What is the best New York Review Book? pic related was absolutely incredible and I want to know if the have published others of equal or higher quality
Most of their books are good, pick one with a nice cover
DUDE
WEED
LMAO
>>7491726
Normally I would but all their covers are nice, I needed a second opinion
>woman tries to be "brave" and do something men do best
>fails miserably
More hilarious nonfiction stories like this? I'm in need of a good laugh.
>>7491712
who hurt you anon
>>7491712
just take a ride on the tumblr train. there are hundreds of thousands of accounts of exactly this.
enjoy.
>>7491748
This desu senpai
Tumblr one big hamper of damaged girls.
You get off a train and find that it's pouring outside. The walk home will be 20 minutes, but you have an umbrella. Your items will not suffer from being wet.
You have three options
A) Walk through the rain without your umbrella, soaked but not so much that you become sick
B) Walk through the rain using your umbrella, leaving you about 50% dry
C) Call a taxi and get home dry
Why?
>>7491680
or, i could wait, i could pour water on myself before going out into the rain while stabbing passerby with my umbrella, i could devise a clever scheme using several umbrellas of the people around me, making a cluster of umbrellas to cover me completely, i could use wind pockets to travel mary poppins style, i could steal a car, i have many more options. fuck your lame ass options.
>>7491692
10/10
>>7491692
There's no room for whimsy here
Has anyone here read The Alchemist? I know it is a popular book but many decide to ignore it. Can you guys tell me your opinions on it?
>greentext general conclusion
>less than one or two sentences
>am stoned
no but i did take organic chemistry 1 and 2 in college in addition to doing a lot of alchemy back when i played morrowind. i'd recommend it.
>>7491517
>>am stoned
DUDE
Just read the Corpus Hermeticum and Asclepius
Who is the best sex goddess in literature?
Pic related, a sex goddess.
>>7491456
Hera, for putting Zeus in his place
>>7491456
How can Mashiro be a sex goddess if she's autistic?
/lit/ I want your honest opinion on what differentiates literature, both fiction and nonfiction from regular books and great literature from normal works of literature. what should a great book aim for? accomplish?
Memes
>>7491436
/thread
Dunno about normal or great but from my experiences there's
>the guys who think they're some uber shit knowing something nobody else does and purposely retarding their growth in order to understand every minute detail of what ever small part of the world caught their attention for what ever reasons
>the guys who want that sweet sweet pussy
If you want to write, figure out which one you want to be and go for it.
ITT: Books that a lot of people pretend are good, when they're actually shit objectively
Starting this thread with the obvious.
I feel sorry for you that you were too gay to like infinite jest.
>>7491304
1984 and any other fiction Orwell has written, I like his non-fiction stuff but he's a very shit version of Bulgakov.
>>7491304
Look I get it, the obsession with it goes to far. But to say it isn't a phenomenal work is just blatant bait.
Tell me if this a decent idea for a novel, it's a sort of noir.
In the future, just about everyone is a designer baby, generally chosen by a single parent. Relationships exist but are invariably open. The only people who still have children through sex are the Orthodox Church, who now are so small and isolated that they are seen as an ethnicity. A woman in the Church, but drifting more and more away from it in personal isolation (lacking acceptance from the outside world) falls in love with a guy outside of it (of course it's unrequited because he looks like a movie star and compared to everyone else, all the Orthodox look ugly as hell); she becomes so obsessed she starts stalking him and planting bugs in his apartment and all sorts of things (she's occupationally a private detective and knows how to do all that); one day, though, he is murdered in what appears to be a hate crime by someone from her Church, but she realizes that it was someone who was stalking her, and now there is a very good chance she will be implicated because she left all kinds of equipment around his house, including one-way mirrors with cameras and stuff. So she has to sort out exactly what is going on, and the story goes through a lot of theological allegory and things like that, exploring the protagonist's ambivalent attitude toward God and intense feeling of alienation.
Would it work?
>>7491300
hm. i wouldnt read it personally, but i'm sure someone would. sounds a bit like PKD but with more JAAAAYsus
>>7491300
Sounds like a ripoff of Gattaca.
>>7491319
I guess in the same sense as Back to the Future is a rip off of H.G. Wells.
How many of you have read the complete ISOLT in order? What are your opinions on it?
Also, on a semi-related note, how does one get a mustache as stylish and graceful as Proust's? I strive to have one just like him.
>>7491201
I've read it all in order (I think everyone who reads all of it reads it in order). I don't know if there's anyone I've felt as deeply connected to as Proust. It wasn't until reading this that I realized I could be attracted to a man. I'd have loved to have been Proust's lover.
>>7491230
Gross
>go to Starbucks
>see a bunch of idiots there reading classics like Don Quixote and Monte Cristo while drinking "coffee"
>even one reading The Art of War
>>7491193
both don quixote and monte cristo were fantastic, have you tried reading them?
>drinking coffee
When is this meme going to die?
And before anyone asks why I was at Starbucks if I don't like their coffee...
I like theircroissants.
1) Whats more important: content or style?
2) Poetry or Prose?
3) E-Book or hard copy?
4) Post-modernism: y/n?
5) Fiction or non-fiction?
6) Continental vs Analytic?
7) Plato or Aristotle?
8) Iliad or Odyssey?
9) Contemporary literature: y/n?
10) Shakespeare or Milton?
11) Whitman or Dickinson?
12) Yay or nay?
a-Ulysses
b-Gravity's Rainbow
c-Infinite Jest
Style is content, and content can come from style.
>>7491075
i prefer pepsi, the sweetness is sometimes a little too much but I prefer the excessive sweetness to the less-sweet coke.
>>7491075
1, content
2, prose
3 hard copy
4 yes
5 fiction
6 dunno
7 plato
8 odyssey
9 no
10 shakespeare
11 who?
12 yes to a and b
Was anyone here a total ADD non-reading faggot in the past but developed a passion for reading later on?
If so, how did you do it? I ask because I'm the latter and really want to read but can't seem to get more than a quarter or fewer into a book before putting it down forever and moving on to something else.
>>7490973
Pick something you're actually interested in reading and just read it. It really isn't more complex than that.
Do you have a book you're in the middle of right now? Read it.
>>7490973
Former = First
Latter = Last
You are the former. :^)
>>7490973
You just haven't found the right book/genre.
What have you tried to read?
When you read, if you subvocalize, do you hear the voice of the author (what you imagine it to be, or according to interviews you've seen or heard) or is it your own voice?
also, did anyone feel like Joyce was slowly starting you on the route to unlearning language and rebuilding you in his own image? i wasnt brave enough to attack finnegans wake after i felt so shell shocked by Ulysses, i worried that i wouldnt be able to relate to anything anymore if i became too immersed in it.
Oh wait, sorry, OP here, WHO'S MAD CUZ HARRY POTTER N' DARK TOWER BLACKIES FIZZ FIZZ
y'all niggas suck.
This is a serious question for all of you non-subvocalizers. How did you learn, or better unlearn to subvocalize? Don't say you were born that way, you prancing twat
>tfw I fast-tracked the Western canon and now I'm better read than 99% of /lit/
>The Iliad
>The Odyssey
>Plato's Republic
>The Aeneid
>Ovid's Metamorphoses
>The Bible
>The Divine Comedy
>The Canterbury Tales
>Shakespeare's tragedies
>Paradise Lost
>Moby-Dick
>Ulysses
>The Recognitions
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Women and Men
>Infinite Jest
>2666
>>7490535
thank you for allowing me to post in your thread
truly you are a great man!
>>7490535
K.. Keep me posted
>Moby-Dick
Ah yes, the version written by Herman-Melville? I forget his last name.
Favorite Goosebumps book?
>>7490371
Used to love A Shocker on Shock Street. Miss those books
the blob that ate everyone is the master race and any other answer is unacceptable
>>7490388
fuck you
