>read Greek classics
>sudden urge to get off my ass and get /fit/
Is this normal? What are some other books that inspire the reader to obtain the Greek god body?
Go see a therapist
>>9758116
4chan is my therapist
>nerd gets ripped
HRRKH- !!!!
Just a typical cliché love story with reversed gender dynamic.
Where girl saves boy (not literally as I'm not looking for scifi or fantasy). Where instead of "unwomanly woman is all broken inside, needs a real man to help her soften and become a real woman" aka Defrosting Ice Queen, we have a man struggling with his gender defined expectation because of his own problems (dead parents, cancer, abuse, you name it) and find a girl to chase after him aka Broken Hero.
But not fantasy and male pov.
So far I have found a book from an italian author :
"scusa ma ti chiamo amore" where a depressed 30yo meet a 18yo girl by accident who change his life with her joyful and carefree personality.
A book from an australian author :
Girl saves Boy
Boy in terminal stage attempted suicide and is saved by a girl.
(btw pic is the ending scene from Death of a Superhero, where boy with leukemia meets girl who is different)
shameless bump
>>9758101
Role reversal is one of my fucking kinks. I wrote a couple short stories about big butch women and their twink boyfriends. Haven't found any stories about this tho. I also fucking love threesomes. Healthy, loving, committed threesomes that aren't edgy drama machines. The Fire's Stone by Tanya Huff has that.
Is this brilliant story the greatest depiction of the power of love, in all of literature?
>>9757968
Yes. And precisely because the main character has the emotion maturity of a 7th grader. Troilus & Cressida in this bitch. sage
>>9757968
I love the book, but it's not necessarily a love story as much as it's about one man's obsession. Werther's a very romantic young man who sadly lives before therapists were truly available. He just can't seem to overcome his love for Lotte. If only he was able to move on he wouldn't suffer as he did (although it was partly his fault the whole thing happened). I feel like a lot of critics today are very harsh on the guy, and while he isn't the most mature person, what we are seeing in his letters is Werther unfiltered. In the book, everyone he meets likes him, so when he is "more moderate" as Lotte puts it, he's a pretty cool guy. Of course when talking to friends one tends to be more open with what's on their mind, no matter how bad it might be, so he comes across as more overdramatic. He also probably has an undiagnosed disorder like depression. I think Lotte definitely loves Werther, just not romantically. She clearly takes his death very hard to the point it is implied she might die from a broken heart. What I like about the book is how it allows for a lot of theorizing. Like: "What effect did Werther's mother moving him from his childhood home have on him?" Or "Is the girl who loved Werther at the beginning (Lenore) Werther's Werther?"
I really love the early chapters of the book when he and Lotte just met each other, everything's pretty comfy. The ball, the vicar's house, first meeting Albert, etc. That's before he gets all...screwed up. I feel like while most people can enjoy the book, it's one of those novels that really resonates with people at a certain age (kind of like Catcher in the Rye for some people), usually around 17-23, or with people who have had certain experiences, like having trouble getting the girl they like or feeling hopeless. Fuck, I knew the book's ending ahead of time and I still felt sad at the end. Could be mostly due to being around Werther's age and having similar experiences with really liking women I can't have for one reason or another.
Fun fact: This was one of Napoleon's favorite books.
>>9758276
>le sage is a downboat maymay
Werther is litcherally me
How did this novel predict the future so well?
What happened?
>>9757834
he's reeeing about dictator drumpf
>>9757840
>liking Trump
Sorry, /lit/ is for smart people. Get out.
How long do Penguin Classics last?
>>9757660
Half a day. They'll be rotted away by tomorrow, just gotta buy them again. Sorry m8 u fukd up
>>9757660
>>9757704
Are you serious?
>finish novel
>can't decide what to pull out of the backlog to read next
>takes like a week to make up my mind
Every time
>>9757551
Fucking kys my man. I just pick the ones i want to read then mix em all up and pick at random or number them and get my stupid gf to pick. Or if she's not home put the books on the floor and put a piece of food in each and unleash my cat into the room and the one he eats last I read.
>not picking the shortest
>Not reading 3 works of fiction and 5 works of non-fiction at a time
What was his best comedy?
julius caesar
A Midsummer's Night's Dream. But you would be better off watching a modern production of it or his other comedies.
Twelfth Night
>read one book a week
>52 books a year
>if you're 25, have an average of 80 - 25 = 55 years left
>55 * 52 = 2860 books
>>9757383
What the fuck is wrong with you
Why not read 2 books a week and read over 3000. How bow dah as the lady says.
>>9757383
>your backlog is 358 books
>that's more than a tenth of all the books you can read in a lifetime
>will probably be too senile and/or have poor eyesight for the last decade not to mention work and family in between
>your backlog is probably a fifth of your life
ITT: books you can't wait to read to your children or introduce them to.
>>9757377
Currently reading this and can confirm i've been thinking that the entire time haha
>>9757377
>Implying anybody on /lit/ has/is planning on having children
>>9758285
We can at least dream anon. We can dream.
This novella features almost all the same ideas as 1984 but presents them in a far more succinct, effective fashion. Virtually every significant idea in 1984 - the inversion of truth, the manipulation of language, the manipulation of memory, the wastefulness on useless resources like the windmill - is presented here more effectively. I don't understand why Orwell felt the need to write an entire novel that covered basically the same ideas. Did he think this was too cute, and not harsh enough? I like the passages where it describes : "They all remembered, or thought they remembered..."
>>9757355
Very good insight. Can't wait to read animal farm to my kid.
>>9757355
>dimdl
>fdyam
Who was the best animal?
One of the boldest voices of his generation, Joshua Cohen returns with Moving Kings, a powerful and provocative novel that interweaves, in profoundly intimate terms, the housing crisis in America’s poor black and Hispanic neighborhoods with the world's oldest conflict, in the Middle East.
>>9757189
Sounds fucking terrible.
>>9757227
don't be racist, anon. please.
>>9757189
>Joshua Cohen - A novel
What did he mean by this
God, what the fuck? I try to read well, and understand what I'm reading. But this book doesn't seem to want me to do that. I'm on page 3, and I've been reading this thing cripplingly slow, trying to make heads or tales of what it's saying. Now I just feel frustrated, because it doesn't seem to make any sense.
>>9757174
>Reading Beckett seriously
Literal quote from Sammy
>"I think the next little bit of excitement is flying. I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them."
Compare this with Jerome
>"There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. … It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I live to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure. … I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself. … I pay for this kind of attitude. I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work."
Life is short. Read what excites u
You're supposed to speculate what the first part is about. It makes more sense towards the end of the novel. Just push through anon, but enjoy the prose. I'm on page 100 and it's day 2, I'm not a great reader by any stretch, but I let myself enjoy the prose.
>>9757174
i've been reading it for about 4 days now, the first half of molloy was crippling at times, but also very very funny. the second half is like a breath of fresh air. I very much like the way he writes, hypnotic as hell. I hear the unnamable is the least comprehensible, so hopefully enough good will is gathered for the tough spots.
What the fuck did he mean by this?
>At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue came bursting out through your lips and if a gave you a bigger stronger fuck than usual, fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole. It is wonderful to fuck a farting woman when every fuck drives one out of her. I think I would know Nora’s fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also.
>>9757163
>You say when I go back you will suck me off and you want me to lick your cunt, you little depraved blackguard. I hope you will surprise me some time when I am asleep dressed, steal over to me with a whore’s glow in your slumberous eyes, gently undo button after button in the fly of my trousers and gently take out your lover’s fat mickey, lap it up in your moist mouth and suck away at it till it gets fatter and stiffer and comes off in your mouth. Sometimes too I shall surprise you asleep, lift up your skirts and open your drawers gently, then lie down gently by you and begin to lick lazily round your bush. You will begin to stir uneasily then I will lick the lips of my darling’s cunt. You will begin to groan and grunt and sigh and fart with lust in your sleep. Then I will lick up faster and faster like a ravenous dog until your cunt is a mass of slime and your body wriggling wildly.
>Goodnight, my little farting Nora, my dirty little fuckbird! There is one lovely word, darling, you have underlined to make me pull myself off better. Write me more about that and yourself, sweetly, dirtier, dirtier.
>>9757172
Post a photo of Nora.
>>9757188
Bottom right
there is literally no point in reading fiction
it was designed for entertainment and escapism in a time before tv
only pretentious retards read fiction
proove me wrong.
>>9757024
>watch tv show
>it sucks
>get more entertainment from book
>>9757024
>proove me wrong.
You just proved urself wrong
You would be right if no one replied to this thread, this god awful thread
the book is literally about entertainment and escapism and has some really good points which could easily have been written in a non-fiction but it's much more fun to read fiction
It's time for one of these threads again! What are you reading, /lit/?
Only one I have. Pls post moar