Can we have a ban on these books and authors from here on out? We're here to expand our horizons, not wallow in memey shit or talk about books we read in high school
>1984
>Pynchon
>Lolita
>Catcher in the Rye
>Brave New World
>Pynchon
>DFW
>Finnegans Wake
>Pynchon
HAHAHAHAHAHA
ITT: OP wishes there were more threads about tao lin
>>7406741
Why do you get smug about not wanting to talk about books from high school and the same 3 authors on a goddamn literature board? Pseud detected I guess
Hey /lit/ it's my 19th birthday today
Since I'm getting more into literature
>recommend me your top 3 books to get more into it
>>7406612
>Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
>The Old Man and the Sea
>The Once and Future King
>>7406612
Silence - Shusaku Endo
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
>>7406627
Whoops, I believe I misunderstood the topic. I wouldn't recommend these to start off with.
How do I the 'Western Canon" or "The Greeks"?
Before I start signing out every one of these books, and reading them from beginning to end, I'd like to know if there is a method to doing this as quickly as possible while still getting something out of them.
I realize it may take many years, but I have a lot of theory and contemporary stuff and a minimum wage job to get through as well.
Mainly, I want to read the greeks and the classics and the canon in order to recognize when newer lit is using the symbols or literary devices or stories or is references stuff by homer, Shakespeare, etc.
Any advice?
Ideally I'd enrol in a university, but I don't have the money for it.
Do you have autism?
>>7406607
>Ideally I'd enrol in a university, but I don't have the money for it
>>>/Germany/
>>7406609
no, why?
Anyone here following, and hooked on, any novels?
Pic related is what i'm reading currently. I'm slowly writing up glossaries as i read stuff.
I Shall Seal The Heavens is probably my most favorite one in the list.
If anyone is curious and has any questions about the titles in the list, just lay them out.
you'd probably have more luck discussing this sort of stuff on /jp/ or /a/
>>7406618
/a/ is only for manga and anime, and /jp/ doesn't deal in English translated literature [especially non-Japanese] because they are "too good" for English translation.
Thus, i am here.
>>7406576
>following novels
啥意思?
Is there any answer to Doug Richmond's 1985 How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found?
Obviously a lot has changed since then.
Asking more out of morbid curiosity than anything else.
Become NEET
In the 21st century, no one cares enough to look
>>7406611
Except the government.
You can only post in this thread if you understood the ending on your first reed.
I didn't!
>>7406557
Gately passes out and wakes up on the shore and the tide was way out.
Not really rocket science m8
>>7406566
I bet you also think Gately has never met Hal
Which Marxists wrote the best prose?
Pic related
>>7406546
Technically a socialist, but still.
Holy shit, that is a punchable face.
How could there be any argument?
post some middlebrow authors
>>7406522
not this thread again
Iain Banks
Hey /lit/, what's new and innovative in the world of fiction? What narrative forms exist today that weren't around 100 years ago?
>>7406465
tweets are pretty cool imho
>>7406465
greentext
4chan posts
Any good literature related Cyber Monday sales?
Discounts on /lit/ approved publishers? Or maybe things related to writing?
Pic somewhat related
I'd look but I've already ordered loads of /lit/ and have unread stuff on my shelf.
Got Plutarch's Lives (Complete), Polybius' Histories, and Kagan's Pellopenesian War for 20 Queen moneys on black Friday tho.
>>7406283
I'll also post charts
>>7406288
Bretty gud deal.
So far I'm mostly hoping for some deals on some films I enjoy, because my parents hinted they were getting me a Blu-Ray player for Christmas. Criterion sales don't seem to be that much, and the 50th anniversary collection is tos expensive for me to justify. T_T
>>7406312
And I forgot chart post.
![200px-The_War_We_Never_Fought-_The_British_Establishment's_Surrender_to_Drugs[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/5fgLX9W.jpg "200px-The War We Never Fought- The British Establishment's Surrender to Drugs[1]")
I'm attending a talk and live Q&A with Peter Hitchens tonight about the legalisation of drugs.
Can anyone sum up his book on the topic?
I think I understand the crux of his argument, which is that addiction doesn't really exist. Also does anyone have any good question ideas?
>>7406154
>addiction doesn't really exist
But that's factually and scientifically wrong.
>>7406159
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/science/the-rational-choices-of-crack-addicts.html
from my experience also this is pretty much true
>>7406159
I think the point that he makes (or maybe I'm confusing my friend's arguments for his) is that you always have access to willpower, there is never anything "physically" stopping you from doing drugs. I have a feeling that his idea of the unstoppable will is connected to his belief in god, where an ultimate power of will would make sense if a soul existed.
How did Franzen become so notorious among millennial American readers? His books are mostly inoffensive, in fact that's what more discerning critics tend to charge him with, but reading some of the stuff about him in the new literary media you'd think he was a raging misogynist.
On a related note, what does it say about American literary culture when thoughtful criticism is so often replaced with blunt moralizing? Readers seem only to want wholly sanitized work. Like they think reading is somehow morally beneficial, as if it will make you a good person or change the world or some shit, and so they demand writing has pure and noble aspirations. Even the absolutely minor transgressions of Franzen are somehow too much to allow.
White CIS male who doesn't have twitter. Like, eww. Seriously.
I think it's just boredom.
Bored people pick the stupidest fights/crusades about the most asinine things. When there's not much going on in your own little sphere, "minor transgressions" are big deals.
he's white
he's male
he's straight
he's not a feminist lapdog
thus he's the debbil
post your favourite book of 2015 and rate the previous persons choice out of 10
Martin Amis is a wanker and his books suck
>>7405944
ok then.
/thread
>>7405917
why would I read modarn books? the world is ending, u should tear at your pleasures with rough strife
Is Stirner just a meme or does he have an actual credible philosophy?
I'm trying to find an ideology that justifies my hedonistic tendencies.
>>7405913
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You are in need
>>7405919i don't get it
>>7405924
Justification is an idea that you feel the need to fulfill for its own sake
Introductions may contain
>a summary of the entire plot
>someone coughing up all the novels by said author
>three pages about how the author grew up on a farm
>someone calling the author a cool guy
>namedropping
>no historical context
Remember kids, always save the introduction for last!
The fuck? I have that same pic saved with that same filename, which is a reference to EU4. Are you me?
If my novel ever gets finished, I promise to make the introduction a totally inane introduction to color theory as used in the book.
>>7407090
Don't be a dingus, I just saved this pic somewhere and it already had that name
