/lit/ - Literature

>[sic]

These drugs suck, let's do some other drugs

Read moar Chekov

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>>3348205
Same series.

>THE END IS ONE BOOK AWAY.

I can't remember the last book I read
>why the fuck am I on /lit/?
Eye of the World series by Robert Jordan is boring as fuck

>>3348194
>babby's first philosophy course

I appreciate the movie more.

>>3348194
Socrates: We should execute babies who aren't strong enough
Glaucon: Quite right.

Slaughterhouse Five: so it goes.

>>3348226
I can't even remember, but I am pretty sure I had to fight back sleep, trying to read the first book.

>>3348194
Valis: THE EMPIRE NEVER ENDED

>>3348194

YES (DOUBLE JOKE)

>My parents are failures

>wut, lol.

>Check your His privilege

>In a word, as the Sea was returned to its Smoothness of Surface and settled Calmness by the Abatement of that Storm, so the Hurry of my Thoughts being over, my Fears and Apprehensions of being swallow'd up by the Sea being forgotten, and the Current of my former Desires return'd, I entirely forgot the Vows and Promises that I made in my Distress.


Robinson Crusoe

>GET DOWN

>if you're experiencing babby's first existencial crisis, go kill a sandnigger, that always solves the problem

>At least it came with pictures

>"Quality"

>>3348526
ha. that's just what I got out of it as well.

>>3348528
I loved the book, especially it's philosophical ideas and critique of the philosophy of science, he just got really damn excited about Quality!

>Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks

>you are not logical in the slightest

>>3348531
So excited he ended up literally soiling himself in the end...that's what I remember at least.

>I love the smell of steam boats in the morning

>>3348534
That is the most offputting bookcover I have ever seen

>Sailing

>DANGLING A CARROT IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE PROMISING THAT YOU WILL SOON GET TO EAT THIS DELICIOUS CARROT, IT IS DELICIOUS I PROMISE SO KEEP GOING

Some workers were butthurt once.

Henning Mankell's "Sidetracked"

Fuck, I'm a Swedish cop, I don't need all this shit; It's fucking Sweden for chrissakes.

>>3348199
Came here to make a line about this because it's also the last I read, but this sums it up, thanks. Good book, too, would recommend.

>Sitting on a park bench
>eyeing little girls with bad intent.

I could only think of Aqualung while reading most of that book.

>>3348880
>while reading most of that book.

well that fucking clears things up

>>3348194

>slavery
>child abuse
>eugenics

stay pleb

>Sit in a well and understand your feelings, fuck multiple dream-women, don't give any fucks about death

>>3348910
>also, cats are supreme beings

>Catch-22
>Yossarian!!!(?)!

fuuuuuuck

>shit we are fucked

>Having a job is boring, but not having one is more boring.

>Having a job is boring, but not having one is also boring.

>>3348194
Don't trade your soul to a painting in exchange for youth, stupid.

>>3348561
wow that's a nice cover. Mine is utter shit.
Pic related.

>>3348997
Was this worth reading? I read and enjoyed Lathe of Heaven

I didn't really fuck my brother, I fucked my dad instead

Catcher in the Rye

>Life sucks, stop whining and make yours better

I hate the republic. The book reads well, but plato's ideas are awful. I really don't agree with his stance on breeding. If anything, most people I've known who were born of elitism usually don't turn out as glorious as their parents. Look at the current state of the world, the oligarch are twits whom inherited their status.

Children should NOT be raised by the state because bureaucracy will be accurate enough to do ANY method justice. If anything, when you are being raised by the state, you grow resentful of your caretakers.

It's hypocritical to piss all over Christians while worshipping the ideologies of Aristotle, Plato, and other irrelevant fossils (who believed equally as retarded stuff (sun revolves around the earth, mass effects gravity, humans were made out of clay, etc)).

>>3349010
>will be accurate
*won't be accurate

Whether it be rolling sixes or Wiccan magic, destiny exists and good shall prevail.

The Illearth War (Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever book2)

>DON'T TOUCH ME

>well, that was anti-climactic

>he made the whole damn thing up

>>3349040
You read it wrong. There is definitely a climax.

>>3349054

The book is a set of tiny, gradually building climaxes, and then a separate set of subtle but still evident climaxes, and then a third set of multiple decayings of tension. There isn't one specific explosive culmination of the multiple threads. Rather, each thread fluctuates between several climaxes throughout the entire book.

Unless Gately's fight is what you consider the climax. Honestly, when I was reading it, I chose to take it as more of a "slice of life" novel than a gargantuan super-narrative where all the plot threads mystically mesh eventually. The spectacle is just "Look at all these various plots! They're all individually explored pretty deeply, right? Isn't that enjoyable in itself? They don't even *need* to be related in any other way than 'tangentially.'"

>>3349048
Obammer called this book 'an elegant proof of God'.

>>3348576
>Stephen King

>>3348194

Well, shit.

>>3348956
>"More relevant to today than almost any other book that you can think of"
>Jo Brand
>"... unlike muh husband"

I'm sorry, but why is that unfunny cunt allowed on the backcover of anything literary?

>>3348956
SAme thing here.

>>3349068
the part where gately's out on the beach is the climax

>420 blaze it faggot

>>3349000
Not the person you're asking but this is my favorite book from my childhood. Defiantly worth reading.

>>3349120
>Defiantly
please no

>>3348504
this isn't what I got from the book at all how is it that?

Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks

>>3349122
Used chromes auto-correct without looking at what i was clicking.

>Just look across the road bro what the fuck are they gonna do just fucking do it faggot oh shit BREACH BREACH BREACH FUCK SHIT

>>3348533
Fuck you for proving to me how absolutely unoriginal I am
me>>3349130

>>3348886
>lolita.jpg
>WHAT BOK WAZ IT>!!?!
It's an easy miss but check file names and stuff, sometimes it gives the info you want.

>where in the world is Herr Klamm?

"I know you're my aunt, but let's fuck."

>Obammer called this book 'an elegant proof of God'.
And with that, he has lost all respect on our board.

the doctors are good people

>>3349010
>mass effects gravity

um

The bell gets me off

Angsty kid doing nothing with his life thinks he is better than everyone, and is shocked to find out he is not.

>>3349178
That could also be the summary of Catcher in the Rye.

>>3349178
That's an ugly cover.

>>3349125
>>3348504
He's being an idiot. Murder just caused the problem.

Fuck, there's twenty more after this. So far, so good.

>>3348526

Also: Gumption!

>>3349068
Each main storyline has a climax. Hal falls apart, which takes place in the beginning. Gately's beating and subsequent refusal to take pain meds. He was sort of redeemed. Obviously, there's a lot more to it, and you're right that there are several subclimactic events along with "decayings of tension" -- but... The main protagonists -- Gately and Hal, both reach conclusions, although they are certainly not in the traditional framework.

>>3349213
Mersault is pretty much the same before the murder and after the murder, the only time I saw any big shift in his stroke of thoughts was when he was in the cell, after being sentenced to death and obviously with his outburst at the priest

>>3349213

face it, the stranger is just a shit tier book praised only by 3deep5u teenagers, just like catcher in the rye

>tfw you will never have a baby tree

>piss on me

>When I get to hell, I'm gonna be a race car!

> Ohm

It's an easy one.
>>3348491
lel
>>3349076
>>3348956
Same here.

>>3348254

That's actually a perfectly rational point. If we were to carry out utilitarianism to its limits, there seems to be no issue with aborting children between the ages of 1 and 2 -- provided they are dependent on our persons to subsist. Singer is an advocate of such practices.

>gay sex, gay sex, gunfights, gay sex, gay sex, gay sex, gunfights, gay sex, gay sex, gay sex, rectums, gay sex

"You're fucking my mother at night and now I'll fuck you up for that."

>>3349459
same

strawberry is my favorite

>>3349506
Sign me up!

>>3348504
To think he is in an existancial crisis prove you've not understood the book.

NOW THIS IS PODRACING

FIVE O, FIVE O!

That mutual masturbation scene was pretty cool.

It was like reading about a young lion trying to dethrone the current leader of his pride and getting curb stomped by said leader.

...i still want to die.

Stoner

>feels

Overrated hipster shit

Even a manly sailor can't bone a MILF without the kid and his wiener friends getting in the way.

>>3349222
I plan on starting the series soon. How have the first couple held up from a /lit/ perspective

>>3349444
I lol'd

>>3349908

maybe it would help if he cut his stomach open and had somebody lop his head off

>>3349972
Thanks, I thought someone might find that little jokey joke amusing.

>>3349991
I just wrote a 15-page paper on McCarthy. So maybe i'm just glad to hear something about him that isn't a very complicated analysis of themes. But either way I laughed.

Despite what you think of free will, all you want to actually do is fuck and raise your children.