/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13258634]

Sell me a book in one line

[Anonymous No.13258638]

Lord of the Flies
It's spoopy.

[Anonymous No.13258639]

>>13258634
Everything you have ever been told about the contents of Mein Kampf is likely a lie.

[Anonymous No.13258644]

>>13258639
This is true.

[Anonymous No.13258653]

>>13258638
You ever realize the first thing he had the boys do when he started the book is get naked and go for a swim, he practically pulls a dickens and cockslaps you with pedo implications on the first page

[Anonymous No.13258672]

>>13258653
If you weren’t turned on by the first page of lotf you were reading it wrong

[Anonymous No.13258676]

>>13258653
There is nothing inherently sexual about skinny-dipping. Stop being a weirdo.

[Anonymous No.13258697]

>>13258676
It’s not even me you’re just not yet able to separate the work from the writer and are still enthralled by the veil of the artist, given enough time everything you know will crumble down around you as you can’t watch a tv show without seeing an actor or read a book without seeing a control freak. As much as we’d like to believe that authors are a diverse people they require a certain palette of human qualities that coincidentally are rather caniving and predatory. Did you ever realize, that every word you read you read with your minds voice, even if it was written by someone else? I shouldn’t have to explain what I mean by that.

[Anonymous No.13258719]

>>13258697
Yeah I understand. I'm reading it in MY mind voice so I am projecting my values onto the author.

But guess what? I don't even remember who wrote lotf or even know anything about him.

[Anonymous No.13258720]

>>13258697
take your meds

[Anonymous No.13258721]

>>13258697
take your meds

[Anonymous No.13258725]

>>13258644
Reading Inside the Concentration Camps from cover to cover reveals a dialectic in the Jewish narrative of the Holocaust that goes unseen when each story is segregated from the rest by explanatory narration of third parties.

[Anonymous No.13258729]

>>13258725
Can you explain some of it to me?

[Anonymous No.13258742]

>>13258697
If I've heard a writer read their work, I hear it in their voice in my mind.

[Anonymous No.13258745]

>>13258720
Nordskog's We Bankers sheds a revealing light on the cause of the Great Depression, revealing a third of the story that goes otherwise untold.

[Anonymous No.13258781]

>>13258729
As I read, I started to notice patterns of figures of speech:
>I couldn't tell you how many times X happened
>You wouldn't believe me if I told you
This dialectic combined with over the top claims that have been proven false lend towards an understanding of their storytelling style. Once you see the dialectic combined with an obvious lie, the dialectic itself becomes an indicator of itself that a story containing it should be considered suspect even though the associated lie is less obvious. Many of the examples that come to mind sound horrific separately with third party narration to build the story. Read as a whole, the mass of the combined stories lack a truth telling style and reveal themselves as bullshit.

[Anonymous No.13258833]

>>13258742
Now if you can do that, you can read the first page of lord of the flies and tell me you can imagine a grown man writing that way without being a gay predator. Don’t the boys literally sodomize another buy in that book?

[Anonymous No.13258838]

>>13258639
Preemptively posting against all the great one liners in mein kampf

[Anonymous No.13258856]

>>13258634
"Its main character is an incontinent, elderly (born the same day as Heinrich Himmler) yet puerile, militantly male chauvinist, female-phobic gay man who is also a pro-Nazi Aryan supremacist, an anti-intellectual bibliophile with an avid interest in European philosophy and post-modernist literature and theory, a substance abuser, an incestuous pedophile, a murderer, and a cannibal (!) living in rural northeast Sweden."

[Anonymous No.13258861]

>>13258838
>Redefining entropy, Mein Kampf will assault your worldview anew on every page, leaving you wondering why people still lie about this book so universally.

[Anonymous No.13258867]

>>13258856
Needs more em dash and semicolon.

[Anonymous No.13260309]

>>13258634
That'll be £7.99

[Anonymous No.13261219]

>>13258634
Buy it or die

[Anonymous No.13261296]

>>13258861
I read the first pages and he was just whining about his childhood and "muh good old days", came off as insufferable desu.

[Anonymous No.13261319]

"He is just a running boy, a half-seen figure from the streets, but the way running running reveals some clue to being, the way a runner bares himself to consciousness, this is how the dark-skinned kid seems to open to the world, how the bloodrush of a dozen strides brings him into eloquence."

[Anonymous No.13261348]

>Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the worlds turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether hos own heart is another kind of clay.

[Anonymous No.13261814]

It's by Stephen King

[Anonymous No.13261843]

>>13258720
>>13258721
Take you are meds *

[Anonymous No.13261917]

Yeah yeah, you'll laugh you'll cry it'll change your life

[Anonymous No.13261936]

>>13258634
that pic gives me a boner. who's the girl?

[Anonymous No.13261956]

>>13258634
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins!

[Anonymous No.13261971]

>>13258697
I don't hear my voice when I read, I hear another voice, also it does not repeat the words on the page

[Anonymous No.13262161]

>>13258634
>Sell me a book in one line
If you simply said "I'm from Burgerland." it would take you less words to convey the intended info.

[Anonymous No.13262184]

>>13258781
Something I have never understood. If the holocaust was, to some degree, a hoax or Jewish conspiracy, why are there nazi records of the human experiments? That stuff is definitely the most fucked up part of the camps, and it was all recorded and carried out by nazi doctors.

[Anonymous No.13263432]

>>13258634
Phenomenology of Spirit: Everything in the world is exactly the same.

[Anonymous No.13263461]

>>13258634
On "On Learned Ignorance" Cusanus deduces an infinite universe out of the definition of God

[Anonymous No.13263473]

War and Peace
It's pretty good

[Anonymous No.13263578]

it's Finnegans Wake, but as an epic poem

[Anonymous No.13263941]

Pig Island
You will hate women by the end of it.

[Anonymous No.13263966]

>>13263578
Can someone else "unsell" me on this?

...please?

[Anonymous No.13264068]

>>13263966
so you're interested but want an excuse to not read it?

[Anonymous No.13264176]

>>13264068
I read House of Leaves, and I did like the first half of the book quite a bit, but the rest of it was kinda meh, and I've heard that his other work is not at all worth

[Anonymous No.13264217]

>>13264176
Only Revolutions will piss you off if
>you've read another MZD book (HoL, The Familiar, TFYS) and you found his visual gimmicks annoying
>you've read Finnegans Wake and found the opaque, borderline non-English narration annoying
>you don't like cliche storylines and archetypes, even when reappropriated
otherwise, I consider it worth it just to try

[Anonymous No.13264238]

>>13258634
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[Anonymous No.13264263]

>>13258634
Lord of The Rings
You'll never need to waste money on geography lessons

[Anonymous No.13264651]

>>13258697
Whenever you become and adult and have children, make sure to never be in the same room as your kid naked, that is inherently sexual and would make you a pedophile, you bumblefuck retard.

[Anonymous No.13265288]

>Moby Dick
>SPLIT YOUR LUNGS WITH BLOOD AND THUNDER

[Anonymous No.13266210]

>>13258697
>Did you ever realize, that every word you read you read with your minds voice, even if it was written by someone else?
This is true in most cases. Lord of the Rings though, I read it in actors voices. Swapped Gandalf out with Sean Connery and Aragorn with Russell Crowe. Was good. I highly recommend

[Anonymous No.13266392]

>>13258634

I and the Father are one.

[Anonymous No.13266421]

>>13262184
It's not that the Nazis were the good guys or that they didn't do awful shit to jews. What a lot of people claim is that the "holocaust" as a systematic genocide of the jewish population is false and never happened the way they try to make us think it did

[Anonymous No.13266833]

>>13258634
confessions of St. Augustine
They are quite shocking, and might change your mind on some issues, regardless of your position on religion. There is a reason why there are congresses held around this book stilll nowadays.

[Anonymous No.13266908]

>>13263578
>>13264217
So it's Finnegans Wake but without the good writing and visual gimmicks instead?

[Anonymous No.13266928]

>>13258634
gravity's rainbow
shit smeared psychic rocket propelled nazi nigger dicks.

[Anonymous No.13267932]

>>13266908
>without the good writing
no, you misinterpreted my comment. cliches and archetypes aren't necessarily bad
>visual gimmicks
if it makes you feel any better, there are reasons for the gimmicks, and tbqh, Finnegans Wake already has the gimmick of not being written in normal English

[Anonymous No.13267956]

>What degenerate produced this abortion

[Anonymous No.13267961]

>>13266833
>regardless of your position on religion
bs

[Anonymous No.13268045]

>>13266833
can confirm, was an avid Christian until I read the Confessions, which radicalized me to hard atheism. that anyone can read and understand the words of St. Augustine without immediately deconverting is utterly mind-boggling

[Anonymous No.13268107]

>>13268045
Can you go into more detail?

[Anonymous No.13268173]

>"It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."

[Anonymous No.13269844]

>>13258634
Spinoza, Ethics
The world will make sense to you once you realize that you having the correct idea of God is actually the same as God thinking itself through you.

[Anonymous No.13270321]

>>13267961
"i found this book interesting and it will brainwash you"

ok retard

[Anonymous No.13271414]

Not quite one line but I'm planning to read this soon based on this incredible back cover intro.