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What is /lit/´s opinion of the Penguin Little Black Classics?
http://www.amazon.com/Little-Black-Classics-Box-Penguin/dp/0141398876
>>7469980
Overpriced desu
A lot of them are excerpts from larger works.
>>7469980
Of all those books, the only good ones are Antigone, Socrates' Defence and the Communist Manifesto. The rest are either not worth reading or an arbitrary selection of stories/poems from a much larger collection.
What does lit think of Dhalgren?
inb4 written by a gay nigger
>>7469919
Conflicting read for me. Parts of it I loved (especially when Kid starts to mingle with the Bellonan intelligentsia), though the whole story-arch, albeit cyclical and therefore interesting in its own right, lacked sufficient structure to keep my reading (I stopped after about 650 pages, a few dozen pages into that famous final section 'Palimpsest' that contains bits and pieces of disjunct ramblings of a mad-man (I heard Delany would just compulsively write whatever came to his mind, then he'd just pare...
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>>7469919
Iiit's the prettiest book on my tbr
>>7469919
it was written by a pedophile.
Which is your favorite literary movement and why isn't simbolism?
Movements are spook ideologies desu senpai
ideologylit is my favorite literary movement :^)
>>7468870
because it's symbolism
Of all the current and past meme books, how does this meme actually weigh up? Is it actually a meme or worth a read?
>Original Spanish of course.
>>7468196
>>Original Spanish of course
go fuck yourself, mexifag
>I'm a monolingual pleb
don't worry bud I'm master race like you but I took spanish in highschool.
>>7468206
and you think that qualifies you to appreciate literature in spanish?
What's the closest Sci-Fi/Fantasy can come to being considered literary? What is it about these genres that restrict them from entering into this category? Is it the fact that they are more plot oriented or spend more time on worldbuilding as opposed to dealing with characters and issues of the human condition? Is there always something that's going to hold them back from being considered 'true' literature?
Curious about what other people think. Also post sci-fi/fantasy books that you would consider to be literary or part of the canon of literature,...
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>>7467224
I think Sci-Fi/Fantasy has an equal amount of literary merit versus pretty much any other genre, not because it's so good, but because 90% of everything is shit.
You have authors like Harlan Ellison and you have novels like Dune and 2001 that are Sci-Fi/Fantasy and are very fine pieces of work, and I assure you that the number of good Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels is equal to the number of good Romance/War/everything else novels.
>>7467224
Lem. And he's legitimately literary, not just 'close.'
>>7467224
isn't all literature posed to become science fiction due to the way technology has become so integrated into our lives?
How do people feel about Borges? In my opinion, he's probably one of the greatest short story writers of all time, if not the best.
What's everyone's favorite story of his?
>i read
>>7467017
The Circular Ruins
Is there any other art with a community as uninviting as Literature?
Drawing, everyone will tell you that anyone can do it, you just have to practice and keep at it.
Music, same thing, every musician tells you it comes down to practice and determination.
But writing? Goddamn if EVERY writer hasn't one time or another said, "You either are a writer or you're not, it's not something you can just work at" or "If you don't do A, B, and C like I do, you're not really a writer, you're just infatuated with the IDEA of...
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>you're just infatuated with the IDEA of writing
People don't think you have to work at writing, purely because everyone can write these days. Drawing for example is a skill that people with an interest in have to largely learn from scratch, so there's an understanding that you are going to have to work at. People have less delusion when it comes to drawing for example, because they know not everyone can do it, so they don't need to be told the drawing they crapped out after learning for a few weeks isn't that great.
>>7466629
>People don't think you have to work at writing, purely because everyone can write these days.
Yeah, and everyone can sketch a little too.
A bad sketch is just as cringe worthy as a bad bit of prose when the creator doesn't realize how bad it is, but it seems that most people would tell the sketcher, "You just need to work at it," while they'll tell the writer, "You're not actually a writer, better try your hand at something else."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/susannahbreslin/2012/06/12/why-you-shouldnt-be-a-writer/
I'm beginning to come around to the belief that this guy is the greatest living writer - not just because of his virtuosity in prose fiction (Umbrella is GOAT) but also because of his position in society and his perspective on art, literature, and culture.
He is what a writer should be.
Here he is explaining why art can't change the world (in any significant way) (anymore):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPqlMsyZoug
The Q&A section is great.
Post your favourite Will Self stuff.
Looks Matter:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06fpcgd
Touches on Fat Acceptance and identity politics.
nah we was one of the "terrorist attacks are bad but maybe we should stop drawing pictures" people after Charlie Hebdo
should be marked for death imo
Daily reminder that gaskun believes himself a better writer than Will Self.
Whats TL:DR of your favorite book /lit/ ?
>>7455877
Briony lied, people died.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
>tl;dr latinos be cray t.b.h.
>>7455877
my son ate this!
/lit/,
I come to you with a request for some advice. The reason I ask /lit/, and why I hope my thread is not deleted, is that an interest in poetry and fiction tends in my opinion to make one more open-minded to expressions of a "romantic" nature.
There is a girl in the office complex where I work who I am attracted to in a way that overwhelms any pessimism that might otherwise effect my perspective and disposition towards the idea of loving her. We have only traded a few words previously when holding doors open or when she has asked me to locate some...
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>>7470428
Oh dear me, no. No. Honey... Just no.
>>7470440
Could you explain why you think this is a bad idea please?
Or suggest an alternative means of expressing my desire to get to know her?
Jesus fuck every part of this post is terrible.
Please delete this and save yourself the embarrassment, and if it's bait, then bravo
ITT: Post a picture, and other anons recommend books based on it.
>>7452335
Fifty Shades of Grey
/lit/ humor thread
>>7452292
Every god damn time
Someone post the greentext image of an anon turning a homeless man onto Eastern philosophy. Probably one of the funniest things I've read on /lit/.
ITT: /lit/ ragebait
>>7430763
uguu~ she's so kawaii!! ^_^ :3
I wish all my books had qt lolis on the cover, 2bh.
Cosette is a qt, desu.
which one should i read first
someone also tell me if they like lord of the flies, not heard alot about it but it was only 50p
>>7430065
lord of the flies is a good starting place but not nearly as compelling to me as moby dick or crying of lot 49
You haven't read all of those books already?
Get out of here.
>>7430065
Read them in chronological order, so I guess that would mean read Pride and Predice first.
Lord of the Flies is fine, but not great. It won't take up much of your time, though, so read it anyway if you want to.
Is Stephen King truly the greatest writer of the last 1000 years?
No
/thread
>>7473852
TORTOISE
>>7473852
King is a massive hack. He lets smegma cloud his writing and it messes with the ink in his pen.
