Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 2820. page

>>8535143
how to tie a noose

>>8535143
The catcher in the rye
The hunger games
Letter to a Christian Nation
The God Delusion
God is not Great

Now go. Read.

The Holy Bible

>>8535129
Please go back to r9k and never come back

Normies love sex and violence, OP.

>>8535129
>quirky reddit dwarf
>badass girl assassin xD
>omg twists!!!!

it's savage

I had that same feeling with this same author but reading 2666. It hit me when I got to page 1000. I haven't finished the last 20 pages. Its been like 2 years

>>8535075
Do you really need an explanation?
If you don't get it, then you don't get it.

I think there are three kinds of people about this:
1-People who get it
2-People who don't get it
3-People who pretend they get it

However, I'm gonna give you guys an advice, you shouldn't start reading Bolaño with The Savage Detectives and you're specially wrong if you started reading Bolaño with 2666 (how can you think that's a good idea, really).

Whatever, go back to the memes

File: lotus-feed-nature.jpg (57KB, 450x300px) Image search: [Google]

57KB, 450x300px

Ecolinguistics

Secret language that we're speakin ?

File: Plants and Biophotons.jpg (485KB, 1893x1841px) Image search: [Google]

485KB, 1893x1841px

...a branch of metaphysics regarding abstract objects...

...powerful field of influence...

File: Hermes Logios.jpg (233KB, 690x1200px) Image search: [Google]

233KB, 690x1200px

...Nature provides a platform...

The nature of new generation is also influenced by the nature of the new media

all writers started that way

chin up cowboy

psssh, what is this amateur hour?

Graham Greene

Evelyn Waugh

Anthony Powell

Hunger by Knut Hamsun

>>8534908
Ulysses

>>8534908
Twelve Chairs.
>the scene where he pretends to be a chess grandmaster and gives a simul and the opponents first think his blunders are brilliant sacrifices and get scared

>>8534903
This doesn't include philosophy, but you should and you already are reading so don't worry about that.

Myths from Mesopotamia
Iliad and Odyssey
Theogony
Plays from Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides
Aeneid
Ovid's Metamorphoses
The Bible
Beowulf
The Song of Roland
Cantar de mio Cid
Divine Comedy
Decameron
The Canterbury Tales
Orlando Furioso
Lazarillo de Tormes
The Faerie Queene
Shakespeare's Complete
Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
Don Quixote
Paradise Lost
Goethe's Faust

>>8534936

I've already read some of this, but I have the feeling that I'm missing a lot of the meaning in it. I took a look in the Norton Anthology of Poetry and noticed that it had helpful footnotes for things that would be unfamiliar to a layman, and very brief notes in the margins like "repetition" that tell you what each part of the poem is doing, for example. If I just head pick most of those books that you listed off the shelf unedited, I won't have a clue about a third of the things that are going on, and worst of all I might not have a clue that I don't have a clue.

>>8534957
You want to be a Borges overnight? Pick good editions, read what other people that have actually studied the work have to say about it.
Feet on the ground, anon.

>>8534877
indie cook books

The Holy Bible

Stephen King

File: zizek4.jpg (217KB, 640x480px) Image search: [Google]

217KB, 640x480px

Lacan?

>>8534857
You're overthinking it.

It's users'

>>8534857
Wtf did I just read

Then how the fuck can you like him if you don't know his politics?

>>8534807
kek, good work

Poo by James Daley is pretty illuminating

>>8534786
Perfecting my Latin

Will use it to become fluent in Spanish, French, Italian. As well as build a better foundation for my English Vocabulary.

Already have high level of knowledge of Spanish just a very limited vocabulary. I plan to visit throughout Europe after school and will possibly move to live in South America before the great strife envelops the Western world.

>>8535103
Nice. In this point, south americans are very lucky, although we do not know Latin, it is relatively easy for us to learn french, italin and especially spanish. After learning spanish, I want to learn french and italian, and later on, german.

I know this probably isn't one you want to hear, but ASL. I'm taking a class. Finger spelling shit is fun.

>>8534755
If you have zo many preconditions for reading Ulysses i suggest you also put them on the list

>>8534769
Well there are a couple of reasons why those works aren't on the list:
>I don't know which specific sections of The Bible are relevant, and I don't think it's necessary to read the whole thing front to back to get the most out of Ulysses.
>I don't know the best books on British/Irish history to add to the list
>I've already read Hamlet but I need to remember to re-read it soon before reading Ulysses

>>8534755
Ugh, should I really read up about Irish/British history before I read Ulysses? Should I also have read up on the history before I read Dubliners?

Read the fucking KJV

>>8534715
>Unacceptable for Serious Bible Study:

>The following translations have serious shortcomings of various sorts:

>1) The King James Version (KJV) or The New King James Version (NKJV). The KJV was a great literal translation in its day, but that day was the 17th century! Many earlier and more accurate biblical manuscripts were discovered afterwards and most modern translations—including those produced by very conservative Christians—are based on them. The NKJV updates some of the 17th century language, and I like its literalness, but most of the time it relies on the same late and less accurate manuscripts that were available to the KJV translators in the 17th century.

>>8534726
>Serious Bible Study
What if I just want the most beautiful version?

>>8534695
Notes from the dead house

>>8534695

A prison taint was on everything there. The imprisoned air, the imprisoned light, the imprisoned damps, the imprisoned men, were all deteriorated by confinement. As the captive men were faded and haggard, so the iron was rusty, the stone was slimy, the wood was rotten, the air was faint, the light was dim. Like a well, like a vault, like a tomb, the prison had no knowledge of the brightness outside; and would have kept its polluted atmosphere intact, in one of the spice islands of the Indian Ocean.
CHARLES DICKENS, Little Dorrit

>>8534695
oscar wilde, ballad of reading gaol