/lit/ - Literature

Whitman
Milton (Paradise Lost)
T. S. Eliot

I read some Latin stuff from the Loeb Library, and occasionally I read some bi-lingual editions of German poetry.

Ooh, it is his birthday. I've had the pic-related book for a while, but I've only ever read some short stories and short essays out of it.

What's some good birthday reading for the man, /lit/. I'm down to celebrate.

Depressed guy becomes happy by the end without simply a stroke of luck (e.g., Siddhartha, The Razor's Edge)

>Did anyone else feel this way when reading this book?
Nope. The moment - within the first few pages - Robert Cohn said "I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it," I fell in love with the book (and Hemingway in general).

>"near" future
Contact by Carl Sagan and anything by J. G. Ballard

>I came across this book, short story even shorter.
I'm not entirely sure what this sentence means.

>Can you recommend it?
Well if you're talking about Daniel Silva, I can recommend him to the extent that he's good at writing espionage-type thrillers that are entertaining. However, I don't recommend in the sense that it's not very enriching (the way books I generally recommend on /lit/, in my view, are). So it's good if it fits the type of book you're looking for. Silva's good at what he sets out to do. If you like, for instance, the novels of Robert Ludlum, you'll surely like Silva.

>films they considered to be literature
>films considered to be literature
Could someone clarify what is meant by this?

Check out Franz Kafka and Osamu Dazai, OP.

>ctrl+f
>Goethe
>0 of 0

wat

Anyone know any good literature courses on iTunesU. I haven't found any to be interesting/insightful.

William Boyle wrote a book on The French Revolution that's very comprehensive but a bit dry. [Only if you're really interested will you enjoy it.] He also wrote a much shorter book: The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction. [The latter book sports a "recommended reading" section at the end, which you can see just by "looking inside the book" on Amazon.]


The Revolutionary Career of Maximilien Robespierre by David P. Jordan is a reputable on biography on... well, you know.

The Old Regime and the French Revolution
Alexis de Tocqueville will certainly be worth your read.

...Where the fuck on Wikipedia does it say that.

>>2795164
>inaccurate
How do you mean?

Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

>Does anyone have any experience with this, stories (good or bad), etc?
No, but I do recommend not having English as your only major. Where I go to college, English is the major that requires the fewest number of major-related courses. It's not that difficult to get a double-major in something else, and it seems somewhat irresponsible/rash/reckless not to do so.

I don't know, but that story made me smile.

>Just bought the three books of the Divine Comedy
Read them, and let us know what you think the answer to your question is. With any luck, you may find yourself wanting to discuss more interesting things about it as well.

Serendipity
Mellifluous

Those have been my top two for quite some time.

I sincerely recommend this short yet rich biography to anybody remotely interested in Beethoven.

Can anyone recommend some other biographies on musicians? I can't think of any, except for the book Kay Jamison recently published (which I, of course, have yet to read).

I like B.

Although ultimately, I want solitude.

Yep. He's not the most lyrical of writers (i.e., he's no Nabokov), but that certainly isn't the only standart to which authors should be held. He's certainly more than "sci-fe/fantasy good." Just read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Worst comes to worts, you're disappointed by a book that really didn't challenge you (and thus, shouldn't have taken you very long).

1984, Animal Far, essays

He really isn't a hard writer to read (which is at least partly a product of what makes him great).

>>2789111
In all seriousness, I think it would be worthwhile to memorize "The Hollow Men."