/lit/ - Literature

Dorian Gray is one of the greatest novels I've ever read in my life. I'm actually in an Oscar Wilde class talking about it right now.

The style is appropriate, and the sentences are easy to comprehend. However, some of the themes and the scenery such as the scene where one of the characters is in the work camp, with the cages and the rain and the piss and the shit

>>1270022
which tripfag would he be?

you want to try automatic writing? Get stoned, put on a few hours of the Grateful Dead, sit at your computer, and just start typing while staring at a trippy poster. If that doesn't work, there's something wrong with you.

>>1269917
Not all of them...but it's a fairly large percentage. I absolutely LOVED Bag of Bones until the last two chapters. It was so plausible and then he just veered off into left field x(

To be honest, the only thing I DO like about It is that in the movie, Tim Curry plays Pennywise.

>>1269870
lol

I fucking hated it. I was 12 when I read it the first time, and it took me nearly 4 months. When I finally got to the end, I wanted to kill Stephen King. I didn't read anything of his for about 2 years, and then I realized that (other than The Eyes of the Dragon) that It was his worst novel. I recommend Misery or Desperation as a good cleanser after finishing It.

The Stranger by Albert Camus. It tells you exactly what to do after leaving a funeral (especially if it was for a loved one)

1984

Patient Zero-Jonathan Maberry

Storm of Steel-Ernst Junger

>>1203298
a few friends of mine just started the Binghamton chapter of pi kap here!

SUNY Binghamton

also in AE∏

any other fraternityfags here?

>>1203163
I love Daniel Day...maybe I will watch the movie. Also-my professor mentioned the article in passing...she said Twain wrote it to thin out his competition. What do you think?

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>>1203131
Ooh...I like that a lot. It's interesting...I wonder if I'd perceive "children's literature" differently now that I'm older.

>>1203128
>hollywood stuff
Guess I shouldn't touch it, then haha. But seriously-I'm sick of Hollywood destroying literature. I work and B&N, and I noticed this year that our summer reading table was half filled with books that have been made into movies. It's saddening to think that a significant number of high school students won't read a book unless it's been made into a movie, and even then, will probably watch the movie instead of the book.

>>1203105
They're children's stories, not meant to be 'advanced' literature.

>>1203100
Was the movie any good? I'm always interested in the differences between works of literature and their cinematic adaptations.

Excellent idea. This was my favorite childhood series. Does anyone know if the 14th book is a rumor or is Snicket actually working on it?

>>1202216
reasoningwithvampires(DOT)tumblr.com/

pick your favorite.

>>1203064
Oh, you know, same shit, different day. Literature major in college, plenty of reading to pass the time, though not all of it is as glamourous as expected. I have read a few good plays though. I'm starting the play "The Wives' Excuse" by Thomas Southerne, and also starting The Last of the Mohicans by James Cooper. Have you heard of either?

>>1203046
Lol nice pic. So how've you been, d&e?