Can slam poetry be considered a legitimate style of poetry?
>>7472502
yes it's poetry, but is it "good" is harder to answer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxtVorLYnds
>>7472536
Does it mean I'm stupid if I can't comprehend what they are saying?
>>7472626
No, it means you're ray-cist.
/lit/ what Shakespeare plays are the best? After the semester ends I have a month off, so I'd like to do something productive other than shitpost all day.
I read Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar in high school
>>7471922
My favs are the comedies- taming of the shrew and the comedy of errors. Also Titus Andronicus
the tempest is a summation of his work.
Nothing even comes close to Hamlet
ITT we attempt to kill postmodern irony
post one sincere statement and one ironic statement and other anons will decipher which is which
>>7471915
(1st statement) Ironic Statement: The sentence is false.
(2nd statement) Sincere Statement: The 1st statement is false.
>>7471915
I love apples.
I hate apples.
>>7471915
Sincerity is basically a narcissistic naivety, an expectation that everyone is the same as you and everyone different is just being 'ironic.' Basically the IRL equivalent of 'anyone who disagrees with me is trolling!'
Irony is often used as a form of politeness and a self-awareness that 99% of humanity thinks your opinions are shit and doesn't want to hear it.
What is some essential Cringe Literature?
>>7471660
The Bible.
I just couldn't stop cringing over the fact that people consider this quality literature.
>>7471660
Lol. Eve is blacked in that version.
What is Adventure Time of literature?
>>7471402
Borges
>>7471402
The players manual v 3.5
Game of Thrones
>unironically reading Orwell
But Anon, don't you realize society is just like 1984!
>Call my boss a faggot nigger son of a Jew
>Get fired
Orwell was right all I had to do was listen
"read some orwell bro" leon trotsky
Thoughts on Cortazar's Hopscotch?
>>7471313
meme trilogy worthy
so pretty good t b h
Pretty good, but his short stories are miles better
>>7471313
I was gonna read it but then I didn't so idk
Your mom walks in and asks what book you're reading and what it's about.
So, /lit. How do describe the book you're reading?
>Naked Lunch
>ugh...a murdering pedophile rapes and kills little boys for 200 pages
>God's truth
>Ave Maria, ok?
>Swann's Way
>a guy lies in a bed and swoons over his long lost time for 400 pages
The Iliad
>you haven't read it? Pleb.
I feel sorry for you if this book didn't move you to tears and provide you some sort of spiritual enlightenment.
>>7471179
Please do expand on the sort of spiritual enlightenment you were provided by this book.
It did though
>>7471179
I feel sorry for you if for your mind this seem a relevant thread.
What's /lit/'s favorite book of the 21st century?
And if you feel like it, here's a template
Favorite book released in
2000-2005:
2006-2010:
2011-2015:
>2000-2005:
2666, The Corrections
>2006-2010:
I guess The Road (but that's only because your pic reminded me of it) (I can't wait for Cormac's next book)
2011-2015:
The Pale King
>>7471055
>2000-2005:
Corrections
>2006-2010:
1000 Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
>2011-2015:
Bone Clocks
Pretty huge scarcity of good lit post-9/11 tho
2000-2005: A Man Without a Country (Actually didn't like it at all, it's the only book I've read from this period)
2006-2010: The Road
2011-2015: Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Vegas
What are the new philosophical questions of our time?
>>7470911
Is spook-busting itself a spook?
Am I, the Ego, a spook?
>>7470911
Philosophy is an antiquated concept.
How does Strong Bad type with boxing gloves on?
Jesus. This book is a fucking thrill ride. A meme tour de force if you will.
why haven't you read it /lit/?
I watched the movie and it was boring. I don't know if there's anything the book adds to that besides "more science," but I don't care about that.
>>7470823
>why haven't you read it /lit/?
Because I'm reading The Recognitions.
Cause the prose is shit.
I want to download a shit ton of audio books for free, please help me out /lit/.
>>7470663
libravox.com
>>7470702
beggars can't be choosers :)
>>7470663
scribd.com used to have all you can eat audiobooks for $9 a month until about 6 months ago :(
Are there any works on the same level as these?
>The Iliad
>The Odyssey
>The Aeneid
>The Bible
>The Divine Comedy
>The Canterbury Tales
>Shakespeare's works
>Don Quixote
>Paradise Lost
>Goethe's Faust
>2015
>Not having read all of these
ISHYGDDT.
Those are indeed some of the most famous literary works ever written.
crap
crap
pretty good
great
meh
great
meh
meh
pretty good
Part 2>>>>>>>>>>>>> Part 1
part 1 is for non-religious plebs
>>7470310
Tolstoy’s works are on the same level: they are certainly superior to everything else on the list, with the exception of Shakespeare. When he said that War and Peace was, “without false modesty, like the Iliad” he was actually being modest: it is superior to the Iliad.
The Bible is quite unequal in quality. There are great works, like Job, some poems in the prophets, the Song of Songs, the Ecclesiastes, but there is also a lot of dry and uninspired prose that is more cultural and historically significant than aesthetically so. Shakespeare’s body of work is more aesthetically important than the Bible, and I think the world would be much poorer in beauty if Shakespeare was lost than if the Bible was lost.
As for Faust and the Aeneid, I cannot see why they are so revered by some: it’s a very opaque and colorless kind of poetry, with hardly any metaphorical exuberance. Virgil can’t compare to Homer (or whoever wrote those poems).
Dom Quixote, to me, is what Nabokov called it: a cruel and crude old book. Tolstoy’s novels are immensely superior. I challenge anyone here to quote an excerpt of Dom Quixote that can stand alone as a great work of art.
Also, OP: all of the writers you quoted did not read all of the works in your thread, and still they could produce significant books. What did you gain with the reading of all this works? Are you a good writer? Do you possess great creative skills? If not, why would anyone care with how much you have read?
Does /lit/ know of any light-hearted science-fiction books, preferably with robots in them?
Thank you.
>>7470306
The Cyberiad, by Lem
Lighthearted, and with robots, yet with Lem's depth.
>>7470306
Ibn al-Nafis' Hayy b. Yaqdhan
