What the fuck happened to this place? Let's have one of these.
>>7578805
Let the mods know how you feel
>>>/qa/409518
>>7578805
It helps to post a template, OP. I'll do one in a second.
not a bad book though
Somone do The Pale King. I would but im on mobile. Has some good meme potential
This is very accurate.
>>7578805
Is there much mysticism and literal spirit entities in Gogol's work?
ok here you go
>>7579588
But corn wasn't invented back then?????????????
>>7579599
>>7579588
>>7579343
pretty accurate
>>7578979
The one I made of this sucks in comparison. I lol'd.
>>7578805
>>7579615
T O P K E K
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>>7579599
>>7579615
It's not a "poor translation", corn is not maize outside of the new anglosphere.
>The word "corn" outside North America, Australia, and New Zealand refers to any cereal crop, its meaning understood to vary geographically to refer to the local ...in British English, "corn" can mean any cereal.
For the reference of any ignorant septics currently browsing: this is a field of corn.
>>7579357
heh so he cleans a lot?
>>7580269
i dont get it
>>7578995
What book is this?
>>7580219
this one is really great because of the similar sized heads
fuckin great meme d00d
>>7578848
add something about how all the men in the book are on Mina's cock and you nailed it.
>>7580502
The Process by Brion Gysin
>>7580364
Sorry, bro. You juse go memed
>>7578818
Kill yourself
>>7578805
Relevant as fuck since the imgur event.
>>7580554
Kill yourself.
>>7578818
Great thread, the common decrease in quality posting on this board has indeed troubled me for a while.
>>7580607
I wish I had that cover
>>7579615
>not posting the pasta itself
>>7579665
Thanks for the kind words senpai.
>>7581133
>clip art of holding a carrot
what did he mean by this?
>>7581133
>reading infinite jest before ulysses
>implying you didn't get the middle
smdh tbqh pham
>>7581215
why is it bad to read IJ before ulysses?
>>7581225
well, seeing as it colored your experience of ulysses i think it was a mistake for you, tbqh
>>7581233
i havent created that, just asked bc atm im reading IJ and was planning to read ulysses after.
>>7581239
just don't do what anon did and let it change your experience of ulysses
>>7581225
Because DFW uses the word 'scrotum-tightening' on page like 729 or something and you don't get the reference if you haven't read UlyssesI'm being facetious but on a serious note it applies to the use of stream of consciousness in both works
>>7581256s-...scrotum-tightening applies to the use of stream of consciousness in both works?
>>7581266
no, none at all
>>7581295
I have a foot fetish. Should I read Cat's Cradle?
>>7581318
100% yes
>>7581318
yes
When early-born Dawn appeared with her rosy fingers, I made this image. Then it was night.
Dawn came early with rosy fingers and I decided to post the image.
>>7578979
if it had "they rode on" it would be perfect.
>>7578805
>>7579620
such a good album
>>7581207
jakin it
>>7581233
I read Infinite Jest before I knew about /lit/
Or well... I read half of Infinite Jest and then gave up. I was 17.
I'm planning to get back to it one day.
>>7580607
how did you expect Hitler before reading it? Seems like an unexpected element which would find itself in the "what I got" section.
>>7581351
You have typed well, fleet-fingered Anon. Had you only such attributes as she of the golden throne, twould be a blushing multitude to sea indeed.
>>7581436
pleb
>>7581266
What I meant is that you shouldn't think that DFW's style is his very own product with no real influence, because reading Joyce, Pinecone and Oulipo shows that he was indeed influenced by quite some parties, even if in the end he was a superior writer when it comes to some things
>>7581268
Wait, are you being serious or not with this question? I legitimately can't tell
>>7581623
I haven't read it but I believe White Noise's protagonist is a Hitler scholar.
>>7581417
I have no clue as to why you'd have mathematical expectations from a pseudo-philosopher
>>7578805
it was taken over by Christians, then by a legion of outsider weirdos...just like the history channel
>>7581725
>math
it's logic
because
>philosopher
>you are clueless
>confirmed
>>7580472
the plechazunga suit doesn't even look like a pig like that
its yellow and black and all weird sharp angles
fuck you nigga actually read the book bfore you make dumb meme shit like this
>>7581244
lol
>>7580466
the whole 2nd half of the book he is cleaning the house his drunk dad shat himself and died in. incidentally, if (You) ever find yourself in the same situation, I recommend Jif, because Knausgaard swears by it.
>>7579357
Yes yes yes
I mean, I got the stuff I expected as well. But, I'm rereading it right now and am currently at the point where they reach the top of the stairs before entering Cirith Ungol and Sam and Frodo fall asleep all cuddled up and damn could Tolkien really not see how uncomfortable these scenes were?
I'm totally gay, and this didn't sit right even with myself.
>>7578979
Lol
>>7582395
>cuddleshaming
lighten up anon. its 2012. cuddling is good for you.
>>7581688
worth reading?
>>7581732
explain
>>7582571
It's not the cuddling. It's the same-race cuddling.
Saruman on an Uruk-hai? Sure.
Galadrial on Gimli? Sexy.
Boromir and Faramir sharing a brotherly hug? Disgusting.
>>7581870
Camus wasn't a logician tho
>>7579182
There's a ghost in The Overcoat
>>7582859
i'm sorry
i didn't realize this is a literal meme
>>7581725
here's your (you)
>>7579357
10/10, In seriousness though, those parts about him cleaning were still very enjoyable.
>>7581351
Surprise the epics were oral poetry
(This made me laugh really hard tho)
>>7580501
spirit illumination
>>7583881
literally everyone reads Camus
so
>>7583888
You're stupid. Hate to break it to you. Hope you're pretty, at least.
>>7579588
please no, corn father
>>7583893
Oy vey
well it's confirmed then
>>7579620
NEVERRR MEANT
>>7583916
and the autumn night
when we realized
we were falling out of love
>>7581417
what's the 'what i got' image from senpai
>>7580514
>>7583938
i googled "rebirth"
http://dylanguest.com/sculpture/
Here you go lit
>>7581326
>>7581330
Well now I'm excited
>>7582574
>What I got not a collage of jugs of wine, dogs, and a pirate
>>7583991
dude
>>7584325
What?
>>7583945
you memefucker
>>7583964
thank you so much my senpai i love you
old repost
>>7583991
he wrote kafka on the shore now he's the japanese version of kafka?
>>7581623
Said Jack Gladney was the chairman of Hitler Studies on the back of the cover. I figured there'd be more Hitler. There was a fair share of Hitler, and some interesting remarks about nazism and their cultural legacy (part about Speer's built-in beautiful decay of nazi architecture was esp. great), but I was expecting more Hitler.
>>7582271
I'm 100 pages in, and I want to have dinner with Anna and discuss the state of modern society with her so fucking bad it makes my balls hurt.
>>7578805
>>7578805
2
>>7578805
Pretty good though...
Anyone got the one of The Manipulated Man?
>>7584502
This any good?
>>7579343
I just began reading this, currently reading about the 12 Olympians. I was worried it might end up being dry but is this really that accurate of a comparison?
>>7580364
> being this new
>>7585180
Hard to tell if you don't know about Burroughs already. It's more colourful than Naked Lunch. Contains much anal sex for no particular reason, as well as systematic descriptions of penises and their hues. It's very gay, is what I'm trying to say. Blends genres otherwise, with the occasional bit of (accidentally?) great prose amidst the confusion.
>>7582758
It's not bad. Much different than I expected but I'd say worth reading.
>>7581712
Everything is linked to the baseball event, but it doesn't compromise the entire 'what I got' imho. That being said, the 'what I expected' would be correct in the 'what I got' as well.
>>7584825
>no pictures of Boethius in what I got
>>7584925
Someone do this for the rest of the books of the bible
>>7582395
It must suck to read a story about having a loyal bro who will care for you when you are at the limits of physical and mental endurance in Mordor, and think "this is uncomfortable"
>>7580219
Instant classic
>>7584750
it is marketed as a surrealist work and I believe the blurb on the back of that edition calls Murakami a modern day Kafka.
>>7584925
lol
>>7580382
>>7578859
Accurate
>>7589144
oh man that book was awful
SPOILER the main dude character jizzes through a wormhole in an underage girl's cervix into the love of his life (main woman character) who he hasn't seen since she was 10 but they are in love because they talked once
could not be more of a Japanese stereotype
I guess that's probably the point?
Embarrassed that I read it
>>7581133
This image offends me.
>>7581239
Why the fuck would you read such important books in reverse chronological order? Are you fucking retarded? Literally end yourself.
>>7581266
The Greeks then the Romans then the saints then philosophy then Dubliners then Ulysses then you can read DFW
>>7589212
Mind posting a full flowchart?
>>7589206
be easy on the guy family.
it's not as much of a sin as e.g. not starting with the Greeks
>>7579357
lmao
I loved the cleaning descriptions, I was really invested in his struggle with the messy house... I hope he managed to organise the funeral party there
>>7582271
hated the Levin parts
actually made fun of them with my friends
>>7589212
man i felt like this was complete bullshit before reading any joyce. then i read portrait and was fully convinced that james joyce is about ten thousand times more erudite than i could ever be in three lifetimes.
>>7589372
how is what you got NOT what you expected, it's Ayn Rand
>>7589166
Sauce?
>>7589495
wait those hot dog carts are real? hahahahahaha!
>>7578805
Pls no, corn father.
>>7581712
Can you post that TRex comic? That's hilarious.
>>7579182
>>7582870
There is a k8t grrl witch corpse, a demon horde and exorcism in the Viy.
There is satan in the night before christmas.
There is a nose in the Nose.
There is a portrait in the Portrait.
There is a castrated lothario in the Nevsky Prospect.
There is a collector of dead souls in the dead souls.
>>7589990
Also, the portrait in The Portrait is a 'satanic' one. Gogol's stories from Evenings on a Farm are pretty much stories about devils messing around with peasants and cossacks.
>>7581868
>taken over by Christians
/lit/ is a Christian board and if you don't accept Jesus as your lord and savior you're pleb as fuck to be honest with you family.
>>7589372
>>7584825
>>7589495
to me as a non-american this book looked like diatribe by some boorish racist catholic and I dropped it after he started talking about communism. the author is sarcastic and demeaning and it's clear he has no problem with the views espoused by his characters but only with the characters themselves. they mar all that is good and noble about mccarthyism.
>>7590059
/lit/ is a christian invention. i dare you to name one ssingle book written before the bible.
>inb4 inscribed toilet roll buy homo romans on their genocides
>>7589793
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005LW5KA2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1
I am looking forward to the Hulu miniseries
>>7580501
It's just a chill book, it's not a collection of philosophy related essays.
>>7589144
Post the screencap with the alternate universe stuff?
Lucky Jim
>>7579615
I was in that thread. I don´t think the quality of the board has changed.
>>7590128
>I don't like the book because I don't like the views I think the author might have
Thanks for discrediting your review.
>>7586599
You do it.
>>7589166
Fuck Ballard...
>>7584502
>>7589206
He mad
>>7582395
The Frodo-Sam scenes were much better and more important than the shitty battle scenes.
>>7579620
That album is godly as fuck bruh.
>>7582574
>comparing Steinbeck to Faulkner
>>7590784
It was capped straight from /x/, they always have a thread about that nonsense there.
>>7590128
>as a non-american
Stopped reading here. /lit/ is an American board
>>7585041
oh god, this is so true. there's a whole chapter titled "On Cetology" for fucks sake
>>7594047
This board is for 18+ only.
>>7593706
Do you know what a comparison is, fucking retard?
Really good book.
somebody make one for naked lunch (i had absolutely no idea about the sex scenes before i picked it up having just read junky when i was 15 like everyone else)
>>7579432
so true
>that metallica logo
10/10
>>7589333
>mocking the best part of a 10/10 novel
>>7582791
So you're fine with homosexuality as long as it's interracial?
>>7594398
i relaly wish they hadn't removed the wine tasting party in the english version.
>>7593706
I'm trying to be a better, tolerant person, but damn, you're dumb.
>>7594418
Huh? What are you taking about?
I read this in rehab
Didnt mind the Leven bits
>>7585041
>>7594047
Many chapters were dedicated to cetology
At least it was more accurate than 20k leagues brand of bang-bang shoot em up naturalism
>mfw they commit narwhal genocide
Ahab could have learned a thing or two about hunting whales from that fucking bloodbath
>what I read :illiad
>what I expected: emotional cuts from Trojan war, Greek gods witnessing the horror
>what I got; mount and blade, athene sucking Odysseus off, PTSD, hector hector hector hector hector hector does hector kill hector wise Hector strong well made chariots and towns hector
>>7595136
Oh and: ox, wine, ox ox ox kill oxes for zoos
>>7581690
So fucking true. I read this book when I was 15 and still assumed all famous books were super serious. I was just so fucking confused.
>ayyy lmao
>>7593537
what did you expect? It L I T E R A L L Y says 'Diary' on the front cover. Jesus Christ, anon.
>>7581690
Can't stop laughing hahahahahahahah…
>>7584105
Don't forget the village bicycle and some good old fashioned spooks
What version of Alice in Wonderland should I read?
>>7578805
damn, gogol was a qt
>>7595285
KEK
>>7593930
uhhhhhhh
yup
>>7596389
>>7596425
The one with the trippiest illustrations.
>>7581244
Had never head of it so I looked it up. Reading the quotes on goodreads... this is beyond accurate. Wew.
>>7578805
Am I the only person who likes watching dramatizations in chronological order?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_by_century_of_setting
>>7578805
>tfw you think of your unwritten books according to this template
>tfw it's good
>>7589144
the expectations picture is exactly what i thought i was getting, instead i got some shitty beta hover hand story with gnomes.
how in the fuck is this heavily influenced by 1984, other than the title?
how the fuck did murakami manage to get away with such a shitty, unresolved story, and unimpressive writing?
>>7589144
Does anyone on this board like 1Q84? I see a lot of people defending Murakami in general, but damn if that wasn't one of the worst books I've read in a long time.
>>7581244
AHHAHAHAHAH shit man
>>7598910
>how the fuck did murakami manage to get away with such a shitty, unresolved story, and unimpressive writing?
It is because it is a riddle, with a different answer for everyone, that will only present itself after many re-readings :^)
>>7599435
I think the majority of /lit/ shits on Murakami. I've only read Kafka on the Shore, and I am not interested in reading anything else by him as I hear he's a one-trick pony. While I enjoyed the sense of mystery it managed to engender in me, when I read that Murakami literally stated this >>7599945 with regards to it, I started considering him a massive, irredeemable faggot.
>>7585041
K E K
E
K
>>7595619
WATS THE YAMS
>>7594047
P L E B
>>7600042
>expecting african-american gospel from something written in medieval italy
>implying the sort of person who reads the divine comedy cover to cover wouldn't know what they're getting into
>>7600125
You are not the regular kind of stupid are you?
I read it when I was 12. I expected gospel and biblical text, and I got one of the best experiences in my life.
No, I didn't know what I was getting into, I was a kid and I picked it up from the living room's bookshelf. Why don't you go sulk in your bed whilst holding a John Green book, huh buddy?
>>7600042
While on the subject of religious works.
>>7600472
Why would you lie on an anonymous board?
>>7589907
>>7589975
terrible.
>>7593537
this book was unexpectedly comfy as fuck
>>7589333
Funny but makes me feel sad
I've posted this one a couple of times already, but maybe it will be new for someone
>>7601808
really? i just got zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz "it was really boring cuz they were all locked in and they missed people" zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
>>7601874
I just liked the dynamics of a town collectively and as individuals put under a really odd stressful situation + the health professionals trying to deal with the situation
i'm a sucker for that kinda thing
>>7594047
I hoping that your are bating.
>>7601808
>>7601874
>>7601883
:^)
>>7601916
Camus never even read Nietzsche.
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