What is it that makes /lit/ special? Honestly most of the time I can't stand you people, yet I'm admittedly addicted to this board. Why is that? Almost every time I come on here I'll find something I didn't know about before and spend hours on Wikipedia. I think it's because the rampant pretentiousness(I'm pretty sure most of it is just being ironically so, right?) present on /lit/ combined with the anonymity allows us to let our guard down while at the same time discussing obscure and "high-brow" stuff that is otherwise ignored on other sites (Reddit). The result is an interesting, albeit sometimes nauseous, insight into literary works. What do you guys think?
>>7473614
the sensibilities imparted by studying literature are the same that contribute to dankness in memes. and if those memes take literature as their subject, all the more so.
>>7473626
the ironic detachment of the 4chan pathos is very close to the attitude of a literary critic, I'd say
I would prefer to be young no nothing at /lit/ You'd learn so much. Don Dellilo once said something like he writes to figure out what he knows. That's me commenting here sometimes.
I am looking for books that are written in a condescending tone. Please share if you know of any.
the bible
>>7473479
topkek
Lolita, though, for real
>>7473479
>the bible
I'll consider this, but how about something with a known author?
Reviving this thread since the last one did so well.
Post an image that moves you and other anons suggest a book.
>>7473466
Lord Valentine's Castle, by Robert Silverberg
>>7473475
The Name of the Wind
Whats wrong with audiobooks /lit/? It cant be more comforting t b h
one feature of the medium of written text is that the reader is capable of spontaneously pausing, slowing down, speeding up, going back to re-read a sentence or section, etc.
that might seem trivial at first but I think it is a huge part of the experience of reading, and it's not something you can do with an audio book.
Nothing, just /lit/ generally needing to hate things.
Audiobooks allow me to get about 3 times as much reading done as I'd be able to do otherwise, and some books work better out loud. Some work worse, but certainly not a majority.
As guy above me said, books where you get a lot out of referring back to something earlier are the ones that suffer, but in my experience a good amount of my backtracking turns out to be pointless OCD anyway, for fiction at least.
>>7473356
can't pause, slow down, speed up, or go back?
Does doing something or traveling somewhere with the intention of later writing about the experience make the experience itself, and thus whatever you later write about it, insincere? If so, does acknowledging that conundrum in the writing offset the insincerity or does it just put you into wibbly wobbly oscillation zone?
tl;drdoes the ride ever end?
>>7473218
>Does doing something or traveling somewhere with the intention of later writing about the experience make the experience itself, and thus whatever you later write about it, insincere?
Yes.
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>>7473235
Maybe.
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Cultivating any experience with the intention of mining for words is, at its heart, insincere. The only thing that matters, though, is the final product.
>>7473218
Depends on what you mean by sincerity, OP. I will say that once you step outside yourself and observe things from another perspective (i.e. 'I'm going to write about this later,' but also even just 'I'm going to remember this later') changes how you experience something initially.
Maybe it's inauthentic authenticity (you know, the old Capote canard about being a 'real fake' and all that).
HOW!!!
do you have to be american to get this guy
i'd never heard of him pre-/lit/
>>7472939
Nah he's good to go for you too
Also holy shit new Pynchon! Never seen that one b4
OP is just butthurt that pynchon can write a book with coprophagia and he gets published. OP wrote a story about shit-eating for the school magazine and he got into trouble.
Can you please recommend any literature that make me a happier person? I'm miserable. Thanks.
>>7472743
/lit/ has a way of making you unhappier
>>7472743
Epictetus' Discourses.
tao te ching
marcus aurelius meditations
leslie marmon silko ceremony
Literature is like any other artform, completely subjective and without merit in respect to hard science. Writers may make us think, but they'll never construct real permanence. Is reading simply an exercise in romanticism?
>>7472723
>hard science
>>7472734
>implying without argument
>>7472723
This is the most spooked, ignorant post I've ever seen. Hard sage.
I'm running out of books I love /lit/, it's getting hard to find anything that I really want to read
I need something that makes me feel like
Kafka, Borges, Bruno Schulz, Spanish Magical realism, Alfanhui, Gustav Meyrink, Milan Kundera, Haruki Murakami, maybe Vonnegut and PKD
pic related, more like this, thanks in advance
the plains - gerald murnane
>>7472538
Gilbert Hernandez, the Palomar stories from Love and Rockets
E. R. Eddison
Saki, Lord Dunsany
Horror, e.g. M. R. James and H. P. Lovecraft
Hermann Hesse. Anyone read Damien or Steppenwolf? I recently finished Siddhartha and Narziss & Goldmund (both incredible).
“I believe . . . that the petal of a flower or a tiny worm on the path says far more, contains far more than all the books in the library. One cannot say very much with mere letters and words. Sometimes I'll be writing a Greek letter, a theta or an omega, and tilt my pen just the slightest bit; suddenly the letter has a tail and becomes a fish; in a second it evokes all the streams and rivers of the world, all that is cool and humid, Homer's sea and the waters on which Saint Peter wandered; or becomes a bird, flaps its tail, shakes out its feathers, puffs itself up, laughs, flies away. You probably don't appreciate letters like that, very much, do you, Narcissus? But I say: with them God wrote the world.”
Yeh
>>7472529
He's great. Journey to the East is a short read but is well worth it, Under the Wheel is another short one that I never hear talked about but it's also worth the read. Haven't read Demian or Narcissus and Goldmund (they're both on my shelf waiting to be read) but the other two you mentioned are both good as well.
steppenwolfe is the best, goldmund second, siddhartha is the pleb book.
read steppenwolfe.
The attached screenshot is one of my favorite pieces of writing ever. I was wondering if you guys have encountered any books or writers with the same style. Please recommend.
>>7471817
That picture...
>tfw he's probably still happier than you are and whoever wrote that just did it to feel better about himself
Utter Faggotry by DFW is pretty close
Hey /lit/
How do I increase my intelligence? I heard that reading can increase your IQ, where do I start? Are there any specific books that could help me?
if you come HERE of all places and you ask THAT question expecting a real answer you are already beyond hope of being what most people would consider moderately intelligent. I don't say this to upset you.
The Mortal Instruments
>>7471711
try smoking some weed
Poetry for people who don't like poetry
>>7471518
This thread can't be good.
how fit is /lit/? We've all seen the Socrates quote about seeing what your body can do as well as many other tremendous cultural figures. A feeble body weakens the mind, you know?
So, /lit/ what do you do and how do you feel it affects your reading/writing?
I don't think that is a real Socrates quote. It doesn't really match with the character either.
That aside I have a regime of bodyweight exercise (core holds, handstand practice, pull-ups, dips, deep step-ups, L-sits, push-ups, rows) and cardio (swimming, hill-sprints, long distance, etcetera).
It makes me feel great holistically, and I find it balances my mind for a more focused read.
>>7471194
>he can only bench half his bodyweight
>>7471170
I total 540 currently, run a program given by my coach.
It doesn't really affect anything other than it being a fun hobby.
Remember, Kant wrote The Critique of Pure Reason at 45.
It's not too late to be a genius, bros!
Remember, Kant caused the Holocaust.
>>7470224
what
>>7470224
That kant be true
