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Is browsing /lit/ equal to majoring in literature?
no
being an english major is much better for developing a love for literature imo
>>7637554
No, you could feasibly have a job and browse /lit/
Hell no, enough of these asinine questions already.
Is anyone willing to read a draft I have for a Star Wars novel and judge it?
No dude...
>>7632903
no because it's not literature.
Only if it's written in dactylic hexameter.
>he doesn't write in his books
>>7638957
>what are post-it notes
>>7638957 what book is that?
Looks like your book lacks of text, is that house of leaves or some other gimmicky meme book?
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Hi, just saw this in a thrift store, is this pleb friendly? Just got into reading and want to read something by borges, but i listened that this is considered a "hard" or "dense" book, what do you guys think?
Read it. Books can be read and enjoyed on different levels.
>>7638949
It's not hard, it's very fun to read, but it is dense for fiction.
It's cool to try your hand at it and its ok to miss stuff because you are, at the very least, being introduced to it which is always a neccessary struggle.
You will always miss stuff with Borges, nigga is deep as fuck. The hardest story is I guess Tlön, Uqbar... but even if you don't get some of the references to philosophers and shit you will enjoy it.
ITT we share our recent hauls and other anons rate, comment, tell us what to read first, etc
Pic related is mine, these are mostly my dad's books, borrowed 'em. Makes me sad to think I lived in the same house with them for twenty years and never checked them out. The one you can't make out in pic is "The Possessed" by Dostoevsky
I decided to start reading for pleasure this week. I finished Godforsaken Idaho by Shawn Vestal. really liked it
I tried to enjoy Loteria by Mario Alberto Zambrano, and And Now You Can Go by Vendela Vida, but they were both incredibly boring.
I also checked out American Psycho and Filth.
Just started Pocket Kings and it's pretty funny.
bought all these in the last month.
The bottom right is poetry from an Instagram chick. There's some good stuff there, but mostly pop poetry.
I recently purchased some books which I intend to read.
Give me a book of some notoriety that isn't particularly dense or a "heavy" read.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
Any early Bret Easton Ellis
I don't think the majority of /lit/ posters who criticize Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged have actually read it.
>>7637927
That's true Mr. Giraffe. However, I can't blame them: I still got that huge doorstopper in my shelf and haven't got the courage to actually open it and dive in.
read it. pretty meh about it. not that good, but not atrocious. fountainhead is significantly better.
If a man bends over your plate, pulls down his pants, starts grunting and says dinner is almost ready, you are well within your right to go nah I'm not eating that even when he responds how do you know, you haven't tasted it yet.
Hey, /lit/, I'm wondering if any of you follow any ethical positions in daily life? Whether you do or do not, are there any books that inspired you to live like that?
>>7637383
Consciously, no, so I don't have any book inspiring me about that.
Unconsciously, of course, though it doesn't really deal with books
I'm a bit confused : is Žižek a meme or is he actually worth reading ? Where should I start ?
Hegel
>>7637333
Greeks
>>7637333
Hegel > Marx > Freud > Lacan > Zhee-zhek
What is the literary equivalent of Married with Children?
http://www.elephantdungpaper.com/
Jon Franzen
>>7638749
Max Fucking Stirner
Let's make a page of Shakespeare /lit/ here, I'll start
Cry
>>7638687
I don't understand what you're asking of us
About to start reading pic related /lit/.
What should I expect?
Words.
>>7638675
It's pretty good. Capote was a little cunt irl, though.
>>7638675
Some fiction. Some non-fiction. Good prose.
just started this
>>7638553
>just started this
You started the book.
Why don't you tell us why do you think of the book so far?
>>7638566
well i've seen the movie, which i really liked, but i've always wanted to read the book, so far it's good, only on page 40 or so, not the best writing not the worst. more in it for the story.
>>7638571
Movie is significantly better. Don't bother with this garbage. Finch loves taking trash and making it the best mainstream film of the year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtOQi7xspRc
>>7638416
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2fUEYs3TsFA
>>7638609
Why is he rolling his rs?
>>7638626
To arouse your weenie anon.
thoughts on this?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/theater/2666-a-most-difficult-novel-takes-the-stage.html?_r=0
I didn't read it.
I could've. I held it at B&N forever debating if I wanted to devote time into an almost thousand page novel that reviews told me had little plot and basically meme literature inside.
I put it back for The Vorrh by B. Catling, a kind of historical fiction/fantasy novel. I do not regret my purchase.
>>7638258
>meme-literature
what the hell is that?
Lit that's extra long and complicated for those who "don't read for plot". Books people carry around and talk about to feel smart and like they're part of the literary world.
