/lit/ - Literature

I listened to a Le Carre interview recently and would like to read some of his books. I've only ever seen Tinker, Tailor... (2011), but there's some great adaptations of his work, it looks like, beyond that film, plus the novels themselves.
https://youtu.be/Mkmxjk_e03w
https://youtu.be/ioqWgtRB3Tw

Critque of pure reason
The phenemology of spirit
Being and time

>>11606564
depends on the context and if it is for artistic reasons :D

>>11606526
Ulysses was avant garde when it came out. So, Joyce is high brow, all settled.

>>11606522
>They can be replete in symbolism and allegory plus teach us to savor the simple joys in life.
I agree with his.

> book can be high art?
They're art. How do you define "high art"?

>>11606489
It's Finnegans Wake, not Finnegan's Wake.

>>11605326
I'm getting pseud vibes from you.

>>11606443
no u, faggot :D

>>11606305
they're very high quality, too bad they don't print out classics (I know it's not their aim)

Many people don't know it but this was Oscar Wilde's big coming out of the closet, "the picture of dorIAM GrAY", how cool is that? writing a book just to publicly announce your homosexuality hehe :D

>>11606248
the US should stop shoving their noses up other nations' asses :D

>>11606242
That's /lit/ af :D

C....or B. Tough one.

>>2022003
Not a common thought, but I completely agree. I love Orwell, but Animal Farm was really lame, and 1984 is completely overrated.

>Be a child, don't remember age, very young
>Pick up books, all have authors
>"Mommy, who wrote the bible?"
>Mom says "lolidkbunchofpeoplelike2000yearsago"
>"Mommy, if the bible is the true word of god, why are there so many different versions and all of them different?"
>"There are a bunch of different religions, and denominations of Christ"
>"Mommy, then why did you pick Christianity?"
>"My parents were, so then I was, and now you are too."
>mfw when my mother was a fool and most others wouldn't ever become a christian or a member of any other religion unless they were indoctrinated from a young age or extremely stupid and superstitious, as most people were 2000 years ago.

Last Three:
Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut (5/5)
Superfreakonomics (5/5)
At the Mountains of Madness - Lovecraft (4/5 I guess)

Currently:
Catch 22 (enjoying it a lot)

Next Three:
The Sirens of Titan - Vonnegut
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism - Ha-Joon Chang
Not sure, perhaps As I Lay Dying...

Still to new to literature to really recommend stuff, but most of the things on my past three were good enough to recommend to anyone interested in them.

>>1925786
Sort of like in Harry Potter? The kid miss out on going to real school, to get an education that will benefit them in the real world. They go to this Hogwarts place and learn shit like "How to defeat the dark arts 101" and then once they graduate they go back into the real world with no human knowledge, and they only know shit about herbology, potion mixing/making, how to defeat evil wizards, and to top it all off they can't even use their fucking magic in front of normal people.

Seriously, so Harry Potter misses out on a real education, it's not like that kid can apply to Oxford and put "Hogwarts School of Magic" as his previous school of attendance, because normal people aren't even suppose to know about that place, so universities aren't going to think he really went to school, and on top of that, he won't have like basic math skills and shit because he only knows wizard shit, WHICH HE CAN'T EVEN SHOW OFF TO NONWIZARDS. Harry Potter and his friends risked their lives to safe this shitty school, just to get nothing out of it. What a joke. At the end of the final novel all that kid can do it return to his miserable life in the real world, and get a minimum wage job because he has no other experiences or education, he can't really put "defeated Voldemort and saved Hogwarts" on a resume, now can he?

>>1925443
Pseudo-Intellectuals are trolls like this who see the world as white and black.

>>1923739
This is my favourite Stephen King novel.

>>1924767
This

I feel that there is better fiction than nonfiction, however I prefer reading nonfiction, I just read less of it. It has to be an interesting topic that I find really relevant to my interests.

>>1924598
Are you a troll or just retarded?

Also this is exactly the type of thread a troll or summerfag would make.

Well I checked it out, not bad at all. Unfortunately for you, I tend to stay somewhat up to date on world news so at the moment I couldn't see myself reading your blog, but hopefully your friends do.

At the Mountains of Madness. It was all right, nothing special imo. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't great, I can't really see myself reading Lovecraft again.

>>1912472
Why do women get all riled up when I hit them?