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Hey guys, can we have a bookshelf thread?

>> No.5853419

Nabokov is a purple prose talentless hack

>> No.5853423

you can't spell retard without read

>> No.5853430

>>5853415
fuck salinger XD

>> No.5853435

dostoevsky and vonnegut suck

>> No.5853439

Is /lit/ redpilled?

>> No.5853441

I didn't like ____ it had a bad message.

>> No.5853443

Should I read this book? What does /lit/ think of it?

>> No.5853447

_______ seemed like one of those books people read to seem "smart". pretensious garbage.

>> No.5853448

jane austen is boring

>> No.5853449

>>5853435
Vonnegut really does suck.

>> No.5853455

Philosophy's been outdated by science for some time now.

>> No.5853457

>>5853439
95 percent of /pol/ is blue-pilled
95 percent of /lit/ is plebeian

>> No.5853459

>>5853441
what is this book's main message? sum it up for me

>> No.5853461
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>>5853455
>Philosophy's been outdated by science for some time now.

>> No.5853462

>>5853449
Look who doesn't read ;)

>> No.5853464

why are there no good women writers?

>> No.5853465

Bob Dylan and MC Ride are my favorite poets.

>> No.5853466
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>> No.5853468

>>5853466
Now you have to say something like "This is my favorite book of all time, science proves religion doesn't exist :)))))"

>> No.5853480

Too bad 90% of non-European languages have no worthwhile literary tradition

>> No.5853483

>>5853457
What's some true patrician literature? Is ____ patrician? You probably read grocery store housewife tier trash like ____.

>genre fiction

_____ is red-piled as fuck. Which pill does /lit/ take?

What is the _____ of literature?

How do I get into ____?

>> No.5853485

>>5853466
Hasn't this book gone out of favour recently?

>> No.5853489

What do these weird squiggles represent? Can you people really hear other people talking when you look at these?

>> No.5853497

Ahhh, dosty has the bestest prose in all russias literature tradition, than tolstoi that made soap operas for plebs in rhe long russian winter. alyosha cant beat him with the grand inquizzer the goat chapter right? tolstoy is overrated, an ebin maymay, he doesnt understand misery.

>> No.5853505

how do i write good

>> No.5853507

Why are you all discussing philosophy, isn't this the literature board?

>> No.5853508

i browse /pol/
i'm [insert color]-pilled

>> No.5853514

>>5853507
>implying philosophy threads can't get annoying

>> No.5853555

Shakespeare was pretentious.

>> No.5853596

Philosophy is superior to literature

>> No.5853603

my favourite writer is a pinecone

>> No.5853605

Corn didn't fucking exist in Ancient Rome.

>> No.5853691

Thomas Pynchon is a meme!

>> No.5853705

Greeks
Augustine
Aquinas
Descartes
Hume
Kant
Hegel
Nietzsche
Heidegger
Wittgenstein
Foucault

or any other list of famous philosophers in chronological order

Is this a good list? Am I doing it right, /lit/?

>> No.5853731
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5853731

David Foster Wallace is the voice of the silent generation.

>> No.5854467

Hellenismos is just a meme.

>> No.5854469

Hellenismos is not a meme.

>> No.5854472

Tips fedora

>> No.5854488

I sure do love Fear & Loathing and Fight Club.

>> No.5854678

>>5854488
>I know this guy in real life

>> No.5854819

lol none of the spines are destroyed, you don't even read

>> No.5854824

penguin classics sully shelves

>> No.5855089

>Character/person in book has XXXXXXX freudian complex, which is interesting for some reason.

>I didn't like The Catcher in the Rye, there were no likeable characters at all.

>Game of Thrones is the best TV series out there, hands down.

>Saw a spider in the bathroom this morning, so kafkaesque.

>I didn't like Humbert Humbert. He is a terrible man, so disgusting. I judge books on moral value.

>My name is Gyorgy Lukacs. Kafka and Flaubert are literally Hitler.

>> No.5855097

can some1 give me a tip on how to improve my writing

also talented female writer general

>> No.5855098

>>5855089
Hilariously petty post, anon.

>> No.5855120

all the best artists did drugs. that's why i do drugs. i can't help it, it's a thing that happens to geniuses.

>> No.5855147

>>5855120
-Dante
-Dostoyevsky
-Tolstoy
-etc

Yeah, it is the drugs that made them good you loser junkie.

>> No.5855151

>>5855147
This post just screams 'I'm a virgin and I've never done drugs'

>> No.5855178

>>5855147
>etc
That's my favorite writer

>> No.5855218

>>5853415
all these (blacks/whites) are destroying our way of life. thank god we have the news

>> No.5855240

>>5855151
I'm a virgin and I have done drugs.
It is just that you don't need drugs for art and most of the greatest artists didn't do them.

>> No.5855252

>>5855240
m8 did you read thread image

>> No.5855257

>>5855252
Shit man, I didn't.
Game Of Thrones and Harry Potter are the best fantasy.

>> No.5855266

>>5855252
Obviously. Did you?

>> No.5855292

Marlowe is so much better than Shakespeare: Volpone > Othello

>> No.5855304

Was XXXXXX secretly gay?

>> No.5855322

>>5855257
I think you meant
>Fantasy is good

>> No.5855324

>>5855266
nope I didnt =)
nabokov is good tbh.

>> No.5855327

>>5853430
holden is such an annoying character i just can't enjoy this book

>> No.5855336

1. harry potter
2. lord of the rings
3. game of thrones

these are the best books of all time

>> No.5855339

>>5853415
I LOOOOOVE Paolo Coelho.
He is so deep and I love his quotes.

>> No.5855351

>>5855322
I only real real literature.

>> No.5855360

>>5855351
Not me, I love fantasy and scifi!

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>>5853415
Zach Galifianakis has a great take on this (sort of):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw2T1jx8kzo

>> No.5855388

>insert link to myers briggs personality test here

infp master race here hurrr I need these tests for a sense of identity because I'm dense oblivious, and pathetic.

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>>5853449
ahahahahahahah, ikr XD ;^}

>> No.5855544

>>5855532
I don't have any context beyond your shitpost here and the post you're quoting, but it's pretty funny how retarded and immature people are w.r.t. Vonnegut. The butthurt and accusations that fly from you pathetic faggots when someone points out what a trite, ham-fisted author he is are absolutely phenomenal, up to and including "no you actually read and like his shitty, 2clever4u stories but are trying to 'fit in' anonymously". I have watched this happen like every time someone says he is a shitty author, which is retarded. He is basically exactly the same as the Hitchhikers guide guy, except not even funny.

>> No.5855587

>>5855544
tl;dr, nice dubs tho

>> No.5855630

>>5853480
Considering there are roughly 6500 languages in the world, 90% is an extremely cautious estimate.

Try 99% and you're still nowhere near the number of languages with an actual literary tradition, let alone worthwhile.

>> No.5855635

Shakespeare is the best writer in the history of the English language and not at all someone who wrote literally for illiterate plebs

>> No.5855650

>posts article that is spewing ridiculous polemical right-wing garbage

Is this true /lit/?

>> No.5855659

Hey guys, /lit/izen here

>> No.5855670

>>5855544
It's not that I like Vonnegut but to me this kind of attitude of negativity and talking about plebs alla time is just a stupid ppointless attitude to take

Like, what I mean to say is that it seems very small and insignificant to me to point out that Vonnegut is a mediocre author mostly distinguished by an ironic tone and science fictional elements used in an ironic, midcentury American lit way. Rather we should appreciate him as someone who did those things and who had these positive qualities, however small they might have been and however overrated he might be.

Serious post btw

>> No.5855678

>>5855089
>i judge books on a moral value

I shit you not, today I had a 5 hour dissertation (thesis, antithesis, synthesis, to sum it up) on a quote from Kundera about judging books with your morals.

>> No.5855686

>>5855670
Okay but I genuinely dislike his books and audibly complained finished S5. He is reddit, the author.

>> No.5855692

>To Kill a Mockingbird
>Of Mice and Men
>Catcher in the Rye

>(One of the above) is my favorite book!

>> No.5855753

>>5855678
What did you synthesise?

>> No.5855758

>>5855098
This thread called for pettiness. But do you care to expand?

>> No.5855819

"Sjw"

>> No.5855842

>>5855819
But anon you are one

>> No.5856892

>>5855692
Of Mice and Men?

>> No.5857007

>>5855819
>But after that he took to the habit of putting occasionally into conversations on other subjects some irrelevant remark about our need for money and the amount of it which Mathers carried in his black cash-box; sometimes he would revile the old man, accusing him of being in 'the artificial manure ring' or of being dishonest in his business dealings. Once he said something about 'social justice' but it was plain to me that he did not properly understand the term.
Flann O'Brien writing ~1939 about how things never change

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i love self published abooks as much as i love nysnyc

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5858093

what does (c)/lit/ think of the latest addition to the Alex Rider series?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Roulette_(novel)#Critical_Reception

>> No.5858106

>>5855544
>>5855670
>>5855686
I think you guys are getting too far into this, it's just a game of pretend.

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>>5858093
>Initial reception has been great for this novel.
That tickled me and I don't know why
I can't tell if I'd rather it was Horowitz or a fan that write that.

>> No.5858189

>>5855692
>>5856892
second

>> No.5858268

>he hasn't read finnegan's wake

laughingliterati.jpg

>> No.5858276

Why does everyone like russian writers?
There all long winded and boring.

>> No.5858341

>>5858276
Why does everyone like Russian writers? Are you actually telling me that if we took a /lit/ poll top 100 books, there would actually be more Russian books on that list than American? Or, even better, that there would be proportionately more Russian books than British books? Hell, there would be a much higher percentage of British books on there despite Russia historically having a population more than twice the size of the United Kingdom at any given moment.

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>> No.5858351

>>5858347
What the fuck am I reading.

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>>5858351
Here's some anti-rage for you anon

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>>5853415
Hey guys, let's make this thread happen

>> No.5858357
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>>5858276
Sup fucker. One more thing. What do you make of the book I linked a few posts up? It's your typical Russophobic spy novel that seems to be loved by all here at /lit/, despite being propaganda designed to normalise fear of Russians and indoctrinate our children. You think people give Russian writers too much respect? Fuck you.

>> No.5858424

guys

I have to do an ENTIRE book report for my english class, like five pages of just themes n shit

why do teachers do this? seriously it's hard as fuck and doesn't do nothing for me

>> No.5858456

God, why do people over-analyze books so much? HURR DURR gotta dig for more meaning, WHAT IF THIS GUY'S DICK SYMBOLIZES THIS OR THAT?!! i'm so deep!!! Fucking 2deep4u artsy fartsy faggot hipsters. Symbolism symbolism symbolism blah blah fucking blah. Just READ THE FUCKING BOOK AND SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! Maybe the author just MEANT THE CURTAINS WERE FUCKING BLUE YOU STUPID FUCKING OVERLY-PRETENTIOUS STUPID HIPSTERS FUCKS!!!

thumbs up if you agree

>> No.5858476

>>5853415
*clouds of thought* I wonder if there is a universally understood standard for creating and presenting internal expressions ?

>> No.5858512

Dude, Everything and More, I'm reading that.

>> No.5858572

>>5853465
Struck by the sounds before the sun
I knew the night had gone
The morning breeze like a bugle blew
Against the drums of dawn

The ocean wild like an organ played
The seaweed’s wove its strands
The crashin’ waves like cymbals clashed
Against the rocks and sands

I stood unwound beneath the skies
And clouds unbound by laws
The cryin’ rain like a trumpet sang
And asked for no applause

The last of leaves fell from the trees
And clung to a new love’s breast
The branches bare like a banjo played
To the winds that listened best

Lay down your weary tune, lay down
Lay down the song you strum
And rest yourself ’neath the strength of strings
No voice can hope to hum

>> No.5858583

>>5858456
Had a girlfriend say something to this effect to me once. I must have had a look on my face because she immediately followed up with "But I'm an idiot, what do I know."

>> No.5858655

>>5853465
I at least hope you're not implying that Bob Dylan and MC Ride are poor lyricists, friend

>> No.5858680

>>5855758
>implying anything Paradise says is worth paying attention to

>> No.5858696

>>5858583
Kek.

>> No.5858900

>>5853415
I don't know what to post, haven´t read the OP.

>> No.5859099

who the fuck is italo calvino?

>> No.5859128

>>5858583
I'm not posting in the spirit of this thread but why do people analyse books so much rather than just read them?

>> No.5859777

>>5855147
Have you ever done drugs ?
They fucking fry your brain. Of course there are some exceptions like weed. Drugs commonly thought to be "mind opening" like shrooms and LSD can give you PTSD (not joking). And don't even get me started on the hard drugs like coke and oxytocin. Coming from experience, the beat thing I ever did more my mental health was quitting.

>> No.5859784

>>5859777

>Of course there are some exceptions like weed.

>implying that hard hitting weed and thc derivates that most of guys use can't fuck you up

>implying thc in high doses is extremely safe

>implying thc is pachamama therefore is good

disgusting

>> No.5859790

>>5858583
Lol

>> No.5859833

>>5859128

because it's fun to discover what the shit a person can see through the symbolism

maybe the problem is presenting it as dogma, but interpretations are fun to know what the fuck do you think about things and comparing it to another mind

>> No.5859869

>>5853466
I'm an atheist and still hated that book.

>> No.5860585

>>5853415

The Great Gatsby is the best book ever, by the way anon did you see that new Hunger Games film?

>> No.5860646

>>5859784
Listen to him Anon, check his trips.

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>yfw this thread is just non-readers "pretending" to be non-readers

>> No.5861859

>>5855587
This.

>> No.5861871

Imblying if don't read, that I can write

74 retards in this thread

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>>5861871
he can

>> No.5861904

>not reading nonfiction exclusively
stay pleb

>> No.5861924

>>5853415
[looks at you like you're an alien] hey anon, what are you reading

[book] is boring

>> No.5861976

>>5861904
this. fiction can be a guilty pleasure, but why decipher some 80 year old classic when you can just read some scientific journals or essays? just cut out the bullshit

>> No.5861998

>>5858572
What album is that from?

>> No.5862791

>>5861998
you can hear it on Biograph comp or Live at Carnegie Hall '63

>> No.5862803

>>5853435
Dostoevski is probably great in his native tongue. Unfortunately, I don't speak or read Russian, and his translations are boring an overlong.

>> No.5862806

>>5853415
start with the greeks

>> No.5862815

Why would I read the Bible, it's too old

>> No.5862834

the bible is good

>> No.5862902

Why would I want to read the Bible when I'm an atheist?

>> No.5862911

why does the bible condone rape

>> No.5862915

The bible is the greatest piece of literature in the canon and everyone should read it.

>> No.5862932

Why is the god of the OT is such a tyrant?