Hey /lit/,
not sure what the board ethics are like here so hopefully asking for book recommendations isn't frowned upon -
anyway, I've recently had an /x/ nostalgia spur after I finally watched the first season of True Detective so I reread a whole bunch of creepypastas that I used to read a couple of years ago and I remembered how much I liked the holder's series (http://theholders.org/) - so I've found that even years later I'm still really digging that dark-mystery-otherworldly-sacrilegious-vibe and I'd love to hear some suggestions for books or authors that fit this theme or at least somehow resemble it.
I know of Lovercraft but have not read any of his books, I'd love to hear other suggestions but in case you're a Lovercraft pro pls suggest what books of his you liked best.
Board Ethics is to check the sticky and the wiki first. The Wiki is a tad shit though.
Try Dagon by Lovecraft.
Is he the unproclaimed king of /lit/?
>autist
>shit
>virgin
i would say so
Can someone help me find out more about this book? I got it from an auction and all I know is it was published in 1902.
You could try, you know, reading it. That's generally a good way to figure out more about a book.
>>7659004
Natural magnetism may refer to more than one thing. A form of it was popular in both the eighteenth (England) and twentieth centuries (USA).
I've been told the author of pic related is the Polish Tolstoy, is there any validity to this claim?
why don't you read it and find out
>>7658988
Fair enough, although having some background knowledge would be nice for its own sake
Are the letters between Joyce and Nora a one of a kind literary discovery, or have people found similar documents from other famous writers?
In your opinion, do these letters have any literary merit?
>>7658914
it's smut for degenerates and non-whites
I have the urge to re-read Dante's Divine Comedy for the first time since I was in high school. What is the best version available on Kindle? Either the best versions of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso separately or the best version of the Divine Comedy in one package.
>inb4 Kindle
Can you not just use calibre to convert a normal format in to mobi or whatever the fuck those things read?
>>7658650
I wouldn't know. I only recently made the decision to use Kindle. I had considered replicating whatever file type Kindle uses but I have yet to put that idea into action.
What's your late night book of choice before sleeping? I'm currently on this Bobby Fischer biography, and it's good stuff!
>>7658610
It's whatever I'm reading at the moment. Currently, that's The Broom of The System. Everyone, including its author, constantly shits on it so I'm surprised by how entertaining it is.
Why is this fucker so well received in the literary field? When poetry involved actual skill, concentration and experience, when people like Milton spent hours writing masterpieces, this motherfucker, William Carlos Williams writes a poem about a fucking wheelbarrow and another of an ice box, and it gets years of literary criticism on how it is able to be categorized as "literature."
Tell me, does so much depend upon a fucking wheelbarrow?
>does so much depend upon a fucking wheelbarrow?
Yes. It's pretty obvious how many livelihoods are dependent on tools of their trade, and the poem is well regarded given that it's a simple expression of a staggering space of manhours spent working and surviving.
Meanwhile, Milton buried a few gems in ten thousand lines of fluff, filtered by a younger poet.
You should really read a bit more before you expend the energy getting upset and showing your immaturity.
This book is insane and great and very different from Satantango.
I guess I'm surprised by how personal it is compared with Satantango, which I thought was a very detached exercise in formal trickery (on top of a cool story). The formal trickery remains here (excerpts from scattered sources, chapters numbered by fibonacci sequence), but "Christo Morto" seems really obviously to be about Krasznahorkai himself, and the self-loathing and frustration underlying "Kamo Hunter" definitely don't come from a detached narrator, although it might be disguised as one. The settings of the book also seem more like places he'd be familiar with (both geographically and in the wilds of scholarship), rather than Satantango concentrating on poor farmers while Krasz. was a successful law student.
"Restoration of a Buddha" actually reminded me a lot of David Foster Wallace, esp. Oblivion and The Pale King, with the emphasis on tedium (though treated in a very different way).
What thinks /lit/?
>>7658227
I haven't read Satantango but how does it compare to The Melancholy of Resistance.
>>7658234
Only read Satantango my dude
What are some things I should know before getting into stream of consciousness writing?
>>7658200
that when you write something that is stream of consciousness you shouldn't yourself be writing it without taking time to consider what you're saying.
>>7658204
damn...
I'm hoping someone on /lit/ can help me get into literature. I've read maybe 3 or 4 novels in my lifetime, but most of those were required reading during English studies in middle school and high school.
I recently picked up pic related and really enjoyed it. The novel paints such a vivid landscape of life after the end of civilization. Unfortunately, the novel is pretty short - I finished it the very same day. I'd definitely like to find more novels in the same vein, but there are so many authors to sift through.
As far as other media is concerned, I'm a huge fan of Mad Max, Fallout, Dark Sun and most anything else based in a post-apocalyptic setting, which is why The Road caught my attention in the first place.
By the way, I did check the Wiki for recommended reading, but the synopses of most of the novels filed under "post-apocalyptic fiction" didn't sound too interesting, or they were too involved with specific political or religious agendas. The Wiki is also very incomplete, having a lot of empty tables and no accompanying descriptions for many entries.
>>7658154
Book of the New Sun
>>7658154
You're not going to find any other apocalyptic lit as well written as The Road. But Blood Meridian by the same author is arguably even more "apocalyptic" than The Road in it's portrayal of humanity, and it has the bleak landscapes and roving bands of desert marauders dressed in scraps of fallen civilizations, so it even fits there. It's also generally considered one of the better if not the best of McCarthy's already great catalog.
What is some good starting point for Byron?
Is there a specific recommended press to buy?
>>7658106
just buy complete works and read left to right or skip around, it doesn't really matter
>>7658106
>Is there a specific recommended press to buy?
Penguin
Holy shit guys, i started reading this today, got to 80 pages and just got to the introduction of Jean motherfucking Valjean. 80 PAGES.
This is worse that War and Peace with the descriptions, holy shit. Still i'm really caught on it, excellent so far.
Victor Hugo thread.. i guess?
bumporuno
>favorite book
>your creative outlet(s)
>if your creative outlet isn't directly related to lit (i.e. photography instead of something like poetry), how do you think X creative outlet has influenced your reading and/or other creative outlets
>Stoner (at the moment)
>writing (mostly poetry, but also short fiction and eventually novels)
>no other creative outlets, but I'd like to get into painting and photography
>>7657815
>Dunno
>drawing, writing, martial arts, violin
>yeah, martial arts really improved my reading
>Infinite Jest
>Shitposting
Does anyone one has read this novel?, does it worth it?
>>7657632
Sorry for the grammar mistakes though.
