>Shakespeare
>Dante
>Joyce
>Pynchon
Tell me why Catholics aren't the goats of literature
>>7652175
symbolism is passe
now
tao lin is not catholic
alt lit one
original poster zero
>>7652175
because joyce literally made a book about not being cholic
because pynchon is none of the things he was raised as
Rate the English covers of Infinite Jest.
6 is abysmal.
The spanish one is better
>>7651915
Gotta love 6 man. Popped by IJ cherry.
1 > 3 > 6 > 2 > 4 > 5
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>>7651776
Enjoyed the last thread, OP.
>A1:
>A2:Osamu Dazai
>A3: Isidore-Lucien Ducasse
>A4: Yasunari Kawabata
>A5: A young Wilson? Same eyes.
>A6:
>B1:
>B2: Alfred Jarry
>B3:
>B4: August Strindberg
>B5: Carl Jung
>B6:
>C1: e.e cummings
>C2: Georges Bataille
>C3:
>C4: Jean Baudrillard
>C5: I want to say Levinas but not sure.
>C6: Robert Lowell
>D1:
>D2: Martin Heidegger
>D3:
>D4: Roland Barthes
>D5: Allen Ginsberg
>D6: Thomas Pynchon
>E1: Paul Verlaine
>E2:
>E3:
>E4:
>E5:
>E6: Ludwig Wittgenstein
All I have so far. This one is a bit harder.
What website are you making to create these?
A1: Ted Hughes
A2: Dazai
A3: Mainlander?
A4: Kawabata
A5:
A6: Akutagawa
B1:
B2: Williams
B3: Rilke
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C4: Baudrillard
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D2: Heidegger
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D4: Ginsberg
D5: Pynchone
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E6: Wittgenstein
>>7651830
Thanks. Yup, this one's a bit harder, though. ^_^ Good luck, anons!
Correct Answers Thus Far:
>A1:
>A2:Osamu Dazai
>A3: Isidore-Lucien Ducasse / Comte de Lautreamont
>A4: Yasunari Kawabata
>A5:
>A6:
>B1: Alfred Jarry
>B2:
>B3:
>B4: August Strindberg
>B5: Carl Jung
>B6:
>C1: e.e cummings
>C2: Georges Bataille
>C3:
>C4: Jean Baudrillard
>C5:
>C6: Robert Lowell
>D1:
>D2: Martin Heidegger
>D3:
>D4: Roland Barthes
>D5: Allen Ginsberg
>D6: Thomas Pynchon
>E1: Paul Verlaine
>E2:
>E3:
>E4:
>E5:
>E6: Ludwig Wittgenstein
What is the best font for writing and why is it Times New Roman?
>>7647918
OP you must accept that such things are ineffable.
>>7647918
stfu, yes it does
>>7647918
AHAHAHAHA tru dat
how many dumb cunts with 50k views all they do is cry and talk about themselves
weahhhh weahhh me me me me me
so fucking true
somebody fall in love with me
fuck off bitch
What are you working on, /lit/?
Two black men find themselves strongly attracted to each other. One is married into a wealthy family - caseworker. He gets a case from South Bronx. The other black man lives in the South Bronx (an area with an autonomous city government). The caseworker has never questioned his sexuality, but when the two meet - everything becomes different.
Spoiler: one of them is gay
One about a man from a race of monkey people who, after his single mother dies, finds himself without ties to the world. He signs on to a cargo ship, hoping to find purpose, and it ends up shipwrecked- the only survivors him and a mute tiger-man servant. They end up on a continent of bird-people and have to... something. I haven't worked out much beyond that. They could find something world-changing or have to stop a threat to the world but I'm not sure. Sounds too trite. That's what happens when you work setting-first, I guess.
The other, a fairly typical urban fantasy. A man who lives by himself is slowly tormented into half-insanity by a box in his attic, sent visions each night in his dreams of opening the box and finding treasure inside. After he dreams of finding his mother in the box- his mother who has been dead for years- he decides enough is enough, and opens the box. Turns out it's the personal library of a wizard of some note, and he is thrust, alone, into a world of magic etc etc. I hope to make it different by not including very many other people- I want him to face things alone. Involves dualistic cosmology, with black and still angels, and white and wild demons.
Hmm. I hadn't realized it before now, but both of these heavily involve dead mothers as a starting premise. Perhaps I have a problem.
Well, that sounds pretty gay.
A dark-enlightenment, nietzschean, body-building half-demon, along with his dominatrix older-sister, a sexually-repressed, fiend-hunting, zen martial artist, an immortal, homosexual, siberian werewolf shaman, a PTSD'd, manichaean lesbian, fight against an extradimentional, haughty dragon cuntboy, an anti-civilization, sumerian clayman, and the demon/immigrant mafia for the vagina of a normal girl.
>it's an experimental mammoth about disillusioned, prone-to-pithy-sayings 20 somethings in modern suburbia the back cover describes as "darkly comedic" or some shit like "so funny you forget to cry" episode
that's basically DFW.
>it's a young gentleman having sex and doing drugs but sometimes he has philosophical thoughts that must certainly make up for the tedium of hearing another description of a young woman's body told with pseudo-poetic prose as well as scenes that describe the dreamy feeling of heroin for the eight thousandth time episode
>experimental mammoth
what are some books i should be seen reading in school in order to smart and cool to the grills?
Are you attractive?
Stuff by John Green probably
I read and thoroughly enjoyed Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival.
I'm looking for more similar works. Perhaps something more dramatic (?) (I'm sure this isn't the right term but what I mean is that I never really feared for any of the protagonists when reading Parzival).
Needs to be English or German or translated into one of the two languages.
Thanks
Once and Future King by TH White combines most of the earlier versions. A lot of people read that and then are disappointed in the earlier renditions of the cycle.
>>7652823
I should have maybe clarified, I was looking for medieval works. But I'll look into it anyway, thanks!
>>7652855
Wow haha thanks for responding so quickly! People don't usually do that haha!
how am i doing lit?
attention whore and seek approval/reproach here
>>7652300
no need to open your own thread faggot
You posted outside of a bookshelf thread so not doing very good to be honest.
>>7652716
Why did you encase your books behind glass? What if you want to read them?
Does /lit/ have any tips for reading Catch-22? Everyone I know who has read it said it was hard to follow at times and had a difficult time getting "hooked" by it at first. Some have even stopped reading and had to pick it back up at a later date. Besides powering through it, is there anything else I can do?
Keep notes?
>>7652314
It wasn't that difficult. It's not in chronological order but it's easy to figure out.
It's very funny and I got into it immediately.
I say just start reading.
>>7652314
After every slow and boring bit there is sooner or later a funny bit, ebbs and flows.
>Some have even stopped reading and had to pick it back up at a later date.
That's the case with tons of such books.
Usually the characters you can't keep track of are the less important ones, and you will be easily able to differentiate between the 'important' ones
Don't stress it. It's a supremely funny book.
Is a paperwhite kindle worth it? I read the news a lot, and I also have e-books for class, but I also have access to a lot of used book store (but limited space to store books). I've been trying to read on my phone, but it's not great.
I know I can bootleg .mobi's, but it's tougher than .pdf's, and .epub's. Anything I should be looking out for?
What's your take, /lit/?
Got one. It's great. Looks like paper, eyes don't get tired, no trouble sleeping.
Battery life is ok I guess. Capacity is adequate.
Use caliber and you're golden.
>>7652053
I have one, its great but I very rarely use it out of personal preference for physical books.
>>7652053
>ebooks
So I read this piece of absolute garbage. I had to put the book down out of laughter quite a few times. How the fuck did this get so popular?
Women
Women
Women.
Was he autistic?
I'm no doctor, but I know enough about autism and enough about Tolkien to say that he was somewhere on the autism spectrum. I think it was a mild case of autism, but it was there.
>>7652774
>I'm no doctor
All you needed to say.
>>7652782
Sometimes it doesn't take a doctor. One doesn't need a medical degree to identify obvious signs and symptoms.
Can we discuss how terribly English and literature is taught in schools? In retrospect I can't believe what I was taught to learn and believe, how idiotic my teacher was, the fucking drivel we were made read, that is the reason I was turned off reading for so many years. I was made to believe reading was thoroughly un-enjoyable. Anybody else feel this way? Did anybody else have teachers that taught English completely wrong?
you can thank the useless fucking pencil pushers who make the required curriculum. my son's godfather is a middle school english teacher, and the shit that's forced into his program... drives him fucking crazy.
>>7641138
So what did your teachers do, exactly?
Freshman year of high school ruined English class for me. My teacher was this enormous SJW who forced 14 year old boys to read shit like The House on Mango Street and Things Fall Apart to "open our minds about different cultures."
From that point on I adopted the mindset that my taste in literature was far superior to that of my teachers, and proceeded to read absolutely nothing I was assigned and act like a pretentious dick 100% of the time.
Senior year was fun though, my teacher was really smart. He actually recommended Pynchon to me, which was cool.
I just think public education has a way of completely fucking kids who have intellectual interests up the ass. It's like putting a race horse on a treadmill.
Thank god I wrote good college essays and had excellent test scores, or I fear I'd be stuck in the same directional state college as the neanderthals who I labored through high school with.
What does /lit/ think of him?
Not as good as the black one.
Nobel-tier trash
cooties
