/lit/ - Literature

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!

SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!!!!!!!!

FUCK!

FUCK!

I KNOW ABOUT GASPING ATTACKS AND MIRROR BLOOD

I KNOW ABOUT SHIT BAGS AND SHAME

I KNOW A FUCK LOT MORE THAN YOU REALIZE

I KNOW A FUCK LOT MORE THAN YOU THINK

I KNOW WHY YOU CAN TAKE A KISS, BUT NOT A BONE-COUNT HUG. I KNOW YOU BITE YOUR FAT BANANA FINGER NAILS, AND I KNOW WHY YOU'D NEED TO SHAVE, I KNOW YOU'RE A SLOW FUSSY PATHETIC EATER, AND I KNOW YOU DON'T SLEEP MUCH.

But I'll still tell you, it's helping. and I'll still tell you, you're doing the right thing....

>>6635240
DEEZNUTZ

>>6635247
Brod just sucked every cent he could out of his friendship with Kafka, didn't he?

>>6635316
yeah, he was cock loving faggot. i hope he gets raped by a dog with a big dick. i hope he gets raped so hard the dog dick will kill him because it slid in and out of his asshole too fast.

>>6635266

>>6635351
saved

:^)

Bought Tristram Shandy, its pretty memey.

Took this a few days ago for /lit/

>>6635415
hey there again, sexy. When we gon'get this on?

>The sailor who fell form grace with the sea
>Against the day
>Dostoyevsky collection
>Sculpting Time

>>6635415

Superlative bait.

>>6635417
Hi

>>6635452
pleb taste but cute

>>6635452
Goddamnit I wanna bury my face in that crotch.

>>6635457
I'll read whatever you want.

>>6635477
That turns me on way more than it should.

>>6635407
Those penguin clothbounds damage so easily. Didnt know Shakespeare was in the series though.

>>6635266
darkness at noon 7/10
sun and steel 6/10
Jesus christ I need to re-read darkness at noon. nostalgic memories.

>>6635452
where's your dick

>>6635500
I'll find it

>>6635341
I finished Nausea at about 1 this morning.
it was very good

>>6635506
>>6635500

>>6635538
>happy trail
Consider my basement flooded goddamnit

This is some reprehensible, ribald confabulation, is what this is.

Bunch of depraved, despicable, decadent, debaucheristic degenerates out and about, right here.

>>6635560
It's no different to a Barnes&Noble in West Hollywood.

>>6635545
>>6635560
Love me, /lit/

>muh quirky book hauls lookit me guys XD
>>>/youtube/

>>6635565
soon you will be using a trip and become a meme. /lit/ will eat it up obv.

>>6635565
I hate when it loads on the side

>>6635565
I already do... blow me while I read GoT to you.

>>6635565
>The Portrait of a Shitposter as a Young Boy

>>6635572
I regret nothing

>>6635563

Suppose you're right on that one lmao

>>6635316
>You wouldn't do the same in his situation

>>6635575
Ok.

>>6635596
now the ass

>>6635605
Take me as I am, mods.

>>6635614
I'm gonna be depressed if you get banned, dat ass is nice. Knew you were a gussy bottom.

>>6635639
I'll always be around. I need /lit/, and I need you.

Currently reading To The Lighthouse, beautifully written

>>6635648
and I~ will always~ luv uuu~

Gravity's Rainbow, Bright Lights, Big City and Rules of Attraction are currently shipping
What does /lit/ think of the latter two?

Kind of splurged.

Also, in order from top to bottom, the illegible titles are as follows:

Adam Bede by George Eliot

The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

Gulliver's Travels by T. Swift

>>6635675
Keep an eye out for me.

It's been a while since we had a cam whore.

I thought maybe we all decided /lit/ was above that sort of garbage.

>>6635757
no we're not
>>6635753
~iloveyou

>>6635757
You will never be above me.

>>6635764
Picture this lighting during any and all fantasies.

And,

I love you too.

>buying books

>>6635845
hey, i just bought the same edition of blood meridian, we're twins
>>6635702
what's that haiku collection?

>>6635845
Hope you enjoy The Magus, it's one of my favourite works.

>>6635879

It's simply called Japanese Haiku, published by the Peter Pauper Press in '56. But it seems to have compiled key pieces from all the greats: Basho, Buson, Issa, et al. Really quite lovely; I read it in the middle of a city park today, smoking a cigarette, sipping coffee, enjoying the breeze, feeling more at peace than I have in a while. Haiku's are the fucking best remedy man, so much to play with with so little, like a frisbee or woman.

Here's my a few of my favs so far:

For a lovely bowl
let us arrange these flowers...
since there is no rice
–Basho

Cloudbank curling low?
Ah! The mountain Yoshino...
cherry cumulus!
–Ryota

and last but not least, on the death of his child:

Dew evaporates
and all our world is dew...so dear,
so fresh, so fleeting.
–Issa

Simply good stuff.

In case you can't tell:
Gargantua & Pantagruel by Rabellais (with some very nice engravings by various artists)
Anarchy & Art, by Alan Antliff
History of art criticism by Lionello Venturi

r8

>>6636154

4chan is a 18+ website, sir.

>>6636244
Whats wrong with them?

>>6636245
>translations

>>6636248
>he fell for the meme

>>6636248

These
>>6635306
>>6635845
are the only posts who don't contain translations, and I bet both people have translations in their shelves anyway.

>>6636279
>meme

>>6636248
I have the untranslated works of Joyce as well though

:^)

>>6635240
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>>6635240

The Crying Lot of 49-Thomas Pynchon
V-Thomas Pynchon
The Grapes of Wrath-Steinbeck
The Pale King-David Foster Wallace
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men-David Foster Wallace
Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with DFW-David Lipsky
The Book of New Sun volume 2: Sword and Citadel-Gene Wolfe
Hyperion-Dan Simmons
The Double & The Gambler-Dostoyevsky

Might read Crying Lot once I'm done with the first volume of Book of the New Sun.

>>6635966
I have read that Issa haiku translated as:

This world, this dewdrop world
It may be a dewdrop
And yet, and yet...

>>6637236

Also forgot John Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

>>6637269
Really? Because I read it as :

Mountain Dew is here
A world in a cup, but yet
so fresh, so fleeting

Used bookstores are great. Gotta go back this weekend because I couldn't get through the whole thing.

If you can't see them:
Seven Ancient Wonders - Matthew Reilly
Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
The Alexandria Quartet - Lawrence Durrell
The Plague - Albert Camus
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
Soul Mountain - Gao Xingjian
Mishima - John Nathan
Total Recall - Arnie
The Piano Tuner - Daniel Mason
The Third Wish - Robert Fulghum

>>6637907
Also found this. It's from 1819.

DID I DO GOOD FELLAS?

>>6637926
also got these lately

>>6637926
show me your genitals babe, just take a picture.

>>6637926

Including yourself in the picture means that you've failed.

Congrats, you're the only fag in this thread to fail in a new books thread.

my first haul

>>6638995
Bottom row, left to right, is Crime & Punishment, the Stranger, the Idiot and Catch-22

>>6638995
If you can read Dickens and Stoner in English I don't know why you would opt for a translation of Catch-22.
>Bukowski

i only read old books

>>6638995
lel at that stoner cover

>>6635655
>To The Lighthouse, beautifully written
I did not like that book. I owned that particular version and attempted for class. Hardest shit to follow. The pages were mostly paragraphs that continued from 2 pages ago. I'll admit that Virginia Woolf is a great writer, but that book is too modernist for me.

>>6637926
Blake is that you?

>>6635702
That book on top of Japanese Haiku's. Is that Moby Dick? If so, I have that same edition.

>>6638291
tfw not sure if you want to see my boipussi or think I'm a girl

>>6639028
Mate you should see me with a mustache, I always get told I look like him but I finally see it.

>>6638995
richard yates is amazing

>>6639021
Actually, all are translations except for those two. I can manage reading in English but it takes a bit more time, guess you could say I'm slowly transitioning from reading translations. And what about Bukowski? I'm having fun so far.
>>6639054
I'm new to reading and pretty new to /lit/ and I haven't heard much about him apart from recognizing his name.

>>6639140
>And what about Bukowski? I'm having fun so far.
You think you're having fun but I promise you you're not.

>>6639161
Just let me be ignorant and think I'm enjoying myself.

Nabokov, Faulkner, Musil, Pynchon

>>6639193
that edition of GR is utter shit, get a different one

>>6639249
Why is that? I didn't see another edition there. Any suggestions?

Thrift store bookshelf. Nothing too impressive, but only had to break a 10.

>>6639277
Any other one, but preferably not the one that looks like Where's Waldo
the shitty Miller cover edition has a few passages missing

>>6639300
that foot is disgusting

Not all new, but on my "to read" list

Almost never read anything from the last 20 years so I'm making a conscious effort to now.

Where do people buy new books?

>>6639037

Nah, Adam Bede, Eliot's first novel, written under a different pen-name

>>6639575

New? anywhere online, barnes and nobles, wherever. But used books offer the best value