/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.4228929]

>"I was think of reading House of the Dead next"
>"Sounds awesome! I love zombie books!"

When have you felt like embracing the spirit of the berserker, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.4228931]

I've never read it but that's one cool book cover.

[Anonymous No.4228937]

>>4228931
Neither have I but I've been hooked on Dostoyevsky ever since I read Notes From Underground. I'll probably read it after I read crime and punishment

[Anonymous No.4228943]

My favorite quotes from House Of The Dead:

>Why would anyone do this?
>G!
>I don't wanna die...
>Suffer like G did?
>Go Kuarl!
>Go Kuarl!
>Go Kuarl!

[Anonymous No.4228946]

>>4228937
I have a photo coffee mug with Dostoevsky on it. Notes from Underground is one of my favorite books.

[Anonymous No.4228988]

Just as an incidental, the viking berserkers, who could fight battles without much conscious thought while berserking, did so because the human brain after much practice in a skill can react unconsciously, rather than consciously, to physical movements; thus, a viking berserker could react unconsciously to a movement out of the corner of his eye, resulting in a block or an attack. That's the science of berserking.

[Anonymous No.4229121]

>he too had a mother

fuckin greatest chapter right there

[Anonymous No.4229135]

It's pretty good. More accessible than his other books. But depressing of course.

[Anonymous No.4229408]

>>4229135
>But depressing of course
I think this is what I like from Dostoyevsky. I'm maybe 3/5 the way through The Idiot and must say that I just love his main characters. Although very depressing his stories spark within me a feeling which I find hard to put into exact words... a renewed optimism? Yes, sad indeed but in that sadness I see the most profound beauty.

[Anonymous No.4229464]

>>4228988
That's also how I drive.

[Anonymous No.4229473]

>tfw he died before writing the sequel to Bros. Kar.

[Anonymous No.4229477]

>>4228988
>>4229464
BERSERKERRRRRR

[Anonymous No.4229480]

>>4229477
Would you like some making fuck?

[Anonymous No.4229483]

>>4229480
BERSERKERRRRRR

[Anonymous No.4229482]

>>4228988
practice something a lot and it becomes unconscious what groundbreaking research written out in such a horrible prose.

[Anonymous No.4229486]

>>4229482
>implying your shitty post is written any better

[Anonymous No.4229487]

>>4229483
My love for you is like a rock.

[Anonymous No.4229494]

>>4228929

>"what are you listening to anon?"
>Wagner
>"Ewww how can you like that freak from X-factor"

[Anonymous No.4229525]

>>4228929

Who the fuck reads zombie novels anyway?

[Anonymous No.4229563]

>>4229525

4chan

[Anonymous No.4229567]

>>4229525
>Who the fuck reads zombie novels anyway?
my sentiments exactly. I hate the whole zombie fad in general and when one mistook Dostoyevsky for another addition to that pile of shit a small part of my humanity died.

[Anonymous No.4229660]

>>4229121
hahahaha

This book was lolzy. Love the guy that he teaches to read, except for Dostoevsky is such a patronizing aristocratic fuck.

Here's the full version from Project Gutenberg online if y'all want:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37536/37536-h/37536-h.htm

[Anonymous No.4229662]

>>4229660
>hint hint
For all of the philistines in this thread who are shitposting but haven't even read the book.

[Anonymous No.4229664]

>>4228937

Crime and Punishment is helluva good book. If you like his conversatory stile, i suggest you also read "the uncle"

[Anonymous No.4229695]

>>4229664
Uncle's Dream?

[Anonymous No.4229751]

>>4229494

[Anonymous No.4229755]

>>4228929
>everyone must know everything
That title is so cliché in horror that I can hardly blame anyone you were talking to.

[Anonymous No.4229762]

>>4229755
I guess I should have mentioned that the conversation started by me reading the idiot, someone asking what I was reading, me telling them about it and how I was getting into dostoyevsky

[Anonymous No.4229775]

>>4229762
Well, that's different then.

[Anonymous No.4229784]

>>4229408
>I'm maybe 3/5 the way through The Idiot
Share you reaction when you're finished

[Anonymous No.4229816]

>>4228929
Nice cover, it just doesn't say anything about the book.
There are passages in this book I'll never forget.

[Anonymous No.4230079]

Well it is a long running light-gun series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHHmqYrRvW8

[Anonymous No.4230948]

>>4230079
We know about the game, numb nuts. That's the whole point of OP's post.

[Anonymous No.4231018]

>>4228929

In my opinion House of the Dead was greatly depressing study of a man's downfall (as an individual) and his struggle to rise from ashes, trying to find meaning of his suffering in harsh, unfriendly environment. Book can be genuinly boring at times, but provides a great insight for people studying mental survival of a human being.

That being said two books I consider greatest works of Dostoyevsky in my library are:

>Demons

Provides a panoramic view on 19th century Russian political/ideological conflict. Great and sad book about search for "philosophical identity" of Russia. Book features a very interesting nihilist side in the debate.

>Brother Karamazov

Hands down. Second best book I've ever read. Watch out, may convert you to Orthodox Christianity.

[Anonymous No.4231020]

>>4231018

Thanks. I was going to read Demons next anyway.

[Anonymous No.4231057]

>>4230948
the point is that house of the dead is the name of the video game series. the novel's title is Записки из Мёртвого дома.

[Anonymous No.4231196]

>>4228988
Or they were drugged. Or they were whipped into a religious frenzy. Or they were drunk. Or. Or. Or.

Archaeology is fun, huh?

[Anonymous No.4231977]

>>4230079
>>4231057

read >>4229762
I really should have included that in my OP. sometimes I can be absent minded

>getting coffee in the uni library
>barista recognizes me
>"Large dark, right?"
>"Actually I'd like the medium today"
>medium sized coffee placed on counter
>"Could you make that a large instead, please?"
>other employee, "yea, no problem, dark, right?"
>"medium"
>*click*
>collective "Oooooohhhhh"

At least I'm not from /r9k/ or this post would be about me being troubled by having a coffee of the wrong size and roast and ranting about how women can't think

[Anonymous No.4233882]

>>4231018
What's the best?

[Anonymous No.4233931]

>>4231977
wut

[Anonymous No.4233952]

>>4231977

>go to cafe before class every day
>order the same thing every day, medium capp with two sugars
>same baristas every day
>every time they ask me what I want as if they've never seen me before
>mfw I'm still unemployed and am in STEM grad school
>mfw these cunts probably did lib arts degrees, got to read interesting books instead of tedious hard math and physics
>AND they got jobs

Fuck everything.

[Anonymous No.4233970]

>Reading a book in public
>Guy walks up to me
>"What are you reading?"
>"It's Book by Author"
>"What is it about?"
>"Uh I dunno"
Every time.
Why is it so hard to summarize books in a few sentences?

[Anonymous No.4233980]

>>4233970

Why do obnoxious cunts expect you to?

>be reading Conn Iggulden in grade 5
>'hey whitey, wat's dat book about?'
>'It's mostly to do with the life of Julius Caesar and power struggles in the Roman Republic.'
>'oh, so lots of guns an stuff?
>'Um... ... ... ... ... ...no.'
>'hurr uh... swords?'
>*heavy sigh* '... ... ... ...yeah.'
>'oh ok cool lol see you l8r anon.'

[Anonymous No.4234001]

>"I read books to escape from reality."

[Anonymous No.4234017]

>>4233980
>going to a school with niggers
Your parents must have hated you.

[Anonymous No.4234019]

>>4234017

Impossible to avoid them in the wonderful land of Aus, I'm afraid.

[Anonymous No.4234674]

>>4234001
>>"I read books to escape from reality."
>implying you don't

>>4234019
>Impossible to avoid them in the wonderful land of Aus
There are black people in Australia...
>country founded by criminals
oh yeah

[Anonymous No.4234989]

>>4233970
>>4233980

I think its sad that most normal people do read books you can summarize in about a sentence or two.

>any romance novel
>any crap fantasy
>any crap action novel
>vampire romance

That's what normal people read.

[None !!lZetafI6z8s No.4235017]

i met a new friend the other day she was carrying around that morrisey autobiography : - )

[Anonymous No.4235029]

>>4233952
>tl;dr i'm from /r9k/, i got fooled by /sci/
good job

[Anonymous No.4235034]

>>4234674
>what are the aboriginals
/pol/ you're being particularly stupid today.

[Anonymous No.4235578]

Bump

[Anonymous No.4235613]

I'm the guy who wrote the viking berserker paragraph. I guess I'm supposed to jump in now and defend myself. Trolling starts to get really dumb when you realize that people actually waste their lives on 4chan laughing about being trolls.

[Anonymous No.4237181]

>>4235613
Just as an incidental, the 4chan trolls, who could win arguments without much conscious thought while trolling, did so because the human brain after much practice in a skill can react unconsciously, rather than consciously, to 4chan threads; thus, a 4chan troll could react unconsciously to a post out of the corner of a thread, resulting in an insult or an attack. That's the science of trolling.