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What's wrong with reading non-literary or 'middle brow' writers /lit/?
>>7843793
Pollutes the mind just like pornography or mind-altering substances.
>>7843834
>he doesn't consider literature a mind-altering substance
back to /r9k/, kid
>>7843834
i have something to tell you about some of your favourite writers anon
are you seated?
Name a better book to permanent place on the shelf next to your toilet and bath. Protip: You can't
>makes you look patrician to house-guests
>short size of chapters makes ideal burst reading
>my uncultured STEM gf actually asked me what a cognomen is.
How can you concentrate on shitting when you're reading?
dude, i just took an excellent shit, but i only read a music magazine, i've been looking for something patrish to read while shitting, might subscribe to paris review or something. it disgusts me my roommates watch tv on their phone while taking a shit, what the fuck, do ppl really do this? apparently.
>>7842815
>concentrate on shitting
just push dude
Is there a valid reason to use one of these in 2016?
Is there a valid reason to do anything at all?
>>7842636
Enjoyment.
Taking a strictly 'practical' approach to life leeches all the joy right out of it.
Come on, /lit/.
I know you enjoyed it.
No need to be all tsundere about it.
No tattoo would appear on your forehead as soon as you accepted that you liked a book that also happens to be liked by people who browse reddit or tumblr saying "NOT PART OF THE INTERNET ELITE".
Now, let's just talk about it.
Has nobody around here even tried reading it?
>>7840703
I've only heard of it. What happens? Do they join the army in it?
What works of H.P Lovecraft should I start with?
Rats in the Walls, Dunwich Horror, Shadow Over Innsmouth
Check out Wayne June readings of some Lovecraft audiobooks if you like audiobooks
Avoid Librivox
John Barth Lost in the Funhouse
Anyone who posts the meme poem is a newfag.
hey lit i was really high on acid and decided to jot some words can someone help me try and decipher what i wanted to communicate with my sober self thanks in advance
The poem is called
"He sat there with a stare"
He liked the sound of subtle silence
The sound a breath made
The sound of two hands aligning
A path whom blank paper would take in a whim
These were the tender sounds
The sounds, which needed no explaining
Less noises and more vibrations
They spaked of secrets whom many spoke
They doubted of hints misaligned by many
A hint of prophesy which were heeded by no one
These sounds were the catalyst of the renewal
A reaffirming knowledge of indigestion
Don’t be a cunt
oh yea the don't be a cunt is a part of the poem i think
>>7845783
DUDE
>>7845787
LSD
Hey /lit/, so I just finished reading the Mistborn trilogy.
Is the novella series worth starting? I loved the overall universe of the original trilogy, but I worry that it won't feel right without the original characters.
Isn't there a fantasy general for these questions? It doesn't deserve it's own thread.
To answer your question, take a break and come back to it. It's good, but different.
>>7845645
don't bother; read ulysses
>>7845645
>>>/reddit/
How does pynchy make money?
By being a NYT best selling author whose works have been continually in print.
He only does the blowjobs thing for funsies, even though he makes money from it too
>>7844455
These things called royalties
memeing
writing shitting dude weed lmao genre fiction that tryhards try to read depth into
>mfw cultivating an alcohol problem to become a great writer
>implying Bukowski was a great writer
Correlation does not equal causation.
>>7843877
Are you also developing a hypersensitivity that makes any opportunity to drop your self-awareness appealing, or just the alcoholic part?
Infinite jest music suggestions?
Alt-j feels really right to listen to when I'm reading IJ but they've only got two albums out
>>7843865
>he can't read ij in sub two hours
>>>/pleb/
>>7843875
even if you read a page a minute, which you'd have to be fucking speedy gonzales to do given the font size and the size of the pages, it would still take 16 hours
>>7843875
Wallace forgive me.
Also, Neutral Milk Hotel, in case other people are looking for suggestions
bookshop thread?
what's your city's best bookshop? have you ever seen a literary qt there and failed to speak to her? etc
I'm heading to New Orleans in a few days I was wondering if you guys knew which used shops in the quarter had the best philosophy selection
I live in a university town and it doesn't even have a single bookstore besides textbook stores.
FML
I always see nerdylooking qt's at the bookshop, but they never have good taste
Toronto here. not many big book stores. lots of smaller ones though. elliots is the best I'd say. although the handy book exchange always has what I want and if they don't they will take your name down and call you when they get the book. they have called me twice in the past. bmv is okay too.
What is the best Shakespeare play?
What is the worst Shakespeare play?
What is the most underrated Shakespeare play?
>Shakespeare
>underrated
lel
it should be illegal to put this words together
>>7843102
He has a lot of plays.
Antony and Cleopatra
Titus (obv)
Richard III
What are some people that have lived the NEET/hikki life and lived to tell about it? Looking for anything on the subject, but preferably non-fiction, since I'd like to know how actual NEETs lived. Fiction is fine, too.
Besides my and your diary, obviously.
Cioran was a NEET philosopher who praised non-action.
"At any rate I can say that I've read a lot in my life, precisely because I was a man without an occupation. What the French call an idler, someone who doesn't work. But in return I read. So I consider that I've done my duty all the same. But I read also in order not to think, to escape. To not be me. And too, I've always tried to find the defects in others, the flaws."'
- E.M. Cioran
>JW Did you write much through all those sleepless nights?
>EMC Yes, but not so much. You know, I've written very little, I never assumed it as a profession. I'm not a writer. I write these little books, that's nothing at all, it's not an oeuvre. I haven't done anything in my life. I only practiced a trade for a year, I was a high-school teacher in Rumania. But since then, I've never practiced a trade. I've lived just like that, like a sort of student and such. And that I consider the greatest suc- cess of my life. My life hasn't been a failure because I succeeded in doing nothing.
>JW And that's difficult.
>EMC It's extremely difficult, but I consider that an immense success. I'm proud of it. I always found one scheme or another, I had grants, things like that.
>>7842872
Thanks, just what I was looking for. Heard about him, but didn't know that he held this opinion about non-action.
>because I succeeded in doing nothing.
He truly was a master. It really is difficult though, precisely why I wanted real-world examples of it. Thanks again, I'll go read something by him.
>>7842819
>tfw you're half Oblomov/half Stolz and your life could go either way
I'm scared t b h
>tfw committed myself to living a virtuous Kantian life dictated by the Categorical Imperative
>tfw see a qt girl on campus wearing a qt thin white summer dress
>tfw she smiles at me and subtly invites me to ask her out
>tfw begin walking over, excited to finally get a girlfriend
>inner voice asks "what would Kant do?"
>realize if I ask her out I'm tacitly encouraging every other guy to ask her out as a universal law of nature
>get intimidated by the prospect of all those other guys asking her out
>panic and walk past her pretending not to see her
>walk home crying
>>7842425
>"what would X do?"
The worst kind of degenerate
>get out of bed
>get in the shower
>shampoo hair
>floss
>brush teeth
>use conditioner
>body scrub
>shave
>rinse
>apply cologne
>apply anti-perspirant
>dress in favorite outfit
>gel hair
>comb hair
>take out bins
>sit in front of computer in silence for thirty minutes
>turn it on
Pure ideology
Tell us everything you know about e-readers and lets find out what the most versatile models are.
I just read on my phone using any reading app and whatever screen shading app.
Can't be assed to hoard books or spend money on an e-reader.
>>7842376
Actual e readers are supposed to be less tiring to the eyes.
What the heck is the third thing in the bottom row?
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