My little sister's going off to camp because summer.
What three books would you recommend I cram into a care package we're sending her?
They're gonna be out in the mountains and shit so ideally I wanted something about people being rendered into bits by some horrible forrest monster.
>condoms
>lube
>ass plug
she should be all set
>>9731796
make sure she grows up to be a proper patrician
>>9731796
Lolita
Ulysses
The Complete Works of Plato (Loeb bilingual edition)
Lolita
CLEAN YOUR ROOM
>>9731710
to what end?
>>9731710
i'd rather accumulate even more chaos until i explode and my frog becomes a prince ;^)
>>9731710
FUCK YOUR MOM
Taking a class this next semester, "Masterpieces of Russian Literature".. here's the reading list
>The Queen of Spades - Pushkin
>The Overcoat - Gogol
>Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
>The Kreutzer Sonata - Tolstoy
>The Lady with the Little Dog - Chekhov
>Heart of a Dog - Bulgakov
>Kolyma Tales - Shalamov
>The Time: Night - Petrushevskaya
I've only read C&P. Does this class look like a meme or are those good books? Worth taking (I can still drop it)?
>>9731613
Shameless bump
>>9731613
That can't be true. As far as I know, you aren't allowed to teach any of those because of SJW in the West. Do you have to read them through a marxist-feminist lens or LGBT one?
fact is, you just made it up to cover over how liberalism has ruined the West
>>9731846
are those anti-SJW books or something, i don't really get what you mean since I haven't read them
pic related is part of the syllabus with the books
Can we have a thread for this based individual? The man who made me /lit/.
For me, it's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem.
>>9731247
What made me /lit/ was reading Evola and Moldburg. Turned me conservative, and I see a lot of problems with current multicultural society.
But in relation to Faulkner, I do admire Southern men of that era
>>9731254
I'm a Southerner, so he tends to be one of if not the first titans of /lit/ that we're exposed to.
>>9731265
I get the feeling if he were alive today, he'd be in support of Trump
this dude takes your girl. wyd?
>>9731105
pelt him with apples
He should've picked Hera desu
>>9731114
athena a qt tho
>Read Aurelius
Emulate Aurelius in life
>Read Plato
Emulate Socrates in life
>Read Nietzsche
Emulate Nietzsche in life
>Read the Bible
Emulate Jesus in life
>Read Joyce
Emulate Joyce in life
>Read Tolstoy
See the beauty in life
>Read Shakespeare
See the beauty in life
>Watch Sam Hyde
Emulate Sam Hyde in life
>Read Seneca
Emulate Seneca in life
Anyone else? Is it better to stick to a certain mindset (or ideology) or be tossed around until you stick to one? Tips?
>>9731063
Tips? Drop 4chan before you emulate some ironic shitposter and get clocked.
>>9731063
Aurelius to Seneca is sort of full circle anyway. Stoicism is the best way to be.
>Sam Hyde
Smirked at this one.
Brothers Karamazov > The Idiot > Crime and Punishment > Notes from Underground > Demons > Dead House > The Gambler
I haven't read a single book by him but I agree
>>9731053
CxP>Brothers K>Demons>Notes>The Idiot>Dead House>The Gambler>my diary desu
Brothers K > C&P > House of the Dead > Demons > The Gambler > Idiot > White Nights > Poor Folk > Notes from Underground > The Double
Congrats to /lit/ on being the worst 4chan board two years running!
>worst posters
>worst subject matter
>worst discussions
>worst taste
>worst intelligence
>worst ideology
Pulling for you guys to get the threepeat!
it's called a hat-trick you idiot
Peace be with you, Anon.
s-s-s-s-sage
Daily reminder that racism is NOT WELCOME HERE.
>>9730634
>badphilosophy
>People who disagree with me not welcome
Sounds about right
>>9730634
Racism is a biological truth that we can pretend doesn't exist, but will always manifest itself because it is undeniable. Races are different. We prefer our own.
>>9730634
Looking through the subreddit rules it cannot be considered a serious discussion board.
Is there a book which tries to explain what God is?
Harry Potter
Mystical Theology by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
THE Subject. THE Noumenon. THE Good.
Leave this board and never return if any of these apply to you:
>you read any form of genre fiction
>you barely know your classics
>you tend to believe that if you like a given work, it is justified on an artistic level
>you think everyone's opinion should be accepted and respected
>you speak a single language
>you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton
>you read for the plot
>you read for entertainment
>you rarely read nonfiction
>you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy
>you don't have at least have some understanding of the Three Tragedians and Homer
>you have little to no understanding of literature outside of your cultural horizon
>you have little to no understanding of literature within your own cultural horizon
>you mostly read contemporary literature
>you believe 'the author is dead'
>you make your literary analysis proceed from ideology
>you think intricate prose is 'pretentious' and that the author 'should just get to the point'
>your rarely read poetry
>you think Rhythm and Rhyme is just useless rules and laws restricting creativity
>you have a hard time explaining why you like a given work
>you have a hard time forming structured and relevant literary criticism
>you tend to refuse to judge works for yourself, rather relying on the opinions of literary authorities
>you rarely read for more than one or two hours straight
What book are you reading anon?
>>9730424
I have a strong feeling that you fall into at least half of those categories. So, please leave.
>>9730424
Everyday until you like it
Phaedo, and Maeno
Why did Kizuki and Naokokill themselves?
Also why did Tohru had sex withReiko?
What did the ending try to convey?
>>9730358
Cause life's shit
Because Murakami is a pervert. That scene is completely unnecessary
Nothing, the ending sucks
>>9730358
Kizuki was probably just tired of life being a routinary pile of shit; Naoko killed herself because of the same reason, and because she couldn't live with her suffering.
Probably catharsis, to close that chapter of his life, and because why the fuck not.
That, again, life is pure routine. He ends up lost, with this girl he likes/has chemistry with, but probably doesn't love as strongly as he loved his past lover (or at least not in the same vein), just like Naoko. It's a cycle.
>>9730426
Your reading comprehension sucks, anon.
>>9730607
Also, just to add something else, the book is filled with the whole three people dynamic, as shown in that Brit cover.
Kizuki - Naoko - Toru
Naoko - Toru - Midori
And Naoko - Toru - Reiko, to an extent.
/Lit/ drawings thread? This is a cool drawing from 'La morte d'Arthur' by Beardsley
Harry Clarke's illustration for Poe (guess which story is)
from M.R. James's Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book
Le Fanu's Carmilla
Explain to me how this is any different from any of the other cheap rip-offs of Ulysses except the fact that the author is a woman.
>>9730049
>log into my favorite 4chan.org forum
>this is the first thread I see
>get reminded that there is nothing good here and my time is best spent reading instead
>>9730076
No, seriously. Mrs Dalloway has scenes that are straight imitations of Joyce. She had little to no influence or success during her life, her current reputation is the product of feminist revisionism.
>>9730049
That's funny because her target was Proust, not Joyce.
>Writing a small essay
>1 hour later
>only 100 words
>it isnt even good
How do writers manage to write so much?
Something called 'talent', you obviously don't have it.
>>9729928
By using different methods to jump different hurdles, depending on context and circumstance. What's you topic? Maybe some of us can try to help.
you keep going, don't worry about your pace
even 1k a day can get you a book after a month or two