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Post links to any interesting YouTube vids about authors, their works, dramatisations etc.
I'll start with a documentary on Mr. Mishima:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctufj50w9a0
This is a great dramatisation of Plato's Symposium:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al9u1lal6KY
& just to get this out the way for newfriends, This is Water DFW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI
>>7588893
Alcibiades should have been younger and less bearded.
Where should I start?
With the Greeks.
>>7588506
I really enjoyed this meme anon.
Do you mind if I post it elsewhere on this forum?
>>7588508
Everything's a meme to you kids nowadays, even sound advice.
Hey /lit/.
What are some books in your opinion that did not withstand the test of time?
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Anything by Tolstoy
Why was thisthe worst book you were forced to read in English class.
ITT: novels that start out weak but become 10/10 once the characters are fleshed out
>>7589343
>that book you have to skip thousands pages to get in the interesting part
>>7589343
that novel started out great
>>7589343
I was adoring Oblonsky in the span of 10 pages mate. Just made it to part 3 a few minutes ago. What are you on about?
Good morning fellow /lit/izens,
I'm feeling quite generous today. Comment with your Kindle email address (found through your amazon account) and one book that you want and I will send it to you for free. Limit one per customer, don't be greedy. I'll only be on for another half hour or so.
i have a nook tho
>>7589023
you have an email for it? it will probably work
I'll bite, just don't send me tons of weird stuff please.
[email protected]
http://www.amazon.com/In-Search-Lost-Time-volumes-ebook/dp/B00E5KB9RE/ref=pd_sim_351_3?ie=UTF8&dpID=41ZsxDqUW1L&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR103%2C160_&refRID=142GN5R5PY4H1ZNZHHZC
how far are you? finishing book 2 rn (1st one was much better)
just a comfy read? is he a great writer? is the ideology of thebook actually fascist
>>7588704
I've read all six. Personally I thought book 2 was the best in the entire series.
>is the ideology of thebook actually fascist
What?
>>7588716
when he talks with his friend Geir they keep referring to "anti-liberal thinkers", Geir says about some author "he wasn't a fascist... I woulnd't mind if he was" and one of the writers they seem to admire (Hauge?) praised Hitler in his diaries IIRC
it's very subtle and I probably wouldn't care, and I might be wrong (that's why i'm asking) but one of the reviews from the Guardian mentioned it as well
>>7588716
Yeah, that seems to be the commonly-held opinion. I've yet to read the second book, but I'm hyped as it apparently depicts his life as a late teenager/young adult.
ITT: Why was this book so damn good?
General post-apocalypse discussion thread.
The vidya sucked desu
>>7588320
No, desu. Pls an hero, faget.
>>7588320
Oh please the vidya was excellent
I just finished Lolita , and before that My Struggle Vol. 1. Loved both, in different ways, equally.
Now, from the following list, which book do you recommend that I should read next?
(Multiple selections totally ok)
1. My Struggle, Vol. 2. Knausgaard
2. Blood Meridian. McCarthy
3. Gravity's Rainbow. Pynchon
4. Moby Dick. Melville
5. Snuff. Pelevin
6. Mythology. Hamilton (Prelude to The Greeks)
7. The Pale King. Wallace
8. Finnegans Wake. Joyce
9. War and Peace. Tolstoy
10. The Prague Cemetery. Eco
11. The Old Man and...
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I dunno, Moby Dick?
>>7587767
>fallling for this many memes
Blood Meridian
Skip Finnegan's Wake
Hello, as a child a read a book and I have been unable to recall its name for years now and Googling does not help. In the story various people have talents such as empathy or telekinesis and they serve the king etc... Well one body has the ability to create fire which is a powerful and rare ability. So rare that the only other guy is a guy who has a slight ability to use every power. I think all of these special people also can telepathically talk to their horses. Does this sound familiar to any?
>7kb image
>>7586698
It is unrelated.
>>7586702
images are an integral part to any good thread, anon.
ITT we talk about our favorite legends. I'll start.
My favorite myth from Greek legend is the tale of Sisyphus. Guy had some serious balls. He went and trapped Thanatos (basically the grim reaper) and kept people from dying for a time.
Then the gods got pissed, set Thanatos free, and punished Sisyphus by having him roll a big rock up a hill, only to have it fall back down, and do it again and again until death.
Shit makes for a great tragic hero story. Guy was literally saving lives, only to get punished for life because he stepped out of line. Not...
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Forgot to mention, the legends you post don't have to be Greek. Any old legend will do, I just like hearing stories from other cultures.
Goatman
If the book of Genesis ain't in your top five books of all time your opinion is pretty much worthless. There is more lore crammed into the first few chapters than every single novel written in the 20th century combined.
anyone down for a writing prompt thread?
write a list of all your first kisses
first kiss list
>implying
reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>first kiss
I'm still waiting for mine.
>your mum m8
#Rekt
/thread
MODERN LIT THREAD
talk about what's new, what's good, what's not popular but should be.
I want some suggestions on hidden 21st Century gold, every time I go to a book store all I see are shitty teen fictions copying divergent and hunger games success or shitty fantasy copying Game of thrones
My Struggle - Knausgaard
Neapolitan Novels - Ferrante
Your Face Tomorrow - Marias
The Map and the Territory - Houellebecq
The Roving Shadows - Quignard
>>7584950
shit taste
>>7584957
What do you recommend?
How can I tell whether a story I've written is good or not?
>>7584515
It's subjective
>>7584521
/thread
>>7584515
Submit it and see what happens, faglord
>post anything (picture; words; subject you want to learn about; &/or)
>give or get recs
Has /lit/ immersed itself in the future consequences of our soon-to-be post-industrial life yet yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNqTsBgQsrw
Heres some stream of consciousness bullshit oh yeah how many times am i going to not kill myself each day after another like plath's series of white rooms, brush teeth shower eat shit fuck breathe gaseous exchange, make the blood red make it blue and then draw it
Beksinski said his son was murdered at noon, and christ gave up the ghost at 3PM and here we are at 3AM, this witching hour, this dark night, this dawnless day. Kill me kill me kill me but first lemme brush my teeth
You know what would be a better thread: "Write a paragraph about yourself and others recommend a book based on this."
tfw you realize the people with actual creative/interesting minds are not browsing internet forums/boards and so you are inevitably wasting your time with idiots who are just trying to abate their loneliness like you are with fleeting tidbits of opinionated communication
Yeah so
>>7583650
sounds about right. Im gonna get off /lit/ now
we can all pretend, that is good enough
