Albums and their literary equivalents.
This one makes me think of anything Faulkner.
>>8332391
Go back to /mu/, you fucking retard
>>8332397
Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?
>>8332391
Anne Frank's diary
What do you guys think of Beckett's novel trilogy? I've never read anything like it
>>8332360
Loved it. The thing I find a bit weird is people tend to make out like it's totally different to every other piece of work he's ever done, but I thought there were strong similarities to Watt, and less but still there similarities to p much the rest of his corpus. And one of the best crime series. Like even on a pleb level I enjoyed that first book.
And those tranny sex scenes too, my goodness.
It actually reminded me of Burroughs' Nova Trilogy
>And those tranny sex scenes too, my goodness.
I like to read fiction but I never understood poetry. There is this girl I like who sends me a lot of poetry(her own as well as famous poets) and I simply don't get the allure. There are a lot of metaphors and they are just sappy love poems. I only ever enjoyed a few poems by Bukowski because they are more like stories than sappy shit. I don't see much artistic value in most poetry. How do I begin to appreciate it? Any suggestions anons?
>>8332347
I don't really enjoy fictional literature in general and therefore I think I understand pretty well your complaint. I'd recommend some Philip Larkin if you want to get a start. The problem is perhaps that you're paying too much attention to what the author is saying and not really allowing it to wash over you, which is really the pleasure. Maybe you should read a poem, and then keep going back to it after a couple of days after thinking about it a little.
Honestly, there are very few poems that I enjoy as well. I think writing a compelling poem is incredibly difficult.
There is a vast amount of poetry so you don't have to read "sappy shit".
The rhythm and sound of the poetry is as important as what it says.
If you learn and understand meter you will have a greater appreciation of poetry (even free verse).
Re-read a poem many times, you will not get full enjoyment from one reading.
Find an anthology of many poets to find the styles and poets you like best.
Can we start banning frog threads already? They add nothing, and it's the same autist creating them all
See the catalog. There's no attempt to discuss literature, it's all >that feel when [something vaguely related to literature]
>>8332330
Come on, dude. We both know that this thread was as pointless as the frog threads.
Delete this
>>8332330
>tfw you make a thread expressing your feelings unrelated to literature about threads about people's feelings that are unrelated to literature
>>8332340
>>8332349
>t. frog homos
ITT: Suggest and discuss surreal literature.
>>8332284
Suggest and discuss surreal literature, OP
Vermilion Sands by JG Ballard is overtly influenced by surrealist art
Why did Pynchon abandon surrealism?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytFAVUlRIp8
Is he a pseud?
Is he the booktuber /lit/ has been waiting for?
Well?
>>8332247
Stop shitting up this board with all these booktuber threads.
Who the fuck cares, honestly.
He seems like a nice guy to take a pint with
Must /lit/ hate on everything and everyone
>>8332309
>1:08
>"Fowst by Go-th"
When are we going to write the sequel?
In about a year.
>>8332522
This. this year we are writing Dreamscape
now that I think of it these books might be interesting to read as an internet culture thing in about 10-20 years
its a period piece
Romeo and Juliet is just a ripoff of Pyramus and Thisbe
fucking hack
>wow I didn't know Shakespeare was heavily influenced by Greco-Roman mythology!!
Really makes you think
>>8332102
But Shakespeare said it nicer than Ovid
>>8332102
>Pyramus and Thisbe
You think Ovid came up with that plot on his own? It's not what you say, is how you say it and what else you use it to say.
Is there anything like The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, but in an ebook format?
>>8332099
If you donate some case to SEP, they'll let you download their content as a PDF
https://leibniz.stanford.edu/friends/
ITT: Reddit """""""Intellectual""""""" cringe thread
>>8332095
Bump
>>8332095
You literally just took that from the OTHER Reddit cringe thread and made this thread to feel special. I know because I made that image.
>>8332292
And I want moooooooooooooooooooore.
my grandma was an english major and she has a huge collection of books. she's getting old now, so every time my sister and i visit, she encourages us to take any books from her collection that we want. last time i went, this one caught my eye because i remembered hearing that it was a classic and that it's really trippy (plus that gorgeous cover art). i asked her if she liked it, but she said that she wasn't able to get through the first couple of chapters. i decided to grab it anyways because why not. i'm not very experienced with literature so i feel like it would kind of be jumping into the deep end, but at the same time, i'm tempted to just try it. what are your thoughts on it? should i give it a shot?
tldr: pls discuss this book with a noob
>>8332009
it's not very difficult, really. it's a bit of a classic for a lot of people. I'd say you just jump into it, it's actually fairly quickly engaging, and fairly funny. really, just read it and enjoy.
It's very accessible. You'll enjoy it if you go with the flow. You'll get confused with names and relations but it isn't particularly important, what happens is usually more important than who it happens to.
This is my favorite book ever, and you should definitely read it.
Check the front and back of the book for a family tree so you can refer back to it as you read. If there is none, find one online and keep it handy. Other than that, you should be able to jump right in.
Enjoy!
How is it that the longest novel in English isn't even a /lit/ meme?
Have you pseuds even read it?
>>8332007
no because it's shit
>>8332007
lord no. not every brit was a brit worth reading.
>>8332025
>No he hasn't read it.
>"because it's shit"
>Hasn't read it
/lit/, the most intelligent board everyone.
>Of such things I cannot, dare not tell, for therein was revealed the hideous solution of all which had puzzled me; and that solution would drive you mad
i love his work but goddamn why does he have to blueball everybody so often?
>>8331890
That's the whole point of the word "eldritch".
>>8331894
how so? doesn't eldritch just mean weird and spooky?
>>8331890
no discernible talent, that's why
lovecraft fans love the idea of loving lovecraft more than anything
how many people here have actually read it?
I don't want to start with it, I want to start with another Pynchon book. But some guy keeps giving me shit about it.
>>8331712
I did.
It's dogshit
Read what?
ok hol up why did satan and co. rebel against god in the first place?
Non serviam.
better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven