Thoughts on this series?
>>8448976
Great when I was in 1st through 3rd grade. Not enjoyable for adults.
That said it's a classic series imo
>>8448976
I liked the one about Arabs the most.
Chair one sucked.
Laughed when the Donkey and Monkey killed everyone with Islam.
Pretty good to read as a kid or adult for fun.
magician's nephew is best fosho
but it's kinda just good when you're a kid. enjoyable but good god Lewis basically lived for allegory i guess
Hey /lit/, ?
Hello Anon .
what?
Sup playa
who else /absolutegenius/ here? Do you enjoy your genius status? Are you misunderstood? Personally, I find it difficult to always have to dumb myself down for all the idiots around me
>>8448926
I too, am aware of this feeling.
>itt
>>8448934
Seriously. Why do you absolute fucking NONENTITES have to smugly respond to easy fucking BAIT whilst thinking you're superior to those with a merely deluded sense of superioirty? You aren't clever, this attempt to claim that you're beyond posturing whilst posturing against another form of posturing is sad and empty.
What you fail to realise is that episodes such as the one you have posted feed into this modern mediocre intellectual egalitarianism. When you are so smug that you absolutely HAVE to display your self-righteous pseudo-socratic wankery, it is time to give up. Deluded narcissim is the only way to ever acheive anything, confidence in your ignorance only leads to failure and hemlock.
What are you writing /lit/ ? If you are not currently doing it, explain yourself, do you have plants to do it in the near future? Why not?
Have you being entertaining some particularly interesting ideas? Summarize the plot (or the subjects you explore)
In a world empty of violence a young boy becomes a man. He gets red pilled and based, travels away from home and joins an underground warrior society. Years pass and after many struggles he becomes a powerful warrior in a world where bloodshed and death is the biggest taboo, everyone is a pacified pussy. Then foreign monsters invade.
As a joke, our main character sets up a detective agency website, only to have a rich bimbo ask him to go around solving mystery; so him, being a sexless neet idiot, agrees to it, only to end up discovering literally everything he knows is a lie, and for some reason this is supposed to be a very important, life-or-death deal--but in his heart of hearts he remains unshaken, for the only thing he has ever wanted was to watch some anime, and doesn't really give a hoot if the whole world ends up burning down.
>>8448858
I already wrote it. Just need to edit the fucker.
And no, I'm not telling you what it's about because my "plants" don't involve giving my ideas away to random fags.
is robinson crusoe good?
It's honestly kind of boring. IMO it only gets the recognition it does for being one of the earliest English novels.
>>8448852
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates.
>>8448852
A big wave a-pitching a little cove
what is your opinion of Alan Moore?
>>8448820
His work left me desiring moore.
>>8448820
Good comics writer, not so good novelist. Wish he was my grandad.
>>8448820
I'd prefer Alan Lesse
>carry a book around campus with me
>spend all my time between classes messing around on my phone
should i just stop pretending i'm going to ever read this?
pic related, it's the book
>>8448797
any anons read this? I'm reading Catch-22 right now and goddamnit I love it.
>>8448821
i loved catch-22
tried reading something happened and it made me depressed and convinced all my friends were fake (as it turns out, all but one of them actually were)
>>8448918
alright holden
ITT: We post and review God-tier prose
>"And here I will live out the hum rattling my hands in cold, sunlit indulgence. Until every sound of every beast and every act of god is louder than any other that came before. Until every tree and every blade of grass shouts me down, and tells me to stay quiet and still. Until the wind howls through the hills and the dirt sinks under my heels and I fall deeper and closer to the stratum of earth and of life and their origins and, upon realizing, I fall, and fall further into stupor, with the great bliss and remorse and bewilderment that comes bundled with that perfect harmony. In perfect concord with the better angels of our rapture, in recollection of those sweet stories of our childhood and the fears of youth and the blurry reflections sunken therein. In a world without temptation, without those soft vile promises, because nothing comes near it, and nothing ever could. Oh, the sunny pastures—the heavenfields, the heavenskies in perfect harmony, those elysian skies, rivers, rains, all of the everlasting fortunes, the boundless treasures that all the wealth of nations could not conceive by man's volition. No! Here is fulfillment beyond those familiar pleasures, of flesh or of its substrate, as the easiness of the Good and the Well are restored to their former place at the forefront of waking experience, relegated to the epilogue of dreams where they henceforth collect and however fruitlessly convene the remnants of lesser spirits once harbored."
>>8448693
good shit, nig.
>>8448693
Who is this written by?
>>8448700
It's a rough translation of some of Yasar Kemal's early short fiction.
Would you an Esme?
Esme is bae AF would wife
>>8448673
dude I fucking fell in love with esme. but honestly no I wouldnt want to do anything other than fuck her. the whole no emotional attachment thing except for wyatt is distressing. her SPPPPPPOOIIIILLLLLEEEERRRRSSSS death was hilarious though.
Was she supposed to have a weird way of speaking or what was going on?
I'm reading Black Boy by Richard Wright and I'm really enjoying it. I was wondering if any of his other stuff is worth looking into.
>>8448651
Yeah, you definitely do not belong here.
Go to /r/books if you want to discuss woman and black """"writers""""
This place just isn't for you, kid
Native Son is his most well-respected book. If you want to go into the whole black identity phenomenon, James Baldwin is the next step.
>>8448661
t.Coldsteel the hedgehog
What are some books recommended to you by /lit/ that you are thankful or unthankful for?
Just would like to say if it weren't for you guys I would have never found Metamorphosis by Kafka and i'm thankful for the heads up on it. Loved every second of it and considering doing a re read after The Trial. This book is the only one that actually brought me to tears ; _; poor Gregor.
Thanks for this thread.
I'm really happy I read Stoner this year. Amazing book. Really turned me on to something great.
>>8448589
>Just would like to say if it weren't for you guys I would have never found Metamorphosis by Kafka
???
>>8448636
Maybe he wasn't into reading. It's not like Lit finds obscure treasures for people.
Why does lit prefer beta writers?
Being a chad that is satiated with a sinple life leads to boring as fuck writing.
>>8448487
>If you've had sex, you're a chad.
This incredibly pathetic /r9k/ dichotomy has to end, sex can be incredibly traumatising and horrible (for the men especially). I've never ever not felt at least somewhat horrible after having sex. Being raised to believe that you will experience intimate love-making with a kind women is shattered when you fuck some random skank who won't even talk to you after the climax. I'm not a Chad or a fucking normie, I'm just some guy who can bullshit filthy skanks into letting me dick them.
>>8448517
Why doesnt anyone want to have sex with me? This has caused me so much pain over the years.
>vicissitudes
>>8448462
>viCISsitudes
>>8448462
>plethora
>>8448462
>agnosticism
What does /lit/ think of my favorite author?
it isn't dostoyevski or kafka so you're a pleb
>>8448423
>"A good man is hard to find," Red Sammy said.
>Occasionally he saw a sign that warned: "Drive carefully. The life you save may be your own."
>She had said, "A long illness," but she had added, whispering, with a very I-already-know-but-I-won't-tell look, "it will bring you a stroke of good fortune!"
>Then the front door opened and out stepped the man, the Displaced Person.
literally a hack senpai.
Is my second favorite author any better?
Was recently listening to a McKenna lecture and he reiterated a Joyce quote I found interesting.
I'm obviously paraphrasing here, but something along the lines of "Joyce said his 'daybook' was Ulysses, while Finnegan's Wake would be his 'nightbook.'"
Terence then went on to compare this to Pynchon and stated that Gravity's Rainbow was Pynch's 'nightbook,' while he found Mason & Dixon to be his 'daybook.'
What do you guys think of that? What do you think the idea of daybook and nightbook even translate to? Is it just a comment on the tone? Despair v. Hope?
Would you agree with Terence's take on Pynchon? Would you agree with Joyce's own take on himself?
Day Man, ah ah ah
>>8448392
mckenna hasnt read any of those books senpai
>>8448392
sounds like he was building to something like:
>authors have day and night books
>mushrooms created consciousness