/lit/ - Literature

The Dark Tower series - Stephen King
A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick
Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Lord Of The Barnyard - Tristan Egolf

Fuck you Nazi mods.

>>4609677
wtf

>>4609670
why start a thread about this?
what does it accomplish?
could you have given an idea to make the thread new and original instead of yet another favorites thread?

>>4609678
>Starship Troopers
How does the film compare to the novel?

I read Dune and enjoyed it far, far more than the film, though I saw the film afterwards. Is the novel Starship Troopers better than the film as well? Because I didn't much enjoy the film at all.

What's with all these "top five/ten/whatever" threads lately? We used to only have like one a month.

>>4609679

They erased my thread:

“If Audrey Hepburn was a book character, what character would her be?

She was extremely beautiful, capable of being both cute and sexy according to the situation. She was elegant, classy, and extremely educated and gentle to everyone. Even before her movie career she was already elegant; she exudes an exuberant air of femininity and delicacy (she danced ballet, and moved with an unparalleled grace and easiness), and many movie director reported to have fallen in love at the first sight of her.

She also had a dark side, as a new bio of her tries to prove: “She was a heavy smoker who liked a glass of bourbon, she had an earthy sense of humour and a robust sexual appetite”

To me that makes her even more adorable.

And here watch this early screen test of her (she didn’t even knew she was being filmed), look at how adorable she is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSnKWwRCWnw

So, is there a book character that resembles something of this perfection?”

for no reason.

Sorry to use your thread to unleash my frustration. I hate the mods of /lit/: they allow any stupid pseudo-philosophical thread to live one, but any thread that speaks of life, of women, of topics that are fun (and AT THE SAME TIME RELATED TO LITERATURE), they suddenly ban. This guy’s life must be a hell of no-social contact at all.

>>4609670
>The Divine Comedy
There was nothing divine about that book.

>>4609695
>If X was a book can we talk about it here xD?

I'm glad the mods feel the same way I do.

>>4609695
It ain't my thread.

I always think the mods should do less thread deleting. But your thread was just a bit on the shitty side I'm afraid to say. I think there's "what is the casablanca of books" thread 7 days a week.

>>4609670
Ulysses - Joyce
Ficciones - Borges
Metamorphosis - Kafka
The Book of Disquiet - Pessoa
Stoner - Williams

Thinking of this I realize I'm pretty /lit/core much like >>4609711

I need to stop coming here

>>4609670
why?

>>4609755
Borges and The Book of Diquiet, although fairly commonly liked here, I wouldn't say they are /lit/core. And I would also argue that, despite the fact that Ulysses at least is definitely /lit/core, the vast majority haven't actually read it.

>>4609690

The novel was far less tongue in cheek than the film.

Whereas the novel espoused the benefits of a rigid, conservative society where citizenship is earned through public service, the film, in classic Verhoeven style, is as much a parody or ironic film as anything else.

>>4609702

>why

>>4609761

That's fair. I'd still call Borges /lit/core or damn near it, he seems to be required reading on this board and is more popular here than other places. I probably agree with you on Ulysses, I rarely see any discussion about it.

To clarify, I don't mean /lit/core as a bad thing really just I realize I'm too influenced by one boards personal favorites.

>>4609682

Maybe people want to discuss about their favorite books you turboautist?

>>4609821
Yeah, fair enough. I do sort of agree with the Borges thing, although I only see Borges threads extremely rarely, and the ones I start never get any replies, which makes me sad.

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Jan Cremer - Ik Jan Cremer
Salman Rushdie - De Dulvelsversen
Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

>>4609828
he used to be discussed more often a couple years back. he was right up there with kafka, dostoyevsky and camus.

>>4609825
why?

Atomised
Lolita
Notes from Underground
The Odyssey
The Stranger

They're not in any particular order but Atomised is my favourite.

>In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
>Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce
>The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
>The Waves by Virginia Woolf
>Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

I was gonna put the bible on here but im not quite sure

>>4609894
What the fuck am I watching

Doestoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Andre Gide - L'immoraliste
Marguerite Duras - L'amant(The lover)
Camus - La peste(The Plague)

sort of boring choices, I realize, but they were the books that sort of shaped me in highschool so.

>>4609894
Is that young snowden?

>>4609901

PROBABLY YOUR FIRST ANIMATED .gif OUTSIDE "FACEBOOK", "REDDIT", "9GAG", "GIFSOUP", AND/OR "IMGUR".

FOR HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN USING THE INTERNET?

>>4609894
I mean, nice choices, but they seem kind of tryhard.

>>4609910
For how long has your caps lock been broken?

>>4609910
You're starting to become just another annoying tripfag instead of the mysterious stranger.

>>4609894
>can't get favorite book titles right

>>4609910
you remind me of that AI in Hyperion

>>4609894
>I was gonna put the bible on here but im not quite sure

That would unfairly elevate some of the lesser works in the bible. I doubt there is much value of certain things like many of the minor prophets.

>>4609682
It's a literature board. What could possibly be wrong with talking about our favirote books?

>>4609670
the only dr. morgen i know is SS judge Dr. Georg Morgen famous perhaps for not seeing the forest through the trees

>>4609938
>starting

Of all the tripfags, across all the boards, in the entirety of 4chans history, this faggot has found a way to say, 'look at me!', more than any of the other unloved children. Bitch would probably be happiest trapped in a hall of mirrors.

>>4609949
[KWATZ!]

>>4609910
This is the first you've actually said something normal as opposed to something borderline autistic. I think our socialisation must be helping you.

>>4609976
MISTAKE NOT HIS PALLOR FOR PURITY!

Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail 72' - Hunter S. Thompson

>>4609931
I know it comes off as tryhard but trust me i love those, it was a pretty hard choice overall, i had other choices like Tolstoy or Kafka

I don't have favorite books.

>>4610411

>>4609670

Do graphic novels count as books? If not then my list is moot.

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Moby-Dick; or The Whale - Herman Melville
1984 - George Orwell
Watchmen - Alan Moore and David Gibbons
Othello - Shakespeare

>>4609894
>>The Waves by Virginia Woolf
That's the last book I read. I liked her narrative style (though it made me a little upset at first), but I hate how the most boring character (Bernard) got to be the "main". I seriously disliked him. At the end he got better, but as a 20-something he was pretentious and tiring as fuck, he made me want to skip some pages to see if someone else was going to talk. And Rohda (who somehow reminded me about Woolf herself before even before the first half of the book) had much more to tell. Also Susan, with her angsty "I hate everybody" moments. These two girls with Neville were the most interesting characters imo.
Overall I would rate it a 7.5/10. Not one of my favs, but very good (specially because her style). I will definitely read more books by her (that was my first). I was thinking about To the Lighthouse.
Have you read it? what's your opinion compared to The Waves?

Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand
Mein Kampf- Adolf Hitler
Infinite Jest- David Foster Wallace
Anything by John Green
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

>>4611096
You are the antichrist

Hopscotch, Cortázar
Mason & Dixon, Pynchon
Seiobo There Below, Krasznahorkai
Correction, Bernhard
The Sea of Fertility, Mishima

Don Quijote de la Mancha - Cervantes
El amor en los tiempos del Colera - Garcia Marquez
El Aleph - Borges
The sign of the four - Conan Doyle
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

>>4610894

Not that anon but page-for-page I consider 'The Waves' by Virginia Woolf to be one of the most consistently beautiful books ever written.

It is a 10/10 work.

The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Monk - Matthew Lewis
The Stranger - Albert Camus

>>4609670
The Catcher In The Rye-J.D. Salinger
To Kill A Mockingbird-Harper Lee
Scar Tissue-Anthony Kiedis
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy-Douglas Adams
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone-J.K. Rowling

>>4611257
You could not be a bigger pleb faggot

Off the top of my head and in no order:

The Castle, Kafka
The Complete Stories, Kafka
Gormenghast, Peake
Lolita, Nabokov
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Cather

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban - JKR
Playing Beatie Bow - Ruth Park
The Valley of Horses - Jean M Auel
Daughter of the Empire - Janny Wurts
The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell - Neil Strauss

I'm a pleb. I couldn't stomach Wuthering Heights and Nabokov's fans give me the heeby jeebies.

>>4611250
>The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
How can this possibly be among someone's favourites?

>>4611379
Because it's a great book, your taste is shit if you can't realize this.

>>4609670
Why are the books numbered?

anna karenina
brothers karamazov
lolita
runaway horses
siddhartha

Eric Fromm- Escape From Freedom
Dune
The Odyssey
The Prince

I've spent several minutes thinking of a fifth. I really can't put any of them in a top list.

Animal Farm
Slaughterhouse-five
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Shantaram
Scar Tissue

>>4611221
>one of the most consistently beautiful books ever written.
I agree, for sure. Specially how she accurately depicts the way children see the world and the inherent fragility of all personalities when exposed to the others. But for my personal criteria beauty isn't one of the determinant factors. I guess I like more edgy shit (in the sense of "going to the limits" and being challenging, not the stupid buzzword overused on 4chan).
Oh, and btw, my favs in no particular order (if anyone feels like recommending stuff, calling me a filthy pleb, etc. go on):

One Hundred Years of Solitude
On Certainty
Confessions of a Mask
Story of the Eye
Beyond Good and Evil or On the Genealogy of Morals, not sure which.

Difficult, maybe some random list... but those are the ones I've probably enjoyed the most.

Riddley Walker
Wild At Heart (the whole Sailor and Lula series, really)
Quicksand House
The Inheritors
The Cave Of Time

>>4609670
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
It's not a single book, but Isaac Asimov's robot stories are the shit.

I feel like BnW should be on this list, but I didn't really feel it. I was way too young to appreciate 1984 when I read it.

As you can tell, I don't read much.

Malus Darkblade series - Dan Abnett & Mike Lee
The Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K LeGuin
Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
A Song of Ice and Fire series - George R R Martin
City of the Beasts - Isabel Allende

>>4611257


great list. just ordered scar tissue on your recommendation. cheers

>>4609839
>why?

Oh my god, are you actually autistic?

>>4609670
I really like the look of that collection, anyone know what it is?

In no particular order

Dune - Frank Herbert
Eisenhorn/Ravenor trilogies - Dan Abnett
The City and the City - China Mieville
De Bello Gallico - Caesar
The Lord of the Rings - Tolkein

Lolita, Nabokov
Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon
Taipei, Lin
Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
The Prince, Macchiavelli

Uh. Off the top of my head:

Disgrace
Middlesex
The Quiet American
Infinite Jest, but try The Corrections if you can't handle ol' stretchyneck
Lolita