Has /lit/ read this? if you have what did you think?
The quintessential masterpiece of the past 50 years. It's like Infinite Jest, but actually good.
>>7579021
I'm tired of all these new-friends.
nobody else reply to this thread
Which books pleasantly surprised you? What were you originally expecting before reading it?
>>7578917
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was definitely better then I expected and surprisingly pleasant.
I was expecting a sort-of-boring novel that I could understand why people might think was interesting given the year it was written and how it compared to other books and the time and so forth. It turned out to be excellent.
>>7578917
>that wart
>>7579037
How would you feel if that was you and people made fun of you for it?
You should feel ashamed of yourself for posting that.
what makes the greeks so great
>>7578837
systemic eurocentricism
egyptians did it first and did it better
>>7578837
When I read "History of the World" by Roberts he presented the theory that part of their inventiveness might have had to do with the fact that the geography of Greece made it likely that there would be tons of city-states that were connected by trade and travel to other city-states but that the land was too rugged for them to be united politically and under the same banner. Also because of the shitty soil you could only grow so much food from it so migration to Islands was inevitable.
Once you had dozens or hundreds of independent political structures who mostly spoke the same language and mostly had the same culture and were linked by regular trade you had a situation where ideas could spread really easily and because there were so many different city-states there were constantly new things happening and developments that each group reacted differently too. In that way it was a fertile ground for the exploration and exchange of ideas and concepts. Their Minoan heritage and trade with foreigners helped too.
It seemed like a good theory when I read it and I don't see why it wouldn't be.
>>7578837
primacy
Honestly, what's the big deal with Atlas Shrugged? Why do women and rich snobs like it so much?
Point B does not follow point A. Your two statements are unrelated.
>>7578601
>Why do women like it?
Because it's written by a woman.
>Why do rich snobs like it?
Because they haven't actually read it (neither have the women btw).
>>7578618
That's because im asking two seperate questions about a particular topic, you formula-fed virgin
What are 3 books you'd bring with you if you were backpacking across Europe
>>7578439
Depends on where I was going.
>>7578439
mein kampf
turner diaries
the bible
>>7578439
Ulysses
Peter the Great: His Life and Times
The Bible
Might be a bit heavy tbhdesuwa
Which editions of Shakespeare does /lit/ recommend?
>>7578304
Depends on what you want. If you want a complete works edition, get the Riverside. If you'd like individual copies, Arden generally speaking have the best reputation, but OUP is good also.
>>7578304
First Folio. No exceptions.
Everyman's is actually good for Shakespeare. Hardback volumes with a couple plays in each. Lovelier and more durable than the Folger or Bantam mass-market paperbacks but just as portable. The best ones to get if you're not gonna buy them all are Tragedies vol. 1 (Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear) and Histories vol. 2 (Richard II, Henry IV pts 1 ans 2, Henry V = the Henriad, a continuous saga and the best of the history plays; also includes King John).
Reading this and it literally sounds and feels as if it were written by a high schooler. Has Murakami written anything good?
No. Wind up bird chronicle is passable and that's about it
>>7578204
No. And neither has any other Japanese writer.
What did you guys think of Moore's prose in this excerpt of his new novel?
http://www.goshlondon.com/2016/01/jerusalem-by-alan-moore-exclusive-first-look/
>>7578107
blog spam.
So here it is for those of you who don't want to visit that site:
>In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England’s Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap tower blocks. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district’s narrative among its saints, kings, prostitutes and derelicts a different kind of human time is happening, a soiled simultaneity that does not differentiate between the petrol-coloured puddles and the fractured dreams of those who navigate them. Fiends last mentioned in the Book of Tobit wait in urine-scented stairwells, the delinquent spectres of unlucky children undermine a century with tunnels, and in upstairs parlours labourers with golden blood reduce fate to a snooker tournament.
>Disappeared lanes yield their own voices, built from lost words and forgotten dialect, to speak their broken legends and recount their startling genealogies, family histories of shame and madness and the marvellous. There is a conversation in the thunderstruck dome of St. Paul’s cathedral, childbirth on the cobblestones of Lambeth Walk, an estranged couple sitting all night on the cold steps of a Gothic church-front, and an infant choking on a cough drop for eleven chapters. An art exhibition is in preparation, and above the world a naked old man and a beautiful dead baby race along the Attics of the Breath towards the heat death of the universe.
>An opulent mythology for those without a pot to piss in, through the labyrinthine streets and pages of Jerusalem tread ghosts that sing of wealth and poverty; of Africa, and hymns, and our threadbare millennium. They discuss English as a visionary language from John Bunyan to James Joyce, hold forth on the illusion of mortality post-Einstein, and insist upon the meanest slum as Blake’s eternal holy city. Fierce in its imagining and stupefying in its scope, this is the tale of everything, told from a vanished gutter.
>>7578132
is this real?
feels like an old guy going as hard as he can to prove himself when he should have moved past that so many long years ago
>>7578132
Sounds dope af. Is Moore a good writer? I'd hate to buy this and then it turns out to be YA or something.
Is this the ultimate fanfic?
An autistic kid in one of my lit classes always referred to The Aeneid as "propaganda fan fiction basically!"
>>7578025
is this the ultimate redditpost?
that isn't the divine comedy aka "i'm going to write this poem to hang with my bro virgil while we make fun of my enemies"
What are some top tier fictions (or non-fictions) on AI, cybernetics, cyberpunk, etc. in the spirit of GITS?
inb4 Neuromancer
I have no mouth but I mustcream
>>7577872
Yeah, something like this, I remember the game. Didnt know it was based on a short story though.
>>7577859
some philip k dick maybe? just guessing
bump for interest
I'm discussing this at a book club tomorrow.
Give me some interesting points or opinions to bring up.
>inb4 he rapes his sister phoebe
Here's an interesting point: you should have read it and thought of some yourself, retard.
He rapes his sister, Phoebe.
>>7577784
>discussing this at a book club tomorrow.
>I need ideas for my book report /lit/ please help
UNDERAGE
Are Plato's dialogues real? Or did he just make them up
I mean the actual conversations
What's the difference?
>>7577765
nice to know
What's happening to me /lit/?
I feel like I'm appreciating the aesthetics of life to the point where I've been getting pleasure from just day to day sounds like the kettle boiling or the creak of a door
Even just looking at objects and my surroundings feels like being in an art gallery
I feel something along the lines of huxley's mescaline experience
Is this a good thing?
yes, you're becoming proust.
now stop making casual references to huxley you fucking pleb
>>7577685
You're having a manic episode. It's only some time before you spiral into major depression and then all your precious aesthetics of life will make you nauseated.
I know how you feel OP. For me, this experince of what i felt was like an "aesthetic orgasm" would build up over several months, before reaching a drop point. Life would seem wonderful and beautiful and then drop to dry and bleek. I dont know why. Its like a wave woth peaks and valley. Currently caught in a valley and it doesnt feel so great.
>tfw started writing seriously 4 months ago
>tfw all your ideas seem to ambitious and impossible to compress into a short story
>tfw you know you can't tackle the quest of writing a novel yet
Mane, what can I do?
Write a collection of slightly interrelated short stories...?
just write until you're not shite
>>7577531
Dunno mate. The themes I use to come up with are kinda intrincate, with multiple interrelated ideas and shit. I'll take as an idea tho.
So what does /lit think of the BBC War and peace series, any good?
http://youtu.be/H-BCmUeHE5c
>>7577288
Not as good as the book.
>>7577288
shit looks cash desu
some anon posted his take on the book a while back and it made me interested in reading the book, and this just solidified it.
unfortunately i am just starting on infinite jest so idk when i will get to this and finish it
>>7577312
Yeah me too, It might even be better to watch the show first I before start on the book
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