Is /lit/ just about over now? You could find what you're looking for through the archive.
>>7353206
Yeah? Where do you guys keep your personal salvation?
>That feel when you printed out the last 5 years of /lit/ and had it bound into a book you read every night by the fireplace
>>7353343
What the fuck? If you're serious do you have a pic?
I'm new to /lit/, is it ok to begin with Infinite Jest or will I be completely lost?
Start with the Greeks.
>>7353031
You'll be infinitely glad you did.
>>7353031
only you can know
give it a shot
Can someone explain the idea of the 'routine', as used by William S Burroughs. I noticed it in 'Queer' and as I'm now reading Naked Lunch it seems particularly important. Is it his way of blurring the line between truth/fiction? Is it just a weird mannerism of his?
What's your take on Burroughs's 'routine'
I don't know honestly but I thought it was neat to read NL and then read Queer and see the weirdness in its embryonic form.
>>7352846
Definitely agree. Junky was really straight forward and I thought Queer would be the same. I think on its own Queer wouldn't be that great, but reading it knowing the context, and knowing how the style would later develop was pretty cool.
Patti Smith was so fucking hot, goddamn.
Why are childrens/young adults books way more entertaining than traditional adult literature?
shitty peter pan rip off
>>7352835
>reading for fun
>>7352840
This is my point.
It looks like it has everything in it. Could it be...to much fun?
>>7352784
I haven't read Infinite Jest, but didn't the movie in the book last long enough for the watchers to die of starvation? As opposed to just watching it multiple times.
>>7352784
thanks for the chuckle op
moving on
There's something really sad and banal about that.
best ruski according to /lit?
>>7352645
Mayakovski
>>7352645
Bely.
>>7352645
Nabokov
Somewhat /lit/ related but let's talk about some terrible professor stories.
>>7352509
I'll start
>Graduate level second language acquisition class
>Only guy in class of females, minus professor
>Midterm comes along
>Everyone gets 100s and above
>65
>wtf.jpg
>Professor basically says "Anon, everyone else in class wants to teach elementary school, you want to go into higher ed, so I graded yours a little harder.
>>7352513
Honestly you deserve this. There's no point in you misreading Heidegger or feudal property transmissions.
>>7352513
That's shitty as fuck. What language?
What is the Max Headroom Incident of literature?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_broadcast_signal_intrusion
>>7352473
Sokal affair? :/
i tried watching some maxhead room on youtube and i was expecting a rad 80s nostolgia trip to my childhoor (when i was a littl kid max headroom seemed like the craziest shit) and it was actually pee bad, like i couldnt even watch it
>>7352478
in what sense
scary or funny or just inane
i find that vid creepy
Terrorists have seized control of the world narrative..
- Where were you when DeLillo was right, again, for the 100th time??
In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
>People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
Why is japanese scifi so good, lads?
Long story short because Japan is a island.
>>7352003
and all islands produce great literature?
>>7352021
CUNT
U
N
T
James Joyce?
i bought Dubliners , Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man but idk which one to start with or if i should even start with one of these?
could anyone help?
>>7351797
Do: 49 → V. → GR → M&D
dubliners-> portrait -> ulysses -> finnegans wake
it's so obvious it's almost common sense
>>7351805
the main worry was to start with portrait or dubliners desu senpai
Hi, total pleb here.
Just started reading about a month and a half ago and im slowly realizing that i love it, so far i read Brave new world, Norwegian Wood (shit), Catcher in the Rye, The Stranger (excelent) and 1984
Sartre's "Nausea" would be too much for me? What about something by Dostoievski or Tolstoy? Can you recommend me something both good and entry level? Yes , i already checked the sticky.
thank you
A Meaningful Life - L. J. Davies
Fifth Head of Cerberus - Gene Wolfe
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
Read Hamlet
>>7351825
seconding shakespeare.
(altho i prefer the tempest)
Books you love but never see posted on /lit/
Nice choice, OP. Dance Dance Dance is my favorite Murakami novel.
Yeah that's probably tied with Wind-up Bird as my favorite Murakami novel. Kafka on the Shore is way overrated tbqh
I've been trying to find a novel I read a long long time ago.
I remember the protagonist travels to this place where he had some business to do.
All the employees and people were kind of really not talkative and spaced out. He found out about some misteries roaming the place.
(I know it's vague so far)
Thing is, every night he went to sleep, a monster (or maybe a man) looked at him from the window.
Then it would come in and lay its hand upon the protagonist's forehead.
The protagonist then would think about how sad he felt when it did that, and how sadness was even deeper because he was about to sleep, and having his eyes closed prevented him from looking at reality and numbing the pain with it.
This is all I've got.
Any clues?
i don't know what this is, but now i want to read it
>>7351734
OP here
I know right?
It's so frustrating for me.
I read it at a WAY early age and dropped it 'cause it bored me terribly.
Now I remember this scene and I just can't seem to find it in any of the possible books that might've contained it in my house!
>>7351748
>*WAY TOO early age...
Is this the only worthwhile literary work by a negro?
James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith
>Never read anything by Alexandre Dumas
>Toni Morrison,
