So I decided to put all the books in my living room into a stack. What does /lit/ think of my taste?
Pretty much typical "just got into reading" core. I wish you fucks weren't the average c/lit/poster.
You probably go on /v/, too. How would you feel about people constantly posting threads about how they bought but haven't yet played HL2, Oblivion, and COD4, rate my taste?
It's shit and yet it can only get better
>>7619325
>all the books in my living room
That's it?
>muh justice system isn't just
>muh boring shitty writing style
Tell me again why this rubbish is considered so highly?
why is picasso rated highly? because he's picasso
>>7619253
>Nowhere in Kafka does there glimmer the aura of the infinite idea; nowhere does the horizon open. Each sentence is literal and each signifies. The two moments are not merged, as the symbol would have it, but yawn apart and out of the abyss between them blinds the glaring ray of fascination.
Google "Notes on Kafka" by Adorno
>>7619253
Maybe literature isn't for you, OP
So, to the poeple who have read it/are reading it now, is it a tough read? Because it seems like a very interesting book, but the length of it is putting me off. Also, English is not my first language and, given that 2666 is full of hard language constructions, I may ot be able to grasp the book fully. Is it like Remarque, perhaps?
>>7619071
It's not difficult at all. Part 4 is somewhat repetitive but it's not a tough read by any standard except length.
Go for it, it's great.
>>7619073
thanks for the advice, how long did it take you to get through it?
>>7619071
I read it in an English translation, but it was originally written in Spanish.
I don't remember the language being particularly difficult, but it is a sprawling novel taking place in numerous countries and over several decades. Keeping track of characters who appear, disappear and re-appear can be a challenge.
What does /lit/ think about the Beat Generation?
Worth reading?
absolute garbage. a time in which an author's personal reputation counted for far more than their work, even by today's standards.
check out Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion, and that's pretty much the only good book it ever produced.
Your mileage may vary. Both fans and detractors of the Beats take them more seriously than they took themselves.
Only Burroughs
The Lord of the Rings:
>dark ale or mead (LOTS)
>served in giant drinking horn won from an aurochs
>sing with your brothers the whole time
>repeat til blackout
You didn't make a drink.
What is wrong with you fucking genre fags
The Stranger:
>highball glass
>5cl coffee liqueur
>5cl milk
>5cl red Algerian wine
Garnish with a cigarette
The Rum Diarrhea
-1L Spiced Rum
-1 oz. Ex-Lax
>>7617777
my diary desu
Godzilla NES
Yes it's a Creepypasta, but it is amazing
Non-Anglophone /lit/izens: What is your mother tongue's Ulysses?
>French
Nothing that would be equivalent in both scope and experimentation, so... influence-wise? I guess it should be Céline's novels.
Because Beckett either shot straight into space or hasn't actually landed yet. (the wankton of academic junkprint doesn't count, no)
I think Borges was a very innovative fellow. He never wrote anything longer than 15 pages tho
>>7617668
zettels traum
I'm looking for books that explain the sociology of how movements can get out of control. An example is how the rain of terror came to be. Why does these things happen?
>>7616626
Vent. We believe we revolt against those ideals we fought against, e.g. slavery, woman rights, liberty, but really we revolt against organized society as a whole. The beheading of an aristocrat does not quench the thirst that subordination and the illogical and baseless hypocrisy that organized life brings forth in every sphere it touches. As long as the individual is made a collective there will be no quiescence of mass violence.
>>7616626
>the rain of terror
Jfc the French are so dramatic.
>>7616626
i once wrote a book on how my bowel movements got out of control, are you interested in this?
I'm gonna give an popular opinion here: It by Stephen King is actually good.
Now hear me out before you call me pleb. I'll agree that most of King's writing is shit. His prose is too basic and cinematic, his characters are for the most part flat and uninteresting. His narrative sequences are usually cringey and sometimes just unnecessary. But It, I think, is actually unique to all his other works. And I believe it actually has a lot literary value, at least artistically.
A lot of this is subjective, I'll admit. But I feel like the characters this book are actually quite real. Sure, they superficially have archtype traits, but mostly these character feel fucking REAL. Even the minor characters, the ones mentions only one or two pages per.
And the prose, dear god. For some reason the prose in this one book by King is just kind of heartbreaking. I realize I can't be very convincing if I myself don't understand the specific reason for why I like certain things, but I'll try. The only best way to describe what makes the prose so good is simple composition of each sentence. I suppose the chemicals in my brain respond to these compositions in the same way they respond to seeing an old tree in the woods that melts you.
There's a lot of Lovecraftian theme going on, but it has the ambience akin to Marilynne Robinson or Alice McDermott, maybe even Cormac McCarthy.
Among all Stephen King's work, I think It actually comes closest to being literary.
Stephen King's major gimmick is combining mundane, blue-collar Americana (notice how he's always dropping brand names of things?) with supernatural/mythological goings on. He tries to bring his horror closer to the reader by making the characters and settings believable by their relatable nature, and this book is where he most successfully pulls it off. If he were a better/more creative writer he could really do something earth-shattering (and yes, LITERARY) with this most potent combination but since he isn't IT probably represents his ceiling.
'Unique' is just a buzzword when you can't actually think of any real reasons as to why King is good, don't use it.
>>7615159
I was calling the one book unique in comparison to the others he's written.
The Ego and Its Own, The World as Will and Representation, Beyond Good and Evil
>le existential nihilism reaction meme
>>7614264
johnny got his gun, death and the kings horseman, critical theory today
and if no non fiction allowed, don quixote
adding some heidegger and we have a patrician collection
Best Alice Munro short story collection?
Just get a selected you idiot.
>>7622943
I can't, that is why I ask for best collection.
PS Don't be rude.
>>7622980
I'm Alice Munro and I think you're an idiot. Suck my pussy bitch.
Was this final proof that Morrissey is an idiot?
I imagine a lot of /lit/s readership is familiar with his dulcet tones.
As I get older I sort of outgrew him and realised that he is just a guy with a personality disorder writing anthems for the personality disordered in order to feel justified in their selfish self-pitying behaviours. What a bint.
>>7622588
I always thought he was just writing them for a laugh. His lyrics are usually pretty funny.
>>7622633
Started that way. Early on there was a hint of self deprecation, self awareness and irony. Then following the smiths and into his solo career he became lost in his own hype and lost any semblance of humour. Finally culminating with him thinking he could write a novel.
Move aside Lawrence!
“‘Well hopefully it doesn’t get any worse than this, because my stomach just couldn’t take it…’ and their fiendishly loving wrestle began once again, rolling across the floor as hot-tempered enthusiasts of lustful joy as both adorers’ bodies did their sexual staccato heaving and barging into place, nothing forbidden, heartbeats uneven, the mind as naked as the body, weakened by exertion, only to shockingly lock with a halt at the astride legs of Sammy, young brother to Ezra, as he quietly stood with satisfied slyness watching the debauched display of sensuous pleasure at the sweetness of living seized by the initiative.”
Can someone help me find this book?
>>7622577
This sounds really familiar.
sounds like PKD writing John Green
This is some sort of anime meme that keeps getting reposted. Is it still hi-larious? I can't tell.
Are there /lit/ approved adventure books?
Pic maybe related
>>7622512
Manuscript found in Saragossa,
Dumas,
Don Quixote,
Gil Blas,
Moby Dick
Homer's Works,
Journey to the West,
Simplicissimus,
H Rider Haggard (maybe lit approved)
Sir Walter Scott (maybe lit approved)
Robert Louis Stevenson,
Scaramouche
The Four Feathers,
Some Dickens, perhaps,
Some Tobias Smollett, perhaps..
all i can think of right now. hope that helps
>>7622531
Thanks anon, I think I'll start with Moby Dick.
Looking for books with and Orwellian type writing style? I also started liking books when I read Kurt Vonnegut when I was 13 years old. so can I get more authors like him too? Thanks /lit/. I plan on killing myslef but I wanted to read some good books before I did anything like that.
Just kill yourself right now. Nothing you read will matter once you do it
>>7622459
read epictetus' discourses to be less of a faggot
if you don't want to, then kys thx
>>7622459
Finnegans Wake.
