I'm sick. What's a good book to read while being bedridden for a few days?
>>7690149
How the Poor Die
read the sticky
>>7690149
The Maimed
Let's say the cut-off point is 1900. I don't want 20 posts of people arguing about whether that's a legitimate cut-off point or not. Old or new books, /lit/?
New. Old books are too stodgy with their prose, plus, the tenets and sensibilities of storytelling were VERY different then. It's not always entertaining for a modern audience.
Yet another subject /lit/ has no opinion on, huh?
I prefer new books. They speak to contemporary problems and ideas that I can relate to and there's less of a cultural gap. Though I think it's a severe failing that I'm so woefully underread in the classics particularly Renaissance and 18th ce works.
I would prefer to read a randomly chosen new book than a randomly chosen old book, however, my favorite books are old books.
What word best describes reaching the same conclusions as others had before you through individual experience?
I can't seem to find it.
>>7689882
Intelligence.
>>7689882
Confirmation
Proof
Corroboration
>>7689882
Good question OP. Are you asking for the feeling of realizing someone has already thought of this before? or something more like the actual objective process of reaching the same conclusions of others without reference to their work
>reply to five posts in five threads
>go to work for the morning
>come back
>receive five replies
>every single one is "Yes"
This is the worst fucking meme yet
>>7689812
Yes
>>7689812
>reply to threads
>the conversation just goes on without acknowledging my post
What did you gentlemen think of this novel?
Any other to recommend?
Besides the essentials ofc
btw anyone into polish language? I need someone to fuck me over my prose thetorical t b h
Not Polish, Cimmerian.
Damn, that woman must have been a real bitch to him, lol.
It's more /tv/ than it is /lit/. It's a period piece.
>>7689345
stop promoting your shit here
>>7689345
Then go promote it on /tv/.
>>7689345
Keep promoting it.
All of philosophy is based around the idea of whether it's better to be yourself or to change
thats why philosophy is gay
just be yrself
Books about oratory and rhetoric?
The World's Famous Orations - Bryan
The Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
Most Socratic Dialogues - Plato
Rhetoric - Aristotle
Hey /lit/ I want to into Buddhism.
What books do I read?
pic unrelated
>>7689091
>pic unrelated
/co/lit/ fusion memes... comic book authors in the 100 favorites list... I'm seeing a pattern here.
Can we round up some pessimistic, exit level lit from more diverse places in the world?
I'm not SJWing, but there's so much European/American/Japanese lit of this sort that I'm really curious what exit level literature from somewhere bright and sunny like Vietnam or Thailand or India looks like. Anyone know about this kind of stuff? Is the neurosis of pessimism the same in these places as it seems to be in the more represented countries?
>>7689015
Can you provide examples of what you already are aware of? Sounds interesting.
>>7689015
New flavor of the month seems to be Silence by Endo. I thought it was depressing as fuck.
>>7689779
Japanese tho, my bad
i've just started reading infinite jest. you guys told me it's just a meme but it's actually one of the best books i've ever read!
t. a pleb
what do you like about it
hey guys I'm new I justed started reading le meme book and figured I'd start the 5th IJ thread on /lit/ XD
why do people do this?
So I had a small school project about writing a short story , and since its my first time writing its obviously going to be really bad. So i thought some feedback would help.
Here goes :
The Medieval Tower
Two years have passed since the end of the massacre. Two years have passed since the peasants revolted against the royal family and attacked the tower which housed the royal family.
The year is 1486, and Anna and Charles, the recently united couple, had finally finished their wedding ceremony. Anna and Charles both came from middle class families. Anna lived by the jungle before moving into Vermont, the village where Anna and Charles met. Growing by the jungle, Anna’s father taught her the ways of the bow, this helped her come out as a courageous person. Charles on the other hand, lived by the coast he was more of a protective person. This always somehow annoyed Anna, but regardless, they loved each other.
Although Anna and Charles did not come from royal families, this unique couple had something special about them. This couple shared the love of solitary living and historical places. Anna and Charles had frequently heard stories from merchants that come to the village about the tower and the revolt of the peasants. Their common interests made it clear for them that the abandoned tower was the perfect place for them to build their future together. After a discussion that did not last for minutes, Anna and Charles started making necessary arrangements to move to their new home.
After 3 days of getting ready for the long journey, the couple started their 500 mile journey on the back of two horses. Since the couple where as poor as church mice, they couldn’t afford a carriage, meaning they couldn’t carry much of their luggage with them.
The couple rode day and night. They stopped by villages on the way to replenish their food, water and energy. Anna and Charles weren’t so poor, they could afford to buy food from merchants, but they couldn’t very much pay for an inn to stay
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the night. This forced them to work in the inn they stayed at to pay their rent. These circumstances only lengthened their journey.
After 9 days, the couple had finally reached their destination. As Anna raised her head to look at her new home, her pupils dilated and she started breathing more heavily. The couple was so excited to live in this new home that was home to a very peculiar historical event. To any other person, the house looked horrible, and rightly so, from the outside, the house looked very gloomy, the windows were broken and the stone was eroded. It looked like as if the devil himself lived in it. But the couple loved it, and that’s all that mattered.
“This is it” said Anna “A dream finally coming true” she continued.
“This is it” repeated Charles in excitement.
Filled with excitement, Charles approached the tower. The door knob was rusty and made a screeching sound. The tower was abandoned so Charles had little trouble breaking into the place. Upon entering the place, Charles inspected the place. The tower house was dusty, the furniture was worn out and broken, and the ceiling was cracked. What they noticed most though is the stench of dead bodies and one peculiar part of the wall. This wall was located directly in front of the main door, so it wasn’t very hard to notice it. The wall had broken edges as if it had been moved a thousand times. What’s more noticeable about the wall though is the fact that it housed a rats nest. Charles was interested in this wall and wanted to inspect it, but being exhausted from travel, the couple decided to call it a night. Charles went to inspect the bedroom upstairs, he didn’t find many interesting things, but he did find a book, it seemed like it was notes, for some sort of experiment. Charles ignored it and starting setting the bed, after he was done he called Anna and they went to bed.
At 4 A.M Anna was awoken by a sound of loud screams coming from downstairs.
“Wake up love” said Anna with a breaking voice.
Charles: What’s wrong?
Anna: There’s a screaming sound downstairs.
Charles said nothing for a moment to listen carefully
“There’s nothing” said Charles “You are probably imagining things” he added.
The following day Charles and Anna woke up and started sorting out the things that they found in the tower, keeping the ones they needed and throwing out the ones they didn’t need. Charles took care of sorting the books and the notes that were left in the bedroom while Anna took care of the living room down stairs.
3/?
The sun set and the couple were finally done organizing the house. Charles sat in the living room to rest while Anna started making dinner in the kitchen right beside him. Not 10 minutes passed until the screaming and banging sound resumed.
Anna heard the sound and exclaimed “I told you!”
“Not the time to argue, let’s figure out where the sound is coming from.” Charles replied.
Charles and Anna followed the sound carefully, after 20 minutes of looking they found out that the sound was actually coming from the piece of wall that faced the main entrance.
Anna approached it carefully and started listening while Charles looked at her in suspense.
“Maybe the house is haunted” said Anna
Charles Chuckled.
Charles found it funny how Anna was always superstitious, but he did not dare mock her when he saw the look of seriousness on her face. Fear was written all over her face, her face was yellow and her eyes were squinty.
Charles studied the wall and its broken edges. Not figuring anything out, he hit the wall in frustration. The screams grew louder and it seemed like something started banging the wall. Rats started flowing out of holes around the wall. After what seemed like eternity, the screaming and banging finally stopped. Anna starting doubting the sanity of her choice of living in an abandoned tower in which people were murdered, but Charles calmed her down and told her that they should go to bed and inspect the issue further tomorrow.
Charles woke up the following day and decided to look through the books that were left in the bedroom. Charles found nothing but notes on experiments on rats and disease transfer. Until he came across a small drawing in one of the notes, it looked as if it was a map, Charles figured it was the house’s blueprints.
Everything looked normal except one thing, the blueprints displayed an extra room downstairs near the kitchen, and what’s more intriguing is that it was placed at the same position as the wall where the screams came from.
Anna woke up and asked Charles: What are you doing this up early?
“Look at this” Said Charles while he handed her the blueprints
Anna quickly noticed the extra room in the blue prints.
“Now help me look for more clues about this” said Charles in a quick manner
Charles and Anna looked for hours in the notes, they found texts talking about the poverty of the peasants, notes that talked about human experimenting in disease transfer and notes that stated some sort of a death count.
The couple concluded that the royal family was conducting human experiments on the peasants to create a biological weapon, which probably caused the revolt that doomed them.
Intrigued, Charles decided to further inspect the wall downstairs.
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what does /lit/ think of Yahtzee croshaw?
>>7688775
Actual garbage. Mogworld is MMORPG fanfic. His humor makes it readable but his writing is cringe inducing.
I picked up Shadow and Claw thanks to the memeing on this board and read Torturer this week. It was pretty cool, got a couple of questions though:
1. Are there any good sites/books/analyses on the work that will help me pick up what I missed?
2. Does the narrative pick up or is the style pretty consistent all the way through?
Starting Claw of the Conciliator soon.
It's more or less consistent, but it peaks around Claw and Sword; also don't forget to read Urth of the New Sun if you're aiming to read all of it.
>1. Are there any good sites/books/analyses on the work that will help me pick up what I missed?
There’s be lots of spoilers in a serious analysis, probably. If you don’t want to be spoilered, first finish with the series. And then read it all again, probably.
>>7688772
>1. Are there any good sites/books/analyses on the work that will help me pick up what I missed?
Ultan's library, videos on yt by Marc Aramimi, an article on First Things.
>2. Does the narrative pick up or is the style pretty consistent all the way through?
Style stays largely the same, but the plot itself grows in scale.
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