Hey /lit/.
Post the first line of your novel.
>>7414032
Getting out of the swamp was easy, but the crocodile was still alive.
>>7414032
Horny housewife number 1 reached for her terrorist manual.
Born from mental breakdowns with scattered ashes washing off our landscapes with waves of tears and pools of blood curdled and gone sour from days spent lonely and misused, a bastard made of our biggest fears and regrets.
How pretentious, /lit/?
Hello people
Which one should i start with concerning stoicism? "Letters from a stoic" by Seneca or "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius?
please respond
>>7414015
I've only read Meditations, so I cam only recommend that one. You might also try some Zhuangzi. His Taoism had some similarities with Stoicism.
>>7414052
anything in particular? thanks family
Hey guys, what are some good books to start reading in english? I have some Agatha Christie, Patrick O'Brian, Hemingway, Tolkien...
christie and hemingway are good for learning
some basic stuff lke harry potter might be a good idea
>>7413954
Gibbons Decline and Fall is probably the highest, most noble English I have ever read. Hume is up there too. For high vernacular, Faulkner and Nabakov
which languages do you know?
What's your favourite metre?
iambic tetrameter for personal reasons
>>7413940
kilometre, amerifags need not apply.
>>7413940
trochaic tetrameter, trochaic octameter catalectic, iambic hexameter
Why do you even read /lit/?
what kind of question is that
because i like it
>>7413874
Because of the chicks.
So I can know how to best use commas to disambiguate questions.
What was the message?
>>7413808
Reading this book to my kids, I realized that my greatest crime was to bring them into the world for my own vanity and desire to love, only to have my most treasured accomplishment decay and rot.
The anti-natalists on 4chan are faggots, but thats only because they cant handle themselves socially, not because they are wrong.
>>7413808
*and suffer
The meaning is silver.
Outside of Nietzsche, Hume, Hegel and Kant, do you need to bother with anyone else?
>nietzsche instead of plato and aristotle
>literally random gibberish without their context
lel
>>7413791
Hobbes and Smith maybe, you know, our Democratic/Capitalist system is based on them.
>>7413800
>Democrat/Capitalist
>Good
What are the best books from the NYRB Classics collection? There are quite a few cheap ones on eBay but because there are so many (many of which sound interesting) I don't know which one to get.
>>7413749
They're already pre-selected for you as Classics. The publisher is guaranteeing they're at least that good.
Why do you need your hand held so far? Read a few synopses. Find one that appeals. If you're asking for favorites, Jansson, Comyns, Manchette, Hrabal, Fermor, Walser and The Long Ships.
Some I liked:
That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana , by Carlo Emilio Gadda
Skylark , by Dezső Kosztolányi
Diary of a Man in Despair , by Friedrich Reck
The Peregrine , by J.A. Baker
Hard Rain Falling , by Don Carpenter
The Land Breakers , by John Ehle
The Long Ships , by Frans G. Bengtsson
Dead Souls , by Nikolai Gogol
The Gate , by Natsume Sōseki
Amsterdam Stories , by Nescio
Butcher's Crossing , by John Williams
The Chrysalids , by John Wyndham
Some I didn't like:
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti , by Milton Rokeach
Morte D'Urban , by J.F. Powers
Nightmare Alley , by William Lindsay Gresham
The War of the Worlds , by H.G. Wells
The Invention of Morel , by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Chess Story , by Stefan Zweig
Bonus mention for hilarious title:
Memed, My Hawk , by Yashar Kemal
Copy-pasted titles from here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_folder/197995?group_id=2083
>>7413766
What didn't you like about the Casares, Zweig or Rokeach?
I have to do a literary analysis of Robert Frosts "the mending wall" and im having trouble making a thesis. I don't want to google it, or go on sites like moop or spark notes. I was curious if any of you guys had any unique perspectives on this poem.
>>7413739
It's about Berlin.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of outdoor game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.'
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say ‘Elves’ to him,
But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father’s saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.'
>>7413742
How so?
>“At this, Eliza and Ezra rolled together into one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation, screaming and shouting as they playfully bit and pulled at each other in a dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of sexually violent rotation with Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.”
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/01/morrissey-wins-bad-sex-award-fiction-debut-novel-list-of-the-lost
>>7413671
>“At this, Eliza and Ezra rolled together into one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation, screaming and shouting as they playfully bit and pulled at each other in a dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of sexually violent rotation with Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.”
>>7413671
quit pulling my leg OP, that's not real.
>tfw no gf
So /lit/, how is your job doing?
Quited on mine yesterday, first job, working for 5 months in a telecom company, answering customers complaints on their TV, telephone and internet problems and trying to fix it. I am single, no kids, no one that I need to support and still living with my parents, so I figure, if I will have to work in a shitty job my whole life, might aswell start it as late as possible.
>living the dream
>in the morning: 1h of greeks, some exercising, vidya and making making some music
>afternoon: 1~2h of greeks, maybe 1h of some pleb shit I want to read, more vidya, movies and more dedication to music making
>night: vidya, 1h of the holy bible before bed
>the full 18h: shitposting
>>7413453
post some of your music senpai
>>7413472
currently at the library, sorry
>>7413453
How do your parents feel about your life?
I still live at home (I'm studying so can't afford to move out). Now that university is over for the year though mum always wants me to play with my little brother, even though I work night shift most nights and can't be fucked playing with a six year old kid. Whenever I sit in my room and read a book she complains that I'm lazy.
>try to read
>neck gets stiff from looking down at the pages for so long
>uncomfortable for the rest of the day
>>7413357
time to change position/warm up/do some stretches
>not doing prereading neck stretches
>being this pleb
>not reading on a neural interface
>he can't name 10 books from the past 10 years that are worthwhile reading
well senpai are you just going sit there or are you going to prove me wrong?
Can you?
>>7413356
I think OP was implying there is no worthwhile books written in the past 10 years
There aren't 10 books worth reading pham
ITT:
>your favorite painting
>your favorite book
pic related
The Sound and the Fury
Probably Hamiltons Mythology
Winesburg, Ohio
I've read 105 pages today. How did you do?
>>7413290
105 pages of what?
>>7413300
this
