Hey /lit/, I just finished reading pic related and I haven't had this much fun reading a book in a long time. Please show me other books like it.
Which translation did you read, cuck?
>>9022805
Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor
>>9022780
If you want the same feel plus none of the fun try a darkness at noon. If you want all the fun plus non of the feel try a hard boiled wonderland at the end of the world
What was his endgame?
>>9022734
The Absolute, he was pretty clear about it.
>>9022736
What is the Absolute's endgame?
>>9022734
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOk6HB609po
Were there any writers who were complete assholes in real life?
>>9022697
Most of them. Hemingway is a good example.
>>9022697
my diary desu
all of them
fuck writers, pretontitious assholes and most of them are gay cucks
Can we have a thread about war memoirs?
What are you readin, what's it about. Etc.
storm of steel
like most people on /lit/ recommending books i have not read this book but apparently this guy was a total badass in ww1
led squads at 21 years old
https://www.docdroid.net/4j2AWEO/memories-of-the-war-by-nikolai-nikulin.pdf.html
Pretty good book, describes the horrors of war in the pacific against the Japanese without being cheesy or exaggerating things (as far as I can judge) and is probably one of the best books about war/war memoirs I have ever read.
Why is there always a kid in a philosophy class who rambles incoherently for several minutes straight using jargon that he does not understand and a vocal majority acts impressed by this charlatan? For instance a kid in my class today began talking about non empirical propositions, backed up his argument using empirical propositions, started talking about incompleteness theorem, and then finished with some musings on "metaphysical idealism". After this most of class acted as if Kant was lecturing in the room himself. I guess this is a rant thread. Post your rants. Charts too
>>9022640
>>9022645
Charts
>>9022656
When do I stop being a meme and start being a connoisseur of fine literature?
>>9022607
Sick stack, slick.
>>9022607
when you're read and reread so much that you don't care for any posturing or meme reads and only want to follow your own tastes, which by that point are naturally those of a discriminating connoisseur (though you'll be enlightened enough that you'll recognize terms like that as meaningless)
just read whatever you want and all else be damned. anything else is an injustice to oneself.
>tfw your dad isnt really a "father figure"
Books for this feel?
Pic unrelated
>tfw don't have a dad and i'm not even black
books for this feel?
>>9022604
>tfw black
Books for this feel?
>>9022613
Are there any websites that provide reviews of reviews? I need to know whether or not the review of the book I want to read, is actually a good review.
>tfw to intellagent too trust a review without first reading the reviews review
>>9022597
This is actually a brilliant idea.
>>9024543
Yeah, well, don't steal it m8
>book start with "my name is"
who is that girl(male)
>>9022567
a nerd girl from /r9k/
>>9022544
It's really the record-scratch-freeze-frame of literature
Has your life ever gotten better from reading a self-help book?
How to Win Friends and Influence People helped me negotiate for better grades. I didn't make any new friends.
>>9022476
No More Mr. Nice Guy and Models.
I used to be extremely insecure and a validation seeker. These two books changed me a lot, for the better.
Are Nietzsche works ultimately self-help books?
>post in critique thread
>people say im shit
every time
>>9022460
so give up?
>>9022460
maybe bc you're a shitty faggot op?
>>9022460
So you whine about it?
How do I get into Marxism?
>inb4 stupid memes
If you don't like him, please don't post in this thread, I don't give a shit about your right-wing rhetoric.
>>9022458
>If you don't like him, please don't post in this thread,
Wait, so you haven't got "into" Marxism, but you've already formulated your opinion on it? I hope this is a troll.
>>9022458
read Marx
>>9022458
Try the Marx-Engels Reader. It's really well put together. His early stuff is excruciating unless you have some exposure to Hegel, though.
What does /lit/ think about David Foster Wallace?
we fucking love him just being honest
Who? Is he a booktuber?
lurk moar
/shakespeare/ general
This thread is for the discussion of the works of William Shakespeare, the greatest English-language playwright of all time.
What's your favourite and least favourite Shakespeare plays?
I have to say my favourite has always been Antony and Cleopatra, I've never understood the hate it so often gets. My least favourite of the ones I've read is Midsummer Night's Dream, but it's been at least 6 years since I last read it, I'm thinking of re-reading it to see if my evaluation of it changes.
Midsummer was the first Shakespeare play I read of my own conviction (not for school in any way). I remember being surprised at how funny I found it.
Who's your Shakespeare waifu?
I'm gonna have to go with Beatrice from Much Ado desu.
>>9022459
>not wanting Lady Macbeth to humiliate and emasculate you
Anyone care to share their thougths about Tess of the D'urbervilles?
I guess I'll start. Currenttly rereading it for the first time since high school. It's one of those books where I geniunely get mad at certain charcters
>>9022394
>Anyone care to share their thougths about Tess of the D'urbervilles?
SLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT
>>9022420
care to explain more?