/lit/ - Literature

>>21697436
If by insane you mean insanely bad, then I can agree with that

>>21620080
>Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around its outer walls. They sprawled over the sloping earth, each one halfway over its neighbour until, held back by the castle ramparts, the innermost of these hovels laid hold on the great walls, clamping themselves thereto like limpets to a rock. These dwellings, by ancient law, were granted this chill intimacy with the stronghold that loomed above them. Over their irregular roofs would fall throughout the seasons, the shadows of time-eaten buttresses, of broken and lofty turrets, and, most enormous of all, the shadow of the Tower of Flints. This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.

>>21543905
>night by silentsailing night while infantina Isobel (who will be blushing all day to be, when she growed up one Sunday, Saint Holy and Saint Ivory, when she took the veil, the beautiful presentation nun, so barely twenty, in her pure coif, sister Isobel, and next Sunday, Mistlemas, when she looked a peach, the beautiful Samaritan, still as beautiful and still in her teens, nurse Saintette Isabelle, with stiffstarched cuffs but on Holiday, Christmas, Easter mornings when she wore a wreath, the wonderful widow of eighteen springs, Madame Isa Veuve La Belle, so sad but lucksome in her boyblue's long black with orange blossoming weeper's veil) for she was the only girl they loved, as she is the queenly pearl you prize, because of the way the night that first we met she is bound to be, methinks, and not in vain, the darling of my heart, sleeping in her april cot, within her singachamer, with her greengageflavoured candywhistle duetted to the crazyquilt, Isobel, she is so pretty, truth to tell, wildwood's eyes and primarose hair, quietly, all the woods so wild, in mauves of moss and daphnedews, how all so still she lay, neath of the whitethorn, child of tree, like some losthappy leaf, like blowing flower stilled, as fain would she anon, for soon again 'twill be, win me, woo me, wed me, ah weary me! deeply, now evencalm lay sleeping;

>>21508643
Asuka...because I know I can fix her

>>21495987
He didn't die. He just went back home after accomplishing everything he felt like doing in middle earth

>>21479848
Spenser>Dante>Shakespeare>Milton>Homer

>>21422133
>And still nowanights and by nights of yore do all bold floras of the field to their shyfaun lovers say only: Cull me ere I wilt to thee!: and, but a little later: Pluck me whilst I blush!
Now this is kino

>>21380295
>why are his books always brought up but it seems so few people have actually read them?
Next you're going to tell me that you think a lot of people have actually read Gardner's novels. You've seen the book you posted in the OP a lot because the author himself posts it a lot

>>21373461
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Los Angeles (unfortunately)
I just finished reading Snow Country by Kawabata. The ending was hauntingly beautiful and breathtaking. I definitely recommend it to anyone who wants a comfy novel that takes place at a hot spring. Thinking about reading The Old Capitol next

Other than Call of the Crocodile what are the best books that originated from 4chan?

>>21207764
Nonsense anon. F Gardner’s living proof we’re all gonna make it.

>>21013781
Not anymore.

>>20989998

>>20984143
Thanks fren! I am looking forward to this

I’ve read Call of the Crocodile, Call of the Arcade and Call of the Kappa. Which one should I read next?

>>20857324
>the end of that book really had me tearing up

>>20844493
Truly, one of the horror novels of all time.

Based.

>>20840429

>>20839970

>>20833098
I think so.

If I write a book can I become famous too like F Gardner and Call of the Crocodile?

I read Call of the Crocodile after hearing about it from /r/books and now I’d like to read some more books that came from 4chan. I’m interested in more books from this board and would like a variety of suggestions. Thanks a bunch!

Can I get a QRD on the entire Horror’s Call series? I ordered all of them and they should be arriving this week. I’m excited to read some books from 4chan and I want to know if there’s a specific order I should read these books in. Thanks guys.