Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 1093. page

>Each page is an unassembled puzzle that you have to put together in order to read it

>You have to use a UV light to reveal hidden words that totally change the meaning of the book

>>9505163
QR code texts inside a book, and a Skype conversation inside the plot has to be heard live by a guy in Skype, the contact name.of.whom you will find in the book.

>>9505109
Where's the female Johnson? iow's?

>>9505109
Hungry=short attention span.

>>9505022
Charles Dickens
Shakespeare
John Donne
William Blake
Jane Austin
Thomas Hardy
Joseph Conrad
Lord Byron
Shelley
James Joyce
Laurence Sterne
George Elliot
Alexander Pope
Ford Madox Ford
Evelyn Waugh

>>9505022
Great Expectations

>>9505042
>No woolf

Based anon

Btw, if you just recommend Shelley the op might accidentally read that faggot Percy's works.

Nabokov

She-Nabokov exactly like She-Hulk

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>extravagant Russian émigré to the US full of edgy opinions who wrote wildly popular books
Aлиca Poзeнбayм

>>9504769
When we wrestle the humanities back from the cultural marxist jews.

when the fucking retarded univeristies and publishers are no longer ran by fucking retards who would rather read a black guy cause it is diverse than a white guy who writes about what it means to be a fucking human

Bernays, Propaganda

Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent

Adrono, Culture Industry

>>9504666
Nothing publically available is worth reading if you want true power.

1984

>>9504546
/b/ might be more your speed

>>9504547
but /b/ isn't lit-related. i mean something like a website with frequent interesting articles related to literature (more specific: philosophy).

>>9504551
If you know how to read it, /b/ will teach you more about philosophy than any text ever written.

>>9504507
bump for interest

no idea so
bump

>>9504507
Pinter's The Celebration

idk

>American """"""poetry""""""
No, you're not.

read song of myself, it's pretty great

>reading books that have had people's sweaty hands on them for a long period of time
>reading books that people have probably read on the toilet

>tfw you lost your library card 2 years ago and have been using your mother's

You can borrow video games from my local library. Which is the only reason I go there

Try learning a new skill, even better if it's one you never thought you'd be good at.

>>9504164
Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Sarte, Ernest Becker all deal with these (or related) issues and provide solutions

1. Find a moral philosophy
2. Apply it

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Read it yesterday. The ending made me tremble. Damn good novella

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>>9504101
>lol why did Melville put all those whale facts in???

>Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
>Let me just say that I take no issue with Jonathan Franzen personally. I’ve never met him. Were I to see Jonathan Franzen in real life, I would probably say, “Hey, that guy looks like Jonathan Franzen,” and I would go about my day. Unfortunately, Freedom didn’t do it for me. It is a very trying book if you are the kind of person who is not obsessed with birds.

Can this person not understand the meaning of some books isn't just what they are at face value?

>Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
>Exactly zero people have finished this book. If you did finish it, you are better than all of us and likely a demigod, but there’s no way you had a good time. If you did not finish it—if you couldn’t bring your dumb, less evolved self to appreciate all 1,100 pages and roughly 50,000 footnotes—then don’t feel bad. You too are valid.

The "criticism" is "it's too long for me [and I'm projecting this onto everyone else]". Epic.

>Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
>When Faulkner completed this book, he handed it to his friend and apparently said, “I think it’s the best novel yet written by an American.” It is for this reason and no other that it has earned such a low ranking on this list, because there is something terrible in me that thrives on contradiction. Sorry, William Faulkner. Your book was good; it's just that I am awful.

Basing a ranking and criticism off an edgy reaction to an unverified anecdote

And these are the people kids use to study literature

>>9504101
To Kill a Mockingbird is really mediocre. Idk why Americans overrate it so much

>[give me talking points on The Society of The Spectacle so I can impress qt Marxist girls at College without having to read anything]

>>9504165
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>>9504086
save yourself the trouble and read this instead to find out why you're the same as every other retard before you

Nigger you need to read the greeks

>>9504088
actually he needs to read nietzsche since that was some shit he dreamed up in his german interpretation of greek culture

>>9504082
Apollonian is ORDNUNG while Dionysian is Creation. Batman vs Joker is somehow fitting.