/lit/ - Literature

>>3209617
That's the good stuff.

Iago: too obvious?

>>3203304
>>3203330
Plays are fair game.
Bump because I've been meaning to read The Spanish Tragedy, and this seems like a potentially interesting discussion.

>>3203306
I like McCarthy, but I don't understand why people love The Road so much. I think Blood Meridian definitely deserves mention ITT, but I've never understood the immense respect The Road earned. I liked it, don't get me wrong. But why all the mad respect?

Holy Bible (KJV)

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

>>3200667
This essay is my favorite work regarding immigration.

http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj32n1/cj32n1-2.pdf

Finished up my programming project.
Eating a pulled-pork sandwich a friend of mine brought back from the barbecue restaurant he works at.
Watching Seinfeld.
Later, I'll drink some tea and continue reading The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace before finally going to sleep.

Mind you, today I'm recovering from getting extremely drunk at a party last night - 'cuz I'm so fucking cool.

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

I'm about 140 pages in, and I'm absolutely loving this book.

I heartily recommend it to anyone here who got turned of by Infinite Jest or something. It may not be perfect, but it certainly is a lot fun - in ways you don't necessarily find in too many places.

If you don't like this book, you probably have hygiene anxiety by the way.

>>3192782
Dang, I fucked that up.

Who's Faust?

Doesn't matter. Goethe's and Marlowe's are both quite easy (the first part of Goethe's, anyway).

Portrait? No. You may need to take your time with it though. But you definitely don't need notes. It was my first encounter with Joyce. A lot of people woud say to start with Dubliners. It makes sense, but I personally think it would have bored me if I hadn't read Portrait first.

If you're really worried, though, read Re Joyce by Anthony Burgess (or Hell, make use of Sparknotes or something like it - just make sure you're actually doing the actual reading with care).

I'm currently reading The Broom of the System. Shit's fuckin' funny.

>>3182232
The articles are quite solid.

>Schopenauer
Essays and Aphorisms (Penguin Classics)
>Nietzsche
The Birth of Tragedy, The Twilight of the Idols, On the Genealogy of Morals, Ecce Homo, Beyond Good & Evil, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>Kierkegaard
The Essential Kierkegaard (Princeton University Press)
>Heidegger
Basic Writings, What Is Called Thinking?, Being and Time
>Sartre
Existentialism Is a Humanism and Being and Nothingness

Sorry, I never really got into Hegel.

I also recommend Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy by William Barrett.

Good, faithful film-adaptations of plays, films, and operas. [You know /lit/ ought to be better at this than /tv/. But if this thread really bothers you, just fuckin' hide it.]

Othello (1995) with Kenneth Branagh and Laurence Fishburne is the reason I started to like Shakespeare.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) is a wonderful adaptation of Wilde's play. It couldn't be any more delightful or Wilde-esque.
The versions of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Eearnest with Colin Firth were awful. The former was not at all faithful to the book, and the latter was just boring.

The following is a great performance of Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte with English subtitles. Diana Damrau stars as the Queen of the Night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlhbFk2GbcY&list=PLdFD7CNSCZa2pVIGhgdjeX7GE7rG4D5bk&index=1&a
mp;feature=plpp_video

>tay-oh leen
Didn't Dolly Party right a song about him?

Well A Tale of Two Cities deals with the French Revolution...

I learned about Elif Shafak from her TedTalk, and now I totally lover her and her books.

Define "literature" as you're using it, OP.

Liked: Othello, The Catcher in the Rye, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1984, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Disliked: Speak

Try Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry.