It's me , Fatherdoubles. THow is that book you are reading? Is it a goo dBook?
Please post in this thread what you are are currently reading, you're opinions on it, and what book you have planned do read next. Thanks you!
Hey Father Dubs!
I'm currently reading Gravity's Rainbow under lits suggestion. It's a little confusing, but a fun read nonetheless.
I plan on going through the majority of Poe's work next. I've never read him before, so I don't really know what to suspect. What would you say, Father Dubs?
>>7570626
Hello fatherdoubles, right now im reading Pale Fire and Invisible Cities. I like invisible cities,but im reading it rather slowly. It doesnt excite me and keep me on the edge of my seat. Instead it is a comfy, nice read that I can read a couple of times a week. Pale fire is dense, and i feel like im missing a lot of references.
Im planning to read 100 years of solitude, a time cholera, and la truega.
CHING
CHONG
What do you guys think of the poetical aspect of rap?
I was arguing with a friend who was saying its the best example of working class poetry in modern America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUxVhSyXi1U
Was bopping through every possible obstacle
My options grew until the cops pursue
But I'm here to win they can't stop the flu
All the kids napped, you was hostage too
If you don't dig me it's no biggie I'ma keep the faith
Streets be laced, it's a decent pace for a steeplechase
Evil days the most peligro ways to reach a safe
Aso bloody, in the study we a peaceful race
Wild plays, foul ways, blamming with the cannon
Strayed that's how I stayed, standing in the famine
Whenever in doubt the first one to get it out
Thought cursed, till I ain't die of thirst in the drought
Here they quick to shoot you, my movie vague
Of course I'm sick. I was living through the plague
Distraught talk of when I stalked as peasant
Still hot-headed from when I walked the desert
Every step I had to rep, no thought was pleasant
Used to eat off of bird, now I'm off the pheasant
It's great to hold your own weight, no kickstand
A big man could pull hisself out that quicksand
>>7568486
>working class
>working
lol.
>>7568492
kek'd
I mean it's better than Slam Poetry
Which black woman author is your personal favorite and why?
>>7567698
The one that doesn't talk about the hardship she didn't experience.
>>7567701
When white guys like Zandi this is literally the criticism they get. That she writes like a white guy so does not count.
How's your Sunday morning going, /lit/? Are you living the /lit/erary lifestyle? What are you reading? What are you working on?
>Wake up at 6am
>Stretch, throw on last night's booze clothes
>Early morning shopping at comfy Italian grocer
>Make coffee, toast, eat pomegranate seeds
>Smoke as sun rises, rainy New York City morning
>Copy last nights bar napkin scribbles into notebook
>Shower and shitpost as the city wakes up
going gud bro
>wake up at 5
>lay in bed screaming inside for an hour because I haven't died in my sleep
>get up, shower
>lay back down in bed, stay there collecting myself and getting mentally ready for the day
>stare at my books, which I've been to preoccupied by my misery to crack open
>write six chapters of my book
Wake up because it's raining and I was sleeping outside.
Pack my bag and walk 4 miles back to my flat.
3 mugs of coffee while reading the papers.
Finish Pynchon's Slow Learner in between telling Jew jokes on IRC.
Heat up leftovers from last night and sip whisky because it's 5 PM now.
HELLO REDDIT
Okay /lit/, we did it! And much, much sooner than I expected.
I've submitted the book onto the website, which you visit here:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/anon-ymous/pictures-of-dfw/paperback/product-22519316.html
As for the price of the book, it'll be $15 AUD, which is $10.43 USD, £7.18 and €9.55.
I will not be taking any of the revenue from this book, it'll be donated to the charities of your choice.
So yeah, good job guys! I didn't think we'd actually get to the point of publishing this book!
Yay, we did it ______!
>>7566189
kek, I should have used that instead.
We did it 90% reddit, 10% /lit/!
What did Zizek mean by this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tndXr-oQxxA
Political correctness is a subtle form of social control.
>tfw Zizek attempts to construct a coherent moral worldview from the perverse scribblings of betafags and fedora tippers
>>7565437
/r/KotakuInAction, the YouTube video
This is a public service announcement for all newcomers to /lit/ brought to you by a /lit/ patrician™. Those of us who have long called this board home have noticed a significant deterioration in posting quality and an influx of plebs in the last few months that within the past week has become acute. We can attribute this to the Katie fiasco making the front page of reddit or one of our top 100 book lists being posted on reddit and getting over a million views or other events but whatever we blame it on doesn't change the facts of the matter which is that plebs who don't belong here are shitting threads up.
Thus, this public service announcement was made for those who are determined to stay even if they are way over their heads. Here are some important things you need to get through your head if you are going to stay and post without being ridiculed. Take notes.
1. Under no circumstances will you ever praise any book taught in a standard high school curriculum as anything but an enjoyable read from your past that you don't care much about now. The vast majority of books taught in high-school are complete pleb shit. The only exceptions to this are Nabokov and Conrad as they are taught at some schools.
2. Genre-fiction is pleb trash and anyone who reads it frequently should be curb-stomped. If you are going to post in bookshelf threads then take your GRR Martin et al., off of the shelf before you photograph it you retards. Don't ever mention genre-fiction unless its in a containment thread specifically for it.
3. Israel did 9/11
4. Don't ever defend yourself by inferring or saying that the person ridiculing you is doing the "stop liking what I don't like". This will instantly reveal you to be a mega-pleb. There is objectively bad literature and roughly 85% of the time people here are being honest with you when they say an author you like is trash.
5. Don't ever bring identity politics into threads on /lit/. We are here to discuss literature and not women or minorities. If you want to have a thread asking about favorite women authors thats fine but don't ever attempt to use "all white men etc" as an argument to detract from something. Also don't ever ask why literature from African authors isn't more popular (its mostly shit). Bringing up identity bullshit needlessly irritates even most left-wing /lit/ posters.
6. /Lit/s harsh attitude towards plebs and pleb books is a necessary and vital part of the board as it helps maintain a homeostasis of quality by weeding out and discouraging plebs from posting.
7. Anything by Douglas Addams, Harper Lee, Joseph Heller, Vonnegut, Bret Easton Ellis, Palahniuk, or Orwell is complete pleb trash and not to be mentioned.
8. Start with the Greeks
Brought to you by a /lit/ patrician™. For those of you who are already patricians™, don't give up hope. For those of you who are newcomers, at least try to make it less obvious.
>>7565257
>ywn get that girl pregnant and then disappear
Why even live.
so your girlfriend left you for a teenager who read Camus?
>>7565257
islamic terrorist apologist scum, get on the fucking cross
Alright /lit/ in this thread we write the most absurd thing we can. Try to write something unbelievable bad or funny.
ayy lmao
Do you listen to music while reading?
Consciousness has a capacity, you know. If you're hearing music, you're concentrating less on what you're reading.
>>7563536
why do we always have the exact same fucking threads, don't you have some books to read?
What books trigger Americans?
And I mean "Americans" in the broadest sense, not just left-wingers or just right-wingers.
What really gets under their skin and makes them feel uncomfortable and off balance?
Which writers subvert their worldview and its dichotomies the most comprehensively and effortlessly?
i don't know
books that aren't YA
>>7562853
Why do you want to trigger us?
Does /lit/ read comic books/graphic novels?
Manga is lovely.
Later Maruo stuff is shit.
They should take all the graphics out of a graphic novel and print just the words in standard book format. Then just about anyone would be able to see how weak the writing is, how it doesn't even amount to being a short story and how hackneyed the plot is. No one reads graphic novels, they look at the pictures.
>/lit/ is one person
Many of us do, but it's difficult to get a conversation about them off the ground without someone angrily yelling about it being off-topic, which is true but it's not as if /co/ wants to talk about Alison Bechdel.
http://studygroupcomics.com/main/haunter-part-1-by-sam-alden/
^Read this please, it's very good.
Questions that don't deserve their own thread
old
>>7541458
great choice of pic OP
>>7560094
Is Kokoro worth reading still if I got the ending spoiledsensei killing himself?I'm guessing it's kind of predictable anyways, right?
>>7560106
yes and yes
POST LIT GET HIT
Post excerpts from what you are currently writing and get roasted by other /lit/erary gentlemen.
Try to critique one before you post one.
So are there actual authors here or just fanfic writers?
>>7559185
I'm writing a four part mini series about naruto going to law school i call it naruto goes to law school
http://www.lulu.com/shop/anonymous/hypersphere/paperback/product-22511983.html
Anyone know how long this is gonna be on sale? I get money on the 14th but I'm not giving 23 pounds for it if it's not on sale after that.
>>7551727
If you're going to waste money on a meme bookthen buy Tundra
>>7551833
this desu
"How good could it be?" I thought, regarding the burgundy liquid carefully. Across the table from me, the twisted old man smiled slyly.
"Please, sir, try." he whispered, his hushed voice the sound of dry leaves blown over a roughly cobbled street. "Thou shall find it more than lives up to thy expectations, I am sure."
I nodded at him and lifted the crystal goblet into the air, watching the light play through the crimson liquor. I'd come a long way for this drink... searched long and hard for this old man... and I'd be damned to let anything rush me, now. The moment was to be savored.
I raised the glass to my lips, inhaling the stuff's aroma. The bouquet was light, sweet, intoxicating... almost dizzyingly so. I'd tried countless drinks... written tomes about them, their flavors and smells, means of manufacture, in my journeys across the Planes. But this... this stuff was supposed to be legendary. No living man I'd found or heard of had tried the stuff. The stories were ridiculous - nothing could taste quite so good - but if there were the slightest bit of truth to them, this would be some fine liquor indeed.
At last, I drunk of the goblet, a cautious sip...
Incredible! Indescribable! As the flavor washed over my palette, I fought the urge to shudder with delight. Nothing... *nothing* I had tried in all my long years had tasted quite like this. I looked up at the old man, startled to find my glass empty - I had drained it all in a single draught. I wiped my eyes with the back of my hand, not entirely sure when I had begun to cry.
"Tears of joy, eh?" The old man laughed softly. "Quite pleasing to the tongue, is it not? Wouldst thou like some more, perchance?" He smiled at me once more.
"Yes... yes, if I might..."
"Surely." he replied, refilling my glass. Try as I might, I could not resist downing it in a single gulp. I thrust my finger into the goblet in an attempt to find some last, hidden drop of the stuff. Several times more did he fill the goblet, and each time I gulped the stuff down as a starving man would devour a feast, unable to control myself, to deny myself another exquisite taste of it.
"A drink such as this... a man wouldst do anything for it, no?"
I nodded without hesitation. "Yes, a man would..." Looking at him, his sly smile suddenly took on a whole new meaning. A sense of horror began to creep over me, even as I began to yearn painfully for more of the blood-red liquor...
"Yes, yes..." The old man grinned, his yellow eyes gleaming. "A man *wouldst* do anything, in the *thrall* of such a drink... even the most terrible, the most heinous of deeds... as thou shall see, my newest servant."
>>7542948
I don't remember this from the game. Pretty impressive if you wrote it.
>>7542948
mfw this game is better than the majority of books in the /lit/ starter kits lol
>>7542948
>his hushed voice the sound of dry leaves blown over a roughly cobbled street.
this isn't how you write. this is how someone who likes dungeons and dragons imagines you write. dropped.
