? I don't remember anything pointing specifically to Nietzsche, if anything, the antinatalist themes and overall pessimism were borrowed from Ligotti, I think there are even direct quotes in the show. Also Rust was, at least before the finale, obviously a materialist.
>Verification not required.

>>21982201
>I don't remember anything pointing specifically to Nietzsche
there is "time is a flat circle" which obviously came from thus spoke zarathustra, reggie ledoux says it to rust who proceeds to reply "what is that, nietzsche? shut the fuck up".
but I agree with you nonetheless, I don't see nietzsche's philosophy in the series

>>21982229
>there is "time is a flat circle" which obviously came from thus spoke zarathustra, reggie ledoux says it to rust who proceeds to reply "what is that, nietzsche? shut the fuck up".
Yeah, true, I remember the scene well, but that wasn't "Rust's philosophy", on the contrary I always thought that he was kind of laughing at his pretentiousness, knowing that he's just a shitty redneck deadbeat.

>>21982201
Pride is the main reason people have children.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqeN2RRR3xQ