What does /lit/ think about Conrad?
A dead white European male was teaching a class on English literature, known tool of imperialist oppression.
“Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship King Leopold II, greatest monarch the world has ever known, even greater than James Monroe!”
At this moment, a black, female, transgendered, cis-hetero-homoflexible Latino transvestite man who has over 20,000 Tweets and 12,000 Tumblr posts stood up and held up an novel.
“What is this book?”
The professor smirked oppressively and smugly replied “Heart of Darkness, by Polish-British writer Joseph Conrad, an intelligent and insightful study of the primitive mind of the African peoples.”
“Wrong. The book is a racist and oppressive piece of propaganda designed to dehumanize the proud peoples of the African continent. Conrad is a bigot. If the book truly had merit as you claimed, Oprah would’ve reviewed it on her show already.”
The professor was visibly shaken, and dropped his chalk and Iron Cross. He stormed out of the room crying those DWEM crocodile tears.
The students applauded and all registered Marxist that day and accepted Martin Luther King Jr. as their lord and savior. An okapi pounced into the room and stood next to a south-up map centered around Africa. The students joined hand in hand and sang Toto’s Africa several times, and Jesse Jackson, king of all black people, showed up to enact affirmative action across the country.
The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day. He died of a giant black nigger dick up his ass was tossed into the Sahara desert for all eternity.
That student’s name? Chinua Achebe.
Hakuna Matata.
Very good. I love his descriptions of the sea.
Bit of a dick desu
Am I the only one who don't like american authors? It seems to me that their literature lack deepness. They mediocre.
>>7606320
I also dislike it but I'm the kind of person that barely approves anything published past the 18th century.
>>7606320
Which ones have you read?
>>7606330
Gonna be pretty hard to out-hipster you, well played
what the fuck is this?
>>7606213
a gigantic shitpost
It is the third book in the Nova Trilogy.
Maybe start with The Soft Machine?
>>7606260
This, the soft machine is actually quite good as well. Make sure to read naked lunch first though
What did you guys think of this? I thought that it definitely had its good moments but also had a fair share of obnoxious moments.
Also, did anyone understand Church not made with Hands? I admittedly started it, didn't understand shit, and then went on to the next story.
>>7606133
You have to be a white college male to truly get it, sorry.
>>7606141
B-but.. I am familia. Every story was pretty breezy except for that one.
>>7606133
I still laugh about the little part where he screams VICTORY FOR THE FORCES OF DEMOCRATIC FREEDOM whenever he cums. I don't know any reason why, but it makes me laugh every time
Is "On the Road" worth the read?
No. Wasn't when you made this thread earlier today either.
Just once cuz it's a milestones and shit but no more cuz it's fucking white boi shiet
It's pretty good senpai
hey lit, what's your favorite ebook converter?
>download a lot of books in ebook/epub format
>own a kindle (mobi)
some of the free ones online mess up sometimes and it copies the title of the book and page number every page which on my kindle just gets inserted into random sentences.
also. what're you reading right now? just about to start the martian so i can watch the movie when i visit my folks soon.
Back to reddit
>>7605696
Calibre is the best I've used.
>>7605716
This, the options on newer versions of calibre are pretty amazing.
I just wish the PDF format would be replaced with futuristic insta OCR
what is the difference between pyro and ignis in Latin?
I dunno, but pyr- would have properly come from the Greek, so maybe, if they both meant fire, oyr- would have had a slightly foreign, classical sound to them- kinda like the difference in feel between a Latinate vs anglo-saxon root word for us.
Also, I didn't think Latin actually had a word "pyro." They had "pyra", which more properly means funeral pyre or bonfire.So there's that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8mD2hsxrhQ
>>7605578
Waaaait, Ignis isn't fire as in flame?
where does /lit/ gets ebooks?
I usually just google "name of the book" pdf
>>7605412
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/
http://bookzz.org/
>>7605448
what? it works for me. gives me less problems than .mobi .epub and so. (I use a tablet)
What made this man so special/adored?
>>7604986
no idea who that is. have you read manuscript found in saragossa? you should.
dunno who the old guy is though. check out that book i mentioned. you will, cuz you're a cool guy. i can tell.
-from a cool guy to a cool guy
Nobody here gives a fuck about him.
>>7605037
OP, you're not being a very cool guy. I'm disappointed. I had hoped that you were as cool as i thought you were. I guess you don't deserve to look up that book i suggested.
-from a cool guy to a disappointingly uncool fool
Has anyone ever read this? I just picked it up and I have zero expectations.
>>7604594
Damn looks cool, haven't read it give me an update
>>7604594
you're the faggot who keeps shitting up the sff thread with this. Just read the fucking book, do you have to be spoonfed your own opinions or something? If that's too hard, read the blurb.
i've read it, and i think it's better than lord of the rings because the bad guys are believable.
"There be two days in every month when whatever is begun will never reach completion."
- Gorice XII
So. I was just given Macedonio Fernández's The Museum of Eterna's Novel. What the hell am I in for here? Seriously, this thing has like 50 prologues!
>>7604457
Been looking for a long time for an ebook of that. Have your started it?
>>7605251
I have and holy shit. I'm gone through the first 13 prologues (the are like 50,) and its on hell of an experience so far.
It's like Italo Calvino and James Joyce had a baby and that baby grew up to teach Borges how to write his ABCs.
Skip the prologues :^)
Hi /lit/, old /g/ and new /fit/ here.
I've recently done some things I'm not proud of. Without getting into too much detail, I did something really bad to a friend, and I felt so awful about it, I set out to change myself. I did some community service, and exercised a lot, and for the most part I thought I had become a better person. But this weekend I found that I hadn't really learned anything, and that I was still the same. I have real trouble learning from myself, so I decided to try something different and learn from others, through literature.
I'm not much of a reader, but I'm a programmer by professional so my reading skill is very high. I browsed through the wiki, looking for a category about self reflection, transcendentalism, and life, but I couldn't really find anything that screamed 'existentially shattering'.
So if you had to pick, for someone who wants to learn, who wants to change, and who wants to become a better person, friend, and stranger, what book or author would you recommend?
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>>7604216
Start with the Greeks.
>>7604216
The bible, specifically the new testament.
Now, tell us what you did to your friend.
>>7604216
My diary desu
shitty memes aside, where do I even start with this guy? He's written like 50 books. What are his most important ones?
>>7603528
Sublime Object of Ideology
>>7603528
Save yourself the time and read something worthwhile instead.
>>7603585
Don't tell me what to do, you piece of shit
In /lit/'s opinion what are some good books every man should read?
Take that for what you will.
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>>7602801
the books on the top 100 list for starters
>>7602801
Mein Kampf
>>7602833
Where is this list?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNYJQaZUDrI
I wonder if they'll start with the greeks
>>7602155
Is that John Green?
>>7602155
For some strange reason, I imagine half the Aristotle episode is going to be about how he hates women, and half the Plato episode about how he hates democracy, and half the Neechee episode about how he's a nazi mysogynist anti social nerd.
>>7602155
OH GOD.
It has begun. John Green is going to dumb down philosophy to the point I'll get an aneurysm and die.
