Who are the most forgotten literally figures of your country /lit/?
(well, forgotten only on this pretentious and pathetic shithole)
>>9722217
Yeah, it's surprising the amount of italicucks in this place. (or maybe it's a samefag that post over and over and over)
Currently I'm not interested in his fiction but Petrolio seems pretty dope.
>>9722210
John Dos Passos
How much time do you spend on /lit/, anon? Be honest.
>>9719661
~3/4 hours when on vacation (actually).
~2/3 hours normal.
and what about 0?
>>9719661
30 minutes a day on average.
There is rarely anything worth staying longer for.
Would like a list of Bible parodies. I've read two a while back and would like to perhaps read some more. One I really enjoyed included Murphy (Murphy's law) as the narrator.
the lolcat bible
Thus spoke Zarathustra
>he hasn't read an authors complete works but still thinks he has an understanding of their work
>He reads bad books
kys
>>9730183
Then at what point do we have an understanding? What if I read 7/10 of an authors works? How about 9/10 works? This thread is fucking stupid.
>He hasn't read all the books the author himself read and thinks he can understand the author's work without truly knowing the context he wrote in.
>Gulag Archipelago Volume 1 is sold out on The Book Depository again.
>>9730083
go back and sort them out m8
Can't you place an order for when it arrives?
>there is only one vendor of books in the world
I just ironically bought a P&V translation of C&P. In regards to C&P should I have gone with Mrs. G, or did I make the right decision by choosing P&V? I would like some help on this ASAP.
>>9730003
bump
>>9730003
Garnett is best. You fucked up big time chief
>>9730181
I ironically bought Garnett too.
Why didn't Holden like things?
because things are bad and that's okay.
that's the book.
dead baby sister
>>9729784
What's so good about things, phony?
What philosopher did Josh Whedon rip this off of?
>>9729636
Dunno, but this sentiment is in Mishma's book the golden pavilion
my diary desu
>>9729636
The philosophers Deidara and Sasori from Naruto Shippuden
What do you think about it?
THIS FUCKING THREAD AGAIN
>>9729532
Saladnigger is a decent meme for teens, but I don't think it sits well on the pantheon of classics-- time will change that, however.
>>9729532
It was funny. I remember laughing when I read the passage about the ducks being frozen in the pond.
Is he any good? What are his besr books? Did he only wrote because he was payed for each word?
>>9729493
Bump for hope
>>9729493
A lot of his stuff is wordy because he *did* get paid per words, and I believe they were released as serials. However, I love his work. He is *very* sentimental both in his work and his life, to the point that he set up a home to help get prostitutes off the streets and teach them a trade to help them earn a living, financed AFAIK entirely out of his own pocket. David Copperfield is good. Oliver Twist, too. I guess I haven't read any Dickens I *don't* like, but I have to be in the right mood. I basically have the same feeling toward the majority of his work. Sale of Two Titties and a couple others are rather different from this majority to me, though.
>>9729493
His compassion often goes too far and becomes mawkishness, and many of his sentences contain superfluous clauses, which I sometimes find grating. That said, I do enjoy some of his books and if you're an empathetic person you likely will too. My top three are, in this order, Bleak House, David Copperfield, and The Pickwick Papers.
What did you think of the Disaster artist, /lit/?
I've loved the movie, but the book made me even more curious about it.
Anyways, how's your sex life?
Surprisingly good character study.
>>9729297
Too much Greg.
>make a reply post to someone
>have to wait until the next day for another reply
Why the fuck is /lit/ so slow? Pick up the pace people
On 2nd thought, should we just make a fucking IRC channel?
There's already an irc channel on rizon, and a plethora of groups on discord.
>>9729194
Discord sucks ass, what's the rizon channel?
>>9729186
Why don't you find something else to do instead of begging for attention here?
like, let's say... fucking read a book?
Any recommendation on books about hypnosis?
I've always been interested and I've been using videos where they hypnotize you to sleep and it actually works for me. Can someone suggest one book about techniques or explanations on hypnosis?
i've been recommended G.H. Estabrooks, "Hypnosis" and
A. Jacquin, "Reality is Plastic" by some fag but i never got around to reading them
hypnosis is a meme anyway, you never see someone get legit benefits and when they do results are never satisfying, even the psychologists that recommend it as treatment will say that much
>>9729109
Don't fuck with hypnosis. I was blind, deaf and dumb to intrigue for years because of it. It took one of my closest friends breaking trust with me to break whatever took hold of me. Don't fuck around with it. It will take your own mind from you.
>>9730345
t. high susceptibility pleb
Hi guys. I'm looking for a short story I found here a while ago.
I think it was about four or five people that were captured by some kind of ice monster. They were all in great seemingly never-ending pain due to the work and general sufferings inflicted upon them by said ice monster.
In the end, the protagonist sacrifices himself for the others, ensuring himself a life of infinite suffering.
The Count did nothing wrong
>>9729003
That's the exact story of I have no mouth and I must scream - except with an ice monster instead of a super computer?!
>>9729003
That sounds more like a slightly confused interpretation of 'I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream' than anything else I've heard of.
if want to read 1 work by kierkegaard what should i read?
his journal desu
Is starting with Either/Or okay?
Read Fear and Trembling.