Hey /lit/
Im pre-law, and curious as to what you guys suggest i read in my downtime. Im getting a bachelor's in English, if that helps any.
Laws - Plato
Atlas shrugged
the trial
(NEW) FLASH FICTION THREAD
Roll it up and write a flash fiction in the style of the corresponding number. If possible use your roll to critique someone else's work. Take no more than 10-20 minutes to write.
0 - Hardboiled/noir
1 - Fantasy, mostly dialogue
2 - Poetry
3 - The High Seas
4 - Philosophy
5 - Comedy
6 - Unrequited love
7 - A letter to someone
8 - Adventure
9 - Moved to a new neighborhood
Dubs: Main character is not a human
Trips: Must be XXX
Is there an original version of that drawing where you can see the dude's wiener?
>>7530224
how long should it be? also roll
>>7530232
There once was a man from Nantucket,
But really I just want to see the guy's wiener.
>"What are you reading"
>"Lolita"
>"what's it about?"
How does one answer this without looking like a peado ?
>"what's it about?"
power and obsession
>>7529572
Feeling like shit about wanting to have sex with your true love
>>7529572
it's a complicated love story.
write something clever
>>7528455
ayy lmao
>>7528455
something clever
>>7528455
Saqué un bolígrafo de mi mochila y me arrodillé junto a la pared de la derecha. Dibujé a un enano con un pene enorme
RARE DFW THREAD
Dumb dfw poster
>>7525932
>David, if Delillo comes in here and catches us, we'll both be in a world of jest!
>I AM... In a world.. Of jest!
Whats the worst book you've ever read?
the crying of lot 49
my diary, detbhsu
The way of men
CRITIQUE THREAD. Post all of your shit, and it probably is shit, in this thread. Lets keep it strictly prose this time.
You will not get critiqued unless you critique somebody else first.
A stripped-back short story I wrote.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19MXZ7NHkc1g-1ij6UJCLorphJU7tAvgPGJKBVVTvBh0/edit?usp=sharing
I would post part of my shit but I dont consider myself good enough to actually critique other writers so I will tap out.
>>7518325
It's annoying as fuck, mainly. Painful to read.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZYYXQc9eFyY7cs8U9sCeG6hvFiZt2ZRbm6CWwWts8PU/edit?usp=sharing
Who wrote about the best struggle?
Well, I think that's obvious.
>>7529399
Please share your insight
>>7529396
The one you still have to pay for.
Literally the greatest work of art ever created.
"no"
>>7527399
not even Tolstoy's best
>1200 pages
Why is it so long?
Reading challenge of 2016.
How many books are you planning on reading this year?
Any books you're excited to get to?
I've decided to try and read at least 20 books this year, which is a big increase since the last year of 5 books.
I have like a list of 25 novels and then about 10 philosophy books. Mixed in are some poetry and short stories. It all might be overly ambitious though.
51 books. One has to be the Phenomenology of Spirit,
I am going to die.
>>7526931
Same as you, I read 5. Looking to read at least 10 this year (all /lit/ top 100 approved of course ;p).
what are some exhaustively depressing books? I want to have no will to live after reading these. I want to read something so depressing I just off myself afterward.
TFIOS
No Longer HUman
A Short History of Decay
Watch The Seventh Continent.
Why do some people think there would be nothing after death?
There's no more evidence for that than there is for the existence of Heaven or Hell or reincarnation or whatever else.
Not shitposting, genuinely curious.
burden of proof, there is no reason to assume something is when evidence is lacking
>>7524049
Neurology, mostly.
If you fuck up the brain, you lose faculties and your personality gets fucked up.
Since "pieces of you" disappear as parts of your brain are damaged and removed, it stands to reason that brain death = end of you.
On the other hand, you came into this existence from nothing, and you will be presumably returning to the same nothing you emerged from, so why is it impossible to be reborn?
>>7524052
This
If you legitimately like this book, you must be a socially jilted, ranty, unattractive, angry manlet.
4/10
>>7520475
I was and it stopped me being that.
>>7520482
Tbh though I do find it harder to like now. It's sort of like a ladder out of darkness, more function than art.
Is that why it's recommended so highly here? It's like /lit/'s version of Welcome to the NHK?
>HomeArts: Why should children read? And why should children read good books?
>Bloom: To be coldly pragmatic about it, reading good books will make them more interesting both to themselves and to others. And it is by becoming more interesting--and this sounds callous, but it's true, I think--that by becoming more interesting both to oneself and to others, one develops a sense of one's separate and distinct self.
>So if children are to individuate themselves, they will not do it by watching television, or by playing video games, or by listening to rock, or by watching rock videos. They will individuate themselves by being alone with a book, by being alone with the poetry of William Blake or A. E. Housman, or being alone with Norse mythology or The Wind in the Willows.
I know most people read this and think, Oh he's just being an old snob, but what if he's right? Most kids I know who grow up playing video games or obsessed with pop music and celebrities end up being parodies of youth culture. They're either nerds who are unable to talk about anything other than video games, or they're trend followers who act overdramatic and phony like in a bad sitcom. Would reading good books really help them? I have no idea what kids who grow up reading books end up becoming because I don't know any kids who read desu, so he could be wrong about the advantages of reading for kids, generally.
So why should kids read good books?
Why is being able to talk about made up fictional characters in a book so much better than being able to talk about made up fictional characters in movies/tv/video games?
200 years ago, novels were considered trashy, vulgar entertainment.
Wow, Bloom livestreamed himself reading Infinite Jest?
>>7519591
lol
ITT: words normies use
>pretentious
Paedophile
weird
friend
