/lit/ - Literature

Fantastic Fetishes (fo real), Celluloid Freak, A hole in one, Chief Rabbit, The Good /lit/izen, The Grand.

The next achievement I unlock will likely be From Russia With Love :3

Now, I want to tell this tale proper
I was born of a mommar and poppar
And for that to happen
it takes more than just fappin'
Ask the birds and the bees, grasshopper

So as I was saying, one morn
Mother bore down, till torn
from her slippery cunt
was a purple faced runt
called ME, that's the day I was born

they inspected me for a weenie
found nothing, for I was a wee she
but to my good luck
they gave not a fuck
and raised me just as a he'd be

on the playground I rabble-roused
played pretend and rough-housed
then in 8th grade gym class
i met a girl with dat ass
and in the locker room became aroused

...aw man I have to go to class. thanks for the time killer op

roll

What languages do you speak, and what languages do you read books in?

I speak a couple languages fairly well but so far I only read books in English. In the past year I've begun reading poetry in Spanish, and I am trying to work up to reading novels. I have no idea why I never decided to improve to this level before.

Well, op, you coul-AWWWWWWWWWWWWw

that turtle is adorable!

Just two.

'Cause there's only 2 libraries here.

Also no book stores until 2 cities over.

You should feel ashamed for asking whether you should feel ashamed. Read what you like, motherfucker.

This is the creepiest short story I've ever read:

http://www.usfca.edu/jco/whereareyougoing/

This is like the stuff I used to write in the sixth grade.

That is: highly enjoyable. Proceed.

Slaughterhouse-Five is always my suggestion to adults trying to return to reading. I'm not really sure why. But I'm seconding that one.

To add a new name to the mix...Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

It's entertaining and it gets the mind a-rollin'. (Or, sometimes, helps your brain come to a stop.)

Reading has particular appeal because you can bring a book anywhere and it doesn't require powah, unlike a film or recorded music. Also, books have a certain vibe about them that's pleasant to me. Reading is a hobby that feels private and somewhat old-fashioned, I like both those things.

Generally I read to cogitate on stuff and to observe people and the way they think and what they can do with words. I don't know why; perhaps it's an impulse to communicate. I don't talk to people much outside of the internet, and frankly I avoid doing so. Reading a book is like being part of a conversation that I don't have to commit myself to because the speaker isn't present and usually s/he's already dead.

Other than what's mentioned above...I'll read most anything to stow away some trivia for Jeopardy, and I read gay erotica and fanfic because I liek it and because seeing what people think about sex and love via the porn they create fascinates me (/d/ is a beautiful board)

>>2191888
here

I also suggest The Martian Chronicles

>>2191966
did you mean:
>HABEEB IT

>>2191948
I DON'T BELIEVE IT

http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/arts/lee-siegel/unexpected-alliance?page=full

One day in 1961 Groucho received in the mail a note from none other than Eliot himself. Expressing his admiration for the comedian, Eliot asked him for an autographed portrait. A shocked Groucho sent back a studio photograph of himself, only to receive a second note from the icon of modern poetry requesting instead a picture of the iconic Groucho, sporting a moustache and holding a cigar. A second photograph was sent out and a happy Eliot wrote to thank Groucho: “This is to let you know that your portrait has arrived and has given me great joy and will soon appear in its frame on my wall with other famous friends such as W.B. Yeats and Paul Valery.” Groucho had asked for a portrait of Eliot in return, and the latter happily enclosed one. Then the famously morose poet, characterised by Siefgried Sassoon as having “cold-storaged humanity” and by Ottoline Morrell as “the undertaker”, finished with a joke. “P.S.” he wrote. “I like cigars too but there isn’t any cigar in my portrait either.” Well, sort of a joke.

Why do you stick to pre-1950?

>and I don't want too much DICK INs me in such a short time.

oh goddammit

Hey Anon, what're you reading?

>>2191265

>be 14
>read the following

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.

Ever desireless, one can see the mystery.
Ever desiring, one sees manifestations.

>suddenly everything feelsgoodman

I'm not a Daoist and I didn't even finish reading the Daodejing until years after I read those first few lines, but something about them changed my outlook on life forever. The Principia Discordia had a similar effect on me around the same time, but in a much sillier way.

>>2188115

Thanks for backing me up, Charlie

only posting to remind /lit/ of the report button.

>>2188106
>expecting to get a sense of the historical setting of the time

That's not quite what I meant. When you read David Copperfield, you are not getting a flawless picture of the mid 19th century, this obviously is true. What you are getting, however, is a voice from 1850, a look into what a person from 1850 (Dickens, I mean) wants to talk about, plus their chosen and available means of expression.

>>2188093
I NEED Crispin Glover to star in a Franz Kafka biopic

You understand me? NEED