/lit/ - Literature

>>17351892
I started without faith. Growing up in the Bible Belt makes that easy.

>>17353696
Giovanni's Room
Maurice
The Price of Salt

>>17353478
>He did say it.
Where?

>>17353639
>Yep, I am a fan of Woody Allen and have watched all his films and this one is the worst
There's no way you've seen "Scoop" if you think that.

>>17353174
What, you never watch interviews with authors?

>>17351815
Seconding this.

>>17353424
>Literally the most unhealthy thing you can say to a mentally ill person.
Agreed; good thing JBP never said it.

>>17352501
Why is everyone on this damn board so in love with butterfly?

>>17351334
Just admit you were scared of the penguins.

>>17352892
lol

>>17352932
This is excellent for a beginner.

>>17353122
What about a documentary about a particular book? What about a film featuring interviews with an author?

>>17350644
Not in this hellish lockdown-blighted landscape it isn't.

>>17350649
If you like polemics, read Emma Goldman's essays.

Kropotkin's "Anarchist Communism" is accessibly written and only about 120 pages long.

>>17350495
>>17350161

These two posts are obviously extremely foolish, but I'll give them a serious response anyway.

>real suffering
>Made up bullshit by third worlders so they can feel better about their boringly dull lives.

The insistence that all Third-Worlders who experience poverty, disease and malnutrition live in a state of constant misery comes from well-intended First-Worlders, not from the Third-Worlders themselves. To my experience, most people who live in extreme poverty (i.e., mud huts, no electricity, no running water) don't really grasp what they're missing out on. Of course, just because a disadvantage doesn't cause subjective suffering doesn't mean that that disadvantage isn't worth eradicating.

The problems themselves aren't "made up"; however, the assumption that each material disadvantage causes a commensurate increase in subjective suffering is just wrong.

>>17349458
>Shakespeare
BOOOORING

>>17349869
I would if I had friends (or a garden).

>>17349685
It is a wonderfully sharp-looking pen, and it writes exceptionally smoothly and comfortably.

>>17350124
I think the idea is that such pontifications are a luxury only made possible by living a First-World life devoid of real suffering.

>>17350103
The Colour Out of Space
Cool Air
Pickman's Model
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Statement of Randolph Carter

>>17350053
"Midnight in Paris" is such a frustrating film because there are some moments of real wit and originality mixed in with elements that are lazy and cheap. If it were better I could love it; if it were worse I would forget it.

>>17349732
I intend to watch that, though I really want to start off with a filmed stage version. Thanks for the recommendation.

Any thoughts on the 1980 BBC version starring Derek Jacobi?

>>17349659
Is that a production you'd recommend?

>>17349630
I just don't want to see a revisionist version of Hamlet the first time around. Give me something where Hamlet is played by a man, most of the cast are white, and they don't try to be hip by turning the swords into Glocks or lightsabers. That's what I want for my first viewing of the play.