Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 689. page

>>9733939
Summary?

>>9734104
Dragons magic and fair ladies, not even written out of conviction or interest but just because he knew it pays well

>>9734152
Sounds comfy desu

Can't ever forget about Aesop and Dickens.
I'm monitoring this thread, I want to raise patrician children.

>>9733855
Marnie is patrician to the max. Anne of Green Gables is also top-tier.

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Was it Kino?

>>9733768
I only care about reviews tho.

Paris and London and New Criterion are good for highbrow but sometimes I want to know what the pulitzer/National Book Award/Man Booker hopefuls are gonna be

Stop reading the media in general

>>9733768
It's a jewish publication, of course it's mediocre and low-brow.

>>9733732
Go back to /r9k/, you dumb pathetic manchild. Stick to your 'vidya' and anime and leave /lit/ alone, vile loser

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>>9733732

>>9733732
>quitting before bannerlord, kingdoms deliverance, the new path of exile expansion, rdr2, and warhammer total war 2

you fucked up

>>9733698
socrates was the original cultural marxist. we have to save whiteness for redpill

>he didn't swallow the hemlockpill

>>9733698
"Even if people are assholes to you dont be an asshole to them because that empowers and gives reason to their fuckery"
Seems sound to me

One last try.

invisible man by ralph ellison read by joe morton is one of the best read/performed audiobooks out there.

Mumkey Jones

>>9733653
Ugly people belong on /r9k/. Kindly fuck off, disgusting frogposting creep

>>9733674
This. Fuck off OP.

>>9733653
Read DFW. Most probably irony and memes are what ruined your life.
Lift and chug on protein shakes. Grills love that.
Treat your acne with witch hazel and antibiotics.
Modify your lifestyle into a healthier one.

Good luck anon

>>9733646
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

>>9733646
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

>>9733646
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

>>9733621
see
>>9733242

Anyone have recommendations how to make it smarter but still edgy?

>>9733621
Bukowski?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwXLDvAk5LA&t=20s
25:23
"Well I never really saw this strange man after that again, but who I did see coming in there was a person in disguise that I thought was Pynchon's sister."
"Now I know it was the same person and it had to have been Pynchon in disguise dressed up as a woman."

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Those teeth don't lie.

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>>9733480

Force yourself to read Genesis and Exodus.

Read a dumbed down version of Job.

Force yourself to read Daniel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel. You don't have to read them in order or all at once.

Read any of the Wisdom literature that you like (Psalms, Songs, etc.). You can just skim over them. Try to remember this was an ancient people's way of preserving "dad wisdom," the shit your uncle would tell you when you were feeling blue. This was people's Internet back then. Makes it more fun.

Then just skip directly to the New Testament. Read Mark first. Try reading all of the Gospels to get an idea of Christ, but if you really hate them, just read Mark.

Skip Paul's letters and read Revelation.

That will give you most of the literarily significant and easier parts of the Bible. You can read them in bite-sized chunks, over your morning coffee even, because the Bible is not a contiguous tome. And once you've read them, you can look at the rest of the Bible as things to fill in, things you missed but are now maybe more interested in because of what you've read.

Also reading the Wikipedia helps, especially for things like Daniel.

>>9733499
Thanks for this

I tried but I gave up. In order to learn some language you must either live in an area where it is spoken, or consumate some series or movies connected with it. Call me a weeb, but I started learning Japanese when I began watching anime, but unfortenately only 3% of the anime is worth watching - with only 3 decades of history, there isn't much choice.

The only reason why I learned English is because I watched Cartoon Network, and here I am now, reading prominent classics.

I'm a native Dutch speaker. also trying to get my french to a level of fluency. currently reading a detective novel. I think it might be a good idea to focus on one language at a time though. especially when one of them is as difficult is Japanese (I've been there before too, in my /jp/ days). good luck anon. bonne chance et 頑張りましょうね

>>9733395
Deutsch. Trying to improve my French by reading.

>>9733292
my diary

>>9733360
desu

I asked this a while ago because I was trying to write some flash fiction for magazines.
One anon recommended these:
Donald Barthelme
Flannery O'Connor's "Why Do The Heathen Rage?"

I don't know too much about the genre, but I believe it's possible to make something compelling out of it. Probably won't ever have the depth of a novel or even a short story, but still something good.

fully give yourself to the irony and eventually its repulsive properties will propel you to the other side

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bumping for advice

Go travel or something.

>>9733242

/lit/ really should get A Little Life

>>9733274

People are constantly saying how much better it would be for /lit/ to get A Little Life

>>9733334

I mean, look at /fit/, look at /out/; look at /fa/ even. They've all got A Little Life
Get A Little Life, /lit/