/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12488773]

What's the best book title you know of?

For me, unironically: "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (Maya Angelou)

[Anonymous No.12489036]

For whom the bell tolls
or
Gravity's rainbow

[Anonymous No.12489052]

>>12488773
Not sure who that is, but if she'd cradle me in her arms that would be pretty nice tbqhwy, desupai.

[Anonymous No.12489056]

>>12489036
>Gravity's rainbow
how does this make any sense

[Anonymous No.12489063]

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is literally just a quote from Shakespeare though. So it's as non creative of a title as you can possibly do.

[Anonymous No.12489065]

>>12489056
it is a reference to skin color (mondaugen and the hereros)

[Anonymous No.12489070]

>>12489052
>see pic related sitting across from you
what do you say to charm her?

[Anonymous No.12489071]

>>12489063
that doesn't make it not good

[Anonymous No.12489081]

>>12489063
wrong! it's from Paul Laurence Dunbar

[Anonymous No.12489083]

>>12489071
Of course it does. Stealing from Shakespeare is code for "I'm not creative, but I also want to be taken seriously. Look at how intellectual I am by quoting the bard."

[Anonymous No.12489085]

Infinite Jest

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oEULhtSEDhe No.12489096]

>>12489052
Imogen something

And what way best?
How abou cleverest, most poetic?

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oEULhtSEDhe No.12489104]

>>12489085
How could stealing a line of Hamlet be considered best?

[Anonymous No.12489115]

>>12489070
"I don't know if you have noticed but your panties are visible. It is very charming for me and I am happy to be in the presence of a beauty such as yours. But others will not be as considerate. If you don't mind, allow me to be your escort for the rest of the day. I'll be vigilant over your strength and independence"

[Anonymous No.12489128]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

[Anonymous No.12489129]

>>12488773
>I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
>John Dies At The End
>Tender Is The Night
>Never Let Me Go
>The Sound and The Fury
>All The King's Men
>One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Neest

All of the above are Elder-God tier, eyecatching titles.

[Anonymous No.12489143]

>>12489070
h-hey there, nice to m-meet you Momm- i mean Imoge- i mean, hey there, what's your name? oh nice. i'm replacement mommyposter. would you mind if I sat beside you? thanks. where are your socks? i'm not a footfag, please go put some on now. thank you. so anyway, where are we? is this a museum or something?

[Anonymous No.12489148]

The Remains of the Day is a fantastic title

[Anonymous No.12489151]

>>12488773
The Recognitions

[Anonymous No.12489153]

Ten Little Niggers

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oEULhtSEDhe No.12489161]

>As I Lay Drying

[Anonymous No.12489169]

>>12489115
you looked up my skirt? are you some sort of pervert?

[Anonymous No.12489186]

>>12489070
I'd recite a poem inspired by her beauty, of course:

Pearl atop marble, this lass
Are you not venus in flesh?
But certainly, "a heavenly angel" is too crass,
Nor do the waves of your beauty crest

In the sea of silk
Flows the bronze tide
Curlicued over the chest of a goddess
The curves of which my eyes now ride

Far to the horizon of eternity,
Does your gaze reach
Into my soul, beholden with infirmity,
I'll say forever, take me once more into your breach!

[Anonymous No.12489195]

>>12489070
>Good evening you little peeper, prowler, pederast, panty-sniffer, punk and pimp. I'm the demon dog with the hog-log, the foul owl with the death growl, the white knight of the far right, and the slick trick with the donkey dick. I'm the author of 16 books, masterpieces all; they precede all my future masterpieces. These books will leave you reamed, steamed and drycleaned, tie-dyed, swept to the side, true-blued, tattooed and bah fongooed. These are books for the whole fuckin' family, if the name of your family is Manson. I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian novel and what Beethoven is to music.

[Anonymous No.12489199]

Paradise Lost.

[Anonymous No.12489208]

>>12489129
>One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Absolutely based

[Anonymous No.12489213]

Journey to the End of the Night

[Anonymous No.12489215]

>>12488773
Never read the book, though I did hear that the context diminishes the title, but Atlas Shrugged is a brilliant title. Book might be some ass, but that title is god tier.

[Anonymous No.12489216]

What would you all say makes a good title--Something that makes you look at it on the shelf and say "I wonder what that's about"?

[Anonymous No.12489217]

>>12489169
please pardon my tendency to seek the light.

[Anonymous No.12489219]

>>12489143
but anon i didn't bring any shoes

[Anonymous No.12489247]

>>12489070
can see ur pus

[Anonymous No.12489256]

>>12489195
>I'm the demon dog with the hog-log
The beauty of that sentence always gets me. James Ellroy is based.

[Anonymous No.12489277]

>>12489186
oh anon, tell me more~~

[Anonymous No.12489296]

>>12488773
Things Fall Apart

I haven't read the book but I really like the title. It would be a good title for an anti-romance book (I know the real one is about Africans).

[Anonymous No.12489308]

>>12489085
>has a finite amount of jest

[Anonymous No.12489325]

>>12489277
she needs to start doing porn before she fades entirely. she tried appealing to britbong television with her silly 90s bbc voice acting but obviously without success.

[Anonymous No.12489335]

>>12488773
House of Leaves.

[Anonymous No.12489352]

>>12489277
Of course my love. Although no words may account for your exquisite beauty and charm, and any man should be put to death at my hands for thinking they may:

Of suns, of stars, your eyes must shine,
Blessing me from far too far,
Bring my nose your perfume of purple wine,
And on my heart you leave a seared scar

No sleep, No rest, not for me
With you in my mind, no apostrophe
breaks these untamed thoughts,
Racing atop the plains of my soul

I take no breath, you need my air
I shall protect until death,
The honor of my lady so fair
Not even God himself, should so bate my breath

[Anonymous No.12489369]

Everything that rises must converge

[Anonymous No.12489390]

>>12488773
>Death Comes for the Archbishop
>Every Man Dies Alone
>What's Bred in the Bone

[Anonymous No.12489436]

>>12489070
I was watching Toy Story 2 the other day and, just as I was about to cum, I stuck a finger in my urethra and then waited until the cummies hardened. After that, I pushed it out and shot a hole in the dry wall.

[Anonymous No.12489483]

>>12489070
nice cankles bitch.

[Anonymous No.12489496]

"A Good CuntBoy Is Hard To Find" - Doug Rice, 1998

[Anonymous No.12489511]

>>12489056

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_gravity_theory

[Anonymous No.12489521]

2666
Said in Spanish, of course. It gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.12489588]

Dyer. Imogen Dyer.
Not very expressive, but pretty and wonderfully doughy.
Found one of her books...

Titles I like?
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Sometime a Great Notion
The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
The Penelopiad
Dictionary of the Khazars
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
The Well of Loneliness
The Girls of Radcliff Hall

>>12489325
That wouldn't be a good career choice

[Anonymous No.12489591]

Twelfth Night or What You Will

[Anonymous No.12489625]

>>12489436
>toy story 2
underrated al-dente pasta

[Anonymous No.12489684]

>>12489036
fpbp
Gravity's Rainbow will never be surpassed

[Anonymous No.12489701]

>Crime and Punishment
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Eternal Golden Braid
>The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
>The Book of Lies
>Paper Towns
>As I Lay Dying
>The Sound and The Fury
>Something Wicked This Way Comes
>Knockemstiff
>Invisible Monsters
>Paradife Loft
>The Glass Bead Game
>One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
>Subspace Emmisary's Worlds Conquest
>The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
>Sometimes a Great Notion
>For Whom the Bell Tools
>The Tell Tale Heart
>Rikki Tikki Tavi
>Man and His Symbols
>The Girl with Curious Hair
>Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
>Journey to the Edge of Night
>Storm of Steel
>Gone with the Wind
>I Was a Teenage Werewolf
>The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion
>Heart of Darkness
>The Damnation Game

[eLIT !!+yp8kR80iN5 No.12489744]

>>12489036
>For whom the bell tolls

That's J. Donne, though.

[Anonymous No.12489770]

>>12488773
If on a winter's night a traveler

It Shall Be of Jasper and Coral

[Anonymous No.12490031]

Time Must Have A Stop

[Anonymous No.12490055]

>>12488773
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates

[Anonymous No.12490069]

does anyone else think girls look better in flats? i don't understand the appeal of heels.

[Anonymous No.12490089]

>>12489129
One flew over the cuckoos nest is why i stopped taking my medication, my family says I need to because I act crazy, but they fucking want me to be in a zombie state so they can control me, so they can have me fit in their mediocre mold.

[Anonymous No.12490496]

>>12489701
>>The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion
Based. Best history book ever.

[Anonymous No.12490497]

>>12489521
I have a lisp

[Anonymous No.12490504]

In prison we joked that it was about snitching

[Anonymous No.12490507]

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream is an amazingly evocative title.

[Anonymous No.12491603]

>>12490507
Its okay

[Anonymous No.12491671]

One Hundred Years of Solitude
A Guide for the Perplexed
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Arabian Nights
I Know why the Caged Bird Sings
Snow Country
A midsummer night dream
Some Prefer Nettles
The sea of fertility
Chronic of a Death Foretold
The Way of All Flesh
Vanity Fair
The Bonnfire of Vanities
Journey to the end of the night

[Anonymous No.12491736]

>>12489070
>"Listen here little baby. You're gonna get a lot of hurtful and degrading comments, but that ain't what I'm about. Let me just say, you are perfect the way you are. You hear me sugar? PERFECT. Don't ever change. You deserve anything and everything you want. Stay safe for me, baby girl."
>mime comedy chevron with arms
>"mfw thinking of you hurting"
>pull sad face

[Anonymous No.12491972]

Today The Sky is Blue and White with Bright Blue Spots and a Small Pale Moon and I Will Destroy Our Relationship Today

inb4 go to bed

[Anonymous No.12491977]

>>12491736
This reminds me of Sam Hyde's Officer Maggot Dick Cop Faggot when he's pestering the blonde chick he pulled over

[Anonymous No.12491994]

>>12489744
lots of hemingway's titles are taken from poems

[Anonymous No.12492007]

Flowers for Algernon

[Anonymous No.12492205]

>>12488773
There are so many good ones-
as /lit/'s been a Nietzsche board until fairly recently I'll begin with him, but also because his best title's also his best book
Die Froehliche Wissenschaft
Where to go? I'll think of authors..
Charles Simic:
Orphan Factory, Memory Piano, The Unemployed Fortune-Teller
Wallace Stevens:
Harmonium
Some Classic-style titles not yet mentioned:
Milton's Areopagitica (and why not Samson Agonistes?), Huizinga's Homo Ludens, Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, etc.
My favorite Cioran title: Anathemas and Admirations
Sloterdijk: Foam
Another Shakespeare filching: Bradbury's Something Wicked this Way Comes
Shakespeare himself: All's Well that Ends Well
Criticism: Auden's The Dyer's Hand
Religious: The Little Flowers of St. Francis
Science: Faraday's The Chemical History of a Candle
Essay: Sir Thomas Browne's The Garden of Cyrus; or, the Quincunciall, Lozenge, or Net-work Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, Mystically Considered (my final choice btw: arrangements of 5 are everywhere).
Old novel: Loti's Iceland Fisherman
Balzac's The Splendours and Miseries of a Courtesan
Novel less than 50 yrs old: Davies' Murther and Walking Spirits
Classic Travel: Dana's Two Years before the Mast (which I mention only because it is one of my favorite books; I own that it's not near as good title-wise as something like)
Douty's Arabia Deserta
Shorts: RLS' Island Nights Entertainments....

[Anonymous No.12492225]

>>12492205
Your post and everything it contains are about as aesthetic as dog shit

[Anonymous No.12492227]

>>12492205
>/lit/'s been a Nietzsche board until fairly recently
But the majority of /lit/ has always approved of Stirner more?

[Anonymous No.12492246]

>>12492225
What! Memory Piano? Anathemas and Admirations? Island Nights' Entertainments? Please, anon..

[Anonymous No.12492252]

In Search of Lost Time

[Anonymous No.12492261]

>>12492227
After Calasso, I have (The Ruin of Kasch) but /lit/ truthfully is with respect to Stirner/Nietzsche ca. 1/5.

[Anonymous No.12492262]

>>12490507
this

[Anonymous No.12492344]

>>12492205
never post here again, you can lurk, but never post here again

[Anonymous No.12492359]

>>12489070
rotate from your hip not your knee you amateur

[Anonymous No.12492448]

>>12492344
Anon..
I've been posting here for 9 years
Is the suggestion that I retire?
Have been thinking about it lately....

[Anonymous No.12492464]

>>12492448
yes, please

[Anonymous No.12492600]

South of the Border, West of the Sun

[Anonymous No.12492930]

Paradise Lost
That Hideous Strength
Atlas Shrugged
Till We Have Faces

>>12490507
Indeed

[Anonymous No.12492971]

The Naked and the Dead
The Eye in the Door
Earth Abides
Solaris
All Quiet on the Western Front
Johnny Got His Gun
Tender is the Night
East of Eden

[Anonymous No.12492992]

based dick always brings it

[Anonymous No.12493016]

Not a book title but He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms gets me every single time

[Anonymous No.12493023]

>>12489129
All sound like YA titles

[Anonymous No.12493043]

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

title tricked me into reading this dogshit

[Anonymous No.12493044]

>>12489701
>The Atrocity Exibition
>We the Living
>Blow-Up
>Sayonara Gangsters
>Behold, A Pale Horse
>The World Set Free
>Beyond Good and Evil
>The Divine Comedy
>Devil All the time
>Critique of Pure Reason
>Clifford Runs for President
>Society of the Spectacle
>Pride and Prejudice
>Notes from The Underground
>My Immortal

[Anonymous No.12493118]

>>12492359
what are you talking about, anon?

[Anonymous No.12493182]

I like The Sound and The Fury

[Anonymous No.12493267]

>>12492464
Hm. So youre not some ignorant /pol/faggot who knows absolutely zero about books? Give me some cred, and I'll leave /lit/ in your hands forever..

[Anonymous No.12493282]

>>12493267
>if you're not some open minded retard with dysfunctional pattern recognition its impossible to read the 40 sacred well known tomes that our board has discussed for 10 years

[Anonymous No.12493306]

>O Amanuense Belmiro
Only makes sense if you speak Portuguese and have read the book.
> El Aleph
This title, when you compare to the book, shows how amazing Borges is.

[Anonymous No.12493370]

>>12493282
Tomes?
Proust's is the only one 'sacred' to /lit/. Other tomes marginally mentioned: Gibbon's and Aquinas' -that's it.
Youve read them?

[Anonymous No.12493402]

>>12493267
you write like some unironically fedora tipping assburger redditor and your taste in aesthetics is horrendous, please never post again

[Anonymous No.12493435]

>>12489104
For what the novel proposes itself, it's perfect.

[Anonymous No.12493447]

>>12493370
Imagine being this new and xD

[Anonymous No.12493463]

>>12493402
Whereas (you) write like an angry child who knows neither /lit/ nor books. Never been to reddit, champ..
At fault's your ear. What's aesthetic is also what's uncommon, and the selections in this thread have been horribly second rate.
Which are yours btw?

[Anonymous No.12493470]

>>12493463
>and the selections in this thread have been horribly second rate.
>TITLE
kek imagine being new, annoying AND illiterate

[Anonymous No.12493597]

>>12493463
>Which are yours btw?
the tao lin one

[Anonymous No.12493609]

My two favourites are:
Blood Meridian
Water Margin

[Anonymous No.12493615]

>>12489070
smile as you walk by and get on with your day.

[Anonymous No.12493806]

>>12488773
MOMMY
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[Anonymous No.12493893]

>>12491972
go to bed

[Anonymous No.12493911]

Hello Facebook page

[Anonymous No.12494999]

Grapes of Wrath

[Anonymous No.12495029]

Not a book title, but whatever.

>A Rainbow In Curved Air

Who knew five words could be so beautiful!
I think about this title quite often.

[Anonymous No.12495051]

>>12495029
>this fucking cover
what was he thinking

[Anonymous No.12495075]

>>12495051
lol I love it so much
a breath of fresh air from the usual high-brow abstractions you get with 'cerebral' music

[Anonymous No.12495248]

>>12489436
woah this is freaking crazy o_0 .. posting on r/4chan

[Anonymous No.12495310]

>>12488773
obligatory