Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 2136. page

>>8945581
You people are gross

I'd reply, but i feel like OP is looking for /lit/ feeder fetish work, so fuck off with your unhealthy fuckstyles

A Confederacy of Dunces

If you're not memeing (probably are), you should start with a lot easier works, like borderline YA, then start with the greeks, and then in 26 years when you accoplish that return to this thread.

>>8945490
>>no magic
>>too many fucking mountains
And let's not talk about the awful worldbuilding!

>>8945670
So YA comes before the Greeks now? I think this should be more widespread, because with all the talk about starting with the Greeks, someone may miss this thread and start at the wrong place.

Some sort of scenario like where that guy finds that all of human language is changed one day and he has to relearn it like a child I suppose, or if it's a nightmare perhaps he loses the ability to gain any meaning whatsoever from speech of text

I'm french kissing Claude Levi-Strauss on a pile of bad Czech translations of the Cours de linguistique generale during a secret laison at Johns Hopkins in 1966

Derrida bursts into the tastefully lit room, skewers Levi-Strauss with a poleaxe, drags me to the floor with surprising strength, and starts roughly fingerfucking my asshole with his dry Algerian hands, like he's trying to fish his wedding ring out of a tepid pie

>>8945287
it means people assign new words to words and concepts that already exist, purposely obscure their purpose, and when you finally decipher the code it's a very basic, simple concept that didn't need that much effort to figure out.

>>8945218
Mao II is a good introductory novel and it's fucking great.

>>8945218
Do what >>8945227 said, Mao II is awesome
And then maybe do White Noise because it's his best known
After that read the book you got or whatever else intrigues you

>>8945236
Thanks!

If this is useful, /lit/ is not the place to ask. Not memeing, but try /r/books.

>>8945168
>Age 5 [cont.]
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes by John Newbery
Princess Smartypants by Babette Cole
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

>Age 6
The Jungle Book 1 & 2 by Rudyard Kipling
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Elephant's Child by Rudyard Kipling
The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Book by Lauren Child
The Princess and the Wizard by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Lydia Monks
A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
Here Comes Charlie Moon by Shirley Hughes
You’re a Bad Man, Mr Gum! by Andy Stanton
The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

>Age 7
Asterix the Gaul by René Goscinny
101 Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Kingdom Under the Sea by Joan Aiken, illustrated by Jan Pienkowski
Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton
Rudyard Kipling: (Poetry for Young People) by Rudyard Kipling
The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

>>8945179
I was hoping i could get /lit/ to actually do something worthwhile.
I will try /r/books as well, then. thanks.

>>8945186
>Age 8
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 1 by C. S. Lewis
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo
The Adventures of Tintin: Tintin and the Red Sea Sharks by Hergé
The BFG by Roald Dahl
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by David Baddiel
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

>Age 9
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
A Wizard of Earthsea: Earthsea Cycle Book 1 by Ursula K Le Guin
The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1 by Rick Riordan
How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

>Age 10
Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Gulliver's travels by Johnathan Swift

>Age 11
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Sword and The Stone by T. H. White
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
Truckers by Terry Pratchett
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Witches by Roald Dahl

>>8945092
Being born into it.

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Jelly.

The sailing is supposed to be excellent in Croatia.

>>8945110
It is especially on the south... I enjoyed the area around split with day trips to Diocletian's palace.

I'm up for this.

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If it's a movement against women and minorities, with an white nationalistic bend then count me in, white brother

We can call ourselves the Lord Kek Society

>>8945095
But /pol/ is already doing that.

We need some original ideas.

>>8944991
Epicurus.

Heraclitus.

I like aristotle better, but plato is easier. So plato, and you'll have a better time when readin aristotle.

No one is valuabler

>>8944957
No, but the old man in your pic is.

>>8944957
I wouldn't be here if I wasn't

Yes, sorry

>>8944955
What is wrong with op's choice? I liked it a lot, because it isnt a dystopian or a utopian work but a logical extension of existig social systems

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>>8944944
Pic related is pretty good

>>8944944
Oblivion by DFW

>>8944936
this book made me start cutting myself in middle school

The outward aura of innocence peels away to reveal intelligent commentary on the folly of our elders.

Truly an underrated masterpiece.

>>8944936

inb4 the gay Harold pic

the

>>8944872
Obscuro

>>8944872
Pseud

>yfw you realize the only true individuals in society have autism

>>8944850
memetics requires individual thought you nigger

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Anon, stop. You don't want to end up like this.

god you self-fetishising faggots, so wrapped up in a self-percieved image based on superficial things like fucking books or some shit, who keep making these threads are the dumbest faggots i swear

oh hey i have a book here, existentialism is cool and hip, my self-made depression sure makes me cool

god my thoughts are so unoriginal and founded on whatever intellectual trend I'm jumping on that, by the time i'm dying, i'll have wasted my life appealing to other trite, unoriginal, useless faggots who only view others as compartmentalised means-to-an-end, and only care about others for their own interest, that i'll welcome death with arms spread eagle and fucked hard

Author: Pynchon / Milton
Poet: Arthur Rimbaud
Philosopher: Derrida
Playwright: Aristophanes / Shakesman

>>8944808
Nice one.

>>8944778
I write strictly about stuff I don't understand

>>8944778
Plato thought so, and like everything Plato said, it's _____.