/lit/ - Literature

>>16175467
Cannery Row or Roughing It

>>16175775
The reason why I put Thai so high is because there is a Thai kitchen near me run solely by a Thai woman and her mother and I've never had a bad meal there. I've never been to Thailand so I'll have to take your word for it.

>>16175753
I wouldn't even call King a "decent pulp writer" to begin with. His books have plots that oughta be interesting, but he overloads it with so much boring prose which causes the stories to always completely fall apart to the point where I don't even care anymore by the third act.
It must be discouraging to be a writer whose books are consistently made into better movies.

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>>16175353
Job suffered lifetimes more than Christ

>>16175535
Twain is legitimately hilarious. I love that whole chapter that is just spent talking shit about coyotes. I don't think any book has ever had me laughing as hard.

>>16175414
I love Italian food, but it's certainly not as flavorful as some other regions. There's a Moroccan place that serves awesome stew in my city. There's also a nonspecific-African food stand that serves some of the best Lamb I've ever tasted.
Personally I'd go
Indian > Thai > African > Italian > American > Japanese > Cajun > Mexican > Chinese > Greek/Mediterranean

>>16175420
Old men who own used bookstores are always exceptionally cryptic.
Oblomov is my second favorite novel. What did you think anon?

>>16175393
I never made that connection, but I kinda see it now. Twain definitely has a lot more influence than people give him credit for.

My favorite scene from a Mark Twain work ever is in Huck Finn. It's when Huck and Jim stop at a town along the river where they see a Colonel shoot a drunk in the street. And then an out for blood mob swarms his house to lynch him. Then the colonel comes out on his roof with a shotgun and starts ripping into the mob about how they're nothing but a pitiful lot of cowards. And the mob says "you can't kill all of us" to which he replies "no, but I'll kill one of you!" And then the mob disperses and mills out because none of these cowards wanted it to be them.

>>16174675
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006)
2666 by Roberto Bolano (2004)
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski (2000) (Haven't completed this one, but people say its THE metafictional book)

>>16175121
African and Indian food will always be more flavorful than Italian food. Seethe.
>>16175241
Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Zora Neale Hurston, WEB Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Richard Wright, Octavia E. Butler, Malcolm X, Countee Cullen, Dudley Randall, Carter G. Woodson, Alain Leroy Locke.

>>16175093
Actually the earliest discovered mass plumbing system was created in the Indus River Valley, so yes it was people of color who invented it.

>>16175158
I think it's because this board is 90% philosophy threads, "sTaRT wiTH The GReeKs" threads, and thinly veiled /pol/ threads nowadays. Fiction rarely gets discussed here anymore. And you can forget about American authors getting discussed unless it's John Williams or Cormac McCarthy.

I love Twain, I think his work is quintessentially American and has a specific brand of American attitude that has all but died out in modern times. I'm currently reading Roughing It and loving it.
>>16175213
It's normie, but Huck Finn. I've read and reread it so many times since my childhood. The story of a runaway and an escaped slave having misadventures on a raft down the Mississippi was such an appealing fantasy to me as a child, and as I grew up with it, my understanding of the work and appreciation for the satire and social commentary grew too.

>>16171706
>Why is this book so famous?
They say it is the first modern novel, and it's a damn good story too.
>>16175146
Good movie

What kind of literature courses did you take in college?
What was your favorite lit-related course?
Do you think taking such courses are worthwhile?

>>16174661
Learn how to spell Kabbalah you dumb motherfucker. You've probably never even read the Zohar.

>>16174559
100% guarantee you don't even know what Kabbalah is.

>DA JOOOZZ

>>16173489
Frank Lloyd Wright's Biography is a must read.

>>16173717
Is Turgenev relatively unknown? I thought he was well respected.

>>16173650
I think there's merit to it. For example, take a work like American Psycho. Those who are disturbed/disgusted by the vapid decadence of modern yuppie culture will find enjoyment from it (enjoyment meaning that they will at least appreciate the message if not "like" the work as a whole), while others will be disturbed and disgusted by the work itself.

>>16173622
It's really astonishing how much he revolutionized philosophy while being a complete homebody.

>>16171401
Anti-natalism, as I see it, is really just an excuse for misanthropic people's terrible attitudes. These people think that humanity, yet they don't kill themselves or others to contribute to that.