hey /lit/
any good cyber monday/cyber weekend deals for books?
I've been looking myself, haven't found anything spectacular so far
>>7399802
That's a pretty awesome cover. What edition is that? I'm guessing it's The Castle.
>>7399802
why does he lift the book to show the cover when a picture is being taken of him
>Right so, get this. One day this guy wakes up and he's a bug.
>...okay...so then what happens?
>Oh you know, he's just sort of being a bug for the rest of the story, and then he dies.
Kafka, the absolute madman.
>Alright Mr. Wallace, pitch it to me.
>It's about these young tennis players, and some drug addicts and this magic movie that turns up every now and then.
>Oh okay, we've actually been looking for some short stories to publish, you can type it up in a month right?
>S-s-sure, yeah, n-no problem
>I'm writing a novel
>Oh cool, what's it about?
>Well nothing really happens
>Right, um, isn't that not really wha-
>It's 900 pages
Any good lit dealing with chaotic metaphysical decay and/or disintegration? Like extreme ontological shocks, someone's world violently falling apart or rapid loss of sanity?
harry potter and the order of the phoenix
Lanark
King Lear
The Book of Job
American psycho and psychosis 4.48 (the author of this one killed herself after she wrote it)
I keep getting called a fascist in political discussions, people use the term as an accusation and as if that invalidates all my views.
What is some literature that displays fascism in a positive or neural light?
Heinlein.
Antiracist antisexist globalist fascism with socialistic tendencies.
I can't find this book for download anywhere and I've searched a lot.
Can anyone upload it?
Yes.
>>7399438
gen lib rus ec/book/index.php?md5=8FF874620DB7CC3C3C914542D8A4857E
>>7399538
what?
Movies way better than original books.
>The clockwork orange
>Someone flew over the kekoo's nest
pic unrelated
Blade Runner
Fight Club
>>7399427
>the movie version of a clockwork orange
>better than the book
Admit it: you haven't read the book
The 2001: a Space Odyssey movie adaption was better than the book imo.
Why aren't you reading right now?
>>7399316
Why aren't YOU reading right now?
>>7399316
I am reading. I just read
>Why aren't you reading right now?
Socrates won't stop explaining word-names to Hermogenes and I needed a break.
What are some of your favorite podcasts /lit/?
>>7399245
The Unexamined Life
Harcore History
Almost anything by BBC 4
>>7399283
I like bbc4s in our time philosophy
The Partially Examined Life
This American LifeThe Biggest Problem in the Universe
I'll be dumping some relatively rare poems today, feel free to join me. :)
Epistle to be Left in the Earth by Archibald MacLeish
...It is colder now,
there are many stars,
we are drifting
North by the Great Bear,
the leaves are falling,
THe water is stone in the scooped rocks,
to southward
Red sun grey air:
the crows are
Slow on their crooked wings,
the jays have left us:
Long since we passed the flares of Orion.
Each man believes in his heart he will die.
Many have written last thoughts and last letters.
None know if our deaths are now or forever:
None know if this wandering earth will be found.
We lie down and the snow covers our garments.
I pray you,
you (if any open this writing)
Make in your mouths the words that were our names.
I will tell you all we have learned,
I will tell you everything:
The earth is round,
there are springs under the orchards,
The loam cuts with a blunt knife,
beware of
Elms in thunder,
the lights in the sky are stars——
We think they do not see,
we think also
The trees do not know nor the leaves of the grasses hear us:
The birds too are ignorant.
Do not listen.
Do not stand at dark in the open windows.
We before you have heard this:
they are voices:
They are not words at all but the wind rising.
Also none among us has seen God.
(...We have thought often
The flaws of sun in the late and driving weather
Pointed to one tree but it was not so.)
As for the nights I warn you the nights are dangerous:
The wind changes at night and the dreams come.
It is very cold,
there are strange stars near Arcturus,
Voices are crying an unknown name in the sky
Ah! Sun-flower - William Blake (1794)
Ah Sun-flower! weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the Sun:
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the travellers journey is done.
Where the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow:
Arise from their graves and aspire,
Where my Sun-flower wishes to go.
>>7399092
What makes that poetry apart from the random line breaks?
Hello /lit/,
I am looking for fiction about loneliness, isolation, solitude, alienation. I want the main character to be hyper-introspective and sensitive individual who physically lives in a society (town, city) and has some kind of a job etc. but mentally doesn't really fit. I don't care if its psychological fiction, literary, philosophical allegory, detective story or a historical novel. I don't care if its happy or depressing, I don't care if its set in 19th century or 2050. I'd prefer if the guy wasn't too bitter, hateful, mentally ill or weird (Notes from Underground by Dosto, Whatever by Houellebecq, Stranger by Camus). I want somebody a bit more nuanced, functional, better-adjusted. Somebody who's trying to find his way in life, you know.
Thanks.
>inb4 you want to read about yourself
its for research and inspiration...mostly
ayy
catcher in the rye
>>7398997
My diary desu
>>7398997
I'd recommend The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa. What you're looking for in a main character seems to perfectly match the main character of this book. You'd probably really like it.
Hey /lit/, new here.
I want to become more well read and an all around better person.
I read somewhere reading good prose helps you become more articulate and better spoken, so I've started reading Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.
I've read about three fourths of the recommended reading list as well. What should I read next?
>>7398910
what's the "recommended reading list"
>>7398918
>I've read about three fourths of the recommended reading list
Not too interested in reading American Psycho because an English teacher spent an entire period explaining why Bret Easton Ellis is a hack after someone mentioned the movie.
Shakespeare. Reread one of the plays you read in high school (or didn't read).
>classic lit
>russian lit
>alcohol renders people completely out of commission and suffering terrible hallucination
how much do you have to fucking drink? where does this idea come from?
>>7398878
people drink a lot less, and a lot less often than alcoholics of old
when you're three bottles a day on repeat, things start to get weird
Do you have any idea what there was to do back in 1800s Russia? The only things the common citizen had for entertainment was getting shitfaced.
but muh brain fever
For a joke I'm going to get my little sister, who is to Germany as Weeaboos are to Japan, 4chan's favorite book and Mtn. Dew flavor. But unfortunately, I can't find one (Amazon, Half Price Books, Half.com and ebay.com) for one in the original, unaltered German, as she is learning and does speak the language.
I don't want a review, translation, analyzation- nothing. Just the book itself, exactly as it was presented to Das Vaterland's citizens in the 1930s.
Any ideas?
Yes she is old enough to handle this, she's used to the 4chan fucked-up humor, but I don't think she's expecting it which makes it funny.
Save yourself the embarrassment later and don't let yourself continue to think your sister will just read Hitler's book if you give it to her. Have YOU even read it? Almost certainly not.
>>7398849
Yeah, I'm well aware she won't read it...
I've read Elliot's manifesto if that counts. I assume it's similar.
Which does /lit/ value more: prose, or good storytelling?
What if I told you 'word economy' is both 'prose' AND 'storytelling,' and that it's literally the entire craft of writing
A nice prose can save the worst story or even take its place. The best storytelling skills can't deal with an average prose, on the other hand.
>>7398848
I disagree
Solid history books /lit/?
I really loved pic related.
I enjoy narratives but open to anything as long as it's engaging.
gonna rec Chicago: A Biography by Dominic Pacyga to all of you. The story of Chicago is the story of the 20th century.
Rubicon
A. Lincoln (from White)
>>7398837
Any recommended reading before this book? It's on my shelf but I haven't read much Roman lit, mostly the Stoics.
