Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 286. page
Images are sometimes not shown due to bandwidth/network limitations. Refreshing the page usually helps.
We should stop being ironic.
>>8162498
Post irony is worse
>>8162498
I'm not seeing your picture.
>>8162498
new sincerity is shit
I'm in the process of designing a massive fantasy world that will host a life long series of novels.
You lucky sobs get the chance to name it.
Just make sure it's not already the name of a fantasy world.
>>8162485
If we get enough suggestions i'll throw down a strawpoll for the nominated names.
Vice Palatinate
>>8162521
Sounds more like a region.
Adding it to the list though.
I drunkenly bought this book the other night because I hate myself and I totally forgot about it until it came in the mail today. Is it actually worth the read or is it trash?
>>8162443
it helped me
>>8162452
summarize it for me anon
>>8162460
1. Live in a peaceful place like a nice cabin by the lake (if you can't afford this, put up posters of nature scenery in your room)
2. Smile and say hello to everyone (literally everyone) you see.
3. Throw away all your sad music, movies, and books. Only positive sounds and stories are allowed.
4. Put more sweets and junk food in your diet because it's been proven to help depression. Don't worry about getting fat because worrying about health only adds to your stress.
5....
Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
![718o1eBXibL[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/vGml1Mi.jpg "718o1eBXibL[1].jpg")
Its any good? A vegan friend of mine recommend it saying that was the book that most changed him.
>A vegan friend of mine
>>8162438
>a vegan friend
You must be desperate for human contact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0O_VYcsIk8
>>8162438
The book's about a monkey who says we should all live in the woods and just shit wherever you feel like it.
>DUDE UNDERAGE GIRLS LMAO
Paola Majistral who may or may not be a teenager
that girl who gets gangbanged on the pool table in V.
Mucho's statutory rape
John Nefastis watching little girls on TV
Bianca
that girl who shelters Plechazunga Slothrop
can't think of any examples post GR though
>>8162394
>that girl who gets gangbanged on the pool table in V.
i dont recall this...what was the scenario
>>8162457
drunks on the mexican parade day or whatever
after benny impresses everyone by calling one girl 'scfacim'
Hey I'm really bad with story structure, I've written something that I quite like in essence but I know the structure isn't great and I was wondering if somebody with good literary criticism could help me shape the story better?
I make no apologies, I am a beginner, thanks.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bcY3LQrOkZs7LJ_vG8Ex6yKOylKqjTgGhIxH1d5wjuc/edit?usp=sharing
Awful to say the least
>>8162353
>I was wondering if somebody with good literary criticism could help me shape the story better
kys dood
Recently finished reading The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, and wondered what /lit's opinion on Lovecraft is, and your favourite of Lovecraft's novellas
>>8162267
My opinion is unspeakable and cannot be expressed in words.
Why don't you start telling us your opinions and favorite work so we can have a discussion?
>>8162279
Ok, well I personally I enjoyed The Doom that came to Sarnath and Beyond the Wall of Sleep the most, perhaps quite controversially. Despite some of the stories being a little hard to follow, it was genuinely interesting to see Lovecraft's synthesis of his xenophobic tenancies with the disgusting creatures he describes. My only gripe is that,as previously mentioned, it seems like a bit of a cop out to just say that whatever he was trying to describe was indescribable and the narrative of a piss scared academic...
Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>"Of Kant it may be said that what is good and true in his philosophy would have been buried with him, were it not for Schopenhauer...." - Michael Kelly, Kant's Ethics and Schopenhauer's Criticism
What did he mean by this?
>>8162234
why don't you tell us what you think that means, OP
Kant is some apex retard famous for being mocked by better men, much like sophists, expect kant was turned into like sophistry -yet- so fellow retards mistakenly believe he had any contemporary value
>>8162243
Habla usted ingles?
My /lit/ bros, can you suggest some books similar to pic related?
Also general haunted house books thread.
>>8162217
is that written by a nigress?
>>8162217
Also The Shining
>>8162329
>doesn't know who Shirley Jackson
go back to /pol/ you fucking pleb
>wake up this morning
>vaguely remember writing some poetry last night (I do this often)
>decide to see what I wrote
>it's one line and only three words
>the entire poem is just "I regret everything"
>the title is just a symbol
Pic related is the symbol. Have I achieved maximum pretension, or am I actually breaking new ground here?
>>8162196
maximum pretension
>>8162196
wow so deep
>>8162207
Yeah believe me I know. Usually what I write isn't so shitty.
I even signed and dated this one though so I'll just mark it down as an experiment in brevity.
>you never went to Eton or Westminster and then Baliol College or Christ Church College or Corpus Christi College, Oxford and then inevitably became a famous patrician later
How do I not kill myself due to this feel? I did very well at school but if I had gone to those places I would have been typical, not the huge outlier. How can anyone expect to achieve anything without being surrounded by patricians?
>>8162194
I went to Harrow, then Balliol College. I agree you are probably fucked.
Why is it so easy to empathise with 1930s British politicians and their later lives? Chamberlain's last 5 years get me every time.
I went to a grammar school then King's College Cambridge.
This is hard to read.
And purposefully so, making it garbage
>>8162061
Embrace the mundane- otherwise roqentin's struggle will no fully resonate with you. feel what he feels OP
>that passage about everything becoming bleeding penises
what did he mean?
>>8162061
It felt well crafted yet absolutely souless.
I want some dense, complex, obscure, long, memeworthy works that are not often mentioned here. Can I have a list?
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson is a good start. Come back in a few months when you finish it
>>8162055
>>8162146
>Dense
>complex
>obscure
>long
>not often mentioned here
Are you retard [sic]???
Is listening to music while reading a meme?
>>8161971
Stop talking about 'memes'. It's embarrassing
>>8161971
Depends. If my house is quiet, I prefer reading without music. If there's a lot of shit going around (say, dogs going nuts or my moms watching Dr. Phil and it's really distracting me) I listen to music of an ambient sort (think: Nujabes homework mixes, or some chilled out classical).
>>8161980
kill yourself my man
I am taking a major authors study in the Fall on Virginia Woolf and DH Lawrence. The books we will cover haven't been distributed yet but I'm anticipating To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, Lady Chatterley's Lover and some others. What does /lit think of these authors. (I've never read any of their works before).
>>8161970
Personally, I don't read women writers.
>>8161970
those are both great writers. what else is there to say about them? enjoy reading them. also read around the lives and times of the rest of the bloomsbury group. there's quite a lot of sex and drugs in there.
>>8161990
there's always one turd who has to make this comment in every fucking thread
I love woolf and I've recently started reading DH so they're great in my opinion
