Hello!
My 1st post on /lit/. I have one specific question.
One of my interests are films. There exists such a phenomenon when occasionally certain film professionals like critics, directors, cinematographers, screenwriters, are asked to name what they consider to be the greatest most influential and historically important films ever made. Their lists are then combined together, and each mention of a film receives 1 vote. After that it is possible to make sort of ranking of greatest films. Examples of it are Sight & Sound poll, TSPDT 1000 greatest films. The difference between these polls and common online rankings like IMDb 250 is that in former only professionals can participate, while in latter any website user can. Thus professional polls ensuring elaborative results.
My question is, does similar rankings exist for literature?
The Bible
>>8468208
Mi diario, para ser honesto, familia.
no, there are only the things that Bloom thinks are worthwhile
Does anyone here compile the books they have read into one list to keep track of the books they own? I have just started reading after giving up gayming and have found this to be very effective in remembering what books I have at my disposal.
>>8468182
A lot of people here use Goodreads for this, I think. Personally, I don't feel the need for either.also
>not starting with the greeks
>>8468182
I keep a catalog of my books on librarything.
>>8468182
I write them all down in a notebook. I used to keep track of books I bought too but I lost track.
*guitar intro*
"Hello, and welcome to the history of Rome"
KUSH ALIENS ARE INVADING EARTH
>>8468179
"Today we are going to spend thirty minutes talking about people and events that are almost entirely apocryphal"
WE WUZ CAESARS AND SHEEIT
ITT: Tracks that reference or pay tribute to works of literature.
Is there a more /lit/ song anons ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdbLqOXmJ04
Death in June samples Mishima
More News From Nowhere by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
https://youtu.be/8MajmI5j7Bs
Lord of the Rings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBWGjT-XV6g
hey /lit/, i think the nyrb editions of books are really nice/pretty on a shelf so want to buy myself a few to start a collection. what are the best books that are in print by them? i feel like stoner is an obvious first port-of-call but they print so many obscure titles i'd love to hear a bit about them if possible
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>>8468075
The Doll by Boleslaw Prus
who's working on a novel? i have about 15 pages done so far, managed to get a lot more done when i gave up on 'meticulous planning' and just started writing. so far i like it but can appreciate the fact that it's probably shit. still, finishing it would be a nice accomplishment.
maybe we can start a group for people who have just started, to share tips and whatever.
>>8468068
I started actively writing once I got a typewritter. Don't ask me why, I just know that on a Pc 30 mins of work feels like two hours and I get very little accomplished whilst ina typewriter 30 mins feels like 5 and I get often 3-5 pages per half hour
In exchange for my personal experience I would like to know the name of the ginger semen daemon.
>>8468068
Just started yesterday actually, dialogue and the fact that it's written episodically makes the pages just seem to fly by
Best of luck on the novel, anon. I'm working on one too -- at about 10,000 words. Though it's is shit, I share the feeling that'll be great to finish it one day!
I just wrote my final draft of a novel I've been working on for years. Its MC is a detective who was previously named Nick Valentine.
Then fucking Fallout 4 came out last year and had a goddamn detective named Nick Valentine. What the actual fuck.
There are no names that feel quite as right as that for the character. What do? Anyone else ever have a similar situation?
John Churchill
Alberto Camuso
Dino Calabrese
Valentin Nikolic
>>8468060
Gregory Berrycone
>>8468060
Toirrdhealbhach Mac Chonchobhair Ua Maelsheachlainn
Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz
Abu Hamza Sulayman Ibn Saleh Ibn al-Mughirah al-T'ayy
What do you think the future of literature will be? Do you think there will still be professors that teach the importance of literary analysis or will they be out of necessity due to a technological standard?
>>8468045
Why do you care?
>>8468045
It'll be SJW central. Only books about how evil white men are (if all of us haven't been killed by then).
Only women and blacks will be published
>>8469449
>muh persecution complex
>muh spooked sense of identity and solidarity
You actually have quite a lot in common with them, huh?
suggest some books about self-hatred and introspection
Notes from the underground
Now quit asking
>>8467997
My diary desu. :^(
Elric.
When does it get good?
>>8467866
I bought into the meme too. It doesn't.
>>8467866
>>8467872
>They didn't listen
>>8467872
>tfw I was probably the one who convinced you
Any other books with secret societies you can recommend? Something with mysterious masquerades and such?
>>8467844
This one book called:wanking on a chessboard.
Eco's Foucault's Pendulum is the best conspiracy/secret society book
For a more trippy thing try Fowles' The Magus
To avoid accidental leaking of 4chan idioms into my literature, I started to assemble a counterfeit database that I'll run against my documents.
It contains any phrases that would stand out as odd to anyone not browsing this realm. All those normal sounding expressions that are, in fact, heavily loaded with context and a history.
>literally who?
>the absolute mad-man
>what did he mean by this?
>you just know
>...
Can you help me complete this list?
For sure, there are more complicated variations. Mentioning of Kantans, bowls of eggs, the name Chad, or whatever. Those will be read differently here vs. in reality.
The only time I accidentally memed out loud was using the word 'feel'. I just hope I covered it well enough by lamely adding '...ing' a second later.
>>8467809
add spaghetti OP
>>8467802
>not memeing your /lit/
This guy.
>/lit/ considers this essential reading
I tried to read this twice already, and I couldn't get more than a couple chapters. The problem for me is that it's narrated by a guy who's supposed to be a doctor, but he sounds nothing like a doctor. On top of that, the characters are given no description whatsoever. You don't even find out that one guy is a balding old man until he dies.
Is it really worth giving it another try?
I don't even know if this is bait or forced memeing but wtf
>>8467780
Who considers this essential reading? The ghetto general? They aren't /lit/, they are /tg/ and /v/.
Everyone here will tell you that it's mediocre at best.
>>8467780
It's shlock, what do you expect?
>he sounds nothing like a doctor
A field medic in a primitive mercenary company wouldn't sound like what you expect a doctor to sound like anyway you twat
“There will come a time when all of us are dead. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after; and if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it."
Why haven't you read Tolstoy's best work yet?
>>8467777
I was too busy looking at those quads.I read it last year, it was good
>>8467838
kill your self
Dunno know OP, still reading Dostojevski
Memes aside, is he really that bad? I've never read him but I have to read "Drown" for my workshop this semester.
>In an introduction to a new anthology, Dismantle, Díaz writes of how, when undertaking his MFA (master of fine arts) in creative writing at Cornell University, New York, his experiences as a "person of colour" – Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey – were almost entirely overlooked. "That shit was too white," writes Díaz in the introduction, which was published by the New Yorker. "Too white as in Cornell had almost no POC – no people of colour – in it. Too white as in the MFA had no faculty of colour in the fiction programme – like none – and neither the faculty nor the administration saw that lack of colour as a big problem. (At least the students are diverse, they told us.) Too white as in my workshop reproduced exactly the dominant culture's blind spots and assumptions around race and racism (and sexism and heteronormativity, etc)."
>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/19/junot-diaz-attack-creative-writing-unbearable-too-whiteness
"SJW" has sort of worn out its welcome as a buzzword, but it's a succinct way to describe brown fuckwits who I will never read.
>>8467683
>Brown fuckwits
Bit rude tb.h m8.
I'd prefer to get an opinion from someone who has actually read him. I did say "memes aside" and I of course will not listen to the opinion of someone on an author who has never even read that author.
>>8467683
>I don't care about the colour of an author's skin or how much of a dick-head they are, as long as they are good!
>"brown fuckwits"