Is he the only patrician booktuber?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ov1lHKeukg
Kind of sad if he is.
>>7512338
Why? I think he's pretty good.
his sophomoric pauses make me gag
Are there any novels where the protagonist undergoes a development or discovery of his sexual thoughts or opinions? Not even concerning homosexuality or some weird fetishes, I'm thinking more of a young person who's biased and insecure about it coming to terms with it or having some kind of revelation.
I know that's oddly specific, I myself struggle with it and think that reading about it and getting into other people's minds will help.
>>7519987
Harry Potter
>>7519995
already read that
Lolita seems to be exactly what you are looking for.
Just saw this film. Does /lit/ approve of that guy, or is the film just sucking his teet cause he's dead?
>>7518775
I didn't think it made DFW look good at all. I thought the movie character came off as insecure, snarky, disingenuous and still nursing and ugly addiction to TV. I don't think any thinking adult could watch that and think "wow DFW was such a hero."
>>7518775
You should ask Bret Easton Ellis about it.
>>7518775
Great movie about writing and writers, sits next to Wonder Boys on my shelf.
What's /lit/'s problem with her?
/lit/ is sexist and contrarian. They hate her because she is female and because she is popular.
>>7518471
You may agree or disagree with her philosphical or political ideas but her prose is utter shit.I've only read Atlas shrugged though.
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Christmas in Space Edition
>Recommendations:
>Fantasy
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/a/a8/1307836551252.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110612005642
>Sci-Fi
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/a/a6/Scifilit.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100710233344
http://imgur.com/r55ODlL
>What you are you currently reading?
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>>7500682
>What you are you currently reading?
Eyes of the Overworld by Vance
>>If you had to decide: Asimov, Clarke or Heinlein?
Asimov cuz I haven't read the other two.
>>Do you prefer outer space stuff or future Earth stories?
Space.
>>In what direction do you think Fantasy will move in the next decade? More GRRM? more muh politics on a grand scale? Back to Hack and slash...
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So getting any sci-fi or fantasy for tomorrow? I'm getting The Foundation trilogy in that classy Everyman hardcover edition.
>>7500732
>tomorrow
my country celebrates on the 24th, in fact my parents just went home.
They only got me some clothes, which is fine, I told them years ago to stop buying me random books and they don't know how to order English books from amazon anyway.
I'm picking up more books in January myself I guess but not sure what I want yet.
It's this time again /lit!
Let's determine /lit's favorite book and it's correlation with /lit's favorite fetish. Rules are pretty simple, just give us one title and your fetish, later on we sum it up. We had fairly successful threads like this before as well as some on /mu and /tv. Let the search for patrician's fetishes and favorite books commence.
I'm going in first, feel free to join up, just keep it classy.
>If on a winter's night a traveler
>female feet
>>7518633
>infinite jest
>female feet
Haha epic picture, dude!!!!!!!
Upvoted!!!!!!!!!!!! B-)
>harry potter
>female feet
End-of-the-year-review edition!
>>7517924
This year,I bought a whole bookshelf worth of new books.
Only read library check-outs.
I often copy-paste posts from r/books here. there is no discernible difference between the replies.
>>7517924
I forced myself to read Eugine Onegin and it blew
God this is boring.
>reading for enjoyment
sure is reddit in here
Who here reads for the sake of tasting aesthetic flavors? For the sake of experiencing the attempt at preserving the sublime? :^)
dubliners is very dry and boring. i'm always surprised by the love it gets.
Post what books you've recently gotten. I received all of these as Christmas gifts! Already reading some Seneca.
Sweet cops, the Maudes are my favorite Tolstoy translators by a wide margin.
>BOOK HAUL GAISSS XD
>>7508173
Will that be your first foray into Kierkegaard?
come up with book titles that you would want to read
Towering Pines
Fibonacci's Diary
Flowerbed
Ramblings of a NEET
Greytone Roses
The Impeccably Curious Writings of the Esteemed Ms. Henderson and Her Dog.Just kidding, but it would probably be a best seller and then adapted into a Wes Anderson movie
C-c-c-combo Breaker: The end of an era
>yourself
>your ideal book
>your ideal protagonist
>the room you're sitting in
>your post
an ignorant piece of shit
Something at least worth reading
Fancy lady gets absolutely furious
A cold, wet, unfinished basement
useless, just like its readers
>erudite, cerebral, handsome, bold, trustworthy
>pushing of a man's limits
>one who changes fundamentally
>books, pills, bed, and windows
>glib, exaggerative, of questionable accuracy
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Name your top ten novels and other anons give recs
I'll start:
1. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
2. Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3. The Tunnel by William H. Gass
4. Death on Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
5. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
6. A Portait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
7. The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
8. Thus Spoke Zarathusta by Friedrich Nietzsche
9. J R by William Gaddis
10. Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
1. Lolita
2. Lolita
3. Lolita
4. Lolita
5. Lolita
6. Lolita
7. Lolita
8. Lolita
9. Lolita
10. Lolita
>>7514725
1) Gravity's Rainbow
2)The Castle
3)Infinite Jest
4)American Pastoral
5)The Pale King
6)Blood Meridian
7)Lolita
8)The Trial
9)studies in pessimism
10)Tai Pei
(havent finished moby dick yet but it would probably go between blood meridian and lolita, sorry Tao)
>>7514736
Try Lolita next. Based on your top 10, I think you will enjoy it.
Apart from Mira, what are some literary twitter feeds to follow?
spencer madsen
@sosadtoday
>>7514523
For the last time, please leave, Spencer.
>>7514595
im mira not spencer
Is there one single movie that is better than the book?
Fight Club
>>7513806
No Country for Old Men.
Fight Club is universally accepted as a better movie than book.
Cloud Atlas - the book was trying way too hard, I liked the movie better.
Roadside Picnic - Tarkovsky adapted a bad Sci-fi novel into Stalker
Shawshank Redemption and pretty much all Stephen King
2001: space confusion
How do you guys find the time to read so many books?
>be NEET master race
>read the classics for 12 hours a day
feelsgoodman
>>7512763
>NEET
>master race
we're going to have a problem here.
>>7512761
I don't play video games, I don't watch TV, I only have a few friends, and I avoid starting committed relationships.