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Honeydew – Edith Perlman
To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
The Camomile Lawn – Mary Wesley
City on Fire – Garth Risk Hallberg
The Dharma Bums – Jack Koreuac
Harnessing Peacocks – Mary Wesley
Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
Binocular Vision – Edith Perlman
Best: The Camomile Lawn
Worst: To Have and Have Not
Ulysses. I'm now reading thus spoke zarathustra and urth of the new sun
Why are you reading those things if your own literary output is essentially light novels?
>>7750013
What?
what's the oldest book you own?
the iliad or the old testament
A first edition pocketbook of one of Hawthorne's novels.
>>7742134
1850 Complete poems of Longfellow 2 volume set
Read/Expected/Got Thread
Template?
Ok, here goes. Does anyone else think that maybe, just maybe, Shakespeare isn't the most incredible author out there? I know that this is taboo, and I know that me saying that I know is just putting up a shield, but I sometimes get the sense that Shakespeare's ideas and themes aren't as remarkable as many people make them out to be. His prose is incredible no shit -- there's no questioning that. But, when I was reading Hamlet, it very much seemed to be a relatively simple depiction of human suffering, revenge, existential crises, etc. Yes, you could pull the "it was great for his time" argument, which is valid, but on the other hand...can we really say that it continues (in the modern world) to be as mind-blowing a depiction of "the human condition" as many people make it out to be? I feel that over the years, our understanding of people and existence has gotten more and more complex and intricate and that Shakespeare seems more like a beginning to this process than the zenith. You can say to this that the increased complexity of post-Shakespeare works does not make things better, and I agree. However, I do feel that an increased thoroughness and a more acute perception of humanity/consciousness/etc makes it a better, more impressive and perceptive work of art overall (something that I believe certain authors have been able to attain). I am definitely not an expert in Shakespeare, however, so if anyone here has the ability to call me out, please do so -- it would be great to know that the literary community doesn't just like this guy because of peer pressure.
also, inb4 bloom memes
>>7748827
i always thought he was considered the greatest playwright? that's probably different from the greatest author, but what do i know?
Join the party my friend
http://www.cosmoetica.com/S3-DES3.htm
>The Freewrite is a $500 word processor. The device, which has Wi-Fi, a 5.5-inch e-ink screen and a mechanical keyboard, is designed to be a single-purpose writing tool. Files on the device are stored in plain text and can sync with Dropbox, Google Drive and Evernote.
>The device — intitally called the Hemingwrite — raised nearly $350,000 on Kickstarter at the end of 2014.
>Today, the Freewrite is available for pre-order in a 24-hour flash sale for $449. The price will go up to $550, and is expected to start shipping in March.
/lit/, explain yourselves.
>>7745803
>$500
>24-hour gimmick/pressure sale for $449
>The price will go up to $550
>not even rtf text
You'd have to be really stupid to buy this.
Can you browse /lit/ with this thing?
Is The Unbearable Lightness of Being actually good or is it one of those "bluhhh I'm a bland grumpy white guy women are whores life is pointless or whatever" Bukowski-spittle type things
>>7742129
Well it's not anything like what you described but that doesn't necessarily mean it's good. You set up a false dichotomy.
>>7742129
The movie has tits
Which author is better: Gaddis or Gass?
Report /v/, /a/, /co/ & /tv/ posts Edition
Recommendations:
>Fantasy
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/a/a8/1307836551252.jpg
(For the Computer illiterate) http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL
(4 the Plebs) http://imgur.com/oPLOaVO
http://imgur.com/hasKZsT
>Sci-Fi
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/a/a6/Scifilit.jpg
(For the Computer illiterate) http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc
http://imgur.com/r55ODlL
http://imgur.com/A96mTQX
>What are you currently reading?
>How has the recent thread disruptions from off topic posts affected you?
>How do you deal with it?
Old thread >>7727735
>>7731613
About to start the stars my destination
i haven't been in these thread for a while, what happen?
>>7731613
> Science Fiction and Fantasy General
>>7731613
>What are you currently reading?
The Mote in God's Eye
>How has the recent thread disruptions from off topic posts affected you?
they have upset me greatly
>How do you deal with it?
i retreat into escapist genre fiction
Hey, faggots. Learning The English language for 3 years now gave me the feeling of being way too simplistic and contextual. Not only the English classic literature written in it seems to me dry altogether, but also extremely fuzzy in terms of precision. No genders, diminutives for adjectives, free word order, etc. Also it happened to have a bad spelling with no rules whatsoever( or putting another way there are too much of them depending on what is the origin of a certain word). Why don't you all start learning the only divine language on the planet Earth, which is of course The Russian one? Just in case you wanna appreciate real literature in a real language, not in this banal lousy English.
Romance languages>everything
>>7748571
Spanish is one to compete with Russian imho
>>7748562
i find it hard to listen to anyone criticize another language that can't hide from being outed as ESL in their writing.
What does /lit/ think about sigmund freud?
Fixed Marilyn Monroe right up, great therapist
He is no Jung
Sigmund Fraud
Is she worth it? Give me your hot takes.
Takes are hotter if you are able to defend her changing her name.
http://www.cosmoetica.com/B556-DES481.htm
>>7748089
"one has to call a spade a spade"
that made me laugh. shame he qualified it as being not a racial slur after.
>>7748086
>Woman
>Worth it
nigga you serious
So what's /Lit/ view on having guns in a fantasy novel? Does it ruin the premise, or does it mix it up a bit?
>>7744665
need I even say it? Need I?
dosent really matter, whatever you add just make sure its consistent.
>>7744665
Well, the second amendment to the US constitution requires that books feature a gun at least once a chapter (either brandished or fired), so I guess, yes you need them.
20th century Russian literature doesn't get talked about much. What are the worthwhile authors from around 1920-2017
блaгoдapю!
Eugene Vodolazkin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JnCO0OlhlE
>>7739802
Tatyana Tolstaya
>>7739802
Read any history of the soviet union with a section on literature and you'll find no shortage of this. Hosking's "the first socialist society" is a great intro to many prominent 20th century russian writers, presented within a history of life in the ussr which quite frankly you'll need to understand what any 20th century Russian is writing about.
Bulgakov
Platonov
Akhmatova
Zoshchenko
Bely
>Asked about novelist David Foster Wallace...Bloom says, “You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But ‘Infinite Jest’ is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.”
>It’s all a clear indication, Bloom notes, of the decline of literary standards. He was upset in 2003 when the National Book Award gave a special award to Stephen King. “But Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left. [Wallace] seems to have been a very sincere and troubled person, but that doesn’t mean I have to endure reading him. I even resented the use of the term from Shakespeare, when Hamlet calls the king’s jester Yorick, ‘a fellow of infinite jest.’
>“It’s sort of a dark time. Imaginative energy I think is very difficult to summon up when there are so many distractions. There’s a kind of Grisham’s law [in literature]; the bad drives out the good.”
>>7747983
Bloom is a big fan of Gene Wolfe, from what i've heard.
That's not altogether surprising. Being pretty virulently anti-canon, I've never really put much stock in Bloom's opinions anyway (unless, of course, he happens to agree with my opinion, that is). No one has to like anything, but I do object to Bloom's specific remarks - "He can't think, he can't write. There's no discernible talent." What a blowhard.
where does he stand, really?
The dead can't stand, pal.
>discussion of his politics
>discussion of his theory
>discussion of where to start with his poetry
>no discussion of his poetry
C-L-A-S-S-I-C
>>7747969
where does he stand as a poet?
i've got him top 3, best of his era
>The protagonist is a writer with writer's block
>the protagonist is a woman with a woman's cock
>>7743551
>the protagonist is an alcoholic writer
>>7743555
>the protagonist puts girl dicks inside her
