Anybody else here ruthlessly independent?
>refuse to work
>refuse to talk
>refuse to answer the door
>refuse to perform chores
>refuse to maintain a regular sleep schedule
>refuse to study
>refuse to conform to social norms
>refuse to subscribe to dominant regional and / or national ideologies
>refuse to "quit it"
>refuse to pay back large high-interest loans
>refuse to dress often
>refuse to shower
What books advocate this kind of lifestyle?
>>9429716
Try r9k by 4chan
But you already know that when you made this thread.
>>9429716
My diary "kys" Desu
Oblomov
Working class writers?
f scott fitzgerald
>>9429694
Nowadays? Not many.
Still, there's always DH Lawrence.
>>9429862
>Born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to an upper-middle-class family, Fitzgerald was named after his famous second cousin, three times removed on his father's side, Francis Scott Key,[1]
>Hey anon! Don't forget to summarize every paragraph of the books you read in your own words so that you can properly digest the material. :3
>>9429616
Why start this thread? What are you possibly going to get out of it?
Just fuck off
>>9429619
You just gave him what he wanted
We post anonymously here, and yet still people are not sincere. What exactly do you hope to gain, anonymously, by adopting a new kind of role, defined by something as disgusting as "4chan is a cool underground website that I want to feel a part of" so you act like an idiot here, play the stupid games, talk about the books you think you should talk about, adopt the opinions you think you should adopt,..
Do you realize how divergent and non-hive-minded this place would really appear if everyone decided to be honest? What is everyone thinking they're going to lose, anonymously? You won't fit in? With what? With nothing, literally nothing. The second you turn your monitor off, this entire world disappears, and you're still alone with yourself, as you always are. None of this matters, nor will it ever. This website is not some kind of underground 'secret influence on society' machine, its nothing. The people who flock here are didn't pass some kind of "cool, intelligent people" test, and the people who remain here didn't pass some kind of "can handle the red pill" shit. It amazes me that there is some conception of superiority from this in relation to reddit or whatever website you want to be your trendy antagonist. I'm sure all of you can remember times where this website made you feel less lonely and gave you a chuckle or two, but beyond that this is your coffin.
Go ahead and browse through the catalogue, slowly, and ask yourself if any of this shit has some kind of substance beyond childish competition. Idiots trying to prove to other idiots how cool they are.
But no, look at this Calvin and HObbes 4chan banner. 4chan is so self-aware and self-ironic, even the banners talk about what a shit place this is! Ha-ha-ha! This place is so shit! Isn't it fun to wallow in shit? Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
>>9429586
Back to r/books with you
salty cunt lmao
Do you like short stories, /lit/?
What's your favorite one?
Have you ever written any yourself?
>>9429485
Yes
Something by Tolstoy, Borges or Kafka
Nothing good, but I enjoy writing them
Yes. And I think its one of the forms that really shows if a writer knows his craft.
Library of Babel is a fun one.
Plenty. Only some I really like though.
>>9429485
fantastic night by zweig
What is the best publisher of paperbacks and why is it the Viking Portable Library?
>Excerpts.
i wish i could read
it's penguin cause they also published all of the viking portable library
What's some essential LitRPG? Is this the next big literary movement?
What's that?
>>9429274
Planescape Torment. /thread
If you are less than half a decent writer you can outwrite the competition easily. There's already been some autistic power grabs, but if you are quick it's still a good time to get in.
Hahahaha
Hooooohahaha
Wew lad
>>9429109
Is that what Chad reads or what Chad considers "deep literature"?
>>9429124
>tfw I am Chad but I read classics and patrician literature only
Is that Tai Lopez?
How does /lit/ feel about these books? I've been recently looking at buying some classics and I found these at my local B&N. Should I stick to regular editions or are these worth a buy?
>>9428966
>Barnes and nobles leather-bound editions
You're much better off just buying paperbacks
The B&N leatherbound books are schwarbage. Get Franklin Library or Easton Press off of ebay or Amazon if you want leather books.
>>9428966
If you want people coming into your apartment to think you're gay or autistic, you can do no better.
Who decided that the title for Hitlers "My Struggle" should be left untranslated as "Mein Kampf"?
Why are the titles of some foreign books translated, and others not?
>>9428748
It just sounds better in German
>>9428748
Because the unknown scares people
Because that way it can't be relateable. Mein Kampf sounds scarier and less approachable to an English audience.
What's some good modern fantasy?
I'd ask /sffg/ but they're a contrarian circle jerk who only ever insist upon the same three awful writers, all of whom only write GoT knock-offs and insist everything else is trash
Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson are is pretty /lit/
>>9428702
back to /sffg/ with you
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
>she didn't like stoner because he basically rapes his wife
I actually didn't think about it that way at all. Sometimes the female perspective changes your view on a character.
At the same time though. That comment made me kek.
>>9428668
>Only being able to like a work if you agree with the decisions of and like every character on a personal level
>women reading books
wait she doesn't like a book because of something the fictional character 'did' in a fictional story?
>>9428681
The moral highroad spares nobody
ITT: Luso literature thread, foreigners welcome
My favorite author is Augusto dos Anjos, but I've already reread it at least five times. I enjoyed Cruz e Souza, but it's nowhere near the quality of Augusto. Could someone recommend me another author, in the same vein of him, that I might enjoy?
Here, the favorite poet of some guys that fonded the avant-garde school called Concretismo:
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonsus_de_Guimaraens
Here's a poem I wrote too, I'd be thankful for any feedback
Queria eu ser como as flores de minha terra.
Ter em minhas pétalas o fulgor de toda uma vida
Queria eu desabrochar em toda primavera.
Queria eu viver como poesia proferida!
Fulgurar incontingente na maré universal
Que é a rutilância interior d'uma flor!
Nadar nos campos etéreos de um coral
Como nadam os peixes do meu amor!
Sim, amo, e se amo quero 'inda mais amar.
Amar a ininteligível sensualidade do ser
Que sem entender, amamos!
What is his best short fiction story or novella?
For me it's either Hadji Murad or The Forged Coupon.
Hadji Murad
God Sees the Truth, But Waits
Hadji is fantastic (as are all the shorts) but I choose The Cossacks.
I'm having a hard time reading Gravity's Rainbow... What could help understand it?
For example, maybe I'm missing some historical context.
http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=2104
>>9428548
The context is WW2 aka WW II.
>>9428548
literally just keep reading