Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 2305. page

Which one of you meme-loving fucks did this?
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/5i8pes/i_became_an_avid_reader_like_three_months_ago_and/

>>8846160
>That's amazing advice OP, you're living your best life.
wew lad

File: LOL_WUT.jpg (7KB, 228x223px) Image search: [Google]

7KB, 228x223px

This is why people say reddit is dumb.

fuck off

>>8846133
Nice.

Both are good. Ebooks for travelling and getting books easier/cheaper(even if you legally buy them) especially if you decide you want to start reading certain book but its night so cant really go buy physical copy at that hour. Also its nice to read in bed since e-readers are light and don't need to fight with the book to keep it open with right angle and still lay in a way you want to.
But then again there is something very enjoyable when reading a physical book and holding it in your hands. I also would much rather get physical book for christmas than an ebook. And some classics are just nice to hold and turn the pages

>>8846089
No thats pretty much it, good job Anon you fully understood it

>>8846095
>
well maybe you're missing it too Anon

>>8846106
I'm bretty sure he was sarcastic
>>8846089
I haven't read Portrait, it's still on my to-read list, but I've had similar feelings with other books. Usually looking for analysis and articles on the web about this book helps.

Kubrik is the Vonnegut of film. There is no equivalent to Pynchon

Colgate is the Kubrick of toothpaste.

Pynchon is the DFW of literature.

>>8845968
that

Holy... I want pancakes

File: image.jpg (13KB, 464x360px) Image search: [Google]

13KB, 464x360px

IF YOU WANNA FIND HELL WITH ME

Two Six Six Six
Deus Ex Ex Ex

Only in its original Spanish. Hit the books, gringo.

>>8845928
Yes

I don't know what's more elitist, but I know what's more useful, and that's all that really matters. Your argument is pointless.

>>8845904
To study on ones own, esoteric subjects with no relevance or utility to the modern world in a place totally isolated and alienated from the world, yet also totally comfortable.

That, OP, is elitist.

>>8845904
Obviously the one that involves prestige and a future salary.

>>8845877
No. He's a hack and Reddit-tier. He was the original Stephen King

>>8845882
How is he a hack?

File: tumblr_o1yu7a8Zhp1v7n5spo1_540.jpg (54KB, 511x381px) Image search: [Google]

54KB, 511x381px

>>8845877
I love the majority of his writing. Even if he himself despised it. Hell a lot of his writings were never supposed to see the light of day and or were edited to death.

>>8845831
just get the fountainhead

>>8845834
because it's shorter?

>>8845859
because i don't like the other one

Judges is one of my favorites. It's very proto-Western, since it covers a fairly lawless period between Moses/Joshua being the leaders and the first Kings of Israel.

Genesis
Memesters will shit on it because their God, The Great Lord Science says it didn't actually happen but the prose is beautiful and the messages and the meaning of it is the most human thing to come out of ancient times
>redemption
>forgiveness
>perseverance
>struggling in the face of an absurd world
>brotherly love and the bond of family and friendship
>pride in one's offspring
>service and duty not just to God but to yourself and to your family and to humanity as a whole
Don't let autists tell you genesis is shit, it's like saying any work of literary fiction is garbage because it didn't actually happen

File: 1481365621582-r9k.jpg (76KB, 640x640px) Image search: [Google]

76KB, 640x640px

>>8845823
Bible has a lot of lessons about love and morality, and if you read past Psalms you will see all the poetry and a little of history about many ancient civilizations

The real problem is when you read it with the preconcibed idea of critisism it in a atheist thought

> read it complete, cover to cover

Postmodernist maybe

I guess its just bad comedy. I was thinking of useless comic reliefs ruining storytelling but realized that comedy can be problematic to a story in general. Star wars is a good example that everyone knows even though it is a movie. Jar Jar Binks is a terribly written character who's comedy act ruins the overall cohesiveness of the story. However, the new film also has problems balancing its comedy overall even though it didn't really have any comic relief characters. When Finn and Poe meet the writers use a step brothers "DID WE JUST BECOME BEST FRIENDS" comedy routine to gloss over the absurdity and plot convenience.

>>8845789
It might just be called "Comedy" desu
Trivializing and glossing over things is kind of a staple

>>8845785
Oedipus Rex

File: image.jpg (73KB, 335x500px) Image search: [Google]

73KB, 335x500px

it's got /ss/ and a reverse trap

>>8845785
My diary desu

>>8845737
>It's like I'm a kid again
What do you mean "again?"

>>8845740
well I haven't collected anything really since I was a kid and that's what this is turning into. a collection of books.

But are you actually reading them anon?

The Holy Bible

>>8845653
m y
d i a r y
d e s u

Blood Meridian

File: 20161215_122915.jpg (789KB, 2048x1536px) Image search: [Google]

789KB, 2048x1536px

The circled ones. Check them out

Pierre Bourdieu - Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

Tolstoy's "What is Art?" might interest you.