what is your favorite book written in diary format?
My Delightful Dallance - Michael Arnold
Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol
>>8149015
My diary desu
My Twisted World
Okay I said it so that no one else has to. You're welcome.
I'm an 18 year old male eager to get into reading. Does anyone have any beginner books which would be good to ease me into it?
>>8148881
Try Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. I'm not even kidding. It's a great stepping stone to literature because it makes you feel smart even if you aren't, is known for difficulty but is actually very easy to read, and probably relates to the problems that you're going through right now, so will be a relatively meaningful experience at least. You will soon grow out of it once you realize it's not all that incredible when compared to other works, and when you begin to recognize more and more of DFW's bullshit, but it's a fine place to start.
>>8148898
Seconding this
easy-ish interesting reads 101:
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Grendel by John Gardner
The Hobbit by Tolkien
Eragon by Christopher Paolini (if you're not afraid of Young adults shit)
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
And Finally, after all that shit,
Every boy should read Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky at some point (even though he has better works)
Does anyone know any good literature on acting? Everything I see is either the Meisner Technique, Stanislovski method, and those things. Is there any alternative theory/philosophy on acting?
>>8148699
definitely off topic, but had anyone noticed the similarity between Kafka's narrative voice tone and dialogue style in The Trial and the choreography and mise en cine if the Grand Budapest?
When reading the Trial I noticed that mental the imagery of Kafka's world flowed congruently with the Anderson's over-regulated and engaging style.
You're never going to make it. Suck it up and get a real career you pissbaby.
>>8148730
No not at all, it sounds entirely relient on your own particular misreading of his work
Why do we pretend he's better than Ayn Rand? Because he said the same thing first or because he was a man?
>>8148415
They both are shitty reactionists.
>>8148453
Pretty sure it's reactionary, not reactionist. And don't be rude.
>>8148415
>said the same thing
ITT: Post profound quotes. The only rule is that they can't be from literary figures or anyone aiming for profundity.
One of my faves.
>>8148404
>>8148405
Most science guys have at one point in their life uttered those exact sentences .
Who are your top five living authors?
>>8148398
Minae Mizumura, Olga Tokarczuk, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Angela Slatter, Zoran Zivkovic.
That's a lot of z's.
>>8148418
>No Pynchon
Leave
>>8148398
Muhammad Ali RIP
Who is your favourite author, /lit/?
Pic related
*giggles*
>>8148125
Keats is literally the biggest meme.
>author didn't live according to the philosophy he espoused
That's literally the ugliest 4chan frog ever.
>>8147706
>humans are hypocrites
sheeeeeeeeeit
>>8147706
Nor do you or anybody on /lit/, faggot.
ITT: new unpopular opinions thread that you wholeheartedly hold regarding literature.
Prepare to get ruffled edition.
Ryu Murakami is better than the other one.
Harry Potter, Twilight, Percy Jackson and Fifty Shades of Gray will be seen as the millennial's classic literature in 100 years because millennials for the most part haven't read anything else.
Reading poetry is more enjoyable than reading novels/novellas/short stories by a large margin.
BITCH WHAT UUUUUP
>>8147377
nice twitter faggot
>>8147377
Would it kill you to fucking clean? Sheesh.
I want to talk about Star Wars novels.
I'm learning some languages right now and want to get reading practice in by reading some schlock. I hear reading stuff you've already read in your native tongue is best, and I've read most of these books. Is this a good idea? Tell me your favorite Star Wars novel and there's a chance I'll read it in German.
The empire wins in all the german versions.
>>8148260
Lol
Traitor
Well /lit/, it finally arrived. After reading about half of it I'm pretty sure it's Ruggles. Anyone have any reason it's not, aside from "He denied it"?
>>8146914
can you post a few pics
i have read a few of "her" things and seem like p-kun
and does it say if the letters were sent in on graph papper
>>8146914
please fuck off with this shit
>>8147379
Pls stop posting literature discussion on the literature board
t. Pleb
Even though I spend most of my time reading and contemplating metaphysical philosophy, but all I want to do is write exciting pulp styled action adventure stories about larger than life archetypal heroes and sinister villains. I'd lightly weave my philosophical beliefs into the framework of my stories, but for the most part I just want to write about eccentric ship captains battling ancient sea monsters and savvy archaeologists battling greedy treasure hunters at the sites of ancient ruins. '
I want someone to share this sentiment and talk about their pulp adventure fantasies with me
>>8146693
do you boo
>>8146702
Fair enough I guess.
>>8146693
Sometimes I think about how much I'd enjoy writing a straight up Y.A. trash novel for teens
most important poet who ever lived
discuss
>>8146666
Nice quads, but that's not even Vaclav Havel
>>8146666
let's discuss those quads senpai
I know it probably gets asked a lot, and you're probably tired of hearing it by now, but PLEASE, I want to know more like The Book of Disquiet. I just love the writing style, the writing just has so much complexity and depth. I know you're probably thinking "hah pleb, that's not complexy or depthy" good! Let me know something better! I beg of thee!!! I already plan on ordering his poems too.
>>8146173
Is asking for Book of Disquiet recs a new meme or something
somebody posts this exact shit every single day
>>8146182
this is maybe the second or third time I've posted this thread, but no one's given me a real response yet. I buy a lot of books, so your responses aren't for naught.
>>8146173
Cioran is the closest, I think. Notes from Underground too, although that one is so obligatory I cannot imagine anyone has to even recommend it.
Some people like that Jap book, 'No longer human' or something; I don't, but it could be described as similar by its proponents