/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.3453129]

So /lit/, what books will you be reading next?

[Anonymous No.3453139]

Are you retarded?

0/10

[Anonymous No.3453143]

>>3453139
Relax. How long could it possible last?

[Anonymous No.3453148]

>>3453143

>How long could it possible last?

For as long as you fail at grammar.

>adverbs
>not adjectives

[Anonymous No.3453155]

>>3453143
BUT I KEEP ON THINKING WHAT IF _SHE'S_ DOING IT

[Anonymous No.3453157]

>>3453148
People make mistakes.

[Anonymous No.3453162]

>>3453155
That's what she wants you to think.

[Anonymous No.3453170]

>>3453157

Indeed, like your parents.

[Anonymous No.3453172]

Crown and Country by David Starkey

[Anonymous No.3453178]

My favorite moment was when she wrote about how Ryan Gosling saved her from an oncoming car, but then got pissed when people started calling his actions heroic.

That was the same person, right?

[Anonymous No.3453180]

>>3453143
>How long could it possible last?

I always make this mistake. I think I must be subconsciously saying 'blee' at the end, making it phonetically correct for 'ble' instead of 'bly'.

[Anonymous No.3453186]

>>3453178
Yeah. She said this:

"It is rather irritating that I have finally become tabloid-famous in the guise of a simpering damsel in distress. But my mobile phone and email went mad, and I woke up to stories about Gosling the "lifesaver" in The New York Observer, The Huffington Post and even The Washington Post. This is final proof that America has gone mad, lost all sense of perspective, and badly needs to be rescued from itself – possibly not by Ryan Gosling, decent and upstanding chap though he undoubtedly is. I was determined not to play at all, but among the reams of interview requests was one from the Ellen DeGeneres Show. I am very grateful to the dashing and meme-worthy Mr. Gosling, just as I am grateful to every other kind New Yorker who has saved me from oncoming traffic in recent weeks … making the streets of this fine city that much safer for random British writers.”

[Anonymous No.3453193]

>>3453186
It's obnoxious. Please stop. Everyone.

[Anonymous No.3453191]

>>3453180

Interesting; perhaps you have some slight dyslexia. French is my mothertongue so I never make mistakes of that sort.

[Anonymous No.3453197]

>>3453186
>>Meme-worthy
She's right though, he's not a hero.

[Anonymous No.3453202]

>>3453197

Hero or not, he saved her life, and we all wish he didn't. She made everyone wish he didn't.

[Anonymous No.3453203]

>>3453193
I don't get it. What's the problem?

I feel like I'm missing something here.

[Anonymous No.3453206]

>>3453202
That was my point.

[Anonymous No.3453209]

>>3453203
Never mind, I looked at the front page are there three threads about her. Is she "a thing" now on /lit/?

[Anonymous No.3453211]

>>3453206

It wasn't obvious except in your mind.

[Anonymous No.3453213]

I'm sorry.

[Anonymous No.3453265]

>>3453202
>he saved her life, and we all wish he didn't
That's nasty. I think she's pretty attractive and has an interesting economic perspective that most of our generation aren't in a position to promote.

[Anonymous No.3453289]

Religio Medici/Urne Buriall - Thomas Browne
Moll Flanders
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry
2 Samuel

I shn't be reading Laurie Penny cos she's a posh faux-left Graundiad hack with an annoying voice and nothing of interest to contribute, afaict.

[Anonymous No.3453286]

Alright why is every board posting about this chick all of a sudden? No one cares.

[Anonymous No.3453291]

>>3453265

dude looks like a lady

[Anonymous No.3453292]

>>3453286
Well, if every board is posting about her, I would guess that someone, does in fact, care.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NREYxB6u8

[Anonymous No.3453310]

>>3453265
I hate nice, benign little scumbags like you. You're always there to save a ho and tell us how attractive you think a particular girl is as if your opinion doesn't lower her value even more.

[Anonymous No.3453313]

>>3453286
Tao Lin tipped her off to how fast hype reifies itself on elitist image boards.

[Anonymous No.3453330]

>>3453310
>I hate...

Ohhh, never good to start a rant like that. Are you having any emotional problems with your parents or school? You might feel better if you talk about it.

[Anonymous No.3453424]

>>3453330
What book is that?

[Anonymous No.3453430]

>>3453424
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway

[Anonymous No.3454624]

-Whatever, Houellebecq
-Pnin, Nabokov
-Tropic of Cancer, Miller.

[Anonymous No.3454631]

LEAVES OF GRASS, SLOWLY

I'M PUMPED THIS WARRANT CAPITAL LETTERS

I LOVE PEOPLE AND THEIR BOOKS

[Anonymous No.3454641]

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in the original ME.

[Anonymous No.3454644]

>>3454631
Rei?

[Anonymous No.3454650]

>>3454644
NOPE I'M JUST AN ANON DREADING AN ADDERALL/NICOTINE/ALCOHOL/CANNABIS COMEDOWN AT 5 IN THE MORNING

CAPS LOCK HELPS SOMEHOW

[Anonymous No.3454651]

Blake Butler - Scorch Atlas
Yoshiyuki Tomino - Mobile Suit Gundam - Awakening, Escalation, Confrontation
Graeme Kirkpatrick - Aesthetic Theory and the Videogame
Gordon Calleja - In Game: From Immersion to Incorporation

[Anonymous No.3454652]

I'm finally going to tackle Infinite Jest.

[Anonymous No.3454660]

>>3454650
Oddly enough, you can use drugs to counteract it. Xanax, Vallium, even melatonin will let you sleep through it. Or you can make a codeine CWE when you start to fell shitty and let the poppy wrap her loving arms around you.

[Anonymous No.3454671]

>>3454660
MY DRUG CUPBOARD IS BARE OTHER THAN ALCOHOL/NICOTINE AND I SUSPECT MY DEALERS AND FELLOW ADDICTS WILL NOT WANT TO HELP ME DURING THIS LATE AND EARLY HOUR.

I WILL REMEMBER YOUR ADVICE IN THE FUTURE. THANK YOU SINCERELY.

FOR NOW I WILL MAKE DO WITH BANANAS, WATER, AND LIGHT READING.

[Anonymous No.3454697]

>forcing that horrible piece of shit of a human being and writer on /lit/

Welp, I used to think this was the best media board
Maybe /co/ is worth checking out?

[Anonymous No.3454711]

>>3454652
Read it slowly. Just knock out 20 pages a day and continue with reading something else.

[Anonymous No.3454715]

>>3454697
"I haven't read anything by her I just saw a youtube clip, now I'm going to cry about it."

[Anonymous No.3455328]

>>3454711
>Read it slowly. Just knock out 20 pages a day and continue with reading something else.
I've been doing that for the past few months.

[Anonymous No.3455355]

>>3455328
nice ghost bump

[Anonymous No.3455367]

I'm actually reading through Hemmingway's novels. Just killed Farewell to Arm, and For Whom the Bell Tolls, now going to attack The Sun Also Rises.

I seem to have got into the habit of reading an entire Authors bibliography. Thompson was before this, Kafka before him, and Fitzgerald before that.

[Anonymous No.3455387]

>>3455367
>Farewell to Arm

[Anonymous No.3455406]

It has been stated several times. penny threads are from SRS. Do NOT FEED TROLLS

[Anonymous No.3455408]

>>3455406
What's SRS? I thought it was short for serious?

[Anonymous No.3455436]

>>3455408
Shit Redit Says. (I don't think you're allowed to say that word, hence the misspelling)

They're an excellent saboteur network of activists who occupy a space on Redit for calling Redit out on its misogyny, racism, etc.

[Anonymous No.3455437]

>>3455408
Shit re**it says

[Anonymous No.3455440]

>>3455436
>excellent
>saboteur
>activist

Wow, that is some /b/ level blindness right there.

[Anonymous No.3455454]

>>3455436
>for calling Redit out on its misogyny,
Well, it's definitely not them then. The purpose of spamming this girl is to increase misogyny.

She wrote a couple of articles about the severe abuse, death threats, people threatening to wait outside her house and rape her, that she's been getting from random internet trolls just because she's a feminist. She made the mistake of saying it scared her. Now that video of her acting like a dick is smeared all over 4chan, the negative comments about her have shot through the roof, and some little misogynist troll is sat at home and grinning like a wanking Jap.

The sole purpose of spamming her is to get people to hate her. Unfortunately, she tried attacking the 'lonely little internet misogynist', the kind popular on 4chan, so now they are attacking her back. I actually feel kinda sorry for her.

[Anonymous No.3455461]

>>3455454
>The sole purpose of spamming her is to get people to hate her.

I truly suspect (though I might just be paranoid) that it is a marketing campaign. A few anons have already admitted to ordering something by her and I myself have downloaded a copy of Meat Market. Hype reifies itself incredibly fast on this board. How long before she becomes a household name like Tao Lin?

[Anonymous No.3455470]

Currently:
At Swim-Two-Birds

Next I'll knock out Dubliners and Woodcutters. After that I'll start Gravity's Rainbow or The Master and Margarita. Alternatively, I'll finish Portrait of the Artist before GR or M&M. I'll clean up with Heart of Darkness, then Stoner.

>>3455461

Here's hoping that she dies out faster than that shitty Lilith Saintcrow may-may.

[Anonymous No.3455477]

>>3455470
Are you me? That's almost identical to my list.

[Anonymous No.3455478]

>>3455461
>I truly suspect (though I might just be paranoid) that it is a marketing campaign.
I did too when she popped up 3 days ago, but I looked at her twitter account and she seems to be involved in some kind of riots in Cairo at the moment and I seriously doubt she has a marketing team.

The comments on youtube were sparse with one every couple of days, but now they are a continuous stream of hate.

She is very outspoken about the internet culture in promoting misogyny, about male keyboard warriors that are exacerbating a problem that seems to be spilling out into real life. She has also written a few articles about the death threats she's receiving (multiple times a day) and I honestly think this is an attempt to increase that.

[Anonymous No.3455487]

Some game manuals for my xbox (does it count)?
Otherwise some biography on Feynman.
(all on my ipad, never got involved with paper)

[Anonymous No.3455489]

After Frankenstein, Catcher in le Rye. Fooketh thien polizen.

[Anonymous No.3455496]

>>3455461
>I myself have downloaded a copy of Meat Market
Is it any good?

[Anonymous No.3455504]

I'd just sat down to start Inherent Vice when someone IM'd me. Now I'm on the internet. This is why I never get any reading done.

[Anonymous No.3455508]

>>3453129
sex and character - Otto Weininger

[Anonymous No.3455527]

>>3455478
Could you be more deluded. You have literally no idea how internet marketing is done these days do you? Don't think for one second that you inhabit a small fringe market on the outskirts of internet. 4chan is one of the biggest sites on the web. And Laurie Penny is a house hold name on all of them. If you think this is a smear campagin you are stupid.

[Anonymous No.3455535]

>>3455477
Post it. I also plan to get Invisible Man, Lolita, Correction, The Third Policeman, Confederacy of Dunces, Brothers Karamazov and I am a Cat.

[Anonymous No.3455550]

>>3455535
At Swim
Dubliners
V
Gravity's Rainbow
Master Margarita
Pale Fire
The Tin Drum

[Anonymous No.3455565]

>>3455527
>4chan is one of the biggest sites on the web.
I think it's about 500th in the US and 800th in the UK, with the vast majority of that traffic on /b/. Despite what you think, /lit/ has absolutely no relevance to anything.

>If you think this is a smear campagin you are stupid.
If you think to the contrary, you are even more stupid than you think I am. Apart from the two reactive threads now, look at the ones that have been started over the past few days on here, /pol/ and /tv/; they all start with "Watch this dumb privileged bitch get owned," or "You leftists are deluded" and link to the same youtube vid. Now look at that youtube vid and attempt to pick out any positive comments.

If she wanted to market herself for sale, she wouldn't be drumming up popularity by getting 99% of exposed people to hate her. The popularity by hated image is not one she's angling for as it will get her dropped from her main source of income; journalism. I'm pretty sure your only knowledge of viral marketing comes from 'Tao Lin,' and you probably believe every single thread on here is started by him too.

[Anonymous No.3455573]

>>3455550
Which translation of M&M did you get? Mine's the Hugh Aplin one, but I hear Burgin and O'Connor is the best.

[Anonymous No.3455581]

>>3455565
>Despite what you think, /lit/ has absolutely no relevance to anything.

Except for being the perfect place to market books to on a popular website.

[Anonymous No.3455589]

>>3455581
Is /lit/ so fucked up to take the bait?

[Anonymous No.3455606]

>>3455573
I have the Ginsburg translation

Pevear and Volokohnsky is excellent for understanding context w/ footnotes; Burgin/O'Connor I've heard is great as well

I'm not familiar with the Alpin translation

[Anonymous No.3455604]

This board had a lot of love for Journey to the End of the Night, but I'm halfway through it and really not feeling it. The prose is just meandering all over the place, and while I enjoy the musings of a disenfranchised soldier, he doesn't seem to be saying anything of value or even managing to say it well.

[Anonymous No.3455608]

>>3455606
*Aplin

[Anonymous No.3455623]

>>3455606
Thanks, anon.

[Anonymous No.3455642]

This, after I finish re-reading 1984

[Anonymous No.3455643]

>>3455642
Oh, you poor fool.

[Anonymous No.3455873]

>>3455642
1Q84 has nothing to do with 1984.

[Anonymous No.3455935]

>>3455565
That's weird because I regularly bash the shit out of my own posts just to bump them and get a discussion going. It could never be that they use /pol/'s vitriol towards women to get attraction? All pr is good pr. Hatred is the most viral feeling on the internet. There has been research by the university of pennsylvania on this shit. If 10 millions see's her and 66 percent hate her. 33 percent likes her. That is 3.3 millions possible customer. Internet is so large that you just don't give a flying fuck about positive reactions anymore. It's just getting a reaction that matters.

[Anonymous No.3455976]

>>3455642
Its sitting on my lap right now. I like Murakami and all but man that book makes me wanna throw it against a wall. It also really has nothing to do with 1984 either.

[Anonymous No.3455984]

>>3455873
That's completely wrong. Have you even read both?