under-acknowledged writers.
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>>8125629
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpPsAojqcKo
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>>8125629
hemmingway*
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me desu
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How does /lit/ like this stack of books lying next to me that I'm currently reading?
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JACK KEROUAC
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>>8125568
>reading more than one book
I don't know how anyone could possibly do this
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>>8125732
OP here. I'm reading all of those, with the exception of The Subterraneans, Big Sur, and The Religion of the Ancient Celts. I'm also reading Dune. That's it. The Dharma Bums is my main book at the moment.
Who held up the sky before Atlas was punished?
Atheists: 1
Mythologists: 0
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>>8125535
Fuck, I remember two guys argued about that ten years ago at a party, and it was witty as shit and really fun, I remember the fact of that conversation but not the content
But I promise it was worth a grin
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The golden arches of McDonald's.
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>>8125543
that sounds like an anecdote that should have been written during. for shame, anon. you should have written it all down. for shame.
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Alright /lit/igants, another salvo has been fired in the debate over the current state of Russian lit in English translation:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/06/23/socks-translating-anna-karenina/
Interesting to read such a defense of Garnett. Although she is to be credited for introducing the Anglophone world to so much Russian lit, I think the author here lets her off too easily. And then there's P&V...
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Garnett is the greatest russian translator in history.
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mcduff and briggs are the best
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>>8125437
after garnett.
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Frogposter raised an interesting question. I know, weird.
Innocence is the only thing unnatainable through self-improvement, a critical but essential flaw, so that life works according to Godel. No book can help you learn unlearning. Or, perhaps, there exists literature somehow capable of returning you to childhood without nostalghic method of approach?
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>>8125367
All new age self help repress the ego willful ignorance shite calls for a return to childhood pretty much where you're ruled solely by whims and emotions
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>>8125381
Again, there is a method you can't conceal. Say I read a book on how to supress my ego and actually manage to do so; but I have the knowledge that this only happened because I forcefully performed some techniques. There is always an unerasable trace of method, no matter how many layers you conceal it with.
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>>8125367
>so that life works according to Godel
Are you drunk?
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Things that let you know a book is actually made of slabs of human shit and not pieces of paper
>Author uses similes
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>book is in american 'english'
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>>8125357
>dialects are written as they're pronounced instead as the actual words
bonus points if it's ebonics
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>Author is english, american or german
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>hear about pic related for ages
>finally pick it up
>read it in one sitting
>it's fucking amazing
Siddhartha discussion?
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>>8125297
I want to talk about it op, i swear.
but i cannot transfer you my wisdom :^)
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>>8125297
Same for me OP
I need to go work on a ferry or something now
But really it was amazing. What should I read if I loved this book?
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>>8125297
it really would have been better if govinda had whipped out siddhartha's floppy cock and blew it for hours. i felt robbed, honestly.
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Is it good?
Should I read it?
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>>8125286
No.
Yes.
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Is your meme posting good?
Should you meme?
No.
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>>8125286
Just read this, is it good?
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How does /lit/ feel about Pulp! The Classics editions?
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The taglines are bad, and not in the ironic way they're going for.
Wuthering Heights is terrible. That's not a joke. Choosing Humphrey Bogart can maybe be seen as pulpy, since I guess they shared the same era? But then you get that dumb fucking line that's just snowballing off the already bewilderingly unfunny joke. Same problem with the Othello one, which is by far the worst. The jokes have nothing to do with the content.
Pride and Prejudice and Romeo and Juliet are subtle enough and their taglines are generic (like they ought to be for a genre joke) enough that they work.
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>>8125279
for what purpose
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the fuck is that ryan gosling as dorian gray?
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>American book
>it says "Now a Major Motion Picture!" on the cover
>the authors name is bigger than the title
>open up the book
>the letters are about twice as big as normal books
>it's written in first person present tense
>every "chapter" is only a couple pages long, we are literally talking about "chapters" that don't make it to their third page
>lots of grammatical and spelling errors
>product placement out the ass
>any "facts" are poorly researched or not researched at all
Why? What's the point of American "literature"?
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>>8125252
By American book you mean American Psycho right?
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>product placement out the ass
>this is considered acceptable in america
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They should honestly just stop trying (if they ever were)
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So what about Rousseau.
I've read the Social Contract for a course, fairly interesting, Spinozian in places. An approach to politics rooted in realism that meshes perfectly with theoretical normativism. The Confessions were also well written, profound in psychology and, more importantly, costantly goddamn funny.
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READ EMILE
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>>8125194
I did and already replied to you, check you inbox
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>>8125199
>check you inbox
What did he mean by this?
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Why haven't you completed reading the new meme trilogy yet, anon?
This board has a new standard to live up to, I'd hate to see any of you getting left behind.
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>trilogy
>4 books
k
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>>8125139
I've read all 3 except women and men. thinking about reading it online.
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>>8125139
fuck off you humongous dick sucker.
And that cant be trilogy, these are FOUR FUCKING BOOKS YOU MONG.
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My 18 y/o sister has expressed some interest in getting into some better literature. As of now most of what she reads is "just bee urself" type self-help books and genre YA fiction.
She expressed some interest in learning about wars, different political systems ect. She is currently quite critical of the government saying some baseless conspiracy theories but open-minded enough to consider other view points.
Anyway, the list of books I was thinking of getting is currently;
Book Thief (Not so much a good book but a good place to start and a sublte primer to read more)
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland (Amazing book)
Pride and Prejudice (Might not be liked here but a solid classic)
To Kill A Mockingbird (Another classic that should be read regardless of it's reception here)
I don't want her to turn into a goodreads pleb whose profile is the better achievement than the merit of what she has learnt and gained from literature, but at the same time the books need to keep her interested.
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Idk lol
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>>8125141
not even a my diary desu?
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Lolita. Bitches seem to eat that shit up for some reason.
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Recommend me something like True Detective but in book form. Urban, lovecraftian atmosphere, mystery.
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>>8125125
There is nothing worthy
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How is True detective s1 urban?
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I'm unpleasantly drunk on 3 bottles of beer and roughly 200 ml of Lautrec VSOP cognac while reading the last 200 pages of pic related (yes, that edition), ask me anything.
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>>8125103
has otto killed himself yet
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>>8125103
is gay to like girls with dicks?
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is your book already teared the fuck out?