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This is the greatest character in all of fiction.
Inb4 some autistic fedoralord stutters le dedalus meme
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>obviously count of monte cristo
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>>9417336
lol no, good joke.
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>>9417336
lol, no. good joke
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Idea for a sci fi story in greentext format:
>Guy gets kidnaped
>Wakes up in a locked room with a bunch of stuff including a bed and a computer.
>Realizes the floor is moving slowly, thinks he's in a ship
>After some fiddling with the computer, he gets to see an outside view. It's all blueish green.
>Thinks he's in a submarine
>Suddenly the screen flashes with the words: STRAP ON COUCH and a siren rings
>He was actually in a spaceship that takes off from the see and can see the outside view from the monitor as it soars into the sky
> he was actually kidnaped because for some reason he's instrumental for the rebels to impose freedom and communism in the solar system.
>Cue to a space opera with a crew of adorable misfits, which includes a romance with a qt3.14 petite tsundere space pilot who later turns out to be soft on the inside.
what do you think of the story?
also why do i get the feeling it's incredibly cliche? similar ones please?
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>>9417295
>freedom and communism
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>>9417301
hey, some stories have ftl, i have honest communist and a world in which black and white morals are good
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This is the story of The Last Starfighter, and in parts it's Ready Player One.
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Hey, /lit/. I was at a book sale yesterday and copped a copy of The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. I read on Mann's wikipedia page that he initially intended for the novel to be a follow-up to to his novella Death in Venice, but the former turned into its own thing.
Who here has read either of these books? What do you think about reading Death in Venice before The Magic Mountain.
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>>9417286
I've only read Death in Venice, so I'm not the most apt person to provide an answer. I just want to say that I don't see how that story could have a sequel. I'm going to guess that no, Death in Venice is not any sort of prerequisite for reading The Magic Mountain. I hope someone more knowledgable comes around because I too am looking forward to reading more Mann soon.
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>>9417286
My mothers Godmother died recently and iI inverited quite a few numbers of books and there are a lot of Thomas Mann novels but I know little to nothing about his books.
Is he worth reading?
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>>9417436
>inherited
Please, if you have a book that isn't on libgen, upload it.
>But how?
http://libgen.io/librarian/
Login: genesis
Password: upload
Let's make finding books easier.
Information wants to be free
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>>9417171
I use soulseek, libgen's system is stuck in 1996
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>>9417177
>not wishing it was 1996 again
fucking millennials
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>>9417177
how does soulseek work
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>The world can be validly construed as forum for action, or as place of things. The former manner of interpretation – more primordial, and less clearly understood – finds its expression in the arts or humanities, in ritual, drama, literature, and mythology. The world as forum for action is a place of value, a place where all things have meaning. This meaning, which is shaped as a consequence of social interaction, is implication for action, or – at a higher level of analysis – implication for the configuration of the interpretive schema that produces or guides action. The latter manner of interpretation – the world as place of things – finds its formal expression in the methods and theories of science. Science allows for increasingly precise determination of the consensual properties of things, and for efficient utilization of precisely-determined things as tools (once the direction such use is to take has been determined, through application of more fundamental narrative processes).
What did he mean by this?
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>>9417155
Pretty basic stuff really. We may live in world composed of matter, but we act as if we live in a world of "what matters".
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>>9417155
Modern languages center on nouns or 'things' -- ancient Greek from Homer to koine are verb-centric: movement, motion is the stress or emphasis. The latter for the former, the former for the latter. 'Meaning' today is too emphasized. Perhaps ironically science must deal with a style of speaking that really doesn't suit it. Mathematics the solitary way around these not so obvious restrictions.
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>>9417155
The human experience of the world and the scientific description of the world are both valid perspectives of the same thing and one does not rule out the other.
Where do I start with this manlet?
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Is that D'Annunzio?
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>>9417090
Fuck, D'Annunzio's body is pure aesthetics. As good as a body can be in the early XX century
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Did our favourite author just commit career suicide by saying blacks are provenly intellectual inferior on his podcast?
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>>9416904
How is that career suicide? I don't think anyone seriously disputes this, the contentious part is what causes it.
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>>9416904
Both of his black listeners will be outraged.
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>>9416904
he wouldn't say it in such a manner. link
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Fuck man, is learning to read moonrunes worth it?
I want to experience the world in a new way.
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>>9416663
depends. do you want to learn it?
then yes.
If you just want to experience the world in a new way and don't actually give a shit about the language, then find something easier.
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Probably not worth your time if it's just a passing curiosity.
Learning enough kanji to be literate is such a gargantuan task that I wouldn't try it unless you had some real interest in Japanese literature
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>>9416733
i have interest in dem super robot cartoons
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Is Solaris good book?
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Tak.
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>>9416633
Excellent, as all his works.
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>>9416633
Yep, beats the shit out of the Tarkovsky film version.
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Pennywise comes out every 30 years.
The book is set in 1986, this mean that we should have had a sequel in 2016 if we were ever to get one.
Will IT 2 ever come? Will we ever get confirmation that IT is still alive like Amnesia and Tommyknocker suggest?
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>>9416620
Who gives a shit, the book sucks
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>>9416620
>Pennywise is alluded to being alive in Amnesia and Tommyknockers
Never read those but how? I think it would be better if King didn't ruin the book. It's probably one of his best novels but I'd hate to see it get tarnished by a cheap, cash in sequel.
I was going to say a Salem's Lot sequel would be pretty interesting but then I remembered Dark Tower. Grey Matter would be awesome though.
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>>9416690
>stephen king is like the mcdonalds of literature omg muh postmodern encyclopedic meta-meta novel desu
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/lit/, help me.
I've been into lifting and sports for like a year now, and ever since I started getting serious about it I stopped browsing /lit/ and switched to /fit/ and /pol/ mainly.
Don't get me wrong, I read just as much as I did before. The only problem is that I stopped having any discussions about literature and I want to talk about them books again. What do to to make myself enjoy discussing literature online again?
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>>9416541
Stop browsing this shithole for autistic teenagers in the first place. There's nothing of value here except for an occasional laugh.
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>>9416554
But I love hating this place. And it's the only place where I can talk about books because I hate most people I know who read in real life.
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>>9416541
>/pol/
Why? Are you 15 or do you have a debilitating mental illness?
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I'm at the part where Bernard is showing off the Savage and getting g a huge ego. This book has terribly slow pacing. I enjoy the writing style but the plot is so loose it feels like there's no direction. Is this worth finishing?
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>>9416350
You should always finish what you start. That's what my grandfather used to say.
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>>9416350
It's worth finishing so you can tell everyone how fucking awful the book is. You really need to finish it to make a believable case
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>>9416372
If the book is as awful as you make it out to be, why is it still popular to this day and well regarded?
i want to have a better understanding of romanticism, specially romantic literature.
any books or suggestions?
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Romanticism:
Rosseau made shit up.
/thread
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>>9416209
MH Abrams - Mirror and the Lamp
MH Abrams - Natural Supernaturalism
Frank Kermode - The Romantic Image
Jerome McGann - The Romantic Ideology
Frederick Burwick - Romanticism: Keywords
Frederic Beiser - The Romantic Imperative
Dalia Nassar - The Romantic Absolute
Joseph Koerner - Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape
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>>9416296
Forgot two introductory works:
Duncan Wu - 30 Great Myths about the Romantics
Tim Blanning - The Romantic Revolution
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Who are you, why do you read, and why do you browse /lit/?
Who are you in society /lit/? What kind of lifestyle do you lead, and how do you feel about it? Do you ever dream of living other lives, in other times? Do you read novels and identity with the protagonist?
I ask because I'm wondering how the annals of history will look at people like us; people who frequent an anonymous internet discussion board with a particular culture associated with it. Is this board full of anyone but disaffected 20 year olds dreaming of "literary greatness" (aka hero worship) in some way? Possibly some older people, minor publishers, not a single author of renown in any circles?
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>>9416165
I am a hated/pityed pseudointellectual. I read to learn more about myself and the universe, I browse /lit/ because you share my interests and I empathise with you.
I am the annoying shy kid who sometimes orbits the group, but never contributes anything. I spend most of my time alone, which I like, although I wish I got out more. I wish I could lead my nation to victory atop a white horse, wind blowing through my hair. I identify with Bernard Marx.
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>>9416165
Why would /lit/ or something similar ever be mentioned in a history?
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>>9416343
we're a category of people who post on a strange forum like this; we remember, even if theyre only footnotes, movements of disaffect youths trying to live
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Just got done with reading all of these and I didn't care particularly for any of them, what does that say about me? Should I just not bother with literature?
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Hope this helps, OP.
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>>9416193
Underrated post, anon.
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>>9416152
uh oh
Sounds like you have already gotten out of high school, you wont fit in here
That list is LITERALLY freshman year assigned reading
You have outgrown this shitty list of dead hetronormitive white men