is there anything good in this genre
I really liked The Iliad, Beowulf was a bit too mundane though.
>>7308245
>too mundane
no such thing senpai
>>7308251
did you delete your comment and reply again you sneaky chap
So I'm in graduate school and read a fuck ton for classes and as such unfortunately don't have too much time to read for leisure. Due to this lack of time I have been reading short stories as opposed to novels so lets have a short story thread; post your favorites, rate others, discuss, what have you.
I'll begin with my favorite (it's a pretty vanilla choice admittedly): Flowers for Algernon
Pic unrelated
Anyone read the stories of Breece D'J Pancake? One of my favourite writers, not discussed much on lit
>tfw can't find a damn trilobite
>Good Old Neon
>Paul's Case
>Perfect Day For Bananafish
Also like every O'Connor short story is good.
>>7308160
short stories are for people who can't handle the rigor of poetry and who don't have enough to say for a novel. The idea that it's a tight form of literature is disgusting. It's the weakest in spirit and in manifest. Can you name a short story as aesthetically or metaphysically powerful as a great novel or poem of the same eminence?
Why does Nietzsche strawman the Gnostic perspective of the material as the Christian perspective of the material?
>>7307804
Gnosticism was not well researched in his time most written stuff was heresiology
The Nag Hammadi was discovered in like 1945
>>7307826
That doesn't really answer my question, though, concerning Nietzsche's strawman of Christianity's perception of the material. That is, his idea of Christianity's perception of the material is foreign to Christianity, save in Gnosticism which really isn't Christianity.
He didn't. Nietzsche understood Christianity better than you do.
Settling down with a glass of wine and a few Sartre plays. How do you guys like to settle in for a night of reading?
>>7307644
Go to the library and spend the whole night reading
Is that a hotpocket?
>>7307658
yeah. Ham and cheese. Paired nicely with the wine.
Last one hit the bump limit.
>>7306889
An emotion of the most profound repugnance flickered for a moment in the young man's features. But soon he appeared to fall into a deep brooding, which might more correctly have been described as a king of oblivion.
thoughts??
>>7307940
He made a face of repulsion, but eased into a thoughtful blank stare.
Salut les Francophones. Je sais que vous êtes là, on a déjà eu deux-trois bons fils ensemble (hormis quelques raids du 15-18, mais que voulez-vous...).
Je propose la même chose que d'habitude: postez vos textes, critiquez ceux des autres, discutez de vos auteurs préférés, tout ça. N'oubliez pas les espaces insécables normales: les espaces fines ne s'affichent pas bien sur 4chan.
La raison pour laquelle je lance le fil, c'est que j'ai commencé à lire D'un château l'autre, et qu'autant j'aimais bien le style du Voyage au bout de la nuit et de Bagatelles pour un massacre, là j'ai du mal à supporter la teneur en points de suspension et d'exclamation.
Vous croyez que c'était les prodromes de son AVC hémorragique? Ça serait cohérent avec sa manie d'écrire des milliers de pages pour rien et avec son élocution dans les dernières interviews.
Mais non!
>>7303133
En ce moment je lis beaucoup trop en anglais (des non-fictions principalement) mais je suis aussi en train de lire "Le Voyageur et le Clair de Lune", un roman hongrois. Je ne peux pas emettre d'avis encore, je viens de debuter.
(Je m'excuse pour le manque d'accent, j'ai du passer en qwerty parce que mon clavier ne marche plus aussi bien qu'avant...)
>espaces
Finement joué, PO.
Quel hasard, je viens tout juste de commencer ce même - premier Céline par contre, ayant mis longtemps à surmonter le dégoût pour ses suspensions sans suspension. (sûrement mieux fait de commencer par Voyage, à l'en croire lui-même)
C'est pas très beau mais on s'y fait. Le style en radotage me fait penser au Gaddis d'Agapē Agape à la sauce Haddock.
ITT: we recommend each other books based off of things we like other than books, movies, or tv shows
>the color pink
>rice
>loud noisy music
>meditation
>psychology
>philosophy
>minimalist furniture
>Japanese fashion scenes
>cold weather
There you go
>>7300357
Holy fucking shit, OP. Are you me? What is your favorite film, book, album, painting? We should be penpals.
>>7300374
I like Pulp Fiction, that book right there, I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted by Snowing (and) anything by Boris, and Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch always comes to mind.
>being Comfy
>masturbating
>stoic Philosophy
>rain
>Ancient and Early Modern Warfare
>Hannibal Barca
what you read/what you expected/what you got thread
I'll post template in a sec
>>7298767
AtD is High-tier Pycnh, it just isn't talked about 'cause people feel intimidated by it's lenghtmuch like Papa Pynch's sexual prowess
ITT: the worst book you've ever read
The Ice Storm. Can't remember the author but it was made into a movie. The book sucked so bad i couldn't finish it. That is the only book to date i never finished.
the missionary by lady morgan
Song of solomon
Dyson sphere Edition
>Recommendations:
>Fantasy
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/a/a8/1307836551252.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110612005642
>Sci-Fi
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/a/a6/Scifilit.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100710233344
http://imgur.com/r55ODlL
>Who is your favorite Author that utilizes Dyson spheres in Science Fiction/Fantasy?
>What are your favorite books that deal with with Dyson spheres?
>How would man utilize all that energy? How would covering the sun affect the other planets?
>As a supposed Dyson sphere was discovered a few weeks ago, do you think there will be a flood of books to hit the market centered around the Spheres to ride on the popularity?
Old Thread
>>7246345
That image looks more like a Matroishka brain under construction to me.
They'd use the energy to power all the processing going on inside the structure itself, which would in turn be their own minds and virtualised environments.
If you're talking about the large objects that were in the news last week after being discovered literally years ago, they're in no way a Dyson sphere, you're retarded.
>>7284638
what the fuck is a dyson sphere OP
Why would you waste your time building a dyson sphere instead of making your own mini fusion reactors?
Are there any books that portray a dyson sphere as a deprecated, abandoned project?
Or just space ruins in general if that's too specific.
All the votes have now been counted. Although now there are a number of ties on both of the lists which we will sort via this poll:
http://goo()gl/forms/5qTbGX8drA
Remove the () and add a .
This tie breaking poll will be open until 23:59 (GMT) on the 27th of october.
If there are still some remaining ties then we will sort them out by counting the votes the tied authors got on the book list. For example: If Albert Camus and Ernest Hemingway are still tied when the poll is over, then I will count the number of votes their books got in the book poll and sort it out that way. If there are still ties after this then I will just flip a coin.
I have now found pictures for all the authors who are definitely going on the list. I will find the rest of the pictures when the poll closes. I am currently finding the first edition covers for all the books and I am about 1/3 done with that.
Then I'll create the infographic via Gimp. Which will hopefully be done this week. It all depends on how quick I am to learn how to use Gimp.
If you have any suggestions on how the infographic should look like, then please post your suggestions in the thread.
Love you /lit/ as always.
I'm very proud of our completely illegitimate winner, David Foster Wallace.
I thought I already told you that T. S. Eliot's name only has one "L", OP. Fix this.
This looks like a lot of work, thanks for doing this!
Is he even relevant anymore?
didnt nietzche pwn him? xD
>>7280175
who?
>>7280175
Immanuel Kant cut it tbh
ALL HYPERSPHERE: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TIdoWxLOs7tVlO8MHISFAm1stJ7FEta-fL0dBe88J1g/edit#
Deadline: 31st of October, 2015.
Discuss themes, vote on cover art, contribute in the document. Also, what publisher are we appealing to? An anon suggested Cow Eye Press, and they're all about idiosyncratic fiction -according to them.
Get to work, you filthy proletariat.
>>7269717
bump
Is this doc for editing?
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Please pick a name for fan fiction board.
like /fan-fic/ or /litf/?
I can make the board, now.
/wrt/ - writing and critique
or /crt/
/fic/ - Fanfiction/Critique
hiroyuki bring back philosophy, and let all books be read on this board. please hiroyuki-sama please
"To awaken the modern world, one must praise laziness. The lazy man has an infinitely keener perception of metaphysical reality than the active one."
– E. M. Cioran
Are there any other NEET apologists in philosophy and literature?
Taoism
>>7272607
Look into comedy.
