Who was the greater author? Shakespeare or Robert Burns?
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14209134.Shakespeare_and_Burns__two_literary_giants_to_be_compared_and_contrasted_at_special_conference/
Is this a serious question?
I'm desperate /lit/. I've been trying to remember the name of one book since 5th grade (College Freshman now). I have spent many nights since 7th grade trying to find it, the cover art is burned into my head but I just can't make the connection. If anyone is able to help, you will be in my gratitude.
>The book was black. Small dimensions.
>Cover art depicts a boy, possibly curled up and possibly holding something.
>White art on black background
>There is a red sun
>He is part of some kind of tribe/nomads
>His mother has gone missing, it's his internal conflict
>They live in a camp with walls
>Something is wrong, something about the sun consuming the world
I can only say thank you now. It has been utter hell racking my brain for a clue. I don't even care if it was shit, I just know it connected with me.
>>7592260
5th grade, you say?
Probably Das Kapital by mentally ill Karl Marx.
That's what they're trying to teach kids these days, and its babbies first political interest. When you grow up a bit youll realize capitalism is great for you
OP here, I found it. Shadow of the red moon.
I first heard about this book in 2012 when my Mom had told me about it, but I haven't been interested to read it til now.
Should I read it?
and, Is it any good?
Yes
Yes
It's shit. Read Brave New world.
>>7591612
Better yet, read them both
I'm thinking of reading this, but there are few obstacles in my way (apart from book's lenght) for me to finish it. In my first language only the first four volumes have been translated with no sight of the rest of the translation on the horizon, and even though my english is good enough to browse dank memes and read something that's not too difficult like Murakami or Steinbeck, Proust might be too hard for me.
Should I just read the first four anyway, or maybe it's not worth starting? How much would I be missing?
>>7590321
Just read.
Its not really a plot based book. You could read the first 100 pages and take a lot from it.
>>7590468
>it's really not a plot based book
Said the pleb that hasn't read past half of volume 1
Tell me how there is no plot in vol. 5 -6
Call your friends, call yourfamily, The Tunnel has made its appearance on the interwebs.
I read this book a couple of months back and I was taken completely aback by it. It's got more text gimmics than you could count (and was published 5 years before Mark Meme Danielewski's House of Leaves), an almost infinite amount of limericks about a promiscuous nun, and a plot which is as gripping as it is hard to follow.
I borrowed it from the local library and scanned it because 1. more people should read it and 2. I know all of you fags are too lazy to do it.
DL: https://mega.nz/#!QRcWXAqL!kWChg_EOaJdM4bFnxg-z9GmP0dIu0f_MMI-IZgfs12g
It's a 70MB pdf file, already compressed from a 400MB original. If anyone complains about the size, I'll have to make crude yo momma jokes and tell them
>Year of our Lord 2016
>Complaining about file size
Happy reading, /lit/.
>>7584623
i've got an epub that's like 1kb
>>7584629
>epub
>getting the text and fonts right
>>7584635
>text and fonts right
secondary concerns for lit, no?
Hey, /lit/, which non-fiction would you say is really well-written? I finished pic related recently, and it was a real pleasure to read in a way that academic writing very rarely is, in my experience.
I studied history, which should be a relatively good subject for nice writing, but from what I remember most of it was serviceable at best.
Pic also related: a nicely-written history book.
Anyone reading that ?
>>7592578
No, but might soon. How is it?
>>7592668
I don't know, I was asking because I'm planning to read it soon.
>>7592684
Yeah, cause it's not out yet.
This book is terrible. This book is Reddit incarnate. There is no doubt about that. However, I have a strong compulsion to buy it. Ishmael, I know you're out there. Please put it back up on Lulu or provide a download link-not just the viewable Google Doc. I'll give you your few shekels, you won't even have to donate it to charity.
Now, so this can stay on the board until Ishmael sees it, let's discuss this "book" and compare it to the /lit/ canon. How does it hold up to Tundra, the sequels, Kolsti, and Hypersphere? Did we automatically assume it was an abomination without taking the time to look into it? Should we have given it the benefit of the doubt?
Why would you want to own it if you just said it was shitty
How can i self publish anonymousely? Im thinking about writing some memebook and spamming on here for extra bucks from meme suckers
>>7590978
You have to have a book written by enough people to excuse it's shittiness.
What does lit think of László Krasznahorkai's Satantango?
So ... did the graphic designer who made that just draw a bunch of random white lines on it?
...god, graphic designers are idiots.
Too long
>>7587982
look closer dipshit
Hey /lit, I need your help. My literature professor challenged me earlier today.he recently hung a Chinese or Japanese style umbrella from his ceiling with what appear to be origami coy fish (or possibly trout) above the umbrella, as if raining down onto the umbrella. He bet me 5 to 1 odds that I couldn't guess the book it's in, or some relation or derivation of the imagery depicted. What book is this imagery from? My best guess is some kind of Asian literature, but I could be wrong. My professor is Asian by the way.
>>7587691
The Sound of Waves.
>>7587691
Emily Prager, A Visit from the Footbinder
>>7587691
Gravity's Rainbow
<IRONIC REMARK DEALING WITH GETTING IN TOUCH WITH LITERATURE WITH THIS WORK>
*literary figure making fun of people who did not*
<QUESTION REGARDING WHAT WORKS ARE SIMILAR>
good one
is this some Plebbit joke format
DAVID FOSTER WALLLLLLALAAAAAAAAAACCEEEE
I liked this book! It portrayed an adolescent, anxious, awkward, unsure Japan. What did /lit/ think?
One of favorites from Japanese lit, but I read it few years ago so I don't remember much. I should reread it sometime soon.
Loved it for the summery, melancholic tone and vivid characters. Also, it managed to cure a lot if my anxieties about going to uni I had at the time.
>Sanshiro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb7sN7axblc
Seriously though, Soseki is GOAT. Any of you nerds read I Am A Cat?
>>7592208
It's so expensive:(
Has anyone read "Parade" by David Sedaris? I fail to understand the significance of the story or what the story is really even about.
Bump. I understand the narrator is a gay celebrity. That's all I can conclude.
Nothing Sedaris has ever written has had significance. He'll be forgotten 10 years after his death and nothing will have been lost.
>>7591842
>>>/reddit/
I'm teaching an experimental course on fedora literature this semester and here are the 9 books i chose. did I do good?
A Clockwork Orange
American Psycho
Fight Club
Atlas Shrugged
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
On The Road
South of the Border, West of the Sun
The Sun Also Rises
Blood Meridian
>>7591233
kill you are selve
>>7591233
PATRICIAN WAR NOW GAS THE PLEBS
>>7591233
I don't understand fedora literature or meme literature or whatever other bullshit this board comes up with. Some of those works are legitimately good and I don't wear a fedora.
Am I the only gerfag reading this magazine?
General literature-papers thread!
>Am I the only gerfag reading this magazine?
well you're definitely a fag
>>7592373
Nice internetballs
