Finally caved in and read Name of the Wind. It's amazing. Picking up Wise Man's Fear pretty soon but I thought I'd ask /lit/ about other authors comparable to Patrick Rothfuss. Doesn't necessarily need to be fantasy. Any direction I could be pointed in would be mighty helpful.
Isn't that the series with the obnoxious mary sue protagonist that lost his virginity to a literal sex goddess, then had her saying he was the best she'd ever had and shit?
>>8129931
ayyyyup
>>8129931
Yes. I have no idea why it's so well-liked. I dropped like 3/4 of the way through because of the Mary Sue shit. And I actually popular fantasy.
Is this the final boss of /lit/?
>>8129372
its a meme, you dipshit.
>women and men
woooah sounds like mom core airport trash
The final boss of /lit/ is Zettels Traum
I'd wager that absolutely nobody on this board as of right now has read this from start to finish.
>Muh Stirner
Spookites a shit. Look how beta he looks.
You think that's bad? Look at this picture of Marx. You can tell he's a smug prick.
>>8129362
>not wanting a strong confident handsome egoist man like stirner to cuddle you and tell you that love is a spook
Engels was shit at drawing and he still couldn't avoid portraying the irresistible features of his mortal enemy
>>8129362
That's not Stiner
Are there any books about 23 year old virgins who live alone and do nothing except masturbate and browse the internet whose lives turn around immediately with no effort and then they live in perfect bliss for the rest of their days?
>>8129165
Try my diary
>>8129165
probably not, although confederacy of dunces has a similar theme
but you could write that book anon
even better
you could live it
fly, anon. fly and be free
So, in your opinion, what are the greatest horror stories or authors? Is it just Poe, Lovecraft, and King, or is there better written, more chilling authors out there? What are these, in your opinion, if any?
I've heard Thomas Ligotti is pretty spooky if you like your horror philosophical
>>8129186
>if you like your horror philosophical
I fuckin do. I should buy a book by him next. He makes short stories right? Good. That seems to be all I have the attention span to read now a days. I keep a couple books next to my bed, cioran and pessoa, I read a couple pages of it before I go to bed. It's satisfying. I could always use more night stand books.
>>8129237
definitely check out teatro grotessco and songs of a dead dreamer. also, if you're in for a more straightforward pessimistic rant, check out the conspiracy against the human race
If you believe divorce should be permitted, why not simply oppose marriage as a social institution? I'm undecided on the essential sociological relationship between marriage and divorce.
>tax and legal purposes
I'm not asking about this; these are historical accretions. Let us assume the form which tends to occur across cultures, i.e. that of a significant lifelong contract between a man and a woman for the purpose of raising children.
If you think this assumption is incorrect, feel free to argue against it, just make it a good argument.
>Let us assume the form which tends to occur across cultures
you asked for it anon. let's discuss the documents of brehon law, and the ten forms of marriage documented therein, and the applicable grading of rights and entitlements afforded for each, dependent on marriage length, purpose, and status of those thereby bound in matrimony.
>implying your culture is good enough to be the standard
name a book from it on the subject with more finesse
>>8129169
Please elaborate or provide links.
>>8129203
Here's a great starting point. I assume you'll not be needing a translation, since you're enthused to learn about this, but one should be easy to find.
http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G102030/index.html
Turkish delight was a euphemism for sex, right? He sexed the witch like in Eden.
i want to fuck an ice witch so bad
What the fuck!? This is NOT what my 5th grade teacher taught us.
>>8129062
fugging orientals
Haha you like infinite jest?! What an idiot xD I personally prefer much better novels like William Gass' The Tunnel. I bet you haven't even heard of him, idiot! HEhehe and but so, am I right fellas? No discernible talent am I correct? I'm just joshing with you dude haha calm down.
this is not wallace-posting
I don't get it
>>8129016
>>8129028
I never thought I would find this much meaning in a meme. This has made me realize that I don't need meme's to make me happy. That I am addicted to them. That I don't control the memes, they control me. And I say that I can stop anytime I want but... I can't. I don't want to. The memes give me life and purpose but, do I need memes to be happy? What is happiness if not a good doggo meme? What is internet cancer if not LeafyIsHere? Am I internet cancer? Probably, but why can't I be a meme. On all levels except physical I am a meme, but is that a good thing? Are memes a good thing or just another passing of humanity? Will aliens see our memes when they come down to our war rot planet and think, "How could people this cancerous make weapons this destructive?" Will memes be how we are remembered? With a doggo meme or two and dat boi? I've gone on a tangent and I don't know why you've read this if you did but fun fact that isn't actually fun, the average weight of a pygmy goat is 35 pounds. I'm sad that I know that off the top of my head... Damn. Got to go meme again.
How do I into drama? Who/what should I read? Recommendations for translations?
you dont need translations for shakespeare
>>8128947
no shit
Read Shakespeare's works, most of them are really great, except for some of the comedies and King John.
For more modern drama August Wilson's Pittsburgh cycle is great, I'd recommend all ten of those plays.
Tennessee Williams is also a classic, Streetcar Named Desire, and Glass Menagerie are essentials. From that same era, Arthur Miller wrote Death of a Salesman and The Crucible which are must reads.
As for greeks, if you wanted to go back that far, are you really need are the Sophocles' plays, he's pretty much considered the best of his time period, I'm sure you had to read Oedipus Rex or Antigone or something in school at some point.
And those are some pretty good starting places I'd say. You should be able to find all those things fairly easily, none of them are obscure. Have fun reading. Theatre is great, and reading it can be fun, but it is better experienced live so go see any plays near you if you get a chance.
Why is modern art hated, /lit/?
> mfw that grammar
Because most of it is the epitome of pretensiousness. Post modern art is garbage because it comes from special snow flakes who can't believe they arent individuals. I'll be the first to admit still visual art in general does not move me as much as other forms of art, but I have seen a painting or two that has moved me, none of them post modern trash.
>>8128721
thanks for you opinion, senpai
What did you think of this? Do you consider it literature?
>>8128636
Not his best but very strong. Depressing.
>>8128636
>Do you consider it literature?
did you even read it?
i thought it presented an accurate depiction of modern existential angst and that feeling that something is terribly wrong.
too much cuckoldry for my taste though
I liked it the first time but got tired of the joke less than halfway in the second time
>What you’re referring to is what’s called “theory.” And when I said I’m not interested in theory, what I meant is, I’m not interested in posturing–using fancy terms like polysyllables and pretending you have a theory when you have no theory whatsoever. So there’s no theory in any of this stuff, not in the sense of theory that anyone is familiar with in the sciences or any other serious field. Try to find in all of the work you mentioned some principles from which you can deduce conclusions, empirically testable propositions where it all goes beyond the level of something you can explain in five minutes to a twelve-year-old. See if you can find that when the fancy words are decoded. I can’t. So I’m not interested in that kind of posturing. Žižek is an extreme example of it. I don’t see anything to what he’s saying.
Was he right, /lit/?
>>8128618
>Chomsky
>Žižek
>Giant Douche
>Turd Sandwich
>>8128618
No, Chomsky is just too autistic to understand the notion of synchraticically contingent discourses.
>>8128626
Also, Chomsky's contribution to the field of linguistics is massively overblown.
Hey /lit/, what should I read to impress a girl?
Homo Thug II
diary desu
Harry Potter
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Story of the Eye
Deposit your most dapper words and phrases upon this thread, gentlemen.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.
>>8128546
those are definitely british
look how squashed and ugly their faces look
Na tweeëntwintig jaren in dit leven, maak ik het testament op van mijn jeugd.
On June 4th, the night of the new moon, after taking tremendous doses of silver nitrate and laudanum (I planned on watching Neil deGrasse Tyson's version of Cosmos), the huntress Artemis revealed herself to me and demanded that I tell the board the ultimate nature of reality.
>>8128515
>it's a "psychedelic substances lead to enlightenment" episode
>>8128515
>It's a tripfag thinks he has anything important to say episode
if this opened
>the huntress Artemis relieved herself on me
i would be much more interested