/lit/ - Literature

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Confessions of a Mask.
>expected: faggotry, edgy
>got: faggotry, psychoanalysis, edgy, Jean Genet
I'm lazy.

>>8853367
>mammals
>implying that the whale shouldn't be classified as a fish

>>8854752
This. If you disagree you're a fat fedora nerd.

>>8854752
He says this in Moby Dick

>>8854752
the most retarded opinion of all time

>>8855123
yes that's the context for the joke i was making

I don't wanna seem like an old curmudgeon (protip: I do), but these threads are really getting worse and worse.
>>8854734
Way too many pictures to make sense or even be that funny.

>>8854760
Literally makes no fucking sense whatsoever.

>>8855283
Most retarded expectation ever. Joyce's Ulysses? Really?

>>8855329
OK this one's pretty good.

>>8855353
You really know how to have a lot of fun.

>>8853293

>>8855375

>>8855378

>>8855382

>>8855389

>>8855401

>>8855283
Did you only read the last chapter or something... ?

>>8855406

>>8855406
Is it actually good? i´ve been meaning to read for some time now because the concept seems very interesting.

someday another person who read this book will see this and be like 'haha you totally nailed it dude'

>>8855468
haha you totally nailed it dude

>>8855464
its devastating. my pic doesnt really give anything away you dont realize in the beginning. its basically just an amputee reliving his life. its my favorite anti war novel if that means anything. an easy read too, i recommend it

>>8855353
neck yourself

OC

>>8854752
thats not even an opinion

>>8854760
what the actual fuck

>>8855353
>OK this one's pretty good.

Welcome to /lit/, newfriend

>>8853396
Not a good one, nothing is lost.

>>8855353
I like your post. I dislike when people don't take jokes seriously.

The reason Joyce is included in those expectations is that The Odyssey is often cited as a work that is necessary to understand Joyce's Ulysses. The creator didn't actually expect Joyce's Ulysses, he expects some deeper understanding of it.

>>8855329
Corn is a new-world crop. What the hell?

>>8856495
"corn" doesn't always mean maize

>>8855353

>>8856684
Huh, TIL. Thanks Reddit!

>>8856684
You call it corn. We call it maize.

>>8854760

?

>>8856495
Wheat was referred to as corn back then

Ender's game; it was a good read.

I expected less sex.
Still 10/10

>>8855329
weak imitation of the original classic

Posting my one and only OC, masterfully forged in 30 work hours.

>>8857038
Fug forgot the pic lmao

>>8857132
>>8857134
which one's better?

>>8857147
They're nothing like each other desu. Two-Birds would appeal to more anons I expect.

>>8857023
I never understood this. Call me a pleb, but what's the joke here?

>>8854734

Didn't expect so many watermelons

>>8857154

Corn wouldn't have been around during the Roman age

>>8857156

Corn wouldn't have been around during the Roman age

>>8855353
>I don't wanna seem like an old curmudgeon (protip: I do)
that's not how you use protip

>>8857163

>>8855456

This shouldn't have come as a surprise

no one ever comments this

>>8857981
nobody comments on mine either and they are all popular books.

not gonna lie, that looks boring

>>8857981
>>8857985
Mine is full /sffg/ with a tinge of /a/ and /pol/, and I even made it pretty. And I've gotten 0 (You)s too.

Face it, people in /lit/ are kinda like women: they don't actually read.

>>8857134
Was it really that hard to find a picture of two drunk Irishmen instead of Americans in greenface?

>>8858044
>a Hermione pic
>she's not a nigger
Apply yourself.

>>8858071
Thank you for fixing it for me

>>8858044
>a Hermione pic
>she's not a nigger
Apply yourself.

>>8858080
The art is so shit, I thought that arm was Snape's and didn't color it.

Fixed it here >>8858080

>>8855789
Haven't read it but for the premise i had the same expectations

If that's what you got though then shit time to read some Gaddis

>>8858294

kek

>>8854760
American Divine Comedy?

>>8858294
holy shit

>>8858294
l33t /fit/poster

>>8858351

explain

>>8858413
have you read it?

>>8858426

no, I aint got no time for normalfag literature about romance and relationships and sheeit

>>8856456
hehe

>>8857156
Newfag kindly get the fuck out

>>8857162
You to

>>8858589
Is the book actually good?

>>8858682
>sorcerer's stone

>>8858695

Oh if you liked this you have to read "Small Things are Big" by Bombapi Donbabimo, or "Everything in a House Comes Crashing" by Boop Bop *click*stein-Mayer.

>>8858651
Most Definetely
My favourite book and prototype to all the more military oriented scifi
Think about it like 1984, fiction but with an underlying political and philosophical point of view

One of the reasons that got me to join the army

>>8858306

>kamppailuni

jaahas

>>8859010
>proudly admitting you fell for propaganda
>willingly signing your life to the state
enjoy being shot by a ten year old arab so some beuaracrat in DC can buy another yacht

>>8858733
Under-rated post.

>>8855353
delete this

>>8859010
you do realize the book was supposed to be criticizing the war right?

>>8857156

"Corn" wasn't always a word for a specific plant. A corn was just a term for the seeds of any grain crop. You would have people refer to oat corn, wheat corn, barley corn, etc. I'd guess that what happened here is Caesar is very concerned about feeding his men, so securing supplies of grain probably took up a lot of the book. If someone read an older translation, then discussions of grain crops may use the now outmoded word 'corn' a lot. So it's a confusion between an old and new meaning in meme form.

See: John Barleycorn By Robert Burns.

http://www.robertburns.org/works/27.shtml

>>8858682
I don't get it.

Can someone explain to me how I'm supposed to crop photos onto the template?

>>8859910
Just use microsoft Paint anon

>>8856456

>>8857162

But "corn" is frequently found in older translations and Latin-English dictionaries as a rendering of "frumentum" (also translated "grain") and related words and phrases.

>>8857132
what's the painting in the last panel?

>>8855468
haha you totally nailed it dude

>>8859895
What's happening is part of a phenomenon I wrote about a couple of years ago when I was asked to comment on Rowling. I went to the Yale University bookstore and bought and read a copy of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." I suffered a great deal in the process. The writing was dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs." I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing.

>>8860348

It's by Henry Scott Tuke, and seems to be called "The Sun Bathers" (1927).

>>8854760
Probably means something along the lines of "The Pilgrim's Progress is to The Divine Comedy as fast food is to real food"

>>8855468
haha you totally nailed it dude

>>8859895
stretched his legs

>>8859460
Are we talking about the same book?
Starship Troopers idolizes the virtues obtained from service in the military and Heinleins opinion on the matter is more or less reflected in it.
The war itself is described as something natural and necessary for survival of ones species.

>>8859131
Nah, I will proudly sacrifice my life for Großführerin Merkel

>>8857154
>anarchy

reread fagget

>>8858294
heartily chuckle

>>8858733
kek

>>8859460

nah. the movie based on it did do that doe.

>>8860251
>muh chastity

>>8855473
you only got the last two chapters.

>>8861052
>that quote
>not a word about raising children

>>8859919
you missed the point. It was the savage looking in on us that mattered.

>>8860360
What are the clocks about?
I was going to read (foolishly) thinking that i was only 400 pages. It was fucking 900 pages long Jesus Christ.
I decided that if i was going to read such a long book, i better read one of them russian doorstopers.

Stoker is great at scenery, if naught else.

>>8853367
You forgot tutorials on the many ways of using rope.

>>8861346
whats a good book to read to meet expectations of cartoon skeletons and spookyness rather than horror? seriously interested

>>8861396
Idk why you'd wanna read that lol, it would be akin to just reading an amateur. If you don't pull off scenery it will be just like that...

>>8861404
im not entirely sure how to describe it but i think i want the literary equivalent of scooby doo x hausu x story of the eye

>>8857158
Harrogate was a watermelon pleb. The experience is amplified tenfold if you throw it in the microwave for a few minutes.

>>8861424

>story of the eye
Fuck, is that you Egon?

Well, in any case, I can't really help you there. It sounds pretty funny if could be pulled off though.

>>8861339

The clocks represent how the book addresses the passage of time: the first day at the ski resort is like 300 pages, while entire years can go by in like three; mirroring time's movement in our lives.

It was a great read actually, though it took me a full year due to my short free time. Enjoyed it more than some of the Russian works I've poked at, but then again I have a love for rambling German prose.

>>8861455
Oh, that looks mightly interesting.
I think i´ll read it during my this christmas break.

>>8861346
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>>8861438
Please go back to /r/eddit

>>8860372
(You)

>>8861314

My point in that image was the Bernard Marx's actions as decided upon from his revealed thought processes read exactly to me like Mark from Peepshow; a man more intellectual than the average person who disdains and dislikes mainstream culture yet feels compelled to try to engage in it in incredibly socially inept ways.