>jesus' miracle birth was a result of an affair which was never proven
Which bible stories can /lit/ prove wrong with modern day knowledge
>>7441466
Isn't the bible science fiction?
It means Jesus' dad was a kuck.
Why is this guy considered a literary genius, exactly? It's true he had good prose, but I'd say Raymond Chandler's prose was at least equal, and he's not considered a literary genius.
>I'd say Raymond Chandler's prose was at least equal
>>7441193
>he's never read Raymond Chandler
Chandler's prose was patrician af desu
i hope you meant raymond carver. and even then im pretty rustled. 10/10
>You are alone in a empty room you only have 1 item .
tell me your story
I went into the room to play with my "item" ;)
>>7441076
its my decency, i have come here to bury her.
>>7441101
>decency
>female
hahaha :)
I see God as everything that is, has been, and will be.
I don't believe in him though.
>>7440818
the biggest meme of all
it's dog backwards
>reminder that the western canon is the literary equivalent of the people who use "It's popular for a reason" to defend boy bands.
yah bro i was just coming out of ap english and these tweens wouldn't shut the fuck up about finnegans wake fml
reminder that if that were true you would recognize a lot more names in this list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publishers_Weekly_list_of_bestselling_novels_in_the_United_States_in_the_1910s
De gustibus non est disputandum.
2000 years later people still argue about what people like and why.
Hey my highschool teacher wrote an autobiography.
Read the preview!
http://www.buybooksontheweb.com/peek.aspx?id=8250
>>7440725
I could write better than that and I only learned English five years ago.
>>7440725
are you the kid who becomes weirdly close with his teachers?
Why would anyone give a fuck about that?
>>7440526
In 2014 I tried to write one. It was told from the perspective of a hotel cleaning guy who observed the lives of people checking in and out.
I then realized that was still too much action for a vaporwave novel and then I just stopped.
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Hypersphere
What are your biggest /lit/ sins?
>Disregard basically all female writers for no good reason
>Get in arguments about things I haven't read, basing my opinion on wikipedia and shitposts here
>Almost never finish books; I only read about 80% of them and procrastinate until I feel like I'd have to start over completely, at which point I just start a new book
>129 million books in existence
>hundreds of books in backlog
>halfway finished with about four of them
>choose to spend entire day on 4chan
This is my greatest /lit/ sin.
>>7440306
>spend multiple hours a day on /lit/, barely any time reading
God, what the fuck am I even doing with my time?
>>7440306
Pretty much this, and disregarding any author that I haven't heard of or seen being discussed in here.
Where are the artists congregating these days, /lit/?
I think about the Lost Generation in Paris, and I'm immensely jealous. Maybe this is a huge overestimation of my own talent, but I think about all those great writers and poets--Hemingway, Joyce, Fitzgerald, Pound, Stein, and so many more--who spent formative years in Paris, who interacted with each other, and who either did their best work in the city at that time, or were heavily influenced by the time and did their best work as a result of that influence. I get incredibly jealous. I would love to be in the presence of peers, breathing in the air of a moving, great city. It's probably hopelessly romantic, and probably impossible in this day and age, but I love it all the same.
Where is this generation's Interwar Paris? Where are all the restless artists going these days?
your pa's b-hole, kid
The internet.
>paris is a good city
I've been into 40k before and when I mentioned it a friend of mine gave me all these books. I've only read 15 hours and the first Cain book.
Is 40k literature the male equivalent to romance novels?
>>7440183
Not literature. Try bringing the subject to a more appropriate board, such as /b/.
>>7440191
What constitutes literature, tripfag?
>>7440183
>male equivalent to romance novels
Not really, though some do reach that point. The Ghosts stories run the gamut from 'great' to 'awful'. Enjoy Sabbat Martyr, because the rest of the stories in The Lost aren't as good.
Gotta write stuff about gender roles in pop music (yeah uni is a meme).
Recs beyond "bimbo singers use their image" and "rich negroes treat hoes as trophies"?
"It's All Good" composed by DMX is literally the greatest work of all time.
bro i read the sickest essay on this exact shit once, about androgeny in pop music, i think it was by the fucking power of myth guy, i know he wrote some plebish books but he was also patrish enough to write a guide to finnegans wake...then again maybe it wasn't him, can't remember.... any way the point is, all the successful pop stars are androgenous so both male and female fans can relate to them...look at michael jackson, not only was he ambigeous racially, but also genderally (?) and that cotinues today, i think he based it on some greek idea of the "flower child" which became a term used for hippies not because hippies had flower images, but because when boys grew long hair it became difficult to discern their sex, i think it's also in ovid...anyways, that shit is probably a required reading for your class anyways, but after it, you will never be able to look at popstars without noticing the way they subtly or not so subtly appeal to both genders
>>7440152
>Not Ante Up
Didn't know they let fuck niggas on 4chan now
Hard back or paper back?
fuck off and make a worthwhile thread
>>7440098
I always lean towards paper back.
>douglASS Adams
I prefer the reddit ebook. It has upvotes at the end of every sentence.
What is the meaning of life?
How much does anything matter?
What is the purpose of life as a whole?
How much control do I have my life?
What do you guys think about these questions.
I have to do an assignment where I have to give a 2+ min monologue or short story on the questions. I don't want to look autistic or future school shooter by giving a monologue.
What animals do you think would be good for an allegory where an animal thinks about the questions and asks three different animals for their opinions on the question.
>pic related
Long story short, no one fucking knows. Many great minds have delved into these questions and many have differing opinions.
You can align yourself to the ones that you feel connect with your world view and that's fine but at the end of the day we're all grasping for meaning in a possibly meaningless world or a meaningful world that likes to keep the meaning "hidden" as to find the meaning easily would discredit life's significance (if it has any)
>>7440120
I guess I would try to have animals with three different views on life and the main character not being able to choose the correct one or taking something from each of the three's views.
I am not sure what animals to use that represent archetypes of views on life. I might take the lazy route and use turtle and hare for 2 of animals
>>7440083
>What is the meaning of life?
This cannot be answered in any universal sense but must be sought out on an individual basis. There is one, though, for each person.
>How much does anything matter?
The distinction to be made here is that the matter part, and the units involved, stay the same but the weight (and those respective units) differ. So on the moon something will weigh one-sixth as much (measured in pounds, ounces, and so on) as on earth, but the matter will be the same.
>What is the purpose of life as a whole?
This is more or less covered above, but the key has to do with relationships (not romantic).
>How much control do I have my life?
Not a lot, but *some*.
Hey /lit/, in my upcoming lit class I have to read a book from a list. Any thoughts on what I should read? Here are the choices:
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Anthem by Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Native Son by Richard Wright
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Any thoughts? Thanks.
>>7440031
Native Son or Invisible Man definitely. Invisible Man if you want to read something shorter.
I didn't like Zora or Morrison. Haven't read Color Purple but it seems pleb. And Ayn Rand makes me think this is bait but she is so shitty.
learn to pick a book yourself retard
>>7440042
I go to a school with a shitton of neocons who like her and I know the prof is pretty liberal. I think she just put them there so that at least someone will pick Rand up and realize she's bad.
What are some books about purgatory-like worlds?
Infinitely vast and empty planes, complex labyrinths with no exits or ends, rooms where leaving through the back door will only take you back in through the front door, things of this nature.
>>7440000
nice quads. start with the borges
>>7440008
I'm so angry, my library system, the entire fucking system serving millions of people, has essays on borges but none of his godamn books.
>>7440036
At least this site has them. https://sites.google.com/site/thebooksofsand/home
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