What does /lit/ think of Vladimir Nabokov?
>>8653942
kov general here
>>8655718
Nabokov, Vladimir. Dislike him
>>8655729
Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up.
Is this how the average Nietzsche fag looks?
thats not a nice thing to say
>>8655659
Nietzsche was against women, blacks, Jews and SJW are you a numale or something? He was fucking redpilled and would probably have supported Hitler.
Fact is you aren't an ubermensch and therefore you take your resentment out on us who have climbed out of your parochial liberalism and nook of equality. We are simply better and we have seen the truth of the world
should all students be subjected to a great books/liberal education when young (say 13-18) where they read the major works of both the east and west and the learn languages from there (up until reading proficiency)?
>>8655535
i should add that it isn't specific to literature but includes sciences, philosophy, history, mathematics, and such but dealing with great books rather than textbooks (say reading elements rather than a geometric textbook)
>>8655535
You are asking board that thinks reading something written by a woman or a black person is equivalent to having their girlfriends mounted by big-dicked Africans.
The answer you'll get is this: cuck globalism multicultural cuck leftist brainwashing white pride before white genocide nonwhites are simply inferior take the redpill
In short: 'no'
if english was good enough for Christ our Savior, why should children need anything else?
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyD1vRidhyc
This scene is a meme worthy of high art.
>>8655438
omg really makes u think xD
Thanks for posting this on the literature board
That was the worst fucking 3 minutes of my life. What a shitty movie.
Is there a recomended order for reading Vonnegut? I'm almost done with Mother Night (my first of his books) and I can't decide what to order next.
>>8655357
Yes, stop right now.
Vonnegut has no discernible talent
read them in order i guess since he has characters reoccur
>>8655357
Breakfast of champions, Slaughterhouse 5, and Cat's Cradle and then stop
What does /lit/ think of The Catcher in the Rye?
>>8655193
Terrible book. One of those "classics' I genuinely cannot find merit in.
>>8655197
first post best post
>>8655193
It's great
Is this legitimately a good book despite it being a meme?
decide for yourself
>>8655184
How'd it get so high on the poll then?
>>8655203
There are many people and some times in some ways they are different
Any librarians here?
Why is there a $100 fee for losing items from the statewide circuit? If you lose books belonging to the city circuit, you pay $5 plus the price of the book. I understand providing incentive not to lose the item but $100 is quite a jump.
How do you guys get your books, anyway? Rental, purchase, or download?
>>8655135
Varies state to state I guess. In my library it's $200 plus book fee and up to 3 months in prison.
>>8655152
That's not too bad. The place I lived before, you would get stoned to death for dog earing the pages.
My town has a big meth problem so all the books are chained to the shelves. Some of the non-fiction books are in range of the tables but for all the others you have to stand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkklzZ778oY&t=3m13s
Famous streamer talks about argumentation, one of the most cringeworthy things i have witnessed.
>>8655091
@ 3:13
this video is 30 minutes long desu, timestamp some highlights
Pseud babble
Is the MacMillan Collector's Library collection any good? If not, are there any collections in print that are better constructed than the average paperback, but not as expensive as old hardcovers?
>>8654846
Everyman's Library is typically well liked here and reasonably priced.
On phone, can't see great. Are those page edges gilded? If so, fuck that.
>>8654846
is it glued binding or sewn binding. if glued fuck no.
Hey guys lets do tiny chat / 4chanlit
join
For spirits when they please
Can either sex assume, or both; so soft
And uncompounded is their essence pure,
Not tied or manacled with joint or limb,
Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones,
Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose
Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure,
Can execute their aerie purposes,
And works of love or enmity fulfill.
>>8654823
Nice.
ITT: /lit/ writes a Socratic dialogue
Socrates: How now, Callimachus!
>>8654783
is it callimachus on your pic?
no recognizable chest and a dress like those which men wore in the ancient greece
>Now Socrates, tell me, what is the essence of faggotry
>Are you asking what faggotry is in of itself, or what the cause of faggotry is?
>the former, Socrates, do not quibble with me
>I may know nothing, but I know that OP is surely a faggot
Callimachus: Oi gooday mate, fuck me ya bloody cunt you.
Guess which of the meme quadrilogy I've read? Hint: I'm 1/4 down.
>IJ, GR, Ulysses, and Bros K if you didn't know
I think you read Infinite Jest.
That 20th Anniversary edition looks beat it up, and I don't think you bought it used because it only came out in February.
>>8654752
Ah damn, didn't think about the dates. In fairness, the other 3 have all been read by more patrician members of my family.
Mostly just made this post BC I'm curious how "memey" these books actually are, given their great reviews and how many people on /lit/ have actually read them.
no one fucking cares
It's happening
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/24/499144368/christopher-marlowe-officially-credited-as-co-author-of-3-shakespeare-plays
>>8654725
S H A K E S Y
C O N F I R M E D
S H O O K
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bloom on suicide watch
always knew Shakespeare was a fraud and cuck
Just finished reading this novel. But I didn't understand the ending. Why did the ghostwriter think of pizza when he was murdered?
How did Norm get the ghostwriter's final chapter to put into the book- and why did Norm have to read the last chapter of the novel into a tape recorder as fast as possible? Was this a reference to Faulkner?
>>8654720
Also, what were the most beautiful passages from the book?
>One day when I was six years old, I came to know a truth, a hard truth that would stay with me for the rest of my life. I was in the farmhouse alone and I happened to look out the screen door, where I saw our cat. She was crouching close to the ground and utterly still, except for her tail, which switched like a metronome, side to side. I could see the cat’s muscles roiling beneath her blue-gray fur. Her eyes shone fire upon a mouse that sat roughly a foot in front of her. Neither animal moved and I didn’t either, but I could feel my heart beating. The standoff ended when the mouse finally moved and the cat caught it with a swift, clawless swat. The mouse stopped. After a brief moment of stillness, the mouse moved again, the cat met it with another swipe, and once again the mouse stopped. This happened many times. Then the mouse began to back up slowly, and the cat went into a deep crouch and then a mighty pounce. The mouse was trapped between the cat’s two paws. It struggled to get away but its efforts were futile, and the cat brought its face close to the mouse, who, in a desperate bid for freedom, bit the cat’s nose. The cat’s face momentarily recoiled in astonishment. Then the cat’s green eyes flashed black like the wing of a crow and her teeth tore into the mouse, and I could hear the tiny bones breaking as the cat’s neck swung from side to side until the mouse was still and limp, but the cat’s neck continued to swing. Then the cat slung the dead mouse into the short hay and strolled away. This last moment was what surprised and frightened me the most. This whole endeavor had nothing to do with food. And this is when I learned that hardscrabble truth: There is a difference between what a thing is and what it appears to be. A thing can appear to be content and happy as it lies with you so close that you feel its purr in your belly. And if you don’t look through the screen door and out into the world, you might never realize that the thing you think you know and love is another, more dangerous thing altogether.
>From there, we all went to the graveyard. The day was bright and clean and the cool autumn air filled my lungs and made me feel healthy. A time passed and then the hearse showed up. The pallbearers were all big men and they carried the tiny white coffin as if it was very heavy, although it could not have weighed more than eighty or ninety pounds.
>There was a small hole in the ground and some dirt beside it. We stood in a circle and the sad-faced pastor said some things in Latin and then we formed a line. The sun was directly overhead and made the tiny white coffin ever so bright, and I took a handful of dirt and flung it down on top. Then it was the next guy’s turn.
>Afterward, I walked back alone down a long blacktop road, and it was cold, and in the sky there were white clouds, and they all looked like white clouds and nothing else.
>>8654746
wait a second did Norm write a piece of actual literature? what the fuck?
>>8654777
Yes, it's like Pale Fire, Of Mice and Men, Fear and Loathing, Tristam Shandy, The Man who was Thursday and Tolstoy's childhood trilogy. It's fictional.