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Why is modern Japanese literature so fun?
>>8150790
How much of untranslated, modern Japanese literature is worthwhile?
>>8150790
Do you read it in Japanese?
>>8150828
I read it in English but I'm such a huge weeb that the words sometimes pop up in Japanese in my head. But I can't actually read Japanese so I read translations.
Who else here have confidence issues b/c of a YA book series?
>throughout middle school read whole Percy Jackson and the Olympians series at least 5 times
>mc Percy Jackson has confidence issues
>think Percy Jackson is coolest guy ever though
>he also gets blonde tsundere qt3.14 gf by end of series
>pretend in my head I'm actually the son of an Olympian God too, and that soon I'd end up having adventures over the summer with my goofy best friend (didn't actually have any friends at that time though) and qt3.14 tsundere friend to save the world
>base entire personality ( and appearance to a degree) off of Percy Jackson except I'm super shy so I'm way less outgoing and not able to make corny jokes like him without people looking at me weirdly
>For a while didn't even want to grow that much b/c Percy wasn't that tall
>do this from 5th grade into early sophomore year of high school
>told no one else though cause I'm not that retarded
>tfw confidence issues are for real now and not me trying to be like Percy
>tfw only got out of my obsession of Percy Jackson by becoming obsessed with Anime (keep powerlevel hidden though b/c not retarded)
>tfw you will never adventure across the country with your goofy best friend and qt3.14 tomboy friend
> tfw you will never slowly fall love with Annabeth slowly over the course of puberty, from meeting her for the first time after you defeated the Minotaur when your 12 to defeating Kronos at the Battle of Manhattan when your 16
> tfw don't become hardened, confident hero after defeating the Titans
>tfw Heroes of Olympus series (the sequel series to Percy Jackson and the Olympians) was shit
I've had confidence issues regarding my culinary ken and cooking skills because of Redwall, if that counts
>>8150388
>got out of my obsession of Percy Jackson by becoming obsessed with Anime
Shit man, when you think things can't get any worse
Cringe thread?
Why is this not considered Pynchon's best novel? It's easily his most accessible, humorous, and interesting work.
>>8145159
because he wrote his smarter novels before this. now everything he does after thats less serious will obviously be viewed as shit, because he cant maintain his own professional level
>>8145159
>his most accessible, humorous, and interesting work
I think Lot 49 edges out IV for this category. IV is great though.
>>8145165
What do you mean by "smarter"?
Are you currently writing anything, /lit/?
>>8145152
Yes. A memebook inspired by Finnegans Wake. I'm about 65% through the first draft.
Just daily journal entries. I'd like to write short stories but I never have any ideas
>>8145152
yes
a world where male children start to be taught from a young age to be flexible so they can suck their own Dicks. eventually an entire self dicksucking generation is born and they realize they no longer need women to be happy. so slowly women start going extinct and the men start creating more men with test tube babies. the book would follow 2 characters. both male. one character would be a normal guy living everyday life in a womanless world. the other male would be with the last vestige of women. the women have created there own hidden village deep inside the woods where they breed more women. male babies are only kept strictly to be used as studs. meanwhile the women live in fear of the killing squads sent out to eradicate them. eventually the death squad raids the village. killing all the women and freeing our one protagonist. he is then forced to live among men in a city he knows nothing about. the only thing he ever knew was fucking women and he can't even suck his own dick. tragic really.
Lets get a poetry-only critique thread going
>I'll go first
Nature Calls
Three men lay woke aside the parking lot;
Speaking of plans to pull the world so taut
That fi’re couldn’t cure them of their sins.
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Nights whimpered in silent fear of what might become of them.
War slithered in, with sinister intent, speaking in eager whispers
In the ears of looming shadows that wept dry tears for sunlight.
Murmurs of discontent sprinted throughout: your home; your clique; your self.
Inching further for anger, blindness swept beneath your skull and latched into you,
Your sins are not your own.
Luring you further with malicious speak shrouded by a veiled innocence:
Hysteria lit the path with shadowed light from an envious lantern.
Cheered on by coats of tainted wool, and assailed by coats of tainted challis
You become conflicted.
What now?
Leering from platted comfortability, shadows hiss at you to march;
Indeed, you do, in fact, with many hesitations, and many trepidations,
But indeed, you do.
March
Splintered bones sizzle under a foreign star,
Trickles of sweat blister, embroider, infartar your brow.
Misguiding you moreso than pockets pretensely avowed
Like schoolgirls hand-in-hand, capped-‘n-gowned.
Smothered words nested in fear choked on bravado…
Bravo, Bravo!
The term is done!
Wormwood parties in your pit,
Your feather withers at the sun,
Enthralled in fear and shadow’s shit,
Your blindness turns to deaf’d the young.
>infartar means to strip bare
At the beginning I thought it was shit, honestly, but the more I read the better it seemed as a totality.
Overall, very good, but a bit obscure at parts.
Mine:
If you see kay
Tell him he may
See you in tea
Tell him from me
In China
Poems are scratched on the walls of a cave
Not seeking fame or fortune
Below them sits no name
Who is the author?
They grow between cracks and moss
A cold mountain wrote them
Did it not?
Impressing dead fibers with
laissez faire bright streaks
drawn to electric
and mindless, pointless, soundless
foundation lacking seismographs
without opponents to inspire
a metaphor of war, skirmish
vendetta to men dressed like
pink birds, waltzing with
their wallets
Contemptuous scribbling
in bad tasting, unclean
homosexuals mouths
Spewing vile velvet bile
under secure detriments placed
by blue black bangs
under a new sun.
4 Removal of deep
satanic bad devil
worshipping WORDS.
By Marx, Engel, Mussolini,
And George W. Bush
until happy lobotomies
fellate idols with
grotesque masks.
Laughing hysterical
suits, blue black
swine murder production line babies.
Chart thread post your charts
what about that hipster asian guy who posts here?
essential /lit/core
That's the worst chart I've ever seen
what are the best history books about world war two? is there a chart perhaps?
I've been reading antony beevor's "the second world war". is it thorough?
Here's a classic. Very comprehensive and thorough.
>>8157734
thank you very much anon, this seems like what i've been looking for.
>>8157734
Outdated now though.
Churchill's 6 vol Memoirs are extremely reliableand nice to have around the house aestheticallyif you believe the source, he does fall short of attacking certain british generals which he admitted.
The best academic source on the third reich is Evans' Third Reich Trilogy.
The best book on the Holocaust is The Destruction of the European Jews by Raul Hilberg
Desert Fox, a biography of Rommel, is done almost exclusively off his papers and provides good accounts of the Desert War
I have not done much looking into the Pacific Theater, but Oppenheimer' biography American Prometheus is a great work on the nuclear effort.
Stalin: In the Court of the Red Tsar by montefiore is a great work on the eastern front
Anyone got a /lit/ chart for Greek mythology?
I enjoyed playing the Zeus: Master of Olympus and Poseidon: Master of Atlantis city builders, the God of War series, and watching Hercules as a kid, and I want to read more into the bloody details.
Mythology by Edith Hamilton is a good start.
Read Ovid's Metamorphoses, Homer's Iliad & Odyssey, Hesiod's Theogony & Works and Days, then Aeschylus, then Sophocles, then Euripides.
>He doesn't use lines from Homer in his daily speech
Whats your excuse /lit/?
>>8157440
>Soon as the Dawn shone forth rose-fingered at earliest daybreak
i went to work too as well
>>8157447
Do you prefer Merrill over Lattimore?
I don't have autism.
Just look how fuck able Sylvia Plath was.
How do you judge someone's fuck ability just from one possibly fleeting facial expression?
Unfuckable unreachable sellout, really, davejohnmcplatEH.
>>8157366
What, do you like like girls for their personality and shit?
That's fuckin gay.
Do you feel that John Green and his ilk are actually detrimental to literature in the large sense, or is your hatred for him out of a simple sense of disdain for his style of writing?
>>8156915
I know nothing about him except seeing numerous threads on here from the same deranged moron who obsesses over him.
Who cares, honestly
>>8156920
If you can't handle the heat get the fuck out of the kitchen friendo
>>8156933
>being emotionally invested in John Green
Time to end it, lad
Is there a point to reading if you have no one to talk about it with?
How is that? You have /lit/.
>>8156911
What if I don't enjoy posting?
>>8156908
i don't ever talk about the books i read with anyone.
Does stream of consciousness mean you just don't use quotation marks?
>>8156863
No, it means that you write the whole book with all semicolons and one period; with semicolons you can expand your sentences; given that the thoughts are related, you can use the semicolons to chain indefinitely; I have just demonstrated the semicolon method.
>>8156863
It means you write one-handed, if you catch my drift
>>8156877
because ur other hand is holdin ur benis
I like warhammer 40k, but there are so many books by different authors that it's hard to tell what series are worth reading and what should be skipped. What should I read? What should be considered essential reads for 40k buffs? Also, are there any other series that share the grimdark-fantasy-science fiction themes of 40k? I await your recommendations.
>>>/tg/
If you're already familiar with the setting, the Horus Heresy books are good for getting the ball rolling.
Moby-Dick is a good ass fuckin book.
Post other good ass fuckin books
too on the nose, friend
i dont remember any ass fucking in moby dick
but if youre into that naked lunch is a good ass fucking book
>>8156823
I haven't read moby dick in awhile but there was one scene I remember that was really gay. Something about a bunch of grown men washing their hands in "sperm?"
