who here is drinking tonight?
what are you drinking, writing or reading right now /lit/?
>tfw next few days i'm gonna be getting fucked out of my mind on cheap whiskey and doing nothing but smoking, reading out loud alone until i pass out and rinse and repeat until we're well into the new year
usually i drink whiskey for two days straight, pass out for a day then repeat... it works like a charm and is probably the best way to ensure you are severely fucked up desu.
don't know about you but at this time of year i tend to almost hibernate until after the new year. everyone is full of joy for no reason at all and i can't stand it
what are your plans for the next couple of weeks /lit/?
>inb4 the bog standard dinner with family and open my presents
fuck that
>straight edge
>reading war and peace
>>7497758
>Chocolate milk
>The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
> sauvignon blanc
> various academic non-fiction ~tomes~
remember to stay hydrated everyone!
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What are some books about a man having a relationship with a significantly younger girl.
I also want it to be lewd, but not straight up literotica tier.
>>7497705
Well I guess you've already checked Lolita, amiright
MY
>>7497725
DIARY
Need to find a good book for my nine year old brother for christmas. you guys have any recommendations?
>>7497415
Jurassic Park
9-year-olds like dinosaurs right?
Write I HATE YOU over and over and over again on the inside your buttcheeks and then spread your ass apart and make him look at it
Huckleberry Finn, Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Three Musketeers (my first boner), Hatchet.
There's endless books for young boys anon, its a literary treasure horde, just go through his stuff and see what he likes.
who are some authors that write well about the banality and emptiness of suburban, middle class life? I read "The Swimmer" by pic related and thought it was bretty gud
i hate when depressed shitlords like op project their banal lives onto everything and think every piece of art ever what some critique of banality...the swimmer was indeed fucking great but it was in no way a critique of "banality of suburbia" you trashy depressoid
>>7497325
did you reach the end of the story?
>>7497328
no i don't make it all the way through a ten page story because i'm a spastic 4chan kid with a 30 second attention span
ITT: We talk about Life
Recommended /lit/: Alan Watts, Terence McKenna, Eckhardt Tolle, Jidda Krishnamurti, Carl Gustav Jung and the comedian Joe Rogan
What are your thought's on the human experience? I believe we are essentially Bacteria just a very complex form of it but i have jet to find a meaning other than to bring of offspring to keep this machine of experience and this work of art that god made possible.
joe rogan needs to hire a better social media marketing firm, this attempts to be memey and viral are always so fucking weak, then again the guy is a jack ass and closet homo who drools over every sweaty mma dickhead he interviews, guy a is human cringe
>>7497289
Did you listen to this lecture?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYCS2o8JMY4
It was surprisingly good in my opinion senpai.
>>7497292
sorry dude joe rogan is way to fedora-ey for my tastes bro
What are your favorite books about serials killers or murderers?
My diary, 2bh
Panzram
burgerclap psycunt
Merry Christmasto you all
What will you be reading over the holidays /lit/?
Did you find that comfy tome to occupy yourself with?
Just a reminder to spend your holiday reading instead of shitposting.
You could be reading right now
>>7497110
comfy japanese lit
finally got to starting with soseki and kawabata
>Shopping carts: a memoir
>mfw my family got me all of Stefan Zweig's collected works
we're gonna reach central European comfiness levels boys
>lend one of your favorite books to a friend
>realize you're probably never going to see that shit again
>"Christmas loans"
I wonder who could be behind this concept...
>oh no my $4 paperback might be lost forever, now I'll have to download a pdf if I want to read it again
life is suffering op
>get book back
>it's all wrinkled and bent
ITT: Overrated garbage.
Overrated garbage
it's shit
Overrated garbage
Has anybody here read Tolstoy's debut novel Boyhood?
It's 120 pages long, published when he was 24, and I really can't believe what kind of literary environment must have existed for this kind of thing to be deemed worthy of publication. The first 70 pages or so focuses on the events of two days, when a 10 / 11 year old Tolstoy goes hunting for hares with his family, and is then told he is to move to Moscow to further his education. There he falls in love with another young boy, and then for a girl who attends a dance at his home. Each chapter is around 3 / 4 pages long and largely consists of character descriptions.
>>7496638
>There he falls in love with another young boy
Wait, what? Wouldn't this have gotten him hung or castrated back then?
>>7496912
its just Platonic love Anon, only kissing and above the clothes rubbing and hugging, nyoro~
Has anybody here read Joyce's final novel Finnegans Wake?
It's 600 pages long, published when he was 57, and I really can't believe what kind of literary environment must have existed for this kind of thing to be deemed worthy of publication. The first 600 pages or so focuses on I have no fucking clue, when a riverrun past bend of bay and swerve of shore, and then goes on to stream of consciousness rambling for 90 pages. Then Joyce references some obscure cave painting that 3 people in the world have seen. Each chapter is around 3 / 4 pages long and largely consists of nonsense.
What is the best book released in 2015?
Is it "This book loves you"?
This
4.25 on Goodreads. It must be good
tokyo drift and kolsti
Write a review of the last book you read.
Endless boring conversations - The Idiot.
Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination
by Edogawa Rampo
This small collection of stories suffers from the style of bad Japanese translation that has almost become a genre unto itself, though the oddness of the awkward pose perhaps carries its own charms.
The stories vary from ingenious to inane, but just which is which is often indeterminate, even within a particular story. One wonders for example if the extra twist at the end of "The Human Chair" -- a twist repeated enough in this collection to be somewhat of a hallmark -- is meant to truly be of relief to the audience or subtly establish new ambiguities, the latter a striking technique to be sure. Most of the time, the stories are too whimsical to be truly mysterious or disturbing but Rampo has to be commended on his creativity and willingness to experiment, like a philosopher, by pushing familiar settings to absurd limits.
Anonymous <current year>
>>7496367
>hey guys
>write your personal thoughts and experiences about books i never read so I can stealnthem and post on lit like they were my own
>o-okay OP
Fug off
>starting with the Greeks
>missing out on one of the greatest written works in the history of man
Why would you do this to yourself?
Gilgamesh is pretty cool.
>>7496179
I'm going to finish the greeks, then go back to the Mesopotamians.
But that mans having too learn Mesopotamian for practically one work. At least with Greek i have a decent amount to work with.
>reading in translation
How do I get my pleb tier gf away from memecore genre fiction?
>Harry pottery nerd
>prized possession is a signed John green novel
>shys away from my recommendations (McCarthy, Dostoevsky, Camus) because she feels like they will make her "lose hope in the world"
Surely there's an accessible launch point into /lit/fiction that I don't know of.
>>7496029
Tell her to start with the Greeks
>>7496029
>memecore genre fiction?
>posts pynchon
>>7496042
I was implying the shitty YA sort.
She doesn't like King though so she's not in too deep r-right guys?
What the shit did I just read?
>>7495504
shit.
>>7495504
shit
>>7495504
shit
