/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.7784881]

You're stuck for 1 year in the last book you've read.
How fucked are you?

>mfw 1 year in the Plato's Republic

[Anonymous No.7784885]

>the three musketeers

fuck. yes.

[Anonymous No.7784887]

Naked lunch.
Wheeeeeeee

[Anonymous No.7784895]

>>7784881

Lovecraft's Complete Fiction?

I am extremely fucked. I will keep a dog by my side at all times and run like hell at the first sign of it behaving strangely.

[Anonymous No.7784910]

How to read a book....

[Anonymous No.7784924]

>i am now a devout White Catholic with my new Gibbs me dat

[Anonymous No.7784927]

Funny enough, it would not be that bad because it will probably take me 6 more months to finish the current book anyways

[Anonymous No.7784961]

I guess I get to be taught by Wittgenstein.
I'm at the part in the Ray Monk biography where the Tractatus was just published. Russel was ij China. W was teaching elementary school in a rural town. I'll fit right in.

[Anonymous No.7785755]

trainspotting
i have mixed feelings

[Anonymous No.7785759]

Ugh, if I got stuck in Jumanji I'd probably hang myself.

[Anonymous No.7785766]

>>7784881
Time to lose my v card, i suppose.

[Anonymous No.7785771]

The rum diary.

Puerto Rico is brettygud

[Anonymous No.7785774]

>>7784881
Not that bad, really.

[Anonymous No.7785776]

I'm fucking stuck on a space station with my dead cat.

Solaris.

[Anonymous No.7785779]

It could be much worse

[Anonymous No.7785781]

pretty fucked up I guess
luckily I finished Howard Fast Spartacus

[Anonymous No.7785798]

>Man in the High Castle
>I'm tall, blonde and blue eyed
Ez

[Anonymous No.7785802]

>>7785779
Right there with you. Depends on where you are on the ladder but sounds pretty comfy overall.

[Anonymous No.7785805]

Meh

[Anonymous No.7785807]

The alchemist. I hate deserts.

[Anonymous No.7785811]

>>7784881
1 year in the Witcher.

[Anonymous No.7785812]

>The beautiful and the damned

id probably be some waifish NYC street urchin

[Anonymous No.7785816]

>>7784881
>Foundation trilogy

I guess it's ok...

[Anonymous No.7785817]

>brief interviews with hideous men
At least I'm having sex

[Anonymous No.7785818]

>St Augustine's Confessions

We Rome motherfucker

[Anonymous No.7785826]

Iliad elemayo. Not related to a god so i'd last 5 lines.

[Anonymous No.7785834]

>>7785818
>be born pagan or Arian
>get burned or stoned
No great tbqh familia

[Anonymous No.7785835]

ISIS: The State of Terror by Jessica Stern.

Putting my name on the suicide list on the barrack wall immediately.

[Anonymous No.7785836]

well fuck

[Anonymous No.7785838]

>Notes from the Underground
at least I get to have implied sex with a qt

[Anonymous No.7785839]

>>7785834
>currently attending a Catholic university

i can just steal Aquinas' schtick and become a theologician

[Anonymous No.7785841]

My Catalonia by George Orwell,
I would consider myself fucked D:

[Anonymous No.7785845]

>>7784881

Stuck in Knausgårds adolescence.

Sounds fine. Huge amount of prime fertility norwegian pussy, and the father son relationship is nearly the same.

[Anonymous No.7785847]

The problem with these threads is that no one bothers to comment on others posts.
yes

[Anonymous No.7785851]

>>7784881

I would prefer not to.

[Anonymous No.7785853]

>>7785847
yes,sadly

[Anonymous No.7785858]

>>7785817

Unless you happen to be the restroom attendant. Holy shit that was soul-rending and terrifying.

[Anonymous No.7785867]

>>7785847

We're all a bunch of middlebrow tryhards. No fucking way the narcissism of the hivemind would allow anyone to think any idea other than their own is any good.

[Anonymous No.7785868]

>>7785858
Or that guy who fell in love with the hippy rape victim, that too close to home

[Anonymous No.7785875]

>>7784881
>collection of Kipling's shorts
>ghosts, fox hunting, bees and holy wars

[Anonymous No.7785885]

>>7784881
Faust
could be worse

[Anonymous No.7785890]

>>7785885
Assuming you still have your soul, yeah

[Anonymous No.7785895]

>the forever war

see ya in 100 years

[Anonymous No.7785897]

>>7785836
Is this the one where a prince goes on a hunt and rampages through the woods killing two animals per second in every way possible?

[Anonymous No.7785979]

>>7785897
No, it is about a hobo hallucinating in the desert.

[Anonymous No.7786028]

The Plague by Albert Camus

lol rip

[Anonymous No.7786061]

>>7784881

>Ubik

Fuck, I could already be in it. I don't know. Nobody knows.

[Anonymous No.7786080]

fug :DDD

[Anonymous No.7786104]

>>7786061
You'd spend the year fighting the slow decline of half life.... eugh

[Anonymous No.7786113]

>Invitation to a Beheading

Fuck.

[Anonymous No.7786121]

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Shit

[Anonymous No.7786130]

>Being and Time

[Anonymous No.7786155]

>Infinite Jest
no god, please no

I've been reading this stupid book for two months already. Now I'm inside for a year? Just let me put it down, please

[Anonymous No.7786164]

>>7784881

>stuck in Platonov's short stories

Could be worse, but that'll be depressing as shit

[Anonymous No.7786171]

>>7784881
>moby dick

no. fuck no.

[Anonymous No.7786184]

>>7785805
I'm French, this is already my daily reality

[W No.7786234]

>A/The History of Western Philosophy

Could be pretty interesting if I get to travel throughout the various time periods discussed; if I'm stuck in Ancient Greece - fuck that.

Also first post ever on /lit/.

[Anonymous No.7786248]

Do stage-plays count? If so, Macbeth.

I'm fucked for a little bit.

[W No.7786257]

>>7786248
At least you're not in Othello.

[Anonymous No.7786259]

>Blood Meridian

Damn.

[Anonymous No.7786321]

I already live in humboldt county so not much would change. Except now I live in a bitter old ex hippies manifesto about the end of the freewheeling 60s and 70s.

[Anonymous No.7786334]

>>7785818
Early Roman monarchy for me.

Yikes.

[Anonymous No.7786342]

>White Noise

[Anonymous No.7786357]

>No One Writes to the Colonel
It's happening. I'm gonna empirically prove that you can die of literal boredom.

[Anonymous No.7786362]

Ignition!

I'm stuck around dangerous chemicals that nobody really knows how they work when combined.

might be fun

[Anonymous No.7786374]

>>7784881
>genre fiction fiction with like 5 wizards
Im a powerless commoner in a world that about to be fucked up, if the zombis don't get me than the civil war or the gods will finish me

[W No.7786379]

>>7786362
Ah yes. The great ballad by the famous Robert Sylvester Kelly. Quite.

[Anonymous No.7786383]

in 1984

[Anonymous No.7786400]

>>7785771
How is it being 15?

>>7784881
The Quiet American
Well, could've been worse.

[Anonymous No.7786418]

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri.

I'm in Calcutta sometime around 1970. Not a fan of humid heat, to be honest.

[Anonymous No.7786432]

Blood Meridian.

Time to get a taste for tortillas and kid raping.

[Anonymous No.7786472]

I wouldn't be worried

[Anonymous No.7787036]

>Storm of Steel

I'm going to die, and a pointless death at that.

[Anonymous No.7787081]

>>7784881
>You're stuck for 1 year in the last book you've read.
A Brief History of Seven Killings
>How fucked are you?
a short twinky white boy surrounded by psychopathic CIA-armed Jamaicans
I aint lasting no rasscloth year

>How fucked are you?

[Anonymous No.7787090]

Slaughterhouse-Five

[Anonymous No.7787092]

>History of the Russian Revolution.
I guess I'll have fun becoming a frontovik and getting shot by my comrades, providing I don't starve first.

[Anonymous No.7787095]

I am in Hofstadter's TwinWirld...this will be very interesting

[Anonymous No.7787096]

>>7784881
FEAR AND LOATHING MASTER RACE

[Anonymous No.7787105]

>Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
if I become trou okada it might be a shit time, but if I just live on his street or something it would be comfy as fuck. exploring the alley, playing with stray cats, meditating in the well, fucking may kasahara

[Anonymous No.7787106]

Book of the new sun. I'm probably fucked.

[Anonymous No.7787117]

>>7786155
I was born in 1979, I already lived Infinite Jest.

[Anonymous No.7787126]

>>7784881
>Brave New World
Depends on your definition of fucked.

[Anonymous No.7787128]

The Place of Dead Roads

Another Burroughs buttboy, I will be literally fucked. But it begs the question: would you take it up the ass (if straight) to time travel?

[Anonymous No.7787146]

Nothing changes

[Anonymous No.7787151]

>>7784881
>Dr. Bloodmoney
Better get prepared my food and some knives.

[Anonymous No.7787154]

The Sound and the Fury

It's pretty much already like that

[Anonymous No.7787273]

[Anonymous No.7787295]

Min Kamp #2
>MFW
The prose is good and I enjoy the ramblings. I feel like I'd embody Knausgaard by the end, hatred for Swedes and all.

[Anonymous No.7787296]

>1Q84

As long as I get to apathetically fuck improbably large-breasted seven teen year old girls as well, then things should be fine.

[Anonymous No.7787298]

>>7787295
Forgot reaction

[Anonymous No.7787309]

Plato's Symposium

:^)

[AnonURNotMe No.7787323]

Caballo de Troya 6 - J.J.Benitez
However im stuck for about 4 months :/
I have this weird cycles that i read a lot for months and then i dont want to.
Im a edy teen who is starting to reconsidering literature tastes.
Recomend me something /lit

[Anonymous No.7787331]

fuck

[Anonymous No.7787339]

Well... I'm not going to have... a very fun time...

[Anonymous No.7787342]

>>7785766
while you're murdered?

[Anonymous No.7787349]

The discovery of heaven. I seems okay

[Anonymous No.7787526]

>>7784881
Fucking Napolean annexed Moscow now i gotta pack all my shit and flee to Petersburg and awkwardly decide which of my peasant/valet workers I'm gonna bring and which ones I'm gonna leave behind

[Anonymous No.7787537]

>>7784881
A biography of Shakespeare, so Elizbethan England, I guess. Not bad as long as I avoid the plague.

[Anonymous No.7787597]

>>7784881
Stuck in the comfiest travel diary/idle musings/godly nature descriptions/light-hearted narrative in the most gorgeous of the Ionian islands? For a year? Give me a lifetime, I say.

[Anonymous No.7787613]

>Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Nice, I get to live out my fantasy of travelling through 1920s Arabia and killing Turks with my hero.

[Anonymous No.7787617]

> My Struggle Book 1

Guess it's housework and cleaning up grandma's piss all the way down boys.

[Anonymous No.7787644]

>Tropic of Cancer
Pretty much my ideal vacation year anyway

[Anonymous No.7787656]

>a brief history of seven killings
well shit

[Anonymous No.7787700]

>>7784881
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream....oh god

[Anonymous No.7787737]

>>7784881
>Re-reading The Name of the Wind
Oh baby. I'd dig that sympathy so hard and spend my days in the Uni's library. I already read the books, I know the jist of how it works.
As long as I don't die to monsters/demons/bandits/accidents first.

[Anonymous No.7787746]

>>7784881
>A short 50 page introduction to Hinduism.

I'll have a very basic knowledge of Hinduism for 1 year.

[Anonymous No.7787750]

Either an article on stock markets by Karin Knorr Cetina or the Bhagavad-Gita as It is. So either I stand and listen to the Supreme Personality of Godhead for a year, or I'm a stock trader.

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare

[Anonymous No.7787756]

>>7787750
Wew lad.

>mine is Da BIBLE
not that bad.

will probably end up killing myself.
not that bad.

[Anonymous No.7787761]

>>7784881
>Hunchback of Notre Dame
I would limit the remainder of my life to a year if it meant spending it with Pierre Gringoire.

[Anonymous No.7787763]

>>7784881
Fabritius - Män som inte glömma

Fascist power fantasies in the 30s. Why not.

[Anonymous No.7787766]

>>7787756
Dude, do David's magic trick and stand on one foot, right, and make it seem like you can levitate. Then, since there's only word of mouth, people will slowly, more and more, turn you into a legend. Then you become more popular than Jesus.

[Anonymous No.7787795]

>>7787766
Will do anon
Will do

[Anonymous No.7787953]

>Metamorphoses

qt Venus gf please?

[Anonymous No.7788311]

>Brighton rock
>I live in Brighton


Not bad

[Anonymous No.7788355]

>>7784881

>A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich

And I have to live a year in the life of Ivan Denisovich?

Yeah I'm pretty fucked.

[Anonymous No.7788363]

>i'm chilean
mfw

[Anonymous No.7788370]

>>7784881
>Hunger

OH FUCK PLEASE NO

[Anonymous No.7788372]

>>7788355
You are probably one of the most fucked in the thread. That shit would suck and there is no real escape. At least it's only a year and not forever like some of those motherfuckers.

[Anonymous No.7788382]

So I just fuck around in the late 1940s for a year. Doesn't sound all that bad.

[Anonymous No.7788385]

>The Trial
Pretty chill desu senpai

[Anonymous No.7788395]

>>7784881
My current book is the Necronomicon so...

[Anonymous No.7788398]

>The Anatomy of Melancholy

It changes nothing.

[Anonymous No.7788401]

>>7784895
You'll go mad on your first day and wake up in a hospital in the real world a year later. At least you won't remember the year of horror.

[Anonymous No.7788403]

>How to Win Friends and Influence People

o-okay

[Anonymous No.7788414]

Chilling with Marco Polo and Kublai Kahn listening to some dope histories about cities.

[Anonymous No.7788419]

The Mahabharata?

Probably get killed within a few minutes by some demigod yogi prince wielding nuclear weapons.

[Anonymous No.7788446]

Finnegans wake, your guess is as good as mine. In the pub with ear wicker accusing him of shit prolly

[Anonymous No.7788473]

>>7788419
>yfw being stuck in the Kurukshetra War

[Anonymous No.7788504]

>Submission

At least I get a free teenage wife.

[Anonymous No.7788605]

>>7786400

>implying HST is strictly for adolescents

Someone hasn't read Campaign Trail '72. While The Rum Diary may be his weakest work, it's still miles ahead of the vast majority of books. And he wrote it when he was 22-23. Accomplishing that, at that age, while being an alcoholic drug user, ought to make one reflect on ones own life accomplishments.

[Anonymous No.7788614]

>>7784881
Ada.
So I guess I fuck my sister. cool

[Anonymous No.7788631]

>1 year in nineteenth century Uruguay
I'll be fine

[Anonymous No.7788638]

>1 year in Medaevel Scotland
Meh, could be worse

[Anonymous No.7788653]

>>7784881
Dantes Inferno :(((((((

[Anonymous No.7788655]

>trapped in a meme

[Anonymous No.7788672]

>>7784881
>Systems analysis and design.
Kill me senpai.

[Anonymous No.7788683]

>>7784881
>one year as a wealthy french playboy with a hot milf to fuck
I'm stoked.

[Anonymous No.7788684]

>a confederacy of dunces
So do I have to live at ignatius' house or what?

[Anonymous No.7788719]

One flew over the cuckoos nest
Oh fuck, better lay low for the year, throw away my medicines.

[Anonymous No.7788728]

>Book of the New Sun
Oh balls, at least I get to fuck Dorcas and Jolenta though.

[Anonymous No.7788792]

>House of Leaves.
Can I just die instead

[Anonymous No.7788796]

>Crime and Punishment
I'm going to freeze to death in a fucking garret.

[Anonymous No.7788803]

>Everlasting Man - G. K. Chesterton
a year of contemplating theology, I guess?

Last fiction book was 1Q84 by Murakami, which could be A-ok. Just be sure to stay out of Aomame's sights... And I could finally see what all the fuss about Air Chrysalis is.

[Anonymous No.7788829]

>Slaughterhouse five
PLOT TWIST I stay forever in that book.

[Anonymous No.7788868]

>Inferno
does this mean i'll get to purgatory after that one year?
I guess it's alright as long as i don't have to go back

[Anonymous No.7788882]

>a rebours

the highlight of the main character's year of isolation was eating a cheese sandwich on a hill watching little boys beat each other up, calls them poor retards living meaningless lives then gets nauseous and goes to bed. he also has the shits for most of the book, too. not too far removed from my own life, he just has better things and better alcohol.

[Anonymous No.7788927]

Scalped within a week desu

[Anonymous No.7788964]

>>7784881
Moby Dick.

Shit, I don't know if I'll live through the year honestly

[Anonymous No.7788966]

>Paradise Lost
I'll tell that bitch not to eat that fucking fruit.

[Anonymous No.7788978]

>>7784881
>My Twisted World
Gr8

[Anonymous No.7788979]

literally could not be worse

[Anonymous No.7788989]

Uh oh...
No matter what side I end up on I would most likely end up as arotting corpse in the HRE knowing my luck.

[Anonymous No.7789018]

>>7788403
So 1 year as door to door seller, I'm sorry for you bro

[Anonymous No.7789027]

>>7788684
ignatius will kick your shit out of his home, I can easily fantasize the scene

[Anonymous No.7789028]

>Book of Job

Well, I hope I'm not Job

[Anonymous No.7789033]

>>7789028
You can be his son, or one of his sheeps

[Anonymous No.7789352]

>>7786234
>not wanting to spar with the heretic sophists
Seriously though can you tell me how the book is. I have it on my shelf ready to be a starting point for philosophy but ive heard he is strongly biased against ideas contrary to his own philosophy.

[Anonymous No.7789437]

>>7786171
Why's that bad?

[Anonymous No.7789499]

>>7788311
>Not bad
You still live in Brighton

[Anonymous No.7789512]

>>7784881
I'm in an...egoistic union?

That's pretty all right. Shame it's the nineteenth century.

[Anonymous No.7789521]

>>7788311
trust me brighton is a shit hole

[Anonymous No.7789531]

>>7789437
perhaps he doesn't want to plunge into a barrel of spermaceti, if you know what i mean...

[Anonymous No.7789572]

>>7784881
mmmm fuck

[Anonymous No.7789583]

>growth of the soil

pretty comfy living

[Anonymous No.7789588]

>>7784881
1 (more) autistic year

[Anonymous No.7789596]

Dublin, on 16 June 1904. An entire year of the same fucking day? Damn, OP.

[Anonymous No.7789600]

>>7789588
1 year stuck into the tweeterism, i'm sorry for you anon

[Anonymous No.7789666]

>>7784881
It depends. Either I'm on Mars, and therefore dead, or on Earth, and therefore nothing has changed.

[Anonymous No.7789691]

>tfw worst possible fate

[Anonymous No.7789709]

>>7789691
Well, they were in the process of trying to get rid of the machine during the time the story takes places, so you might be okay.

[Anonymous No.7789739]

Tao Te Ching, peaceful I guess?

[Anonymous No.7789992]

>>7784881

>Paradise Lost
Hell then the Garden of Eden

[Anonymous No.7790008]

>>7787700
Shiiiiiiiiiit.

[Anonymous No.7791337]

>Chess story by Stefan Zweig
It's normal,except it's in the 40s

[Anonymous No.7791354]

John Barleycorn, basically Jack London's autobiography

It really depends what year that would be. Some would be annoying, some would be suffering, some would be utterly great.

[Anonymous No.7791363]

Stuck in the world of Nietzsche. Going to go insane under the burden of his genius I suppose.

[Anonymous No.7791436]

>Foccault's Pendulum

Eh, it's already happening anyway bruh.

[Anonymous No.7791463]

>>7784881
>The Pale King

Picture directly related

Hell, why not make it 40 years? 50?

[Anonymous No.7791597]

>>7784881

Atlas Shrugged, so nothing really changes

[Anonymous No.7791600]

>as I lay dying
Oh my

[Anonymous No.7791609]

>>7784961
you know he beat the childern? Are you that kinky?

>>7785766
Holy shit, the same, I hope I am going to be European academic, not a raped and killed Mexican whore.

[Anonymous No.7791668]

One year in Edward Stachura's poems.
Not bad, a lot of travelling and poetry, things that I love.

[Anonymous No.7791675]

>>7784885
War of the rats.
Fuck a year in stalingrad, just kill me please.

[Anonymous No.7791681]

>The old Testament
I'm not jewish or circumcised, so basically i'm fucked.

I could cut my own dick skin off and live as a hermit, old school NEET shit.

[Anonymous No.7791689]

>Junkette

>1 year of doing heroin with experienced junkies and eating delicious food.

I mean, I'd probably get hooked, but it would probably be a fun year.

[Anonymous No.7791690]

>>7784881
>Growth of the Soil
Always wanted to be a Norwegian peasant anyway

[Anonymous No.7791706]

I am fucked. Not only is death inevitable, it's even worse if I somehow cling onto life.

[Anonymous No.7791822]

1 year on Revolutionary Road, seems fine.

[Anonymous No.7791826]

>>7791822
that generation surely didn't know what pain is

[Anonymous No.7791847]

I dont wan't to live 1 year in

>Literary criticism : 140 texts

[Anonymous No.7791863]

>Jane Eyre

Sounds comfy, assuming I'm chilling with Jane and Rochester.

[Anonymous No.7791972]

>>7791609
He didn't beat children in the sense I feel you're saying it. He administered standard punishment any teacher that parents were generally accepting of and was accepted, even in the us, not 50 years ago. Boxing ears and hair pulling.
The parents didn't like him because they thought he was a freak.

[Anonymous No.7791978]

Don Quixote... praise the lord

[Anonymous No.7792015]

>>7791972
An incident occurred in April 1926 and became known as Der Vorfall Haidbauer (the Haidbauer incident). Josef Haidbauer was an 11-year-old pupil whose father had died and whose mother worked as a local maid. He was a slow learner, and one day Wittgenstein hit him two or three times on the head, causing him to collapse. Wittgenstein carried him to the headmaster's office, then quickly left the school, bumping into a parent, Herr Piribauer, on the way out. Piribauer had been sent for by the children when they saw Haidbauer collapse; Wittgenstein had previously pulled Piribauer's daughter, Hermine, so hard by the ears that her ears had bled. Piribauer said that when he met Wittgenstein in the hall that day: "I called him all the names under the sun. I told him he wasn't a teacher, he was an animal-trainer! And that I was going to fetch the police right away!"

Piribauer tried to have Wittgenstein arrested, but the village's police station was empty, and when he tried again the next day he was told Wittgenstein had disappeared.

[Anonymous No.7792281]

>>7784881
>Childhood's End
Kinda good or kinda depressing depending on which of the three parts.

[Anonymous No.7792285]

>>7784881
>Stoner
Early 1900s isn't too bad I suppose, as long as I stay away from wwi

[Anonymous No.7792297]

>>7787700

[Anonymous No.7792731]

>>7784881
>Notes from Underground

[Anonymous No.7792765]

>>7784881
> One Hundred years of Solitude

A year in Macondo might be p. cool.

[Anonymous No.7792772]

>>7786171
same here

the setting is comfy as fuck why is that bad?

you don't have to take part in any of that whaling mess

[Anonymous No.7792779]

>2312
Do I get to design my own Ascension?
I want a comfy asteroid library.

[Anonymous No.7792806]

Captives of the desert- Zane Grey

feels cozy man

[Anonymous No.7792816]

1 year of gulag sounds like massive fun

[Anonymous No.7792840]

dune

i'd probably be fucked but it would be cool nonetheless

[Anonymous No.7793177]

>>7785826
Same brother, I'm laughing

[Anonymous No.7793237]

>>7784881
Inherent Vice

>smoke weed all day and hang out with Doc in 1960s California, listen to good tunes, get pussy and snoop

[Anonymous No.7793327]

>Kafka´s America

Mfw I´m currently stuck in this book for more than five years IRL

[Anonymous No.7793456]

>>7792015
Ya. They contacted Wittgenstein's employer and W. was not prosecuted further. He didn't treat that kid any differently, he just didn't know he was sick. Gave him an earboxing. The kid died at 14.

[Anonymous No.7793469]

>The Merchant of Venice

not a Jew, so I'd probably be OK.

[Anonymous No.7793541]

Prometheus rising.
ascension inbound

[Anonymous No.7793553]

>>7787128
Depends. I feel like there are a lot of variables in this situation.

[Anonymous No.7793558]

>>7788655
You were stuck there before you even found this thread anon