It's that time of the year again, /lit/! Storyboard (comedically, perhaps[?]) your favorite books. Pictured is DFW's THE PALE KING.
1. http://www.storyboardthat.com/
2. click "CREATE STORYBOARD"
Come on, keep this thread alive!
This is a lot of work to make some poop that no one will respond to anyway. If youre lucky you might get a "lmao" or "that book is shit" but most likely your storyboard will go completely unnoticed and only serve to tether you to this board indefinitely as you check for a response and get routinely blueballed
who are some more good german writers besides pic related
>Ludwig Wittgenstein
>German
>>8979029
i mean german-language
I recently read pic related and was blown away, though the ending was a bit shite. Please remove the methodological goggles through which you view the world and its events long enough to recommend books THAT HAPPEN TO BE (not because they are) written by female authors. My problem, and thus my reason for making this post, is that I now have one book in my library of some 500 books written by a women (a book that deserves its place, mind you), and I wish to explore the possibility that maybe, just maybe not all women authors are shite. Please, I implore you, post the best you've read. I'm not a cuck, a gender traitor, or a gril (although I do find it sad that this prelude is now customarily required of these type of posts), however, I only wish to expand my appreciation for female authors.
Don't let me down.
>>8978982
Uh, get what?
The Bell Jar
>>8978984
then the answer is no, you haven't gotten it yet. a lost cause.
It worth the 20 bucks?
nah
>>8978916
Not at all. If you can't pirate popular books like that you shouldn't even be on 4chan.
>>8978927
When I read books I much rather read a physical copies to an Ebook or pdf
I'm trying to get into reading more, I got interested with the background and the subject of this book, is this book worth a read, what do you think /lit/?
Also there seem to be a few different versions, and on Amazon they seem the volumes seem to be selling seperately, is there a hardcover or a paperback version with all volumes?
>>8978889
It's very illuminating and an excellent starting point if you dont want to dive into an 800 page doorstopper or three on the Stalin administration. Go for it, version doesnt particularly matter, but I personally prefer the cover with men walking through the snow rather than the gaudy hammer-and-sickle.
>>8978943
Is it collected in one book, or are the volumes seperated?
How long is by the way, all volumes put together
>While his mind had been pursuing its intangible phantoms and turning in irresolution from such pursuit he had heard about him the constant voices of his father and of his masters, urging him to be a gentleman above all things and urging him to be a good catholic above all things. These voices had now come to be hollow-sounding in his ears. When the gymnasium had been opened he had heard another voice urging him to be strong and manly and healthy and when the movement towards national revival had begun to be felt in the college yet another voice had bidden him be true to his country and help to raise up her language and tradition. In the profane world, as he foresaw, a worldly voice would bid him raise up his father's fallen state by his labours and, meanwhile, the voice of his school comrades urged him to be a decent fellow, to shield others from blame or to beg them off and to do his best to get free days for the school. And it was the din of all these hollow-sounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms. He gave them ear only for a time but he was happy only when he was far from them, beyond their call, alone or in the company of phantasmal comrades.
Was Joyce a Spookposter
Joyce had Stirner in his library so he had at least read him/was aware of him.
>>8978912
Is it somewhere in that pic?
>>8978784
Reading this is honestly a better explanation of the concept of a spook than Stirner's.
My younger brother won't read more than 5-10 pages of a book before dropping it for something else.
How do I get this fuck to read more?
>>8978749
why bother? are you his keeper?
>>8978758
It'd be cool to talk about book with him.
Give him something extremely easy. A page turner like the HP series, then The Hobbit and LOTR, then The Catcher in the Rye, and on and on.
Are there any other genre writers who can write as well as James Ellroy?
>>8978700
Cool shirt
Ugh, fuck off to plebbit with your genre shit. We discuss the classics here, Homer, Joyce, Camus, if you've even heard of them.
>>8978700
not in crime there isn't. there's hammett and chandler, spillane I guess, but ellroy is the GOAT. I've read underworld usa about five times. BaR is weak but the first two are completely perfect. he's a god.
>My mind feels unsettled, as though, without being committed to a single track, its contents have pooled all directions, until it is thin and spread all over the floor, a watery toxic fluid. I tell myself that everything will be okay, that it will eventually gather itself again, but the truth is I don't know that. There have been times when my mind remains fractured for months, years even, and this could very well be one of those times. I have no way of saying that it is not. What I do know is that at this moment my mind feels threatened, exposed, and it is only by becoming a different person that I could feel safe again.
--
Tall dark faces with clean-cut hair and jackets. Their loud laughter unhinges me from the core, and I feel intimidated by those who are doubtless highly friendly, amiable. But why do they have to be so goddamn tall. Towering over me with their dark blank faces, full of untold jokes, tales, and charm. No doubt they would laugh at my jokes too, and feel uncomfortable when I have nothing to say at all. I cannot be a part of their tall darkness, because I am small and breakable. I am sorry though, I really am. I wish I could be friendly with you the way you are with me. It is not your fault, at least, not in the sense that you should feel bad, anyway.
I saw Sam Hyde at a convenience store in Rhode Island the other day. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him cackling as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like five Goobers in his hand without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be mentally retarded and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the Goobers and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each Goober and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he interrupted her by saying "I don't have any money."
>>8979324
epic funny
>>8978699
histrionic and feminine
Why is he always sad?
Thingken of life
Because of the violence of the world, the state and corporate control of society, the prospects for humanity his grandchildren are facing from environmental destruction and conflicts
>>8978695
the fact that Straight White Males still exist and continue to opress people of color makes me very, very sad.
t.Niam ''White Genocide' Chobsky
What are the best Dostoevsky translations in English?
And to not selfishly claim a whole thread for this small question, feel free to ask your own translation questions or give advice about other translated books and authors of your interest.
Avsey for Dostoevsky where possible
Marian Schwartz is a good Russian Translator as well.
>>8978705
thx senpai
>>8978692
There's been a lot of these threads lately. Opinion is divided about P&V.
As for me, I enjoyed McDuff's Crime And Punishment. The same translator has done a few of Tolstoy's shorter works for Penguin as well, e.g. The Cossacks, The Forged Coupon.
Is there a book that you think society has a moral and intellectual responsibility to read and discuss?
>>8978634
racist
>>8978708
Case in point
Is there anything that can be said about the human condition that hasn't already been written?
There's no definitive masterpiece written about anal/vaginal fistulas yet.
>>8978583
my diary desu
>>8978563
An empirical study on the nature of meme magic and the extent of its power. .
Home Library Thread
>>8978528
>having physical books
plebe
>>8978562
>not having physical books
hurr I'm so postmodern, le books aren't even real anymore
>>8978562
https://youtu.be/lqheMjWsxbI
You are like a little 3 year old baby
Are there any literary works that focus on the lives of children/adolescents? The only ones I can think of are Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies - any others? Or does anything concerning young people inevitably end up getting lumped in with YA?
My Struggle series.
>>8978448
Nabokov is great for evoking childhood nostalgia e.g. in the early chapters of Ada or the Luzhin defense or his autobiography