/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.4038711]

What literature would you have put in every motel nightstand in America?

[Anonymous No.4038714]

"The Private Fart Letters" by James Joyce.

[Anonymous No.4038777]

Probably "Infinite Jest" with a bible cover.

[Anonymous No.4038779]

I mean, it's an outdated notion now. Everyone's got access to any work of literature they'd want in a hotel room via their laptops with internet connections now.

[Anonymous No.4038923]

the gates of janus by ian brady

[Anonymous No.4039380]

>>4038777
I lol'd

[Anonymous No.4039442]

>>4038777
You know, I'm reading that right now, and I just realized that countless people have read the Bible cover-to-cover, yet I'm willing to bet a sizable chunk of those people would see a book like Infinite Jest (in terms of size, not quality or content) and either disregard it or not give enough of a fuck to even halfway finish it.

tl;dr why don't people finish books

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[Anonymous No.4040593]

>>4039442
I don't think that many people have read the bible cover to cover. Minister/priestly/seminarian types, maybe. But even the most devote (read: oddball) bible thumpers have read the whole thing. Look at Catholics, there is no necessity to even pick up the bible, I've even heard of catholic priests discouraging it since people will get their own ideas.
>>4038711
I'd put a dictionary or a [your country's language] to English dictionary in every room. Bible isn't a bad idea though. Or maybe a US Constitution if in the US (might come in handy...)

[Anonymous No.4040596]

>>4038923

I have that book.

[Anonymous No.4040597]

>>4040593
>But even the most devote (read: oddball) bible thumpers have read
*fuck* I meant "have NOT read"

[Anonymous No.4040598]

>>4038711

the kama sutra

[Anonymous No.4040602]

>>4040597
You should feel humiliated, Erik.

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[Anonymous No.4040609]

>>4039442
Most people who think that infinite jest is too big to read would think the same thing about the bible. It is amazing how many Christians actually have no idea how to read the bible

[Anonymous No.4040613]

1,001 dick jokes. A modern classic of equal respectability to the bible

[Anonymous No.4040615]

In all honesty.

[Anonymous No.4040619]

>>4040615
>not the international Jew the worlds foremost problem

Pleb

[Anonymous No.4041376]

>>4040598
Nobody seems to recognize the genius of your post, but kudos to you sir. If ever there was a book that people needed in HOTELS, it would be this.

[Anonymous No.4041392]

>>4040598
Theology of the Body

[Anonymous No.4041395]

>>4038711
A menu for the room service.

[Anonymous No.4041401]

>>4040593
>I've even heard of catholic priests discouraging it since people will get their own ideas.

The King James version of the bible was extremely controversial in its day because it was the first English translation. Before that, the bible was only published in Latin or sometimes Greek, and thus could only be read by scholars and clergy with educations. This was done on purpose to keep commoners from reading it.

[Anonymous No.4041406]

>>4041401
>doesn't know about the Gutenberg bible

[Anonymous No.4041408]

The Bible's a pretty good choice. If not that, then the complete works of Shakespeare or Moby Dick.

[Anonymous No.4041419]

>>4038711
a greeting card with the bokononist mud poem from cat's cradle written in times new roman size 12 with no capitalization or punctuation

[Anonymous No.4041438]

The Dhammapada.

Quick read, easy to understand, and it'd potentially do a lot of good for all the lost and fucked up people who frequent motels.

[Michael No.4041440]

How about 1984 by George Orwell?

[Anonymous No.4041444]

>>4041438
I would put this in every nightstand ever.

[Anonymous No.4041447]

OP: SAS Survival Guide

[Anonymous No.4041450]

>>4041440
Too long, not prosy enough, read by anyone who needs to read it in school.

[Anonymous No.4041480]

The Odyssey