/lit/ - Literature

Midnight Plus One by Gavin Lyall X
Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men by Jean-Jacques Rousseau X
Toward a Philosophy of History by José Ortega y Gasset O
Economy and Society by Max Weber X
Various works by William Shakespeare, such as Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Titus Andronicus, and Hamlet x
Carmilla X and In a Glass Darkly by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu X
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad X
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick X
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift X
Various William Gibson works, such as Johnny Mnemonic X and the The Sprawl Trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive) X
Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling X
Pensées (Thoughts) by Blaise Pascal X
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell X
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham X
The Republic by Plato X
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche X
Violence: A New Approach by Michel Wieviorka O
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell X
The Red and the Black by Stendhal X
Oathbreakers by Mercedes Lackey (in reference to the subtitle of Ep. 16) O
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe X
Principles of Philosophy by René Descartes X
Crossroads: The Life and Afterlife of Blues Legend Robert Johnson by Tom Graves (in reference to the subtitle for Ep. 12) O
There are references to works of Project Itoh (Genocidal Organ?) and Kierkegaard (The Sickness Unto Death?) X, but no works are specifically named.

As mentioned before by others:

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell X
A Revolution Sabotaged Before it Began (????????????) by Iwakami Yasumi O
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust X
The Bible (New and Old Testament; e.g., Matthew 13:24-30, Book of Genesis) X
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault X
Justine by Marquis de Sade X

In Psycho Pass the movie:

Peau noire, masques blancs and The wretched of the Earth both by Frantz Fanon X

>>9979191
>There are references to works of Project Itoh (Genocidal Organ
Like what?

psycho pass more like gaycho pass

>>9979205
I can't remember the exact line, you'd have to check. Like it says, "no works are specifically named".
>>9979208
Real mature pal lmfao

I want to read something that has an antagonist like Makishima

>>9979208
psycho pass more like i will pass

>>9979189
Thanks

>>9979216
Makishima was the hero of Psycho Pass

>>9979296
He really was, too bad he enjoyed the more murderous aspects of his revolution too much.

>>9979296
I really wanted him to succeed, just for the hell of it.

>>9979715
Me too, but if there's hope for any system its Sybil. An inhuman, yet human, system.

>>9979208
Holy... BTFO

>>9979191
Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber ?

>>9980440
Was it mentioned in the show or just referenced because the name of the system?

>>9979191
Wtf I suddenly love Psycho Pass!

>>9979189
Is this actually good? With character designs that shit I have a hard time believing that anything about the show is bearable.

>>9981591
It's better than 90% of anime.

>>9981753
That's not saying very much.

>>9981766
It's the best thing I can say about it.

>>9981771
It sounds pretty shit then.

>>9981781
You sound pretty shit then.

>>9981814
At least I'm not Pyscho-Pass

>>9981816
You could only dream of being Psycho-Pass

>>9979189
Thanks yo, downloading right now

>>9981591
>On /lit/
>judging something by its cover

You deserve not to enjoy quality writing.

>>9983454
Covers are generally a pretty good guide as to general quality. For example, anything which has a generic fantasy name and a guy wearing a hood on the cover is sure to be garbage.

>>9983468
I found the character design of psycho pass edgy nonsense and would have discarded for the same reason. I understand what you're saying, I just think it's a bad rule. Unless it's like, moe shit.

>>9983484
I think it's a very good rule.

>>9983488
I can't stop you from being stupid man. Do you.

>>9983454
this

>>9981591
Understandable since I thought the same, but I swear the mong face of the protag grows on you over time

>>9984772
lol and her dumb bowlcut

>>9984587
A book's cover is chosen by some semi-literate publisher who probably never even read the thing after the fact. An anime's visual direction is a conscious decision made by the creator in most circumstances. If they have shit taste there isn't it reasonable to assume they might be a pleb all over?

>No Catcher in the Rye
Surprise, looks like I'll still prefer Ghost in the Shell

>Sybil, I am a... Psycho Pass.

And /lit/ likes this anime.

>>9985742
If anything that's a perk and a reason to prefer Psycho Pass over Ghost in the Shell!

>>9979485
>>9979296
dark humanism is best humanism

>>9983468
counterpoint

>>9987042
>prefer Psycho Pass over Ghost in the Shell!
This board can't be saved.

>>9987132
I would have specified but I don't quite know how to describe it, the bad covers are the ones where it's actually a stock-photo tier picture of an actual guy wearing a head in front of a mostly white background that looks like it was thrown together using photoshop in an hour. You know, all of these edgy Assassin's Creed-posing faggot covers with names like 'blade's edge chronicles'.

Shadow of the Torturer's cover is better on so many levels. First off I'm not a pleb so I immediately get hard when I see Papa Pringle's name on a cover, secondly this was hand-drawn, meaning not published in the last 15 years, meaning much less likely to be unreadable anime-in-prose garbage, thirdly there's a black cloak and a sword but in what's easily the most creative black cloak+sword cover of all time. Look at those frills, look at that staircase thing, look at those little heads. This is clearly more than just Garreth Gobblecock and his band of edgy men fucking around preparing for some bullshit fantasy heist or something.

>>9987144
I never said I prefer Psycho Pass over Ghost in the Shell. Nice reading comprehension dude. I just treat Catcher in the Rye like the shit it is.

CAUSE I FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL

>>9988717
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irqFRZqptWg

Such a dank opening
>>9988545
That book is shit

How does Psycho Pass stack up to Berserk?

Didn't urobuchi admit to reading basically none of the referenced works?

>>9988869
Psycho Pass is finished for one, and Berserk is never going to be done

Sibyl did nothing wrong

>>9988899
Source please
>>9988929
Ehhhhhhhh

>>9988941
I couldn't find anything, so maybe it's bullshit or i'm remembering wrong, but a few years ago i swear i read an interview with him where he said it, an example being that he hadn't read Dick because the English was too hard or something

>>9988996
If he didn't read them then he is a sparknotes wizards.