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>>7916380
why would you choose to share this
>>7916380
This is b8
>>7916392
why not?
>Just as the Bradys were getting locked in jail, Lara randomly asked me, “Have you ever gotten a blowjob?”
>“Um, that’s out of the blue,” I said.
>“The blue?”
>“Like, you know, out of left field.”
>“Left field?”
>“Like, in baseball. Like, out of nowhere. I mean, what made you think of that?”
>“I’ve just never geeven one,” she answered, her little voice dripping with seductiveness. It was so brazen. I thought I would explode. I never thought. I mean, from Alaska, hearing that stuff was one thing. But to hear her sweet little Romanian voice go so sexy all of the sudden...
>“No,” I said. “I never have.”
>“Think it would be fun?”
>DO I!?!?!?!?!?!?! “Um. yeah. I mean, you don’t have to.”
>“I think I want to,” she said, and we kissed a little, and then. And then with me sitting watching The Brady Bunch, watching Marcia Marcia Marcia up to her Brady antics, Lara unbuttoned my pants and pulled my boxers down a little and pulled out my penis.
>“Wow,” she said.
>“What?”
>She looked up at me, but didn’t move, her face nanometers away from my penis. “It’s weird.”
>“What do you mean weird?”
>“Just beeg, I guess.”
>I could live with that kind of weird. And then she wrapped her hand around it and put it into her mouth.
>And waited.
>We were both very still. She did not move a muscle in her body, and I did not move a muscle in mine. I knew that at this point something else was supposed to happen, but I wasn’t quite sure what.
>She stayed still. I could feel her nervous breath. For minutes, for as long as it took the Bradys to steal the key and unlock themselves from the ghost-town jail, she lay there, stock-still with my penis in her mouth, and I sat there, waiting.
>And then she took it out of her mouth and looked up at me quizzically.
>“Should I do sometheeng?”
>“Um. I don’t know,” I said. Everything I’d learned from watching porn with Alaska suddenly exited my brain. I thought maybe she should move her head up and down, but wouldn’t that choke her? So I just stayed quiet.
>“Should I, like, bite?”
>“Don’t bite! I mean, I don’t think. I think—I mean, that felt good. That was nice. I don’t know if there’s something else.”
>“I mean, you deedn’t—”
>“Um. Maybe we should ask Alaska.”
>So we went to her room and asked Alaska. She laughed and laughed. Sitting on her bed, she laughed until she cried. She walked into the bathroom, returned with a tube of toothpaste, and showed us. In detail. Never have I so wanted to be Crest Complete.
>Lara and I went back to her room, where she did exactly what Alaska told her to do, and I did exactly what Alaska said I would do, which was die a hundred little ecstatic deaths, my fists clenched, my body shaking. It was my first orgasm with a girl, and afterward, I was embarrassed and nervous, and so, clearly, was Lara, who finally broke the silence by asking, “So, want to do some homework?”
>[Looking for Alaska broke into the NY Times best seller list at number ten in Children's Paperback]
How does this make /you/ feel? Let's discuss.
>the book was challenged on the grounds that it is "pornographic" and "disgusting". One parent even went as far as refusing to read the book himself, reportedly saying that "One does not need to have cancer to diagnose cancer".
>>7915830
>ywn have a little Romanian qt look up at you and call your penis "beeg"
>>7915830
Who is this guy and what does /lit/ have against him? He looks like a youtuber.
>>7899340
American version of anime edition.
Recommendation Charts:
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg (embed)
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg (embed)
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg (embed)
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg (embed)
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg (embed) / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg (embed)
>What is your favorite action scene in genre fiction?
>Is the worst of SFF as bad as light novels?
>Best SFF waifu again
>Anything being worse than too cool for school plain anime protagonist that goes to the academy of magic in a world where everyone knows instant transmission and fights with over sized melee weapons despite the universe having guns readily available
>>7912440
>He accidentally gropes or sees the naked body of a princess of the first day and must duel her
I dunno, it's becoming its own genre. We don't watch to see what happens, we watch to see how this bland black-haired Japanese guy makes friends with this tsundere blonde princess.
>>7912440
>Gor
Has a book ever made you cry?
If manga count I can list you half a dozen.
In books only one made me cry, but it wasn't only the book itself, but rather the whole experience around it, my life situation and the relateability to the character. Inb4 edgleord, but it was Catcher in the Rye.
I cried when I read Infinite Jest because it was so shit.
>>7907531
How old were you?
Who is the Stanley Kubrick of literature?
>>7917730
Some combination of Anthony Burgess, Arthur C. Clarke, Nabokov, Stephen King, Thackeray, and some guy who wrote a novel on 'Nam.
Contextually as an American innovator of the 50's and 60's with a technical mastery and detached style who garnered both mainstream and critical praise - John Barth
Tonally ... not John Barth. Tonally some mix of William Blake and Samuel Beckett.
>>7917741
Came here to post this.
Honestly Pinecone for dat research alone.
If you could choose 3 foreign languages to understand books in, what would you choose?
>Russian
>Italian
>French
Also, what translation of a book exceeds the original?
If it was reading only, I would go
>russian
>german
>french
but if the power involved speech I would go
>spanish
>russian
>french
because spanish is much more useful to speak than german
>>7917083
Ancient Greek, Arabic and Russian.
And I think Nabokov's translation of Lolita into Russian is superior to his English original, the first paragraph notwithstanding. That is kind of like cheating I admit, but the question is a bit absurd.
Latin, french, german.
>written in first person
>the book has profanity
>the book explicitly describes the sexual or scatological
>the book finds 'meaning in middle class mundanity'
>the book finds 'meaning in the shittiness of lower class shittiness'
>the book is written after the 1500s and its author is not a reactionary
>the book plays with 'the conventions of form' as its major theme
>the book is placed in the poetry section and is not metered rhyme
>the book is a Western transplant in some foreign country depicting the soulful struggle of its people in completely non-native tropes
>the book 'offers a critical re-examination of traditionally held perspectives'
>the book is 'transgressive' which 'transgression' is noted by the entire literary world praising it rather than finding it transgressive
>the book is written
We already have this thread up.
Post reading lists from other boards
/v/ dosent read
>>7915008
They should, they might get past babby's first existential crisis
>>7915008
yes the do, they read shitty game adaptations and dollar store fantasy, thought.
Hypothetical situation:
You meet a cute girl that has never read much beyond high school literature but is interested in taking up reading as a hobby. What are the 10 books you would recommend her as some kind of starter pack?
Note I'm not asking about the ten best books ever, but instead about the 10 books that would make a complete amateur to fall in love with literature and not fall asleep while reading them.
The seven Harry Potter books and the three Hungry James books. Bam. Solved.
>>7914729
Did she ask you explicitly to recommend her ten books? If not, don't.
If so, suggest accessible middlebrow classics, so she can feel she understands them and will want to chat with you about them. Don't intimidate her.
Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
Catch-22
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Siddharta
The Magic Mountain
The Master and Margarita
Kokoro
The Temple of the Golden Pavillion
For Whom The Bell Tolls
And Dead Souls as an extra - a sort of graduation to proper classics.
Is Black Books the most /lit/ tv show? Are there even any other?
Gilmore Girls is pretty /lit/ but Black Books is probably the best.
>>7902421
Beat me to it. Both use literatury as a plot device / character background but the shows themselves arent particularly connected.
I would say Gilmore as Rory writes a lot and goes off to do it as a career. Bernard and Manny write a drunken epic then burn it out fear of famegreat episode.
Black Books is top tier
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Wire
True Detective
The Sopranos
How come that the English language happened to be so rigid in terms of morphology, with no diminutives for adjectives in there and without a proper phonetic writing system? I myself have been learning English on my own for almost 2 years now and even at such a cheesy level it strikes me already with its primitiveness and rigidity. Perhaps you all need to learn Russian or even Old English to be more creative and less stupid I think.
>>7915500
>at such a cheesy level
wat
Older English nist of thilke rigidenesse but it's accordingly a worse mess. Other than for pronunciation I guess
>>7915522
>>at such a cheesy level
>wat
i meant still insufficient
English grammar is simple to the point of being crude. It gains a lot of its depth from the sheer number of words in the English lexicon, which is estimated to be over 1 million. For reference, the average English speaker is estimated to know only around 20,000 different words. Mastery of English can be directly linked to how many words you know, and the more words you know the more deliberate your writing and speech becomes. English speakers with small vocabularies use rote phrases and cliches in their speech, while those with larger vocabularies put thought into the words they use because they actually have options. So everything they say or write is a choice, including the choice to be lazy.
I'm doing a paper on post-kantian philosophy next term, and have to choose two philosophers to focus on. One will be good old papa N, but who should the other one be? Options are Hegel, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. What to expect from each and advice as to who fits well with Nietzsche is appreciated.
>>7914927
Nietzsche spends a lot of time criticizing Hegel so there's some bantz to cover there. Heidegger sucked Nietzsche's dick in his earlier days but distanced himself as he grew older. Which is a frequent pattern worth noting, Nietzsche described his method as philosophy with a sledgehammer and he wasn't wrong, very useful for breaking things, not so useful for building.
Sartre's relationship with Nietzsche is mostly through Heidegger so there isn't much to focus on directly. I don't know as much about Merleau but I suspect it's much the same case with him. I'd pick either Heidegger or Hegel for the sake of simplicity.
>>7914927
Schopenhauer is the correct answer.
>Options are Hegel, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty.
Jesus Christ - what horrifically bad options. Among those, Merleau-Ponty is perhaps the most coherent. But I don't know how indebted he is to Nietzsche.
>>7914927
I'd go with Heidegger. Was very influenced by Nietzsche, especially The Will to Power. Make sure you get a copy and try to get your hands on Heidegger's four-volume "Nietzsche."
Delillo is so fucking based.
>>7907898
He looks like he'd still kick the shit out of you in a fight any day of the week too
DeLillo is a pretty cool guy. Not sure why he always gets labeled 'postmodern'. He's like the anti-Barth. I guess it's because of White Noise though.
Is this accurate?
1. all but maybe one is super shit
2. none of those came out in what is defined to be the timespan of when the millenial generation was born
>>7917372
They wouldn't be millennial lit if they were written before millennials could read.
>>7917350
Jesus christ, I hope not.
Post recent cops
>>7896410
10/10 OP. I've been searching for the Immoralist forever.
My band supported the Sea and Cake once. Nice guys
