Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 2069. page

10/10
would let him encompass my doom

>>8982139
Well, hypothetically I'd choose death, but who knows what could come out of your mouth when you see a big ugly headsman carrying his ugly steel axe.

How did he even sodomize boipusy when he was too fat to move around on his own

team chickenhound represent

>>8982128
I loved them. My mom read me the first one when I was still pretty little. Then I read Mossflower and Mattimeo and Salamandastron. Thought about reading them again as an adult.

>>8982136
I vaguely recall this name, what book did it appear in?

>>8982143
I'm 25 now and was thinking about going back to them. I think I only missed a handful of the last ones to be published, so it would be nice to finish them off.

Nobody biting? What do you think of it?

>>8982147
you forgot to post something about feminism so the thread would get 200 retarded replies and never get deleted because /lit/ has no mods

>>8982095
>>8982147
>>8982167
Skyscrapers are phallic symbols of the patriarchy and oppression of women. Prove me wrong

What's the My Neck, My Back of literature?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDJu7r6OUvk

>>8982084
are you implying Bach is the greatest?

>>8982084

Love for form and balance? I would say Pope.

Anything by Kurzweil

>>8982060
Fukuyama

File: 51RAH7c2NXL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg (20KB, 228x346px) Image search: [Google]

20KB, 228x346px

Is pic related worth it

Yes, he was just trying to get in his head some more. He realized just how much of an anxious, paranoid fuck Raskolnikov was being, and he capitalized on that every chance he could.

>>8982064
I figured. I loved their dialogues. He's such an ironic character

He was a tricky fellar :^)

even women know editors are just failed writers

>>8982187
so are most writers

>>8982657
Everybody is a failure at something

Honestly Borges tbqh

>>8982013
lovecraft

>>8982013
The Pederson Kid
Death of Ivan Ilych (if you really squint your eyes)

Those new editions of Dostoevsky look a thousand times worse and less comfy that the old ones.

>>8981972
I actually purchased the old idiot a while ago just because it made me laugh.

>>8981964
wtf those are ugly

dazai did it 70 years ago

>>8981829
It will be popular amongst teenage girls and the kind of people that still read HTML Giant.

Most people refuse to see modern lit as /lit/ because it's not got years of praise from critics and scholers.

>>8981829
its not just prose that makes a book /lit/ or garbage

>>8981826
Bazarov was a nihilistic pseud.

the reader

The fathers were right. The sons were acting up.

>>8981812
The Bible

The Qu'ran

The Tovah

Pride and Prejudice

Jurassic Park (I am not kidding, look it up)

>>8981812
The ice twins

(a friend of mine told me)

The Grapes of Wrath has a great title drop.

>>8981784
kekekeke

Paul de Kock was a real writer. He's the author Molly has been reading and she's disappointed it's not pornographic, but says he has a "nice name."

One of the best references is the "how is a railway yard like an opera?" riddle. (Don't have the exact wording.)

>>8981827
>how is a railway yard like an opera?"

whats the answer? something about running trains, railing, an screeching?

>>8981599
The only way to read certain books.
If you subvocalise Ulysses or Finnegans Wake, you're missing half the fun.

>>8981613
This is well known already but I'm talking about doing it in general. I've read that it has a lot of positive things like increasing your comprehension and memory but who knows.

I was actually thinking about this the other day. I enjoy reading aloud to other people.
Also, I think I'm going to get my gf to read aloud to me.

STOP POSTING THIS PICTURE

>>8981553
Read them then die, faggot.

>>8981725
I took this from another anon who actually owns these books lol